About AHP
Our People
Saul Kornik
Director
"A chief with belief in providing professional relief from current societal motifs”
As the head of AHP, my role is to provide leadership to the organisation byproviding a vehicle through which the AHP team and partners can contribute to improving healthcare in Africa. This entails providing a common vision and a supported mission. I am responsible for defining our strategic directionwith stakeholders, coordinating the draft of our operation plan to meet these strategic goals and overseeing implementation in all areas of the organisation. Implementation often involves identifying key issues and thendigging down to work on effectively resolving them.
Jennifer Wynne
Strategic Information Officer
“In the end, we conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”
Jennifer, AHP’s Strategic Information Officer, handles monitoring & evaluation, assists with any research carried out within the organization and looks forward to being a ‘Super-user’ of the new all powerful CRM system currently under construction.
Kate Thiers
Operations Manager
“Access to good healthcare in any society is critical and yet always a challenge. I'm very excited to be working with AHP in South Africa where I can contribute to a solution.”
Kate is the Operations Manager at AHP and ensures that everything supporting AHP's recruitment operations runs smoothly. This includes our IT systems, monitoring & evaluation activities, HR administration, finance, office administration, and communications and marketing strategy. Kate is originally from Philadelphia in the US and moved to South Africa from London, where she worked for several years as a project manager in the healthcare sector. Kate has an MBA from Oxford University and an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is certified as a Project Management Professional in the US and as a Prince2 Practitioner in the UK.
Limont Lehman
New Business Project Manager
"The next time someone is sick, don't judge, heal"
Limont has a varied background ranging from finance and management consulting to media and now public health. Limont's is experienced in strategy formulation, financing and the setup and general management of small and medium enterprises. His role at AHP is to expand the organisation's operating model into new geographic areas, including Swaziland and Lesotho. Further to this, he is responsible for investigating the feasibility and implementation of new initiatives within the organisation.
Jeanette Strydom
Relationship Officer
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in – Leonard Cohen
Jeanette is the relationship officer for AHP. She has always believed that without health care workers and teachers the fabric of society would disintegrate. Which is why she believes in making a difference where it is needed the most, health care.
Tracey Hudson
Recruitment Consultant
“We will work with you every step of the way”
I qualified as a Social Scientist with honors in 1998. I started working for the KZN Town planning department before starting my own Medical Recruitment company in 1996. I am a founder member of AHP who started working with the Rural Health Initiative (our joint partner) in 2005. I am married with 3 energetic sons!! I manage the Durban office and am passionate about recruiting doctors for underserved hospitals.
Refilwe Nkomo
Orientation and Communications Officer
“Dance to the beat of your Dreams”
With a passion for communication and people, Refilwe joined the AHP staff as the Orientation and Communications Officer. She has a Business Science degree with an honours in Marketing and has lived and worked around the world. Refilwe brings her knowledge and understanding of what it is like to live and work in a new country and culture to the organisation.
Karabo Marumo
Recruitment Consultant
No one has ever become poor by giving. (Anne Frank)
I am senior recruitment consultant for inland provinces, mainly focused on Limpopo and North West Provinces. I obtained B cur degree from North west University and worked as nurse for 7 years before moving to corporate environment. I started work at AHP in 2008 and have not looked back since, through my work I have been able to make a difference in other people’s lives and that is the greatest reward I could have ever given myself.
Xoliswa Lukhalo
Recruitment Manager
“People don’t care how much you know Until they know how much you care. – John C. Maxwell”
I am a Recruitment Manager for AHP, I’m in my 3rd year with the organization, responsible for 3 projects. I qualified with the South African Institute of Management, majoring in Business Management, Marketing and Human Resources. I have 12 years of Private and Public sector Recruitment/HR experience. I acquired my knowledge from different industries i.e Private banking, Engineering, Telecommunication, Public Sector & the Recruitment Sector. My current role at AHP is very close to my heart, as this project touches so many lives and gives me an opportunity to make a difference to those who need it most. John C. Maxwell said “All interactions with people are enhanced by the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes”
Kate Mainstone (Asbury)
Marketing Coordinator
“A brand that captures your mind gains behavior. A brand that captures your heart gains commitment”
Marketing Coordinator & Brand management for AHP: I joined AHP soon after it all started and have grown into my role with the company since joining.
Rosanna Moonsamy
Recruitment Consultant
I am a Recruitment Consultant for Kwazulu Natal. If you’re looking for a placement close to our beautiful beaches or surrounded by stunning scenery in the midlands.. I’m the person to contact!
Esther Dlamini
Recruitment Consultant
“Deeply passionate about the Eastern Cape province and placing more doctors in underserved hospitals”
Consultant designate for Eastern Cape Province, mostly work with rural hospitals as they are desperately short of health professional (foreign and local).
Mbaliyethu Mdlalose
Recruitment Consultant
“I might be new in the game but recruiting of doctors is my game…”
Verna Madzokere
Administrative Assistant
Liz Schroeder
Recruitment Consultant (Contractor)
Liz grew up in Kloof, South Africa. She completed her honours and masters degrees in economics in Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu Natal. She stayed on in Pietermaritzburg for a number of years, working as a research assistant on a number of rural development projects and thereafter tutored and lectured macroeconomics at the university. Martin and Liz moved to Oxford, UK in January 2002. Liz developed her interests in public health and took a position in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care working as a perinatal economist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford. Shortly prior to a maternity leave in 2005, Liz became actively engaged in Africa Health Placements (then called the Rural Health Initiative) and partnered with Tracey Hudson from the UK, attempting to negotiate the British medical and academic system to best recruit doctors for AHP. Martin was soon working for AHP too. In October 2007 Liz was awarded a Medical Research Council Capacity Building Studentship to undertake doctoral research in maternity care in the United Kindom which Liz combines with support for AHP. Liz is registered as a Dphil student at St Cross College, Oxford.
