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BLUM KHAN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: METROPOLITAN HEALTH
QUALIFICATIONS: CA (SA)
Blum Khan has been CEO of Metropolitan Health since 2000.
From 1996 to 2000 Blum was Head of Administration and General Manager of Finance at Bankmed, having spent three years as General Manager of Operations at Columbit Foods from 1993 to 1996. Prior to joining Columbit Foods Blum held various positions at Lendlease Corporation, a company based in Australia, from 1986 to 1993.
Blum is the Chairman and a Trustee of the Table Mountain Fund, a Council member of Artscape, a Director of COMMUNICARE and an Executive Committee member of MMIHoldings Ltd.
He is married with one child. His interests and activities include travel, community upliftment projects, small business enterprise development and international politics.
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NICK RUDSTON
EXECUTIVE HEAD: CLOSED SCHEMES
QUALIFICATIONS: BCom: CA (SA)
Having qualified as a chartered accountant, Nick started his career at Ernst & Young in Johannesburg and Orange County, USA, before joining the British Printing Company as Financial Manager. He joined Bankmed as Senior Manager: Internal Audit in 1996, later becoming Head of Finance and Chief Financial Officer.
In 2006 he became the Managing Director of MHG Administration. He has been integrally involved in systems development and implementation, group restructuring and corporate finance as well as business development and corporate acquisitions.
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DYLAN GARNETT
MANAGING DIRECTOR: METROPOLITAN HEALTH RISK MANAGEMENT
QUALIFICATIONS: B.SC DEGREE (STATISTICS, PSYCHOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS); B.COM: MARKETING, HONOURS IN B.COM: MARKETING (CUM LAUDE) AND B.COM CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY (CUM LAUDE)
Dylan Garnett was appointed as the Managing Director (MD) for Metropolitan Health Risk Management since 1 June 2012.
Dylan oversees the Metropolitan Health Risk Management team and will be a member of the Metropolitan Health Executive Committee, reporting directly to Blum Khan, CEO of Metropolitan Health.
Dylan has a rich academic background with a B.Sc degree (statistics, psychology and mathematics), B.Com: Marketing degree and two cum laude Honours degrees in B.Com: Marketing and Clinical Psychology.
Dylan has a wealth of executive managerial experience in the strategic delivery of operational business requirements and goals. Driving performance and service delivery in order to position the business for sustainable growth is his passion. Through his vast experience he has demonstrated visible leadership to senior multi-functional management teams, especially in the context of client centricity and operational excellence. Before joining us, Dylan held the position of Chief Operating Officer for Zurich South Africa since 2007.
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PATRICK JONSSON
EXECUTIVE HEAD: PRIVATE SCHEMES
QUALIFICATIONS: SMP (USB)
Patrick Jonsson's career in the healthcare industry started 33 years ago at Sanmed, the healthcare subsidiary of Sanlam.
In 1992 he joined Bankmed as marketing and customer services manager and was later appointed Principal Officer of Bankmed Namibia.
He has been integrally involved with the take on, systems and business process implementation of the Afrox, BP, Engen, Foschini, Pick n Pay, Remedi, Sappi, Transmed, POLMED and Wooltru medical schemes.
Patrick served as General Manager of the Corporate Schemes business unit, before his appointment in 2012 as the Executive Head of Private Schemes.
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ANTHON SWART
EXECUTIVE HEAD: OPEN SCHEMES BUSINESS UNIT
QUALIFICATIONS: BLC LLB
Anthon matriculated in 1980 and obtained his BLC LLB degree at the University of Pretoria in 1985. He did his articles at Truter & Wessels
from 1986 to 1987.
He joined the military service at the South African Police legal department from 1988 to 1989.
In 1990 he started at Sanlam as a Legal Consultant.
While at Sanlam, Anthon obtained his ILPA certification in Health and Life (Certified Financial Planner), where after he was promoted to Senior Legal Consultant in 1992. He became the Managing Director of Medipref (Post Retirement Funding Vehicle), a subsidiary of Sanlam in 1995. Anthon was the owner and Managing Director of Health Economics(Pty) Ltd (Healthcare Consultants) from 1997 to 2003.
