Our Expert Panel
Dr Ulf Heim
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Ulf is a leading expert within McKinsey’s European Product Development Practice. His client work focuses on consumer goods and high-tech industries, as well as on automotive & assembly industries, with special emphasis on R&D strategy and product development.
He a is member of the European Design-to-Value (DTV) leadership group and is co leading DTV labs in Munich and Taipei. McKinsey’s proprietary algorithms, databases and clean sheet solution structures have been developed based on Ulf’s client work.
Ulf has over 10 years of industry experience with microelectromechanical systems and high tech R&D equipment. Prior to McKinsey, he served as Head of R&D for JENOPTIK Mikrotechnik GmbH and was founder & CEO of a MEMS startup. With his expertise in product development and experience across a variety of industries, Ulf is an indispensable member of our expert panel.
Matthieu Komorowski
MD PhD
Dr. Matthieu Komorowski holds a PhD in Medicine and Bioengineering from Imperial College London, was previously a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an affiliate of Harvard University.
His research brings together Machine Learning and critical care expertise to build clinical decision support systems. His work on reinforcement learning was awarded the first prize of Research and Innovation by the British Royal Society of Medicine and was published in Nature Medicine.
Due to his interdisciplinary background and entrepreneurial spirit, he is the ideal candidate to be on the expert panel of our hackathon.
Eisuke Shimizu
MD, PhD, CEO of Oui Inc.
Dr. Shimizu is an ophthalmologist and a senior consultant at the Keio University Hospital in Tokyo.
He is the CEO and founder of Oui Inc – a startup that couples a 3D printed ophthalmoscopic smartphone attachment with an app to helps diagnose common eye diseases in underprivileged countries, leading to reduction in blindness. His startup won the Eye Health Hero Award 2020 and will be participating at the TechEmerge Health East Africa Summit as one of over a thousand startups who applied.
He is an expert on 3D printing applications in a humanitarian context and thus an ideal candidate for our expert board.
Dr Debo Odulana
Founder, Doctoora
Dr Odulana is a medical doctor with experience in management consulting in healthcare. With great passion for Africa’s development, he has focused on reviving Nigeria’s healthcare system through multiple med- and health-tech startups, the latest one being Doctoora,
Doctoora Health is a multi-location health and wellness company using technology to provide access to quality healthcare services at affordable rates, anywhere, anytime, allowing individuals to collectively access health care at a much lower cost. By aggregating patients with similar conditions, Doctoora is able to unlock bulk discounts on health services including diagnostics and medicines.
Guénaël Morvan
nTopology
Guénaël is an Application Engineer at nTopology, where he focuses on bringing to life a new generation of applications. Using nTopology software, he helps customers to design, optimise, and automate applications across additive manufacturing (industrial 3D printing) and other technologies.
His work in the additive manufacturing industry started in 2015 during his master thesis at the European Space Agency, working on 3D printing in low and zero gravity. With a MSc degree in Material Science and engineering, he started his career at Thales Alenia Space in France. He then spent 4 years at Ultimaker, a globally-known 3D printer manufacturer before joining the nTopology team.
In his 6+ years experience in the manufacturing industry, Guenael has partnered with global accounts including Heineken, L’Oréal, Airbus, and Ikea, facilitating them through their 3D printing journeys.
Maria Eugenia Gandur
Doctors Without Borders
Nicole Rähle
Swiss Red Cross
Our Jury
Prof. Patricia Schlagenhauf
PhD
Patricia Schlagenhauf is a Senior Scientist and Professor at the University of Zurich, Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health (Switzerland) and is active in research, teaching and travel clinic duties.
She is the Zurich GeoSentinel Site Director, Chair of the GeoSentinel, External Collaborations Committee (ECCo) and EuroTravNet Coordinator/Steering Committee member and a member of the Swiss Expert Group for Travel Medicine. She serves the WHO as Collaborating Centre Co Director and as a member and Chair of various WHO advisory committees on travel medicine.
Her research focus areas are travellers’ malaria, epidemiology and prevention of travel associated disease, travellers’ vaccines and medications, gender issues in travel medicine. She is the author of more than 160 peer reviewed papers.
Jeremy Deuel
PhD
Dr. Jeremy Deuel graduated in Zurich and has a PhD in molecular physiology. He is currently working as a postdoc in the Lab of Professor Tony Green in Cambridge UK on the molecular mechanisms of JAK/STAT signalling in myeloproliferative neoplasms.
He has a strong background in developing and applying software tools to analyze and integrate large datasets of multi omics as well as patient centered database, bridging bench and bedside also on a computational level.
With his strong background in clinical as well as preclinical sciences he is an ideal candidate for our jury.
Dr Ulf Heim
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Ulf is a leading expert within McKinsey’s European Product Development Practice. His client work focuses on consumer goods and high-tech industries, as well as on automotive & assembly industries, with special emphasis on R&D strategy and product development.
