Mrs. Ebelechukwu Nwachukwu

Managing Director/CEO

Ms. Sheila Ezeuko

General Counsel/Company Secretary

Mr. Tudor Osademe

Head, Human Resources

Mr. Kola Yaqub

Head, Investment

Mr. Idongesit Mbat

Head, Strategy & ERM

Mrs. Bernice Onyebuchi

Head, Internal Audit and Investigation

Mrs. Ebelechukwu Nwachukwu

Position: Managing Director/CEO

Mrs. Nwachukwu is a graduate of University of Benin, Edo State and obtained her master’s degree in Business Administration from the ESUT Business School. She is an Alumni of London Business School (Executive Education); London and The Columbia Business School, New York; and has attended Executive programmes at the Manchester and Lagos Business Schools.

She started her insurance career at International Standard Insurance in 1994 after the mandatory NYSC and spent an additional year with the firm before joining Standard Alliance Insurance Plc in 1996, as an Officer, Public Sector. She rose to the position of Assistant General Manager (AGM) before leaving in 2004 to join UBA Insurance Company as Deputy General Manager/Divisional Head, Retail and Channel Management with the task of running the Bancassurance Model with UBA Plc. She also had a stint at UBA Plc as Senior Manager/Head, Marketing – Cards Division.

Ebele left UBA Plc to join Zenith General Insurance as a Deputy General Manager (DGM) in 2007, was promoted to the position of General Manager (GM) in 2008 and later appointed the MD/CEO in the same year, leading the company to unprecedented growth in terms of revenue and profitability in the nine (9) years she spent as the Managing Director.

Mrs. Nwachukwu then assumed the leadership position of MD/CEO at NSIA Insurance in January 2018, where she led the company’s business reengineering and transformation projects. While at NSIA, her efforts led to a change in the company’s structure, culture and operations, leading to increased business patronage and was awarded the ‘Best Place to work’ in 2019. She left NSIA in May 2022 to pursue other personal interests.

A member of Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN); Ebele is also a member of the Institute of Directors, Nigeria, (IoD); Chartered Member of the Nigerian institute of Management (NIM) and a member of the Personal Finance Society, United Kingdom.

In the Nigerian Insurance Industry, Ebele has served in the following capacities: Member, Governing Council, Nigeria Insurers Association (NIA); Chairman, Publicity Sub-Committee of the Insurers Committee (NAICOM); Chairman, AIO Organizing Committee – AIO 2021, (hosted in Nigeria) and Chairman, NIA House Project

Shelia Ezeuko

Ms. Sheila Ezeuko

Position: General Counsel/Company Secretary

She is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State and holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Bachelor of Law from the same University, a post-graduate certificate (Corporate and Commercial Law) from the University of London, a post-graduate certificate of Law (Insurance Law) from the same University and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999.

She worked in the Chambers of G. E. Ezeuko (SAN) before going into corporate practice. She served as Company Secretary to General Cotton Mill Limited and also Sosoliso Airlines Limited. She has undergone various management and professional courses. She was appointed Company Secretary of Royal Exchange General Insurance Company (REGIC) in 2007 and is currently the Group General Manager (Company Secretariat, Legal Services and Compliance) with responsibility for the management and execution of Legal Services and Company Secretariat.

An alumna of the Lagos Business School having undergone the Advanced Management Programme (AMP 24), Sheila is an Associate, Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, Nigeria as well as an Associate of the Institute of Directors, (IOD), Nigeria. She is also a member of other professional bodies namely, the International Bar Association and the Nigerian Bar Association.

Mr. Tudor Osademe

Position: Head, Human Resources

Mr. Tudor Osademe holds over sixteen years of Consulting & Human Resources experience. He is a Certified Balanced Scorecard Practitioner, Insight Learning Certified Facilitator (Insight Learning Foundation – USA), a CMD Certified Management Trainer, Associate member of Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM) Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) Nigeria.    

 He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s in Business Administration. Prior to joining REGIC, he worked as Head, HR Business Partnering in Heritage Bank Plc, HR Lead for Access Bank Subsidiaries (covering Access bank Ghana, Rwanda, DR Congo, Zambia, Gambia, Sierra Leon & Mozambique), Head Learning & Development Service in  Workforce Management Group and Head Learning & Management Education in Institute of Financial Planning (IFP), Lagos. Additionally, he supervised the L & D, Talent & Career Management, and Business Partnering/Recruitment Units of the defunct Diamond Bank. 

He joins Royal Exchange General Insurance Company as Head, Human Resources Management 

Mr. Kola Yaqub

Position: Head, Investment

Mr. Kola Yaqub has over a decade of experience in Investment Research, Portfolio/Investment Management, Financial Advisory, Share Registration, Risk Management, Insurance Services, and Accounts & Internal Control Operations. His experience in investment research spans economic and quantitative analysis, financial analysis/modeling, company valuation, capital market, financial due diligence, fixed income analysis, and equity.

He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Accounting and Finance respectively from the University of Lagos. He is an Associate Member Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ACA), the Certified International Investment Analyst (ACIIA), and Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (ACS).

Kola began his career with Meristem Securities Limited (Investment Bank) in 2008, as an Internal Control Executive and rose to the rank of Deputy Head, Investment Research. In 2013, he joined Lotus Capital Limited, an Ethical-based Asset Management company, where he managed Halal Funds and Private Clients’ portfolios. Subsequently, in 2014, he joined Custodian Investment Plc, one of the largest financial conglomerates within the Non-Bank Financial Services sector as Deputy Head, Investment Management, and Strategy.  He joins Royal Exchange General Insurance Company as the Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Idongesit Mbat

Position: Head, Strategy & ERM

Mr. Idongesit Mbat possesses over 14 years of cognate experience in the Insurance industry covering research, planning, strategy, product development, and risk management.

He holds a B.Sc., in Marketing from the University of Uyo and a Certificate in Market & Social Research from the prestigious Pan Atlantic University, Lagos. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Marketing and a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria, as well as, an Associate, Institute of Operational Risk, UK.

Idongesit started his Insurance career with Royal Exchange Plc in 2002 and rose to Deputy Manager, Business Planning & Improvement before he moved in 2009 to PHB Insurance as Head, Planning Research & Strategy, and was later appointed Chief Risk Officer.

In 2014, he joined Law Union & Rock Insurance Plc as Head, Research, Strategy & Corporate Communications, from where he moved to Express Delivery Start-up (On-Time Express) in 2016 and then into consulting (Data-Plus). Prior to this, he had worked briefly as Research Executive with GFK, London (Business & Technology Division) in 2013, where he participated in research projects for Blackberry, Nokia, Google, FedEx, Kobo, and Sony Mobile.  He joins Royal Exchange General Insurance Company as Head, Strategy and Enterprise Risk Management

Mrs. Bernice Onyebuchi

Position: Head, Internal Audit and Investigation
Mrs Bernice Onyebuchi holds a bachelor’s degree in Banking & Finance from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State. She is a Chartered Accountant, with qualifications from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) obtained in 2012 and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in 2021.   
She started her professional career with Deloitte Nigeria in 2006, rising to become a Manager, Risk Advisory Department. At Deloitte, she coordinated and supervised procurement audits of select Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the public sector and led the team that carried out a special audit and investigation of the ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia.    
She joined Royal Exchange General Insurance Company as the Chief Audit Executive in March 2022.