Isaac Senior Damptey
FCA, FASG, ASA, ACIA
Executive Chairman

Isaac is the Founder and Executive Chairman (C.E.O.) of UNITED ACTUARIES & CONSULTANTS.

Isaac is an experienced professional actuary and financial services leader with a demonstrated history of building businesses to profitability or turning around businesses.

Isaac is very strategic, analytical, assertive, result-oriented, and a great team player. He has sound leadership skills and together with his business acumen and professional background make Isaac a strong leader in the business world today.

Isaac, on behalf of UNITED Actuaries & Consultants, is also an Independent Actuary for Ernst & Young Ghana (Subcontractor) & Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) Ghana (Subcontractor), responsible for all actuarial reviews including under IFRS 17 and IAS 19.

Isaac is the Consulting Actuary and Founder of FamilyCare Funeral Trust LTD.  (FamilyCare Funeral Trust LTD is a commercial funeral trust that provides nationwide one-stop funeral and cemetery solutions.)

Isaac was the Former Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Vanguard Life Assurance Company Limited, the Former Chief Executive Officer of OAK Insurance Brokers Ltd., the Former General Manager of Metropolitan Life Insurance Ghana Limited, and a former Senior Actuarial Analyst at the National Insurance Commission, Ghana.

Before joining Vanguard Life, he was Senior Manager of Operations (Business Services) at United Pension Trustees Limited, Ghana. In his roles, he was very instrumental in the development of all the required documentation for the National Pensions Regulatory Authority which led to licensing United Pension Trustees Limited as an Approved Corporate Trustee.

At United Pension Trustees Limited, Isaac developed strong teamwork and ensured all hands were in support of business development in addition to our core tasks. This led to assets of over US$100 million under his management. In addition, Isaac was the product developer and implementer of the company’s iconic MTN Mobile Pension product known as “My Own Pension”.

Isaac is a Fellow Member of the Actuarial Society of Ghana – Ghana (FASG), a Fellow Member of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries – U.S.A (FCA); an Associate Member of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries – Canada (ACIA), an Associate Member of the Society of Actuaries – U.S.A (ASA);

Partly Qualified Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst – with one exam to qualify; and has extensive exposure through training programs, presentations, etc. with various institutions in Ghana and abroad.

Isaac graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon – Ghana with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Mathematics and Statistics. He holds an MBA in Finance from Coventry University, United Kingdom.

Isaac was a Featured Actuary for the Society of Actuaries (U.S.A) first University Outreach Program in Ghana with KNUST.

Isaac was a speaker on various platforms both international and local. Isaac spoke at the Ghana Insurance Association Industry Seminar “Life Insurance Business: Stakeholders Expectations – Actuarial Expectations of the Insurance Industry”.

Isaac also spoke at the max.99 Conference organized by Deutsche Aktuar-Akademie (DAA) GmbH in Cologne, Germany.

Isaac is also currently a Committee Member of the Life & Microinsurance Working Group of the Actuarial Society of Ghana.