Lynda is a chartered accountant and is passionate about the healthcare industry and ensuring access to quality, affordable healthcare for all South Africans. She is a generalist, eager to find solutions to complex problems, and she loves a good challenge.
After completing her articles at KPMG, she joined United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD) in January 1999 and later held the following positions:
- Financial Director for the Clicks Group (1999–2005).
- Managing Director of UPD, a subsidiary of the Clicks Group (2005–2010). UPD is South Africa’s largest national pharmaceutical wholesaler.
- Executive consultant at Clicks Group (October 2010 to November 2011), dealing with regulatory issues and researching business opportunities.
- CEO of Pure Pharmacy (Pty) Ltd (February 2012 to December 2013).CEO of Unjani Clinics (from January 2014).
As CEO, Lynda is responsible for the fundraising, implementation, management and rollout of the Unjani Clinic Network in South Africa.
In March 2025, the company had expanded to over 250 care settings and aims to have scaled to over 600 care settings by 2032. Over 6 million consultations have been delivered through the network since its inception.
Unjani Clinics is a non-profit company and registered public benefit organisation established to manage, raise funds for, and train the health practitioners in the network. It empowers professional nurses to operate and ultimately own sustainable primary healthcare clinics in low-income communities, serving the employed uninsured market. There are currently 250 care settings in the network nationally, including over 221 fixed clinics, 2 mobile clinics, and 27 health pods.