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Simachila M Makwembo

Simachila M Makwembo is the Chief Executive Officer of Sanlam Life insurance Zambia. A Chartered Portfolio Manager and a Fellow of the International Academy of Business and Financial Management CPM (Fellow-IABFM), Simachila holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree (BBA) from the Copperbelt University, Zambia, and a Certificate – Investment Advisors and Stock Brokers from the Zambia Insurance Business College Trust (ZIBCT). He is a Member of the Institute of Directors of Zambia (IoDZ), a Member of the Insurance Institute of Zambia (MIIZA), and a Member of the Zambia Association of Pension Funds (ZAPF). Simachila brings with him more than 18 years’ technical, executive management, leadership, and governance experience. He also has a strong track record in strategy development and execution, business turn-around, sales and marketing leadership, customer experience optimisation, investment and financial management, distribution and channels development, underwriting, claims management, Bancassurance, microinsurance, and talent management.

Monica Musonda

Monica Musonda is the CEO and founder of Java Foods, a Zambian-based food processing company. Monica is a dual qualified English solicitor and Zambian advocate who held several senior positions in private practice with Clifford Chance & Edward Nathan, and worked as an in-house corporate counsel at International Finance Corporation and for Dangote Group. Her experience working with Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and one of the continent’s most successful entrepreneurs, gave her the impetus to hang up her corporate law career to become an entrepreneur. Monica also serves as non-executive director on the Boards of Zambia Sugar Plc, Dangote Industries Zambia Limited and sits on the Global Advisory Board for Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network. She is a 2013 Young Global Leader (World Economic Forum) and has been named by Forbes Magazine and Africa Investor as one of the leading Young Power Women in Business in Africa in 2013 and 2014.

Munakupya Hantuba

Muna Hantuba is the Chief Executive Officer of African Life Financial Services (Zambia) Ltd. With a BA Econ, B. Admin and MBA from Stirling University in the UK, Muna holds numerous directorships in Zambia including that of Chairman of Lafarge Cement Zambia Plc, and Director of American Corporation in the Financial Services division where he rose through the ranks to the position of Head of Corporate Services. He is a past Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Zambia and the Economics Association of Zambia.

Caleb Mulenga

Caleb Mulenga holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Webster University, Saint Louis Missouri. He is also a graduate of the University of Zambia with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Business. He has a Certificate in Financial Restructuring from Arthur D. Little Inc. Management Institute, Boston USA. Caleb previously worked as project officer at Development Bank of Zambia and rose to the position of Regional Manager where he was for eight years before setting up and becoming Chief Executive Officer of Superior Milling, which is one of the market leaders in the milling industry in Zambia.

Gaffar M Hassam

An MBA graduate from Oxford Brookes, Gaffar is also a fellow member of Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA). Gaffar is the Executive, Sanlam Emerging Markets South, responsible for Namibia, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Prior to the SEM role, Gaffar was the Group CEO for Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited (BIHL) since 1 December 2011. He joined BIHL in April 2003 as the Group Finance Manager and Company Secretary, and has held several positions within the Group, including Head of Finance, Chief Operating Officer, Group Finance and Operations Officer, before finally being appointed as the Group CEO. He previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (Malawi and Botswana offices) and rose through the ranks to become an Audit Manager.

Cornie Foord

Cornie holds a B Compt Honors degree from the University of South Africa and a Master’s in Business Management from the current University of Johannesburg. He also attended a course on Delivering Information Systems at Harvard Business School and in 2015 he completed the FIDE Directors course in Malaysia. Previously Group Director: Finance of the Denel Group, he become the Chief Operating Officer of Channel Life, a subsidiary of Sanlam Developing Markets, in 2002. He held this position until 2007 when he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Sanlam Developing Markets. He then moved to Sanlam Emerging Markets as Chief Operating Officer in 2012. At the moment Cornie also serves on the Boards of Directors of MCIS in Malaysia, Channel Management Services and Sanlam Life Insurance Tanzania.

Thian Fick

A qualified actuary, Thian joined Sanlam in January 2006. After spending some time at Sanlam Personal Finance’s Actuarial Values and Actuarial Systems Control teams, he joined the Namibian Valuations team at Sanlam Personal Finance: Actuarial where he was responsible for the reserving, embedded value and capital requirement calculations. He then became part of the Sanlam Personal Finance: Actuarial Product Management team as a Pricing Actuary before being appointed as Head of Reporting and Valuations on 1 June 2014.

Simachila M Makwembo

Sandra Sakala

Fred Shimbi

Tontela Siwale

Chanda E Mwila

Charles Banda

Stanley Muntanga