Ian has over 8 years of experience spanning banking, insurance, and investments.

Before joining FSD Africa Investments, he served in a dual capacity as a Risk & Compliance Officer and Finance Officer at Mayfair Insurance Company Limited. In this role, he was responsible for risk identification and assessment, preparing risk reports for the Finance and Risk Committee, ensuring regulatory compliance, and coordinating internal audit processes. He played a key role in implementing internal policies and strengthening internal controls to meet anti-money laundering (AML) and data protection requirements.

Alongside his risk and compliance responsibilities, he supported the finance function through preparation of client account statements, processing commissions for brokers and agents (including issuing the related statements), performing bank and client account reconciliations, administering staff medical insurance payments, accounting for receipts, and maintaining claims-paid statistics.

Prior to this, he worked at I&M Bank Limited as a Trade Finance Officer within the Trade Finance Department, where he was primarily responsible for the issuance of Letters of Credit and provided technical advisory support on a range of trade finance products, advising clients on how these solutions could be structured to support and grow their businesses.

Ian holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the United States International University – Africa and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from the University of Nairobi. He also holds an International Diploma in Enterprise Risk Management from the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and is a Certified Member of the Institute of Risk Management (CMIRM).

In his free time, Ian is an avid gamer and moviegoer who also enjoys watching football and spending quality time with his family.