Our Board provides oversight and strategic guidance to Laurus Africa Securities, drawing on experience across reinsurance, actuarial science and the capital markets.
Clement Owusu
Clement Owusu is the Group Chief Commercial Officer of WAICA Reinsurance Corporation PLC. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, UK, and has written various articles on insurance for the Ghana market and the CII Journal. Before joining WAICA Re in 2012, he worked as an underwriter with Ghana Reinsurance Company Ltd from 2006. He is a visiting lecturer at the West African Insurance Institute in Banjul, The Gambia.
He is Board Chairman of Royal Insurance Gambia Ltd and serves on the Board of Best Assurance. Clement holds a BSc Administration (Accounting) from the University of Ghana Business School and an MBA in Finance from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He attended the West African Insurance Institute in The Gambia, where he was awarded the prize for the Highest Scholastic Achievement.
Charles Adjei-Mensah
Charles Kofi Adjei-Mensah is the manager in charge of actuarial services in the GLICO Group. He previously served as an actuarial analyst with the Risk Management and Claims Division of Best Assurance Company Limited, a general insurance company in Accra, and held a similar position at Imperial General Assurance Company, also in Accra.
He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Actuarial Science and a Master’s in Social Statistics, both from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and has close to a decade of experience in the financial services industry.
Valerie Abena Turkson
Valerie serves as Chief Executive Officer of the firm and brings a wealth of experience in fixed income trading, fund management and investment advisory. Before joining Laurus Africa, she was Vice President, Capital Markets at Obsidian Achernar Ltd, where she was responsible for interbank and institutional fixed income transactions with an average monthly turnover of GHS800 million in traded volume. She began her career with IC Asset Managers as the fund administrator managing operations of assets under management of over GHS600 million.
Valerie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Ghana, is a CFA Level 2 candidate and holds the ACI dealing certificate. She also holds a certificate in the Ghana Securities Industry Course at the Ghana Stock Exchange.
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