Dominic Osumo is the Chief Executive Director, ARiS Risk & Insurance Solutions Limited. ARiS started as an insurance agency with a small office in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1998.
It was later upgraded into an insurance brokerage firm as a means to provide a broader spectrum of services for client needs as the insurance industry grew.
Dominic is a Fellow (FCII) of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London and Chartered Insurance Broker of the same institute. He has over 32 years’ experience in the insurance industry. He started his career in Kenya with Pan Africa Insurance Company Ltd (now APA Insurance) in 1988, which at the time was one of the oldest composite insurance companies in East Africa. He later worked with Jubilee Insurance Co. (K) Ltd and later Royal Insurance Company of East Africa from where he was seconded to set up Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance, Tanzania Ltd (now Britam Insurance Tanzania Ltd).
He has been part of the liberalized insurance industry in Tanzania from its very inception.
He has attended many training programs for highly complex classes of insurance such as aviation, oil & gas, engineering, among others in Kenya, South Africa, USA, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
He has been Chair of the Technical Committee of the Tanzania Insurance Brokers Association (TIBA), which guides TIBA on technical matters affecting the brokers, and by extension the service to clients.