Simon Schwall

After graduating with a Master's in Management from HEC Paris and a Master in International Management from CEMS, I worked a few years in management consulting from London and Dubai, specialising in Telecom. I then joined BIMA in 2014, having the mission to roll out a micro-insurance service in the Pacific. After successfully launching and managing BIMA in Papua New Guinea and Fiji, I joined the Business Development team of BIMA for Africa and Middle-East. After several project led successfully at BIMA I decided to create OKO and bring crop insurance to the 2bn farmers in the world who feed us. I now want to replicate this successes with crop-insurance, and therefore created OKO, a company aiming at providing smallholder farmers with adequate tools to protect their crop, access financing and ultimately grow their business. Recent achievements include: - Launching local operations in Papua New-Guinea in record time - Building and managing a team of 50 people - Achieving high-speed growth and meeting ambitious revenue targets - Be awared grant from development agencies and completing the assigned targets Specialties: Distribution in emerging economies New product launch Mobile Financial Services Micro-Insurance Mobile identification and authentication solutions