Board of Directors
Franco Taisch
Founder and Chairman
Prof. Franco Taisch is an entrepreneur across a range of industry sectors, a director of various companies, and a co-founder of healthbank. He is a director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Raiffeisen Group, and Chairman and founding partner of kreisquadrat gmbh, the decision network. Prof. Taisch held leading positions in global, medium-sized and smaller enterprises at home and abroad for over 25 years. He is part-time professor at the University of Lucerne.
Mirjam Eglin
Member of the Board
Mirjam Eglin holds a PhD. with distinction in Life Sciences from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, an M.A. in Psychology from UBC in Vancouver, Canada, and a Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine from the University of Basel. She had research and teaching positions at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, USA, as well as at the University of Zurich. She has held various international and national leading positions in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Clinical Research & Development as well as in Human Resources, Regulatory Affairs and Quality.
Claus Moldenhauer
Member of the Board
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.
Today, he plays an active role as consultant in the life science industry sector, running his own company called CMN Communication-Management-Networking. He is driving innovations by being a member in several supervisory and advisory boards in the life science industry as well as being engaged in the Swiss-German Society for Healthcare Policy.
Tobias Diener
Member of the Board
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.
Richard Frank
Founder and Member of the Board
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.
Reto Schegg
Member of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Reto is an expert in eHealth projects. He was involved in many of the big eHealth initiatives in Europe in recent years. Holding master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration, he has been responsible for international health tech business lines and sales teams. Reto drives the idea of encouraging citizens to make better decisions about their own health in order to receive the best possible care.
Michael Dillhyon
Founder and Member of the Board
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.
Christian Köpe
Member of the Board
Christian is a member of the managing board at Galenica where he is heading the business development and strategy division santé. +
After graduating in law at the university in Zurich he pursued a Dr. iur and started his career in a law firm “Bär&Karrer” in Zurich and continued with McKinsey & Co. as an associate principal in Zurich, New York and San Francisco. At Helsana, he built and headed a managed care division. In addition to that, he helped founding several start-ups and other entrepreneurial projects like medi-24, sentec, medix and others. Christian brings a huge knowledge and expertise in restructuring, experience in M&A, strategies into the organization.
Reto Stocker
Member of the Board
Reto is not only one of the most renowned medical doctors in Switzerland with a huge reputation far beyond the national borders. He furthermore is a profound expert of the health systems and its needs.
Reto graduated from the medicinal faculty in Zurich, where he finished his PhD and habilitated. He started his career at the university hospital in Zurich, where he reached the chief of medicine position. Today he is leading the institute of anesthesiology & intensive-care medicine as well as the research and teaching department at the Hirslanden clinic in Zurich. He published approx. 150 publications and has a proven track record of 3,500 citations.