Ibrahim Mohammed Awal is the former Managing Director of Graphic Communications Group Limited and Chase Petroleum. The 55-year-old Awal is an entrepreneur and a marketer.

He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Marble Communications Group Limited, publishers of The Finder Group of Newspapers, HMW printers, Marble Consultants and Marble Developers.

Adjudged the ‘Marketing Man of the Year 2009’, Awal holds three master’s degrees in various disciplines from different universities.

He has Masters in Applied Business Research (Swiss Business School, Switzerland), Executive Masters in Business Administration (University of Ghana Business School, Legon), Masters in International Journalism (University of Wales, UK).

He has also undertaken courses in Business Strategy at Havard Business School, USA, and oil production and management at Oxford, UK. He is also at the tail end of his doctoral program at the Swiss Business School pursuing doctorate in Business Administration.

Awal, who is married with four children, is also a product of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ).

He has worked closely with many companies, particularly, with Small and Medium Enterprises, where he offered consultancy services in the areas of business strategy, management, marketing and communications.

Awal has also consulted for Diplomatic Missions, international development partners as well as state institutions.