Mavis Amankwah


Mavis Amankwah is a British-Ghanaian entrepreneur, businesswoman and diversity ambassador, specialising in marketing, public relations, business sustainability and global investments.
In 2002, Amankwah co-founded communications agency 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; . RVSB has also helped small businesses secure around £10m in low-interest loans in 5 years.
Amankwah has been listed in the trade magazine PR Week's PowerBook for six consecutive years between 2009–2015.
Mavis is a public speaker and spoke on the same stage with Richard Branson and Alan Sugar at Business 2012 held at 02 arena. She has also spoken at business events in UAE, USA and Africa.

Early life and education

Amankwah was born in Newham, East London to a Ghanaian family. She attended St Angela's Secondary Usruline School and then completed a IT diploma at CONEL in North London. She then later completed a BA Hons degree in communications at Middlesex University.

Career

Rich Visions

In 2002 Amankwah co-founded 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.
To date she has four other businesses specialising in helping small business secure investments and recently developed her own App for women in business.

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".

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.

Media coverage

Amankwah has been featured in over 300 press titles including
The Telegraph, Virgin, The Drum |The Drum, The Guardian, The Voice to PR Week. She has been included in PR Week's Powerbook for five consecutive years. Amankwah was most recently featured in The Mirror as part of its new Black Britain 2020 campaign.

Accolades

Mavis has won 16 awards, in 2012, she won two awards out of four nominated categories at the first annual Women4Africa Awards.
In 2012, Amankwah judged for the Ghana UK-Based Achievement Awards.