Our Team

Fredrick Ruoro

Fredrick Ruoro joined First Assurance Company Ltd in May 2019 as the Managing Director and Principal officer. He joins First assurance with 14 years’ experience in the insurance industry in various insurance firms. Prior to this appointment, Fred was the General Manager – Health Business at CIC Insurance Group with the responsibility of
providing strategic direction and operation of the health business. Prior to that, Fred was the Business Development manager at UAP-Old-Mutual group, a role he served for 8 years.

Fred holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics & Physics from the University of Nairobi, a Diploma in Management accounting from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and is a member of the CIMA. Fred is an associate of the Life Management Institute and is a member of the Insurance Institute of Kenya (IIK). Fred has attended several leadership programmes which include Accelerated Leadership program with the Centre for creative leadership and management development program with Strathmore businessschools among many others.

Reuben Bundi

Reuben Bundi joined FAK as the Chief Finance Officer in August 2019. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Maseno University. He is also a practicing member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Reuben has 14 years all round experience in audit, finance and accounting, staff- training, consultancy,
taxation and internal audit. Reuben started his career with Deloitte and Touché, a leading international professional services firm, where he worked for a total of 10 years. He held various position within the Audit and Outsourcing department. He has also worked a Business performance manager at UAP insurance, a Senior Internal Audit Manager at CIC Group and at Airworks Kenya Limited as the Chief Financial Officer.

Mr. Hilary Njuki Mwangi

Mr Hilary Njuki Mwangi is an Actuary and a member of the Actuarial profession (UK); he holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from the University of Nairobi and an Executive MBA from USIU Chandaria School of Business. He has extensive insurance experience in specialist areas of pricing, analysis, reserving and product design and has worked for several top insurers locally. He joined the company in 2010 and has successfully spearheaded the growth strategy of the Medical Insurance department turning First Assurance into one of the leading Medical Insurance underwriters.

Robert Mbugua

Robert joined the company in October 2019 as the Head of Underwriting, General Business. Prior to this role, he served as a business development director at AXA Africa Specialty Division . Robert also served as the Regional Specialty Manager at UAP OLD Mutual for four years prior to which he had served at various capacities at AIG Kenya for 14 years. Robert is an Insurance Graduate of the University of Nairobi and has attended numerous management and leadership courses around the world. He has specialized in Technical Underwriting and Insurance Management.

Mr. Elias Kariuki

Elias joined the company in March 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting from Kenyatta University. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He is also a qualified Quality Management Systems Auditor. He is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Elias has a wealth of experience in audit and risk management as well as management of Quality Management Systems. His main areas of interests are audit, risk, governance, information systems control and quality system reviews. Prior to joining the Company, He worked for Kenya Orient Insurance limited as Senior Auditor.

Charles Wachira

Charles joined the business in August 2016. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degree from Kenyatta University and he is currently pursuing an MBA degree with special focus on Strategy and Marketing at the University of Nairobi. He is a member of Institute of Insurance of Kenya –IIK and holds an Advanced Diploma in Insurance. Charles main interests are in marketing and management of retail insurance business with particular focus on Bancassurance an area he has wide experience having been the pioneer Head of Bancassurance at Metropolitan Cannon Ltd, a subsidiary of a South African insurance conglomerate, Momentum Metropolitan, where he worked for 5 years. He also serves in the advisory board of Save a Youth Africa – SAYA an advocacy non-profit organisation that deals with teenage reproductive health and early pregnancies among youth of Kenya.

Janerose Gitonga

Janerose joined the company in November 2008. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB), from the University of Nairobi and a Diploma in legal studies from the Kenya School of Law. She is a lawyer and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya also pursuing a course in Arbitration with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and looks forward to parties in a dispute engaging in alternative dispute resolution more than litigation. She is an accomplished lawyer in insurance legal liabilities with more than 15 years of experience in the insurance industry and has worked previously as an insurance litigation advocate in a leading law firm

Mary Opiyo

Mary Joined the company in May 2019. She has a wealth of experience in Risk Analytics,
Risk Assessment & Advisory, Internal Controls, Audit, Business Resilience, Lean Process
& Workflow Design, Project Management, Digitization and Robotics Automation. Prior
to joining the company, she held Governance roles at Barclays Bank specifically Process
Design, Rigor & Compliance, Quality Assurance, Governance & Controls and Project
Management. She has Experience in International & Local Payments Policies,
Transaction Operations, Debt Collections & Recoveries, E-Channels Operations, Credit
Risk, Customer On-boarding and Financial Crime Operations. She is a Professional
Member of the Institute of Risk Management Kenya (IRMK) and holds a BSc in
Construction Economics & Quantity Surveying from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University, South Africa.

Edward Hombe

Edward joined First Assurance in March 2017. He is a Bachelor of Arts (BA) graduate from Moi University. He is currently pursuing Diploma in Insurance (IIK) . He has over 20 years of experience in insurance industry