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STRATEGY • INNOVATION • RISK • FINANCE • EXECUTION

Sharper decisions.
Stronger execution.
Real outcomes. 

I help healthcare and life-science founders turn complex science and technology into structured, fundable and executable ventures and realign them when progress stalls. I work across the front end of innovation, bringing together venture strategy, innovation process, risk and opportunity management, investment logic and hands-on execution.

20+ years

Operating experience

Healthcare • Medtech • Life Sciences • TIC

€1B innovation portfolio

Risk & governance responsibility

Independent

Evidence-led • hands-on

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WHY BRING ME IN

I have operated inside the system - not from the outside.

Across strategy, finance, risk, innovation, project and portfolio management, digital transformation, regulation and emerging technologies.

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I have owned decisions with direct accountability - not just advised on them.

As a management team member, business controller, global risk manager and program manager.

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I bring clarity under pressure - in complex, uncertain, high-stakes environments.

Built in healthcare, life science and medtech world leading companies across global portfolios, transformation programs and investment choices.

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I understand where and why innovation fails - and how to realign it.

Across the full lifecycle, from idea to commercialization, under real constraints and regulation.

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My decision-making is grounded in rigor - not hype, trends or unchecked assumptions.

Combining quantitative depth, scientific intuition and operational reality.

WHEN I ADD MOST VALUE

When the direction is unclear, progress has stalled or a critical decision is approaching.

Whether the question is what to build, where to focus or whether to commit further time and capital, I help determine what needs to happen next.

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01 BUILD

Build the right venture.

 

Promising science or technology, but the strategy, customer, market, value proposition, business model or investment logic still needs to take shape.

02 REALIGN

Realign a venture that is not progressing.

Pilots are not converting. Customers are not engaging. Too many markets or use cases compete for attention. Activity is high, but progress is not.

03 DECIDE

Make the next critical decision.

A meaningful commitment of time, capital or resources is approaching — and the evidence needs to support what happens next.

360° Perspective.
Focused action.

I do diagnose a venture through multiple functional lenses. I look across the system then narrow quickly to what matters most as not everything matters equally and not everything matters now.

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I do not only use existing frameworks. I invent and build proprietary models and decision tools to solve complex problems in science-driven innovation.

Scan wide

See the venture as a system.

Look across the dimensions instead of assuming the problem belongs to one function.

Find the constraint

Identify what matters most now.

Separate symptoms from the issue most likely to block progress or weaken the next decision.

Focus on action

Work where the leverage is highest.

Resolve the critical gap, build the missing evidence and move to the next defensible step.

HOW I WORK

BRANDS & IP

I do not just advise on innovation. I invent and build ideas of my own.

Original frameworks, models, methodologies, protected IP and emerging ventures - built around problems I believe deserve better solutions.

 MY EDGES

Why I can do that?

Most practitioners build depth in one domain. My career required credibility across multiple opposing ones -simultaneously, with accountability.

  • Opposing Capability Mastery
    Finance, Risk & Control        < >   Innovation & Venturing 
    Strategy & Governance      < >   Hands-on execution 
    Corporate                             < >   Startup 

  • Direct experience on both sides of decision making:
    Writing investment cases   < >    Approving funding
    Leading execution               < >    Governing stage gates

  • Cross-Domain Fluency
    Science, technology, strategy, finance, risk, innovation, project/portfolio management, digital/business transformation

  • Cross-industry experience
    Healthcare (Philips) • Life Sciences (DSM) • TIC & Emerging Tech (SGS) • Banking (DSK Bank) • Corporate Ventures & Startups

  • Quantitative rigor + Scientific intuition
    Master in Finance (incl. high mathematics, statistics and econometrics) + Biology Major (incl. systems biology, biotechnology, molecular biology) further extended into cancer biology

What decision or challenge is in front of you?

You do not need to diagnose the problem before contacting me. A useful first conversation starts with what is happening, what is uncertain and what decision is approaching.

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