Our expert team members
Dr. Aaron Issa Anafure
Chief Executive Officer
He is a Chartered Insurer from UK, holds a Diploma from West African Insurance Institute (WAII), Liberia, a Fellow of West African Insurance Institute, Banjul, The Gambia. A Fellow of Insurance Institute of Ghana. A member of Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana and a member of Institute of Directors (Ghana).
Aside his professional background, Dr. Anafure holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from Swiss Management Centre SMC, Switzerland with specialization in Management and Corporate Governance. He had his Executive Masters in Business Administration in Finance option at the University of Ghana Business School where he also pursued his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Marketing option (BSc).
Prior to his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of QLAC, Dr. Anafure was the former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s largest Life Assurance Company; SIC Life having moved from the same position in CDH Life Insurance Company Limited.
Dr. Anafure has served as a Director on several Boards which include SIC Life Company Limited, SIC Life Savings and Loans Limited as Board Chair, SIC Financial Services Limited, Merchant Bank (UMB), Ghana Insurers Association, member of Ghana Life Offices Association, member of WAICA Council, member of Association of Insurance and Reinsurance of Developing Countries (AIRDEC) and Chairman of UMB Holdings Limited as well as West African Insurance Institute (WAII) Governing Council Banjul.
He has attended a lot of courses including; Talent Management and Succession Planning, Managerial Leadership, Supervisory Management, Total Customer solutions for Top Management, Strategic Marketing, Comprehensive Technical Life Assurance – India and many more.
During his tenure of office as Chief Executive Officer for SIC Life Insurance Company, he was able to establish SIC Life Shopping Mall which was the first of its kind in the insurance industry. He also established the SIC Life Savings and Loans.
Whilst in SIC Life, he led the company to win the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIMG) award (Life category) five times and was finally called to the Hall of Fame in 2018. Premium income grew from GHc 33m in 2009 to GHc 212m as at Dec 2016 representing 529%. He maximized shareholder value through productivity, cost reduction and staff rationalization resulting in total dividend payment of GHc 13,904,334 from the period of 2011-2015.
Mr. Thomas Daniel Appiah
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Thomas is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA-Ghana). He holds an Executive Masters of Business Administration Degree in Finance from the University Of Ghana Business School, Legon. He has passes in three insurance modules from the Ghana Insurance College.
He has over 28 years’ experience in Accountancy and Finance, 26 years of which has been in the General Business and Life Insurance Sectors. He has also held various Managerial positions including Head of Accounts of the Ring Road West Office of the State Insurance Company, Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of Unique Insurance Company Ltd for over 8 years and currently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Quality Life Assurance Company Limited (QLAC).
He also served as the project Accountant of the SIC Mall from 1999 to 2004 and as Accountant of the ECOWAS Brown card Insurance Scheme from the year 2002 – 2005.
He has had the opportunity to attend Management training programmes, Conferences and several Courses both locally and internationally including CPDs and attachments with CK re and ICMIF in London and Manchester respectively.
Thomas, has served on various internal and external committees including Chairman of the Audit Committees of the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Special Development Initiative (MSDI) and a member of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) Audit Committee. He is also a board member/secretary of the QLAC Financial Trust Limited.
Mr. George Moses
Deputy Chief Manager Operations
An Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII), UK. George Moses has over Eighteen (18) years’ experience in both Life and Non-Life Insurance.
He also holds BSc (Hons) Mathematics and a Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast, Diploma in Insurance Management from West African Insurance Institute, Advanced Diploma in Insurance, (CII), UK and an Executive MBA from the University of Ghana.
He has previously worked with Metropolitan Insurance (1998-2005), Metropolitan Life Insurance Ghana Limited (2006-2012), Colina Insurance Ghana Limited (Now Saham Insurance Ghana Limited) (2013) and Donewell Life Company Limited (2014-2017)
He has had insurance operations training in Pretoria(South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa) and Windhoek (Namibia) and in Ghana, training in Reinsurance, Marketing, Professional Sales Technique at the Business Skill Development Services(Accra).
He is a member of Life and Pension charter of the Chartered insurance Institute (UK).
He is also a member of the Life Underwriting and Claims Sub-Committee of the Ghana Insurance Association.