David Kamanda is an accomplished Managing Director with over 13 years of leadership experience in operations, finance, project management, health financing, and economics. Known for his strategic vision and effective decision-making, David has successfully steered the IRCAD Africa from a project to a center of excellence. His expertise includes financial management, risk assessment, and implementing innovative business strategies. With a proven track record of building high-performing teams, David combines a results-driven approach with a commitment to fostering a positive corporate culture. As a forward-thinking leader, he continues to drive organizational success through a focus on innovation, efficiency, and client/ stakeholders’ satisfaction.

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Prior to IRCAD Africa, David held a position of health economist at the Ministry of Health of Rwanda where he designed strategies to improve healthcare efficiency and accessibility while considering economic factors. He served as a budget officer at the Rwandan National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) where he also developed and managed successful budgets aligned with CNLG’s goals, optimized resource allocation and Identified cost-saving opportunities.

David has an MBA in Global Business and Sustainability – Social Entrepreneurship from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, ALTIS – Graduate School Business and Society, a diploma in Economics of Health Systems from Université Libre de Bruxelles, a certificate in Health and Human Rights: Concepts, Implementation and Impact from Harvard School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Economics from Kigali Independent University.

Kurt Waltenbaugh is a serial entrepreneur with a career spent building solutions to understand, predict, and influence consumer behavior. Kurt has built successful analytic solutions, products, and companies in the healthcare, retail, and education/credentialing industries. His previous companies were sold to Oracle (Texas), Pearson Education (London & New York), & Unite Us (New York).

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Kurt provides consulting, mentoring and advisory services at Kestrel Rising in Minneapolis. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Technology & Policy Studies from Carleton College.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waltenbaugh/

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Amr Abodraiaa, CEO of Rology, brings his experience for a decade in the healthtech industry as the Co-founder and CEO of TownSoft. His leadership, coupled with his understanding of the market dynamics and operational excellence, is pivotal to guiding Rology towards its strategic vision.

Marcus Ranney is a business professional in healthcare and technology. After practicing clinical medicine in London, in 2010 he made the transition to Mumbai where he has worked within the Healthcare and Life-sciences industry as a Strategic advisor, Investor and Operator for a range of multi-national companies and national bellwether firms. A published author, keynote speaker, digital talk show host and public health commentator, Marcus has been a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper and is currently a Senior Fellow to the Atlantic Council, working a project exploring the relationships between the climate crisis and global health.

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Marcus is also a contributor of THE YUAN. 

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Profile: www.the-yuan.com/author-25/marcus-ranney.html

Stefan Wisbauer attended Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government before joining the World Bank and later McKinsey & Co. as a consultant. He proceeded to help establish a large Public-Private-Partnership treatment capacity-building effort in the UK as well as a clinician co-owned hospital chain. Today he is Co-CEO of Lecturio, where he oversees the growth and development of the company’s innovative learning-science-based medical education platform, which is used by medical students and schools around the world. He sees a need to build scalable new education initiatives to address the health worker shortage around the world and believes a solid digital foundation is a necessity for the success of such efforts.

Dr. Kate Tulenko MD, MPH, MPhil, FAAP is a physician entrepreneur and health systems and health workforce expert. She is the founder and CEO of Corvus Health, a global health workforce firm that helps health systems and governments develop, manage, and retain an optimized health workforce.  Corvus Health was honored for its innovative model of sustainable international health worker migration as a finalist in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Organization of Employers (IOE) Migration Challenge 2021.  In 2022 she was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, which advises the President and Secretary of Commerce on how to support African and U.S. businesses to increase mutual trade.

Dr. Tulenko is also founder and CEO of Appleseed Education, an EdTech platform that addresses the global health worker shortage by helping African nursing schools undergo their digital transformation and expand and improve.  Previously, she served as director of the U.S. government’s global health workforce project and the coordinator of the World Bank’s Africa Health Workforce program.

Dr. Tulenko is adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and serves on the board of advisors for the Global Business School Network (GBSN).  She was named one of "50 Women in Global Health Security" by Women in Global Health and one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Geneva Graduate Institute.  She received her bachelors in biochemistry from Harvard, her masters in history and philosophy of science from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and her masters of public health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Follow her on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/ktulenko

Dr. Egbe Dawodu MBBS, MBA, MSc, MRCP is a founding Partner of the Anadach Group where she leads the Management Consulting and Clinical Service Improvement Product Lines. Her primary areas of focus have been hospital restructuring, due diligence evaluation, strategic planning and implementation.

Dr. Osifo-Dawodu was previously an Adviser at the Innovation Practice at the World Bank Institute. Prior to joining the innovation practice, as one of the core members of the Nelson Mandela Institution's management team she helped develop and start the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja - a Pan African University with Graduate Students from over 20 African Countries. She previously managed the Human Development Group at the World Bank Institute where she was responsible for the World Bank's capacity building programs in health, education and social protection. She has a relatively unusual background in the World Bank Group having led and worked on both health policy dialogue and projects with Governments at the World Bank and with the private health sector projects at the International Finance Corporation.

At the World Bank, Dr. Osifo-Dawodu was a health specialist in the Middle East and North Africa, and East Asia Regions. She led the World Bank's policy dialogue on key health issues in Egypt, Yemen and West Bank and Gaza. She also participated in policy dialogue on health issues in Jordan and Morocco. At the IFC, she led the IFC negotiation and structuring of investment packages for a Specialty Clinic in the Philippines and a specialized developing country health equity Fund domiciled in the US. She also provided specialist advice on hospital projects in Mexico, Vietnam, and South Africa, and responsible for assessing/due diligence the viability of several IFC potential investments in health and education in several countries in Middle East, Africa and South Asia.

In addition, Dr. Osifo-Dawodu also worked with Booz, Allen and Hamilton on healthcare projects in the US and South Africa. Dr. Osifo-Dawodu is a qualified medical doctor and a member of the UK Royal College of Physicians. She holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, an MSc from Oxford University and MBBS from the University of Ibadan. She has authored several articles, contributed to books and was the lead author of“Establishing Private Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries: A Guide for Medical Entrepreneurs". World Bank Institute. 2007. (with Seung Hee Nah) Dr. Osifo-Dawodu belongs to several professional organizations including the American College of Physician Executives and the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas. She was also on the advisory boards of Sproxil which focuses on innovative applications of its Mobile Phone Authentication technology, and the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. She was a member of the technical committee for the African Development Bank E-Health Awards and as a member of the joint Pfizer/M-Health Alliance ageing and m-health working group.

Dr. Osifo-Dawodu was also an Expert Reviewer for the Health Sector in the E-Transform Africa Study – a joint initiative by World Bank, African Development Bank and African Union. She is often invited to peer review grants and journal articles on health in emerging markets