Dr. Tunde Salako is an insurtech enterpreneur with experience in the business of engendering access to insurance and fostering penetration. 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, analytics, and business process automation. He is passionate about the use of tech to galvanize inclusion in the insurance ecosystem hence, the birth of the platform -Africa Insurtech Rising (A.I.R) in a bid to nurture the insurance-technology ecosystem. This platform is an aggregator of stakeholders in the Insur-Tech space with a focus on the African insurance sector passionately reverse engineering insurance inclusion on the continent via technology. The platform is the insurtech partner to the African Fintech Network ,partner to Quesnay Insurtech New York, Insurtech-Story India amongst other notable organizations. He is also Co-founder/CEO of an Insurtech Software-as-aService (SaaS) platform accelerating insurance inclusion via technology and data science in Nigeria, Tanzania. He is a member of the Barcelona Health Hub, Digital Insurance Community Netherlands and an alum of the Insurtech Hub Munich.
Theresa Blissing and Michael Waitze from the Asia InsurTech Podcast and Tunde Salako from Africa InsurTech Rising came together for another episode of Conversations on Emerging Markets. This time the three are discussing alternative forms of distribution. Distribution is one of the hardest codes to crack in micro-insurance and in general insurance for low-income populations. […]
The majority of developing countries can be found in Africa and Asia. Designing insurance solutions for those markets has its very own challenges but at the same time presents the largest untapped market for insurers. Distribution and payment are just two areas that need to be reinvented in order to work in a developing country […]
For the last News Roundup of 2020, Theresa Blissing, Michael Waitze, and Shefali Sonpar reflected on what 2020 meant for InsurTech and digital transformation and what 2021 might look like. 2020 was the year that insurers all over the world were forced to accelerate digital transformation and embrace digital distribution. InsurTechs have played a crucial […]