Principals

Ndileka is a Lead at Percept Actuaries and Consultants, and a principal at Leapfrog to Value. She leverages her extensive experience in both public and private healthcare sectors to champion innovative solutions that improve healthcare access, affordability, and quality. Her focus is on enhancing patient and provider experiences through technology, care delivery, and funding models that deliver better health outcomes. Ndileka's professional journey is marked by diverse roles, including running a GP private practice and a corporate wellness practice, conducting clinical research, consulting for a leading life insurance business, and managing stakeholder relations for a health management company. She has also implemented and supported a midwife-led obstetric program for the uninsured market and driven group strategy for a leading hospital group to deliver value-based care across the care continuum. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to start a retail venture in 2012, which now successfully trades online.

Neo is a physician, epidemiologist and healthcare innovator with over 10 years’ experience in health research (including outcomes), policy and program leadership. She has managed complex collaborations in the government, non-profit and academic sectors, including heading Botswana’s national program for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), directing a multi-site clinical program for an international non-profit, Partners In Health, and serving as a consultant to World Health Organization. Most recently, Neo was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health, where she led multiple funded research projects to design and evaluate healthcare delivery models for NCDs in resource-limited settings. Neo holds an MD from Harvard Medical School and MPH from Harvard School of Public Health.

Nicole heads the PharmAccess Foundation, Medical Credit Fund, Health Insurance Fund, and SafeCare. Nicole joined PharmAccess in 2009. She launched SafeCare, PharmAccess’ stepwise certification approach to standardize and improve the quality of healthcare facilities. In 2016, she moved to Kenya where she led the digital innovation agenda of PharmAccess as Director of Quality and Director East Africa. Together with partner organization CarePay, Spieker stood at the forefront of the roll-out of the mobile health exchange platform M-TIBA, which to date has connected over 4.5 million people to healthcare providers. Nicole holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics.

Krishna Reddy, MD, is responsible for the overall development, management, and leadership of the activities of ACCESS Health in India. Krishna is a board-certified cardiologist with a long and distinguished career. He is known internationally as a pioneer in comprehensive primary care, digital health, and integrated care. Prior to joining ACCESS Health, Dr. Reddy was Director and Vice Chairman of CARE Hospitals. Dr. Reddy co-founded CARE Hospital in 1997.

Sarang’s primary area of research is health care delivery systems with specific focus on investigating the impact of operations decisions on population level health outcomes. Some of the healthcare contexts that he has studied include the influenza vaccine supply chain and the phenomenon of ambulance diversion in the US, HIV early infant diagnosis networks in sub-Saharan Africa, and formal and informal pathways for TB diagnosis in India. Dr. Sarang regularly collaborates with international public health funding and implementation agencies such as the Gates Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative, and PATH for his research. Prior to joining the ISB, he was Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management. He obtained a PhD from UCLA Anderson School of Management, MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and B. Tech. from IIT Bombay.

Dr. Shivani Ranchod is a healthcare actuary and academic with 20 years of experience across the health sector. She is a part-time academic at the University of Cape Town, where she was previously the head of Actuarial Science. She is also appointed as a long-term advisor to the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC), a component of National Treasury. Dr. Ranchod is Co-Founder and CEO of Percept, a South African multi-disciplinary consultancy to clients who are working towards a healthier, more financially resilient world. She is also Co-Founder of Alignd, a value-based care company in South Africa.