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Carlos Rodríguez

Board Director

Carlos Rodriguez began his career at the Peugeot Group, before moving to the New Technologies department of Uralita, as Project Manager. Carlos has also worked for Procter & Gamble in Geneva in the marketing intelligence department. He was in charge of new product forecasting and the deployment of in-market sales tracking systems of major consumer brands. In addition, Carlos was responsible for managing cross-functional new products innovation. Carlos is a founding partner of the venture capital fund Milk Capital in Paris, where he was responsible for evaluating technology-based investments and the founder of Madrid Ventures, a tech accelerator for startups. Carlos is a member of the board of directors and CEO of CogniFit. He earned an Industrial Engineering Master Degree from the Polytechnic University Carlos III of Madrid, and the Grande Ecole INSA of Lyon, France.

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Prof. Dr. Shlomo Breznitz

Professor of psychology and former president of the University of Haifa

Renowned cognitive psychologist, Professor Shlomo Breznitz has been engaged as visiting professor by numerous leading institutions including the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, London School of Economics, and the US Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health. Author of seven books and many scientific articles, Prof. Breznitz is founding director of the Center for the Study of Psychological Stress at the University of Haifa, where he also served as Lady Davis Professor of Psychology, Rector, and University President. He is currently one of the members of CogniFit's board of directors.

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Nathanael Eisenberg

Entrepreneur & Investor

Mr. Eisenberg started his career in banking at Schroders in Geneva before working as a financial analyst in the Trading Room of the Union Bancaire Privé. Mr. Eisenberg then moved out of the banking industry and worked for the IT Consulting firm Cap Gemini in their Telecommunication group in London. He then transferred to Paris to assist in the management of a Publishing Group before being recruited in the European headquarters of Procter and Gamble in Geneva where he held marketing positions managing a portfolio of brands. Mr. Eisenberg then went with P&G to Madrid to oversee the launch of a key Home Care initiative in the Iberian market. After this commercial and marketing experience, Mr. Eisenberg went to Paris and founded with a group of partners Milk Capital, a Venture Capital fund specializing in micro to mid-sized investments in sectors ranging for telecommunication and internet technology. He then took over CogniFit as CEO and finally was elected Chairman in January 2014. Mr. Eisenberg is also the founder & CEO of Bayrock. Nathanael Eisenberg is graduated from the HEC Lausanne with a Master of Management and Business Administration.

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Juan A. Beceiro Friedmann

Corporate Sales & Consulting

Mr. Friedmann spent 28 years in the healthcare (HC) industry, of which 14 years were with GEHC in a number of Sales and Marketing leadership positions in EU. Former CMO & BD Director for South EU (2007-2014). Prior roles: Marketing Director Diagnostics Imaging Drugs, Product Mgr. Cardiac Imaging at Amersham Health, Sales Manager at Life Technologies (LT, former Gibco-BRL company).Strong strategic foundation acquired through 3 decades of Sales, Marketing & BD roles at GEHC, Amersham and LT. He grew GEHC business by Alliances & new GTM plans,in particular GE’s MS by 13pts and won a public tender of $50m, increasing top line with +8%. Juan Antonio supported EU projects for key New Product Innovations, and x-industry partnerships to open up new sales channels for GE. And re-positioned several products to increase MS, too.Co-founded 37Celsius Capital Partners LLC, a digital health fund, is serving to grow TeleMedCare LLC, founded a Sport Clinic in Madrid and helped Boston Sci. new solutions in EU. He served on the EU Academic Innovation Programs, and in the Disease Initiatives EU Working Group at GE. Member of the Innovation Committee of IDIS (Spanish Private HC Association), and of the Innovation Committee of the Spanish Medtech Trade Association (Fenin). He received a Master degree in Marketing (ESIC), Master degree in Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management (EADA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (UAB) Barcelona. He received several Leadership & Executive training programs in GE and GE Healthcare.

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Jon Kizner

Senior Vice President, Business Development at EVERSANA

Customer-focused Life Sciences Solutions Selling Executive with 20 years of over achievement in software applications and consulting services. Jon has helped dozens of Life Sciences innovators commercialize their assets from pre-launch (HEOR and value generation, pricing, market access and reimbursement, full branding and agency services) to launch (HUB services and integrated specialty pharma dispensation, 3PL) and in-market revenue maximization (sales teams, affordability and adherence programs, revenue management, process optimization). Before Eversana Jon had several sales and executive roles at Teranode, OpenText, and Model N.

