Mentors

Transplantologist, IKEM

Ondrej is the Director of Transplantation Centre, Director of the Nephrology Department and Head of Transplantation Laboratory at Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague (IKEM).

Nephrologist, IKEM

After graduation at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, she finished her postgraduate study in the field of Human physiology and pathophysiology at Department of Nephrology, Transplant Center of Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. She is currently working as a head of Nephrology and Transplant Outpatient Clinic of Department of Nephrology, Transplant Center of Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, which includes also management of waiting list of kidney transplant candidates. She is the author and co-author of scientific papers.

Cardiologist, IKEM

Marek is Head of Urgent Cardiology Unit at Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) in Prague.

Diabetologist, Endocrinologist, IKEM

Robert is a diabetologist and endocrinologist at Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) in Prague. Dr. Bem‘s research is focused on technology in diabetes (insulin pump, sensors, closed-loop systems) and telemedicine. He participates in the development of new applications for telemonitoring of diabetic ulcer healing and processing of glycaemic data.

CIO, IKEM

Petr is the CIO of Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) in Prague.

Digital Health Evangelist, founder MED21

Tomas is general surgeon consultant and member of Doctors without Borders with missions in war zones. Beside that he founded MeDitorial, digital CME for medical doctors, uLékaře.cz, telehealth & digital prevention startup and CEO of MED21 with focus on entire eHealth solutions.

VC Investor, Founder, Nation 1

Jaroslav has been part of the CEE startup ecosystem for the past 11 years as a VC investor. During that time he participated in 35 startup investments (such as DayTrip, Snuggs, and VRgineers) with an investment value of €30 million. Jaroslav recently launched Nation 1 VC, a new €35 million venture capital fund that invests in other promising startups. He has been a Board Member at Czech Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and a mentor at Seedcamp, Wayra, JIC, StartupYard, and CzechInvest.

Co-Founder, StartupYard

Nikola has been an internet entrepreneur since 2000 with experience in e-commerce, publishing, fintech, and startup investments. He founded pioneering startups transforming the world of payments and retail, or the first startup co-working in Prague. Nowadays, he manages portfolio investments at StartupYard (deeptech) and Pilulka Lab (healthtech).

Telemedicine Researcher, FBME CTU

Jan is the head of Medical software research group at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, a lecturer at both universities and a founder of 4 university spin-off companies. Jan is IHE Certified Professional and his main research interest is use of telemonitoring in chronical diseases.

CEO & Partner, Credo Ventures

Ondrej is focused on investments in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania, he also looks at Bulgaria. His main passion is finding outstanding founders and great talent, and helping them with guidance and advice.

Partner, Credo Ventures

Guillaume started his career with Goldman Sachs in Boston facilitating securities lending transactions. In 2014, he made the jump to Venture Capital initially with Athene Capital in London and since 2016, with Credo Ventures in Prague. In 2020, Guillaume became an joined his own portfolio company Pricefx in various corporate development, financial planning and product strategy roles. In July 2021 he rejoined Credo where he resumed his traditional VC role, leading investments in the CEE region.

Founder & CEO, Deepnote

Jakub Jurovych is a founder, CEO, software engineer and Y Combinator alumnus. Jakub began founding his company, Deepnote, in early 2019 as a platform that allows users to collaborate while building machine learning models without having to set up a development environment.

Growth coach, International B2B Sales and Go-To-Market Expertere

As a growth coach with a strong entrepreneur, PR, and product background Irina helped 150+ teams to boost b2b sales or go-to-market strategy and grow 20-30% faster. As well, advised startups for more than 20 different acceleration programs across the world, including Microsoft, E&Y, Startupbootcamp, Astana Hub, Startup Lab, Startech.vc, Yellow Rockets, etc. Also, Irina had experience in entering USA market with her own business and is glad to share my experience. Irina is a facilitator of Mastermind groups within Caelestinus.

Investment Analyst, Co-Founder of Startup ThinkTank Prague

Martin is working as an investment analyst for Prague-based VC J&T Ventures. Besides that he co-founded Startup ThinkTank Prague which organizes regular monthly in-person events and meetups for international startup community in Prague.

Founder & CEO, Carebot

Daniel is the CEO of healthtech startup Carebot. Over the past years, he has gained experience in transferring early-stage technology to clinical practice, designing the necessary infrastructure, or integrating medical software into existing solutions.

Co-Founder, Carebot

Matej co-founded the healthtech startup Carebot, that helps doctors make more accurate diagnoses from X-rays using AI. Matej has extensive media and presentation experience, in the past regularly flew alongside government officials at European Commission meetings.

