The Healthtech Podcast

In this week's episode, James is joined by Christoph Ruedig, veteran healthtech investor and Partner at AlbionVC. A trained medical doctor and ex-strategy consultant with Bain & Company, Christoph has been investing in digital health and life sciences companies since 2006. We hear how to navigate the journey from physician, to successful VC - the challenges, the key learnings and why consultan...

This week James talks to serial digital entrepreneur CEO Matteo Berlucchi. Matteo has 27 years of experience launching and growing consumer platforms. Healthily is the last venture by Matteo, the first AI platform to help consumers find the health information and advice they need to make better choices free of charge. Prepare his exclusive predictions for healthtech in the future, a fascinating jo...

To kick off the first episode of season 3, James is joined by Chris Naoumidis, the co-founder of Mindset Health, who is building a portfolio of digital therapeutic apps using hypnosis-based techniques to tackle underserved health conditions. After going through Startmate, Y Combinator and raising over $8m, he now leads a team of 30 people on the mission to help a billion people manage their health...

This week, James is joined by Vishal Doshi, the Founder of AUM Biosciences, an Award-winning oncology focused biotech company. The company aims to reshape the drug development landscape in oncology to deliver pioneering and affordable targeted drugs across a broad spectrum of cancers. Through its robust strategic collaborations with leading academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biotech compani...

This week James is joined by Dr Dafydd Loughran, a surgeon by training and now CEO of Concentric Health - the market leading digital consent to treatment application seeing rapid adoption to support the record surgical backlogs being seen internationally. Trivia: James and Daf previously worked together clinically in operating theaters in Wales! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dafloughran Ap...

This week, James is joined by Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services. Dr. Kass-Hout leads the Health AI strategy and efforts, including Amazon Comprehend Medical and Amazon Health Lake. He works with teams at Amazon responsible for developing the science, technology, and scale for COVID-19 lab testing, including Amazon’s first FDA authoriz...

This week I'm joined by Dr. Kate Cordell, CEO, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder at Opeeka and CMO and fellow co-founder Ken Knecht.   Dr. Cordell is a nationwide thought leader for behavioral health technology, integrating data systems to support a whole-person approach to care. She has built models for federal, state, county, healthcare providers and community-based agencies to convert beh...

Dr Tom Oakley CEO of Feedback PLC gives James his quick tips for entrepreneurs.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drthomasoakley/?originalSubdomain=uk Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week James is joined by Dr Tom Oakley, CEO of Feedback PLC. Tom joined Feedback PLC in 2019 and quickly recognised that the technology that drove its current services Texrad and Cadran had the potential to revolutionise the ways clinicians engage and communicate with each other. At which point Bleepa was born. Bleepa is a medical imaging communications app, that allows clinicians to view and...

This week James is joined by Nikhil Malhotra, Chief Innovation Officer and creator of Makers Lab, a unique Thin-q-bator space within Tech Mahindra. With 20+ years of experience Nikhil has been a researcher all his life and is now leading the growth of AI, machine learning, robotics and quantum research within Tech Mahindra. Nikhil’s area of personal research helps explain how quantum computing and...

This week James is joined by Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones an Occupational Health Physician and Founder of Medic Footprints. Medic Footprints is a doctor-led organisation on a mission to dramatically elevate health outcomes in the world by connecting ambitious high growth companies with the best in medical talent. This week we discuss the growing demand for doctors as leaders in health tech companies a...

This week James is joined by Dr Claudia Pastides a General Practitioner by background and now a full-time Medical Advisor at Flo Health. She spent 12 years working as a doctor and has always had an interest in writing and marketing. Flo is the world’s leading women’s health app with over 220 M users. Flo aims to build a better future for female health and supports women during their entire reprodu...

This week James is joined by Dr. Keith Tsui, CEO and Co-founder of Medwise.ai. Medwise.ai is an innovation that supports clinicians to answer questions faster than ever before. They recently tailored the platform for Covid 19. Keith is a medical doctor and his mission is to empower every healthcare professional to do their best work and provide better care for their patients. LinkedIn: https://www...

This week James speaks to Yesh Pulijala, Founder and CEO of Scalpel. Scalpel is a healthcare services company that automates surgical protocols using sensor-driven event detection technology. Yesh is passionate about building tools that improve surgery. He has six years of interdisciplinary experience in healthcare and technology. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yeshwanthp/ Apply to be a gue...

This week James is joined by CEO Abhishek Shah from Wellthy Therapeutics. Abhishek is changing the way people with chronic conditions experience care. A second-generation healthcare entrepreneur, he previously co-led an early stage fund as a venture capitalist. He holds a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB) LinkedIn: h...

This week our Quick Tips for entrepreneurs come from Dr Tarlochan Toor, Director of New Wellness Partnerships and Propositions at Holland and Barrett. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtarlochantoor/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your heal...

This week James is joined by Dr Tarlochan Toor, Director of New Wellness Partnerships and Propositions at Holland & Barrett. Dr Toor is a board certified primary care physician, spending 10+ years working across medicine, surgery & primary care. He is passionate about wellness, innovation and entrepreneurship. As Director of Partnerships & Propositions at H&B he loves to connect wi...

This week James is joined by Dr. Trishan Panch, co-founder and chief innovation officer at Wellframe. Wellframe fixes the two biggest problems with American health insurance: The patient experience, and the rising cost of care . LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-trishan-panch-365b801a Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon....

This week James is joined by Martin Gouldstone, CBO at Sensyne Health with his Quick Tips for health tech entrepreneurs. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgouldstone/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.c...

This week I'm joined by Martin Gouldstone, CBO at Sensyne Health. Martin is a 30-year life-sciences veteran in business development and corporate finance with deep experience in sourcing and closing major strategic collaborations in both the digital health and pharmaceutical industries. He joined Sensyne from Syneos where he was Global SVP Capital Solutions at Syneos One and has held senior positi...

This week I'm joined by Jenny Thomas, Programme Director of DigitalHealth. London. Jenny has been pivotal in driving the growth of DigitalHealth. London from a start-up itself to an organisation that today has supported hundreds of health tech entrepreneurs to refine and scale their solutions, and which now supports NHS staff to deliver important digital transformation projects and works with acad...

This week I'm joined by Ravi Janapureddy, CEO and Co-Founder of RCube Health. RCube Health is on a mission to provide affordable effective solutions to promote good mental health and well-being.  Ravi is a healthcare entrepreneur, product leader and ex-management consultant with significant corporate experience in telecommunications and financial services. He is passionate about social enterprise,...

This week Max Antson a machine learning engineer from Feebris gives us his quick tips. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-antson-542975101/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week James is joined by Max Antson a machine learning engineer from Feebris. Feebris are a company transforming community care using AI-guided tools to support carers to give more effective care to vulnerable patients. Max is on an AI-powered mission to achieve this goal! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-antson-542975101/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe t...

This week, James is joined by Julian Everett, CTO of Data Language, to discuss the digital transformation Data Language has delivered for Cochrane, the global not-for-profit whose mission is to put evidence at the heart of health decision-making and how other healthcare organisations could benefit from emerging technologies and in particular AI. Julian Everett is a technical architect with 15 year...