Africa: The Last Frontier – 1st Pan-African Life Insurance Conference

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Robert A. Kerzner, CLU, ChFC

As president and CEO of LIMRA, LOMA and their parent organization, LL Global, Inc., Bob Kerzner leads the world’s largest association of life insurance and financial services companies. In 2010, he led the merger of LIMRA and LOMA, which together represent more than 1,200 members across 64 countries, including most of the world’s largest life insurance companies. 

Before joining LIMRA in 2004, Kerzner was executive vice president and head of the individual life division of Hartford Life, Inc. Under his leadership, the division experienced dramatic growth and record financial performance.

Kerzner is a leading voice in the life insurance, retirement and financial services industry, recently speaking at events held by the Department of Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO), the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and Life Insurance Commission of New York (LICONY).  He is regularly sought out by leading national publications, like the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and USA Today, as well as a host of trade and other business media outlets, to provide insight into industry issues and trends.

Kerzner is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University.

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Jeremy Leach

Jeremy is recognised as a global expert in mobile financial services with a particular expertise in microinsurance and digital insurance. He has been involved in advising, researching and implementing initiatives across the world. An experienced executive in both the private and public sector, Jeremy has been a Director at BFA, a global consultancy focused on innovation in responsible financial services, where he advised and supported a number of global insurers and mobile operators. As Divisional Director and Head of Microinsurance at the Hollard Insurance Group he drove a range of insurance innovations internationally, from product development to distribution to consumer engagement. Leading Hollard’s work on m-insurance he established a partnership and pilot with MTN Group and advised on initiatives in Pakistan, China and other countries. Prior to Hollard, Jeremy was Executive Director at FinMark Trust where his leadership on insurance and mobile money had global impact. Jeremy is a Chartered Certified Accountant (UK) and holds an MSc in International Development (Bath, UK). He is a founding member and adviser to Cenfri, and a member of the IAIS-Micro Insurance Network Joint Working Group on Micro-insurance. He has served on the South African Short Term Insurance Advisory Committee at the behest of the Minister of Finance, as well as sat on the board of MicroEnsure, a specialist microinsurance intermediary that focuses on mobile insurance. He speaks regularly at international conferences on microinsurance, m-insurance, mobile money and innovation in financial services.

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Arjun Mallik

Arjun Mallik is CEO of Prudential Uganda, leading the business since its establishment in the country in June 2015. He has been with the Prudential Group for over 7 years and is also the Regional Head of Strategy for Prudential Africa, supporting the Group’s expansion across the continent. Arjun previously worked in private equity and has a BA in Economics from Eckerd College (USA) and an MBA from Instituto de Empresa (Spain).

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Sollie Millard

Sollie is the current director of STATOMET, the Bureau for Statistical and Survey methodology at the University of Pretoria. As an associate and director of STATOMET he has been actively part of numerous data analytics solutions in the insurance and related industries. Solutions include leads generation, client retention, churn, market segmentation and other predictive models. During his career he has successfully completed projects at various insurance companies, including HSBC, Botswana Life and Liberty Life. He also has extensive exposure to risk based solutions in the telecommunications industry spanning the period from 1997. Sollie’s current applied research focusses on state of the art integrated predictive and model based segmentation solutions.

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Raoul Moloko

With a Maitrise in Sciences Economiques from Université Paris Sorbonne and an MBA degree from Claremont University (California), Mr. Moloko joined American Life Insurance Company (AIG Group) as Regional Accountant and Internal Auditor in 1982. He was part of the team that launched the Individual Life distribution through the agency system in West and Central Africa, leading the company to industry leadership. In 1987, he joined Colina Group (Non Life) evolving from CFO of Colina Ivory Coast to Group CFO. When Colina acquired the life subsidiary of Groupama in Ivory Coast, he was promoted CEO of Colina Life in 2003. Under his leadership, Colina Life has gone through a period of transformational change and has grown significantly organically enjoying success despite the political crisis in Ivory Coast of the past decade. In 2008, Colina Life ranked number one of the life industry in the CIMA Zone (14 French speaking countries in West and Cental Africa). In 2014, four years after the acquisition of Colina Group by SAHAM, he took over responsibility for the development and supervision of Life operations for West and Central Africa. As of today, SAHAM Life is licensed in 8 countries from 3 in 2013. Raoul Moloko serves also on the board of directors of various companies.

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John Porteous, BA (Hons) CFP Chartered FCSI FPFS IMC

John has over 25 years’ industry experience holding several senior executive roles in the UK Wealth Management space. Qualified as a Chartered Financial Planner and Chartered Fellow of Securities & Investment Institute John has also been actively involved in the development of the profession in the UK having previously held prestigious roles such as Chairman of the Society of Financial Advisers and director of both IFP and Association of Professional Financial Advisers. He is a regular speaker at industry events across the UK on technology, investment and financial planning topics.

John has been at the forefront of proposition design and advice consolidation following the implementation of RDR. He has personally been involved in over £700m of M&A activity over the past 4 years.

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Bernard Retali

Bernard is responsible for LIMRA’s overall operations in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Under Bernard’s leadership LIMRA Europe will deliver a market leading value proposition to better serve its membership. Bernard is an experienced insurance industry executive and consultant with over 20 years experience. 

During his career as an executive in the insurance industry, he served for more than ten years as CEO and Chairman of life insurance companies and Pension Funds in Poland, Portugal and Czech Republic. In 2003, Bernard Retali founded two companies in Barcelona: INOV Finance consulting company mainly dedicated to the insurance and bancassurance industry and INOV Insurance broker dedicated to the expat community based in Spain.

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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.

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Josh Wrench

Josh Wrench is employed by Sanlam in its Emerging Markets division. He has over 17 years’ experience working with insurers across a large number of African countries as well as some experience in India. He has performed various roles over the years, including leading the Africa division actuarial team, general management and has been heavily involved in Sanlam’s various micro-insurance products and projects across Africa.

Sanlam is the second largest insurance company in South Africa by market capitalization and has a footprint across over 34 African countries.