Executive committee

BCom Risk Management, UNISA;
Senior Management Development Programme, University of Stellenbosch
General Management Program, Harvard Business School

Chief Executive Officer

Gerald is the former CEO: Client Solutions for Santam where he was responsible for managing Santam's direct-to-client value proposition that provides end-to-end digital, telephony and face-to-face distribution and servicing capabilities. He was also responsible for the overall Marketing function for the group. He previously served as Executive Head: Strategic Business Development where he was responsible for the identification and driving of targeted growth opportunities across the Santam Group of Companies including collaboration with Sanlam. These business opportunities span across ground up initiatives, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships. His other past experience includes the role of Executive Head: Distribution Services at Discovery Insure where he was also one of the founding executives of Discovery Business Insurance. He has over 18 years of extensive experience in the financial services industry. He is a past president, and former executive council member, of the Insurance Institute of Gauteng (IIG) and a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of South Africa. And he served as non-executive director on the boards of two Santam Group subsidiary companies [Indwe Broker Holdings (Chairman) & Snyman van der Vyver] and served as non-executive director of Ayo Holdings Limited (an MTN Group subsidiary company in alliance with Sanlam)

CA(SA)
Group Chief Financial Officer

After qualifying as a CA, Hannes joined a corporate finance team at KPMG, where he gained valuable experience in due diligences, valuations and commercial structuring of companies. He joined Medscheme 15 years ago as a financial manager upon which he progressed to manage various client business units involved in scheme finance, broker commission and claims processing. Shortly after the listing of the Group in 2009, he headed up the Group Finance unit which has since expanded due to the group diversification and changes in shareholding structures. As a result of his extensive knowledge of the business, he was appointed AfroCentric Group CFO in August 2015.

BAccSci, MBA
Director - Group Diversified and Africa

Aklaaq Mahmood has more than 18 years’ experience in the healthcare industry. Formerly, he was the Deputy CEO of LA Health Medical Scheme and Principal Officer of ProSano Medical Scheme. An MBA graduate from the University of Stellenbosch where he received a highest achievement Merit Award for Strategy. Aklaaq began his career in healthcare serving as a trustee 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, Risk Committee and Mayoral Performance Evaluation Panel for the City of Cape Town. Aklaaq Mahmood is the director for AfroCentric Group’s Business Development and chairperson of Medscheme Namibia. He is a director for a number of AfroCentric Group subsidiaries. Further responsibilities include the integration of new acquisitions into the Group.

MA, EMBA
Group Executive: Human Capital and Transformation

Tebogo Makoe is a seasoned senior executive with over 20 years’ experience and leadership across all HR value chain functions, specialist roles, Centre of Expertise (CoEs) and strategic development and management of implementation.

Before joining the AfroCentric Group, she was HR vice-president at Sasol.

Tebogo studied at the University of Cape Town, where she has completed her Executive MBA, Strategic Human Resources and Bachelor of Social Science degrees. Other programmes that Tebogo has completed include her MA at the Witwatersrand University, the Breakthrough Programme for Senior Executives at IMD Lausanne Campus, Switzerland and Leadership and Organisational Renewal at Harvard Business School Boston Campus in the US.

BSc (Hons)
Managing Executive – Clinical Risk and Advisory

Fezeka Nompumza has over 20 years' experience as a professional, manager, executive and leader in financial services and managed care industry.

Fezeka joins the AfroCentric Group from Concor Construction (previously Murray & Roberts Construction), where she held several positions including Senior Executive: Business Development and Stakeholder Engagement, Project Development Executive and Strategic Planning Executive/Manager in the Office of the CEO.

MBA, BTech & Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management
Executive Director: Corporate Solutions

Sandile Mbele holds a BTech: Chemical Engineering, Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management and an MBA. He has more than 15 years of experience in healthcare and joins the AfroCentric Group from Africa Healthcare. Prior to this, Sandile held various leadership roles at Netcare.

MBChB
Executive Manager: Research & Product Development

Dr Mike Marshall graduated with an MBChB from the University of Cape Town in 1989. He spent a number of years practising clinical medicine the public and private sector both locally and overseas.

He joined Medscheme in 2005 as a senior manager in the hospital benefit management department. Since then, Mike has been involved in a number of roles at a general manager level within Medscheme. These include healthcare professional relations and contracting, business development, disease management and general manager of AfA. He is currently responsible for research and product development in health risk management.

PHD, Systems Architecture
Group Technology Director

Avsharn Bachoo is a technology strategist with over two decades of experience as a chief information officer and chief technology officer. He holds a PhD in systems architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Master's in information systems from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Bachelor of Science Honours at Unisa and a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Natal.

BComm (Honours) Actuarial Science, University of Stellenbosch MBA (Executive Management), Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town Fellow of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries (UK)
Executive Manager: Actuarial

Across a distinguished career spanning over 15 years in the financial services industry, Satish has honed a versatile skill set through extensive exposure to and work across financial services markets in Africa and India.

Satish is the former Head of Sanlam Pan Africa’s Motor Insurance division, where he was responsible for executing significant regional partnerships and growing the motor insurance portfolios across East & Southern Africa. He also served on the boards of FBN GI (Nigeria) and Grand-Reinsurance (Zimbabwe) as Sanlam’s representative non-executive director. Following this stint in the Pan-African environment and prior to joining Afrocentric, Satish oversaw strategy development for the Sanlam Group, Africa’s largest non-banking financial services group, where he guided strategic reviews and translated these into actionable initiatives.

As a qualified actuary (FIA UK), Satish holds a robust understanding of insurance and financial principles. Complementing this expertise is his completion of an Executive MBA from the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, a testament to his commitment to continuous learning and leadership development.

His educational background, coupled with his extensive professional journey, underscores his strategic acumen and proficiency in navigating complex financial landscapes, positioning him as an adept leader in the financial services arena.