Mr. Elton Afari

Mr. Afari is the Chief Executive Officer of Equity Health Insurance (EHI). Prior to joining Equity, he was the Director of Marketing and strategy at Cosmopolitan Health Insurance where he was responsible for leading the organization in achieving its goal of delivering innovative, robust and cost- effective range of products to corporate, medium size and small businesses.

Mr. Afari was the main “Idea Generator” of the Cosmopolitan Health Insurance concept and a pioneer member of senior management. Mr. Afari is credited with the introduction Health Insurance for the retail segment of the Ghanaian private health insurance market on the GSM platform with Vodafone Ghana.

Mr. Afari holds a BSc. (Hons) and MBA Marketing degrees from the Central University College and the University of Ghana Business School respectively. He is currently pursuing a PhD. Business Administration (Marketing option) at the Nobel International Business School (NIBS).

Elton has also had working stints with a number of organization in different roles including Acacia Health Insurance where he was the Head of Sales, Pravda Radio (vision 1 FM) as Chief Marketing and Events Manager, Vodafone Ghana Limited as Customer Service Representative. He was also the Producer of “Drive time”, “Feed Back” and “Ultimate Health” programs at Joy FM, a member of the Multimedia Group.

Mr. Afari has also undertaken a number of short courses in Insurance, Risk Management, finance and negotiation.