George O. Otieno
Non Executive Director

Mr. George Otieno a Chartered Insurer has over 40 years professional experience in Insurance and reinsurance sector having worked both locally and internationally. He has an MBA from University of Lagos and qualified as the youngest African as a Fellow of Chartered Insurance Institute London (FCII) in 1984 at 25.

He spent 27 years with Africa Re – a Pan African Reinsurer 21 of which in Lagos (1984-2004) in different capacities, initially as an Underwriter, progressing to Regional Director/Head for West Africa (1994-2002), Director of Operations (2002-2003) both based in Lagos and later Regional Director for East and Southern Africa based in Nairobi (2004 to 2010). He later joined the African Trade Insurance (ATI) -Now ATIDI a pan African Trade and Investment Insurer based in Kenya as the first African CEO where he worked close to 10 years. He turned ATI from a relatively unknown company to a Global Multilateral Trade and Investment Risk Insurer. Turning it from a loss of USD 2M to a profit of USD 30M during that short period Mr. Otieno started his earlier career with Sun Alliance and London Insurance Co. Ltd (Now Kenya Alliance Ins. Co Ltd) as a professional trainee (1978-1980) before joining Pan Africa Insurance Company (Now Sanlam) as Reinsurance Manager. (1981-1984)

He is currently the Founder and Chairman of Afrisure Risk Ltd – a risk management consultancy firm based in Nairobi specializing in Reinsurance, Trade, Investment and other Financial Risk Management. He is also the current Chairman of Nairobi Club.

He is a board member of several companies namely; WAICA Re a Continental Reinsurer, UBA Kenya a Pan-African Bank and CAPEX Assurance (Kenya), AJG Re a Specialist Reinsurance Broking Firm.

He has travelled far and wide to more than 50 Countries in Africa and beyond and has a huge network of contacts and friends.

George is passionate about Reinsurance, Trade and Investment Risks and would like to bring this experience and skills to AJG Re Kenya.