Plug and Play Health connects the best startups in the world to corporations who want to disrupt the healthcare industry. Our goal is to make a lasting impact on healthcare one investment at a time.
Our Startup Creasphere Team








Global Corporate Sponsors








Munich
Dr. Jochen Hurlebaus
Program Initiator
Head of Digital Health Innovation at Roche Diagnostics International

Dr. Matthias Zach
Program Lead for Startup Creasphere at Roche Diagnostics

Dr. Christian Korz
Director Startup Partnerships, Roche Diagnostics

Tim Berschneider
Senior Brand Manager, Roche

Amelie Riederer
Project Coordinator Startup Creasphere at Roche

Elias El Murr
Program Lead of Digital Health Innovation at Sanofi CHC

Behzad Mahdavi
Vice President, Strategic Innovation & Alliances at Lonza

Uwe Gottschalk
Chief Scientifc Officer at Lonza Pharma-Biotech

Sunnyvale

Simon Meier
Head of Business Development, Roche Diagnostic Information Solutions

Monte Curnutt
Vice President, Commercial Development, Roche Diagnostics Corporation

Nora Warnke
Sponsor
Project Management Consultant, Commercial Development, Roche Diagnostics Corporation

Singapore
Lance Little
Managing Director, Region Asia Pacific at Roche Diagnostics

Rachel Frizberg
Area Head Asia Pacific at Roche Pharmaceuticals

Anton Gutscher
Head of Business Development at Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific

Paula Amunategui
Leader, Marketing Excellence and Digital Innovation at Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific

Debbie Hsu
Digital Innovation Manager at Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific

Eduardo Hagad
Sanofi CHC, Innovation Lead, APAC region

Charlotte Leguem
Sanofi CHC, Digital Innovation manager, International region

Startup Creasphere VC Network
Thom Rasche
Managing Partner Earlybird Health-Tech

Shane Sabine
Venture Partner at Republic

Alfred Dietel
PE/VC Investor, M&A and Corporate Venturing

Daniel Parera
Venturepreneur Life Science and Food Industry

Victoria Sanchez Zini
Investment Associate Earlybird Health-Tech

Christoph Massner
Investment Associate Earlybird Health-Tech

David Evans
Investment Director at Roche Venture Fund

Amanda Chaperot
Investment Principal, Seventure Ventures

Dr. Fabian Mohr
Investment Manager at High-Tech Gründerfonds

Benedikt Zacher
EC Healthcare Fund

Felix Burgdorf
Vice President at General Atlantic

Benedikt Luhmann
Principal Healthcare / Life Sciences at VI Partners

Lizzy Goldman
Investment Manager at Olive Tree Ventures

Scott Rosen
Principal at Transformation Capital

Startup Creasphere Mentors
Markus Pratschke
Global Omnichannel Service Delivery Manager, Novartis

Olga Katzelnik
Market Access Oncology and Immuno-Oncology, Merck

Stefan Braunewell
Manager Digital Healthcare R&D at Konica Minolta

Chris Leiter
Digital Health | Early-stage VC | Blockchain

Norbert Farkas
Founder & CEO at CENTIVIS - Diagnostics | Digital Health | Market Access

Ole Dammann
CEO at Klinische Forschung Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH

Hayfa Konrad
Senior Legal Counsel

Antje Howitz
Sanofi CHC Global Regulatory Strategy Head Digestive

Dr. Alexander Hauenschild
Owner at ToBee (prior: Board at Schön Klinik)

Michael Rosenstock
Head of Sana Digital

Laura Figulla
Leader Digital Health & Life Science Innovation, EY ,<br /> Entrepreneur

Eugene Borukhovich
Serial intra & entrepreneur | Chairman & COO YourCoach Health | EIR at PHS Fund

Jan Küster
Director at Founder's Fight Club

Klaus Suwelack
New Venture Lead Germany, Johnson and Johnson

Matthias Raß
Medical Valley Digital Health Application Center

Mikula Jung
Manager Strategy&

Kai Simon, Ph.D.
Head of Legal at Roche Diagnostics

Felix Wagner
Director Portfolio Management at PARI

Francesca Wuttke
Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Almirall

Victor Savevski
Chief Innovation Officer at Humanitas Healthcare Group

Catherine Aung
Head of Global Innovation Office, Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Clara Leonard
Senior Associate, Digital Health Ventures

Lena Lindlar
Head of M&A, Personal Health & International Markets, Phillips

Haider Alleg
Global Head of Digital Marketing, Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Astrid Hannich-Walter
Director Business Model & Healthcare Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim

Danny Godfrey
Director & Founder of eg technology Ltd - Product Design & Engineering Consultancy

Thanos Rammos
Tech Lawyer and Partner at Taylor Wessing Germany

Bryan Berger
Life Science Innovation Lead, Board of Innovation

Dr. Caty Ebel-Bitoun
Global Medical Digital Transformation Head, Sanofi

Alexandros Giannakis
Managing Director at Accenture, Digital Health
