The appointment of a new Managing Director and an Assistant General Manager opens a new era for Chanas Insurance. Changes that foreshadow a redeployment of this company faced in recent seasons with systemic shocks.
Changes in the top of this business with the appointment of a new CEO and his deputy are the actual translation of the resolutions of the Board of Directors last June. The reorganization of the management team kicks off a vast movement within the company which has definitively separated from its emblematic CEO Jacqueline Casalegno, who died last January.
This is a new challenge for Léonce Augou, a senior executive whose experience accumulated over two decades in the insurance sector will allow Chanas to go to the reconquest of undisputed leadership incarnated for several years no only in Cameroon but also throughout the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC).
Former Director of partnerships and Synergy at Saham Assurance in Ivory Coast, the new CEO has held important positions in the Ivorian subsidiary of the Moroccan Group. He has expertise in the development of e-insurance, bancassurance and the optimization of the health portfolio. His career as commercial director and director of communication also gives him many assets.
Graduate of Higher Education in Insurance (DESA), the former student of the National Polytechnic Institute Houphouet Boigny of Ivory Coast has a remarkable career at ASCOMA Côte d’Ivoire between 2002 and 2014 before leaving his bags in Saham Ivory Coast.
Léonce Augou will be accompanied in his mission by Henri Théodore Bayouak, Deputy General Manager, who drops his bags at Chanas assurances after having spent ten years at Activa Insurance where he has held many positions including that of Director of Reinsurance, Actuarial and Product development. Holder of a Master’s degree in mathematics applied to finance and insurance, the new DGA of Chanas “has a proven track record in the operational and managerial management of the front, middle and back office functions of insurance companies”. This is thanks to heterogeneous skills in life and non-life insurance (product development, underwriting, distribution channels, audit and strategy), actuarial services (pricing, simulations, underwriting), all-branch reinsurance and microinsurance (death, savings, farming, mobile).
Skills that new leaders will put at the service of Chanas. It is clear that six months after his death, the shadow of the legendary Jacqueline Casalegno still hangs over this company. According to internal sources reinforced by financial analysts, the disappearance of the former CEO of Chanas and Privat bodes a reshuffling of the shareholding, with the emergence of a reference shareholder.
