Keith Douglas Bonsall

Keith has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UNISA majoring in Accounting and Business Economics. He has spent the last 26 years in private hospital industry, 6 of which were as an elected director of the National Association of Private Hospitals (now Hospital Association of South Africa). He has been the Hospital Manager of a number of large hospitals in Durban (starting with the commissioning of a new facility), Johannesburg and Pretoria.

A period of 17 years has been devoted to practicing as a consultant providing specialist hospital management services and management training within the private hospital and health care industry. His consulting focus has been on productivity, performance and profit improvement which embraced strategic planning, process reengineering, organization structuring, management training and assisting in the implementation of recommended changes.

Keith has also spent some time in the United States studying hospital management processes and systems, particularly with the emphasis on productivity, cost and profit performance within a Managed Care and strong cost driven environment.

During the last 6 years he had responsibility for the development and commissioning of a 250 bed high tech private hospital in Durban - Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre which opened in July 2008 – www.ehhc.co.za; and has recently completed the   commissioning of the 200 bed Hillcrest Private Hospital which opened 1 July 2011 www.hillcresthospital.co.za.

Keith has authored a number of training programmes for the Foundation for Professional Development that includes Risk Management, Case Management and Marketing. He has also authored papers that have been presented at many health care conferences, including Board of Healthcare Funders. He is also a founder director of the Case Manager Association of South Africa.

Outside the hospital industry, 11 years have been spent as a part-time lecturer presenting Business Management and Marketing Management Courses for Damelin Management School. His company. Halcyon Management Services CC, was established in 1996 as a vehicle to provide specialist hospital management services to the health care industry.

He is married with 3 children, enjoys keeping fit, loves sport and keeping up to date with the latest business trends.

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Ashwin Hurribunce

Academic Qualifications
Ashwin qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Natal (1983). He obtained the FF Rad (D) SA from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, a specialist qualification as a Diagnostic Radiologist (1991); and a MBA from University of Cape Town (2005).

Professional background and workplace experience
Ashwin served the Universities of Natal and WITS Faculties of Medicines’ Board and Committees (1986- 1993). He was a member of the of the ANC’s Health Department (1991-1994) heading two policy commissions, and a member of the multidisciplinary team that formulated the ANC’s Reconstruction and Development Programme and Health Plan. His formal medical career spanned various hospitals attached to universities, where he was appointed Senior Specialist/Lecturer; his special interest was Neuro- and
Interventional Radiology. He was an adviser to the Minister of Health on Health Technology (1994-1998), a member of the Senate of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (1998-2008), President of the College of Radiologists (2006-2008).

His parallel military career began with attesting to Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1979. He served on various missions until its decommissioning in December 1993. During South Africa’s transition into democracy, he played a significant role in various expert teams during national negotiations representing the African National Congress in the Transitional Executive Council; and served the National Peacekeeping Force’s medical command. This segment of his career ended with his appointment as Co-chair of Operations and Head of Security and Health for President Mandela’s Inauguration in May 1994, serving also as his envoy and aide de camp. After integrating into the South African National Defence Force, he was a member of numerous expert teams that pioneered the new design and transformation of the SANDF and the Department of Defence. He was one of the principal architects and implementer of new operational designs of military operations, training and command and control delivery systems. His mainstream service in the SANDF comprised two consecutive top command appointments as Chief of Joint Training and as the Chief of Command and Management Information Systems. He represented the RSA officially on many high-level international military and government-related engagements and initiatives. The most notable was as a technical expert in the UN Group & Government Experts in the field & Information and Telecommunications Security in the context of International Stability (2004-2006). He retired from the SANDF on 31st March 2006 in the rank of Major General, retaining his Presidential Commission.

His current career in commercial business began in July 2006. He is an Executive Director in The IQ Business Group where his role is generally advisory, doing coaching and mentoring, is responsible for business transformation and governance, for reviewing the business’s strategy, for exploring and establishing new ventures and is a Trustee of the IQBG Pension Fund. Additional appointments include being a member of the Court of Military Appeals (from 1999); Senior lecturer in Radiology at the Universities
of Witwatersrand and Pretoria (from 2006) and Limpopo (from 2007); Guest lecturer in National Security Strategy at the SA National Defence College (from 2007); Trustee of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (from 2008); Director of Cause Marketing Fundraisers – Pink Drive(from 2010); and member and Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Health Technology (from 2011). He is a member of the Black Management Forum of South Africa, and a member (by invitation) of an international colloquium on leadership based at the Gallup Leadership Institute in Washington DC.

He is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and the Dictionary of International Biographies. In 1999, he received formal acknowledgement as one of the Greatest Achievers of the 20th Century, an accolade bestowed on him by the Society of International Biographers. In 2010, he was inducted as a member of Continental Who’s Who, in recognition of professionals and executives who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and achievement in their occupation, industry and profession.

Non-commercial Interests
Ashwin’s interests are Advances in Science and Technology, enhancing Human Performance and Leading Change and several philanthropic pursuits.

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