Simon is a seasoned C-suite executive with 24 years of experience across the employee benefits, insurance, and technology industries.
With a strong background in consulting, finance, and investment, he has played a pivotal role in shaping innovative health and life insurance solutions, benefit design, and wellbeing products. Simon has a proven track record of driving strategic growth, optimising financial performance, and delivering impactful solutions that enhance both business and employee outcomes. Passionate about the intersection of technology and insurance, he continues to lead transformative initiatives that redefine the future of employee benefits and health management.
In 2013, Simon co-founded his first digital health venture in South Africa, HealthCloud, a data interoperability platform designed to enable seamless integration across multiple healthcare systems and apps, addressing key interoperability challenges. In 2022, a London-based private equity firm acquired the business, and Simon led its transition to the United Kingdom, where it is now headquartered and expanding into the UK and other global markets, including the US.
Simon has extensive expertise in the healthcare, insurance, and employee benefits industries, including digital innovation, funding strategies, insurance risk design and modelling, wellness programmes, rewards platforms, and strategic consulting.
Simon is currently the managing director of Alula Health based in London. He has spoken at numerous healthcare, insurance and technology conferences and events around the world and is passionate about the collaboration of healthcare and technology.
This new frontier of digital health is, in his words, “the next great enabler in global employee benefits, healthcare and insurance systems”.