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Dr. Daniel McKorley is an accomplished, influential Business leader with global perspective, avid promoter of youth entrepreneurship for wealth creation and stellar philanthropist whose benevolence works bring hope to millions of deprived homes across Ghana and Africa. His diverse portfolio of Investments cut across Shipping, Logistics, Aviation, Oil and Gas, Security, Construction, Real estates and still counting! He is the Executive Chairman of the McDan Group and McDan Foundation. Today the McDan brand has become a household name synonymous with Can-do spirit, Excellence, Integrity, Generosity, Tenacity with purpose, a Positive attitude to life and more critically inspiring countless Youth across Africa to dream Big through entrepreneurship. Dr. Daniel McKorley was born and raised in Labadi, a suburb of Accra, Ghana. He holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Leadership from the Commonwealth University, London Business School, an Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA) and Bachelors in Entrepreneurship both from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) as well as a Diploma in a Leadership from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. A distinguished and highly sought after motivational speaker on Leadership, Youth Empowerment and Entrepreneurship, Sports Development, Mentorship, Investment promotion, developing positive attitude to Successful life, Business Strategy, Et al. Dr. McKorley serves on several private and public Boards and consults for many blue chip Companies and SMEs. Dr. McKorley’s heart is known for what he does best – giving back to Society. The establishment of McDan Foundation reflects his deepest passion to restore hope to the poor and vulnerable in Society. He has invested over 4 million Dollars in many charitable works including constructing new classroom blocks for rural communities, building modern astro turfs to promote sports development for the youth, enrolling thousands of brilliant but needy students in Basic and Tertiary institutions, investing in youth entrepreneurship through the McDan Challenge, paying medical bills of thousands of needy patients, empowering street children with skills development among many others. His vision is to inspire and empower more young people to believe in themselves by supporting them with funding through the McDan Equity Fund and hand-hold them into becoming not only conglomerates but multi-millionaires. Dr. McKorley believes it is the responsibility of those who have been blessed to invest in others so Africa can leap frog from a 3rd world to a first world. He is indeed a living testimony of touching millions of lives across Ghana with his giving back to society agenda. His Charitable works have endeared him to various Traditional authorities, having thus being enstooled as a development Chief of Ada under the stool name of Nene Koranteng Kabu 1 and also Gugba Naa of Tamale.