GLICO - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• Managing Director / Member Companies

Andrew Achampong-Kyei is a chartered insurer and a lawyer called to both the UK and Ghana bar. He joined GLICO Group Ltd in 2010 as the Company Secretary, Head of Legal and Special Risks. He led GLICO Group's legal and special risks outfit with demonstrated commitment; ensuring the application of prudent risk exposure management interventions. He has gained in-depth understanding of risk assessment and underwriting of major and complex risks and energy insurance through executive management training program in one of the world's leading broking firms, Filhet Allard Maritime, France, as well as an attachment at Marsh Limited (UK) - a global leader in insurance broking and risk management. He has substantially enhanced his leadership, managerial and technical capabilities through his participation in executive training programs in critical disciplines such as: Governance and Risk Management in September 2016 (Ghana); Risk Management in July 2017 (Ghana); Terrorism and Sabotage, Political and Cyber Crime Risk Insurance in September 2017 in Nigeria, and other functional training programs.

Job Titles:

• Head, National Sales

Job Titles:

• Chief Business Development Officer
• Chief Business Development Officer / ING. Solomon Twum Barima

Charles Graham-Mensah is a Chartered Insurer and a Chartered Marketer with more than twenty years of uninterrupted, professional experience in the insurance industry. He started his career in the life insurance sector as a Marketing Officer of GLICO Life Insurance Company in 1999. He later joined Vanguard Assurance Company as a Marketing Officer and rose to the position of a Branch Manager. He rejoined GLICO General Insurance Company in 2007 as the Assistant General Manager in charge of Marketing. Since returning to GLICO General, he has climbed up the ranks to become the General Manager (Marketing). He is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII), UK and Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). He holds Executive MBA (Marketing) and B.A. (Psychology). Charles has also benefitted from several training courses organized and executed by internationally-recognized and reputable institutions such as: Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management and Temple University - all in the U.S.A. These training programs have contributed immensely to his experience and capabilities.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Board
• Board Chairman / Member Companies

Mr. Kwame Achampong-Kyei is highly regarded as one of the most successful and astute entrepreneurs in Ghana. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG) and a Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), UK. He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of GLICO Group., which is made up of GLICO Life Insurance Company, GLICO General Insurance Company, GLICO Healthcare, GLICO Pensions, GLICO Capital, GLICO Properties among others. Mr. Kwame Achampong-Kyei worked with the reputable American Life in the United Kingdom for many years before returning to Ghana to pursue his dream of establishing a life insurance company with a vision of bringing life insurance to the doorstep of every Ghanaian household. After founding Gemini Life Insurance Company (now GLICO Life), Mr. Kwame Achampong-Kyei exhibited remarkable business acumen to grow and develop GLICO to become a dominant brand of choice in Ghana. Apart from GLICO Group Ltd and its subsidiary companies, he also owns and has major stake in a number of other companies, which provide employment for hundreds of Ghanaians. At the industry level, he was a Founding Member of the Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) and served as the General Secretary of the GIA for more twelve consecutive years. He was instrumental in initiating and assisting in the establishment of a number of industry code of practice. He was one of the major brains behind the establishment of an oil and gas consortium (now known as GOGIP) following the discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantities in Ghana. Mr. Kwame Achampong-Kyei serves on several Boards and his remarkable achievements have been recognized both locally and internationally with a number of awards including the prestigious Marketing Man of the Year conferred on him by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) in 2008, Order of the Volta, (one of the highest national awards, conferred on him by President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2008), Honorary Doctorate Degree awarded by the Commonwealth University in 2015, the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year among many others. Mr. Kwame Achampong-Kyei continues to pursue his entrepreneurial passion with verve and also inspire young people to exploit their God given talents and realize their dreams.

Job Titles:

• Head of Claims

Job Titles:

• Chief Business Development Officer / ING. Solomon Twum Barima
• Chief Finance Officer / ING. Solomon Twum Barima
• ING.
• Professional Engineer
• Risk Management Expert

Ing. Solomon Twum Barima is a Chartered Insurer, a Professional Engineer, a Risk Management Expert, a Lawyer and a Loss Adjuster. He possesses several years of varied work experience in his fields of practice. He started his insurance career with SIC in 2006 as a Risk Engineer after working with a manufacturing company as an Assistant Production Manager. In April 2013, he rose to become the Assistant Manager of SIC's Legal Department. Ing. Twum Barima joined GLICO General Insurance Company in January 2016 after leaving SIC to work with Imperial General Assurance as the Head of Claims and Risk Management from September, 2013 to December, 2015. He has consistently demonstrated knowledge and skills which have ranked him among the best technical experts in risk assessment, underwriting, loss adjustment and claims management in Ghana's insurance industry.

