TEAM

Dr Iain Barton – Founder and Stakeholder Engagement Executive

Iain is the founder of Health 4 Development. He is a medical doctor with 10 years of clinical practice, and over 25 years in African healthcare supply chain management, and healthcare systems advisory – an expert in innovating, incubating, and scaling best practice functions in Global Health.

He was responsible for developing the Regional Distribution Centers to support the global scale-up of PEPFAR (The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and the Supply Chain Control Tower to support the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism. Previously, Iain served as CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and Executive Vice President – Healthcare and Healthcare Strategy at Imperial Logistics – Africa’s largest pharma supply organisation.

His innovations include Unjani Clinics, Warehouse-in-a-Box, Clinic-in-a-Box and a mega-distributor model enhancing medicine access across African markets. Iain was a founding Board Member of South Africa’s Public Health Enhancement Fund, served on the Advisory Boards of Merck for Mothers, People That Deliver, and ARC (Africa Resource Centre) and currently chairs the advisory board of the Division of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town.

Doonavadee (Vanida) Paupiah – Director

Vanida holds an MBA and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She has over 18 years’ experience in the financial services industry and has worked for leading management companies in the global business sector in Mauritius. Vanida started her career as an accountant and has over the years specialised in managing operations and leading teams to success. She has extensive experience in managing people and client relationships, and developing strategies and workflows, with particular expertise in structuring multinational businesses and operations.

Ann-Marie Hosang-Archer – Board Chair, Stakeholder Engagement Executive

Ann-Marie is the Chair of the Board of Health 4 Development. She was the CEO of Eli-Lilly for SSA and now the founder and current CEO of Lignum Vitae Health, specialising in licensing, registration and route-to-market management for innovator and generic medicine and device manufacturers wishing to enter African markets. She is a driven leader with over 30 years of pharmaceutical leadership experience in multiple markets from Central America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Known for her strategic leadership, bottom-line focused results, she is a strong voice of compliance and integrity in the industry. Her demand generation expertise gained from multiple developing countries, enhances H4D in supporting public and private healthcare-focused partners to improve access and affordability to high quality medicines. Ann-Marie is passionate about people development and aims to contribute to economic growth through healthier more productive communities.

Dr Mariatou Tala Jallow – Stakeholder Engagement Executive

Tala is a globally recognised leader in pharmaceutical procurement and quality and is the Founder and Managing Director at TalaConsult. With over 30 years of experience in Pharmaceuticals, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management and Public Health, she has served on multiple global advisory committees related to pharmaceutical procurement and quality. Tala was a Senior Manager at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland.

She was the chief architect of the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism which she grew into a portfolio of over 60 countries and USD 1.2 billion annual spend on health products. She was the Chief Pharmacist of The Gambia’s Ministry of Health and Registrar of the Government of Gambia. Tala has held several international consultancy positions with organisations such as World Bank, WHO and others.

René Berger – Strategic Engagement Executive: Public Health

René is an epidemiologist, public health professional, and a supply chain enthusiast. He spent almost two decades with USAID in Washington, Tanzania, Zambia, and Kenya managing HIV programs including procurement and logistics for HIV products. It was in Kenya that René acquired the “supply chain bug” – given the value of the procurement (over US$ 100M annually) and the challenges and risks, he realised the opportunity and benefits of integrating private sector services to deliver on public sector needs in the highly successful PPP Kenya Pharma.

After Kenya, René worked for Chemonics as Project Director of the US$ 9.5B Global Health Supply Chain contract for 3 years – procuring over US$ 1B of HIV, malaria, FP/RH, and MNCH products annually and delivering them to over 50 countries. Following that experience René wanted to get closer to the work and moved to South Africa where he spent time with the American NGO, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) – rebuilding their supply chain practice. René is a strong advocate of the pivot towards public sector health systems and donors leveraging private sector supply chain solutions, from manufacture to point of care, and the implementation of private sector best practices in maximising efficiency and performance in critical services.

Cobus Rossouw – Strategic Engagement Executive: Commercial Supply Chain

Cobus is an acclaimed industrial engineer and supply chain professional with extensive corporate leadership, entrepreneurial and professional advisory experience in consumer and industrial markets across sub-Saharan Africa. In all his professional roles since graduation, Cobus has focused on growth, transformation and business improvement.

He has harnessed small teams of experts, scaled to successful corporate exit, delivered bottom-line profit and cash flow, and has led various corporate functions. Passionate about the potential of new markets, Cobus thrives when creating value collaboratively; increasingly made possible through the disruptive technologies enabling integration of logistics, route-to-market and financial ecosystems. As founder and CEO of Volition Consulting Services, Cobus pioneered supply chain advisory services in Africa, focused on decision-support, solution design, and technology enablement.

