Team
Team
Meet Our Board Members

Mrs. Janet Tamaklo
Emeritus Chair

Mrs. Janet Tamaklo
Emeritus Chair
Mrs. Tamaklo is the immediate past Chair of Private Clinics Ltd (Nyaho Medical Centre). She is also a Director on the Board of the Lashibi Funeral Homes Ltd. She started her career at the Bank of Ghana in 1976 and worked within the Foreign Operations and Administration Departments. She joined Nyaho Medical Centre in 1985 and gained considerable experience in several aspects of the business including Administration, Human Resource Management, Purchasing, Housekeeping and Support Services at various periods. She became the Executive Director and, eventually, the Managing Director in 2001.
Mrs. Tamaklo made significant strides to modernise the hospital to deliver excellent health outcomes to its clients. She pioneered 24-hour diagnostic and pharmaceutical services, ambulance services and introduced innovative technology such as CT scanning and digital X-ray to the organisation. She has contributed to numerous articles on the role of private healthcare in national and international media such as Newsweek, Fortune and Times Magazines, whilst advocating the need for a better quality of services for patients.
She developed the ‘Nyaho Way’ - the guiding principle by which the staff of Nyaho Medical Centre demonstrate the values of the organization- to maintain patient-centeredness. Also, she has successfully steered the organization through several crises, most significantly, competently managing the first suspected case of Ebola in the country in 2014. She retired in April of 2015.
She has held several leadership roles in the Achimota Golf Club of Ghana as well as Zonta International and is an active advocate for the role of women and girls in business and education in the country. Mrs. Tamaklo’s received her undergraduate degree at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she earned a BA degree in Sociology.

Dr Sodzi Sodzi-tettey
Board Chairman

Dr Sodzi Sodzi-tettey
Board Chairman
Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey is the current Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI), Africa Region. Before assuming this role, he was the Senior Technical Director for the Institute. In this role, he led Ghana’s Project Fives Alive! to deliver large scale quality improvement projects in over 80% of public sector hospitals and 30% of Ghanaian sub-districts, contributing to a 34% reduction in facility-based child deaths. He also served as the Vice President of the Ghana Medical Association.
A public health physician par excellence, Quality Improvement Advisor and a Fellow of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey has years of clinical and management experiences in frontline district medical practice. He has conducted series of high-level training and short-term consultancies in Saudi Arabia, India, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria and in the United States with diverse organizations like the World Health Organization, Care India, Centre for Integrated Health Programmes, Nigeria, Kind Saud Medical City, Saudi Arabia.
With significant high-level engagements within Ministries of Health in Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia and Malawi, he served on the Governing Board of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and the Governing Council of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) between 2012 - 2016. He is also a member of Ghana’s National Newborn Sub Committee and has previously worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator of the National Catholic Health Service, guiding the finalization of the NCHS’s Whole Systems Transformation strategy.
Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey is a notable advocate for social justice in bridging equity gaps in mental healthcare. He is also an active sociopolitical commentator who frequently writes articulate opinion pieces in Ghana's leading newspapers. He is a proud recipient of the Ghana Medical Association's Special Commendation Award for meritorious service to the medical profession in Ghana.

Dr Elikem Tamaklo
Managing Director

Dr Elikem Tamaklo
Managing Director

Professor Franklyn Manu
Board Member

Professor Franklyn Manu
Board Member
Professor Manu is a former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He is an astute academic and professional with over twenty-five years of experience in consulting, training and education. During this period, he has been instrumental in designing and reviewing programmes to enhance university and corporate education in such institutions of higher learning such as Loyola College in Maryland, Morgan State University, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Association of African Business Schools, Global Business School Network, International Academy of African Business and Development, and the Ghana TALIF project.
He has also consulted extensively for businesses in strategic planning, marketing strategy development and corporate social responsibility. Professor Manu serves on the Boards of Unilever Ghana, Bedrock Venture Capital Fund of Ghana, Buck Press, Private Clinics (Ghana) Ltd, OMD Media Reach (Ghana), Trojan Power and GN Bank. He also chairs the MTN Ghana Foundation.
Professor Manu is a proud alumnus of the University of Ghana, where he received a B.Sc. (Administration). He earned his PhD (Marketing and International Business) and MBA (Finance and International Business) degrees from New York University, Graduate School of Business Administration (Stern).

Mrs. Janis McKenna
Board Member

Mrs. Janis McKenna
Board Member

Preba Arkaah
Board Member

Preba Arkaah
Board Member

Mr. Apiigy Afenu
Board Member

Mr. Apiigy Afenu
Board Member

Mr. Eric Osiakwan
Board Member

Mr. Eric Osiakwan
Board Member