Job Title: chief information officer
Company: PPN (Preferred Provider Negotiators)
Dr Kader Saiod is the chief information officer at PPN (Preferred Provider Negotiators). He has held this role since December 2022. Kader also serves as a research associate and postgraduate supervisor at Nelson Mandela University. Before joining PPN, he was the head of the IT department at FinBizServ. He previously worked as a senior developer at Tigers Limited.
Earlier in his career, he served as a lead developer at Providence Healthcare Risk Managers. Kader holds a PhD in IT specialising in artificial intelligence from Nelson Mandela University. He completed the executive development programme at Stellenbosch University.
Work:
2022 – Present: chief information officer, PPN (Preferred Provider Negotiators)
2026 – Present: research associate and postgraduate student supervisor, Nelson Mandela University
2020 – 2023: postgraduate student supervisor and research associate, Nelson Mandela University
2020 – 2022: head of the IT department, FinBizServ
2018 – 2020: senior developer, Tigers Limited
2015 – 2018: lead developer, Providence Healthcare Risk Managers (MomentumTYB)
2008 – 2015: IT manager and specialist, Perfect Tooling
Education:
2025: Executive Development Programme, Stellenbosch University
2019: PhD in IT (Artificial Intelligence), Nelson Mandela University
2008: Master with Honours (Information Technology), Donetsk National Technical University
2006: Bachelor with Honours (Information Technology), Donetsk National Technical University
2002: Russian Language and Literature course, Donetsk National University
About company: PPN (Preferred Provider Negotiators) is a managed care organisation in South Africa. It provides optical benefit management solutions to medical schemes.
