Brett Meyerowitz

Brett has combined over 20 years of proven experience in IT with a passion for streamlining the way emergency services are deployed. Brett began working for Intel straight out of school. His career took him to London, where he was CTO of an online gaming business for ten years. On moving back to South Africa, he grew interested in driving efficiency in emergency services. He completed his Basic Ambulance Assistant (BAA) training and started working on the road, gaining real world experience about what was holding these teams back. He was surprised to discover deep inefficiencies within the system. Teams spent hours waiting to get a call from the control room, and when the call came, critical time was wasted as they tried to find the destination of the incident. He built a mobile platform designed to disrupt and improve this low tech space, and partnered with TomTom to leverage their technology for this cause. As the service takes hold, the initial seed of his idea remains – in his spare time he can still be found working on Cape Town’s roads as a volunteer paramedic.