About
Four domains.
One operating pattern.
Find the white space, construct the infrastructure, deliver at scale.
I started my career printing the world's first 100,000 dpi image at the nanoscale. I've since built a 32-person research department, secured a $60M joint lab investment, architected a global HCP education platform from incorporation, and now lead the global channels connecting clinical science to healthcare professionals — millions of HCPs a year, across digital platforms and in-person congresses.
That function runs on an operating model I rebuilt around AI. Third-party agency dependency fell roughly 8x. The applications now run in functions I don't formally manage.
What I've learned across those transitions is that the hardest part of any build isn't the thing you're building — it's making the surrounding system hold together while you build it. People, politics, platforms, commercial intent. Getting all of that to point in the same direction without it collapsing is what I mean by orchestration. Not a soft skill. Not a job title. The actual work.
The PhD gives me standing in rooms where scientific and regulatory rigour is non-negotiable — WHO Code compliance, evidence standards, clinical accuracy. The MBA turns that standing into platforms, budgets, and teams that ship. Increasingly I point both at deep tech and science-based ventures: whether technical credibility translates into commercial viability is the diligence problem I've spent my career solving from the inside.
- Recognition
- MIT Technology Review TR35 — APAC Top 10 Innovators Under 35
- Research
- Three Nature-family publications. 3,500+ citations.
- Education
- Cornell PhD. ESSEC-Mannheim MBA.
- Currently
- Based in the Netherlands.