Experience
Consultancy
2025 – Present
Founded and now leads Acuvera, an advisory to healthcare organisations on strategy, governance and operations, with offices in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Mauritius.
Founder · Managing Partner
Strategy & Innovation
2020 – 2025
Spearheading innovation across the multinational healthcare services provider — connecting clinical practice, health technology assessment and corporate strategy across Switzerland, Southern Africa and the UAE. Founded and led the Mediclinic Group's radical innovation hub in Zug, Switzerland — a dedicated unit exploring new models of care, emerging technologies and the long-horizon shape of the hospital of the future. This was later joined by a secondary hub in Barcelona, Spain, for a presence within the EU.
Group Chief Innovation Officer · Founder
Strategy & Innovation
2019 – 2020
Designed the group innovation framework across four functional areas, four geographies and four business units, and recruited and onboarded the initial digital transformation and innovation teams.
Group General Manager, Innovation
Academia
Co-founder of the Centre of Excellence in Emergency Medicine in Bern, Switzerland — supporting clinical excellence, research and training in the discipline.
Co-founder
Education
2011 – 2016
Programme lead and co-ordinator for the University of Cape Town's postgraduate programmes in Emergency Medicine, while serving as Assistant Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine.
Programme Lead · Assistant Professor
Governance
2016 – 2019
Led group-level clinical governance and HTA work at Mediclinic — a foundation for the subsequent move into innovation leadership.
Mediclinic Group
Speaking
2016 – Present
Invited speaker at multiple international conferences and workshops on topics within the space of optimising healthcare operations, healthcare in the future, integrating AI into clinical operations and preparedness and resilience in healthcare.
Keynote speaker