About Us
Metropolitan Health Insurance Ghana is a Private Commercial Health Insurance Scheme incorporated under the laws of Ghana and licensed by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to underwrite the business of Health Insurance.
Overview
Metropolitan Health Insurance Ghana is a Private Commercial Health Insurance Scheme incorporated under the laws of Ghana and licensed by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to underwrite the business of Health Insurance.
Metropolitan Health was established in 2006 as Momentum Health Ghana and in 2013, changed its name and rebranded as a result of a merger between Metropolitan Holdings and Momentum Africa Pty both in South Africa, forming MMI Holdings.
Metropolitan Health Insurance is a member of the Metropolitan Group of companies in Ghana, comprising Metropolitan Life Insurance Ghana and Metropolitan Pensions Trust Ghana and enjoys the financial strength of a parent company, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings.
Momentum Metropolitan Holdings is the 4th largest financial services company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the JSE with an embedded value of ZARR39.7bn, and a market capitalization of ZAR± R42bn or US$4bn (as at 30 June 2015). Momentum Metropolitan Holdings currently does business in 12 African countries outside South Africa, and beyond including the United Kingdom, Indonesia, etc. The global group has core businesses in long and short-term insurance, asset management, savings, investment, healthcare administration, health risk management, employee benefits and rewards programs amongst others. These solutions are provided to all market segments through MMI Holdings Metropolitan and Momentum operating brands.
Metropolitan Health Insurance has a vision to be the preferred lifetime wellness and wellbeing partner of your employees, family and your dependents with a reputation for healthcare financing innovation and trustworthiness in Ghana. Our mission is to enhance the lifetime financial wellness of people, their communities and businesses. We hope to achieve this through:
Quality service backed by cutting edge technology
Developing and improving our service provision points
Creating a good value for money in delivering client centric products and processes
Connecting our clients to the best in the field of healthcare
Metropolitan Health Insurance has been a game changer in the Health Insurance industry in Ghana since its inception, bringing innovation and changing the way things are done in the industry. A distinguishing factor for Metropolitan Health is our well-known brand for value and client centricity across Africa and beyond. Metropolitan Health currently administers about 15,000 lives on its books. As a Group, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings through its Metropolitan and Momentum Divisions administers over 900,000 lives on its collective books with presence in 12 African countries outside South Africa.
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Albert Gladstone Brock
Chairman
Albert Gladstone Brock is a seasoned Insurance luminary with expertise in insurance brokerage and leadership in Ghana and across the African continent. Albert is a chartered insurer and the Managing Director of All Risks Consultancy, a leading insurance brokerage in Ghana.
He is an Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute in London (ACII) and a fellow of the Insurance Institute of Ghana (FIIG).
He has worked with the State Insurance Co. Limited, Abbey Life Assurance Co. Ltd. and Horncastle, Crawford and West (Insurance Brokers) and the International Co-operative Insurance Federation (ICIF) of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) as the Insurance Advisor responsible for West Africa and assisted in the development and establishment of co-operative Insurance Companies in the region. He was appointed by Vienna Reinsurance Co., Austria as an Insurance Consultant responsible for Africa to serve Austrian companies operating in Africa for both direct and reinsurance businesses.
Albert has been at the forefront in the promotion and development of Health Insurance in Ghana since 2003. He was involved in the design, promotion, establishment and administration of the first Private Mutual Health Insurance Scheme for Corporate Organizations in Ghana known as Momentum Health, the largest private scheme.
Brock collaborated with UT Bank in establishing the first ever Insurance Premium financing scheme in Ghana and the sub region.
He is a past President of the Ghana Insurance Brokers Association and Council member of the Insurance Institute of Ghana. He served on the Board of Metropolitan Insurance Co. Ltd and the Chairman of Metropolitan Health Insurance Ghana Ltd. and President of Ghana South Africa business Chamber.
Emmanuel Oteng Tuffour
Executive Director
Emmanuel Oteng Tuffour, is the Executive Director of Metropolitan Health Insurance Ghana Ltd. Prior to joining the Metropolitan Ghana family, Emmanuel was the General Manager (Northern Sector) of Apex Health Insurance Limited. He started his working career as Hospital Administrator with Quality Health Care Limited, based in Kumasi. He entered the Health Insurance Industry through Acacia Health Insurance Ltd. as Northern Sector Manager. Emmanuel joined Kaiser Global Health Limited as a pioneer employee and rose through the ranks to become Managing Director. He has also worked with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), as Claims Officer. Emmanuel is quite versatile within the Private Health Insurance services value chain.
Emmanuel holds Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from KNUST. He also holds Diploma in Insurance from the Chartered Insurance Institute, CII-UK and member of the Chartered Institute of Global Investments Analyst-USA.
George Botha
MMI Health Executive
George Botha is the MMI Health Executive responsible for supporting all MMI’s International Health Businesses through its Centre of Excellence. As an Executive that is part of a team also overseeing the Health Businesses in South Africa, he has access to insights and resources that are currently managing the Health outcomes of more than 3,000,000 lives.
These capabilities in MMI extends across multiple areas – Health Risk Management, Actuarial, Analytics, Administration, Provider management and engagement, IT, Industry insights etc. As part of this role, he ensures that these areas are then leveraged across all International territories (Africa, Asia) in a fit for purposes manner.
George has been involved in Health solutions for the following Countries – South Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, various countries in Africa (e.g. Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria etc.) and has been with MMI for the last 15 years, focusing on its Health Business. He has filled various Executive positions in the Health Group, ranging from heading up the Government employees Medical Scheme to being the COO of the Business.