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Marc Filerman

Managing Partner, German Accelerator Life Sciences

Marc Filerman is Managing Partner at German Accelerator Life Sciences – an organization accelerating international growth of German startups. With over 30 years in healthtech, Marc has expertise in market development, commercialization, and innovation acceleration, and broad experience leading marketing, sales, and business development for large companies and startups. Marc co-founded a molecular imaging startup, and was Chief Commercial Officer at an NIH-funded hometech venture. Prior to that, Marc held multiple corporate leadership positions including VP of Global Marketing at iCAD, and Group Director of Marketing at Smith & Nephew. Marc holds MS and BS engineers degrees from MIT, did his graduate work at the MIT AI Lab, and started his career designing ultrasound imaging equipment.

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Jordi Albo-Canals

Chief Scientific Officer at Lighthouse DIG

Jordi is a renowned expert in social agents, emotion artificial intelligence, cloud computing platforms, healthtech, and edtech with over 100 publications on international conferences, journals, and book chapters. He is now the co-founder and CSO of the LIGHTHOUSE – Disruptive Innovation Group. During this career Jordi was senior Research Scientist Sant Joan de Déu Innovation and R&D department– Barcelona Children’s Hospital Foundation, CSO of the Empowered Brain Institute, Affiliate Researcher at Tufts University, Affiliate Researcher at MIT Media Lab, CSO of the Boston Exponential Hub at NTT DATA CORP, Robotics Innovation and Scientific Manager at NextGen everis-NTT DATA. Jordi graduated as Telecommunications Engineering (EE/CS) from La Salle - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona (Spain)

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Nnamdi Alozie

Healthcare Strategy | Innovation

Healthcare and management executive with over 15 years experience in strategy, operations, and Innovation. Committed to building a healthier, equitable and efficient healthcare system. Nnamdi is the Director of Corporate Strategy at Indiana University Health, Investor at What If Ventures and Board Member at The Coneflower Institute & Liberty Grove Schools.

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Prof. Josep Brugada Terradellas

MD, PhD, FESC is a Cardiologist, Specialist in Biology and Sport Medicine and MBA Management in Health Services.

Prof Brugada is a Senior Consultant at the Hospital Clínic, Barcelona and Head of the Arrhythmia Section at the Pediatric Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and Head of the Arrhythmia Unit of the Clínica Quirón Palmaplanas and Clínica Rotger in Palma de Mallorca and Clínica Girona in Girona. Consultant in Clínica Teknon, Barcelona. Past President of the European Heart Rhythm Association. He has published more than 500 original papers in the most relevant international journals, with an H index of 83 and more than 25.000 citations. Prof. Brugada held also the post of Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Cardiology. He is member of several scientific societies and is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Barcelona since 1998. He discovered, treated and found the genetic cause of a rare syndrome causing Sudden Death, which is known in the scientific literature as “Brugada Syndrome”. He is Doctor Honoris Causa by several Universities around the world and he has received multiple Prices and Awards including the Fritz-Acker Award of the German Society of Cardiology, the Josep Trueta Award of the Catalan Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Rey Jaime I Award in clinical medicine.

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Prof. Dr. Juan J. Bestard Perelló

Expert in law and healthcare and data management

Juan José Bestard Perelló has a degree in medicine and surgery, a degree and a PhD in law, with a master's degree in Public Health-Health Administration (UAM) and an MBA (ICADE). He is a specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health and trained in Health Economics at Johns Hopkins.

Juan was General Director at INSALUD, Deputy Minister of Health in the Community of Madrid and General Director at IB-Salut. Vice President of the Manacor Hospital Foundation and the Alcorcón Hospital Foundation.

Juan was Managing Director of several privately run public hospitals, Deputy to the CEO of Drager-Spain&Latin America (Vice President of Drager-International) and was President and CEO of Actualidad Sanitaria, S.A., President of the Health Law Section of the ICAM and President of the Double Degree Physicians Section of the ICOMEM. Juan was president, secretary and member of several foundations and NGOs, and was appointed quality officer of the PAHO in 2004.

Juan is currently Head of Studies of the Juaneda Healthcare Network, an assistant physician for Information Analysis at the La Paz Hospital, teaches at UAM, is a master's coordinator at UNIR, a professor at the ICAM Study Center and a member of the Ethics and Deontology Commission of ICOMEM.

He practices law in Madrid, and is an expert in health law and data protection in health. He created the UPA at INSALUD in 1990-1992 and was one of the pilots of the health reform in Spain between 1992-2002.

He has given more than 70 university courses, more than 160 national and international conferences and numerous publications and other press forums, and has published 12 books.

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