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
Charles Akun Egan
Chairperson
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.
George Botha
Non-Executive Director
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.
Siyasanga Kashe
Non-Executive Director
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
Independent Non-Executive Director
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
Dr Gabriel Sakyi Kwofie
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr. Gabriel Sakyi Kwofie is a Family Physician Specialist by profession and is the current President of the biggest private hospital in Ashanti Region , Living Waters Specialist Hospital located in Kumasi, with more than twenty (20) years professional medical and surgical practice across both public and private health sectors.
He holds a B.Sc. Human Biology, Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (MBCHB), Master in Public Health (MPH) and an Executive Commonwealth Masters in Business Administration (CEMBA), all from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and a specialization in Family Medicine from the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Sakyi Kwofie is the current Chairperson for the Medical Services Council of the Ghana Baptist Convention . He is the current Chief Executive officer for a diverse range of service industries including Divine Grace Hospital(Effiduase-Ashanti), Gabdys Diagnostic Services (Ejisu & Mankessim),Best Care Clinic and Mortuary Services(Sunyani-B/A), and two other clinics and morgues in Sefwi Debiso and Ejura-Amantin respectively.
Outside the healthcare industry, Dr. Sakyi Kwofie is into real estates and he is the Chief Executive Officer for SK Villa and apartments located at Weija-Accra and SK Plaza Ltd situated in East Legon, Accra.
He is a member of the Health Committee of the Ejisu Municipal Health Service and the Supervisor of the Krapa Subdistrict under the Ejisu Municipal Health Service. Dr. Sakyi Kwofie is an active member of the Medical and Dental Council of Ghana and the Ghana Medical Association.
Hitherto, he had worked for over ten (10) years collectively as a Medical Officer at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi and the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital in the Upper East Region, and as the Public Health Specialist (Reproductive Health) at the Divine Hospital in Ejisu.
His in-depth knowledge in the healthcare business and entrepreneurship is outstanding. This is evident in the impact he has had growing numerous health facilities and grooming exceptional leaders in the industry. His special interest in Healthcare Quality Assurance and Financing has won him several awards including honorary ones due to positive effects of his decisions on society. He plays an instrumental role in health policy making across various health systems that is helping bridge the gap between service providers and financiers.
He is a versatile and strategic-thinking professional with exceptional public speaking, writing and interpersonal communication skills and is adept at assessing needs, generating options and implementing solutions in collaboration with teams and with all stakeholders.
His passions are in reading and sports.
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 [email protected]
