Richard Lowe

Founder and CEO
ACTIVA

Overview

In 1998, after 17 years working within the Allianz Group (formerly AGF Afrique), Richard Lowe set up Africa-based Activa Group. Richard is chairman and/or director of a number of African insurers, reinsurers and banks and also occupies a number of senior positions on representative bodies for the African insurance industry.

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ACTIVA

Activa Group was founded in 1998 and is a big player in the African insurance sector. Its seven subsidiaries are all market leaders in the Continent’s five market segments. The Group continues to grow via the Globus network which it established in 1997 as a non-integrated insurer network offering international customers and brokers comprehensive insurance solutions in over 40 English-, French-, Arabic-, and Portuguese-speaking African countries. Globus in the partner of choice for major international insurers that do not have their own African subsidiaries (i.e., Generali, Zurich, Ace, XL, etc.). Globus also has its own captive reinsurer, Globus Re.