Head Office
Plot 331 Kambarage (Rose Garden road) Road, Mikocheni
P.O. Box 1948 Dar Es Salaam
Tel: +255 22 2774999, +255 22 2775039, +255 22 2775059
Fax: +255 22 2775094
E-Mail: insurance@icealion.co.tz
Website: www.icealion.co.tz
Mr. Barton Hamis Mwasamengo is an experienced Treasurer and Financial Markets professional with over 16 years of experience in the banking industry. He joined Icea lion board of Directors in 2018 from African Banking Corporation Ltd as the Head of Treasury representing TDFL Interest. Mr. Mwasamengo has gained his experience with banks such as Stanbic, and Standard Chartered Bank and National Bank of Commerce(NBC) part of ABSA.
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He started his career in banking as a letter of credit clerk at Stanbic Bank then moved to Standard Chartered Bank as Global Market Administrator and rouse to Business Finance Partner then moved to NBC as Treasury Sales Dealer then to Head of Treasury Sales and same time served as the ACI Association Country Treasurer forming part of the Tanzania chapter executive team. He is an ACI Certified and Securities industry licensed dealer by the Capital Market of Tanzania and expert in structuring Treasury and Global Markets Solutions.
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He also holds an Advanced Diploma in Accountancy from Tanzania Institute of Accountancy (TIA), Postgraduate Diploma in Accountancy from Institute of Finance and Management (IFM) and MSC HRM from Mzumbe University. He is currently working with CRDB Bank as a Head of Global Markets under Treasury and and Capital Markets directorate. Apart from Serving in the ICea Lion Board, he also serves in Abicol microcredit and George washingston Secondary school as no-executive director.
Mr. Philip Lopokoiyit is the CEO of ICEA LION Group, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was previously the CEO of ICEA LION General Insurance company having joined the Group in September 2021. He has a wealth of experience in Finance, Risk Management and Corporate Governance, having worked for over 20 years in various senior management capacities in multinational companies.
Philip holds a BCom from the University of Nairobi and is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya. He also holds other accounting qualifications being a member of the Chartered Management Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He holds an MBA degree from Warwick Business School, UK.
Philip is currently the Chair of the Nairobi Declaration on Sustainable Insurance (NDSI).
He is also a Non-Executive Director of NCBA Bank.
Mr. Mwazyunga is by profession a Management Economist and Facilitator initially educated in economics, management and administration at the University of Dar es Salaam. Mr. Mwazyunga later acquired a Master’s degree in management in USA. In his professional work, he has led or taken part in a wide variety of consultancies for many Bilateral or multilateral aid agencies. In 1990, Mr. Mwazyunga founded INTERMAECOS Ltd. of which he is still the Managing Director. During the past several years, he has specialized in project identification, planning, evaluation, joint ventures, privatization, entrepreneur development, business and financial appraisals, and human resource development. In the following few paragraphs, his key capacity is reflected:
After several years of work with rural development in Tanzania, Mr. Mwazyunga now has a broad understanding of rural development combined with in-depth technical knowledge as well as a thorough understanding of the socio-economic aspects of rural development in Tanzania. In several of his work, Mr. Mwazyunga has utilized different types of participatory tool such as Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA), Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). These tools particularly PPA has made it possible for rural population, men and women to share their experiences so as to improve the understanding by other social groups of their living conditions. Mr. Mwazyunga is well versed with the current national polices in rural development and those addressing poverty particularly rural poverty.
Mr. Mwazyunga has undertaken several assignments with District Councils in the areas of capacity building, organization and revenue studies and has facilitated several workshops recently on Good Governance and leadership for the District Council staff and other stakeholders including Councillors. Mr. Mwazyunga has been involved in private sector development since in early 1980s by providing various businesses development services such as identification of investment o, advising on the viability of investment proposals, identification of funds for financing investment, marketing and human resources advices. Mr. Mwazyunga has recently been involved in promoting and strengthening advocacy capacity to press for private sector rights, facilitating formation of business community groups in order to strengthen advocacy roles, access capital and share information on markets and prices for their products.
Ms. Musingi is an outstanding hardworking experienced Lawyer and company secretary with over 17 years in local and Multinational Banks. Her dedication, passion and hard work has been recognized through outstanding awards received from various banks she has worked for to include the major one received from BancABC as an employee of the year in recognition of her outstanding performance and contribution to the Bank in the year 2016.
