Liz Ortiguera is a senior executive with over 25 years of global experience and expertise in general management, marketing, business development, and partner network management. Liz is passionate about innovation, business transformation, and community building. Her career spans several industries - travel/lifestyle, technology, financial services, and pharmaceuticals. She has experience in working at both multinational corporations including American Express and Merck and start-up environments in software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce, and ed-tech. For 10 years she was the General Manager for Amex's Travel Partner Network in Asia-Pacific, managing partnerships with top travel management companies, MICE, and leisure agencies in the region. She is able to adeptly work across cultures and business environments to catalyse opportunities and drive growth. In her personal life, she has been a continual advocate for poverty eradication programmes and education initiatives across the region. Liz is an alumna of the Stanford University Graduate Business School, Columbia University Business School, New York University, and The Cooper Union in New York.

Asad Khan is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Health and Public Service practice with more than 23 years of experience in large-scale Digital Health business and IT transformations, delivery and implementations. He specialises in large scale innovative Health IT technology and implementations for governments and commercial clients. Asad focuses on digital health with emphasis on Electronic Health Records (EHR), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), privacy and security, governance, standards, analytics, mobile health, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Before moving to Singapore, Asad worked with US Federal and State Governments, Healthcare Providers, and technology companies to design strategies, build capabilities, and operate models to support their objectives of better patient outcomes, increase operational efficiencies and to improve healthcare access. Currently, he leads the healthcare delivery for Accenture in ASEAN. In addition, he oversees Accenture’s technology consulting practice, which focuses of using leading technologies like Robotics, AI, and Blockchain, etc. to help develop innovative health solutions. Asad is member of HL7 and is actively involved in development of interoperability standards. He advices various governments and health authorities across the world in all aspects of healthcare and presented at multiple international healthcare conferences. Asad received a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Texas A & M University, USA. Asad currently lives in Singapore with his wife and their two young children, and supplements his participation in their school activities with volunteer work. He enjoys travel, squash, music and spending time with family and friends.

Dr. Zubin J Daruwalla is a Director in PwC South East Asia Consulting and leads the healthcare consulting team in the region, while remaining a practicing clinician with an interest in orthopaedics. With more than 20 years of experience in health, prior to working with PwC, Zubin’s career in healthcare provision from a surgeon’s standpoint has included working in both the public and private sectors across continents, including cities like Dublin, Oxford and Singapore. This has allowed him to gain experiences globally that help provide his clients insights that assist in solving their most complex challenges. Zubin has extensive experience in Digital Health, Medical Education, HealthTech and MedTech, and is a Consultant, Advisor and Mentor to a number of  start-ups and individuals in these spaces both locally as well as internationally. He holds Bachelors Honours Degrees in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynaecology from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) as well as two Masters Degrees in Orthopaedic Surgery from the RCSI and National University Singapore (NUS). Having published extensively over the last decade with more than thirty publications to his name, including being an invited author for Economic Times, Zubin continues to write actively.

 

He has shared his insights and expertise as well as presented, spoken, and participated in numerous events revolved around healthcare. These have included local, regional, and international conferences, workshops, panel discussions and working groups.

Zubin is active in the local community and is a big proponent of giving back, volunteering his time as an Executive Committee Member of the Dyslexia Association of Singapore and a practicing clinician at Tayka Medical Centre that provides medical care to the foreign worker community.

 

Some interesting things to know about Zubin include that he served in the Singapore Armed Forces as a paramedic, has been part of the Singapore National Team for Men’s Hockey, founded the Singapore Medical Society Ireland and volunteers his time for a number of good causes. Zubin is happily married and the proud owner of a beautiful chocolate brown Labrador, is a huge foodie, and loves spending time with his wife, family and friends. From a career perspective, Zubin believes that one should seek out a boss rather than a job and feels that good mentorship, strong leadership and teamwork are key ingredients to succeed. By having a few mentors with the above attributes at any one time, Zubin believes that one is likely to attain maximum benefit to their personal and professional development. A healthcare thought leader and strong believer in collaboration, Zubin hopes to bridge the gap between the technical and clinical sides within the realm of digital health.

Melisa is the Chief Operating Officer of MyDoc, Asia's award-winning and multilingual B2B telehealth platform enabling value-based care in the region. Prior to blazing the trail for MyDoc, Melisa was Marketing Director for Singapore Life where her work helped to secure $50M in Series A, and was Chief Marketing Officer at CXA Group where her work helped secure $25M in Series B funding at a valuation of $100M. Melisa serves on the advisory board of healthtech accelerator BlueChilli and the jury of APAC Effies. As an industry spokesperson in insurtech, digital healthcare, healthtech, women in leadership, customer and patient engagement, Melisa has spoken at key fintech and healthtech conferences including Singapore Fintech Festival, Google for Startup Accelerators, Galen Growth, APACMed, Access Health International, Asia Insurance Review, Human Resources, CIO Academy, Centre for Innovation in Healthcare. She has also been featured on Money FM 93.8.

