DTx Europe 2019

Moritz is Co-founder and CMO of Kaia Health. During his business and management studies at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar) and ESSEC Business School (Paris) he was able to gain first practical experiences in various industries. Before Kaia Health and together with his two co-founders Konstantin Mehl and Manuel Thurner he scaled the premium food delivery company Foodora up to 14 countries back in 2015. In his leisure time, Moritz is into various types of sports as well as into discussing new entrepreneurial ideas.

Anand is a respected global digital health leader—most known for his insights on and experience with technology, strategy and regulatory policy. Anand has been instrumental in WellDoc’s success and the development of BlueStar®. Since joining WellDoc in 2008, he has held core leadership positions that included Chief Data Science Officer, President and Chief Operations Officer. He holds an MS and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Anand is a respected global digital health leader—most known for his insights on and experience with technology, strategy and regulatory policy. Anand has been instrumental in WellDoc’s success and the development of BlueStar®. Since joining WellDoc in 2008, he has held core leadership positions that included Chief Data Science Officer, President and Chief Operations Officer. He holds an MS and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Maricich leads the Clinical/Regulatory team at Pear Therapeutics as the Chief Medical Officer and Head of Clinical Development. He collaborates with the executive team on management and strategy. He leads and manages the clinical development programs from Discovery/TPP to Therapeutic, Translational, Clinical Development, through Regulatory submission and prosecution. He leads the team for Pear’s reSET clinical program, including the team and strategy for their De Novo Request/Submission of reSET to the FDA, which was cleared by the FDA as the first prescription digital therapeutic to treat disease. In addition to overseeing subsequent pipeline programs, including reSET-O (1st drug/software combination), Dr. Maricich leads Medical Affairs, responsible for successful coverage decisions and works closely with the Pear BD team on business development and biopharma deals and partnerships.

André is an experienced startup executive, business and sales manager, leader, and strategist. He is an expert in inside and field sales management, pharmaceutical and medical products marketing and sales, commercial strategy planning, and healthcare topics. He has extensive knowledge in B2B and B2C business, software and hardware product portfolios and offerings in the US and Germany. His passion for the impact technology can have on a large scale has been the red thread throughout his career. André holds doctorates from the University of Würzburg in medicine and the University of Freiburg in dental medicine.
André joined Sandoz in June 2018 from his role as CSO at Thermondo GmbH, an integrated energy company offering state-of-the-art energy efficiency services and applying digital process excellence and quality management. This year, The Financial Times named Thermondo #2 fastest growing company in Europe as well as one of the 100 most influential clean-tech companies in the world.
Before that, André was Vice President of Local Sales at Zocdoc, Inc. Zocdoc is an online service that identifies in-network neighborhood physicians, books appointments, shares patient reviews, provides appointment and check-up reminders, and automatically fills in paperwork. Zocdoc is free for patients and available across the United States.

Edward Cox was appointed as the new Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer of Dthera in connection with the closing of the EveryStory Transaction. Mr. Cox also continues to serve as EveryStory’s President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman and a member of EveryStory’s Board of Directors, positions he has held since February 6, 2015. Prior to that, he served as a Vice President and Executive Officer of Apricus Biosciences, Inc., a publicly traded company, since December 2009, in roles leading Commercial Development, Business Development, Investor Relations, and Corporate Development. Mr. Cox holds a Master of Science in Management degree from the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida.

Kim Baden-Kristensen is the CEO and Co-founder of Brain+, an award winning Danish health tech company specializing in digital therapeutics for neurorehabilitation of disorders and injuries to the Central Nervous System (CNS).
Kim is intensively engaged in digital health care policy debates and initiatives on the European level. He is a founding member of the Digital Therapeutics Partnership, a global non-for-profit with a mission to enhance patient outcomes and quality of care with clinically-validated digital therapeutics.
Kim is an expert within digital therapeutics, with particularly emphasis on neurogame-based rehabilitation and gamified behavioral therapy.

Kim holds an MSc. In Innovation Management from Copenhagen Business School, a Health Care Innovation Management degree from Harvard Business School, and a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience from Copenhagen University.

Edward is Investment Director in the New Businesses fund with M Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The New Businesses fund invests globally in transformational ideas driven by great entrepreneurs. The fund seeks to invest in strategic opportunities beyond Merck’s current businesses, make cross over investments between businesses and invest in digitization opportunities. M Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies and teams up with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation towards commercial success. The total volume of the venture fund is €300 million.