Charles Akun Egan
Managing Partner of CFY Partners
Charles is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (England and Wales) and a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) with over 35 years of experience in the accountancy profession. He is also a member of The Chartered Institute of Taxation Ghana (MCIT) and the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA). He is a product of London School of Accountancy and has attended several continuing Professional courses both locally and overseas. Mr. Egan is a past Country Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (now PwC) Ghana.
He has worked with KPMG and Arthur Young (in United Kingdom). He worked in various PwC offices, (namely Ghana, Zambia, Kenya and Nigeria) in senior management roles and has wide experience in statutory audits, due diligence reviews, internal audit reviews, feasibility studies, mergers and acquisitions and the administration of insolvent companies. He also has a lot of experience in risk management issues from his role as the partner in charge of the firm’s risk management issues when he was with PwC. The clients that he served were mainly in the insurance services sector, financial services sector, mining, agriculture, manufacturing and public sector. He also has extensive experience in tax compliance and planning advisory.
He has served on many boards and made presentations at various audit committees as well as corporate governance training to certain boards. He now serves as a non-executive director on the boards of a bank, a non-bank financial institution, a private university and some pension schemes.
Charles is currently the Consultant Head Reviewer of the Quality Assurance Monitoring Department of The Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana), and the Managing Partner of CFY Partners, a five partner accounting firm.
Siyasanga Kashe
COO, Momentum Metropolitan Africa
Siyasanga Kashe joined Momentum Metropolitan in 2018 as the Chief Operating Officer for Momentum Metropolitan Africa.
Siyasanga is a Customer Experience Expert with an MBA qualification from UCT, plus additional MBA electives from the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. Siyasanga is also a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD) having completed their Accelerated Directorship Programme. Further qualifications include: Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice, BCom Financial Management and IS Project Management. Siyasanga has extensive knowledge in the insurance industry having worked in Operations and Technology, as well as in Distribution and IT.
Having worked in more than 15 African countries to date, she has extensive experience working across various African markets. Her role provides the leadership and management skills necessary to ensure that all businesses across Africa have the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and people-systems in place to effectively grow the organisation and to ensure financial strength and operating efficiency.
Matthew Boadu Adjei
CEO, Oasis Capital Ghana Limited
Matthew Boadu Adjei Matthew is the founder and CEO of Oasis Capital Ghana Limited, a leading West African private equity fund management firm based in Ghana with a focus on SME investments.
He has more than 19 years of investment banking experience, 15 years of which has been spent in the venture capital and private equity industry in Africa.
Prior to establishing Oasis Capital Ghana in 2010, Matthew was the Country Director of GroFin Ghana Limited, a pan-African SME development and finance company. He was also a member of the Investment Committee of the GroFin Africa Fund and reviewed transactions from several countries across Africa, including Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
Before joining GroFin Ghana in 2008, Matthew worked with Fidelity Capital Partners Limited, an affiliate of Fidelity Bank Ghana for over 9 years working with the Group’s credit, corporate finance and private equity practice. He currently serves on the Boards of several institutions including the Ebankese Venture Fund Limited, Oasis Capital Ghana Limited, Oasis Africa VC Fund Limited, Chase Petroleum Ghana Limited and many companies in his investment portfolio.
He holds a BSc degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Ghana and an MBA from The Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Audrey Naa Dei Kotey
Legal and Finance professional
Audrey Naa Dei Kotey iis a legal and finance professional and currently the managing partner of AudreyGrey, an Accra-based law firm specializing in taxation, compliance and insolvency.
She has worked closely with local and international companies in various matters including large financial market transactions. Prior to this, Audrey worked with one of Ghana’s leading corporate law firms and also spent over 5 years with PwCs Corporate Finance and Restructuring team in Ghana working with the corporate finance and recoveries team insolvencies such as that of Ghana Airways Ltd, Plant Pool Ltd and Bank for Housing and Construction to mention a few.
Audrey formed part of the team that drafted and is currently working on the implementation of Ghana’s Companies Act and the Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Act and has formed an integral part of the core team training and working on sensitization on the two revolutionary laws. Audrey has trained several individuals, Boards and members of the Judiciary on Ghana’s Companes Act, effective corporate governance, compliance and insolvency. She also has extensive experience in the law of taxation.
Audrey is a member of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and the International Bar Association (IBA). She is an experienced Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, ACCA (UK) and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG). She is also a member of and legal advisor to the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (GARIA) and worked on the recently passed Ghana Companies Act, 2019 and its sister Act, the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Act, 2020 (Act 1015). She is the Vice-Chairperson of the ACCA Ghana Members Network Panel and a member of the Board of Directors of the Ghana Association of Savings and Loans Companies (GHASALC). Audrey is passionate about corporate governance and its role in the preservation and continuity of businesses in Ghana.
Our People
The wealth of the Metropolitan Group of companies is the multi-disciplinary team of dedicated and committed employees who work with the businesses. The Metropolitan Group of companies, Ghana employs over 450 permanent employees and commissioned sales force, an interdisciplinary team working across all three business units; Metropolitan Life Insurance, Ghana, Metropolitan Health Insurance, Ghana and Metropolitan Pensions Trust, Ghana.
We show accountability in our willingness to take ownership for our roles, responsibility for our actions and outcomes, and by honouring our obligations to all stakeholders.
Our Team strives for excellence in everything we do, by delivering the highest standard of products, service and performance to all stakeholders.
We uphold integrity in living up to what we say, doing the right thing, being honest and treating all people with respect.
Through teamwork, we support each other by listening, collaborating, encouraging and respecting each other in our quest to achieve mutually beneficial results.
We seek to attract, motivate and retain the most qualified employees and the brightest minds, by matching them to the jobs they are best suited for, and most inspired by.
Can we build a prosperous, sustainable future for you, for Metropolitan, for Ghana? Yes, Together, we can!
To apply for a job with the metropolitan Group of Companies, please send your application and CV to recruitment@metropolitan.com.gh