Ms. Musingi holds a Certificate in Directorship and a Certificate in Company Secretary Course from the Institute of Directors in Tanzania (IoDT). She holds a Master’s degree in Law (LLM) from University of Cape Town, South Africa, a Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in Law (LL. B) from the University of Dar es Salaam and also is a practicing Advocate of the High Court and the Courts Subordinate.
She sits in Songas Tanzania Limited, Icea Lion Tanzania and Tanzania Development Finance Limited Boards as a Non- Executive Director.
Her Career journey started at Tan Africa Law in 2003 as a Legal officer and walked her way to Senior Legal Officer. She then joined Tanzania Women’s Bank where she was Head of Corporate Legal Services and Company Secretary and then moved to East Africa Development Bank as Senior Legal Counsel. She then joined Commercial Bank of Africa Tanzania Limited (now known as NCBA) as Head of Legal, Recovery & Company Secretary, thereafter, joined BancABC Tanzania as Head: Legal & Company Secretary in November 2015 to date.
Has a great and vast experience on finance and economic sector here in Tanzania and his history as economist trails from early 1970s. Dr, JP Kipokola has served as Director Government Relations, Barrick Gold Tanzania, General Manager, Corporate Relations Placer Dome Tanzania (Transition),Chief Administrator, LART (Loans and Advances Realization Trust), Ministry of Finance, Principal Secretary – Ministry of Energy and Minerals., Deputy Principal Secretary and Deputy Secretary to the Planning Commission Sectorial, Policy Deputy Principal Secretary Ministry of Finance – External Finance, Debt Management, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Commissioner for Monetary and Fiscal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Personal Assistant (Advisor) to the Prime Minister on Economic Affairs, Senior Economist to the President’s Office Economic Affairs Division (from 1977 – 1980) and Senior Economist to Common Market and Economic Affairs Secretariat of East African Community.
Dr. Kipokola has also served as the member of Board of Directors of the following organizations:
Kilimanjaro Hotel Ltd. – Chairman (to 1994), BP (T) Ltd. Board Chairman (to 1994), Southern Paper Mills Ltd. (SPM) – Board Chairman (to 2004), Cooperative and Rural Development Bank (CRDB) Board Director (to end 1993), National Insurance Corporation (NIC) – Vice Board Chairman (to 1993), National Transport Corporation (NTC) – Board Director (to 1995), Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) – Board Director (to 1994), Bank of Tanzania Institute – Member of the Advisory Council (to 1993), Tanzania Engineering and Manufacturing Design Organization (TEMDO) – Board Director (to1994), Councilor, Dar es Salaam University Council (to 1995), Commissioner, National Commission for Science and Technology (to 1995), Member, National Central Roads Board (to 1995), Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) – Chairman (to 1997), ORYX Oil Company Ltd./AGIP (T) Ltd. – Chairman (to 2008), Agribusiness and Distributors Ltd. – Vice Board Chairman (to 2009), Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania Ltd. – Board Director (to May, 2001), Aon Tanzania Ltd. – Board Director (current), Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI) – Board Director (2004 – Resigned 2005), Chairman TDFL (Tanganyika Development Finance Company (current), Chairman, African Banking Corporation (T) Ltd (ABCT Ltd), Kilimanjaro Vehicle Services Company Limited (KIVESCO) – Director. (current), Hotel Association of Tanzania (HAT) – Chairman. (current)
Joined the company in February 2019 as the chief operations officer and was appointed Executive director in September 2020. He has demonstrated great leadership for our Tanzania business.
Jared holds masters in Business Administration (Corporate Management) from Mzumbe university and Bachelors of Commerce from Jabalpur University, India. He also holds a Diploma in Banking and Insurance from central institute of management (india) and an international post graduate Diploma in General insurance from institute of insurance and Risk management (IIRM).
Prior to Joining ICEA LION General Insurance in 2019, Jared had worked with Jubilee insurance, Lion of Tanzania (Now ICEA LION General Insurance Tanzania) and Sanlam General Insurance. His experience spans 15 years in the sphere of accounting and finance, business development as well as claims, underwriting and reinsurance operations. Jared has proved a track record of developing service standards and procedures, operational policies as well as planning and implementing effective control measures.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Warwick, a Masters in Banking and Finance Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master of Philosophy from the Maastricht School of Management. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICS-K). Paul is also an Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) Certified Executive Coach and is pursuing qualifications through the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).
