Affinity Leadership
The Board of Directors is committed to leading the Enterprise in the best interest of the Enterprise and all its stakeholders. The board has implemented pillar structures to support Management, maintain full and effective control and is accountable and responsible for the performance of the Enterprise. The CEO, Murray Hewlett chairs the Board and leads the team of directors and managers, who are accountable for the Executive Management of the Organisation
Murray Hewlett
CEO
As the CEO of Affinity Enterprises, Mr Hewlett comes with a wealth of experience, not only in sales and marketing, but in business strategy, financial management and leadership. It is this vast expertise that has served Mr Hewlett well in his career - building Multi-billion Rand Companies hiring thousands of employees.
His vision to grow Affinity Health into one of the largest medical insurance companies in South Africa has been achieved through challenges that have added to his immeasurable experience and raised the company's standard of growth beyond local horizons.
Mr. Hewlett received his MBA from Charles Sturt University in Australia and is currently a Doctoral candidate for the University of Liverpool. He also received a B.Sc. from Wits University in 1996.
Thabo Thipa
Non-Executive Director
Bsoc Sci, PG Dip Man Prac (UCT), LLB (Natal), PG Cert Pension Law (WITS)
Thabo has experience in excess of 15 years in the financial services industry and legal practice. He is an admitted attorney of the High Court with High Court Right of Appearance and is founder of Thipa Incorporated Attorneys, a law firm specialising in pension, employee benefits law and financial services law. He started his employee benefits career at Alexander Forbes and NBC Consultants and Actuaries as a trainee employee benefits consultant, later he served his articles at Webber Wentzel and became an Associate before he was invited to head up a legal department of NBC as Divisional Director, Legal, Employee Benefits Compliance and Trustee Services.
Maggie Modipa
Non-Executive Director
BA (Behavioural Science and Psychology), Senior Executive Program (Harvard University in collaboration with Wits Business School), MBA (Milpark Business School).
Maggie holds a high-level of experience as an Executive in both the Public and Private Sector, coupled with substantial experience in Board accountability and government policy advisory under Optimum Medical Aid and Shared Services Board. She holds various Executive HR and Stakeholder experience spanning over 15 years. Through this vast knowledge, Maggie as the chairperson transformed an unsuitable in-house medical aid scheme into a viable one within the space of 2 years.
Through her successful Executive leadership career, Maggie developed a Labour Broker Displacement Strategy for ESKOM. She further developed and implemented Human Resources Strategy and Career Pathing and reduced personnel spending in favour of capital and operational expenditure. She has additionally received awards for outstanding leadership and financial management and savings.
With this glowing background, Maggie will no doubt yield positive and successful results and the Affinity family is certainly in good hands.
Michael Cane Brewis
Non-Executive Director
B Com (SU), Strategic Marketing Executive Programme (UCT), Dip in Strategy Formulation & Implementation (London Business School), Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA), Fellow of The Actuarial Society of South Africa (FASSA).
With 36years experience in the financial services industry, Mr. Brewis took up employment in 1984 with Norwhich Life, where he qualified as an Actuary in 1992 and earned a Practicing Certificate from the Actuarial Society of South Africa to perform the role of Pension Fund Valuator. After Fedsure’s merger with the Norwich Holdings Group in 1998, Mr. Brewis occupied the position of Executive Director of Fedsure Life until he took early retirement at the end of 2000. During 2000 – 2008 he spent most of his time accepting assignments as Consulting Actuary.
He was also involved in the acquisition of the African People’s Organisaton (APO) by Commsure/Brimstone as well as occupied a position as CEO of Sekunjalo Group and became the Non-Executive Director of Inframax holdings where he held the role of Chairperson of the Risk Committee and member of the Audit Committee.
Michael continues to do a lot of consulting assignments, product design, pricing, actuarial support and insurance coaching. He holds trustee appointments in various funds and trusts.