Meet Francis Doku, the moderator for Graphic Showbiz forum today
Francis Doku is a consummate communications professional with over two decades’ experience. He was until recently the General Manager of 3 Group, responsible for TV3 and 3FM, both owned and operated by Media General Limited.
Before this role, he served as General Manager for MG Digital Limited and MG Radio Limited respectively.His experience spans across the marketing communications and the media value chain, including journalism, public relations, media planning, advertising, event management, digital marketing, tourism marketing with veritable know-how in each of these areas.
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Between July 2009 and July 2014, he served as General Manager of Adams Media Limited (Carat Ghana). He left Carat to take up the role of Group CEO of The Rave Group, a multi-specialized communications services holding company with interests in media planning, creative development and production, content production, marketing and syndication, events and experiential marketing as well as digital marketing.
He later established Maestro Africa Group Limited, a media planning and buying, experiential marketing, public relations and digital marketing company before joining Media General in 2017.
For over two decades, he has been writing the Listening and Watching with Francis Doku column in the Graphic Showbiz, a column which critically reviews and previews radio and television programmes and presenters’ performances as well as other happenings in the entertainment, tourism, arts and culture space.
He has worked with global blue-chip media and communications companies such as MediaCom (Vizeum) and Carat. The global brands that he has had the privilege of working on over the years include Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Guinness, Gulder, MTN, Tigo, Vodafone, Nokia, Ariel, Pampers, Duracell, Gillette, Vicks, Always, Vlisco, South Africa Tourism, to name a few.
Doku has previously hosted Travel Pass, a tourism show on Accra-based 3FM since 2019 and has over the years been one of the most sought-after pundit on tourism, entertainment and showbiz on radio and television.
In October 2022, he served as a panel member/discussant on the topic of digital transformation for domestic and regional tourism in Africa at the 5th African Tourism Leaders Forum (ATLF) held in Gaborone, Botswana and in 2023 he was a panel member on partnerships and collaboration at the 4th African Youth in Tourism Innovation and Challenge held in Swakopmund, Namibia.
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Francis Doku holds a bachelor’s degree in BSc Administration (banking and finance option) and an Executive MBA (marketing option) both from the University of Ghana (UGBS), Legon, Accra. His interests include traveling, watching football, reading, listening to the radio and playing scrabble.
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