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Benjamin Agili

Benjamin Agili

MD/CEO

Mr. Agili holds a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Building Technology from Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, and a master’s in business administration (MBA, Financial Management) from Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State. Following his completion of the mandatory Youth Service programme, he worked briefly as a Project Manager with Savannah Enterprises Limited before he joined the insurance industry as a Superintendent with UNIC Insurance Plc in 1988 and rose through the ranks, culminating in his appointed the Area Manager, Eastern Operations in 2000.

 

Mr. Agili then joined Royal Exchange Assurance Nigeria Plc, (as it was then known) in 2003 as an AGM Eastern Operations and later elevated to Regional Director, East in 2007. He later left Royal Exchange to join Insurance PHB as General Manager, Branch Marketing in 2008 and returned the Royal Exchange in 2010, following a stint as the Managing Director of a Loss Adjusting and Risk Management firm. At Royal Exchange General Insurance Company (REGIC), Mr. Agili was appointed Deputy General Manager/Head, Business Development with direct responsibility for generating new business for the company, nationwide, before being appointed the Director, Southern Directorate and later, Director, Lagos & Western Directorate in January 2015.

 

He has garnered over twenty-five years of cognate Insurance experience cutting across vital areas of Insurance practice such as underwriting, claims, risk management, marketing, and branch operations. Agili, is well exposed and trained, having attended several courses, seminars, and workshops within and outside Nigeria. He is an alumnus of the famous Swiss – Re Insurance Training Centre, Zurich, Switzerland. He is a Fellow, of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London (FCII), and the Insurance Institute of Nigeria (FIIN) and has attended the Authentic Leadership Development Programme by Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.

He was appointed the Managing Director/Chief Executive, Royal Exchange General Insurance Company (REGIC) in November 2015 and served meritoriously on the position for more than seven years. Under his watch the Company grew its Gross Written Premium from N6.8 billion in 2015 to N13.2a billion as at the end of 2022. During this period Agili