He was approached by Momentum to start up their health initiative in 2003. At the time of the merger between Metropolitan and Momentum, Anthon was the CEO of Momentum Medical Scheme Administrators.
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NORMAN SWART Norman studied Information Technology, obtaining a BCom at the University of Port Elizabeth. In 1991 he kicked off his career as a programmer at SITA.
HEAD: IT & OPERATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS: BCOM: MAJORING IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
He joined Momentum in 1994, as a programmer on the finance systems. In his subsequent career in the FirstRand group he has fulfilled various leadership roles in information technology, including heading up the IT Division for MC Squared Solutions (a subsidiary of Momentum at the time).
With the advent of FirstRand group in 1998, MC Squared became Hyphen Technologies and the company was incorporated into the FNB Corporate electronic banking division. After acting as Chief Operations Officer for Hyphen in 1998-1999, Norman became head of IT for FNB Corporate until 2002. From 2003 until 2006 he was responsible for IT in three start-up businesses: FNB Insurance (Bancassurance initiative for Momentum and FNB), the open medical scheme for Momentum (Momentum Health) and Multiply (wellness programme to compete with Discovery's Vitality offering).
In 2007 he became the Chief Operations Officer for Multiply and relocated to Durban in 2009 to take over responsibility for Momentum Medical Scheme Administrators' Information Technology. In these roles he has obtained extensive experience in developing and maintaining advanced IT systems focused on service delivery to clients.
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CRAIG COMRIE
EXECUTIVE HEAD: PRIVATE SCHEMES
QUALIFICATIONS: BCOMPT (UNISA), HIGHER DIPLOMA ACCOUNTING, CA (SA)
Craig worked for Grant Thornton International and then moved to Johannesburg to joined Gensec Bank (a division of Sanlam) where he worked as a Financial Manager in Corporate Finance looking after the international management and risk reporting for an offshore subsidiary. Craig has experience in deal structuring, taxation management and reserve bank regulatory reporting.
He joined Metropolitan Health as Senior Manager Finance in 2001 and in 2003 moved into the role of Scheme Executive specifically looking after the Johannesburg administration office. Craig has been integrally involved in managing large-scale operations and has developed valuable experience within the healthcare environment.
Craig was appointed as the Business Development Executive for Metropolitan Health in 2009.
In April 2011, Craig was appointed as Group Head of Marketing and Business Development. Craig was tasked with taking charge of all the operational structures in Durban, also focusing on the development of the open schemes market, while continuing to provide marketing and business development services to the whole Health Division.
Additionally, in March 2012, Craig was appointed as Executive Head: Private Schemes.
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ODETTE RAMSINGH
GROUP HUMAN RESOURCES EXECUTIVE
QUALIFICATIONS: BA, LLB, MBA AND MA IN GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT; SENIOR EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME - HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL (BOSTON, USA)
Odette began her career at trade union SACCAWU before joining Anglo American as Divisional Industrial Relations Legal Advisor.
This led to a position as Director: Labour Relations in the Mpumalanga Provincial Administration and later Chief Negotiator for its Bargaining Chamber.
She rose through the ranks in the public service to become the Director-general: Public Service Commission before joining Metropolitan Health. She helped establish the African Public Services Commissions and was the first head of its secretariat.
She was also active in forming the African Public Sector HR Managers' Network and is now its Deputy President. She was recently appointed to the Committee of Experts on Public Administration in the United Nations.
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AUSTEN K NENGUKE
GROUP CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
QUALIFICATIONS: CA (SA)
After completing his BCom in accounting at the University of Cape Town in 1998, Austen Nenguke joined KPMG in Johannesburg.
He moved to Swiss Re in 2002 as Project Accountant, where he gained technical experience of reinsurance accounting.
He was promoted to Reinsurance Accounting Manager, a position he held for two years before joining Sanlam in 2005 as the Finance Manager for the IT business unit.
During his two years in this position, he expanded his IT finance management experience while developing a model to allocate all IT costs to all business units within Sanlam.
He joined Metropolitan Health in July 2007 as Group Chief Financial Officer.
