Veronica Ofosuhemaa Owusu –Ansah, Head, Brand Communications and Business Development at Quick Angels Limited and Quick Credit & Investment Micro-Credit Limited, has won the Woman of Excellence; Marketing and Corporate Communication at this year’s National Communications Awards.
She also picked up the Best Corporate Communications Team of the Year Award for the SME Category.
The Awards scheme, by RAD Communications Limited, celebrates and honours individuals and organizations in the media and communications space for their contribution towards the industry and national development.
Veronica is the face of communications at the Quick family, a business transforming generations through equity financing and collateral-free loans to Ghanaians.
So much admiration is said to be attached to her name when it comes to project executions.
She is a passionate brand and external relations strategist, and has worked in an integrated marketing communication function as well as creating business leads for many brands and has won several awards for them.
She is a professional with over 10 years of experience which spans news media, marketing & advertising services, telecommunications, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications, Branding, Financial & Investment Services, Copywriting, Events, and artiste management.
She has worked with companies such as Metro TV as a Broadcast Journalist, Primus Advertising as Senior Media and Client Service Executive, Tigo Ghana as Communications Specialist, Group Ideal & Ideal Finance as Lead for Media and Advertising. She was also the Head of Brands at the rebranded TV Africa and Head of Corporate Affairs at the Ghana Library Authority.
Veronica holds a Master’s degree in Development Communications from the Ghana Institute of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Information Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon.
She was the 4th finalist, multinational/Pan Africa Positive Role Model West Africa Awards during the Gender Mainstreaming Awards 2021.
She led the successful launch of Quick Angels in 2019 and has ensured the funding and strategic direction of over 20 brands signed under the Quick Angels angel investor scheme.
Veronica Owusu Ansah has equally led massive campaigns for some of its brands such as agatex, Sankofa natural spices, pizzaman chicken man, Addicent foods zaconut, shopnaw, and many others.
She has also successfully led both internal and external engagement of Quick Credit investment microcredit limited, a sister company of quick Angel from no visibility to a well-known microcredit company also in less than 5 years.
Veronica also oversees the strategic communications of Quick Credit brands in other African countries, called OYA microcredit Limited.
Veronica Owusu Ansah is a strategic leader with a desire to impact brands and lives through her strategic communications engagement.
Some brands under the Quick Angels’ portfolio she manages include Oya Micro credit company limited, Ridge Medical Center, Dough man foods, Prospectus Ghana, Zaconut, Pinkberry, Coli network, Alcilla (into tilapia), Addicent foods(rice production-Benjie rice), Dominion paints (Agatex as the first brand), Sunsolar(into salt production), Sankofa natural spices, BEEfA foods(first product- BEEfA CHIPS), Janam cosmetics, CEQA foods(Pizzaman and Chickenman), Burger King(quick angels franchise in Ghana), Morning Glory publication, Mona Brand-Cosmetics, and Clothing, Tigon Creative Studios.
She holds Professional certificates in Advanced Public Relations, Annual Report writing, and Strategic Communications and Marketing.
She is a member of IPR (Institute of Public Relations Ghana) and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA).