Africa #2

Alex Sea

Alex SEA is a francophone West Africa Fintech leader. He co-founded and managed Finov, an advisory and investment venture dedicated to West Africa francophone financial technologies ecosystem. Finov HUB helps government and public players define and activate digital finance strategy, accelerates promising financial technologies with great social impact in a unique program, helps innovators develop very disruptive Fintech, co-invests in high value projects with business angels and venture capitalist and supports bank, insurance, microfinance, telcom companies, etc. fintech strategy. Since 2017 he founded and chairs Africa Fintech Forum the leading francophone Africa Fintech event. Also he holds each year Africa Fintech Tour a Fintech roadshow that meets in 10+ countries local Fintech ecosystem players share and build.

Aurellie Modjo

About 10 years in Insurance. I started as a claim handler for a broker, then i pursued as an international coordinator, handling insurance portfolio of corporate companies. Later, I took a position as an underwriter for an insurance company. Since 2017, I have been responsible for the development of insurance products in digital banks with a special interest in products developed and provided by insurtech. Noticing that these distribution model, price and products could answer to the african population needs, I set up ID2A in 2020. The aim : help traditional insurance companies and insurtechs in Francophone Africa to grow and implement impactful strategy.

Simon Schwall

Simon Schwall is an entrepreneur and a micro-insurance expert. Simon gathered initial experience in the field working as a consultant (including for the GSMA) and then as a country manager for 4 years at BIMA, which quickly became a leading micro-insurance company in emerging markets thanks to its unique mobile-based solution, with 31 million people reached. Simon then created OKO which brings parametric crop insurance to smallholder farmers in Africa. OKO is now active in Mali and Uganda and established major partnerships with Orange and Allianz. It is listed as one of the top 100 fintech globally by KPMG, and one of the 12 most promising start-ups in Africa by Disrupt Africa.

Roch Guinko

Mr. Roch Guinko is the Chief Digital Officer of the SUNU Group and Director of the Digital Transformation Program since June 2020. He is thus involved in the transformation of the Group's Insurance, Banking and Healthcare businesses with Digital as a real lever for profitability and operational efficiency. Roch Guinko was previously at BNP Paribas where he was Director of IT Services for the Group's 4 UEMOA subsidiaries (Ivory Coast, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali). He has more than 13 years of experience acquired as a Consultant and Manager at Accenture Consulting France, then as Director of Organization and Information Systems (DSIO) of BNP Paribas Burkina Faso (BICIAB) and finally as Regional IT Director of BNP Paribas.

Tunde Salako

Dr. Tunde Salako is an insurtech enterpreneur with experience in the business of engendering access to insurance and healthcare locally and intercontinentally. His background and expertise have obliged him the privilege to have cut across several industries spanning insurance, healthcare, and more recently data science. He has worked with both local and international professionals at c-suite and board levels on diverse missions channeled towards achieving specific goals. Tunde’s interests cut across technology, innovation, and business process automation. He is passionate about the use of tech to galvanize inclusion in the insurance ecosystem hence, the reason for birthing a platform -Africa Insurtech Rising in a bid to nurture the insurance-technology space. This platform is an aggregator of participants and stakeholders in the Insur-Tech space with a focus on the African insurance sector passionately reverse engineering insurance inclusion on the continent via technology.He is also Co-founder of an Insurtech company- Hadiel which is a Software-as-aService(SaaS) platform accelerating insurance inclusion via technology and data science.

Jeremy Leach

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