Meet the Team

Venkat is a MedTech industry expert with over 15 years of experience in business development, commercialization and technology innovation in medical simulation, haptics and robotics. He has a wealth of experience from collaborating closely with some of the major players in the MedTech industry in developing products and intellectual portfolio.

Gayathri is a seasoned quality assurance specialist with over 14 years of experience working for many fortune 500 companies across 3 continents.  She is a software engineer and also a certified blockchain Architect. She is very passionate about medical simulation and working on cutting edge technology. Gayathri is currently leading the non-functional testing efforts for SIX Digital Exchange, a block-chain based platform to build the world’s first regulated digital market infrastructure.

Louis is an experienced software developer with a proven track record of engineering large-scale business management systems. He is a Full-stack desktop/web & game developer, with specialties in ASP.NET Core enterprise business applications and Unity Virtual Reality games.

With a degree in biology at the University of Zurich, and her experience in establishing grant management and public relations at the maize breeding company MTI in Neusiedl am See, Austria, and in setting up a subsidiary for the Swiss direct marketing company AZ-Direct based in Vienna she founded her own company in 2004 - punkt international gmbh - in Vienna, Austria and from 2011in Switzerland.

At punkt, she invests a great deal of enthusiasm, dedication, and long-term experience in guiding interdisciplinary consortia systematically from a vision towards the implementation and management of European and national funded R&D projects.

Dr. Gerhard Hildebrandt is the former Chief of Neurosurgery at the Kantonsspital St.Gallen in Switzerland.

Dr. Jean-Yves Fournier is the Head of Department, Neurosurgery Department Valais Hospital, Sion since 2018. He has many years of experience in performing complex endoscopic cranial neurosurgery. He is also the author of many publications, articles and book chapters in the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Fournier is also very active in developing new training methods for surgeons in the field of endoscopic neurosurgery through innovative methods.

Dr. Loibl is an orthopedic spine surgeon in Zürich. He covers a large spectrum of spinal pathologies with a focus on degenerative pathologies and deformities. Dr. Loibl is known for his extensive knowledge and surgical techniques. Open and minimal invasive techniques with anterior and posterior approaches are part of his practice. He has always been vocal about new training techniques and improving surgeon education. Dr. Loibl is the current Chairperson of AO Spine Switzerland and served the Swiss council as Ortho Officer 2018-2021 aiming to further improve surgeon education in Switzerland.

Dr. Gerhard Hildebrandt is the former Chief of Neurosurgery at the Kantonsspital St.Gallen in Switzerland.

Dr. Wälchli is a specialist in orthopedic surgery and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system, he specializes in the entire spectrum of spinal diseases and injuries. As a trained chiropractor, Dr.Wälchli is also familiar with the entire spectrum of manual therapies. In Addition, Dr. Wälchli is a well known surgeon providing training courses in endoscopic spine surgery all over Europe for the last 10 years.

Hugh is the founder of Additive manufacturing ventures group. Hugh and Venkat have worked together successfully in the MedTech & haptics business in the past in 3D Systems. Hugh was the head of M&A during the execution of the acquisition of Simbionix (Medical Simulation company) by 3D Systems for $120M. Hugh firmly believes that the medical simulation market will be a high growth market in the future. He is currently part of the Board of Directors of Collplant Biotechnologies.