Medical device companies endeavour to connect their innovative products, to enable collaboration with patients. While they understand the importance of data to enhance personalized remote patient monitoring and ensure the continuum of care they can not afford investing in complex and timely projects and implementation.
Mark Goldstein, Chairman of the UCSF Health Hub
Mark is the Founder and Chairman of UCSF Health Hub, UCSF's innovation hub that helps healthcare inventors and earlier stage companies scale and grow. UCSF Health Hub produces the annual UCSF Digital Health Awards, hosts monthly events on campus or online and has over 10,000 members and subscribers.
Mark got his start as a full-time operator – co-founding a dozen fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, retail, green tech, online gaming, and music ventures over the past 30 years. More recently he shifted from being an entrepreneur or more of a coach to other entrepreneurs and focusing on investing and advising. Mark also previously was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Softbank and then at NEA and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has served on its Board of Overseers.
Mark is a Director of Conversa Health and Neuroflow.
Ronen Jashek, Co-founder & COO of Theranica
Ronen is an international marketing, sales and business development executive in the hi-tech industry. Prior to co-founding Theranica, Ronen managed the entire business operations of Siano Mobile Silicon. As the company’s co-founder and VP Marketing, Sales and Customer Support he led the company from its fresh start to become the world’s #1 provider of mobile DTV solutions.
Before joining Siano as a director of software Ronen had served as software manager and team leader in various companies, among them DECT product line at DSPG, and ModemArt (acquired by Agere) and Sensotech. He brings a unique combination of recognized technological and business qualifications, with vast experience and deep understanding of international markets (including China) and proven track record for establishing market leadership. Ronen holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, and MBA – both from Bar Ilan University (Israel).
Thomas Balkizas, EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Segment Lead of AWS
Thomas Balkizas has a wealth of experience in leadership and consulting for Global Healthcare, Life Sciences and Technology businesses. Thomas currently leads the Healthcare and Life Sciences segment in EMEA for Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.
Daniel Adler, CEO, Co-founder, BioT
Daniel is the CEO & Co-Founder of BioT and has extensive experience in IT, internet and telecom. Previously, he was part of Valens’ management, a leading semiconductor company in the area of high-speed connectivity, where he led the Automotive Business Unit and managed all automotive activities and partnerships with key OEMs and Tier-1/2s worldwide. Prior to Valens, Daniel was VP Sales and Business Development at 3i-MIND, where he built the sales and marketing processes from scratch. He also served as Director of Business Development and Strategic Accounts at NICE Systems, in charge of worldwide key accounts. Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Computers from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.