Board of Trustees

Adv JJ Crouse

Chairman
BCom, LLB

Adv Crouse has held private Advocate chambers in the Western Cape, inter alia, specialising in medico-legal matters, alternative dispute resolutions and labour law since 2017. Prior to his current activities, for 10 years Adv Crouse held various managing executive roles in the corporate healthcare environment with, inter alia, niche medical provision funds, including at Barclays Africa Consultants and Actuaries. Before joining Barclays Africa, he served for eight years as a Senior Judge in terms of the Military Courts Act promulgated in 1999 after practising in the legal profession for many years and also having flown as a qualified pilot for two airlines. Adv Crouse is also an acknowledged international authority in the fields of medical ethics, international humanitarian law and “Medicine and the Law”. His unique contribution to this field currently includes being the Senior Legal Advisor to the Secretary General and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM), based in Brussels, Belgium. Adv Crouse is also the Head of an international course of ICMM, which has been presented to medical practitioners for the past 15 years in various countries.

Mr HP du Toit

BSc, FASSA

Whilst qualifying as an actuary, Mr Du Toit worked for ten years in a number of large financial services companies gaining actuarial consulting experience. Mr Du Toit became a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa in 2000 and is sole member of a consultancy providing independent actuarial and trustee services to a variety of pension funds and employee benefit companies. He is currently a member of the trustee boards of the PPS Investments and Coronation retirement annuity and pension and preservation funds, and the PPS Retirement Annuity Fund. He was a trustee of Profmed medical scheme between 2012 and 2019 and served as chair of its Investment Committee. He has served as a trustee of other pension funds and as a member of a number of tribunals to distribute pension fund surpluses in terms of Section 15K of the Pension Funds Act. Mr Du Toit has lectured part-time for UCT post-graduate and under-graduate actuarial science courses and is currently the Tuition Leader for the Actuarial Society of South Africa’s specialist pensions examination.

Prof CA Joseph

Professor Joseph is the founding member of SAPPF (South African Private Practitioners Forum) and current board member for surgical disciplines. Serving on the SAPPF Procedural Coding Reference Group responsible for liaising with the funding industry to establish fair and reasonable remuneration for the medical profession and establishing a way forward to value-based care and funding. Serves on the Outcomes Reporting Advisory Group of SAPPF tasked with determining clinically relevant outcomes measurement in collaboration with all involved parties within the South African healthcare environment. He established a Multidisciplinary Team of medical and allied healthcare professionals for head and neck cancer patients in 2009 managing their full cycle of care.

ORL-HNSociety coding and audit committee collaborating with the funding industry and Healthman on coding issues and queries in ENT practice. Professor Joseph is also an external examiner for the Department ORL-HNS at Sefako Makgatho University.

MS N Maidi

CTA, LLB, EDP, MDP, B-BBEE

Nthabiseng is currently serving as the Principal Director of the MMCP Advisors. The companies include, MMCP Wealth and MMCP Business Advisory Services Practice. The business advisory services to SMMEs spans across diverse sectors, including, financial services, agriculture, healthcare, engineering consulting, education, property and mining.

She was involved in a woman-owned fund management firm that focuses on business rescue and private equity. Her accomplishments include serving as Chief Financial Officer of an ESD fund management firm, where she was instrumental in its establishment. She also served at a company that delivers STEM education solutions to schools and tertiary education institutions.

She headed the Private Equity Fund and held directorial roles in both listed and unlisted companies, as an Independent Non-Executive Director, Chairperson of various committees, and member of Audit & Risk Committees.

Ms KPM Simelane

BA, HDPM, MPhil

She started her career in corporate as a human resources practitioner in various positions. She has over 25 years’ experience in human resources leadership in various industries including FMCG, telecommunications and investment banking at executive level. Subsequently co-founded The HR Touch, a Human Resources Management consulting business with interests in executive search and coaching in which she is still a shareholder.

She has since 2001 been serving on various Boards and still is a non-executive director on several not-for-profit, state owned and private sector companies. In 2022 she was appointed as the lead independent director for the AHRI Board.

She is registered as Master Human Resources Practitioner (Generalist) and HR Auditor with the South African Board for People Practices [SABPP]. She is registered as a Fellowship Member of the Institute of Directors SA and an accredited Sirdar Group Governance Panelist, an organisation that provides governance for family business, SMEs and privately held companies. She currently devotes time to mentoring aspirants and those interested in directorship as part of paying it forward.

Dr J Welgemoed

BChD, Business Administration (Hons.)

Dr Welgemoed has been in full-time private practice for 30 years. Apart from working full time in dentistry she also manages a team of 14 people in two practices located in Noordhoek and Simon’s Town in the Western Cape. Dr Welgemoed is a member of SADA, International Team for Implantology (ITI), South African Association of Osseointegration (SAAO) and the Paedodontic Society of South Africa. She is also a board member of the South African Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry (SAAAD).

Dr HJ Woermann

HBChB

Hans Woermann is a General Practitioner with more than 30 years of experience in Private Medical Practice as well as a degree in Business Science with subsequent university diploma courses in Economic Evaluation in Health Care and Health Care Finance. Alongside his General Practitioner work he has been involved in the economic evaluation of chronic disease management (for Access Health) and more recently he was involved in a medical advisor collaboration (Life Choice). He has served in an interim position as trustee on the Profmed Board in 2022/23.

Mr AHG Wright

BCom (Legal), LLB, PGDA, CA(SA)

Tony Wright was admitted as an attorney and notary in 1988 and qualified as a chartered accountant (SA) in 1995. He brought his legal and accounting experience together as a commercial forensic practitioner for twenty years with KPMG, where he was a partner until 2018. He has expertise in complex commercial forensic investigations; fraud risk management; forensic technology; dispute advisory; third-party contract compliance; corporate governance, enterprise risk management and internal audit; and sustainability. He was part of the global leadership team that developed programmes for companies to protect their intellectual property and enhance revenue from it. He has led numerous contract compliance reviews for global technology vendors of their major customers in every sector of business across Africa.

Tony has relevant experience in the medical aid industry. He was seconded to a national medical aid administrator to lead its forensic function, including the restructuring of its existing operating model to enable the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud, waste and abuse across the claims universe. He has also led various forensic assignments in the medical aid industry. Currently, Tony is practising as Wright Advisory in commercial dispute investigation and resolution,
and as an independent trustee.

Mr CW Comrie

Principal Officer and Chief Executive
BCompt (CTA Hons)

Mr Comrie qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2000. After seven years in both the auditing and investment banking fields, he moved into the medical scheme administration industry with a large administrator. Over a period of 17 years, Craig was responsible for, amongst others, marketing, business development, service provider negotiations, amalgamation projects, and the management of 11 corporate medical schemes.