Femi Kuti, Co-Founder and CEO of Reliance Health
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Femi Kuti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Reliance Health, a startup focused on using technology to make quality healthcare delightful, accessible and affordable in emerging markets. While trained as a physician, Femi’s varied career has included working as a physician in a leading research hospital in Nigeria and as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs advising healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical corporations in the EMEA region.
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 Nikhil Lawrence Pereira-Kamath, CEO, Director and Co-Founder of Africa Healthcare Network
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Nikhil Lawrence Pereira-Kamath is the Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and Director of Africa Healthcare Network (“AHN”). Nik established AHN in 2015 with the goal of increasing access to care by increasing awareness and reducing the cost of care in the sub-Saharan region while adhering to global standards of quality. In less than seven years, he has built the organization into the largest pure-play dialysis provider in East Africa with over 27 facilities across the region and expected 35 facilities by YE 2023. He has over 15 years of experience in the dialysis industry in both the U.S. and emerging markets.
Previously, Nik worked in the private equity industry as an associate at Berkshire Partners, a Boston based investment firm with $16.0Bn in AUM. At Berkshire, Nik engaged in all aspects of the investment process. Prior to joining Berkshire, he was an analyst at Morgan Stanley in the Healthcare Group where he focused primarily in biopharmaceuticals and healthcare services. He holds a patent with Harry Goodson IV, Jeffrey Elkins and Samir Patel for the “Treatment Systems and Methods for Renal-Related Diseases”. Nik was a Candidate for an MBA at Harvard Business School Class of 2016 where he received First Year Honors before deciding to defer his second year to launch AHN. Nik graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Economics and a certificate in Finance. |
Dr. Jessica Oyugi, Associate Director at Dalberg Implement
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Dr. Jessica Oyugi is an Associate Director at Dalberg Implement. Following a twenty year international health career spanning sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, Jessica has joined the management team at Dalber Implement and advises clients and internal teams on thematic areas centered on public health, with a focus on enabling resilient community systems as an entry point for sustainable impact and social transformation. Before joining Dalberg, Jessica led the community health portfolio at UNICEF Uganda as part of the intelligent community health systems initiative (iCoHS) funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Jessica worked closely with the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH) to support the development of the country's first community health strategy that is slated to launch in 2022.
Early in her global health career, Jessica led HIV treatment adherence trials and published results to dispute unsubstantiated concerns that Africans may not adhere to antiretroviral treatment. The transformative potential of communities was evident then. Jessica has broad experience across the spectrum of health programming from design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation to policy application with deep and vast engagements with host governments, non-governmental organizations, bilateral and multilateral organizations, and the private sector. With proficiency in health systems strengthening, global health security, reproductive, maternal and child health, infectious disease focal areas of HIV, TB and malaria, as well as continuous quality improvement, Jessica has concluded that impactful engagement is more likely served without a disease focused lens but anchored more holistically on cross-sectoral engagement at a hyperlocal level, and founded upon human centered design principles. Dr. Oyugi has held leadership positions at USAID/Uganda, US-CDC/Malawi and WHO/Lao PDR. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and General Medicine fellowship at University of California San Francisco and holds a medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine after completing undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University. |
Dr. Brice Kitio, Founder and CEO of WiiQare
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Dr. Brice Kitio is the Founder and CEO of WiiQare, a digital health and insurtech platform that help uninsured people in Africa to easily save for healthcare through loyalty programs with their local retailers and facilitate access to healthcare. Brice is a Doctor in Pharmacy and Health Economist with 15+ years of global experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Health Regulators, and research institutions.
Before founding WiiQare, Brice was Global Director & Principal Health Economist at Lundbeck, a Danish global pharmaceutical company where he was leading the Global health economics and outcome research teams for the Neurology portfolio. As principal Health Economist he developed strategies and operational tools to support the launch and market access of therapeutic innovations in US and EU, including one product in multiple sclerosis which becomes a blockbuster (> 1-Billion-dollar in revenue/year). Brice has also served as a member of the national committee of communicable diseases at the High council for public health in France. Lecturer in pharmaco-epidemiology at Claude Bernard University of Lyon, he has published his work in peer reviewed journals. Brice is graduate from London school of economics and Political sciences and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also Doctor of Pharmacy from Claude Bernard University, Lyon I. |
 Ernest Okot, Founder MedX Intl & SafariShare
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Ernest Okot is is the founder of MedX Intl and SafariShare. He is a 3X founder with 9+ years in software engineering, a passionate advocate for sustainable mobility and digital health.
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