Yaya Mbaoua

CEO - Zencey

Yaya Mbaoua is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zencey, a health and insurance infrastructure company operating between the United States and Côte d’Ivoire. Zencey treats health coverage in emerging markets as a distribution problem: it lets distributors embed insurance into what they already sell, gives insurers a white-label health application they can launch in weeks, and connects policyholders to doctors through AI-guided telehealth. The company carries no underwriting risk itself.

Zencey is a World Economic Forum UpLink Top Innovator and part of the Global Longevity Innovation Initiative launched by UpLink, Manulife and the WEF Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems.

Yaya brings over 15 years in digital health across the United States and emerging markets, including Vice President of Product Management at Rally Health (UnitedHealth Group) and telemedicine deployments across more than 100 clinical facilities in Africa. His focus is francophone West Africa, and the policy and blended-capital arrangements that move inclusive health solutions past the pilot stage. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, with executive education in technology innovation at MIT Sloan and at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. He is fluent in English, French and German.