Mabel Nana Nyarkoa Porbley is the Managing Director of Saham Insurance Ghana, a subsidiary of the South African-based financial services leader, Sanlam Group, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with subsidiaries in 34 African countries.

Mabel is a chartered insurer from the Chartered Insurance Institute of the UK, a management professional with an Executive Master in Business Administration from GIMPA, a BA degree in Management Studies, and a diploma in Education, both from the University of Cape Coast. Mabel has worked in several companies, providing leadership and direction to achieve value for the stakeholders of these companies. Before her current role, Mabel was, from late 2015 to early 2018, the Managing Director for NSIA Insurance Ghana, also a subsidiary of a pan-African Group with a presence in 12 countries including Ghana. She led the restructuring and reorganization of people, operational and administrative processes, procedures, and resources of the company for quick turnaround and growth. Within a year of managing the team, she turned around the sustainability and profitability of the company, and implementation of a corporate cultural shift for results and performance management are among some of the achievements. Before then, from 2012 to 2015, Mabel was the Group General Manager of business Development for Metropolitan Group Ghana – Metropolitan Life Insurance Ghana, Metropolitan Health Ghana, Momentum Health Plan & Metropolitan Pensions Trust Ghana, where she managed the integration of Metropolitan Life and Momentum Health Ghana in-country as a Group of businesses, working in Life insurance, Health Insurance, and Pensions administration. This was after the merger of Metropolitan Pty and Momentum Pty, both in South Africa to become MMI, the second largest financial services company also listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

As the Country Manager for Momentum Health Ghana, before Metropolitan Ghana, from 2008 to 2012, she nurtured the private health insurance start-up company to become the most preferred health insurer with the second largest market share. She spent the first 10 years of her career, from 1998 to 2008, working with the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation, which later became GSMF International, a not-for-profit organization with the USAID and the DFID being major donors. Here, she started at the entry-level as the Personal Assistant to the Managing Director and rose to the position of Deputy Chief in 6 years. She was part of the team that led the implementation of most of the Family Planning/contraceptive campaigns as well as the then National HIV/AIDS Campaign, Stop AIDs Love Life.

Mabel is a chartered insurer from the Chartered Insurance Institute of the UK, a management professional with an Executive Master’s in Business Administration from GIMPA, a BA degree in Management Studies, and a diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast. She’s also a product of Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast. She was adjudged the Insurance Personality of the Year 2017, at the Women in Banking and Finance Awards. She currently sits on several boards including the Edinburgh Head of States Awards as a Trustee, the ECOWAS Brown Card Scheme, the Ghana Insurers Association and Saham Insurance Ghana.