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Jessica Holmquist has been appointed CFO of international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra. Jessica Holmquist holds a Masters in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics, with a major in accounting and finance and will bring extensive experience from companies with international operations. Holmquist will join Sectra from her role as Business [...]
Oscar Health, a health insurance company built on a full-stack technology platform, has hired Ranmali Bopitiya as its new chief legal officer. Ranmali will serve on Oscar’s leadership team and will report to chief executive officer and co-founder, Mario Schlosser. Mario Schlosser, CEO and co-founder at Oscar said: “Having spent close to two decades in [...]
Dr Teresa Dolan has joined digital dental care company Overjet as chief dental officer. Previously, she served as clinical officer at dental products and technologies manufacturer Dentsply Sirona, for more than eight years. With more than 35 years of experience in dentistry and clinical education, Dr Dolan’s expertise spans clinical dental practice and research. She [...]
Clinical solutions provider Tendable has created a new executive team dedicated to the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) marketplace. The top three executives leading the team are Eric van der Sluis, Paul Woodward and Bree Wyatt who have many years of experience in supporting healthcare organisations with corporate quality and safety programmes. Tim Bolot, founder [...]
Digital therapeutics company Kaia Health has appointed Nigel Ohrenstein, healthcare entrepreneur and Lumeris co-founder, as president. The company delivers musculoskeletal (MSK) care using computer vision technology through the camera of a smartphone, anytime, anywhere. Ohrenstein brings more than 20 years of experience dedicated to transforming the healthcare system by delivering solutions that reduce the cost [...]
The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) has named Eleanor Charsley as its new director of government affairs. The move will see her lead the Association’s interactions with parliamentarians and governments across the UK, alongside continuing the coordination of ABHI’s work into the industry’s formal engagement platforms. Including the secretary of state-led Life Sciences Council, [...]
Digital healthcare solutions provider Doctrin has made two strategic hires to match the company's ambitions to expand. In October, Doctrin went live with its first UK customer, Lakeside Healthcare, and earlier this year the company also expanded its operations in Norway. To match the company's plans for expansion, Doctrin has appointed Jesper Eriksson as chief [...]
Norman Niven, chief executive of Protelhealth, explains why it is so difficult and expensive to break into the health tech market. It seems that just about anybody and everybody wants a piece of the health tech action. From construction companies to law firms, it seems that the inexorable drive to create another Facebook, Snapchat or [...]
In his latest Reluctant Entrepreneur column, Dr DJ Hamblin-Brown explains why the blindness of business startup entrepreneurs is a double-edged sword. What’re the chances that your startup is going to succeed? If you, like me, are a digital or MedTech entrepreneur (or perhaps a more traditional startup business owner) your answer will likely be: about [...]
What the modern CTO and CSO looks like in health tech
