Operational Team
Reto Schegg
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.
Barbara Tappeiner
CTO
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Jacques Fellay
Chief Medical Officer and Founding Partner
Jacques is a medical doctor and researcher, with expertise in genomics and infectious diseases and strong interest in personalized health, and a co-founder of healthbank. He is an Assistant Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences, a Visiting Physician at the Lausanne University Hospital and a Group Leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. In 2012, he was awarded the National Latsis Prize for his work on HIV and HCV host genomics.
Daniela Gunz
Director of Research Partnerships
Daniela holds a PhD in biochemistry from the ETH in Zurich. She has 15 years of experience in clinical research and drug development. As Clinical Research Director at MSD in Switzerland she was responsible for Phase I to IV trials in various disease areas. Through her assignment as president of the Clinical Research Working group of ScienceIndustries she broadened her network in the Swiss clinical research environment, partnered with government, academia and industry and helped to shape the clinical research field. Additional assignment include board membership of SwAPP and advisory board membership of EUPATI Switzerland.
Karsten Stampa
Managing Director healthbank Germany
Hans is an expert with long term experience in different areas of healthcare IT. He was CIO in a private hospital in Switzerland, product manager for an international clinical information solution and project manager for many different local and international healthcare IT projects. Hans is convinced about the maturation of technology and society for “empowered patient” and sees in healthbank the fantastic chance for a successful realization of the multifaceted ideas around the patient and healthcare.
Horst Rzepka
Head of Finance
Mel is an almost 20-year veteran of the software industry, having begun his career as a developer in 1997 at the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority in Dublin, at the tender age of 17. In Dublin, he spent time working for midrange tech companies, financial institutions and some startups in the then-burgeoning Dublin tech scene. In 2008, he moved to Switzerland to take a position with UBS. Since then he has been based in and around Zürich, building systems for financial institutions, robotics and medical device companies. He has a keen interest in emergent tech, especially A.I., Blockchain applications and touchless UI. Mel holds a B.Sc. from Trinity College, Dublin and an M.Sc from the University of Salford.