Mr. Abiola E. Ekundayo

Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Ekundayo started his insurance career in 1984 with a brokerage firm and later moved to WAPIC Insurance Company Limited. He joined Globe Reinsurance Plc in December 1989. The hard-working and resourceful Mr. Ekundayo was consistently identified with the growth of the company. He was appointed Executive Director in 2000 and was later confirmed as the Deputy Managing Director in 2001. In 2007, he became the Group Managing Director/CEO of the company.

His experience as insurance practitioner covers large areas of the profession including brokerage, marketing, underwriting, reinsurance, investment and risk management. He piloted the company to the Francophone countries in the West Coast thus making Globe Re the first Nigerian Reinsurance Company to do business with the Francophone world, being a bilingual Executive.

He has varied and broad-spectrum experience in executive management and technical educational fields, having attended courses, both locally and internationally. These include Leading the Team course at Lagos Business School, Reinsurance Strategic Management at the prestigious Wit Business School, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Managing People Effectively at D & B Business Training Services, London.

He graduated from the Lagos State Polytechnic where he studied Insurance and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Lagos State University, he is a fellow of both Chartered Insurance Institute London (with specialization in reinsurance) and Chartered Institute of Marketing of Nigeria. Mr. E. A. Ekundayo, is also the Group Managing Director of WAICA Re Group.