CHI director gets international appointment

Regional Director, Eastern Operations of Consolidated Hallmark Insurance (CHI) Plc, Ijeoma Okoro, has been appointed as a member of the board of Trustees of Rotary International, the top humanitarian Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO) based in Evanston, Illinois, the United States of America.

The Trustees of The Rotary Foundation manage the business of the Foundation, the charitable arm of Rotary that funds service activities.

Okoro, the only Nigerian and African elected to the board is to serve for a four-year term.

Speaking during the send-forth party organised by CHI for her in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mary Adeyanju, expressed deep appreciation to Okoro for her immense contributions to the growth of the company not only in the eastern region where she held forth as a director, but also in other spheres of operations.

In her response, she commended her employers for providing a conducive environment over the years, which made her and her team able to thrive and contribute their quota to the growth of the company.

Okoro has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, 17 of which were spent in CHI where she played prominent roles in transformation, market development, and management processes.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in theatre and a postgraduate degree in management and studied at the Lagos Business School (LBS).

As culled from the Rotary International Magazine, Okoro founded the Romanus Emeanuru Foundation for Empowerment and Education Development in memory of her father.

The foundation is dedicated to the empowerment of women.

Okoro joined Rotary in 1999. She has served as RI learning facilitator, assistant regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, endowment/major gifts adviser, and regional vice chair of the End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee.

She has been on numerous committees, including the Nigeria PolioPlus Committee and the Rotary Foundation Programmes Committee. Passionate about preserving Rotary history, she helped create the Africa zone group of the Rotary Global History Fellowship.

Okoro will never forget the day the World Health Organisation certified Nigeria as polio-free during her term as End Polio Now zone coordinator. “This was a defining moment for me,” she said.