Luís Meireles is currently CEO and co-owner of MDI Industrial a Medical Device Industry in Brazil and a senior consultant for European companies. Luís is Portuguese, Ph.D. in Biotechnology but moved to Brazil, spending the last decade helping to introduce medical devices into Latin America he was responsible for the introduction of Mortara Instruments in Brazil with a successful plan growing from almost zero to one of the market leaders. He was a senior consultant for Hill-Rom visiting almost all countries in Latin America, being perfectly aware of the difficulties of implementing and growing the health market in LATAM, especially in Brazil.

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Christian is an entrepreneur and advisor in the bio, pharma, healthcare, and technology sectors with 20 years of strategic advisory, business creation, development, and operational experience. He works with biotech companies and VCs on business development and strategy, with industry on innovation, pipeline, and business development, with institutions on technology transfer & innovation, with governments, institutions, and systems on innovation strategy, policy, and ecosystem development, and has served on biotech, patient organization, and non-profit boards.

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Mona Oliveira is one of the creators and founders of the startup BIOLINKER, which in 2019 was awarded as one of the TOP 500 best startups in the world in the area of biotechnology for the project she coordinates. Double Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Nanotechnology from USP (Brazil) and IJS (Slovenia). During her academic career, she has accumulated awards and honors for performance and scientific excellence, publishing in annals and journals of international renown. Currently, he is Co-CEO of BIOLINKER acting in scientific operations and negotiations.

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Steve Scalia is the President of Tanner Pharma Group, a 20-year-old specialist pharmaceutical services provider headquartered in Charlotte, NC USA with offices in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Switzerland, and Ireland. Tanner provides a portfolio of service offerings focused on improving global access to medicines worldwide. In his role, Steve leads the company’s business activities with oversight of the commercial divisions, cross-functional departments, the Corporate Governance Team, and the Senior Management Team.

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Jacobo Luchtan is the CEO and Co-Founder at HelloDoctor, a Mexican startup providing data-driven telehealth services. They operate in more than 10 Latin American countries and have successful cases with patients from each. They created a neutral bridge that connects patients and healthcare practitioners where they can provide online consultations, digital recipes, online pharmacies, track their medical records, and more.

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For over 30 years Alvaro has been advising people and companies on Intellectual Property and Regulatory Affairs, developing strategies for companies to comply with the regulations and protect their assets. Alvaro has an extensive international experience with greater emphasis on the countries of America.

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Jay Nadkarni is a Business Consultant and Adviser to Life Science companies with Ambiance Ventures in Pennsylvania. Jay is also Managing Partner at Molecule Market OU in Estonia which serves Europe. Jay has 20+ years of experience in multiple therapeutic areas in Product Development, Licensing, and Global Marketing. He is an industry expert with unique abilities to validate and bridge market needs with pragmatic solutions and offer actionable proposals for measuring returns on investment.

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Motivated professional with more than 15 years experience on diagnostic and research multinational companies at marketing, scientific support and training, and commercial and management roles with experience in selling reagents, instruments, and services in research and clinical markets; organizing events/conferences/symposiums; giving training sessions and talks on scientific and corporate meetings; managing importation, promotion and sales operations in Brazil and managing distributors in Latin America.
Twelve years’ academic experience on research in virology and molecular biology and holder of a Ph.D. in Science (emphasis on Molecular Virology) issued by the University of São Paulo - USP and Post-Doc also in Molecular Virology completed at Campinas State University - UNICAMP.

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Thomas Grandell is the CEO and founder of Etsimo Healthcare Ltd, a Finnish company providing data-driven healthcare solutions to its customers with the help of AI and machine learning. Thomas strongly believes that the key to transforming healthcare lies in combining data, technology, and empathy. Thomas has an M.Sc Econ and has been an entrepreneur all his life. Thomas puts innovative thoughts and technologies to work to enable new ways of doing things, making the experience either faster, more cost-effective, better, or easier, or preferably all of these at the same time.

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Chief Executive Officer and Founder of a successful cutting-edge healthcare business spanning four countries on two continents. Additional experience includes asset management and investment banking in the UK and Switzerland and an MBA from the University of Oxford. Expertise in strategy, innovation, investment, scale-ups and business development.

Humãnus Regenerative Medicine is a group of companies based in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is the first company to introduce adipose-derived stem cells therapies in Argentina & Paraguay.

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BS in Civil Engineering. More than 40 years of urban building experience; more than 20 years of experience in design-build; construction of pharmaceutical facilities, and more than 15 years involved in startups dealing with technological innovation.

Founded Naveta Construcciones in 1983, a real estate development firm that completed more than 300 projects. Founded Grupo Inmobiliario Pharma, S.A. de C.V. (Parque Pharma®) back in 2003 as a boutique real estate firm focused on the Life Sciences Industry in Mexico. Back in 2009, founded Biohominis and Biodetecta, both biotech companies pursuing the molecular diagnostic market. In 2011, founded T4Oligo, a company focused on offering oligonucleotides to the Mexican market.

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CEO and founder of the Alium group of companies in Peru. Rolando is a dentist, a service provider for the local dentistry sector, and a medical device distributor of dental products. Rolando’s academic credentials include a global executive MBA from the IESE business school, a fellowship in endodontics, a degree in dental surgery.

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Mahesh Narayanan is an entrepreneur in biotechnology with extensive experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry, and a strong focus on business development and business start-up strategies. As an active member of the Small Business community, he provides business and scientific guidance in the development of therapeutics and medical devices. He has experience in taking an idea from concept to consumers and considerable knowledge on patents, business plans, fundraising, and incorporation. Mahesh received his Master’s in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania and his bachelor’s degrees in History and Pre-Medical Sciences from Boston University.

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Hernan Burgos is an IT Professional with over 30 years of experience working with various organizations including government, law, and health.

Hernan has been the Director of Sales Development for Smile CDR for the last 4 years, with a growth of 300% during 2020 and expecting a 500% growth for 2021. Smile CDR has clients in 15 countries with a forecast of reaching 20+ countries by 2022. We are living through a historical moment in the Health Information World Systems, for the first time the entire world is adopting one health standard to reach interoperability and reduce development and operational costs.

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Marie O’Malley is the Senior Director of Supplier Outreach for Medtronic, responsible for developing and executing long-term Medtronic supplier outreach programs, including efforts around Responsible Supply Management and Supplier Diversity. In her role, she also liaises with various government officials and development boards to advance Medtronic’s Supplier relations. Marie also leads the team to advance communication strategies for Medtronic’s Global Supply Management organization.

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Charlie Webb is the Founder and President of Van der Stahl Scientific, a medical device packaging and texting machine provider. He also hosts the popular Podcast “SPOT Radio” (sterile packaging on track). Charlie earned his BS degree in Management at University of Redlands and completed the medical device development program at the Andersen graduate school of management at UCLA. Charlie is a “lifetime” certified packaging professional “CPPL” certified through the institute of packaging professionals as well as a “Six Sigma Master Black Belt”.

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Mr. Deven Patel, the CEO, President and Cofounder of Global Institute of Stem Cell Therapy and Research (GIOSTAR) with headquarter in San Diego, California, U.S.A. GIOSTAR was formed with the vision to provide affordable stem cell based therapies to the masses around the world suffering from degenerative or genetic diseases and unable to afford today’s high cost of the treatment. Mr. Patel has served as the CEO, President and Board of Directors in highly comprehensive industries such as Healthcare, Stem Cell Research, Architectural, General Construction, Alternative Energy and Multifaceted Internet industries.

Dr. Anand Srivastava has been associated with leading universities and research institutions of USA. In affiliation with University of California San Diego Medical College (UCSD), University of California Irvine Medical College (UCI), Salk Research Institute, San Diego, Burnham Institute For Medical Research, San Diego, University of California Los Angeles Medical College (UCLA), USA has helped develop several research programs and has an extensive research experience in the field of stem cell which is documented by several publications in revered scientific journals.

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During 2020 Jonathan has been in a crucial leadership position, steering Livinguard through a unique inflection point in its business and building the teams to drive brand building, communications, and sales for Livinguard’s antiviral, reusable face masks, and several other new products. Jonathan has a wealth of business and leadership experience, having spent the previous 14 years with 3M, where amongst other roles he was Managing Director, 3M Israel. As an innovation enthusiast, he established the first connections between 3M and the Israel Innovation ecosystem and held the position of New Tech Scout for 3M New Ventures in Israel. During his tenure, he held board seats with 2 start-ups and was involved in several other investments on behalf of 3M.

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Dr. Michael Hill is a global-minded senior executive with a history of success creating meaningful, patient-inspired, medical device technology innovations. He is a skilled entrepreneur demonstrating repeat innovation execution from idea/discovery to commercial scale. He was inducted in 2012 as an American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow and awarded the Distinguished Engineering Alumni from Duke University in 2013. He possesses deep domain knowledge of science and technology and has more than 27 years of experience with research, product development, and clinical research/regulatory. He is adept in successfully leading large global organizations, as well as multiple programs and projects, to achieve target goals. He has a thorough understanding of the fundamentals related to global healthcare systems to deliver impactful transformative innovations.

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Seasoned Healthcare Executive with proven skills for people development, organizational transformation and motivation with 15 years delivering above and beyond financial results.
Mr. Pastor has exemplary external focus and is highly collaborative not only with customers but with a wide range of stakeholders to match company with customer’s needs. He is very adaptive and able to connect strategy to purpose in a way that fosters commitment, Javier has imagination to innovate and the courage to implement organizational changes and go to market strategies highly inclusive and able to build great teams.

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