He a is member of the European Design-to-Value (DTV) leadership group and is co leading DTV labs in Munich and Taipei. McKinsey’s proprietary algorithms, databases and clean sheet solution structures have been developed based on Ulf’s client work.
Ulf has over 10 years of industry experience with microelectromechanical systems and high tech R&D equipment. Prior to McKinsey, he served as Head of R&D for JENOPTIK Mikrotechnik GmbH and was founder & CEO of a MEMS startup. With his expertise in product development and experience across a variety of industries, Ulf is an indispensable member of our expert panel.
Bhawani Singh Shekhawat
CEO and Trustee, Akshaya Patra Foundation UK
The Akshaya Patra Foundation is the world’s largest school meals program, serving over 1.8 million children every day and having served nearly 4 billion meals.
Prior to leading Akshaya Patra in Europe, Bhawani had a career in the corporate world, leading large multi-national teams in organisations like Nielsen, Reckitt Benckiser and Coca-Cola in multiple geographies. He is also serves as adjunct faculty for Post-Graduate/Leadership Programs.
Bhawani is a regular speaker at company meets and industry events and is listed with the London Bureau of Speakers on Customer Centricity, Insight, Innovation and Leadership. He was also a member of the Health Tech Hackathon in London in 2018 committee, organised by the Akshaya Patra Foundation
Dominik Winter
Innovation at Swiss Armed Forces
Dominik Winter is a career officer in the Swiss Armed Forces with many years of experience in leadership, training, staff work, crisis management and security. After working as a flight attendant for Swissair and studying political science at ETH Zurich, he held various positions in army logistics.
Among other postings, he commanded the Logistics Battalion 52. After 10 years in Major Incident Management and the Group Security Department of Swisscom, he is now responsible for innovation management in the Swiss Armed Forces. Dominik Winter was on a military peace support mission in Bosnia- Herzegovina in 2009 and 2010.
Luise Ammerschuber
YESS Impact
Luise is the Director and Co founder of YESS Impact, a company specializing in social business, impact investing and gender empowerment. She is an official advisor to the Swiss Development Cooperation, a frequent international speaker and author of several guidebooks.
Her program “YESS Impact Sisters” supports local communities in Nigeria and Uganda by improving their livelihoods through accessible micro-credit and insurance systems.
Luise’s special interest is in employing the newest technologies for impact by bringing together key actors in tech, investment and NGOs like in her current project on “Blockchain Technology for Social Impact”. Luise holds an LLM Master (Honors Program) in International Human Rights Law and a BA (Honors) in International Relations and Development Studies from Maastricht University.
Adam Wojsa
CEO of Numlabs
CEO and founder of AI-oriented software house, Numlabs. Former quant in Krakow’s brockerage house IDM, CIO of Swiss edu-tech startup Braincore. Tech Lead in various Machine Learning projects performed by Numlabs, including computer vision, financial forecasting and industrial data pipelines. Combining strong technical background with business knowledge and leadership skills.
Our Mentors
Christian Eisenring
MD (Medicine)
Adam Wojsa
CEO of Numlabs
CEO and founder of AI-oriented software house, Numlabs. Former quant in Krakow’s brockerage house IDM, CIO of Swiss edu-tech startup Braincore. Tech Lead in various Machine Learning projects performed by Numlabs, including computer vision, financial forecasting and industrial data pipelines. Combining strong technical background with business knowledge and leadership skills.
Tom Riedel
3D printing
Guénaël Morvan
3D printing
An Application Engineer at nTopology, where he focuses on bringing to life a new generation of applications. Using nTopology software, he helps customers to design, optimise, and automate applications across additive manufacturing (industrial 3D printing) and other technologies.
With a MSc degree in Material Science and engineering, he started his career at Thales Alenia Space in France. He then spent 4 years at Ultimaker, a globally-known 3D printer manufacturer before joining the nTopology team.
In his 6+ years experience in the manufacturing industry, Guénaël has partnered with global accounts including Heineken, L’Oréal, Airbus, and Ikea to facilitate them through their 3D printing journies.
Dr Ulf Heim
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Ulf is a leading expert within McKinsey’s European Product Development Practice. His client work focuses on consumer goods and high-tech industries, as well as on automotive & assembly industries, with special emphasis on R&D strategy and product development.
He a is member of the European Design-to-Value (DTV) leadership group and is co leading DTV labs in Munich and Taipei. McKinsey’s proprietary algorithms, databases and clean sheet solution structures have been developed based on Ulf’s client work.
Ulf has over 10 years of industry experience with microelectromechanical systems and high tech R&D equipment. Prior to McKinsey, he served as Head of R&D for JENOPTIK Mikrotechnik GmbH and was founder & CEO of a MEMS startup. With his expertise in product development and experience across a variety of industries, Ulf is an indispensable member of our expert panel.