Managing Partner, ATEM Capital

Allan Gobbs is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at ATEM Capital, a New York-based venture firm specializing in Life Sciences. His experience includes a $760M strategic partnership with Domain Associates. He had 5 companies going public and 3 companies acquired by strategics in his portfolio, including Tobira Therapeutics sold to Allergan for up to $1.7B, and Atea Pharmaceuticals, which demonstrated a remarkable 30x cash-on-cash return at IPO valuation. Allan is an alumnus of Caelestinus accelerator.

Caelestinus alumnus, founder of Pria

Ainar is a seasoned entrepreneur with an impressive track record spanning various fields, including life sciences, health tech, and ed-tech. He is the Founder and CEO of Pria, where he has led the transformation of senior care through innovative technology, empowering providers, caregivers, and patients. Pria originated as a spin-out from Longevica, a pioneering life science company focused on researching healthy aging and life extension, where Ainar served as Co-Founder and CEO. Longevica's groundbreaking research resulted in the discovery of compounds with life-extension effects, solidifying Ainar's status as a trailblazer in the field.

IT Law Expert & Attorney, KROUPAHELAN

Tomáš excels in the field of IT law, which he has been practicing for six years. During that time, he has been involved in a number of IT projects – from public procurement of municipal information systems, to acquisitions of high-value IT companies, to drafting the EULA for the world's most successful VR game.

Founder, CollBoard

When the quarantine on March 2020 began, Pavol founded a massively-growing online virtual board CollBoard.com. He worked on several projects for the Czech Ornithological Society and in the past, developed his own online game Towns.

Business Development Manager, InterSystems Corp.

Martin Zubek is director of the czecho-slovak branch of InterSystems Corporation in Prague and business development manager for area of central and eastern Europe. Martin has been working at InterSystems for more than 20 years and is a respected expert in the field of Electronic Health Record creation and data integration in healthcare. He was a counselor of the Healthcare committee at Parliament Czech Republic for Healthcare Data Creation and Handling.

Senior Sales Engineer, InterSystems Corp.

Born 50+ years ago, graded in nuclear physics, spending my last 25 years with InterSystems technology. Started as an end-user and since 2000 working as a technology expert within InterSystems. Daniel’s expertise covers, among others, programming and designing solutions architecture in various verticals with special focus to healthcare.

Product Owner – Cloud Strategies, InterSystems Corp.

Regilo is a dental surgeon from Brazil who went rogue, turning his passion for technology into a new career path. With 20 years of experience in Health IT, he has worked for several UN agencies, including the World Health Organization. He currently leads InterSystems' cloud development team.

Sales Engineer, InterSystems Corp.

Ondřej focuses on designing and implementing interoperable solutions in healthcare exploiting standards such as HL7, FHIR or DASTA. As an InterSystems engineer, he has been driving hospital initiatives in the Czech Republic to unlock the potential of clinical data buried in the proprietary legacy systems and expose it via APIs.

Sales Engineer, InterSystems Corp.

Guillaume is fond of technologies and has strong expertise in InterSystems IRIS Data Platform. Solving problems is his day-to-day work. He believes that the FHIR standard will change healthcare technology in a sustainable and effective way.

Director of Strategic Marketing, InterSystems Corp.

Jeff Fried, Director of Strategic Marketing for InterSystems, is a long-standing data management nerd, and particularly passionate about helping people create powerful data-driven applications. Prior to joining InterSystems, Jeff was CTO of BA Insight and ran product management for FAST Search and Transfer and for Microsoft. He has extensive experience in data management, text analytics, enterprise search, machine learning, and interoperability.

Sr. Legal Counsel, Operational Risk & Compliance, InterSystems Corp.

Matthew Sample is the Sr. Legal Counsel over Operational Risk & Compliance at InterSystems Corporation. A healthcare attorney by training and a business applications programmer before that, Matthew has spent the last fifteen years advising and negotiating on matters relating to Software, Public Health, Medical Devices, and Regulations related to these subjects for InterSystems across the globe.

Product Designer, InterSystems Corp.

Patrick W. Jamieson, M.D. is the product manager for InterSystems IRIS for Health. His main focus is on FHIR (Fast HealthCare Interoperability Resources), Interoperability, and Health I.T. development. He was a product manager for real-time decision support at Cerner Corporation. He has worked at several startup companies focused on predictive analytics, genomics, and was awarded six patents. His interests include artificial intelligence and medicine, natural language processing, and clinical decision support.

Sr. Clinical Advisor, Interoperability, InterSystems Corp.

Russ joined InterSystems six years ago to provide guidance in clinical interoperability standards. He transitioned from internal medicine practice to a career in clinical informatics a decade ago. He is active in the Health Level 7 International (HL7) standards organization as one of the leads in the development of clinical content for the FHIR specification. He serves on the adjunct faculty in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University and Arizona State University. He is a recognized expert on the HL7 FHIR standard and is a frequent presenter on the use of FHIR for innovative healthcare applications in care delivery, decision support, and clinical research.

