DTx Europe 2021

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.

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.

Francesca Domenech Wuttke, Ph.D. is the Chief Digital Officer of Almirall where she is developing and executing an end-to-end companywide digital transformation. She is responsible for finding use cases across R&D, commercial, manufacturing, finance, legal and HR to apply digital solutions and services to bring efficiencies in terms of time and cost and to open up new business channels for Almirall.

Dr. Wuttke brings with her broad drug development and healthcare expertise in both the US and Europe, with over 20 years of clinical, commercial, strategic and transactional experience. She has worked with diverse organizations including start-ups, consulting, large and specialty pharma as well as academia.

Most recently, she led European investments as Managing Director for the MSD Global Health Innovation Fund, LLC. Previously Dr. Wuttke led Almirall´s Corporate Development Strategy team to transact on both med device and pharma M&A opportunities with a new and targeted focus for the company. Before that Dr. Wuttke worked at Novartis where she was responsible for two Cell and Gene therapy opportunities that were successfully brought into the organisation as well as managing the strategy and commercialisation for the existing portfolio of cell therapy assets.

Dr. Wuttke holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and a BA from Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Dixit is a Physician Executive with more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry. She has been in executive leadership at Sanofi, Allergan, and GE and has been responsible for launching a number of innovative medicines. She was voted innovator of the year at GE in 2008, nominated as a Top 50 Thought Leader in “Big Data” in Life Sciences in 2016, and featured in the Pharma Executive Magazine cover-page article “Real-World Evidence: From Volume to Value” (Oct 13, 2016). Shailja has built and has had successful exits with many projects.

Dr. Maroof Ahmed is a medical doctor who graduated from Imperial College London with dual degrees in Medicine and Business Management. He is the co-founder and COO of Digital Therapeutics.

Maroof spent 4 years conducting academic research in the fields of neurology, behavioural change, digital health and smoking cessation. He has published multiple peer-reviews papers on these topics and also acts as a reviewer for JMIR.

Whilst training to become a doctor, Maroof saw the impact smoking had on the lives of the patients around him and wanted to make a difference. So together with his co-founders, they put on hold their clinical careers to pursue Quit Genius full-time. This was a tough decision but they made this choice as it will allow them to make an impact on the lives of people worldwide at scale.

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.

With over 15 years of experience building startups, Rachel has led teams and strategy for recognized leaders in technology and media including CitySearch, Ticketmaster, and Current TV. Rachel earned her masters degree in Long-Term Strategic Planning in order to build profitable businesses that also did immense good. Rachel’s current favorite song in the SingFit catalog is “Walk the Line.”

An experienced entrepreneur and business leader, Ofer co-founded and built several digital media businesses, most recently iPlay/Oberon Media, a leading casual downloadable games company where he held several executive leadership roles. Ofer has also served as Co-Founder and President of Gate42 Technologies, a software startup in the customer relations management space. Earlier in his career, he served as an investment manager at an early stage seed fund and as a management consultant in the strategy practice of Trigger Consulting, a leading firm in Israel. Ofer holds an M.B.A. in Finance and a B.A. in Economics and Information Technologies, both from Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Bukstel has 25+ years of clinical data integration, data security, and communications experience. He
has successfully licensed systems and services to companies, including international pharmaceutical and
managed care organizations. Mr. Bukstel designed one of the first Electronic Medical Record Systems
that incorporated data communications standards and was a founding member of the ASTM E1238
Standard for Interoperability and Communication of Clinical Laboratory Data that became the
foundation of HL7. Mr. Bukstel designed the first client server (Novell Netware) Clinical Trials Protocol
Management System (Roche, Otsuka). He has been a national speaker on electronic data interchange
and has been a guest lecturer at The Wharton Business School and has lectured as an Adjunct Professor
at Thomas Jefferson University’s Center for Digital Health & Data Science. Mr. Bukstel has written
extensively on Blockchain and Healthcare and founded Clinical Blockchain in August 2016 to address
Patient – Doctor Messaging on a Blockchain Platform, speaking at Pfizer, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, and
IEEE sponsored events nationally. Mr. Bukstel is currently the CEO for Giupedi , Inc., a development
stage Machine Learning Company focused on interoperability in the medical litigation marketplace.

Visa Honkanen MD, PhD, Chief Digital Officer, is responsible on the digital disruption and lean turn-around at the Helsinki University Hospital.  His work focuses on digitalization, ehealth, and artificial intelligence development for the clinical use. His research interest has been in clinical studies and experimental statistics. Visa Honkanen is  pediatric rheumatologist. He did his training at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto. He still teaches and practices pediatric rheumatology.

Niklas founded two startup companies and is currently working at Fresenius Medical Care. He has more than 8 years’ experience in digital. Niklas blends entrepreneurial spirit, human-centered design and business acumen within the complex healthcare space. In his current role as the Director Digital Ecosystem at Fresenius Medical Care he is responsible for designing and evolving the digital ecosystem of FMC EMEA by aligning and creating new products and services in the Chronic Kidney Disease space. Moreover, he is currently performing an Executive MBA at the University of St. Gallen.

Sebastian Isaacs is the founder of Inflow – a digital health startup that helps people better manage their ADHD. Their mission is to help every person with ADHD reach their full potential by providing sustainable, accessible and cost-effective support. Prior to founding Inflow, Sebastian co-founded London Blockchain Labs – the largest blockchain community in the UK.