Ahmed Abdi born in Garissa County is the CEO of Amana Insurance Brokers Limited. Ahmed Abdi is an exuberant young man whose contentment with life .
Education
Ahmed Abdi attended Dadaab and Al Farouq Primary Schools. Ahmed did well in his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations in 2002 and was admitted to Bura Secondary School. Unfortunately, in 2003, he was forced to abandon his education due to lack of school fees.
Background
After dropping out of school at the age of 16, Abdi took on the heavy responsibility of supporting his family. Taking up any odd job that came his way, the third born and the eldest son in a family of nine children, Ahmed was the sole breadwinner.
Career
From a matatu tout, a novice garage mechanic, to a truck turn boy and even a part-time driver in Garissa town, nothing was too small for him. In 2008, while going on with his daily activities, Ahmed received a call from his cousin Nageye Mohamud Dahir, that forever changed his life.
Ahmed took the job positively and worked hard, earning Sh6,000 a month, sending Sh4,000 home and surviving on Sh2,000.
His tenacity saw him rise through the ranks to a marketing executive and later on a general manager. While working at his cousin’s firm, he returned to school and enrolled for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary School (KCSE) as a private student.
He passed his KCSE exams and proceeded to pursue several courses including insurance, marketing and strategic management. In 2011, Ahmed took another leap and registered his own company, Al Amana Insurance Agency, which later became Amana Insurance Brokers Limited-with a friend as a partner. Amana was the first agency to register with Takaful Insurance (a Sharia compliant insurance firm) and introduced a private motor insurance policy. Since then, Takaful Insurance became Amana’s lifeline, winning several awards as the best agent.
Ahmed Abdi
Amana is a mid-size company with an annual turn-over of Sh8million from selling policies from major underwriters in the country. Some of their biggest clients include, international Rescue committee, ACTED and other NGOs working today in Somalia.
“It’s been a great journey, but I am not yet done,” he says. “As a brokerage firm I sell other people’s policies, my dream is to grow into a fully-fledged insurance firm where I underwrite my own policies,”
His plan is to target the youth, small-scale traders, and other untapped sectors. Insurance firms only focus on the middle class and ignore the potential of the youth both as customers and as employees, his dream is to tap into this untouched market.
Ahmed reckons that it is unfortunate that most corporates look at employees as liabilities rather than assets, that is why they are fired the minute businesses start making losses. “If you treat your employees well and share the profits with them, you will never make losses,” he says.
Awards
In 2011, he was awarded the Best Agency Award and was recently named the Best Insurance Broker by Association of Insurance Brokers of Kenya (AIBK).
Facebook and Twitter
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/aanam29
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