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.
Carolina Breitenmoser
Finance & Office Assistant
Carolina started her career as a commercial employee. She has been working for many years as an accountant in various companies in areas such as fiduciary services, IT, as well as in travel agencies for luxury cruises. In addition to this expertise in finance and accounting, she also has sound knowledge in social insurance.
Rolf Eleveld
Head of Software Development
Rolf is a nerd having a very broad and deep digital expertise. With many years of experience in international and multi-cultural teams he knows how to manage people onsite as well as remote. Adopting an agile and lean approach he knows how to motivate IT engineers to focus on targets and to deliver business ideas. Throughout his career he focused on startups and small businesses and thereby reached expertise to create software solutions that fulfill business plans.
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.
Pauline Geniets
Marketing Manager Investor Relations
Pauline started her career in sales and as project manager marketing communication for various multinationals in different countries. Her experience lies in the finance industry, telecommunication, medical systems as well as in the SME market Switzerland. After this working experience she launched a start-up in Switzerland. With her go-getter attitude and pragmatic approach she made the company grow and sold it and started to put her focus in getting marcomm strategies fit for new digital platforms.
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.
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.
Mel Padden
Full Stack Software Developer
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.
Uwe Diegel
Head Product Management
Uwe Diegel is a specialist in various forms of medical diagnostics such as blood pressure, temperature, asthma and diabetes. He is the holder of several patents relating to temperature and blood pressure measurement. Until the age of 26 he was a concert pianist. Following an accident that partially restricted movement in in right arm, he started a new career in medical diagnostics. In 2009, Uwe got interested in connected health as a means of providing better patient management. He became involved in iHealth, a platform that takes all the signals of the body and translates them into a meaningful format using smartphones and tablets. Uwe served as CEO of iHealthLabs Europe until 2016. Uwe Diegel has been at the forefront of international changes in healthcare technology for the last 30 years. His drive and passion for innovative technology have driven major changes in perception about healthcare.
Karsten Stampa
Chief Financial Officer
& Chief Operating 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.
Margot Vanfleteren
Manager Patient Engagement
Margot 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.