Indian insurance broker taps ex-UAP chief for top job

Monday, June 29, 2020 0:01

By BRIAN NGUGI

Indian insurance broker JB Boda Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers has tapped former UAP executive James Kiguru for its Nairobi office, as it eyes further expansion in the African agriculture market.

JB Boda currently has other four executives working at the Nairobi office in general and life business as well as a team of agribusiness underwriters that operate from the head office in Mumbai.

JB Boda has been active in the African markets since the 1990s and has a Sub-Sahara region liaison office based in Nairobi Kenya.

Mr Kiguru joins the company from UAP Old Mutual group where he was the manager in charge of agriculture insurance for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan and Rwanda.

He took up the current role in 2015, prior to which he worked with AON Kenya Insurance Brokers as the account manager in charge of Agriculture where he set up the crop and livestock specific section of agriculture, said JB Boda.