Paul began his career in private legal practice rising to the role of Senior Commercial Associate at Daly and Figgis Advocates (now CMS Daly Inamndar). He joined the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) in 2005 where he held various positions including Head of Legal Framework, Head of Enforcement and Director, Regulatory Policy and Strategy. He took over leadership of the CMA in July 2012. During his term as Chief Executive CMA was: Recognized as the Most Innovative Capital Markets Regulator in Africa for five consecutive years(2015-19); Recognized for its contribution to Capital Markets Stability in Africa (2018); Ranked as the top public sector entity in the Government of Kenya Report on National
Principles of Governance (2017); and severally recognized as one of the top employers in the country (2016 & 2018). Paul was until December 2019 a Board Member of the International Organization of Securities Commissions(IOSCO) and the Chairman of the Africa and Middle East Regional Committee (AMERC) of IOSCO. He was also the Chairman of the Consultative Committee of the East African Securities Regulatory Authorities(EASRA). At the national level, he has sat on the boards of the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA), the Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA), as well as the Vision 2030 Delivery Board. He remains a Member of the Securities Advisory Board of the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial Supervision. In December 2017, Paul was awarded the National Honor of the Order of the Moran of the Burning Spear(MBS) by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya for his services to the development, deepening and reform of the capital markets in Kenya.
Joined the Company (ICEA Lion General Insurance Tanzania) in June 2021.
Elizabeth holds Masters of International Business from University of Dar es salaam and Bachelor Degree of Accounting and Finance from Moshi University. She also holds a Certificate of Insurance from Chartered Insurance Institute (UK) and Professional Course of International Business Management from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade-India.
Prior to joining ICEA Lion General Insurance Tanzania, she had worked with Britam Insurance Tanzania Limited with experience of 11 years in the spheres of claims handling process, underwriting, Bank Assurance and branch Business Development Manager. Elizabeth is a go getter and aspire to raise the business performance of the company.
ELIAMIN MOSBY Head of Operations & Principal Officer at ICEA LION General Insurance Tanzania
Eliamin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM). Professionally, he is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London (ACII), UK and is a Chartered Insurer.
Eliamin is a seasoned insurance professional with over a decade experience in underwriting, reinsurance and claims. Prior to joining ICEA LION General Insurance, Eliamin previously worked with Britam Insurance Company (then Real Insurance) in underwriting and claim section, and GA insurance company where he played a vital role in setting up GA Group’s Subsidiary in Dar es Salaam as Underwriting manager and later promoted to Operations Manager.
Eliamin has vast knowledge in underwriting, risk analysis, claims and reinsurance functions. He has a proved tracking records in portfolio and operations management on business growth and profitability at ICEA LION.
He is a professional claim manager with over 15 years of experience in handling various classes of general insurance claims. Joined the company in 2006 as a claims executive. With dedication, commitment and hardworking rose to the managerial post in 2014. Moshi has Undergone technical training in both insurance underwriting and claims management within and outside the country. with vast professional experience, integrity and good track record of service delivery and excellent customer management relationship he is our key person to our tagline ‘Bima fasta unalipwa fasta’
Joy holds a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from the University of Nairobi and is currently pursuing an Actuarial Fellowship from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). She is a chartered accountant and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
She started off her career as an Administrative Assistant at Knots Construction in 2008 before moving on to become a Finance Sourcing Assistant at Thomas Daniel & Associates in 2012.She then joined ICEA LION Life Assurance as an Underwriting Assistant before taking on her current role as the Head of Actuarial in 2014.
Joy is the co-chair of ICEA LION Group’s Innovations Committee and a project team member on the Strategy Task Force. Joy is a member of the Actuarial Society of Kenya’s General Insurance Working Party. She previously served as the immediate former Secretary of the Working Party. She is also a member of the Society’s IFRS Working Party.
Naomi holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Accounting Option) from the University of Nairobi as well as a MBA in Strategic Management. Naomi is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya (CPA-K) and a Certified Public Secretary
(CPS) of good standing. Naomi’s experience in the industry spans over 30 years with significant experience in finance, company secretarial duties, corporate governance as well as strategy formulation and implementation. Prior to the ICEA LION Group merger in 2012, Naomi was the General Manager in charge of Finance and Corporate Services for ICEA.
