2015 LIMRA EMEA Annual Conference

Nicolas Ferrary

Nicolas Ferrary joins Airbnb for the opening of the French office in February 2012 as Head of Operations, overseeing in particular business development and partnerships. Since May 2013, he is the Country Manager for France, Belgium and Morocco, leading a team of fifteen people in charge of developing the service among hosts and travelers.

Prior to joining Airbnb, Nicolas was Regional Manager at Groupon France. He started his career as a consultant at McKinsey.

Ronald Kleverlaan

Ronald Kleverlaan is an independent consultant, author and crowdfunding thought leader. He is one of the most important innovators on crowdfunding in Europe and keynote speaker on crowdfunding trends. He is advisor for the European Commission on “Crowd Investing”, is co-founder and Executive Board Member of the European association for crowdfunding platforms (the European Crowdfunding Network) and is member of the advisory board of several leading crowdfunding platforms and initiatives.

Furthermore, he is the founder of the CrowdfundingHub, the international network of educational crowdfunding events. The CrowdfundingHub facilitates and support local groups of crowdfunding platforms, consultants and other stakeholders to organize meetups and events on crowdfunding.

Ronald contributed to several books and publications. Some international examples are  A Framework for European Crowdfunding and Moving Mainstream: The European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Report.  

Emmanuelle Mury

Emmanuelle is the co-founder of InsPeer, the first French Peer-to-Peer insurance platform. Prior to this, she was an independent consultant in marketing and organization. She has over 15 years of expertise in strategy, organization and marketing gained in a variety of industries including finance and insurance. During her career, she supervised large digital transformation projects, most notably the development of the credit insurance platform of Euler Hermes, the world leader in trade credit insurance.

Emmanuelle holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Inseec Business School in Paris and graduated with honor from the MBA of IE Business School in Madrid.

Ruth Ncube

With over 20 years leadership experience in various economic sectors notably retail, hospitality, banking and insurance, Ruth has overseen the continued growth of First Mutual Life Assurance Company post dollarization. She has particularly transformed the company’s value offering having overseen the introduction of new products and strategic partnerships that have changed the insurance landscape in Zimbabwe.

In recognition of her contribution to the regional and local insurance sector, Ruth was appointed to the African Insurance Organization (AIO) – Micro Insurance Committee in 2013. She is also the current Chairperson of the Life Offices Association (LOA) as well as the chair of the Insurance Institute Zimbabwe (IIZ) – Marketing and PR committee.

Ruth seats on a number of Corporate Boards notably the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair board (ZITF), the Pearl Properties Limited board (a ZSE Listed company) and the Mosi o-a Tunya Development Company board (a government owned company) where she is the Chairperson.

Alison Salka, Ph.D.

Alison Salka joined LIMRA in 2012 and led the member benefits and research division from April 2014 until April 2024. She was responsible for driving the strategy and direction of its global research program. As principal research consultant, she is focused on thought leadership designed to help companies better understand industry issues and trends. She is a frequent industry speaker and has testified before the Department of Labor. Before joining LIMRA, she worked at Prudential and MassMutual. She has a Master’s degree from the College of William and Mary and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.