Emile Goveia

Emile Goveia is the India Associate of The Covenant Group and is based in Mumbai. He has over 30 years experience across all functions in the life insurance industry.

Emile started his professional career in the life insurance business with the Life Insurance Corporation of India in 1977. During the course of his 22 years with the organization he held important positions both on the marketing and administrative side.

With the opening of the insurance sector, Emile joined Birla Sun Life Insurance in its formative stages as Vice President with responsibility for building the branch network on a national scale. As founding member of the company he contributed substantially to the overall strategic direction adopted by the company.

On the Agency front, starting from scratch, Emile built a solid agency force of over 75,000 advisors operating from 339 offices in 5 years and was involved in rolling out another 400 branches in the following years. During the period, Emile implemented best practices across the channel, introduced innovations in channel development, and built a high performance sales culture as evidenced by the large number of early starters, recognition club members and MDRTs that the company has produced over the years.

In August 2008, Emile decided to pursue his entrepreneurial urge and joined The Covenant Group as its India Associate with responsibility to lead, develop and extend the TCG’s expertise to the Indian insurance market.

Emile has a degree in economics and is a Certified Coach.