Dr Odendaal is a healthcare practitioner specialising as an Ophthalmologist. Dr Odendaal completed his undergraduate trading in 1994 at the University of Stellenbosch and his ophthalmology training in 2002 at University of Pretoria. Soon after, he started his career as an ophthalmologist in private practice at the Pretoria Eye Institute. Dr Odendaal has previously served on the Pretoria Eye Institute’s Board of Directors and Specialised Hospital Management Groups Board of Directors where he was responsible for business development. Dr Odendaal has also served as a director to Club Surgical Centre Proprietary Limited and Club Medical Centre Proprietary Limited.

Chairperson of the Board, Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Kabelo is a qualified and admitted attorney of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa. His qualifications include an LLB and Postgraduate Diploma in Tax from the University of the Witwatersrand and an LLM from the University of Pretoria. Kabelo has worked at the Public Investment Corporation SOC Limited as a senior legal advisor and periodically held an acting executive head of legal role; National Treasury of South Africa as a legal commercial director, Absa Bank Limited and at Routledge ModiseInc. trading as Hogan Lovells South Africa. He is currently a director with Ascension Capital Partners Proprietary Limited, a private equity fund management and advisory business that specializes in making equity and quasi equity investments into various companies within Sub Saharan Africa. In addition to his current directorships, Kabelo was recently appointed as an independent non-executive director to the Southern African Venture Capital Association.

Chairperson of the Audit and Risk Committee, Member of the Social and Ethics Committee

Abrie is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Abrie has 26 years of Financial Services experience of which 24 years is with Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Group in a number of management positions. He is currently appointed as the COO of the Guardrisk Group and an Exco member responsible for strategy development, mergers and acquisitions, technology and digital strategies and chairperson of a number of operational steering committees.

Chairperson of the Social and Ethics Committee

Dr Maleka obtained his MBCHB at the University of Natal in 1997 and his Diploma in Ophthalmology from the College of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) in 2002. In 2006 he became a fellow of the College of Ophthalmologists at the CMSA. Dr Maleka was a consultant at the WITS Ophthalmology department and specialist ophthalmologist in the Retinal Clinic from 2006 to 2017. He lectured ophthalmology to undergraduates, post graduate doctors and registrars. He worked part time at the Centre of Advanced Medicine as a Specialist Ophthalmologist, which position became full time from 2018. In business, Dr Maleka is a founder and director of several medical facilities. He also holds active memberships with several councils and societies.

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

On completion of his community service, Dr Khantsi worked at the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and practised as a General Practitioner in the Private Sector in Auckland, New Zealand. Dr Khantsi also spent time in the corporate world, where he worked for major pharmaceutical companies. His journey in Ophthalmology started in 2011, at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg. He currently holds a master’s degree in Ophthalmology from Wits University, and he is a member of the College of Ophthalmology, which is a part of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa.

In addition to his work in private practice, Dr Khantsi acted as a consultant in the retinal unit at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg, where he was actively involved in teaching trainee Ophthalmologists and Medical Officers. Dr Khantsi is currently in full-time private practice.

Member of the Social and Ethics Committee

Dawie Prinsloo is an MBA graduate from the University of the Free State. He has spent 10 years in the SANDF as a senior officer before entering the private sector. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the healthcare industry. Dawie has excelled in various sales, marketing, and managerial roles in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. He has enjoyed successes in representing multinational companies at business Unit level across various therapeutic areas as well as successfully overseeing distribution operations in South Africa and the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa.