Franco is entrepreneur and member of various boards of directors mainly in the finance, medical and technology industry. Alongside, he focuses as business advisor and as part-time university professor on business model and governance design and the entrepreneurial handling of opportunities and risks. Prior to that, Franco was over 20 years active in various executive and consulting functions, last as member of the executive board of the Julius Baer Group.

Tobias is well known in the eHealth community, as the founder (in 2006), CEO and major shareholder of Logicare, a leading provider of IT and consulting services to the Swiss healthcare market. Prior to Logicare, he was in the Top management of a globally active Swiss industrial corporation, where he focused on managing the challenges of globalization. Tobias holds a master’s degree in Political Economics from the University of Zurich and a federal degree in Business Information Technology.

Michael is the founder of healthbank, and served as CEO until July 2014. In 2013, he was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence for SystemsX.ch, Switzerland’s largest early stage life sciences fund, and served as a mentor for the ETH Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab. Previously he served as Chairman of Genebio, a bioinformatics software firm, and sat on the Strategic Advisory Committee for HealthTIES, an EU-backed consortium of four of Europe’s top biosciences regions. Previous to his move to Switzerland, Michael co-founded two US-based firms: Netelligent Corporation and ActiveObjects, where he held the roles of President, Chairman and CEO respectively.

Jon is an Electrical Engineer graduated from ETH Zuerich, holding an Executive MBA from St. Gallen. He has over 20 years of professional experience gained in global and local companies located in Switzerland (Alcatel-Lucent, Sunrise Communications, Microsoft). After different functions related to delivery activities (Technical Training, Project Management) at Alcatel-Lucent, he was assigned to different leadership roles in Delivery, Sales and General Management. At Sunrise Communications, Jon launched a new brand for the Business Customers department (Business Sunrise) and successfully implemented the turn around of this important division. He is experienced in leading cross-functional teams and has a significant track record in change management projects. He has been actively engaged for 5 years in a project called “mia Engiadina”, which helps to develop a remote area of Switzerland by using the possibilities of the digitalization.

Rich is a co-founder of healthbank, and from 2013-2015 served as our Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel. He is Director, Legal – International Employment Law of Alexion, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and delivering life-transforming therapies for patients with devastating and rare diseases. For 20+ years Rich has focused his legal practice on human capital and intellectual property matters, as a San Francisco and Zurich-based partner of leading U.S. technology/life sciences law firm Cooley LLP, and as in-house counsel for global media company NBC in New York City.

Thomas, TU Vienna, Head of the Research Group Industrial Software (INSO). INSO leads numerous research groups at various universities, from software engineering to large IT systems and IT security. One of the subgroups has been involved in medical informatics for 20 years. Thomas Grechenig has so far supervised more than 250 diploma theses and dissertations. In 2003, he founded Research Industrial Systems Engineering (RISE), a Europe-wide recognized research and development company with 350 employees, which stands for excellent technology from planning to implementation and operation. Among other things, Thomas led the development of the telematics infrastructure in Germany from Cebit 2005 and acted as chief architect on behalf of the BMG. He is an IT architect for complex large-scale projects with relevant global experience.

Christian is a member of the managing board at Galenica where he is heading the business development and strategy division santé. +

Claus has been Deputy Chairman of the DAK Gesundheit, a large Germany-wide operating health insurance. In this role he had specific responsibilities in the organizational management and IT/infrastructure management. Furthermore, he was involved in the foundation of the BITMARK corporate group, a network of independent IT companies owned by several health insurances.