Chief Executive Officer
Dip (Financial Management)
Having started his career in the insurance industry in 1980, originally with Liberty Life before moving into the reinsurance field with Munich Re & GenRe followed by 11 years with Hannover Life Reinsurance, dealing extensively with all major South African Life Assurers in a product development and risk management capacity. He was also seconded to Hannover Reinsurance (Germany) for 3 years to head up underwriting and product development for English speaking countries, including New Zealand, Australia, S.E. Asia, Middle East, UK and USA.
On returning to South Africa he was actively involved in the medical underwriting field, being a past regional chairperson of the SA Society of Insurance Medical Underwriters and a representative on the ASISA Medical Underwriting Standards Committee. As a divisional director of Hollard Insurance Partners for over 10 years, he headed the life division, responsible for the expansion of Hollard partners, prior to joining THE BEST Funeral Society.
Managing Director
B.Comm LLB (Wits)
After completing legal articles at Priscilla Jana in 1992, he joined Southern Life and gained experience across the ambit of life-products from individual to group benefits. From 1995, he was part of the development team to investigate and develop THE BEST Funeral Society. He has been managing director of THE BEST Funeral Society since inception.