Matthias is a physician by training and holds a medical doctorate degree from the University of Ulm, Germany. He has gained both inpatient and outpatient medical expertise in various healthcare systems around the world. Matthias joined GAIA 17 years ago and takes the responsibility for the national and international business development and licensing activities with payer and physician organisations as well as industry partners. And when not travelling the world for business, he travels the world for leisure.

Vicky is currently the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow at NHS Digital and is involved in a variety of projects in both the technology and data spaces, including as the clinical lead for the NHS Apps Library.
Vicky is a pharmacist by profession and has previously worked in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, primary care, procurement and regional level medicines optimisation support. She is also a NICE Medicines and Prescribing Associate and has an MSc with distinction in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare, where she completed an innovative dissertation proposing a framework for the economic evaluation of patient facing digital health apps for prescribing in the NHS.

Sahil Kirpekar is the Head of Business Development Europe at Otsuka Pharmaceutical and is responsible for bringing in Pharmaceutical and Digital health opportunities into Otsuka’s Global business portfolio. He sits on Otsuka’s Global Business Development Strategy Committee, and has over the last 2 years delivered ~€1Bn worth of deals.
Sahil has been in various commercial roles at Otsuka prior to this position, and across the life sciences industry before that. In the past, he has helped set up the Asia-Pacific practice at Double Helix Consulting (acquired by McCann Health) with offices in Singapore and China. Sahil has also held roles within the World Health Organisation and Medimmune prior to that. He co-founded Inderm, a startup to develop intradermal drug delivery devices to overcome adherence challenges in Tuberculosis.

He is a Medical Doctor, and also holds a Masters in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge.

Yinka has been Programme Director at DigitalHealth.London (DH.L) since March 2016. Prior to this she led a number of quality improvement projects for Imperial College Health Partners, one of the founding partners of DH.L. Yinka has spent more than 25 years in healthcare. She is an experienced healthcare and technology Programme Director, digital health start-up Founder & Entrepreneur, and Pharmacist. She has held both delivery and business development leadership roles in global IT outsourcing consultancies – Accenture and CSC. Yinka practiced as a front-line Pharmacist for 12 years across England, Singapore and Australia. Working within primary care, acute care, mental health and pharma.

Florian started his career working in Silicon Valley for an Equity Research firm focused on technology and renewable energy companies. He continued working for Google advising clients from the energy and retail industry. Before joining Sandoz he worked four years for a Berlin-based start-up in sales operations and product management. At Sandoz his primary focus are Digital Therapeutics.

Elena Mustatea is Co-founder and CEO of Bold Health, a startup developing digital therapeutics for functional and autoimmune conditions, leveraging behavioural medicine and machine learning to deliver personalised and highly effective treatments and self management support. Elena was named Forbes’ Europe 30 Under 30 Finance List in 2018 in her role as venture capital investor with leading European VC fund Atomico, and previously also worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, management consulting at Oliver Wyman, and ran a media business.

Elan is an investor with JAZZ Venture Partners focused on technologies that unlock human potential, such as prescription digital therapeutics. Portfolio companies include Pear Therapeutics and Akili Interactive. Previously Elan has started and grown several venture-backed startups as an operator and adviser across digital health, AI, and neurotech. Other experiences at the Boston Consulting Group and Monitor Deloitte, where he advised executives in the life sciences, provider, payer, and regulatory spaces. He received his BA from Tufts University and his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Atse Aukes is Head of Product at Tired of Cancer. With a background in Business Administration, Atse has almost ten years of broad IT experience in the field of eHealth, particularly in mental healthcare.
Atse was previously product manager of one of the largest eHealth platforms in the Netherlands in the field of mental health. During that time, he developed insight into online (evidence-based) interventions, patient reported outcomes, and integration challenges in a blended care setting. That’s how he was at the foundation of Koppeltaal, the Dutch national integration and information standard for the mental health care providers and was one of the first to use it.

Within Tired of Cancer, Atse is responsible for supervising the development & maintenance of Untire, research projects and IT legal & compliance matters. He gets excited by state-of-the-art techniques such as A.I and is keen to look at the data himself to gain new insights. His passion really lies in being meaningful to the end users; there is such a large group of people who benefit from the app. Therefore, his day starts off good when a new positive review has arrived.

With great enthusiasm, Atse is using all his skills to make Untire a success and by that help many cancer patients worldwide.

