Unilever Ghana Apoints New MD, HRD

Unilever Ghana Limited has appointed Ms Nana Yaa Kissi as its Marketing Director. She takes over from Mr Clarence Nartey who has left after 15 years of service.

Ms Kissi joins the leadership team as a seasoned marketer with multi country and cross-category experience in various positions.

Prior to her appointment, she was on international assignment based out of Durban, South Africa as the Head of Marketing for Africa Emerging Markets with responsibility for a number of markets including Angola, Cameroon DRC, Mauritius, Gabon and Southern African markets.

Unilever Ghana has also appointed Mr Michael Otchere Duah as its Human Resource Director. He succeeds Mr. Stendert Krommendam who worked for Unilever Ghana in the last two years as an International Assignee and has since returned to his home country.


Mr Duah has been with Unilever Ghana Ltd for the last 10 years and has served in diverse roles within the HR function. Prior to his appointment, he was the Country HR Manager for the Unilever French West African business, based out of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire with responsibility for eight francophone countries.

Mr Duah is an alumnus of the University of Ghana, holds a BA in Psychology and Sociology, MBA in HR Management from the University of Wales, UK and a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, UK.

The Managing Director of Unilever Ghana, Ms Maidie Arkutuin her statement, asserted that, “these appointments reinforce Unilever’s ambition to build African Talent for Africa and we are delighted to have Nana Yaa and Michael join the Leadership Team at Unilever Ghana’’