Funke Sanni’s is a seasoned sales and management professional whose career spanned over 21 years in Sales, distribution and operations management in the financial service Industry. She grew from being a Marketing Executive to the Top Management position of Controller, Retail operations between 2003 and 2020 in Mutual Benefits where she oversees branches across the states with over 3,000 sales force in both the life and General arm of the business.
She then joined Old Mutual late 2020 as the Head, Life Agency where she sets up the Retail Agency team for the Retail arm of Old Mutual Nigeria Life expanding to eight additional locations across eight states within one year. Funke later progressed into the role of Head, Retail Distribution to oversee the Retail Distribution business across the life, General and the Bancassurance channels for Nigeria. She has been able to build a functional team across all channels despite the closure of the flagship product with reasonable growth.
Funke holds a B.Sc. (Ed) degree in Chemistry from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. She is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN) and National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN). She is also an Alumni of the prestigious Lagos Business School where she completed the Senior Management Program (SMP 40) in the year 2011.
Her Major interest is in Leadership, Team Building, Strategic Management, Sales/Marketing, Insurance and partnership/stakeholder management.
She has mentored several leaders and won several awards one of which is the Best Agency (Life) Award in Nigeria- 2010.