FUTURE OF HEALTH

We kick started VentureCEO with the Future of Health cohort.10 incredible founders putting mission over everything. It felt like a no brainer to start with this sector, with all of the companies involved working to solve pressing problems and have a lasting impact on the world.

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FUTURE OF HEALTH DOMAIN EXPERTS

For this cohort we brought together some of the UK's most innovative later stage CEOs in the
healthtech vertical, complimented with other industry leaders to deliver tightly personalised sessions.

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Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram
CEO of Proximie Partner at KHP Ventures

Ted Talk giver and receiver of the British Empire Medial for her contribution to surgery and medicine, Nadine drew on her surgical experiences to found Proximie, enabling physicians to virtually ‘scrub in’ to any operating room from anywhere in the world.

Mark Jenkins
NHS Provider Selection, ex Oviva, Co-Founder & MD

Mark is working on two new businesses to improve healthcare for patients, one in tech enabled care and the other in techbio. Previously he co-founded Oviva and practiced as a medical doctor.

Robbie Hughes
Founder & CEO at Lumeon

Lumeon enables healthcare organisations to automate systems and processes, bringing together the full potential of their organization to deliver high performance, team-centered healthcare.

Meri Beckwith
Co-Founder & CEO at Lindus Health

Meri co-founded Lindus Health in 2021 with the mission of accelerating clinical trials, so patients can benefit from new treatments sooner.

Dr. Derrick Khor
Founder at Adopt-A-Doc

Having worked the frontlines of the COVID pandemic, Derrick set his sites on utilising technology to create innovative tools and solve healthcare problems. From this thinking Adopt-A-Doc was born.

Molly Gilmartin
Healthtech Investor at Albion VC

Molly invests in late seed to Series B healthcare companies across health tech and digital pharma. Driven by innovative business models, disruptive technologies improving the efficiency of how we deliver care/complete research.

Tim Wright
CEO at Zoas

Tim has 25 years+ of sales experience in digital health and wellness - ranging from private healthcare, health, life & general insurance to employee assistance companies. He’s consulted with brand inc. Nuffield Health, Spire Healthcare, and Virgin Healthcare as well multiple seed to series A startups in this vertical.

Simon Ong
Author & Coach at Energize

Everything that Simon Alexander Ong does is built around inspiring people to see their world differently. He is an international keynote speaker, a best-selling author and an award-winning coach.

Alex Merwin
Head of Growth, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services

Alex is an internationally seasoned executive with over fifteen years of experience building teams, processes and workflows that unlock growth for complex, technical products and services.

James Somauroo
Co-Founder & CEO at SomX

James is the co-founder of SomX, a communications and creative agency elevating healthcare. Amongst other accolade he host the The Healthtech Podcast with listeners across 120 countries.

MEET THE COHORT

The Future of Health cohort comprised of 10 of the most exciting seed to series A early stage businesses.
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Finn Stevenson
Flok Health

Finn is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flok Health, the autonomous physiotherapy clinic. Flok provides virtual appointments for back pain treatment, with a fusion of AI and human physiotherapists for personalised care at population scale, and no waiting list. 

Henry Majed
MyMynd

Henry is the Co-Founder and CEO of MyMynd, an award-winning digital health platform tackling the challenges of mental health and wellbeing supporting workforces in some of the leading organisations in the world.

Tess Cosad
Béa Fertility

Tess is the CEO and Co-Founder of Béa Fertility. She scaled her first startup, Emberson Ventures, from start-up to international advertising agency in 3 years. She founded Béa Fertility in 2020.

Ash Kalraiya
Medishout

Ash worked as an Orthopaedic Surgeon for a decade in the NHS and South Africa, plus in Malawi where he was a World Orthopaedic Concern Fellow. He founded MediShout after witnessing hospital operational problems preventing best patient care.

Amit Patel
Peachy

Amit Patel is the visionary behind Peachy, the UK's first truly digital health insurance platform targeting millennials and SMEs.

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Sam Milliken-Smith
Hibi Health

Sam has spent his career working with healthcare organisations, including across the NHS and internationally. He co-founded Hibi having seen personally & professionally the challenges facing families caring for children with additional needs.

Sarita Stefani
Amilis

Sarita is the co-founder of Amilis, a pioneering egg-freezing platform aimed at empowering women through fertility preservation options. She brings invaluable expertise to her mission of improving women's health.

Sandra Nwokeoha
Ellescope

Sandra is an enthusiastic biomedical engineer with significant experience in health technologies (medical devices, IVDs and digital health) from proof-of-concept development to implementation into healthcare systems.

Nick de Pennington
Ufonia

Dr Nick de Pennington MD is the CEO and Founder of Ufonia. He is a UK board certified Neurosurgeon who undertook his undergraduate training at the University of Cambridge and then residency at the University of Oxford.

Michel Valstar
BlueSkeye

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Benefits to the cohort

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UNITY AS A GROUP
A curated peer group of 10 CEOs at the same stage and all in the ehealth space.
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BOLSTERING THE FOUNDER JOURNEY
Access to laterstage CEOs who have been there and done it.
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CONNECT WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Tailored networking with relevant investors and industry experts.
"The CEO Circles, meeting up with other CEOs online, were excellent.  The connections to professional service providers was also very valuable."
Michael Valstar
BlueSkeyeAI
"My favourite sessions were definitely the CEO stories - I found these by far the most valuable. There are so many things about building a company that are shared challenges, lessons etc and hearing from people x years ahead of us in a small group setting was great."
Finn Stevenson
Flokk Health
"The time commitment of VentureCEO worked well for me - a nice weekly rhythm without being overbearing. Loved the in person open and close events! The highlight, as the program for me was about bringing people together as much as anything else. It was brilliant getting to meet and hear stories from others on the same journey. and the CEO Stories hearing from later stage CEOs was a key motivator for joining the program."
Sam Milliken-Smith
Hibi
"Loved the in person open and close events - so inspriring, well attended and fun! In the CEO Circles connecting with the rest of the cohort I loved the honesty, authenticity and realising that it is not easy for everyone, not just you. Finally - loved the love! Everyone was so supportive, well meaning and respected the hustle and the grit."
Amit Patel,
Peachy

WHAT EACH SESSION PROVIDEs

CEO Stories

The unique opportunity to hear from and grill later stage CEOs in fintech who have been there and done it (Series B and beyond).

CEO Strategy

Topic specific deep dive sessions with subject matter experts. From maintaining a resilient & adaptive culture to embedding a competitive strategy, these sessions will provide practical tools to adapt these concepts to early-stage company growth.

CEO Circles

Join a curated community of CEOs in the same sector and at the same stage to share challenges, experiences, and ambitions. You'll learn how to manage your mindset and energise the founder journey.

CEO Wellbeing

A chance to focus on you as an individual: your leadership development and your personal wellness.

VC Office Hours

121 time with our VC partners and a chance to review your pitch deck with an investor.

Tactical Office Hours

One-on-one sessions with the best experts in fields such as legal, finance, HR, PR, and growth & fundraising strategy.

JUST SOME OF OUR INCREDIBLE DELIVERY PARTNERS...

GET A FEEL FOR VENTURECEO

Here's a taste of the our launch event for our first ever cohort, The Future of Health.

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