Pieter Prickaerts, who will continue overseeing M-TIBA’s operations in Kenya, has been appointed CEO of CarePay International, succeeding Kees van Lede. Rita Okuthe also joined CarePay’s Supervisory Board. Prickaerts, who joined CarePay in 2019 and became Managing Director of M-TIBA in 2023, has significantly enhanced healthcare accessibility in Kenya. CarePay’s platform connects members with payers and healthcare providers, using cloud technology to reduce costs and accelerate payments through automation and AI. The platform serves over 4.8 million individuals and 5,000 healthcare providers, with plans for expansion. CarePay raised $45 million in Series A funding in 2019 and was featured in Fortune’s 500 ‘Change the World’ index in 2020. Prickaerts highlighted the critical need to expand health insurance access in Sub-Saharan Africa and expressed his commitment to advancing global healthcare transformation