Board of Directors

Ioan P. Cleaton-Jones is the Senior Director for Healthcare Delivery at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, USA. His work includes training and mentoring C-suite and other senior healthcare executives in emerging markets to equip them with tools for commercial success. He also advises financial institutions investing in private healthcare in emerging markets.

Loan also serves as Director on board of Grupo OSME, a privately owned healthcare provider in Northern Mexico.

During his 30-year international career in healthcare, he has worked on predominantly private sector healthcare projects and investments in 35 countries on 5 continents, including 29 emerging markets. As an institutional investor and transaction adviser, he has invested USD1.4 billion invested in emerging market private healthcare. He has been an invited speaker on investing in emerging market healthcare at numerous international conferences. He has also been an invited guest lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Schools of Business, Medicine, and Public Health as well as Columbia University’s School of Public Health.

As an independent consultant and investor, Ioan advised a New York hedge fund on strategic investments in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and healthcare IT. Furthermore, his strategic advisory roles with organizations such as a major U.S. managed care company, the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Invest, the African Development Bank, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, highlight his versatility in addressing diverse healthcare challenges.

He served as Principal Healthcare Specialist at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) where he spent eleven years. Prior to IFC, he worked internationally as a healthcarefocused management consultant with Shift Health in Canada, KPMG in South Africa and Angle Technology in the UK. Earlier in his career, he practiced medicine, mostly as an emergency room physician, at hospitals in South Africa and the UK. He holds an MBA from the University of Southampton, UK as well as BSc and MBBCh degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.