Leading through Crises: HealthTech and Leadership during the Pandemic

Ankur is the Vice President of Healthcare business for DKSH Myanmar. He has been with DKSH for more than 7 years and has held several leadership positions within the company in Myanmar and Singapore.

DKSH is a Swiss organization with over 150 years of experience in helping companies grow their business in Asia. DKSH has been helping Myanmar’s patients and consumers in providing access to quality products for over 25 years now. With over 3,000 specialists on the ground, DKSH is at the forefront of Healthcare, Consumer goods, Technology, Performance Materials and Field Marketing. The company's reliability, professionalism, trustworthiness and compliance standards have been unmatched, which has led DKSH to becoming the leading Market Expansion Services provider in Myanmar and other parts of Asia.

Dr. Aung Thura is a co-founder of z-waka, which enable clinics in low resource settings to provide affordable quality healthcare. He holds a master’s degre in Mechanical Engineering of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, a master’s degree in Quantitative Economics and Finance and a doctorate in Banking and Finance of the University of St. Gallen. Dr. Aung Thura worked as a Structured Products and Equity Derivatives Trader with a Swiss Bank. In his role as a quant, he has experienced in developing a bank-internal trading platform for deriatives. In January 2012, Dr. Aung Thura moved to Myanmar to establish Thura Swiss, a Myanmar-based Research and consulting company. Thura Swiss aims to become a leading securities company in Myanmar and has developed on OTC trading platform. Together with a consortium, Thura Swisss is planning to apply for a license to operate an OTC trading platform in Myanmar.

Dr. Thiri Aung joined Pun Hlaing Hospitals as an intern in 2016 before being promoted to head of operations last year in 2020. She holds a leadership position at a 160-bed private hospital that is the only healthcare facility in Myanmar accredited by the U.S.-based Joint Commission International. Aung studied medicine at the University of Medicine 1 in Yangon then earned an M.B.A. in healthcare management from De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K., in 2018. In 2019, she participated in Harvard Medical School's Southeast Asia Healthcare Leadership Program. She is also listed as Forbes 30 under 30.