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Organization
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Position
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Short Bio
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Christian Kloss
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ALERE
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Director of Connected Health
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Dr. Chrisitan Kloss is Alere’s Director of Connected Health outside the US and Managing Director of Alere’s German eHealth business, the Gesellschaft für Patientenhilfe DGP. Prior
Christian worked for Sandoz, a division of Norvartis, and before for many years as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., Inc., where he has served clients on strategic, organizational and
operational issues across the health care industry. Earlier Christian was an resident physician and research fellow at the Department of Neurology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of
Munich. He received his PhD from the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology in Martinsried, and his MD based on his medical training in Freiburg, Belfast, New Orleans, Boston and Munich.
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Emma Garde
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SANOFI
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Senior Project Manager Healthcare Solutions & Partnerships
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After several years as an external and internal auditor, Emma has joined the PCS Team "Patient Centered Solutions" as Senior project manager within Customer Solutions & Innovation. In
charge of developing Heathcare remote monitoring solutions to improve compliance and develop eHealth solutions offering.
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Jari Renko
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Helsinki Uusimaa Hospital Group
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Director, Information Systems
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Jari Renko is Chief Information Officer (CIO) in Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District, a group of 20 hospitals providing specialist medical care to patients in Uusimaa area of southern
Finland. With a degree in technology and engineering and a background in Telecommunications and Information sciences, Jari is constantly seeking new ways for applying information
technology to help with the day-to-day running of a University Hospital. His special emphasis is on relieving clinicians from repetitive administrative tasks, increasing availability and
transparency of flow of information while focusing on patient safety. He is convinced that the most pressing challenge for information technology in today's hospitals is making IT
transparent, easy to use and readily available to support clinicians in their day-to-day tasks.
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Javier Quiles
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SERGAS
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Head of IT Project Management
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Since 2010 Javier is Head of IT Project Management Service at Galician Healthcare Service (SERGAS), the Government Agency for Healthcare which provides healthcare services to more
than 2.700.000 citizens in Galicia. He works in the development of Electronic Health Record and ePrescription system – IANUS, currently deployed in 14 hospitals and more than 430
Primary Care Centres.
Javier is at present the Program Manager of two strategic innovation programs at Galician Health Service: "Hospital 2050" and "Innova Saude".The two projects will develop until 2015, with
a total funding of 90 M€. He aligns this task with the position of Head of IT Project Management Service. He is also involved in EIP-AHA initiatives and participates in CIP ICT-PSP
projects in eHealth related topics.
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Jean Marc Bourez
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SANOFI
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Cardiology eHealth Manager
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eHealth Manager for French affiliate in Drugs, Devices ans Customers Franchise. Mr. Bourez is in charge of digital initiatives in cardiology and eHealth solution development to improve
compliance and disease management. Mr. Bourez contribute to identify and develop new eHealth business opportunities.
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Julien Martel
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ALERE
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Health Management Director
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Mr Martel is Health Management Director for France and Implementation Manager for Europe, he focuses on building an offer dedicated to health management in France and supports European
countries to build the same initiatives. With 10 years’ experience in business development, Mr Martel has managed various businesses on complex markets. Prior to this post, he was
marketing manager at Alere France for the diagnostic market, where he worked on the market access. Mr Martel is Vice President of the E-health committee in LESSIS organization.
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Katrin Geyskens
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Capricorn Venture Partners
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Partner
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Katrin Geyskens is partner at Capricorn Venture Partners where she is responsible for ICT investments with main focus on Digital Healthcare and Big Data. Katrin’s most recent investment
is in Cartagenia NV (see www.cartagenia.com) which develops and markets software for genetic labs. Capricorn Venture Partners is an independent European asset manager seeking to invest in
technology based growth companies. Capricorn is investing out of its venture capital funds Capricorn Health-tech Fund, Capricorn ICT Arkiv and Capricorn Cleantech Fund. It is the asset
manager of Quest for Growth, quoted on the NYSE Euronext Brussels and the investment advisor of the Quest Cleantech Fund. After graduating as a Commercial Engineer at K.U.Leuven
(Belgium), Katrin started her career in 1993 as an equity analyst at CERA Bank (currently KBC) in Belgium. In June 1997, she obtained an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. During
her MBA, Katrin did an internship at the Equities Division of Merrill Lynch, London. Afterwards, she worked as a Management Consultant for A.T.Kearney throughout Europe and South-Africa.
She started her career in venture capital in 2001 at Quest Management, which merged later into Capricorn Venture Partners.
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MadisTiik, MD, Phd
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Finnish innovation fund Sitra
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Senior adviser
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Madis Tiik has been involved in eHealth development projects in Estonia from the beginning in 2005.As medical doctor with strong knowledge in IT he provides professional expertise to
ensure the Estonian Electronic Health Record services serve the best interests of medical staff and patients. In recent years he has also counseled several foreign e-health related
institutions and has actively contributed to Estonian eHealth Foundation’s work as the national e-health competence center. In September 2012 he started as a senior adviser in Finnish
innovation fund, advising ehealth integrations and self-care service development projects.
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Marko Kilk
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North Estonia Medical Centre
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CIO
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Marko Kilk is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the largest hospital in Estonia, North Estonia Medical Centre, that provides tertiary care to over 900 000 people. With extensive
experience in both IT consulting and building e-banking services, Marko has the right mindset to make information technology as an enabler for the medical personnel. The hospital recently
launched their own iPad app for doctors to get better access to medical data, being the first in Estonia and many other countries to make information mobile in the hospital. Marko is
focusing on usability and emphasizes the importance of user-involvement and flexibility building novel e-health services. He knows what it takes to make a solution succeed in the health
care environment.
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Steven Zuanella
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BUPA
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Digital director
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Steven is Bupa’s Digital Director, with responsibility for Bupa's digital presence globally. Steven's role is to put digital at the heart of Bupa’s global business, and stretches from
strategy development to sales & marketing effectiveness, new eHealth business models and the establishment of a global digital centre of excellence. Together these aim to deliver a
consistent, world-class digital experience for Bupa customers, wherever they are in the world.
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Vishal Gulati
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Radiant Capital
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Founding Partner
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VishalGulati is the founding partner at Radiant Capital - a cross border investment fund anddigitome which is a digital health innovation platform and Chairman of Connect Digital Health.
Previously, Vishal was an investment manager at Atlas Venture, a global fund with U.S. $ 2.2 billion under management, prior to which Vishal was an advisor to theWellcome Trust, one of
the world's largest research foundations where he was involved in structuring the £110m post-genomic investment strategy of the Trust. Vishal has had active involvement with several
public and private companies as non-executive director (Enigma Diagnostics, UK; Psynova Ltd; MGI India), and has board level oversight with companies such as Renovo andCrucell. He is also
on the advisory board for organisations which includeBioScale Inc; Napo Pharmaceuticals and,Cyprotex PLC. Vishal is also Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School and has also
advised the Gates Foundation on its healthcare entrepreneurship strategy.
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