ORVILLE Johnson was elected as the new chairman of the Jamaica Medical Foundation (JMF) at a meeting of the executives held at Insurance House in Kingston, recently.

The JMF has been in operation since 1988 and is an outreach arm of the insurance industry which raises funds to give assistance to persons who have medical emergencies and assists health institutions with equipment and supplies. The JMF operates under the banner, ‘Providing a lifeline to health’.

Johnson has had a distinguished career in the insurance industry, starting as a salesman at Jamaica Mutual Life and was one of the pioneers of Bancassurance and in later years he became the CEO of NCB Insurance Services Ltd, marketers of the “OMNI” product, for 10 years.

He is a former president of Life Insurance Companies Association, which joined with the Jamaica Association of General Insurance Companies to form the Insurance Association of Jamaica (IAJ) in 2005. He is currently the executive director of the IAJ, a position he has held since 2008.

Johnson has since 2000 been serving as chairman of the Best Care Foundation, operators of the Best Care Special Education School.

In 2016 he received the Order of Distinction for his contribution to the insurance industry and to the disabled community for his work at Best Care Foundation.