Non Independent Director Sanlam Life Insurance
Moses was appointed to the Board of Sanlam Vie Plc in 2018. He is currently the General Manager, Life Insurance East Africa, for Sanlam Pan Africa. For his role, he, in addition sits in the Board of Sanlam Uganda, Alternate Director at Sanlam Tanzania, Director at Socar Vie and Socar AG in Burundi and Director at Hubris Holdings Ltd in Kenya.
Moses is a qualified Actuary and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries UK (FIA) and Fellow of The Actuarial Society of Kenya (FeASK). He has over 18 years experience in insurance and consulting gained in UK, SA and Kenya. He joined Sanlam in his current role in 2017.
Moses holds an MBA and MSc in Applied Statistics both gained from University of Oxford (UK) and BSc Mathematics from University of Nairobi.
Compliance DirectorSanlam Life Insurance
Chief Executive OfficerSanlam General Insurance
Mr Fiacre G. Birasa was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Sanlam in March 2016. Prior to joining Sanlam, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Sanlam and Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Investment Group SA (RIG Ltd).
He has more than 34 years’ work experience in the financial sector, focusing on financial management, administrative leadership, diverse business management and special advisory services. Mr Birasa holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Laval University – Canada.
Chief Executive Officer Sanlam Life Insurance
A proven results-oriented leader, Mr. HODARI has 23 years of experience in the insurance industry. He started his professional career in 2000 with SORAS SA currently SANLAM Rwanda. In 2003, he joined CORAR/SAHAM where he contributed to establish Life insurance business that he led during 8 years before returning to SORAS /SANLAM VIE in 2011 where he served as Chief Commercial officer and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 2013.
Mr. HODARI serves as a Non-Executive Director on Boards of UNGUKA BANK Plc, Rwanda Investments Group (RIG), SANLAM Rwanda Plc and AYO Rwanda Ltd.
In terms of professional and academic qualification, Mr. HODARI is a Charted Pension Analyst. He also holds a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology.
Claims DirectorSanlam General Insurance
Mr Hodari was assigned as Claims Director in April 2019. Previously, Mr Hodari was Claims and Legal Manager of Sanlam (December 2012 to April 2019), as well as Corporate Secretary of Sanlam (January 2011 to December 2012).
From November 2008 to December 2010, Mr Hodari was Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Justice and Head of the House of Access to Justice at the Karongi branch. From August 2004 to October 2008, he was Prosecutor for several regions including the Kigali-Ngali Province (2004-2006: Chief Prosecutor), Nyarugenge (2006-2007: Prosecutor – Intermediate level) and Byumba (2007-2008: Prosecutor – Intermediate level). From April 2000 to July 2004, he was Judge and Vice President of Kibungo Intermediate Court.
Mr Hodari received his Bachelor’s Degree in Law (Licence en Droit) from the National University of Rwanda in February 2000, as well as various professional training in Rwanda, the United States of America, Egypt, Burkina Faso and Kenya.
Medical DirectorSanlam General Insurance
Charles Butera is a Medical Manager at Sanlam. He started his career in 1996 as an underwriter at Sanlam, and was promoted to Head of Motor Underwriting within two years. From April 1999, he worked as Branch Manager in Southern Province, before getting promoted to Head of Underwriting in the Motor and Marine Insurance Department at Sanlam Head Office.
In February 2008, Mr Butera was appointed Head of Marketing and Branch Coordinator in the Commercial Department, and he was later promoted to Underwriting Manager in January 2013. He was later transferred to the Medical Department where he worked as Medical Manager and in September 2017 he added Commercial Department Manager to his title.
Mr Butera holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science.
Chief Risk OfficerSanlam Life Insurance
Mr. NIBABYARE Jean d’Amour has a vast knowledge and experience of around 24 years in the insurance industry. He started his professional career in 1999 with SORAS SA currently SANLAM Rwanda where he was responsible for Reinsurance Management. In 2000, he was promoted to Head of Life Insurance Unit to manage Claims and Agents’ commissions. Later, in 2004 he was appointed Head of Technical Department leading all life operations including Underwriting, Commissions, Claims management as well as reinsurance arrangement. In 2012, after acquisition of SORAS’ stake by Sanlam Emerging Markets Proprietary (Pty) Ltd, Mr. Jean d’Amour was appointed to the Senior Management position of Technical Director in charge of Company’s operations, a position he led until 2018 where he was appointed to the position of Pension Director.
In 2019, he became the Chief Risk Officer, the position he led up to now.
Professionally, Mr. NIBABYARE Jean d’Amour is a Chartered Risk Analyst (CRA), Chartered Pension Analyst. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics (MA), a Bachelor’s degree in economics and A1 high diploma in Statistics.
Chief Operations Officer
Sanlam Life Insurance
Mr. Muhire Nkurunziza Olivier is an experienced Chief Operations Officer with a demonstrated history of 11 years working in the life insurance industry.
He has benefited from several international insurance trainings and seminars, and is skilled in life insurance, insurance product design and marketing, actuarial science and risk management, with a strong command in customer-centricity.
In addition, Mr. Muhire Nkurunziza is also has strong Microinsurance and Bancassurance operations and management. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Kigali Independent University and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Rwanda, where computational skills and applied economics were his main focus. He is also following a Diploma II Program in insurance with the College of Insurance of Kenya.
Chief Commercial Officer- Retail Sanlam Life Insurance
Mrs. Jeannette Tuyishimire has 19 years’ experience in life insurance. Her career started in 2004 with SORAS SA where she occupied various positions in different departments, including Marketing Manager, Head of Underwriting, Head of Premium Allocation and Assistant Head of Claims.
With her technical skills and experience, Mrs. Tuyishimire works in the product designing team. She possesses an excellent ability to motivate others, coupled with the ability to communicate comfortably at all levels, therefore ensuring a motivating working environment for all members of the team to perform at their best.
She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She is pursuing a Diploma II Program in insurance with thhe College of Insurance of Kenya.
Chief Risk OfficerSanlam General Insurance
Thierry Kayumba Mubiligi has been Chief Risk Officer and Company Secretary of Sanlam since April 2019, after its merger with SAHAM Assurance Rwanda Ltd, where he was Head of Legal and Compliance and Company Secretary.
Mr Kayumba Mubiligi started his career in 2006, as an in-house counsel at the Media High Council of Rwanda – a public institution in charge of media regulation. He later moved to the private sector in 2010, working as an in-house counsel in Cogebanque Ltd, one of the main commercial banks in Rwanda. In 2015, he joined KCB Bank Rwanda Ltd as Senior Manager, supervising the management of all the bank’s collaterals and loans documentation.
Mr Kayumba Mubiligi joined SAHAM Assurance Rwanda in March 2018 as Head of Legal and Compliance, acting as Company Secretary for both SAHAM Assurance Rwanda (General Insurance branch) and SAHAM Assurance Vie Rwanda (Life Insurance branch) until the merger between Sanlam and SAHAM.
He graduated from the National University of Rwanda with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in International Economics and Business Law.