Tagged with Medtech

LatAm Roberto Alvarenga, VP at Biotronik’s Latin American operations, reflects on the company’s six decades of innovation and LatAm’s emergence as the firm’s fastest-growing region. He outlines a strategy focused on continuous innovation, digital health integration, and demonstrating health-economic value, while navigating the complex dynamics of public and private healthcare systems…

Switzerland Marion Allerstorfer, General Manager of Abbott’s diabetes care business in Switzerland and Austria, shares insights from her two-decade career at the company, highlighting Abbott’s strong people-first culture and its ability to offer diverse, high-impact career paths within a single global organisation. She discusses the company’s leadership in diabetes and cardiac…

Switzerland Philippe de Saab, Vice President, Vision Care at Bausch + Lomb, outlines the company’s strategy amid rising global demand for contact lenses. He highlights innovations in contact lenses, a localised approach across 50 diverse markets and efforts to expand patient access through professional partnerships – all built on Bausch +…

Switzerland Amid structural reforms and shifting expectations across the Swiss healthcare system, Marco Caruso’s return to Medtronic marks a renewed focus on patient impact, equitable access, and long-term value. Speaking from the intersection of leadership, policy, and innovation, Caruso offers sharp insights into how one of the world’s largest medtech companies…

Denmark With decades of experience across nuclear medicine, oncology, and clinical development, Dr Nicholas Borys now leads MedTrace through a pivotal phase as interim CEO and Chief Medical Officer. The Danish company is advancing a novel platform that enables real-time production of oxygen-15 labelled water – a tracer long considered the…

Switzerland From her beginnings as an operating room nurse to her current role as Head of Varian EMEA, Virve Sarja has shaped a career grounded in purpose and driven by innovation. Today, she reflects on how Varian, as part of Siemens Healthineers, is redefining the future of oncology, bringing together advanced…

Switzerland As kidney disease places mounting pressure on global healthcare systems, innovation in dialysis becomes all the more critical, especially for patients receiving therapy at home. Enter Vivatum: a Swiss-Swedish medtech venture co-founded by industry expert Daniel Maechler, dedicated to reimagining Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) through digital precision, intuitive design,…

Denmark Leading GN’s Hearing division with over a decade of insight and hands-on experience, Peter Justesen has overseen the company’s evolution into a more integrated, globally attuned, and innovation-led organisation. In this conversation, he reflects on the group’s transformation, the technological frontiers of hearing care, and the urgency of reframing hearing…

Denmark After years abroad, Radiometer’s President and CEO, Francis Van Parys, returned to Europe to lead one of Denmark’s most historic MedTech companies into its next chapter. In this interview, he discusses how Radiometer is redefining its role, moving beyond instrumentation to become a driver of time-sensitive clinical decisions through digital…

Denmark From its origins as the inventor of the world’s first self-inflating resuscitator bag in 1956 to becoming a global leader in single-use endoscopy, Ambu has always been defined by innovation. Today, under the leadership of CEO Britt Meelby Jensen, the company is undergoing a strategic transformation; centred on sharper focus,…

Denmark From operating theatres to national policy forums, Mads Koch Hansen has spent his career at the intersection of clinical care and healthcare innovation. Now leading Denmark’s medtech industry association, Medicoindustrien, he draws on this diverse experience to champion a more integrated, forward-looking approach to health technology. In this wide-ranging conversation,…

Puerto Rico Rolando Torres, Chief Operations Officer for CooperVision, a division of global medical device company CooperCompanies, discussed the significant growth and investment CooperVision has experienced in Puerto Rico since 2019, including expansions in manufacturing, packaging, and a workforce increase from 1,700 to nearly 2,500 employees. He highlighted the company’s $500 million…