Vitality CEO and leadership

Barry Swartzberg is a CEO:Vitality Group/Exec Dir at DISCOVERY LTD, Executive Director at Destiny Health, and Board Member at Vitality Group and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked as Board Member at Pruprotect, Board Member at Discovery Holdings Europe Ltd, and Board Member at DISCOVERY LTD. Barry works or has worked as MEMBER at Society of Actuaries, FELLOW at Actuarial Society of South Africa, and FELLOW at Faculty Of Actuaries. He studied at Faculty Of Actuaries between 1987 and 1990 and University of the Witwatersrand between 1984 and 1986.

Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating global efforts to reduce deaths and harm from smoking, with the ultimate goal of eliminating smoking worldwide.www.smokefreeworld.org Previously, he was Chief Health Officer for the Vitality Group, part of Discovery Holdings Ltd., where he led the Vitality Institute for Health Promotion. Prior to his role at Vitality, served as Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo, where he supported portfolio transformation and led engagement with major international groups and new African initiatives at the nexus of agriculture and nutrition. He has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, has been a Professor of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO). At WHO, he served as cabinet director under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland where he led the development of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity. Dr. Yach established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles covering the breadth of global health. Dr. Yach serves on several advisory boards including those of the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum, the NIH’s Fogarty International Centre and PepsiCo’s Scientific Advisory Board. His degrees include an MBChB from the University of Cape Town and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Quentin Pelser is a Chief Financial Officer at Vitality Group and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked as Audit Manager at Deloitte, Lecturer at University of Technology Tswane, and Chief Financial Officer: International Development at DISCOVERY LTD. Quentin studied at University of KwaZulu Natal between 2000 and 2000, SAICA The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants between 2001 and 2001, and Tshwane University of Technology between 1994 and 1998.

Asande Mahlabela is a Chief Of Staff at Vitality Group and is based in Greater Chicago Area. He has worked as Sub Comm member - Sitsaba at SHAWCO, Winter Intern at McKinsey & Company, and Logistics director (founding member) at Young Entrepreneur Connect Conference. Asande studied at University of Cape Town between 2011 and 2014.

Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating global efforts to reduce deaths and harm from smoking, with the ultimate goal of eliminating smoking worldwide.www.smokefreeworld.org Previously, he was Chief Health Officer for the Vitality Group, part of Discovery Holdings Ltd., where he led the Vitality Institute for Health Promotion. Prior to his role at Vitality, served as Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo, where he supported portfolio transformation and led engagement with major international groups and new African initiatives at the nexus of agriculture and nutrition. He has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, has been a Professor of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO). At WHO, he served as cabinet director under Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland where he led the development of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Global Strategy on Diet and Physical Activity. Dr. Yach established the Centre for Epidemiological Research at the South African Medical Research Council. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles covering the breadth of global health. Dr. Yach serves on several advisory boards including those of the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum, the NIH’s Fogarty International Centre and PepsiCo’s Scientific Advisory Board. His degrees include an MBChB from the University of Cape Town and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.