Our Team
Kwame Kessie - CEO / founder
A dynamic oil broker with vast experience in the Oil & Gas sector. He holds BA (Hons) Political Science & Economics from Carleton University, LLB (University of Aberdeen) and MSc in International Oil & Gas Management (University of Dundee, CEPMLP). He has had brief stints at Ministry of Energy & Petroleum as well as Cirrus Oil Services in Ghana. From there, he worked as the Business Development Manager at Saltpond Offshore Producing Company Ltd (SOPCL) and Lushann Energy, where he was in charge of Oil trading and marketing. He later co-founded Mocoh Ghana Ltd as the local partner to Swiss based Mocoh SA, a company involved in the international trading of petroleum products and crude oil. He later acquired Engen Ghana jointly with Mocoh and saw the company expand its retail outlets and presence country wide. He currently owns Reston Energy Resources, which is the parent company of Reston Energy Trading Limited, the Bulk Import Distribution and Export Company. He is in charge of all the company’s activities and growth strategy.
Thomas Osei-Yeboah - General manager
An experienced qualified chartered accountant with over 18 years working experience in various roles including Finance Manager at BaxterStorey UK at the Grays Inn Office in London, Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at Cadbury Ghana and Accounting Manager at Airtel Ghana Limited. He also holds Bsc. (Hons) in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University, ACCA and MBA Finance from London College of Accountancy and GIMPA respectively. Thomas was formally the Finance Manager for Mocoh Ghana Limited but now the Chief Operating Officer for Reston Energy Trading Limited.
Frank Amoako - head, Finance & Compliance
A Chartered Global Management Accountant, with more than 15 years of experience working for multinational companies across manufacturing, extractive and telecommunications industries in Ghana. Frank has worked with companies such as Coca Cola, Airtel, and Tullow Oil, amongst others. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry, ACMA, CGMA and MSc in Development Finance from the University of Ghana. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He is the Finance Manager at Reston Energy Trading Limited.
Ama Nyarko Ntiforo - Marketing & sales Manager
A top-tier professional marketer with over 10 years of experience in the downstream petroleum industry. She holds BSc.(Hons) in Business Administration, HRM, and MSc. Supply Chain Management. At Vihama Energy Co. Ltd, she started as a marketing officer and progressed through the ranks to become a Client Account Manager. She also served as the Chairperson for the procurement team, and is currently the Marketing Manager of Reston Energy Trading Limited. Through her career, Mrs. Ntiforo has developed the skill of managing clients, marketing petroleum products, generating lucrative sales for the business, debts collections, maintaining and retaining clientele, as well as creating penetrative and dynamic marketing strategies for executing the job.
joseph Opoku Darko - Operations Officer
Has an extensive in-depth experience in Business Management; Relationship Management; Customer Service; Sales & Marketing and Strategic Operational Management. Joseph has over 8 years’ end-to-end operations experience in the downstream petroleum sector, with diverse work experience with some Bulk Import Distribution Export Companies and Oil Marketing Companies.
Joseph has a Business Administration degree in Human Resource Management from the Cape Coast University and Advance diploma in Business Management from the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM-UK).