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Antonio Ruiz-Giménez

Executive Chairman & CEO, Keep a Child Alive

Antonio Ruiz-Gimenez is the Executive Chairman and CEO of Keep a Child Alive (KCA), where he leads global efforts to expand access to life-saving healthcare through partnership-driven, sustainable models. A member of the organization’s board since 2015, Antonio brings a combination of entrepreneurial leadership, global perspective, and personal conviction to KCA’s mission.

In addition to his work with KCA, Antonio is a dynamic entrepreneur with a strong track record in growth-oriented investments. He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of ATW Partners, a venture capital and private equity investment firm. Previously, he co-founded P3 Global Management, a public–private partnership focused on enhancing urban development, and he is also the co-founder and chairman of SolidOpinion, a digital commenting platform. Antonio holds a Law Degree from Universidad Complutense of Madrid.

Antonio’s leadership of Every Life – A Newborn Survival Initiative is informed by years of engagement with global health systems and a deep understanding of the inequities that shape health outcomes for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Through his work with Keep a Child Alive, Antonio has spent significant time visiting public hospitals and healthcare facilities in low-resource settings, including in Tanzania. These experiences highlighted the stark challenges facing premature and critically ill newborns—particularly the shortage of specialized staff, equipment, and timely access to neonatal care.

At the same time, Antonio has observed the level of care available within well-resourced healthcare systems, reinforcing a core conviction that guides his work: a newborn’s chance to survive should never depend on where they are born.

This belief underpins the vision behind the Every Life initiative, which focuses on strengthening neonatal care through collaboration, local leadership, and integration into public health systems. The initiative reflects a commitment to equity, dignity, and sustainability—ensuring that life-saving care becomes a lasting part of community healthcare infrastructure.

For Antonio, Every Life represents a values-driven approach to improving newborn survival outcomes, grounded in partnership and focused on building systems that give every child a fair and equal start in life.

Doris Mollel

Founder and Executive Director, Doris Mollel Foundation.

Doris Mollel is a leading advocate for maternal and child health in Tanzania and the founder of the Doris Mollel Foundation (DMF). Born prematurely at just 900 grams, Doris survived against extraordinary odds — a personal experience that would later shape her life’s mission to improve newborn survival in a country where too many babies are still lost in their first days of life.

Beginning in 2012, Doris used national beauty pageant platforms, including Miss Tabata, Miss Ilala, and Miss Tourism Tanzania, not as stages for glamour, but as vehicles for social impact. Through these platforms, she launched Tourism for Charity, an initiative that provided orphaned children with educational and cultural visits to Tanzania’s heritage sites, expanding access to learning and opportunity beyond the classroom.

A pivotal moment came during a visit to a neonatal intensive care unit, where Doris witnessed firsthand the struggle of premature babies fighting for survival in under-resourced facilities. The experience transformed her advocacy into a focused mission. In February 2015, she formalized this commitment by founding the Doris Mollel Foundation, dedicated to improving neonatal and maternal health outcomes.

In the foundation’s early years, Doris worked largely on her own — drafting proposals, lobbying institutions, and personally securing funding to procure essential neonatal equipment, including incubators and oxygen concentrators, for hospitals lacking adequate resources. Her persistence turned repeated rejection into tangible support, and equipment into saved lives.

Today, the Doris Mollel Foundation works in partnership with government bodies, hospitals, and health institutions across East Africa, advocating for stronger neonatal care systems, improved hospital infrastructure, evidence-based policy reforms, and greater public awareness around newborn health and survival.

Doris’s leadership and impact have been widely recognized. Her honors include Tanzanian Humanitarian of the Year, induction into Tanzania’s Leadership Hall of Fame, the Pan-African Women Economic Summit Award for Outstanding Support for Premature Babies, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Outstanding Alumni in Health, recognition among the Top 100 Changemakers in Tanzania, and the Sustainable Development Goals Women in Management Award.

Beyond her foundation work, Doris serves as a member of the Technical Working Group of Tanzania’s Ministry of Health, is an Ashoka Fellow, a member of the WHO Born Too Soon Advisory Group, and a Strategic Steering Member of the African Women Leaders Network (Tanzania Chapter). She also serves on the boards of Save the Children Tanzania, the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) Parent Advisory Board, and the Medical Stores Department of Tanzania.