After years of practicing as a nurse midwife, she upskilled herself in business administration. She now runs a digital platform that connects employers and graduates.  

Lizane Füzy (photo) is a South African business leader and nurse midwife who graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2016, earning a master's in nursing. She is also a business administration graduate from the Stellenbosch Business School and the founder/general manager of the career management platform Gradlinc.

She launched Gradlinc, in 2022, as a project of Stellenbosch University. The cloud-based platform connects employers and graduates, allowing credible and verified graduates to access existing opportunities. Its sophisticated and unique matching algorithm enables employers to receive graduate profiles that match their job requirements. It provides a more affordable and comprehensive alternative to higher education institutions' career offices. 

Lizane Füzy recently stated that her platform was "rolling out new modules for entrepreneurship focusing on students that want to start their ventures to ensure that they start on the right foot thanks to this learning management system and online courses where students can find all the tools they need for career readiness and starting their first job. We will also be opening up the platform to alums from tertiary institutions."

Currently, she is the commercialization project manager at the University of Stellenbosch Enterprises (Innovus), the technology transfer division of Stellenbosch University. She is the owner of Midwife Online, a platform that offers affordable online prenatal courses for expectant parents in a safe space with easy access to credible, evidence-based information.

She is, since 2010, a member of the  Golden Key International Honor Society, “the world's largest collegiate honor society for graduate and undergraduate students.”       

Her professional career began in 2011 at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital where she was a nurse and professional midwife. She held the same position at Tygerberg Hospital from January 2013 to February 2016 and at Mediclinic from March to December 2016. From 2021 to 2022, she was a midwife and prenatal instructor for the parenting education platform The Baby Academy.

Melchior Koba