John Spears joined Global Excel in 2003 as VP Marketing. His expertise in the field of U.S. health care, combined with his strong understanding of the needs of Global Excel’s clients, provides the solid foundation upon which many of Global Excel’s new sales and marketing strategies are built. John’s lively and informative presentations are also seen as essential tools for clients and Global Excel employees alike, helping them better understand the realities of both the U.S. health care system and the cost containment industry in general. Throughout his career, John has developed innovative sales and marketing strategies, created and built new brands, developed market research systems, and managed several diverse departments. His international experience and multilingual background make him a strong presence in Global Excel's continued development. John holds a degree in Honors Economics and has a great deal of international experience at the executive level. Before joining Global Excel, he worked in the U.S. as the director of sales and marketing for a leading designer and manufacturer of factory automation technologies. Previous to that, he spent ten years working in Germany, initially as a marketing consultant at a design and advertising agency and, later, as the international marketing manager for a major consumer goods manufacturer. Corporate URL: www.globalexcel.com Coporate Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/global-excel-management-inc-

Kim Yan Lim is the Sales Director for Verisk’s Life, Health and Travel division. Based in Singapore, Kim is responsible for leading the development and delivery of the data-driven medical underwriting solutions in the travel and health sectors within Southeast Asia. Kim has over 14 years’ experience in the Life and Health insurance industry since 2007 in delivering distribution, product development and claim management. Kim is passionate about business transformation, community building and underwrite inclusively for pre-existing conditions.

David is responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of First Assistance. David has extensive experience in senior leadership positions in the travel and assistance industries both in Australia and New Zealand. David joined First Assistance in 2013.

Former project manager at BCG with an extensive experience in the banking and insurance industries, Bruno joined Europ Assistance in 2019 as chief of staff to the Group CEO. He then gained operational experience as COO for EA’s conciergerie business before taking over the role of head of Group medical networks and GPPO.

Mr Santosh Marathe has work experience of around 27 years with the past 18 years in Healthcare. His career has transcended across manufacturing, Consumer Goods & Healthcare. He currently occupies the role of Regional CEO – Western Region at Apollo Hospital Enterprises Limited. Under his regional role, he is responsible for Hospitals based out of Navi Mumbai, Nasik, Gandhinagar & Ahmedabad. He also manages the Apollo managed Hospitals at Navsari Gujrat & Lagos Nigeria. His earlier stint was with American Hospital Dubai as a CFO. He has been instrumental in multiple strategic advisory roles for building business alliances, project planning, service excellence initiatives, costing & pricing strategies, physician compensation strategies, revenue management & IT implementations. He also played a lead role in implementing ICD 10 & CPT migration strategy in his earlier role at American Hospital Dubai. He has been recognised & awarded in top 100 Healthcare leaders by IFAH Dubai. He has been a regular speaker in multiple national & international forums at Boston, Sydney, Amsterdam, Singapore, Hong Kong & Dubai on topics of Big Data, Supply Chain management, Patient Centric care initiatives, Patient Experience, Finance & Costing & IT systems, Digital healthcare roadmap, Revenue management & so forth.

Dr. Winston Jong graduated from University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1982 and underwent postgraduate training with the Faculty of Anaesthetists at the Royal Australian College of Surgeon (1988), the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (1992) and Academy of Medicine, Singapore (2003). Dr. Jong is at present the Group Medical Director and Group CEO of EMA Global, Singapore’s pioneering provider of medical evacuation assistance, which he founded in 1995. He is concurrently practicing anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in private hospitals in Singapore. Prior to this, he was with the National University Hospital, Singapore (1989-1991) and Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong (1983-1989). Dr. Jong has established himself in the fields of clinical anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. Armed with such expertise, aero-medical medicine and the management of medical assistance operations became a second nature. Dr. Jong is now a leading subspecialist in aeromedical medicine.

Medical Director Gert Muurling is medical advisor for the "International Association of Flight and Critical Care Paramedics - Germany e.V." (IAFCCP), an association for further education of nurses in the air medical environment and on intensive care units. Furthermore, he was quality auditor for the "European Aeromedical Institute e.V." (EURAMI) for nearly 15 years, an association for the worldwide improvement of quality for air ambulance companies, and member of the "Air Medical Physician Association" (AMPA), an association for air medical physicians who's core interest is the patient's safety and the high quality of their work. Gert is the head of departments of anaesthesiology, intensive care and pain therapy of Zuyderland Medical Centre, a 1700 bed teaching hospital of Maastricht university since 2017 For more than 25 years he is consultant for anaesthesiology, and he is subspecialised in intensive care medicine and emergency medicine. Aso, he is leading emergency physician trained in the management of mass casualties. He is board certified in several European countries. Additionally, he is certified in medical travel advise, air travel medicine, altitude- and trekking-medicine (Centrum für Reisemedizin GmbH, CRM). He speaks five languages.