Angela List is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nguvu Holdings, a group of mining companies in West Africa. She is responsible for balancing strategic vision with operational efficiency, ensuring that the company grows sustainably while maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders and adhering to regulatory requirements. Her leadership is characterized by focusing on innovation, diversity, and community engagement.
Before becoming the CEO of Nguvu Holdings, she served as the Executive Director of BCM Group, another prominent mining contracting company. Angela has been a key figure in the industry for over 25 years, beginning her career with KPMG, where she developed essential skills that laid her professional success. She successfully managed and executed significant projects like the Bibiani Contract and successfully negotiated the acquisition of 80% of the shares in SML with the government of Niger.
Angela holds an MSc and an MBA from Manchester University and a BSc in administration from the University of Ghana, respectively. She is also the Vice President of the Ghana Chamber of Mines (2023/2024) and has been recognized as the Female CEO of the year at the 8th Ghana CEO Summit and Excellence Awards (2023), Best Mining Company (Adamus Resources Limited) Paa Grant Medals for Business Excellence (2023) and various awards including Ghana Women’s awards, Women’s Choice Awards Africa, Corporate Leadership Excellence Awards and Swag Awards.
Angela has secured contracts with major companies such as Barrick Gold (Formerly Randgold) in Mali, B2Gold in Namibia, Iamgold in Senegal, African Minerals Limited in Sierra Leone, and Glencore in Kazakhstan. She is passionate about increasing women’s representation in the mining industry and encourages more women to enter what has traditionally been a male-dominated field.
Alex is the Group Human Resources & Administration Manager responsible for developing and executing HR strategies in the group’s talent management, performance management, succession planning and all strategic people and culture functions as well as providing guidance to the CEO on people issues. He is also responsible for a healthy workforce and workplace culture that helps maximize organizational efficiency and effectiveness within the Group.
Before joining the Nguvu Group he worked as the Regional Employee Relations Manager and previously as the Vice President and Head of Human Resources and Corporate Affairs for Gold Fields West Africa. Until then he was the HR/Admin Manager for MODEC Ghana, an Oil & Gas company responsible for operating and maintaining the FPSO KNK and Kufuor in Ghana. He has several years’ experience in Learning and Development, Performance Management and Employee Relations spanning several industries including Mining, Oil & Gas, Banking, and Academia.
Alex holds a double Master of Arts Degree in Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations from Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom and B. Ed Educational Psychology, University of Cape Coast. He also holds a Professional Executive Masters in Alternative Dispute Resolution (PEM-ADR) from the Gamey & Gamey Academy of Mediation and a proud alumnus of Oxford University, United Kingdom in Executive Leadership.
He is a Certified Human Resources Manager (CHRM), Leoron Institute, a member of the Chartered Institute of Human Resources Management (CIHRM), Ghana and Institute of Directors (IoD), Ghana. Alex was recognized as Africa Top 50 HR Leader, in March 2022 at the Ghana Human Resources Innovations Awards. He was also recognized as an Exemplary HR Business Leader in 2023 by the National Governance and Business Leadership Award.
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