Biography of Ike Nwabuonwu

Ike Nwabuonwu is the Chairman & CEO of Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc., an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Company with over half a century of experience. We provide our clients with uncompromising level of excellence with integrity from planning to implementation. 

 

Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc., has been part of some of the region’s (Midwest USA) high profile construction projects. Some of our major projects include: New Kansas City International Airport, a $1.5 billon state of the art completed in March of 2023, New Kansas City Streetcar, Kansas City Downtown Streetcar to be completed in 2025, Iatan Power Plant, Kansas City Police Department East Patrol Campus/Crime Lab Project, Paseo Academy Solar Project - the single largest Solar (Photovoltaic) System Project in Kansas City, Sprint Center, Arrowhead Stadium, Kauffman stadium, LaCygne Power Plant, New JE Dunn headquarters, the new Saint Luke’s Hospital, Solar Panel Design & Installation for the US Army Corps of Engineers, 15kv Switchgear Replacement at the US Department of Agriculture, and University of Missouri power plant, etc. 

 

Ike has over thirty years of broad professional experience in leadership positions. A strategic thinker. He is responsible for steering the company’s overall strategic goals and vision towards a culture of high ethics and profitability. He was one of the twenty company CEOs selected and accompanied the U. S. Secretary of Commerce on a trade mission to West Africa in 2014. 

 

Ike was among the one hundred CEOs from United States and fifty African countries invited by the United States President to join the U.S. – Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington, D.C. (fifty African Presidents from the continent of Africa attended the summit) in August 2014. 

 

He serves on the Board of several organizations and has received many citations and awards including a proclamation from the Governor of Missouri, as an Achiever in Business and Industry. Inducted into the Black Achievers Society of Kansas City in 1998. He serves on the District Export Council (DEC) and Board Member on the United States Trade Representative (USTR) - Trade Advisory Committee on Africa (TACA). He was recently appointed member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC).

 

Ike and his wife Betty are devoted catholic with four children. Ike is an honor guard and 4th degree member of the knights of Columbus. Ike’s knowledge, experience, and leadership abilities are certainly great assets.