Daniel Annerose
Founder and CEO
Manobi Corporation

    Daniel Annerose is founder and CEO of Manobi Corporation, an African mobile data services operator that provides innovative value-added services to small-scale and large companies to uplift their respective economic and social development. He is founder and president of the board of the Manobi Development Foundation and a member of the Senegalese Academy of Sciences and Technology, both of which are involved in rural and local development of vulnerable populations in Africa, through the use of mobile technologies, situation-specific content, and community-led service provision. Dr. Annerose is experienced in both information and communication technology and in research, agricultural and agro-industrial development of developing countries. He was previously a plant scientist for 18 years, specializing in improvement of agricultural production in arid and semi-arid areas and in the development of crop and plant mathematical models predicting yields and production to anticipate food crisis in these areas. During this period, he mainly worked in development aid as a researcher and agricultural developer in African, European and South American countries.