Solomon Lartey
{{short description|Ghanaian businessman}}
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Solomon Lartey is a Ghanaian businessman who served as chief executive officer of Activa Insurance from 2017 to 2020.{{cite web |url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Activa-appoints-new-Chief-Executive-Officer-499366|author= Maxwell Atuanor Dwirah|title=Activa appoints new Chief Executive Officer|publisher=ghanaweb.com|date=8 January 2017|accessdate=8 January 2017}}{{cite web|title=Solomon Lartey quits Activa as Managing Director|url=https://nsemkeka.com/solomon-lartey-quits-activa-as-managing-director/|website=nsemkeka.com|date=30 March 2020|access-date=24 August 2021}}
Early life and education
Solomon Lartey was educated at Accra Academy for his secondary education.{{cite web|title=Solomon Lartey: Activa new CEO|url=http://www.businessworldghana.com/solomon-lartey-activa-new-ceo/|publisher=businessworldghana.com|access-date=17 January 2017}} He obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Ghana. Lartey continued for a Masters in Business Administration at the University of Bradford.{{cite web|title=Bradford MBA Graduate appointed as CEO of Activated Insurance|url=https://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2017/bradford-mba-graduate-solomon-lartey-appointed-as-ceo-of-activa-international-insurance.php|publisher=Bradford.ac.UK|access-date=9 January 2017}}
Career
Lartey started his career at Enterprise Insurance in Ghana.
He worked in the London Market as a Claims Manager at Planet Accident Claims. He served as an insurance broker at Brooklands Financial Services Limited. He worked as a Mortgage and Insurance Consultant at the Simple Group in Mitcham, Surrey, United Kingdom and later held the same position at Bryant and Menson UK Limited (an appointed representative for Mortgage Broking Services Limited in Manchester).
In 2008, he returned to Ghana and joined Global Alliance Insurance as Operations Manager.
In 2009, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer after the acquisition of Global Alliance by Activa International Insurance. In 2014, Lartey was appointed deputy managing director of Activa. In 2017, Lartey became a member of the executive committee of Group Activa and the CEO of its insurance agency, Activa International Insurance.
Recognition
- 2019 Best Insurance Executive at the Ghana Insurance Awards{{cite news|title=ACTIVA's Solomon Lartey is Best General Insurance Executive of the Year urges innovation in the sector|url=https://www.myjoyonline.com/business/2019/August-1st/activas-solomon-lartey-is-best-general-insurance-ceo-of-the-year-urges-innovation-in-the-sector.php?iRef=artMore|publisher=myjoyonline.com|access-date=1 August 2019}}
- 2018 Best Insurance Executive at the Entrepreneur Foundation of Ghana Corporate Awards{{cite news|title=Activa MD is the insurance executive of the year|url=https://www.myjoyonline.com/business/2018/May-1st/activa-md-is-insurance-executive-of-the-year.php|publisher=myjoyonline.com|date=1 May 2018}}
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