Following its acquisition by Imperial, Volition became the core of Resolve Solution Partners which incorporated broader capabilities most notably supply chain and technology outsourcing. Cobus then progressed to lead solution development, strategy formulation, and information technology for Imperial Logistics, finishing his corporate career leading Technology for DP World across sub-Saharan Africa, including the acquired Imperial operations. Cobus served the supply chain profession within SAPICS, CGCSA and the Stellenbosch University Engineering Advisory Board.

Matt Tyson – Production Operations Practice Lead

Matt is a seasoned leader, with both broad and deep experience in complex, multinational organisations and a proven record of success. Matt is a whole-enterprise thinker with end-to-end experience across strategy, procurement, leading international logistics, sales and distribution in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, pharma and medical devices. Matt has a Masters’ degree in Bioinformatics and spent 20 years in leadership roles in emerging markets with GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) and Abbott Diagnostics, operating in highly regulated environments and with rigorous compliance and quality management systems. Through years of operational experience, Matt has developed a strong understanding of commercial drivers and challenges in emerging markets (Africa); mature markets (Europe); and the mixed models in the Middle East. He has a deep understanding and experience in donor- and government-based route-to-market models for medical devices, such as HIV testing and treatment funded by international donors but supplied to LMICs (Low and Middle Income Countries) through tender and contract models.

Jennifer Allport – Innovative Finance Practice Lead

Jenn has 20 years of experience in innovative impact investing, scaling companies and strategic advisory. The common thread through her work has been structuring innovative investment vehicles that bring profit with purpose. She has had the opportunity to work with large institutional investors, family offices, corporate foundations, and impact investors in strategically deploying their capital. She has worked at early-stage start-ups and has successfully navigated the joys and challenges of explosive growth. Originally a New Yorker, Jenn moved to Cape Town in 2009 where she received a Master’s in Social & Economic Development from the University of Cape Town. Since then, she has had the pleasure of working with small businesses on growing their operations across 14 markets in Africa.

Dr Kim Faure – Clinical Innovation & Quality Service Delivery Practice Lead

Dr. Kim Faure is a medical doctor with an MBA and over 20 years of experience advancing clinical innovation, health systems strengthening, and quality service delivery across Africa and globally. She spearheaded South Africa’s Office of Health Standards Compliance, establishing regulatory norms and standards for all health facilities. As Head of Clinical Performance at Netcare and later Mediclinic Southern Africa, she championed patient safety and outcomes and led the COVID-19 Clinical Command Centre, implementing real-time strategies for care continuity, infection control, and risk mitigation.

Kim has advised WHO, governments, and donors on antimicrobial stewardship and co-created the global SECURE initiative to improve antibiotic access in LMICs. She reorganized Goldfields’ mining health services into a self-sustaining, comprehensive system – focused on employee productivity and wellness. She reengineered medicine application and inspection processes for the Medicines Control Council (now SAHPRA) and developed regulatory norms and standards for HIV, TB, and occupational lung disease policies in the mining sector and the National Department of Health.

Internationally, she has designed scalable surgical delivery models in the UK, improving quality and reducing waiting times. Her work spans public and private sectors, from mines to ministries. Known for systems thinking and continuous improvement, Kim aligns clinical excellence with operational performance to deliver sustainable, patient-centered solutions.

Lizzie Llewellyn – Business Operations Lead

Lizzie is a seasoned strategy and sustainability expert with over 17 years of consulting experience, having managed and delivered more than 30 major assignments across various sectors. She began her career at Accenture in the UK, where she worked on complex IT implementations and later moved to Accenture Development Partners in Nairobi, focusing on international development and sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa.

Lizzie has led several impactful projects, including digitising government payments for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Kenya, developing sustainable sourcing strategies for The Coca-Cola Company, and supporting World Vision’s regional knowledge management strategy. She also co-authored a report on investing in women in the insurance sector through a partnership between Accenture, AXA Insurance, and the IFC. From 2018, Lizzie operated as an independent consultant, working with clients such as GreenCape, Pathos Labs, Community Media Trust and Mama Money.

She currently heads up Operations for Health 4 Development where she oversees strategy execution, operational excellence, project management, governance, and talent management. Her role involves ensuring the efficient and effective daily operations, aligning business development opportunities with the organisation’s vision, while managing key operational areas to ensure long-term success and growth.