Wilberforce joined WAICA Re in April 2019, bringing with him over 30 years-experience in both reinsurance underwriting and broking. He is very much a hands-on practitioner having started his career as an underwriting trainee with the then Zimbabwe Reinsurance Corporation. He steadily rose through the ranks to attain the position of Acting General Manager Technical by the time he left to join the newly established Aon Re Zimbabwe, a broking operation.

He spent 12 years with Aon Re during which he played a pivotal role in establishing the company as the dominant player in the reinsurance space both in Zimbabwe and the Southern Africa region outside South Africa. In 2007, he briefly joined Reinsurance Brokers International, Zimbabwe, as Managing Director and managed to turn the fortunes of that company, winning business around the region. In that role he set up operations in Malawi and Uganda to extend the company’s reach around the region.

In 2009 Wilberforce ventured across the ocean to join Reinsurance Solutions International in Mauritius. Starting as Area Manager and then Executive Director, his responsibility was to extend the company’s operations into mainland Africa. The consummate marketer he is, he accomplished this role with distinction as he criss-crossed the length and breath of the continent establishing lasting relationships with captains of industry in many markets. By the time he left to join WAICA Re, Reinsurance Solutions had become well established across the continent with offices in Kenya and Ivory Coast.

Wilberforce is a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe School of Law where he attained Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree. He is also a holder of an Executive MBA degree from the East and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI). He is the Vice Chairman of the Zimbabwe Association of Reinsurers (ZARO) and sits on the Board of Directors of Special Automobile Underwriters Zimbabwe (SAUZ). He has also been involved as a visiting lecturer in Reinsurance subjects at the National University of Science & Technology in Zimbabwe.