Nonso Opurum

Nonso is the founder and Chief Growth officer at SOSO CARE. He is a social entrepreneur with obsession on excellent ways to bridge poor healthcare and financing in emerging markets particularly in Africa. In 2018, he founded 2 startups, Jaracare Innovation, a digital platform which improves access to healthcare through telemedicine and Maiyegun Dairy a social media blog with over 500k followers focused on around critical issues in Africa. To gain better insight in insurance Nonso took a 6 months internship as a field agent selling insurance to informal communities where he learnt about trust and knowledge gap in insurance. In 2019, he founded SOSO CARE, a low-cost micro mobile health insurance which aims to solve health inequality in Nigeria where over 90% of the 200 million populations does not have a health insurance. By linking recyclables to healthcare Nonso and his team solves 2 catastrophic problems of healthcare financing gap and environmental pollution. Through SOSO CARE Nonso has received multiple awards including from United Nations Aids, TotalEnergies, Qatar foundation, World Bank and many more.