Dr Vincent Maphai is currently board chair of Sibanye-Stillwater, Discovery Life and Discovery Insure, as well as Stadio Holdings. Until 2018, when he retired from full-time work, he was a visiting professor at Williams College in Massachusetts. His academic career spans two decades during which he taught at various universities both locally and overseas and provided consulting services to several blue-chip companies on many HR issues. He was also a research executive director of social dynamics at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) for three years. His expansive career in corporate includes serving as the chairperson of BHP Billiton SA and, before this, he served as corporate affairs director of the South African Breweries (SAB) and non-executive chair of Castle Brewing Namibia. He has served on various boards of companies as executive chair, including the SABC, the Presidential Review Commission, and the South African Responsible Gambling Trust.

Bernadette Moffat is Executive Director of the ELMA Philanthropies Services (Africa) (Pty) Ltd, based in Cape Town, South Africa. In this role, Bernadette oversees the philanthropic work of the ELMA Group of Foundations in 10 countries in Southern Africa. She also serves on the Boards of the ELMA Philanthropies Services (US) Inc, and the ELMA South Africa Foundation.
Prior to joining ELMA in 2006, Bernadette was chief executive officer of the Women's Development Bank Trust, an organisation that promotes the participation of women at all levels of the economy through investing in leading South African companies, providing microcredit to poor rural women, supporting the growth of small and medium women-owned businesses and supporting the appointment of women to executive and board roles in major South African companies.

She has served as non-executive director of the Bidvest Group Limited and Advantage Asset Managers (Pty) Ltd. Bernadette has international experience as an entrepreneur and corporate lawyer. Previously, she served as a consultant to the Commission on Gender Equality, advising them on issues of women's economic empowerment. The Commission published her work The Working Woman's Manual, a volume on women and labour law in South Africa (1996). Honored by France with the Ordre du Mérite in 2007, she holds a magna cum laude BA degree from Wellesley College in the United States and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University, also in the United States.

After obtaining his medical degree, Dr Goodman worked for several years in emergency medicine and trauma surgery. Having completed his MBA, Dr Goodman headed up the Southern Africa healthcare practice of a leading international consulting organisation before moving into the healthcare funding industry. Dr Goodman joined Discovery Health shortly after its inception and is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Discovery Health.

He Chairs the Foundation's Medical Student Loan Guarantee Fund. He is also a Trustee of the Discovery Fund which is dedicated to improving individuals' quality of life through the funding of primary healthcare services in indigent communities.

Dr Goodman serves on the Executive Committees of the Wits Business School Association and the Medical Advisors Group. He is the current Vice-Chair and Immediate Past Acting President of Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He also serves on the Wits Council. Dr Goodman is a Branch Counsellor on the SA Medical Association (SAMA) South Gauteng Branch. He is also a Member of the SAMA Human Rights, Law and Ethics Committee and trustee of The Children's Cardiac Foundation of Africa.

Prof Roseanne Harris is Health Policy Actuary with Discovery Health and an adjunct professor in the School of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is also the immediate past president of the International Actuarial Association.
Prof Harris has over 28 years of experience in the South African healthcare and employee benefits field. Her current role involves industry engagement at a high level including with regulators, government, civil associations, industry bodies and supranationals. She has participated in the Nedlac engagements on National Health Insurance (NHI) and as well as presented evidence and analysis to the Health Market Inquiry (HMI) of the Competition Commission.

She was a member of the B4SA funding workstream working on the vaccine rollout programme in 2021/22 and a member of the COVID-19 working group of the Actuarial Society of South Africa. Prof Harris served as the President of the Actuarial Society of South Africa for 2016/17 and was previously chair of the healthcare committee and NHI task team. She is a regular presenter at industry events and has published papers on topics including disease management, social security and ethical decision-making.

Prof Marian Jacobs is an Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Cape Town (UCT). After obtaining her medical, paediatrics and public health degrees, Prof Marian Jacobs, who is passionate about children, worked as a public health paediatrician and held several academic posts at UCT as lecturer, associate professor, professor and dean (2006-2012). She has played a critical role in highlighting the importance of child health as the founding director of the Child Health Policy Institute and the Children's Health Institute. Prof Marian Jacobs has been published widely in her field and has held several leadership positions in governance of national institutions, including the Medical Research Council and the Health Systems Trust in South Africa.

Internationally, she has chaired the Boards of the Centre for Health Research in Bangladesh, Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) in Geneva and Population and Health Research Center in Kenya. She continues to advise the World Health Organization, Save the Children and Doris Duke's African Health Initiative. A leader in the field of child health, Prof Marian Jacobs currently serves AERAS and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the United States, and KhethImpilo in South Africa.