Brian Clancy is Co-Lead for AppScript, the world’s leading curation, prescribing, and studies platform for digital patient engagement tools. Prior to AppScript, Brian had a seven-year career as a strategy consultant to leading and emerging health technology and pharmaceutical companies. He is an author of various academic and industry publications on personalized medicine and digital health, including the recently published report by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science entitled “The Growing Value of Digital Health.“ His research has been featured in The Economist, The Lancet, Tech Crunch, and Eric Topol’s Twitter feed. He is an inventor in the field of app curation and a conference speaker on the topic of technical innovation in healthcare. Brian holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Molecular Genetics and Economics from the University of Rochester.

Before joining Voluntis, Alexandre worked for over 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry. At Sanofi, he notably headed the Group’s strategic planning and M&A for France, where he strongly contributed to building the Diabeo partnership with Sanofi, CERITD and Voluntis. Alexandre is a graduate of HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris. He holds a master’s degree in health economics from Paris-Dauphine University.

Before joining Voluntis, Alexandre worked for over 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry. At Sanofi, he notably headed the Group’s strategic planning and M&A for France, where he strongly contributed to building the Diabeo partnership with Sanofi, CERITD and Voluntis. Alexandre is a graduate of HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris. He holds a master’s degree in health economics from Paris-Dauphine University.

Jim O’Donoghue, President of S3 Connected Health, has 16 years’ experience in designing and delivering innovative connected health services and solutions. Having led the development and deployment of technology-enabled patient services for rare and chronic conditions that have been rolled out across 40 countries, Jim is focused on the future of digital patient services and the integration of solutions into clinical care pathways as we move towards Value-Based Care. An advocate of empowering patient self-management, Jim has overseen the design of the largest telehealth program in the UK and the largest chronic disease management program in Europe.

Strategy delivery lead for NHS England, in this role I apply my digital and transformation experience to help support the delivery of integrated patient-centred care; with a digital thread, working with local and regional teams on the NHS App, Apps library, Personal Health Records and more. My background includes COO of international patient communications start-up, empowering children with chronic conditions; digital health start-up consultant, and a more recent Masters in International Health Policy with a focus on digital health.

Matthias is passionate about tech enabled innovation in health care and beyond which perfectly fits his current role at Allianz Partners, where he leads all health related innovation efforts. Before joining Allianz, he was working for the Boston Consulting Group as a strategy consultant and also leading the Digital Business Unit at Carl Zeiss Vision. Dr. Matthias Kuss holds a Master’s degree in Physics and a PhD in technology management from the federal institute of technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He also founded his own tech startup.

As Head of Commercial Development, Nicki manages strategic partnerships with key companies, Universities, and NHS organisations, and support SMEs developing innovations for health and social care. Nicki is a clinician with 30 years’ experience in the NHS working in a broad range of roles nationally and locally, including quality improvement, service redesign and acute care commissioning. Nicki has also worked as a consultant to pharmaceutical companies and for a market access consultancy. Since joining Oxford AHSN in 2014 Nicki has led a £2.4m collaborative bid for a Life Sciences Innovation Centre in Buckinghamshire and provides Board level leadership to two digital SME programmes, Bucks HSCVentures and The Hill. Nicki has led the Digital Health programme within the Oxford AHSN region since 2016, producing the digital health roadmap and two successful Innovate UK Digital Health Technology Catalyst bids.

Damien is charged with extending Voluntis’ real-world evidence capabilities, notably in the fields of outcomes measurement and data valuation. He trained in the UK as a pharmacist and computer scientist. He has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and in frontline clinical healthcare (at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and multiple pharmacies). He notably worked at AXA, where he helped build an operational framework to handle outsourced medical information services for pharmaceutical partners. In 2005 he led the preparation for the first ever UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency inspection of this type of provider. He joined Voluntis in Paris in 2008 to take the helm of its quality division, obtaining QMS certification for ISO:13485 in 2010 and VITM/Diabeo’s CE Mark in 2013.

Shayma Ali is an experienced health care executive whose responsibilities include driving the IQVIA UK product strategy and overseeing product development. Shayma has expertise in international product and service development, health policy, strategy, commissioning, implementation of disease management solutions. She is motivated by projects that enhance healthcare decision making and improve outcomes.
Shayma spent 10 years working in the UK’s National Health Service in commissioning and service re-design, before joining Bupa as a management consultant. She then developed Elsevier’s clinical decision support product lines in EMEA and Latin America, before moving to IQVIA where she has held global and regional executive roles.

Shayma has a Master’s Degree in European Business from Royal Holloway, University of London and a BSc in Anthropology from the University of Durham.