Dr Roze Phillips joins Netcare as an independent, non-executive director

Ronda Naidu 09 March 2022

In addition to her medical training, Roze has extensive experience in business and management consulting.

Dr Rozett (Roze) Phillips has been appointed as an independent, non-executive director of Netcare.

The appointment became effective on 1 January 2022.

In addition to her medical training, Roze has over 25 years of business and management consulting experience across Africa, Europe and the Middle East, covering strategy formulation, business, digital and human capital transformation and large-scale technology implementation programmes.

She will also be joining the Social and Ethics and Consistency of Care committees.

Roze serves as an independent non-executive director of SPEAR REIT, a property portfolio investment company and also holds the role of director and adjunct faculty at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).

This year she is also part of the esteemed panel of judges for the 2022 CHRO Awards.

Ronda Naidu

Ronda Naidu is the head of content at CHRO, CFO and CIO South Africa. She holds a Masters in Corporate Journalism and earned her journalistic stripes at a number of the top privately owned media companies, across the print and online platforms, in South Africa. She has been recognised as a leading strategic communications professional in the country, having headed a number of communication functions across the financial, mining, engineering and agricultural industries.

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