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S U B J E C T M AT T E R E X P E R T S

TIM C OHEN
BUSINESS EDIT OR , D AILY M A VERICK

Cohen is a business and political journalist and commentator of more years than he
likes to admit. His freelance work has included contributions to the Wall Street Journal
and the Financial Times, but he spent most of his life working for Business Day. After
a mid-life crisis that didn’t include the traditional fast car, Cohen now divides his
time between Johannesburg and a house situated almost exactly in the middle of
nowhere in the Karoo.

DR . NICHOL AS CRISP
C ONSULTANT : NATIONAL HEALTH INSUR ANCE (NHI) FUND
OFFICE , MINISTR Y OF HEALTH

Dr Crisp is a medical doctor and public health specialist who has for many years
focused on health management consulting across the African continent. He served
as Superintendent General (HOD) of the Department of Health and Welfare, Northern
Province (Limpopo) from 1994 to 1999.

Dr Crisp was then a self-employed consultant and has worked on projects in several
African countries including South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia
and Tanzania. In 2009 he served as Special Adviser to Minister Barbara Hogan. He was
intimately involved in the establishment of the National Health Laboratory Service
(NHLS), the transfer of the medicolegal mortuaries from police to health and the
creation of the Forensic Pathology Services, and in the establishment of the South
African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA).

He is now working with the Minister of Health on implementation of the National
Health Insurance Fund.

NICK Y DO WNING
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER , GUIDELINE BIZTECH

Nicky has been in the business of developing software solutions to specific business
requirements around improvement to business management and performance for
the last 18 years. Nicky has more than 15 years’ experience in the design, architecture
and successful deployment of GRC solutions. As CEO, of Guideline BizTech, it has
been very important to Nicky, that BizTech Team, goes the extra mile to deliver
highly practical and genuinely, easy workable business management aids, with no
marketing frills, no PR bells and whistles and no empty sales promises.

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