Brad joined MicroEnsure with 36 years' management experience in insurance. He spent 30 years with Continental Insurance, which later became CNA, where he performed a range of underwriting and management roles before moving to Berkley Insurance as regional Vice President for two years. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer of Sovereign Insurance Group. Brad holds a BS in Economics from North Dakota State University, an MA from Dallas Theological Seminary, and an MBA from Mankato State University.

Keith joined the Micro Insurance Agency with 30 years professional experience in the insurance industry. As Chief Finance and Administrative Officer, Keith oversees finance, project management, MIS and strategic planning. Until his recent retirement, Keith served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Manulife Financial in Asia, a leading Canadian-based insurance services company operating in 15 countries and territories worldwide with more than $400 billion under management.

Before joining MicroEnsure, Dubby served as Director of Business Development for APA Insurance Company in Kenya, where he led expansion into Uganda, Rwanda, and southern Sudan, and developed their product portfolio in bancassurance, brand assurance, microinsurance, and health insurance. He also worked as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Microcare Insurance and Health Limited in Uganda where he led the start-up of the Medical Insurance and Healthcare Finance Company.

Martin has considerable IT consulting, project and programme management experience with major blue chip and public sector organizations. He worked as Transformation Director, Government and Business Services with Mouchel Group plc, partnership Director, Bath & North East Somerset Council, and Managing Director, Archway Consulting Limited. He holds an MA Honours and an MPhil from Cambridge University.

Shadreck directs all the agricultural insurance work in Africa and Asia. Since 2005, he has managed the organisation's partnership with the World Bank's Commodity Risk Management Group to develop weather index crop insurance, a partnership that has extended recently to include all of Eastern and Southern Africa. He holds an M.A. in Actuarial Studies from the Australian National University and a degree in Insurance and Risk management from the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe.

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