The EBAN Health is our Community active since 2018.
The EBAN Health Community brings together EBAN members interested in investing in health startups and/or learning about the market and investing trends in this sector.
With EBAN Health, we aim to foster knowledge and best practice sharing, and to facilitate connections between early stage investors from all over Europe and the rest of the world.
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Committee
Christine Bjarkby
Business Angel and Entrepreneurship Consultant
Maria Hala is an investment professional and a supporter of angel investments. She has been concentrated in the expansion of the Greek entrepreneurial ecosystem and the establishment of local angel investment community. Maria provides mentoring and coaching in ventures at seed and startup stage of their investment cycle. Her ultimate goal is to contribute on their commercialization and help them find sources of financing. She is focused on four industries, namely medtech, agritech, fintech and tourismtech.
Maria is a Senator for Greece of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), the global organization that supports startups’ ecosystem through engaging smart money angel investors, venture capitalists and policy makers. She is also an active member of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), the pan-European representative of the early stage investor community. Finally, Maria is a member of the Hellenic Spanish Chamber of Commerce and of MITEF Greece.
Starting her professional career at the finance sector, Maria has gained her experience and her profound knowledge of the international capital markets through asset management positions, focused in active equity fund management and portfolio allocation. As a Certified Fund Manager, by the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, she has spent 17 years as a member of Alpha Asset Management A.E.D.A.K., the subsidiary of Alpha Bank.
Maria received an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, from Imperial College London Business School in 2014, whereas she has provided the first academic research over the profile of Greek business angel investors. She also holds an MSc in Business Finance from Brunel University, London and a BSc in Marketing from University of LaVerne, California.
Maria Hala
Business Angel and Entrepreneurship Consultant
Maria Hala is an investment professional and a supporter of angel investments. She has been concentrated in the expansion of the Greek entrepreneurial ecosystem and the establishment of local angel investment community. Maria provides mentoring and coaching in ventures at seed and startup stage of their investment cycle. Her ultimate goal is to contribute on their commercialization and help them find sources of financing. She is focused on four industries, namely medtech, agritech, fintech and tourismtech.
Maria is a Senator for Greece of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), the global organization that supports startups’ ecosystem through engaging smart money angel investors, venture capitalists and policy makers. She is also an active member of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), the pan-European representative of the early stage investor community. Finally, Maria is a member of the Hellenic Spanish Chamber of Commerce and of MITEF Greece.
Starting her professional career at the finance sector, Maria has gained her experience and her profound knowledge of the international capital markets through asset management positions, focused in active equity fund management and portfolio allocation. As a Certified Fund Manager, by the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, she has spent 17 years as a member of Alpha Asset Management A.E.D.A.K., the subsidiary of Alpha Bank.
Maria received an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, from Imperial College London Business School in 2014, whereas she has provided the first academic research over the profile of Greek business angel investors. She also holds an MSc in Business Finance from Brunel University, London and a BSc in Marketing from University of LaVerne, California.
Kevin Morningstar
Venture Partner at Rockies Impact Fund
Kevin Morningstar is s 35-year veteran of the medical device industry. A Colorado serial entrepreneur for many years, he co-founded Silverglide Surgical Technologies, Inc., a Boulder surgical instruments startup successfully sold to Stryker in a planned exit. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and currently consults globally in the medical device industry, digital health community, and startup ecosystem. Kevin is an active angel investor and member of Rockies Venture Club, where he serves as Screening Committee Chair and as a general partner in Rockies Venture Fund I and Rockies Impact Fund.
Caroline Sai
Head of Angels Santé & Head of the Investor Network
Caroline is of French-American background and educated both in the US and France. After a master’s degree in International Business, she gained extensive business and Communication experience in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. She is currently the Operations Manager of Angels Santé, the largest business angel network in Europe solely dedicated to healthcare and well as the Head of the EIT Health Investor Network operated by Angels Santé. This European network dedicated to equity investment in healthcare brings together Healthcare investors and pre-qualified healthcare European startups raising between 500 K to 10 M €. She represents Angels Santé on the EBAN Board.
