Anthony Pedersen is a qualified chartered accountant with over 19 years’ experience in the medical aid industry in various roles. After completing his articles, he joined Momentum Medical Scheme Administrators Proprietary Limited (formerly Sovereign Health Proprietary Limited) where he progressed to Financial Director.

He moved within the Momentum Group to CFO of Group Benefits, before relocating to Mauritius in 2007, where he was responsible for establishing a new health insurance business for the Group. Anthony joined AfroCentric in 2010, initially as Managing Director of the Group’s International operations, before being appointed COO of Medscheme South Africa. He has been Managing Director of Helios IT Solutions since 1 May 2016. In January 2018, he was appointed as Medscheme Chief Executive Officer, to lead the South African, African and International operations of Medscheme.

He is a member of the Institute of Commercial and Financial Accountants of Southern Africa and is a certified public accountant and tax practitioner.

He is the Group CEO of Community Investment Holdings and is appointed on all its subsidiaries’ Boards. He is also a Non-executive Director of public listed companies Distell, Jasco and AfroCentric.

He then joined Medscheme as a Financial Manager and over the past 12 years has been involved with Medscheme and the AfroCentric Group in various client operations.

His success in leading Group Finance along with his knowledge of the business culminated in his appointment as the AfroCentric Group Chief Financial Officer effective 1 August 2015.

AGA Holdings later restructured as Capital Alliance Holdings Limited, one of the first Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment financial services companies in South Africa. In December 2004, Capital Alliance Holdings was sold to Liberty Group and Ian was appointed Deputy CEO of Liberty Group in March 2005.

In May 2006, Ian joined the Sanlam Group as Chief Executive: Strategy and Projects. In June 2007, he was appointed Chief Executive of Santam, whose market capitalisation has more than doubled since his appointment. He was appointed Deputy CEO of the Sanlam Group in January 2015 and effective 1 July 2015 he assumed the role of CEO of Sanlam Limited.

He fulfilled various roles within Shell, which saw him leading a diverse team across different countries. In addition, he was also appointed as a board member and shareholder representative in Shell’s subsidiary companies in South Africa.

Ahmed was appointed to the Sanlam Group in November 2006 as Head of Finance at Glacier before taking on the role of Chief Executive: Strategic Business Development in 2011.

She originally joined Medscheme in 2010 and successfully led the GEMS Managed Care and Aid for Aids business units until 2015. Thereafter, Lungi has been providing strategic and clinical healthcare consulting to key role players in the health sector.

Lungi returned to Medscheme in June 2016 as an Executive Director specialising in Health Management. Lungi is responsible for the ongoing development and enhancement of the health risk management strategy, new products and solutions, clinical and health risk thought leadership, as well as public health strategy.

He began a career in Operational Management in the retail sector before moving into Human Capital, holding positions in various industries ranging from retail to telecommunications and media. Lee held the position of HR Executive for the Primedia Content Division before joining Medscheme in 2007.

Over the past 10 years he has been involved with Medscheme and AfroCentric Group in various functions including Human Capital, Facilities Management and Transformation. Lee also spent time managing the Medscheme International Operations.

Lee was appointed as the Head of Bonitas Business Unit in June 2017.

A recipient of the Nelson Mandela Scholarship,she holds a Masters degree in Media Policy, Communication and Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA (Honours in Journalism) from Rhodes University.

Prior to joining the AfroCentric Group, Grace held the position of Public Relations and Marketing Manager at Bain Management Consulting. She also served as the Head of Strategic Communications and Marketing within the Department of International Relations and Cooperation for a number of years, overseeing the communication, branding and marketing of the country across 126 embassies.

An MBA graduate from the University of Stellenbosch, he received the Dean’s Merit award for the highest achievement attained in the strategy component of the programme. Aklaaq has served on the Board, Audit Committee and Pension Fund of Global Health Medical Scheme.

He has also been a member of various other committees and forums, including Chairperson of the Audit Committee of the City of Cape Town and a member of the Risk Committee and Mayoral Performance Evaluation Panel.

He was later appointed as CIO for FNB Homeloans at an Executive level, and was seconded to FNB Direct Channels and Contact Centres, to oversee the new technology refresh programme incorporating open source technologies.

Vijay was recently appointed as the Group Technology Director for AfroCentric Health.

After moving to National Sorghum Breweries, he joined Pretoria Medical Brokers, where he was rapidly promoted to Executive Director of the Healthcare division. He then joined Polmed as the medical scheme’s Chief Operating Officer.

Tim joined Medscheme in 2006 and is currently the Managing Director for AfroCentric Health Solutions, which includes managing the international operations in Mauritius.