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Steering Committee

Pedro Ramos

Secretary of Health and Civil Protection of the Autonomous Region of Madeira

Surgeon

Former Assistant Professor in University of Madeira

Rui Barreto

Regional Secretary of Economy

Business Manager

Miguel Pestana

Chief of Staff of the Secretary of Health and Civil Protection of Autonomous Region of Madeira

Chief of Staff of the Regional Secretaries of Health

Integrated the Steering Committee of the Regions for Health Network.

Carlos Alberto de Andrade

Chief of Staff of the Regional Secretary of Economics

Innovation and Business Ecosystems Consultant

Higher School Teacher in Management Health Units and Social Institutions

Telmo Vieira

Managing partner at PremiValor Consulting

Lecturer at ISEG-Lisbon School of Economics and Management – University of Lisbon

President of the Supervisory Board of a bank operating specially in digital market

Mentor and investor in Start-ups in different phases, early stage and growing stage

Rita Vasconcelos

Director at PremiValor Consulting

Has significant experience in project and corporate finance, financial advisory, economical-financial modelling, business valuation, business plans and strategic diagnostics, business modelling, project management and market research.

Scientific Committee

Alexandre Lourenço

President of APAH - Associação Portuguesa de Administradores Hospitalares;

Hospital Administrator in the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra;

Executive Committee member and Scientific Subcommittee member in the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM).

Mário Pereira Pinto

Health affairs advisor of the Republic Presidency

Pedro Pita Barros

Professor of Economics at NOVASBE

His research focuses on issues related to health economics, regulation and competition policy

Regina Rodrigues

Advisor of the Regional Secretary of Health and Civil Protection of the Autonomous Region of Madeira

Anaesthesiologist

Training Coordinator for Resuscitation and Emergency

Member of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Simulation Applied to Health Sciences (SPSim)

Catarina Baptista

Member of the Board of Directors of the Hospital Cruz Vermelha and of APAH

Coordinator of a Health Research Work Group in APAH (2017 to 2019)

Over 15 years of experience in biomedic research and publishing articles in several international magazines

PHD in Molecular Biology from University of Lisbon.

Degree in Hospital Administration

Advisory board

Shomit Ghose

General partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital fund, ONSET Ventures

Start-up entrepreneur, with multiple successful exits via IPO and acquisition

Serves on multiple advisory boards in Europe and the USA

Paula Carioca (Mentor)

Board advisory member in PASS (Predictive Analytics

Software Systems)

Consultant for IoT projects applied to the Health sector

Board advisory Member in Vodafone Portugal (2017-2020)

CEO of Unitel T+ in Cape Verde (2013-2017)

Derene Allen

Adjunct Professor in the Silicon Valley Immersion Program at the University of San Francisco

Instructor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the UC Berkeley Extension

International Diploma Program Mentor at the Global Social Benefits Institute, at Santa Clara University

Tim Vieira

Participating investor, in the first season of the television program SHARK TANK PORTUGAL

CEO of Bravegeneration (Europe)

Investor in STARTUPS

Fabrícia Teixeira

Public Manager

Experience as executive member of the Board of Directors of SESARAM, EPE

Participation and collaboration in health investment projects

Hector Ara

President of SUANFARMA GROUP

Created CIDQO (Center for Research and Development of Organic Chemistry)

Founded FARMAPROJECTS SA, a company specialized in pharmaceutical consulting

Mentors board

Paulo Lilaia

Managing Director of UNIK Investments

Former CEO / Administrator of GENERIS Farmacêutica

Former General Director of Ratiopharm Portugal

Vice President of APOGEN - Associação Portuguesa de

Medicamentos Genéricos e Biosimilares

Investor in STARTUPS

Kamakshi Bansal

MSc Data Science & Machine Learning from University College London;

Data Scientist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London;

Free-lance mentoring for Data Science;

Six years experience working with digital technologies, mathematics, and programming (UK and India).

Herberto Jesus

President of Board of Directors of Instituto de Administração da Saúde;

Coordinator in the Health and Well-being field – Regional Strategy of Smart Expertise;

Member of WHO Europe – Regions for Health Network

Sebastian Gensior

Senior Manager Global Market Access Policy at ABBOTT

Experience in leading and transforming market access divisions across the globe.In roles spanning London, Basel, and Warsaw, he has worked as market access executive, global market access change manager, global market access consultant and market access policy leader.

He has a passion for driving a culture of empowerment, inclusion, and accountability conducive to maximizing results in complex, global businesses. Mentoring start-ups is a personal passion of Sebastian and he helps them to scale and accelerate their launch by enhancing their healthcare market understanding.

Nuno Pereira

Degree in product design

Involved in multiple design/engineering hardware and software projects;

CEO of of Holy Grail Inc

Gabriel Oliveira

General Surgeon in several Hospitals and clinics.

Instructor of the Physiotherapy course in Escola Superior de Saúde Egas Moniz

1st Medical Navy Lieutenant in Portuguese Navy

Ethics comittee

Bruna Gouveia

Vice President of Board of Directors of Instituto de Administração da Saúde

Researcher on the Interactive Technologies Institute – LARSys and on the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability – University of Geneva