From shaping breakthrough ideas to accelerating exits and scaling businesses
The vertical48 team & network helps biotech and digital healthcare innovators, investors and corporates unlock value at every stage, bringing clarity, strategy and hands-on expertise to turn potential into performance
Peter Leister - Founder
Blending science with strategy: Peter, with his academic roots as a pharmacist, has emerged as an esteemed advisor in the healthcare sector for over 25 years. His journey took him from the scientific lab benches to senior management roles at renowned consulting firms like Accenture. Specializing in M&A, Venture Capital, and Private Equity, Peter excels in identifying prime investment targets and offering profound advice on business cases and management issues. His wealth of experience and insight makes him a trusted voice in guiding decisions at the intersection of healthcare and business.
Dr. Ivan Fisher - Founder
Passion for innovation: With a PhD in Molecular Biology and over 20 years of experience in the life science consulting sector spanning senior regulatory and commercial positions, Ivan has a proven track record of building trusted, transparent relationships across the industry. With a passion for fostering innovation and helping shape the next phase of a company’s journey, Ivan’s critical-thinking, clarity of communication and deep experience position him expertly to provide guidance, strategy and advice to the healthcare industry.
Collaboration Partner Network
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Gerda Achzet
Innovator, Founder and Board Member
Well vested life science innovation manager with strengths in building public-private partnerships, facilitating access to European education, business and funding networks and passionate about ESG & sustainability goals and their implementation.
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Peter Embley
Chief Regulatory Officer | Strategic expert, driving pre-clinical to clinical programs with a passion for innovation across all stages | Advisor & Consultant
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Dr. Isam Haddad
Entrepreneur and Bio-Technician
As former CTO in early stage startups at Aware, Baze (founded and exited) and Metabolomic Discoveries, Isam brings proven experiences in tech, product strategy and venture building along a transformational leadership style in the fields of biotechnology, digital health and D2C diagnostics.
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Norbert Viñas
Co-founder of Vigintake and former digital transformation lead at PharmaLex/Cencora, driving M&As and the acquisition of digital assets before reorganizing the global digital team.
Vigintake, runs an AI-powered pharmacovigilance intake platform that fuses safety signals from email, literature, social media, and beyond; slashing manual toil while fortifying compliance and audit armor for next-gen PV squads.
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Andreas Müller
Senior Life Sciences Manager
Experienced business leader and creative product strategist, with broad interdisciplinary experience (20 years) in pharmaceuticals, bio-process analytics, in-vitro diagnostics (IVD), and digital health / health care IT industry
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Ingo Schraut
Digital Health Solutions & Investment Catalyst
Helps eHealth businesses and investors to successfully develop and grow. Experienced in portfolio and interim management, consulting and execution for products in the digital healthcare sector.
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Guido Radack
VP Digital Transformation in Clinical Development & Operations
Senior Clinical Development and Digital Transformation expert with profound industry experience in large innovation and transformation programs. Having worked with most of the top cutting edge consulting firms.
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Jennifer McKinney
AI Governance & Regulatory Intelligence Architect
Certified AI Ethicist and Auditor by Oxford Saïd and trained in agentic AI at Johns Hopkins University, she translates one language into the other. She advises on AI product strategy where regulatory requirements become first-class citizens in architecture not a documentation footnote. Companies winning in AI-Regulatory ecosystem, don’t separate strategy from engineering….
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Kai-Peter Siemsen
Active pharmacist, Pharma and Healthcare market expert.
Engagement in the ABDA and further organizations, President of the Hamburg Chamber of Pharmacists.
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John Cogan
Consulting, Technology & R&D Operations Leader
Regulatory Operations, R&D Operations and R&D IT. More recently held CTO, Innovation and R&D Advisory Leadership roles. Expert in operations, technology & digitization in Life Sciences R&D
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Dr. Jasmin Saric
Digital Health Pioneer
He led digital transformation at Boehringer Ingelheim, co-founded their digital lab BI X, and secured seed funding as CEO of Onqo Health. His deep understanding of the digital landscape and proven leadership in innovation make him a train-blazer in the field.
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Melindah Sharma
Entrepreneur, Senior Portfolio Manager, Healthcare disruptor on a mission
Shaking things up and enable seamless, accessible healthcare. Over 25 years of experience in the healthcare sector. Functional depth in commercial, supply chain, capital, and portfolio management to deliver sustainable and scalable solutions that create value for patients, providers, and shareholders.
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Paul Costello
Senior Commercial Executive
Over 25 years experience in Remote Monitoring, Diagnostic Medical Services, HCIT, Med Tech, Wearable Technology and Digital Health.
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Marcus Bergler
Digital Health Go to Market Expert
Commercialization of Digital Health and Data driven business models. Global/European Sales, General Manager and Consulting experience with top tier Life Sciences service providers.
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Rob Williams
Healthcare / Life Sciences Technology Expert
Experienced leader in innovative software product & service creation across life sciences & digital healthcare. Combines deep technical background with the vision, strategy and execution to ideliver meaningful results.
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Regina Freunscht
VP, Executive and Board Member
Regulatory, Quality and Clinical Development Senior Expert with profound operational Industry and CRO experience in multinational set-ups and leading roles. Strong in operational and change excellence, data & digital transformation and technologies like RIMS, QMS and DMS.