Mrs. Grace Amey-Obeng is a Medical Aesthetician and Beauty Therapist by profession. She has extensive experience in beauty therapy education, manufacturing, corporate governance, social entrepreneurship, and women empowerment.

She is the CEO of FC Group of Companies with five subsidiaries namely FC Skin & Beauty Klinik, FC Perfumery & Cosmetics, FC Cosmetics Industry, Salon Equipment and Beauty Supplies (SEBS), and FC Beauty College, the premier beauty therapy training institute in Ghana.

Grace is a board member of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Private Sector Development Board (PSDB), First Insurance, KAMA Industries, Slid Industries, Chairperson, AGI Toiletries & Cosmetics Sector, Chairperson of Technical Committee on Cosmetics, Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Vice Chair, Southern Volta Development Group (SOVODEG), Member, GIMPA Business School Advisory Council, and Governor of the Millennium Excellence Foundation.

Mrs. Obeng is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG), British Association of Professional Therapists, England, President of Professional Cosmetologists & Beauty Therapists Association of Ghana (PCABAG) and a Verifier for City & Guilds of UK.

In 2003, she was awarded the CIMG, Marketing Woman of the year 2002. She also received the prestigious award at the International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC) 2010 in Spain. Grace was a Country Winner, Africa’s Most Influential Women Awards 2014 as well as recipient of Most Enterprising Women of the year 2014 Award, USA and the IPMATIC Africa Awards 2014 for her achievements in the area of business.

Her passion for women and children led her to establish the Grace Amey-Obeng Foundation International (GAOFI) in 2007. GAOFI’s passion is directed towards equipping young girls who are into transactional sex with employable skills to help them develop alternative source of livelihood. GAOFI aims to take an estimated 1000 girls off the streets within the next 5 years.

Grace has also been at the forefront of the campaign against skin lightening among black women and has received recognition from both local and international media such as the CNN, BBC, Forbes Africa Magazine and Al Jazeera.

She holds an Advance Diploma in Beauty Therapy from Croydon College, UK, a Diploma in Medical Aesthetics from the Aesthetic Research Institute, California, a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the European Business School, UK, as well as a Certificate from the African Leadership Initiative, West Africa.

Mr. Ben Korley is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years post qualification experience. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana. He is currently the Managing Partner of Intellisys, a firm of Chartered Accountants he co-founded in 2005.

Ben was an Audit and Consulting Partner of Deloitte & Touche from 1991 to 2005. Until he retired from Deloitte & Touche he was the head of the Audit Practice of the firm. During the period he was the lead partner in the audit of a number of multinational and large national entities including Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited, Bank of Ghana, PZ Cussons Limited, Agricultural Development Bank, Merchant Bank Ghana Limited, Fidelity Discount House Ltd (now Fidelity Bank) and Provident Insurance Company Limited. Ben is a trained facilitator and has conducted training both on-site and in workshops across the country.

He also is the Immediate past Honorary Treasurer of the Accra Diocese of the Methodist Church, Ghana, a position he occupied for 8 (eight) years. Ben is currently an assessor of the Commercial Division of the High Court of Ghana.