Ryan Noach’s tenure as CEO of Discovery Health has been nothing that he expected. He took over officially on the 1st of January 2020 and COVID struck the world a month later. His tenure has been defined by how Discovery as one of the leading healthcare organizations in South Africa has had to respond to COVID.
By early 2017, Deon Viljoen had been with Alexander Forbes for over a decade, and he was ready for a different type of challenge. ‘The approach to join Discovery came at the right time. After my initial discussions with Adrian Gore, the founder and CEO, I could not help but feel impressed by his vision and intellect. I was convinced that this role was the right fit for me because of the group’s deeply entrenched purpose driven approach, highly innovative culture and the brave initiatives the Group was undertaking, which included building a bank from the ground up.’