Mavis Amankwah (born 28 August 1974) is a British-Ghanaian entrepreneur, businesswoman and diversity ambassador, specialising in marketing, public relations, diversity communications and business start up & sustainability.
In 2002, Amankwah set up the communications arm of Rich Visions after noticing a gap between large corporations/companies and traditionally hard-to-reach ethnic communities in the UK. As well as Rich Visions, Amankwah has several other businesses to her name.
In 2009, Mavis launched another arm of the agency; Rich Visions Small Business (RVSB). RVSB has also helped small businesses secure around £6m in low-interest loans.
Amankwah has been listed in the trade magazine PR Week's PowerBook for six consecutive years between 2009-2015.
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Early life and education
Amankwah was born in Newham, East London to a Ghanaian family. Mavis has one son aged 23 and one daughter aged 17.
Having completed secondary school in 1990 at St Angela's Usruline Convent School in East London, Amankwah went on to study IT at the College of North East London where she qualified as an IT Technician.
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Career
St Leonard's Primary Care Trust
Amankwah worked as an IT Technician at St Leonard's Primary Care Trust in London for six years. During that time, she spent her spare time organising community events targeting hard-to-reach communities. After working on a few events, Amankwah became the Event Organiser for Miss Ghana UK.
Rich Visions
In 2002 Amankwah founded start up marketing and PR communications agency Rich Visions which focuses on reaching ethnic communities. They have created campaigns for among others Comic Relief, and Digital UK TV switchover.
Rich Visions has also assisted the social enterprise Positive Inclusions, the delivery partners on the government-backed initiative, the Start Up Loans Scheme.
In 2016 it was reported that Rich Visions had failed
Rich Visions Small Business
In 2009, Amankwah launched Rich Visions Small Business (RVSB) to provide professional Business Support (for start-ups and existing businesses), Funding Assistance, Marketing and PR services to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Entrepreneurs, Sole Traders and Organisations.
Business Ambassador
In January 2013, Amankwah was appointed as the Business Ambassador for a social enterprise called Positive Inclusions. Positive Inclusions were working on the Start Up Loans Scheme as one of the official "Delivery Partners" on the project delivering the scheme. Amankwah, as Business Ambassador for Positive Inclusions, is working on promoting this scheme to budding entrepreneurs and raising awareness as well as offering personal mentoring and business plan/cashflow forecast assistance.
Young UpStarts
Mavis was featured on a programme called 'Young UpStarts' which was aired on satellite TV channel London Live on 15 June 2014. Mavis was seen mentoring and guiding a young lady on her journey into the world of business ownership.
Public speaking
Amankwah has spoken at various conferences and seminars over the years.She was a keynote speaker at the prestigious Business 2012 event. She speaks regularly at the Business Show [1] in London.
Media coverage
Amankwah has been featured in over 200 press titles including The Telegraph, Virgin, The Drum, The Guardian, The Voice to PR Week. She has been included in PR Week's Powerbook for five consecutive years (2009-2015).
Accolades
In 2012, she won two awards out of four nominated categories at the first annual Women4Africa Awards (Business Woman of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year).
In 2012, Amankwah judged for the Ghana UK-Based Achievement Awards (GUBA).
References
External links
- Mavis Amankwah official Website
- Rich Visions official Website
- Rich Visions Small Business official Website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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