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
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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
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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
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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.
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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