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.
Hans Hess
Director Project Development and Implementation
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.
Karsten Stampa
Chief Financial Officer
Karsten started his career as a top-management consultant for several German institutions especially in strategic management, strategy processes, risk management and financial control.
His main expertise lies in visioning strategy processes, organizational & leadership fit as well as internal control systems to enable companies to flourish and grow. His experience ranges from financial institutions via automotive, public sector to digital start-ups.
Karsten holds an MBA from both Berlin and Cambridge and gained an extensive knowledge and experience in strategy and business development. Since 2008, he’s also been a lecturer at Berlin School of Economics & Law, teaching strategic management & leadership.
Jacques Fellay
Founder and Chief Medical Officer
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.
Nicole Okaj
Manager Marketing and Communication
Nicole has a long-standing expertise in marketing and communication and learned her job from scratch. Following her personal interests, very early in her career, she started to specialize in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Besides her knowledge in these areas she also got deep insights in the IT and service sector. Thanks to her experience working for advertising agencies as well as small and medium sized companies and international corporations she offers a 360° viewing angle on customers and their needs.
Margot Vanfleteren
Manager Patient Engagement
Margot Vanfleteren is a student of Health Sciences at Maastricht University. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus at age 2.5 and ever since has had a thirst for health-related knowledge. Diabetes allowed Margot to see everything from a different perspective and challenged her on a daily basis to question health care. In the past 20 years she experienced health care as a patient and this enables her to improve health care delivery around the globe from the patient's perspective. Margot is a Young Leader in Diabetes for the International Diabetes Federation and is active in various diabetes related projects. Margot loves to put her passion to work to make health accessible for every individual.
Daniela Gunz
Director of Research Partnerships
Daniela Gunz 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.
Jody Ranck
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development (US only)
Jody has over 25 years of global experience in healthcare, working with commercial and non-commercial organizations and trade groups. He has authored many relevant publications, including the GigaOM research report “Platform wars for the quantified self” and a leading digital health book, “Connected Health: How Mobiles, Cloud and Big Data will Reinvent Healthcare.” He holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Health Policy and Administration, an MA in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA in Biology (Molecular Biology) from Ithaca College.
Stephan Zahn
Chief Technology Officer / Chief Operations Officer
Stephan is an expert in healthcare IT. As a former CIO/CTO of a large hospital group he has excellent management skills and a profound knowledge of the healthcare IT market. His long term experience in project management and program management will help to keep projects and implementation milestones on track.
As product manager for a RIS/PACS solution he was responsible for requirements, specifications, and quality management. He has also a deep understanding of communication standards and protocols in healthcare IT. Being active in the healthcare IT ecosystem for more than 15 years, he has built up a strong network. Stephan is convinced that personal data will help to substantially improve personal health. He sees that healthbank.coop will give people full control of their personal data. This will influence the way how people will manage their personal health.