Head of Developer Relations, InterSystems Corp.

Dean is the Head of Developer Relations at InterSystems and an Advisory Board Member of the community non-profit HealthTech Build. Dean has been an engineer, product owner, developer evangelist, startup advisor, author, and MedTech consultant in his career. He works with industry leaders and startups in Healthcare, striving to help build innovative products and services that improve the world.

Physician Executive, InterSystems Corp.

Qi Li, M.D., M.B.A., is a successful healthcare innovator with extensive experience in product inception, research, and global business development. Dr. Li holds the position of physician executive at InterSystems in charge of the product innovation in the areas of real world evidence, life science, research, precision medicine, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Li has held various product leadership roles at Harris Healthcare, Partners Healthcare, and several startup companies in healthcare IT.

Owner and strategy director & Business-angel

of a dental clinic in Dubai, viedental.com. The MENA representative, investment relations, and legal director for WheelCo.in. Founder of a venture fund and accelerator/venture builder in urban mobility. Certified blockchain expert. Lecturer in top universities (doctorate of business administration). Graduated from Harvard (Tech entrepreneurship) and the University of London (International business law). She can help with corporate structuring, board of directors function, growth strategy, and business development.

Sales Engineer, InterSystems Corp.

Luis has been a software engineer for more than 20 years and has 15 years of experience working in Healthcare sector. In his free time, he is a history student.

Sales Engineer, InterSystems Corp.

Alberto focuses on helping organizations to solve interoperability & data architecture challenges. Involved in healthcare technology for 15+ years.

Interoperability Product Manager, InterSystems Corp.

Eslam Farhat serves as the Interoperability Product Manager for TrakCare, leveraging over two decades of experience in Health IT, including over a decade with InterSystems. His specialized skill set is focused on FHIR, HL7, and Interoperability, with a primary objective of creating novel solutions that tackle the most pressing healthcare problems.

Product Manager, InterSystems Corp.

Bob Kuszewski is a Product Manager on the Database Platforms team at InterSystems, focusing on Development and DevOps. Ask him about how to deploy IRIS, run in containers and Kubernetes, clients & drivers, Embedded Python, and development on IRIS in general.

CEO, Stealth Biotech Startup

Miroslav Gasparek is a co-founder and CEO of a stealth biotech startup developing a novel manufacturing platform and Y Combinator alumnus. Miro also works with a Silicon Valley-based biotech fund Civilization Ventures. Miro is a PhD candidate in Engineering at Oxford and Research Fellow in biosecurity at Stanford.

Founder of Porta Medica, medical certification expert

Ales co-founded Porta Medica, a consulting company specializing in everything related to medical devices. This includes supporting manufacturers, innovators, and researchers in medical technology, including software. Ales spent the longest professional career at Johnson & Johnson, working for over 20 years in various positions. He also worked for a regulatory authority - he built the medical devices section at the State Institute for Drug Control. His primary focus is on European medical device legislation - MDR and IVDR and regulatory strategy for start-up medical device manufacturers.

General Partner, KAYA

Pavel founded Enern Venture Capital in 2011 and continues as a General Partner of KAYA (successor of Enern VC). Prior to that partnership, he lived and worked in multiple locations such as San Francisco, and Moscow while with McKinsey & Company. Pavel works closely with businesses within continental Europe. He loves consumer businesses with a particular interest in next-generation service providers and businesses with strong network effects. He led investments into DocPlanner, Booksy, Rohlik, or Slevomat, among others.

Entrepreneur In Residence, KAYA

Petr is a serial entrepreneur with 22-year long experience with startups and internet projects. Sold his company Skrz.cz in 2017 to UK’s Secret Escapes (Skrz.cz was sold in a bulk deal for $70M). Has a Master's degree in IT Management. Currently helping founders of portfolio companies that KAYA invested in, giving advice to speed up the business.

As the founding engineer at Klarity (YC S18), Aditya has been instrumental in building the core artificial intelligence and machine learning software that powers the company’s product offerings. He specializes in information extraction from documents using Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision techniques and deploying machine learning products end-to-end.

Caelestinus alumnus and mathematician

Tomas can help you with web & full-stack development, mathematical modeling of healthcare devices, and human physiology. Tomas is a Caelestinus alumnus.

Health-tech experienced entrepreneur

Awarded as one of the best projects on the MWC, I focus on the person's interest and the social impact, as the engine to keep the business’ scalability high. I’ve devoted almost 3 decades as an entrepreneur, with successful companies leading projects to improve people’s quality of life in Health-Tech, global navigation systems, or renewable energies. With a focus on brand strategy, go-to-market, and monetization, I am now helping the Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA) to bring Space Technology to society.