SWAN LIFE LTD

He is responsible for SWAN’s international development and oversees a number of projects mainly in sub Saharan Africa where he assists SWAN in setting up an elaborate network of cross border relationships as well as implementing SWAN’s longer-term objectives in these jurisdictions. He has developed an in-depth knowledge of these markets including of their local regulatory environments and is a Board Director on a few international subsidiaries. On the strength of his previous tenure as Marketing Manager of Albatross Insurance and CIM Insurance, Patrice took over the Marketing function of the Group in September 2016. Born in 1963, Patrice holds a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, USA.

From May 1989 to December 1995, he was employed as Technical Supervisor in the Life Department of The Albatross Insurance Company Ltd.

From August 1996 to June 2001, he was Executive Director of Actuarial & Capital Management Services Ltd, now the AXYS GROUP. 

From July 2001 to October 2004, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Pension Consultants & Administrators Limited (now known as Swan Pensions Ltd).

He joined The Anglo Mauritius Assurance Society Limited (now known as Swan Life Ltd) as Senior Manager in November 2004 where he oversees the Claims and Fund Administration departments. He is also responsible for managing Swan Pensions Ltd. Since August 2009, Alan has been appointed to oversee the pension department of Swan Life Ltd. 

Alan was also Senior Manager to the Group Systems & Processes department until December 2017. Since January 2018, he has been appointed as Chief Operations Officer of Swan Life Ltd. His key areas of specialisation are pensions administration and consulting.

Alvin is a seasoned professional reckoning more than a decade of experience in Capital Markets. In his senior management role, he provides strategic directives into SWAN’s Capital Markets division. Equally, he is amongst the driving forces of investment activities of the group, including strategic investments in Mauritius and abroad. He is also an executive director of Swan Corporate Advisors Ltd, Swan Wealth International Ltd and Swan Smart Achiever Notes Ltd.

He joined Deep River-Beau Champ Ltd (DRBC) as Assistant Personnel Manager/Public Relations Officer in 1988. He was promoted to the position of Personnel Manager/Public Relations Officer with the same company in 1990. 

He was appointed Human Resources Manager of DRBC in 2002 and, as such, provided advice and services to 7 companies of the CIEL Group, including TPC Ltd, found in Tanzania.

He cumulated the responsibility of Acting Secretary of the Mauritius Sugar Producers’ Association with that of Human Resources Manager of DRBC from September to December 2005. He joined the Group in 2006.

She also holds a BCom from the University of Cape Town. Karine joined the finance team of Swan Life Ltd in September 2001 and was promoted as Manager – Finance and Accounts in
August 2007.

She now holds the position of Senior Manager – Group Finance since January 2019. She leads the finance and accounting teams of both the Short Term and the Long Term business of SWAN. She, also, oversees the financial operations of the subsidiaries, both local and foreign.

He started his career with De Chazal Du Mée (now BDO) where he spent 10 years in the audit and offshore departments. In 2003, he moved to the Financial Services Commission in the insurance supervision department. 

In 2009, he joined CIM Group, and was subsequently appointed as Senior Manager Compliance of the insurance and investment cluster. He joined SWAN with the merger of the insurance businesses of Swan and CIM in June 2012. He is currently Senior Manager – Group Company Secretary and Group Risk Officer. He also holds directorship positions in the subsidiaries of Swan Group. He is also a Non-Executive Director of The Stock Exchange of Mauritius Ltd and of Central Depository & Settlement Co. Ltd.

Gael is also a Certified Meta-Coach of the International Society of Neuro-Semantics.

He accumulated more than 20 years of experience in the insurance field and has acquired an extensive and in-depth knowledge of sales force management, business development and distribution channels management and has a wide experience in sales training and coaching as well.

Gael joined SWAN in 2010 as Individual Business Unit Manager and was promoted Senior Manager, Sales, Business development & Bancassurance of Swan Life Ltd in September 2018. He is now entrusted with the responsibility to consolidate and enhance the business development and sales capabilities for Swan Life Ltd.

The early stage of his career brought him to Feber Associates and Anglo Mauritius Assurance Society Ltd (now known as Swan Life Ltd). He then decided to pursue his career in London, UK where he qualified as an actuary. After spending just over 7 years in the UK as a consulting actuary for Mercer, PwC and KPMG, building up and consolidating his expertise in pensions and life insurance, he returned to Mauritius and joined Kross Border Corporate Services Ltd, a management company, which was subsequently acquired by Rogers Capital.

During his time at Rogers Capital, he gained extensive experience in the Global Business industry. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Trust and Management Company (ATMC) and held directorship on a number of high profile Global Business Companies with specialised licensed in the financial services industry. He also set up the actuarial and captive insurance unit at Rogers Capital. Richard joined SWAN at the end of 2019 when the actuarial unit of Rogers Capital was acquired by Swan Life Ltd.

In April 2005, she moved to Pension Consultants and Administrators (PCA now known as Swan Pensions Ltd) as Client Administrator. Before joining Swan Life Ltd anew in 2015 as Senior Consultant Pensions, she spent 3 years at the FSC as Executive-Surveillance Pensions. Charisma now holds the position of Senior Manager - Pensions since July 2019 and she leads the pensions department. 

Charisma holds a BSc. (Hons) in Actuarial Science from the University of Kent, UK, as well as an MBA with specialisation in Finance from the University of Technology, Mauritius.