Tech4Eva Opening Conference 2024

Lan is the Deputy Managing Director of EPFL Innovation Park and an Expert of Innosuisse – the Swiss Innovation Agency.  She has 23 years of hands-on professional experience in industry as well as in the ecosystem of innovation & entrepreneurship.

Lan started her career at R&D department of Rolex, in charge of creating new computer aided design and optimisation tools in the product development process. She was later appointed as Head of Operational Planning at Pictet, working closely with a startup to design, develop and implement a management information system for group operation control. As the Managing Director of Geneva Creativity Center, she connected large corporations, SMEs, startups and researchers to initiate innovative joint R&D projects.

Currently at EPFL Innovation Park, she is leading entrepreneurship training and acceleration programs and is helping startups to establish business partnership with large corporations. Lan has a PhD degree from EPFL, an MBA from HEC Lausanne and postdoctoral applied research experience at Stanford University.

With over 10 years of experience in R&D of medical devices, Laura works as a Team Section Lead at Helbling Technik, a leading engineering and consulting firm in Switzerland.

She holds a PhD in Robotics from EPFL, related to robotic surgery and conducted postdoctoral research at ETHZ, exploring robotics for rehabilitation. Following these two fields she has a lot of interest and tries to keep the team updated on the latest progress in actuator control and neuro-interfaces.

Laura is highly motivated to play her part in driving innovation in women's health by mentoring Femtech startups. She aims to support them by leveraging her experience in risk reduction through systems architecture, electrical safety of medical devices, medical software development, design control, and clinical trial technical support.

Laurent-Dominique Piveteau joined Debiotech in 2005 and was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in 2015. Prior to this, Laurent-Dominique held several positions in R&D and in business development. During his PhD thesis, he collaborated with the Robert Mathys Foundation, he was a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, US) working on contrast media for MRI, and worked in technology transfer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland). Laurent-Dominique also co-founded NextKidney, a spin-off of Debiotech and taught Innovation Economics at EPFL. He is non-executive director at RSP Systems, a Denmark based medtech startup and at Oxyprem AG, based in Zürich.

He holds an MSc in Physics from the ETH Zürich (Switzerland), a PhD from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and an MBA from INSEAD in Singapore and Fontainebleau (France).

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Stefan Troller, Senior Vice President at Helbling Technik Bern AG and Partner at Helbling Group, brings over 20 years of experience in Microengineering to his role. His focus has primarily been on the development of medical devices and optics within the Helbling organization.

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Jérôme has over 10 years of background experience in the insurance industry. He has specific skills in company turnarounds, management of large scale projects, and management of 700+ teams.

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Anna holds a MSc from Stockholm School of Economics, as well as diplomas from the Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

She is passionate about the mix between economics, technology and the human aspect of healthcare.

In her current role she is responsible for the Innovation activities carried out at Groupe Mutuel, aiming to constantly bringing new topics and trends to the table.

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Jérôme is an EPFL Alumni, MSc in Material Science Engineering (2011) and CAS in Management of Life Sciences Ventures (2023), Project Management Professional (PMP 2021) and Situational Leadership Trainer (SLII 2022) with 15 years of experience in innovation, operations management, 1 successful exit and two businesses up and running (Augeo Business Coaching and PhenomX Health SA).

Jérôme is currently an active startup coach/mentor at Tech4Eva, FemTechLab, MassChallenge Switzerland and, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of PhenomX Health, an early stage Swiss FemTech startup.

That’s his passion for entrepreneurship that pushes him to create his first company in 2010 while studying and after 5 years and a successful exit, join Procter & Gamble to drive and scale-up innovation. During more than a decade managing corporate innovation Jérôme developed a strong expertise in the consumer goods and healthcare industries, notably managing P&G/Teva Pharmaceuticals JV post dissolution and the integration of Merck consumer health from an end-to-end technical operations point of view.

As a coach and mentor since 2021 Jérôme regularly supports startups and SMEs in the fields of MedTech, Digital Health and BioTech. These activities helped him develop a strong understanding of the Swiss and International startup ecosystem and, network. His fields of expertise include business strategy and operations, portfolio and resources management, digital transformation, organizational design and development, strategic partnerships.

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