TOTAL has announced for the information of the general public the following changes in the membership of the company’s Board of Directors:
i) Mr. Kwadwo Owusu-Tweneboa of National Investment Bank (NIB) has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors to replace Mr. Daniel Charles Gyimah formerly of NIB with effect from June 3, 2009.
Mr. Kwadwo Owusu-Tweneboa is the Deputy Managing Director of the bank since 2001. Prior to this, Mr. Owusu-Tweneboa was Director of Studies at the National Banking College, Accra, Ghana.
Mr. Owusu-Tweneboa is the Chairman of the Board of NTHC Limited and Bedrock Venture Capital Finance Company Limited and also serves as a member on some boards of companies.
He graduated in Economics from the University of Ghana in 1975 and proceeded to the UK for further studies in 1981. He obtained a Post-graduate Diploma in Development Economics and a Master in Economics & Finance in 1982 and 1983 respectively from the University of Manchester. He has had extensive experience in banking and has gone on attachment to some banking institutions in India in1987 and 1997.
ii) Mr. Ronan Bescond has also been appointed as a member of the Board to replace Mr. Olivier Berthaud with effect from June 2, 2009.
Mr. Bescond is a French national. He is presently the Corporate Finance Manager for TOTAL, Africa. He holds an Engineering Degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie De Nontpellier (France) and a Master Degree from National University of Singapore.
He joined TOTAL in 2000 in ATOFINA Chemicals in Philadelphia. In 2001 he was at the Liquified National Gas Division of TOTAL in Paris. He represents TOTAL in various LNG projects such as Nigeria LNG, Angola LNG and Oman LNG.
He joined the Finance Division of TOTAL SA (Holding) in 2005 and he is a member of the Board of Directors of TOTAL E & P Angola.
Issued at Accra, this 12th
day of June, 2009.