Ms. Alibhai holds a BSc Economics from the University of Nottingham U.K. and MSc Real Estate Economics & Finance from the London School of Economics. She has been actively involved in setting up new companies in Kenya and in Southern Africa.

She is a Director in various companies which include general insurance, micro lending, real estate, just to name a few. In her leisure time, she enjoys reading and commodity trading 

Mireille UMWALI is a regional Project Management Consultant, an arbitrator and is also a Regulator and also as a non-executive Director in an investment holding company with a diversified portfolio in mining, energy, research and development, health and agriculture sector. Previously, Mireille served in different positions including being a Chief Operations Officer, Chief Finance Officer and Managing Director of Ultimate Concepts Ltd, the company owning Kigali Convention Center and Radisson Blu Hotel, one of the leading conventions in Africa.

She also served as the Resident Director of Prime Holdings Ltd from 2011 to 2017, a company operating in tourism sector. Mireille has as well a long experience in project management where she served as the World Bank Funded Project (Urban Infrastructure City Management Project - UICMP) Coordinator in Rwanda from 2006 to 2011. Holding a Master’s degree in Project Management, Mireille is also a certified project manager and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). Mireille has more than 15 years of experience in infrastructure and social projects where she has served both in public and private sector. 

Tel: +250 788305033 

Email: herbert@taxsensepartners.com  

Herbert, a highly experienced tax lawyer and advocate of courts of judicature of Rwanda, is a founding partner at the tax and finance focused law firm, TaxSensePartners. Over the last 20 years of post qualification experience, he has consulted for nearly all the major players in Rwanda’s economy in addition to the majority of the inbound investors in all areas of tax law including tax planning, tax structuring, tax compliance and reporting, international tax, tax dispute resolution and tax advocacy.

In the late 1990s and 2000, He was a key member of the highly successful team that introduced VAT in Rwanda. He was until December 2014, the head of the global accounting and consulting firm, Ernst & Young’s tax practice in Rwanda. He has previously chaired the Rwanda tax appeals commission on a number of occassions appointed by the Government of Rwanda to settle major tax disputes between the Rwanda Revenue Authority and large taxpayers. He previously chaired the audit and governance committee of the board of Horizon Group and currently sits on the boards of Doyelcy Capital Partners, New Century Development and MAU (Rwanda) Insurance Limited. 

Tel.: +230 52504360 

Email: npukuk@gmail.com 

Nikesh conducts business in many African countries and across a number of sectors including telecoms, aviation, technology, agri business, etc. His experience ranges from large corporations to medium and small enterprises, as well as start ups.  

Citizen and Resident of Mauritius

Qualifications: Master in Management ESCP Europe (Paris, France).

Skills & experience:

• Started his career with the American bank JPMorgan in Paris in 2006;
• Joined Feber Associates (now part of MUA) in 2009 as the Manager. He now oversees group strategy, with extensive involvement in the African subsidiaries, strategic marketing and digitalisation and also supervises all the group’s investment and asset management activities

Citizen and Resident of Mauritius

Appointed: July 2018.

Qualifications: Master’s degree in applied mathematics, actuarial science and finance and Executive MBA from HEC Paris (France).

Skills & experience:

• Worked in the internal audit department of Aviva Europe as audit senior manager in the financial management and actuarial audit department, conducting internal audit reviews in actuarial processes across Aviva’s European subsidiaries;
• Involved in the implementation of Solvency II EU Directive within the Aviva Group;
• Joined MUA in January 2012 as head of internal audit and was appointed CEO in 2015.

Board Committee memberships: Assets and Liabilities Committee.

Directorship in other listed companies: none.

Citizen and Resident of Rwanda

Qualifications: Business Economics Degree, MSc Finance & Management, Part Qualified CIMA and Candidate CFA.

Skills & Experience:

• After gaining experience in Europe as a Senior Analyst, he spearheaded transformation projects at Banque Populaire du Rwanda as Chief Operating Officer.
• He was CEO of RSwitch, Rwanda's national payments switch.
• Then became CEO of Atlas Mara’s Commercial Bank in Rwanda, following the merger between BPR and BRD.
• He has extensive boardroom experience in hospitality, energy, insurance, ICT, real estate, leisure industry and export agriculture. Combined with two decades of business executive experience in business start-up, banking, insurance, as well as turnaround, merges & acquisition and expansion experience in Europe and Africa.
• Joined MUA in 2021 as Managing Director of MUA Rwanda.

