The tech and insurance entrepreneur has over fifteen years of professional experience in Europe and Africa. In 2018, he invested in two growth sectors: fintech and telecom namely. 

Souleymane Gning (photo) is a Senegalese entrepreneur and telecom engineer. In 2018, he founded Assuraf, an insurance broker. 

The aim of “Assuraf is to use online and offline communication medium to simply show Africans the inner working of the insurance sector to get them more exposed to the sector, understand its critical role and the coverage it offers,” Souleymane explains.  

The insurance entrepreneur was able to successfully implement his project thanks first to his telecom engineering master’s obtained at the University of Poitiers, France, in 2003 and his over fifteen years of professional experience. He developed his professional skills in various companies, including SFR in France and Sonatel in Senegal, where he held his first management position from 2003 to 2006. He later became Cisco System’s Public Sector Manager for West and Central Africa and then Business Consultant Sicap SA (Swisscom). He also worked at Upstream, Persado, Sandvine and was a senior education advisor for EM Normandie Business School. 

In 2018, the same year when he founded Assuraf, he founded eConnect, a telecom, media, and tech firm. The tech firm provides commercial tech solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa.  

Melchior Koba