Elisha, the Board Chairman of ZADeF, is a Fellow-Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Fellow-Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICA-G), Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Global (IIA-Global) and Member, Institute of Internal Auditors, Ghana (IIA-Gh).
Elisha served as the Project Accountant of Franmar JV, a private entity credited with the construction of the Dawhenya-Prampram-Ningo; Sege-Battor-Mepe and Sege-Goi-Kposem road network in the mid-90s. He became the Accounts and Finance Manager, Camelot Ghana Ltd – the first indigenous Ghanaian company to be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and was instrumental in the listing of the company on the GSE between 1998 and 2004. He transitioned into the public sector as the Corporate Finance Manager of the Forestry Commission of Ghana in 2004, where he was later elevated to the position of Director, Internal Audit from 2009 to 2024.
With over 28 years of professional service in both the private and public sectors, Elisha has deep experience in corporate governance, corporate finance, strategic management, decentralization, institutional reforms / restructuring, risk management, etc.
Elisha has served on various corporate boards and national governance and accountability committees, including the Finance Board of the Church of Pentecost where he served for 18 years up to 2022, the Pentecost Press Board for 14 years up to 2018, the Audit Committees of the National Sports Authority and the Electoral Commission up to 2018 and 2024 respectively.
Elisha holds an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), 2009. He is also a graduate of the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) now University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) where he served as the President of the Students Representative Council and the National President of the Certified Accountants Students Society in Ghana (CASSIG) in 1991 and 1992 respectively.