Citizen and resident of Rwanda

Qualifications: 

• 2016- London School of Business and Finance: Master of Arts in Finance with Specialization in Investment Banking and Capital Markets
• 2012-Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – UK ACCA 

Skills & Experience

• Finance and accounts, Audit and Risk expert with more than 17 years’ experience in Financial Planning, Accounting, Investment, Auditing and Risk Management
• Broad experience in fixed Income securities, Business Valuation, Business Analysis and Restructuring
• Broad experience in Insurance and Reinsurance operations including pricing of insurance products
• Corporate governance
• Taxation- Rwanda and International
• Human Capital Management
• Joined MUA in 2010 as Financial Controller

Worked with MTN Rwanda, Supreme Audit of Rwanda, University Teaching Hospital and National University of Rwanda

Citizen and resident of Rwanda

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in social sciences

Skills & Experience

• Started his career as Underwriter at SONARWA (Société Nationale d’Assurances au Rwanda) in 1995.
• Joined CORAR S.A. (Compagnie Rwandaise d’Assurances et Reassurance) in 2004 to manage and develop its life insurance department. He was appointed Chief Operations Officer (General Insurance) in 2005.
• In August 2012, he joined Phoenix of Rwanda as Commercial Director up to November 2016,
• Appointed Claims Manager for Phoenix of Rwanda (now MUA Insurance) in December 2016.

Citizen and resident of Rwanda

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in information technology applications in Management
• Master’s degree in business administration specialized in Strategic Management

Skills & Experience

• Commercial & Business Development Manager in Bollore Group – Rwanda Operations
• Sales & Marketing Manager in Dubai World Africa – Rwanda Operations
• Office Manager in Dubai World Africa – Rwanda Operations
• Joined MUA in February 2020

Citizen and resident of Rwanda

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB), Master’s Degree in Business Law (LLM), Post graduate diploma in Legal Practice (ILPD).

Skills & Experience

• He is a founding member of Rwanda’s Mediation Society
• Has been in the Financial Sector for the last 10 years specifically as a corporate internal counsel and Secretary with the National Bank of Rwanda since 2012 and MUA Rwanda since 2016.
• Before joining the Financial Sector, has been working in different senior positions in the Local Governance sector since 2006.
• Joined MUA in 2016

Citizen and resident of Rwanda

Qualifications         

• Bachelor in Sociology

Skills & Experience

• Enthusiastic Insurance practitioner, with experience in underwriting and marketing.  Started carrier with CORAR Insurance in 2003 as junior Underwriter, and later promoted to head of Underwriting Department/ Miscellaneous Risks.   
• Joined MUA Insurance in January 2010 as Senior Underwriter and then Chief Underwriter in Prime Insurance from 2014.
• Rejoined MUA INSURANCE in 2017 as Assistant Business Development Manager and appointed Business Relationship Manager later till now with a One-year period at Old Mutual -Rwanda as Distribution & Marketing Manager in 2020

Citizen of Malawi and resident of Rwanda

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Social Science University of Malawi, MBA Makerere University Kampala Uganda, chartered insurer and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London (ACII)

Skills & Experience

• Started working career as a banker in December 1995 with National Bank of Malawi.
• Joined the insurance industry in 1998.  Worked with NICO General Insurance of Malawi and NIKO Insurance Uganda limited for ten years at management level.
• In February 2016 Joined Phoenix of Rwanda Assurance Company Limited which later rebranded to MUA Insurance Rwanda Limited in September 2018.

Currently working as Technical Director at MUA Insurance Rwanda Limited

Citizen and Resident of Rwanda

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Economics and Business Studies ( Finance)

Skills & Experience

• Joined the company in 2012 as Junior Underwriter
• In August 2014, he was appointed as Senior Underwriter

In August 2020, he was promoted to Underwriting Manager

Citizen and Resident of Rwanda

Qualifications

• Bachelor of business management, Master of Finance, Certified Internal Systems Auditor, and part qualified CPAK.

Skills & Experience

• Internal Auditor professional with over 11 years of experience within Banking and insurance sectors.
• Before joining MUA, Karim MURENZI has completed 9 years at Ecobank Rwanda Plc and left at Senior Internal Auditor position.
• Joined MUA in February 2020 as Internal Auditor for managing internal audit function.