Thereafter, Naomi was appointed General Manager, Finance and Strategy for ICEA LION Group and subsequently the General Manager Strategy and Innovation. Naomi has presided over the development of both the 2013–2017 and 2018–2022 Group business strategies.
Anthony holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a Master of Science in Actuarial Science from Temple University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (USA), a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA) and a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU).
Prior to joining ICEA LION, Anthony spent the prior fifteen years as an Actuary in different functions at Prudential Financial in the United States and Prudential Holdings of Japan. He has successfully worked in the following insurance areas: Variable annuities, Non-profit Retirement pricing, Economic capital modeling, Niche Health insurance (Long Term Care) and Actuarial system conversion. His experience in the two markets includes the key insurance functions of product development, financial modeling, valuation and financial reporting.
As the Group Actuary at ICEA LION, Anthony is responsible for all actuarial support provided to the various group companies across East Africa. He is responsible for enhancing the actuarial function to support IFRS implementation, Modeling, Valuation, Asset Liability Matching, Capital Management, Pricing and Actuarial Advisory. Anthony is keen on the development of Actuaries across the African continent and has served as a chair of the mentoring committee of the International Association of Black Actuaries (IABA). He has for years been a volunteer of the Actuaries Without Borders (AWB) focusing on actuaries in Africa.
Cynthia holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology from Egerton University.
She is a seasoned Marketing and Corporate Communications professional in Marketing Management and Advertising in various industries, including the financial industry where she headed Marketing, Product Development, Branding, Research and Corporate Communications for close to 10 years in 3 Banks. Her career has also spanned the oil and gas industry, fast moving consumer goods and technology. She is results driven and passionate about brand building, marketing and strategy.
Previously, Cynthia was the Associate Director, Advertising Practice at Redhouse Advertising spearheading recruitment of new business, coordinating client’s day-to-day projects, identifying upselling opportunities, reviewing systems and processes to ensure alignment across various units as well as upscaling the Advertising Practice proposition.
John holds a BSc in Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT) and a Master of Information Systems from Queensland University in Australia. He is an active fully qualified member of
Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA).
His career spans over 15 years having started out as a Technology Training Consultant at the Institute of Advanced Technology (IAT) and later as an ICT Solution Developer at Symphony Technologies Ltd. He later joined Insurance Company of East Africa (ICEA) as an Assistant Manager in ICT. He rose through the ranks and played a significant role during the merger of ICEA and Lion of Kenya. Eventually, building on his multidisciplinary skills and experience he now heads the Projects Management function for ICEA LION Group within the Strategy and Innovation unit.
John’s dedication and enthusiasm has seen him garner extensive experience in managing large scale innovative initiatives with proven success in technology implementations, new product designs and process re-engineering using methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma, digital transformation and customer experience solutions. In professional circles, John was instrumental in the establishment of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Kenyan Chapter as the Founding Chair.
Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing Major from Kenya Methodist University and a MBA in Project Management from Kenyatta University. She also holds a Diploma in Business Management from Kenya Institute of Management. She commenced her career as a Qualitative Research Executive at Ipsos Synovate (then Steadman Group) in 2004 before joining Strategic Research in 2007 as a Research Executive. In 2010 she moved to Transparency International to serve as a Deputy Programme Officer – Research, and then onto Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) in 2012 as the Manager in charge of the Business Intelligence and Research Department, prior to joining ICEA LION in 2016.
Jacqueline has published numerous articles related to business improvement in journals and various publications and is a regular contributor to KIM’s ‘Management’ Magazine.
Enock holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics & Computer Science from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, a Master of Science in Data Analytics from KCA University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Nairobi.
Enock is a data scientist/analyst expert with over 10 years extensive experience in data visualization, predictive analytics, data pipeline design and data strategy formulation. Over the years, he has developed and implemented decision support tools that generate insights across different spheres such as manufacturing, fintech, mobile money, call centers, real estate, education and health.
He joins us from UNICEF where he was the Data Consultant seconded to the Ministry of Health and previously worked as a Data Science Specialist with UNDP.
Darius holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Services Management from Kenyatta University. He has a strong customer service orientation, interacts well with both internal and external customers, to understand their expectations and potential areas of service improvement.
Darius has a background in managing and collaborating with call centre teams to deliver the desired experience for customers.
He joins us from Call Centre International, Kenya (CCI Kenya) where he was the Operations Manager, a role in which he established high standards for productivity, quality, and customer service.