Job Titles:

• Head of Broker Workgroup

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Member of the Board of Directors

Job Titles:

• Chartered Accountant
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Board Member / Member Companies
• Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Mr. Danquah Addo-Yobo is a Chartered Accountant with both national and international corporate experience. He has extensive knowledge in the financial sector and customer service. He has worked with Yara Ghana Limited (Yara), the world's largest supplier of mineral fertilizer, for the past 6 years in varying roles. He served as the Chief Finance Officer from 2014 to 2016 and Managing Director from 2017 to 2019. He is presently the West African Regional Director of the company. Prior to joining Yara, Mr. Addo Yobo held senior management roles both locally and internationally. Locally, he has worked with Vodafone Ghana, Maersk Ghana Limited and internationally with Safmarine (Pty) Limited (South Africa), PT. Maersk Indonesia and Pt. MM Logistics Indonesia. Mr. Addo-Yobo holds an MBA from the London School of Business and Finance, MISE from Maersk International Shipping Academy and a Finance Magnet from APM Terminals (the Hague). He also holds a BSc qualification in Business Administration (Accounting Major) from the University of Ghana, Legon. Mr. Danquah Addo-Yobo is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Group Chief Executive Officer of GLICO Group

Mr. Forkuo Kyei is the Group Chief Executive officer of GLICO Group and a Chartered Insurer with over thirty years' experience. Prior to his appointment as the Group CEO, he was the Managing Director of GLICO Life Insurance Company, the life insurance subsidiary of the Group for approximately ten years. Having joined GLICO in 1992, he has played a pivotal role in the growth and success of the organization. He was instrumental in the establishment of most of the subsidiary companies under the Group and plays a key role in the growth of these companies. Apart from being a Chartered Insurer and an Associate Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII) he also holds MSc in Insurance & Risk Management from Cass Business School City University (UK) and MBA in Finance & Advance Strategic Management from the Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University (UK). Mr. Forkuo Kyei is a product of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) where he graduated with a BSc Development Planning degree. Mr. Kyei serves on several company boards as well as boards of institutions including Liberty Centre Assemblies of God Church and the Assemblies of God University College.

Job Titles:

• Chartered Accountant
• Chief Finance Officer
• Chief Finance Officer / ING. Solomon Twum Barima

Mr. James Apam is a Chartered Accountant with several years of experience in Accounting and Finance, Internal Audit & Compliance, Corporate Treasury, Strategic planning and analysis, business development, Micro finance and SME banking. He has industry experiences in Airline, Insurance, Financial Services / Banking and Hospitality. He started his career in 2001 with the now defunct Ghana Airways as an Accounts Officer and later joined SIC Insurance Company Limited in 2003 as an Officer, Internal Audit and rose to the position of Chief Officer, Internal Audit before leaving SIC in 2010. He later joined BEIGE Capital Savings and Loans in 2010 as Head of Finance with additional responsibility for procurement, IT and branch expansion. He was appointed as a Regional Head in 2011 and successfully managed Accra East Region expanding the bank's branch network in the Region from three to twelve within three years. Prior to joining GLICO General Insurance in August 2017, he held the position of Group Treasury Manager / Finance Manager at Allterrain Services Group, a British Virgin Islands (BVI) company operating in eighteen (18) countries in Africa with annual turnover in excess of US$100M.

Job Titles:

• Chief Technical Officer

Mr. Ohenebeng Sarpong started his insurance career with Provident Insurance Company in 1992 as a Senior Insurance Officer. In December 2002 he resigned from Provident Insurance as an Underwriting Manager and joined Tri-Star Insurance Services. After a short stint at Tri-Star, he moved to Unique Insurance Company as a General Manager in 2004. Mr. Ohenebeng was one of the pioneering senior Management staff of GLICO General after joining the Company in 2006 as the Senior Manager, Technical Operations. In 2009, he was promoted to the position of Assistant General Manager (Technical Operations). He has brought on board a wealth of technical experience spanning more than twenty six years in the insurance industry and continues to bring technical innovation to the Company's operation. He has been involved in the provision of loss adjusting and claims settlement services for many policyholders for the past several years.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors

Mr. Seth Nyamadi has many years of experience and expertise in finance, accounting, insurance and reinsurance. He was the Deputy Managing Director in charge of Finance and Administration at Ghana Reinsurance Company Limited (Ghana Re) having previously served as Chief Finance Officer of Ghana Re for over ten years. He is a Chartered Accountant and a longstanding member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana. He also holds an Executive MBA from the University of Ghana Business School and has over thirty years' work experience in accounting and finance. Mr. Nyamadi prior to joining Ghana Re, worked with Tettey Ussher & Partners and Deloitte & Touche. He also served on the Boards of Donewell Insurance Company and CDH Financial Holdings Limited as well as the NIC Finance Committee for many years.

Job Titles:

• Company Secretary
• Secretary of the Board
• Board Secretary / Member Companies

Vida Kyei holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B Hons) from the University of Ghana and a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Development Studies (BA IDS) from the University for Development Studies, Tamale. She was called to the Ghana Bar in 2014 having successfully obtained a Barrister at law certificate from the Ghana School of Law. Her areas of specialty include commercial law, corporate law, investment law, land law and general litigation. Prior to her joining GLICO, Vida Kyei worked with Ghana's Attorney General's Department, Center for Development Partnership and Beyond Aid. Vida Kyei also serves as the Company Secretary for GLICO General, GLICO Capital, GLICO Healthcare and GLICO Pensions. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association.