Tech4Eva Roadshow Supporting Women’s Health in the Workplace

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.

Pascal is director of the unlimitrust campus initiated by SICPA. In his role, he is building a community and an innovation platform focused on digital trust and cybersecurity.  

Most recently, Pascal held several positions in the US within Swiss Re, a global reinsurer, focusing on digital strategy and innovation management. Previously, Pascal spent 20 years as a Swiss diplomat as one of the early leaders of the Swissnex network, a private–public partnership dedicated to facilitating collaboration with Swiss universities, startups and corporates in all fields related to science, technology and innovation.

After spending a decade establishing key partnerships and activities in Boston, Pascal moved to China to establish the Swissnex platform in the region. He holds Law degrees from the University of Lausanne and Boston University as well as an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Sapna Rao is a purpose-driven strategy leader for consumer-centric health solutions at Philips. As strategy lead for a corporate venture, she is focused on identifying opportunities and defining solutions that empower consumers to improve their health at home. She is naturally curious and a problem solver, who believes in the power of bringing data, empathy for consumers, and creativity together to create impactful innovation. Working with a cross-functional team of product managers, researchers, and designers, she is unafraid to dive into the details yet keeps an eye on the bigger picture. With this perspective, she is an effective communicator and advisor to key decision makers in her organization.

Sapna enjoys connecting with, learning from, and sharing feedback with individuals in the digital health ecosystem through industry conferences and other forums. She looks forward to meaningful exchanges with the newest startup cohort.

Prior to Philips, she worked in strategic consulting at Accenture with a focus on digital health and consumer experiences in healthcare. Outside of work, she enjoys the great outdoors and creative pursuits like painting, music and cooking. She is based in the greater Boston area.

Hanne Langmoen is Senior Business Director International at embecta.

Before joining the MedTech industry almost 5 years ago, she spent close to 20 years in Procter & Gamble across various commercial functions. She has extensive leadership experience across a variety of roles within P&L management, Marketing, Sales and Strategy. She is passionate about identifying growth opportunities for businesses through a customer-centric approach, whether it be as an entrepreneur in the eCommerce space or as an executive in an international, corporate set-up.

She has lived & worked in emerging as well as developed markets, and is fluent in 6 European languages.

Areas of expertise: B2B & B2C Commercialization(marketing and sales), Digital Marketing, Customer Understanding, P&L management, eCommerce, Diabetes Industry

She holds a Bachelor Degree from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland.

She is an Industrial Engineer with a passion for driving innovation and category development in the healthcare sector. Leveraging her proficiency in English, German, French, and Spanish, she thrives in multicultural environments and aspires to improve consumer health outcomes.

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