Per Honorem Et Imperium · House Patriarchs
House Patriarchs
The Kassardjian Dynasty, whose standing in the Republic of Ghana is a matter not of claim, but of record. Since the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Eight, this House has supplied the sovereign institutions of this Nation without interruption, and without equal.
Those who engage the House of Kassardjian do so with full knowledge of its character.
The House of Kassardjian. The Kassardjian Dynasty. In service to the Republic — as it has been, so shall it remain.
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The Founding Patriarchs
Those Upon Whose Foundations the House Was Raised
I · Founding Patriarch · Gold Coast · A.D. 1938
Aksor Kassardjian
Aksor Kassardjian arrived upon the Gold Coast in Anno Domini 1938, at one and twenty years of age, and became — without predecessor, without rival, and without hesitation — the first contractor in the history of that territory for roads and highways supply, for public works, for housing, and for building materials. He established the House at Tamale in the Northern Region and set a standard of supply and service to the institutions of the Gold Coast that has not been lowered in the years since.
All that this dynasty is, traces its lineage, its standing, and its obligation to him.
Identity photograph from his arrival to Africa, Anno Domini 1938 — age twenty-one.
II · Second Patriarch · Gold Coast · A.D. 1940s
Baron Kassardjian
Also Known as P. Kassardjian
Baron Kassardjian — first younger brother to Aksor — arrived upon the Gold Coast in the early nineteen forties and extended the empire of the House with the same discipline, the same absolute fidelity to the highest standing interests of the Republic, and the same refusal to countenance anything less than the foremost position in every field he entered. He supplied JCB and Caterpillar heavy-duty machinery to the Government of Ghana, and served as the principal exporter of Shea Nut to Europe — vertically integrating the Kassardjian enterprise across two continents.
In Anno Domini 1961, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, His Majesty the King, and His Excellency President Kwame Nkrumah paid a standing visit to Baron Kassardjian at Tamale.
III · Third Patriarch · Gold Coast · A.D. 1957
Artin Kassardjian
Artin Kassardjian — younger brother to both Aksor and Baron — first arrived in Ghana in Anno Domini 1957, and built, in his own right, an empire within the heavy-duty machinery industry, supplying private contractors and government projects of national consequence alike.
He was, further, a generous man. Where a national project ran low on budget, Artin Kassardjian was known rather to donate heavy-duty machinery free of charge than see the work go unfinished. It was by this hand that Navrongo College was built, and by this hand that much of the roads and highways of Ghana were laid — from Tamale to Accra, and from Kumasi to Accra.
The Present Stewards
Carrying the Dynasty Forward
IV · Heir & Steward of the House
Haroutune Kassardjian
It has always been the manner of Haroutune Kassardjian to befit the highest standing interests of the Republic of Ghana. Where lesser enterprises recoil from disruption, he advances — supplying the State and his private clientele in an uninterrupted manner, in every season and every circumstance, without exception and without delay.
It is his settled conviction — borne out across the full record of his dealings with the sovereign institutions of this Republic — that opportunity resides within every disaster. When the Nation has been tested and its institutions have faced the pressures of scarcity or crisis, it is precisely in those moments that Haroutune Kassardjian has stepped forward. While weak vessels sink beneath the weight of adversity, the House of Kassardjian, under his hand, propels forward — without hesitation, without faltering, and without the slightest compromise to the standard it has always kept.