Caroline, who is passionate about early stage investment and the power of networking, is now based in Paris.
Robert Lugowski
Managing Partner at COBIN Angels and Board Member at European Business Angels Network (EBAN)
Robert, prior to founding COBIN Angels, held several managerial positions at tech companies such as Xerox, Hewlett-Packard and Atos. He supervised and was responsible for implementation of innovative projects in Central and Eastern Europe, Israel, Egypt and Turkey.
Robert graduated from the Carlson School of Management MBA program and the Warsaw School of Economics as well as individual intercollegiate studies at Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin University of Technology and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University.
Alain Pujol
Board Member of Angels Santé/Angels for Health
Alain PUJOL is a seasoned Business Angel having invested in 15 startups, he is a Board Member of Angels Santé/Angels for Health, specialized in Healthcare where he focuses on international relations. Angels Santé/Angels for Health is the largest Business Angels Network in Europe investing in healthcare companies (from Biotech to Medtech, Diagnostics, eHealth, etc). It is located in Paris, France and investing mostly in France but expanding to Europe. Alain is also the founder of APHC Consulting, specialized in open innovation. His expertise is in many therapeutic fields including Anti-infectives, CV, Diabetes and Oncology.
Before APHC Consulting, Alain spent more than 20 years in international business positions (general management including medical affairs, marketing, sales, business development and market access) in large pharmaceutical companies (Sanofi and Aventis), in a biotech startup (CEO of Digestar) and in a specialty devices/pharmaceutical startup (VP Europe INO Therapeutics).
Alain is an expert for EIT Health, an independent European Union body set up to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe
Angels Santé is leading the EIT Health Investor Network which aims to connect European health-oriented investors and promising start-ups through cross-border financing and co-investments
Alain is also a Board Member of France Angels, the French Business Angels networks federation (72 networks). He holds an MBA from Insead and graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris, France.
Activities
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News and Activities
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EBAN Health – Angel Santé: How to accompany your healthcare start-ups in their development
Are you looking to help your budding healthcare startup grow? Join Alain Pujol, Board Member International Relations, and Caroline Sai, Operations Manager from Angels Santé to learn all about accompanying your company in it’s development. This webinar will cover the financing options available as well as the operational aspects of start-up growth.
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EBAN Health Webinar: Health Trends and Technology in an Aging Society
We are pleased to invite you to our EBAN Health Webinar – May 8th at 15:00 PM CEST. EBAN Health aims to bring together all EBAN members interested in investing in health startups and/or learning about market and investment related trends in this sector. This one-hour webinar will cover current trends in health technologies, what the senior & aging care industry wants from health innovations, and existing challenges and opportunities. The webinar will also feature a case study on medical virtual reality. The main driver of rising long-term care expenditure is the aging population which all countries in Europe are experiencing. Currently, people over 65 consume 60% of health care resources. The rapid increase in population aging is paralleled by the exponential growth in the use of technologies. Private investments within this field are soaring in the US but the same can’t be said for Europe. Health Trends and Technology in an Aging Society May 8th at 15:00 PM CEST Iris Öhrn Biochemist, PhD, MBA, with over 15 years of experience as a Life Science and healthcare professional working in an international environment with matters related to scientific research, business development, technology transfer, regulation, internationalisation and financing. Currently employed as an Investment Advisor for Life Science at Business Region Göteborg, Iris provides advise and support to key executives from international investment firms and Fortune 500 companies looking for novel breakthrough technologies that could impact or disrupt the market. Stéphane Roecker Stéphane Roecker is an entrepreneur, an active early-stage investor, and a strategic advisor. He was part as a top manager of two successful LBOs with KKR and European investment funds. Later Stéphane went from Zero to One, he pivoted from SWOT to Business Model Canvas and evolved from Lean Management to the Lean Startup tools. He was the founding chairman of a regional fund with 35 business angels in Strasbourg. He won two hackathons, in Healthcare and in Data in 2018, and founded afterward several startups which are still thriving. May 8th at 15:00 PM CEST
May 8, 2019
