Mr. George Y. Mensah started his professional career in 1993 with Merrill Lynch Asset Management (MLAM) as a Financial Accountant in Princeton, NJ USA. He later joined Prudential Financial in Newark, NJ as Senior Analyst within the Investment Management Research team where he was responsible for ensuring that the firm’s portfolio managers have the ability to achieve superior returns in both up or down markets.
Mr. Mensah is a product of New York University (Stern Business School) where he earned an MBA in Finance. He also holds a BSc in Accounting and a minor in French from Montclair State University in New Jersey.
In 2002, he relocated to Ghana to join SIC Insurance Company as the Head of Investments and became the Executive Director of SIC Financial Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance company in 2006.
Mr. George Yaw Mensah joined African Reinsurance Corporation on April 1, 2010 as the Assistant Director in charge of Treasury and Investment, a position he held until his appointment as Managing Director of Ghana Re on September 1, 2017
Mr. Mensah has served on several Boards including Ghana Stock Exchange as a Council Member. Other Board representations include: - NTHC Financial Services, Afram Publications Limited and Starwin Products Limited, a pharmaceutical company in Ghana.
Mrs. Monica Amissah, who is a product of both University of Ghana and University of Cape Coast, holds a Master of Arts degree in Marketing Strategy and a Bachelor of Arts (Education) honours degree. She obtained a Diploma in Insurance from the West African Insurance Institute (WAII) in 2002 and Advanced Diploma in Insurance from the Chartered Insurance Institute, UK (ACII) in 2009. She is currently a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (FCIIG), a Chartered Insurer with CII London as well as a member of both the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG) and the Chartered Insurance Ladies Association of Ghana (CILAG).
With over nineteen years’ experience in the reinsurance industry, Mrs Amissah oversees all technical activities of Ghana Re including those for the Regional Offices in Kenya and Cameroon. She also chairs the Company’s Strategic, Performance Management and Enterprise Risk Management Committees.
She joined Ghana Re in the year 2000 and rose steadily through the ranks to the position of Head, International Operations in January 2013. In recognition of her exemplary work, in July 2016, she was appointed Acting Deputy Managing Director (DMD)-Technical and made the Substantive DMD-Technical in June 2018.
Mrs. Amissah is currently an Examiner of the West African Insurance Institute (WAII) and a member of the following Insurance Industry bodies; Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG) Reinsurance Programme Review Committee, Ghana Insurers Association (GIA)’s Conference Planning Committee and ECOWAS Browncard Ghana National Bureau’s Publicity and Training Committee. She was a Board Member of the Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) from 2013 until 2015, when the membership was reconstituted, and Secretary for the Marine Offices Association (Ghana) for the years 2008 and 2009. She also chaired the Resolutions Committee for the WAICA Conference held in Accra in April 2015.
Mr. Joseph Adom is a chartered accountant by profession and a Fellow Member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK). He holds an Executive MBA degree in Banking and Finance from Paris Graduate School of Management (PGSM).
He has twenty-one (21) years of progressive professional working experience, fifteen of which has been in Insurance Industry. He began his professional accountancy career as an audit trainee with Enoch Dodoo and Co, a Local accountancy firm where he was part of the team of external auditors that audited the Bank of Ghana in 2000.
His career in the Insurance industry started in April 2005 with Unique Insurance Company, where he rose to the position of Finance Manager. He joined Equity Assurance Company Ltd (now Sunu Assurances Ghana Ltd) in May 2010 as Chief Finance Officer. In November 2014, Joseph was appointed as the first Chief Finance Officer of GN Reinsurance Company when the company began operations, until his resignation in August 2020.
He was appointed as Deputy Managing Director, Finance and Administration in September 2020. Joseph has attended several conferences and training programs both home and abroad.