Meet the team
The members of the Resilea team are all highly respected industry professionals who are passionate about reinsurance, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Iain Macindoe
CEO
Iain started in reinsurance in 1986 and has significant experience as a client advocate to key South African treaty clients, with a particular focus on UMAs. Before starting Resilea Iain was CEO of Willis Re South Africa, where he worked for more than 21 years. Iain holds a Bachelor of Business Science (Hons) and is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (London).
Jannie Viljoen
Executive Director
Jannie started his insurance career in employee benefits as an actuarial consultant in pensions and health. In 2009 he moved into reinsurance, consulting to African and South African treaty clients, particularly UMAs and new initiatives. Jannie left his position as broking executive in reinsurance at Willis Re to join Iain at Resilea. He is a student member of the Institute of Actuaries and the Chartered Insurance Institute, both in London.
Edith Fortune
Manager: Support Services
Edith’s career in the South African insurance industry began in 1991 and includes time at a direct writer, reinsurer and several reinsurance brokers. Edith handles reinsurance contracts and helps to ensure contract certainty at Resilea. Edith has a BA in Psychology from the University of Johannesburg and a Diploma in Project Management from Unisa’s School of Business Leadership.
Neethal Natha
Actuarial Consultant
Neethal joined the Resilea team in January 2017. Her experience spans reinsurance broking, consulting, actuarial analytics, financial modelling and reinsurance optimisation. Neethal has a BSc with majors in Actuarial Science and Mathematical Statistics from the University of the Witwatersrand and is currently a student member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa.
Howard Marjoram
Operations Manager
Howard arrived in South Africa in 1992 after 22 years as a marine underwriter in the UK. Initially with General Accident, he moved to CGU and then to Mutual & Federal as reinsurance manager. He joined Aon Re in 2002 where he became operations director. Howard has also spent time at Guy Carpenter ,and was general manager of KM Dastur & Co. South Africa. He brings to Resilea a considerable wealth of reinsurance knowledge and experience.
Vanessa Tsolo
Office Support
Vanessa’s experience spans the legal and information technology sectors. A business accounting student with a CIMA, Vanessa has a passion for organisational and customer service. She is also a public relations and marketing graduate from the Pearson Institute of Higher Education.