People's Pension Holding
Making pension saving products available and affordable to people working in the informal economy.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Financial Services
- Location Accra, Ghana
- Currency EUR
- Founded January 2016
- Employees 50
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website peoplespensionholding.com
Company Summary
PPH makes pension saving products available and affordable to people working in the informal economy. We set up and guide greenfield pension companies.
The first subsidiary of PPH is People’s Pension Trust (PPT) in Ghana. PPT offers a flexible pension product to the 80-90% of the workforce not served by existing pension funds.
PPT Ghana will serve 500,000 participants and PPH will reach 1.25 million in 3 countries in the next 5 years.
Team
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Gerard BergsmaCEO of People's Pension Holdinginternational executive with experience and senior positions in asset management, treasury and insurance in the Netherlands, Central and Eastern Europe, USA and Japan. Gerard has more than 35 years of experience in asset management and liability management, fiduciary management, derivatives, risk management and global financial markets. He is currently Board member of the second biggest pension fund ‘PFZW’ in the Netherlands with €160 billion AuM
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COO & CTO of People's Pension Holdingmore than 20 years experience in the Dutch pension sector and for the last 9 years involved in micro-pension projects worldwide.
Worked for the major pension administrators and has advised the major pension funds in the Netherlands. Broad experience ranging from starting up pension funds and administrations as well as optimizing pension services and communication and marketing to clients. -
Samuel Bediako WaterbergCEO of People's Pension TrustGhanaian who lived in the Netherlands for 22 years. MSc in Strategic Management. 7 years at Rabobank in the Netherlands managing corporate clients. Samuel returned to Ghana to set up the Diagnostic Centre (a health care company) in Accra and became general manager which became a market leader in its high-end technology sector and received various
awards for operational excellence, quality assurance, and
leadership. -
Kofi Eba - Miezah PolleyCBDO @ People's Pension Trust GhanaKofi was on the launching team of a government run informal sector pension fund in Ghana. Kofi has 15+ years of experience in the pensions & financial sector, and was the GM of a Ghanaian Pension Trust.
Previous Investors
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AHL Venture PartnersUnconfirmed
CordaidUnconfirmed -
Achmea FoundationUnconfirmed
Access2InvestUnconfirmed
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