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JOUBERT STEYN
HEAD: MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
QUALIFICATIONS: BAcc; HONS B COMPT; CTA CA (SA)
Joubert completed his accountancy articles with BDO Spencer Steward in 1996, having passed his final qualifying examination in 1995.
He joined Mosaic Software as Financial Manager in early 1997, becoming Chief Financial Officer shortly thereafter. During his final year as Chief Financial Officer he led the financial team that raised $10 million in venture capital to facilitate Mosaic’s international expansion. In 2001 he became General Manager: Africa, overseeing all Mosaic Software’s commercial activities on the continent.
From 2004 until October 2006 Joubert practiced as an independent business development consultant. During this time he performed a number of assignments in Business start-up, capital raising and business turnarounds.
He was a founding director of GreenX Energy, a renewable energy trading firm. Joubert joined Metropolitan Health as Managing Director: Information Technology in October 2006, then headed Strategic Initiatives before his appointment as Head: Marketing and Business Development on 1 July 2012
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ANGELA JACOBS
GROUP EXECUTIVE: GOVERNANCE AND COMPLIANCE
QUALIFICATIONS: CA (SA), CIA, MCom (Fin)
Angela started her career at Gobodo Risk Management after completing her National Diploma in Financial Information Systems at the Cape Technikon. While at Gobodo Angela studied part time to complete her BCom(Hons) / CTA through the University of Natal. She then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers and succeeded in passing the IRBA qualifying exam to qualify as a CA(SA) while being involved in client external audits such as Capitec Bank and Cadiz Holdings. Three months after completing her training contract she joined KPMG as the lead engagement manager for Investec Asset Management and Prudential Portfolio Managers while pursuing her Master's degree in Financial Management at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
She later moved to Johannesburg and joined Deutsche Securities as the Head of Operations for Reconciliations and Controls and then later also the Head of Equities Trade Support. During this time she successfully completed the International ACI Operations qualification and her CIA exams.
Most recently, she held the position of Senior Manager at the Liberty Group responsible for Liberty Properties and STANLIB, before joining Metropolitan Health in January 2012 as Group Executive: Governance and Compliance.
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GEORGE BOTHA
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
QUALFICATIONS: HONS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
George joined MH as Group Accountant in 2001 and made his way through the ranks to the position of General Manager: GEMS Business Unit.
Leading the very dynamic GEMS team and the largest Business Unit in the organisation from its inception in 2006 to 2012, George has been an integral part of one of the biggest success stories in the Healthcare Industry in recent times. The experience he gained in administering the fastest growing medical scheme our industry has ever seen, has equipped him well for his current role of COO.
George is responsible for the strategic management of operations of the health group and support to the CEO office. His core focus is on creating operational efficiencies through the refinement of operations models and extracting profit margins, as well as optimising the IT business interface.
George brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience of our business environment to be applied to the advantage of all our client schemes.
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TAKI MAUMELA
Taki was appointed as the General Manager of the GEMS Business Unit in January 2013.
Her role is to oversee and take accountability for key operational functions of the GEMS Business Unit thereby ensuring that Metropolitan Health continues to efficiently and effectively provide leading administrative services to GEMS and its members.
With her in-depth experience, practical know-how and leadership skills, she hopes to take the GEMS BU to the next level.
Her responsibilities are:
Taki gained valuable industry knowledge and experience over the past 20 years of her professional life. She began her career as a registered nurse with a Baccalareus Curationis (B.Cur) Degree at (Medunsa), Management Advancement Programme (MAP) at Wits Business School and a Masters in Business Leadership (MBL) at UNISA.
She then went to work in the Managed Healthcare industry where she progressed through the leadership structures in the Managed Care operational and Clinical Risk Management areas with a leading healthcare organisation.
She then joined the Metropolitan Health Group in 2007 as the Operations Manager at Metropolitan Health Risk Management (then Qualsa Healthcare) where she advanced to the role of Clinical Executive and thereafter took up the position of GM of the Transmed Business Unit within MH.
GENERAL MANAGER: GEMS
QUALIFICATIONS: BCur (Medunsa); Management Advancement Programme (MAP) at Wits Business School and a Masters in Business Leadership (MBL) at UNISA
