FIRST is a pre-seed fund that finances pioneering scientists in The Netherlands active in the emerging fields of regenerative medicine and cardiovascular diseases. FIRST is founded by the Dutch CardioVascular Alliance (DCVA) and Regenerative Medicine Crossing Borders (RegMed XB) with support of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. BioGeneration Ventures (BGV) supports FIRST fund as registered fund manager, making available its network, expertise, and facilities.

Utrecht Health Seed Fund is an early stage (TRL2-7) venture capital fund focusing in the Life Sciences & Health sector. We focus on promising ventures that develop a scalable concept in the Life Sciences (therapeutics & diagnostics), Health Technology, Digital Health and Animal Health spaces.

Utrecht Holdings is the Technology Transfer Office of Utrecht University and University Medical Center Utrecht. Responsible for intellectual property licensing (e.g. MR STAT technology to Philips Healthcare, Imagr platform to Sectra AB) and investment management (e.g. Quantib - sold to RadNet Inc, MILabs - sold to Rigaku Corp.) in health-tech / med tech.

Cytofind is an early stage venture that develops a technology to identify, sort and harvest Circulating Tumour Cells (CTC).

Leading Business Development of a corporate venture in the Vascular Surgery space.

Responsible for the upstream program of the Electrophysiology segment, managing a cross functional team to define R&D program, oversee key opinion leader network development, and drive the EP&CRM strategy within business unit iXR.Driving marketing strategy, M&A and alliance opportunities for the €1.3B Image Guided Therapy lab systems business.

Several Marketing assignments within the global Electrophysiology marketing team:Sr. Product Manager Interventional Cardiology• Marketing management & strategy development for EP segment, including alliances• Marketing lead for New Business Development ventureGlobal Field Marketing Manager • Set up the international field marketing strategy• Manage marketing campaigns, communications and events (including alliances), market researchTechnical Product Manager • Product owner in Agile/Scrum based software team

• Responsible for variety of Development projects (HW/SW) for medical Interventional X-Ray devices with budgets up until 2.5M€, managing cross functional teams up to 40 (part time) team members.Selected for the Philips High Potential programme.

• Research into in-vehicle driver assessment systems• Development of driver psycho-physical state estimation algorithms &validation experiments