LNIC Leadership
The Chairman
Hon. Michael S. Wotorson
Chairman
National Investment Commission, Republic of Liberia
Mr. Wotorson serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Liberia National Investment Commission (LNIC). As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Wotorson is responsible for guiding the overall management and the vision of the LNIC consistent with the development goals of the Republic of Liberia.
Prior to being appointed to the LNIC by the President of Liberia, H. E. Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Mr. Wotorson served as an Executive Consultant/Technical Advisor for Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI) in Liberia. At OICI, Mr. Wotorson was responsible for overseeing and directing the promotion, communications, and outreach functions for OICI's work on a USAID funded initiative known as Investing for Business Expansion (IBEX). The IBEX project was designed to strategically connect small and medium sized Liberian businesses from the agricultural and renewable energy sectors to credit financing opportunities with local lending institutions. Mr. Wotorson also directed OIC's initial risk and profitability assessment of Liberian businesses seeking IBEX support prior to onward submission of those applicants to the International Executive Service Corps for final decisions.
Between 2002 and 2013, Mr. Wotorson maintained a strategic communications and management consulting firm known as Resource, Policy and Strategy Solutions International (RPSI). Mr. Wotorson began his work in strategic communications and management consulting as a Senior Manager with a communications consulting firm in Washington, DC. During his tenure, Mr. Wotorson was the principal consultant assigned to the United States Internal Revenue Service on a project designed to re-frame and re-design Penalty and Interest statements that get mailed out to the American public each year. Specifically, Mr. Wotorson was tasked with leading a team of IRS executive level staffers through a comprehensive usability analysis and a consequent document re-design process for federal tax Penalty and Interest communications.
Wotorson holds degrees in Political Science with an emphasis on Comparative Political and Economic systems in transitioning nations. Mr. Wotorson has been married for nineteen years to a fellow Liberian. The couple has four children.
Mr. Wotorson can be reached at mwotorson@nic.gov.lr.
Commissioners
The National Investment Commission is a Secretariat, which was created to promote and coordinate investment related activities in all sectors of the Liberian economy.
The Commission is comprised of six commissioners headed by a chairman, who is the administrative head of the Secretariat and has a cabinet rank. Other commissioners are as follows:
Cllr. Seward Cooper
The Minister of State for Economic Affairs(Office of the Legal Advisor to the President)
www.emansion.gov.lr
LNIC Senior Management
The following dynamic senior staff members support the Chairman of the Liberia National Investment Commission:
Name: Hon. George G. Wisner
Position: Executive Director
Contact: +231-0886-682-028
Email: gyude.wisner@nic .gov.lr
Name: Mr. Melvin Sheriff
Position: Director of Concessions& Public Private Partnerships
Contact: +231-0770-111-087
Email: melvinsheriff@nic.gov.lr
Name: Mr. Othello Z. B. Karr
Position: Technical Officer for Special Investment Incentives
Contact: +231- 0886-234-134
Email: ozbkarr@nic.gov.lr
Name: Cllr. Therena Reeves
Position: Chief Legal Counsel
Contact: +231 0886-695-824
Email: treeves315@yahoo.com
Name: Mr. Paye S. Gbelayan
Position: Director, Investment Promotion Directorate
Contact: +2310886-897-995
Email: psg@nic.gov.lr
Name: Mr. Grisper Garteh
Position: Director of Finance and Administration
Contact: 0886-922-965
Email: gg@nic.gov.lr
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