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Jul 21, 2026 · 6 min · 8 segments
Converge Solutions founder Johann Joubert shares how a childhood accident inspired a mission to improve healthcare through technology, while decades of industry experience helped build a trusted…
Pavlo PhitidisHost
Johan JoubertGuest
led by Johan Joubert, builds serious software for high-trust industries, hospitals, banks, insurers, and companies that are moving into the cloud.
Before that, the three had worked together for 17 years inside a large technology business.
Kurbis, is the rational one and Jaco well he's the pessimist so every board meeting between the three of them comes with its own weather report the trigger that led to them leaving the company and starting their own was frustration Johan kept seeing clients with real problems and big visions but inside corporate life too many answers began with I will not we don't we can't he wanted people to start with how can we healthcare is deeply personal for him As a boy at Drakensberg Boys Choir School, Johan was in a terrible bus accident.
He had 17 fractures, a punctured lung, and doctors thought he might never walk again.
Converge now builds and supports software that moves organizations from paper, emails, and scattered systems into clearer workflows to allow for better decisions.
Their healthcare platform has already gone live in demanding African hospital environments, and their wider business works.
led by Johan Joubert, builds serious software for high-trust industries, hospitals, banks, insurers, and companies that are moving into the cloud.
Before that, the three had worked together for 17 years inside a large technology business.
Kurbis, is the rational one and Jaco well he's the pessimist so every board meeting between the three of them comes with its own weather report the trigger that led to them leaving the company and starting their own was frustration Johan kept seeing clients with real problems and big visions but inside corporate life too many answers began with I will not we don't we can't he wanted people to start with how can we healthcare is deeply personal for him As a boy at Drakensberg Boys Choir School, Johan was in a terrible bus accident.
He had 17 fractures, a punctured lung, and doctors thought he might never walk again.
Converge now builds and supports software that moves organizations from paper, emails, and scattered systems into clearer workflows to allow for better decisions.
Their healthcare platform has already gone live in demanding African hospital environments, and their wider business works.
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