Our leadership team is dedicated to providing innovative and customer-centric solutions in the insurance industry. With years of experience, our leaders bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to guide our company toward excellence.

General Insurance

Life Assurance

Asset Management

Simon Rutega

Board Chairman & Independent Director

Simon is the Board Chairman of ICEA Lion General Insurance Company (U) Limited. He is a financial sector specialist with over 28 years’ experience as a CEO, financial analyst and strategy consultant and has been instrumental in the development of financial markets in the East African region.

Simon’s experience in the financial sector space ranges through the whole spectrum, with working experience in policy, regulation and markets in East Africa and the United States. Simon has served as a director on a number of East African Company Boards across the financial sector spectrum in Uganda and Kenya, including Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, ...

Ambrose Kibuuka

Chief Executive Officer

Patrick K. Mugambi

Independent Director

Philip Lopokoiyit

Independent Director

Patricia Onyango

Independent Director

Ambrose Kibuuka

Chief Executive Officer

Ambrose Kibuuka is an insurance professional with over fourteen years of experience, having started his career as a Graduate Trainee at UAP Insurance Uganda Limited (Currently UAP Old Mutual Insurance Uganda) in 2010, where he worked in the claims, underwriting, and reinsurance technical departments. After these formative years, he joined Sanlam General Insurance Uganda Limited as the General Manager of the Commercial Business Division. He later moved on to serve as the General Manager at GA Insurance Uganda Limited and thereafter as Executive Director at Mayfair Insurance Company Uganda Limited.

Ambrose was appointed as the Chief Executive Office...

Harmon Opiyo

Head of Claims and Legal

Irene Nakayiki

Head Of Underwriting Operations

Ibrahim Bisaso

Chief Finance Officer

Deborah Komugisha Kakande

Head of Human Resources

Daniel Kairu

Head Business Development & Marketing

Joan Nankya

Head of Medical Insurance

Philip Lopokoiyit

Group Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Philip Lopokoiyit is the CEO of ICEA LION Group, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was previously the CEO of ICEA LION General Insurance company having joined the Group in September 2021. He has a wealth of experience in Finance, Risk Management and Corporate Governance, having worked for over 20 years in various senior management capacities in multinational companies.

Philip holds a BCom from the University of Nairobi and is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya. He also holds other accounting qualifications being a member of the Chartered Management Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He holds an MBA degree from Warwick Business School, UK. Philip is currently the Chair of the Nairobi Declaration o...