Chairman
Managing Partner
Chief Operating Officer
Corporate Governance, Conduct & Ethics and ESG
Investment Risk Management
Partner, ARMC Kenya
Partner, ARMC Nigeria
Partner ARMC Uganda
Chairman
Solomon is recognised as one of Africa’s leading general insurance underwriters with over 40 years industry experience. Until his retirement in 2018, Solomon was the Managing Director of Aureol Insurance Company Limited a position he had held since 1996. His experience of the pan-African insurance market is unrivalled. Other roles have included President of the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA); Director of West African Reinsurance Corporation (WAICA Re); Lecturer and Chief Examiner of the West African Insurance Institute; Chairman and Co-Founder of the Sierra Leone Stock Exchange. Solomon is passionate about developing the next generation of Africa risk management professional. He was awarded the Officer of Order of the Rokel (OOR) for his distinguished and meritorious service in the field of Insurance, Insurance Education and Business.
Managing Partner
Saldys is an operational risk, internal controls, governance and regulatory compliance professional with over 24 years of Tier-1 Financial Services experience across corporate and investment banking, asset management and asset servicing. He specialises in the design, implementation, management and transformation of governance, risk, internal controls and regulatory compliance frameworks and culture across the enterprise. He has extensive experience working in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa with organisations such as JP Morgan, Barclays, Absa, Credit Suisse, BNY Mellon and Deutsche Bank. He holds a degree in civil engineering and is a chartered management accountant. Saldys was the founder and chair of the Barclays Africa Forum.
Chief Operating Officer
Mamakoh Ruth, with over 25 years of leading programmes and projects, is an experienced professional with a flexible, pragmatic and proactive leadership style. She has applied her skills to a number of businesses both within the private and public sectors, including banking and finance as well as engineering and government, adapting as necessary. She has successfully delivered multi-million dollar programmes and projects for clients globally. Mamakoh has developed and implemented a number of complex business strategies. As a proud African, Mamakoh always looks forward to working with and collaborating with clients across the continent.
Corporate Governance, Conduct & Ethics and ESG
David is recognised as one of the UK’s leading proponents on regulatory compliance, ethics, governance and culture in financial services. A visiting Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School, he has worked in regulations, ethics and education for over 20 years. He was head of education, training and competence, industry training and business ethics at the FSA. David led and chaired the ground-breaking Financial Services ISO (22222) standards for financial planning and is the author of ‘The Compliance Revolution’, published in 2015. David is also a leading expert on ESG framework development.
Investment Risk Management
Kevin is an investment risk management professional with over 30 years experience working for major asset management and private banking institutions across Asia, Europe, North America and Africa. He is a fixed Income Investment specialist and has held numerous senior executive positions, including Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Kevin has direct African experience having spent 10 years as a Managing Director with Standard Bank both investing and serving across our continent. He is passionate about Africa; and passionate about investment risk management capacity building and skills development within Financial Institutions across our continent. Kevin holds a BA from Georgetown University and MPhil from Cambridge University.
Partner, ARMC Kenya
Laban Omangi recently retired as senior banking executive with over 35 years of extensive experience in the financial services industry. His expertise spans Compliance and Financial Crime, Regulatory and Board Affairs, Financial and Non-Financial Risk Management, as well as Retail and Corporate Banking Operations.
Throughout his career, he held senior roles with international banks including ABN AMRO Bank, Barclays Bank, and Absa Bank. His leadership positions included Interim Head of Compliance for Barclays Africa, Regional Head of Compliance for Barclay East & West Africa, and Compliance and Legal Director at Absa Bank Kenya, a role he held until December 2021.
Laban currently serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of the National Bank of Kenya and a subsidiary of Access Bank, Bancassurance Intermediary. He is the Chairperson of the Compliance Society of Kenya (CSK) and served as the Chairman of the Kenya Bankers Compliance Committee until 2021. He is an alumnus of the University of Cape Town and the University of Nairobi.
Partner, ARMC Nigeria
Jide is a Risk Management professional with over 20 years’ of consultancy experience working with Global Financial institutions in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. A significant part of that experience has been gained working with technology partners in the successful delivery of regulatory-driven market risk Infrastructure change programmes to banking clients. These include Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Deutsche and ABN Amro banks. Jide moved from the UK to Nigeria in 2019. He is now based in Lagos as part of the ARMC family, leading and developing our portfolio of services in the country.
Partner ARMC Uganda
Managing Partner ARMC Uganda | Governance, Compliance and Risk Management
Senior and seasoned Compliance Leader and Chartered Secretary. Founder of the Compliance role at Barclays Bank Uganda, now Absa Uganda nearly 20 years ago.
Founding member of the Uganda Compliance Association co-opted into the current Compliance Committee of Uganda Bankers Association. Supported the establishment of the legal framework on Anti-Money Laundering.
Provided foundational leadership for Change Management, Operational Risk and Bank system integration.
Vast experiences in mergers and acquisitions, core banking system integration, automated Compliance system implementation, customer remediation, alerts management, ethics, code of conduct, whistleblowing, Fraud and Forensic Investigation management.
