Cape Health Tech Week

David Maynier has served for the past ten years as a Member if the National Assembly in Parliament. During that time he has was a member or an alternate member of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, Joint Standing Committee in Defence, Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Standing Committee on Appropriations and Standing Committee on Finance. 

Maynier has a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Honours) from the University of Cape Town and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. He will be working round the clock over the next five years to: grow the economy and create jobs; maintain stable public finances; promote clean government in the Western Cape.

Leading Deloitte’s Digital, Innovation and Venturing portfolio’s, Adao is a member of the firm’s Global Innovation Executive, the former founder of Monitor Deloitte, and the leader of Deloitte Digital in the region.

A corporate entrepreneur with extensive experience in venturing and commercialising businesses across a number of industries, Adao works with the CEO’s of leading organization’s to scale innovative and impactful technology concepts into high growth, sustainable entities. He is a professor of practice at the Johannesburg Business School, and a faculty member of Singularity University.

Recipient of the Constellation Business Transformation 150 awards, which recognises top global executives leading digital business transformation efforts, Adao is recognised by the South African Professional Services Academy, as the Big 4 Professional of the Year, and a finalist for the Digital Professional of the Year.

Professor Craig Househam is a graduate of the University of Cape Town having completed both under and post-graduate study at this university. He is a specialist paediatrician and holds an honorary professorship from the University of the Free State where he headed the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health until January 1995.

Thereafter he became the Head of the Free State Health Department in February 1995 a post which he held until 2001. In 2002, he was appointed as Head of the Western Cape Department of Health, a post which he held until his retirement on 31 March, 2015. During his term of office, health services in the Western Cape underwent significant restructuring with the implementation of Healthcare 2010 by the Western Cape Government. As Head of Health in the Free State and the Western Cape Professor Househam served on various national and provincial bodies and management structures.

Keyter is a pharmacist with over 10 years of experience within the field of regulatory affairs, quality assurance, quality risk management, pharmaceutical production, complementary medicines manufacture, and risk-based inspection planning.

Responsible for the application of the medical device regulatory framework in South Africa and for the regulation of medical devices and in vitro diagnostics, Keyter is currently the Chair of the African Medical Device Forum and an assessor and trainer for the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT).

Palesa Ryan is the Head of Origination and Coverage for Social, Health and Education sectors at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). She has more than 16 years of experience in the financial services industry; spanning across South Africa’s big four banks as well as the Land Bank of South Africa. Her work experience includes Credit, Workout and Restructuring, Business (Relationship Management) and Private Equity.

Prior to joining DBSA, Palesa managed the Workout and Restructuring Business Unit at Land Bank, which led the turnaround of the bank’s non-performing loan book in the agricultural sector. During her tenure, she also sat on numerous committees as either a voting or an alternate member on Credit, Pricing and Asset and Liability Management Committee (“ALCO”) for the Land Bank. She has also served as the Vice President and Head of Non-Bank Financial Institutions (“NBFI”) for ABSA Group Limited.

Santie started her career in supply chain with the world’s largest private healthcare provider, HCA. She has since worked in the construction, oil & gas, property, facilities management, media and manufacturing industries.

Before joining Western Cape Government Health, in 2014, Santie led strategic outsourcing projects in the UK & mainland Europe, engaging with leading service providers to establish mutually beneficial long-term partnerships.

Santie believes that supply chain officials are in a unique position to gain a deep understanding of their customers and service providers, and that public sector supply chain organizations can embrace private sector practices for delivery of optimal commercial and outcomes.