Anish Shindore

Founder & Managing Partner GSD Health

Since his immersion in Pharma, Anish has been closely involved with numerous technology and software startup companies focused on health. His passion is to create human centric digital solutions based on data, blending insights and approaches across industries to solve complex health problems at scale.

Over the years, Anish has been actively mentoring people & companies from various industries, helping them to first clarify and then realize their true potential. Faculty, at Geneva Business School; Advisor, to multiple start-ups; Angel Investor and firm believer in Human + Tech = Healthcare for now & future.

Recently he started his venture, GSD Health, with partners that share the same purpose of “Making companies become Investable, Scalable & Successful.”

Anish earned his MBA from ESADE Business & Law School and holds two bachelor’s degrees in business from Georgia State University and University of Pune.

Hans Henri P. Kluge

Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat

Director, Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Hal Wolf

President and CEO of HIMSS

Maryam Nemazee

Television News Presenter, Correspondent, Broadcaster and Journalist

Fernando Araújo

Executive Director (CEO) of the National Health Service (NHS)

Manuel Pizarro

Minister of Health of Portugal

Stein Olav Skrøvseth

Director, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research

Bart de Witte

Founder, Hippo AI Foundation

Anat Boehm-Cagan

Head of Regulatory Strategy and Partnerships, Medical Technologies, Innovation, Health information and Research Directorate, Ministry of Health, Israel

Alain Labrique

Director for the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization

David Novillo Ortiz

Regional Adviser, Data and Digital Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Effy Vayena

Professor of Bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH)

Ricardo Baptista Leite

CEO, The International Digital Health and AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR)

Ilona Kickbusch

Director of the Digital Transformation of Health LAB (DTH-LAB) at the University of Geneva

Henrique Martins

Senior Consultant, Digital Health and Innovation, WHO Athens, Senior Consultant, Regional Action Plan on Digital Health, WHO Western Pacific Region

Nick Guldemond

Professor healthcare and public health at Gdansk Medical University Poland and Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands

Alexandre Barbosa

Head of the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society

Andrea Horvat Kramaric

Head of Communication and Spokesperson for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Anish Shindore

Founder & Managing Partner GSD Health

Antonio Martinez

Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Technology in the Universitat Politècnica de València

Brian Li Han Wong

WHO European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies, FIND Diagnostics, and CISDI

Dejana Rankovic

Senior Advisor, Ehealth and Life Sciences, Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia

Eric Sutherland

Senior Health Economist, OECD

Francesc Saigí

Associate Professor of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Georgi Chaltikyan

Professor and Head of Digital Health at European Campus Rottal-Inn, Bavaria, Germany

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Lead author of the recently published book: ‘Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century’

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President, AGE Platform Europe

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Pan-European Mental Health Coalition

Jyoti Joshi

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Advisor at the International Centre for AMR Solutions

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Lene Lundberg

Senior Adviser, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research

Lloyd Humphreys

Managing Director of Cogniss

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Vice President of External Affairs at the European Medical Students' Association

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Regional Relations Officer (RRO) of IPSF EuRO

Maite Pozo

Coordinator of the Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in Spain. Institute of Older Persons and Social Services (Imserso)

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Editor at FactCheck.ge

Maxine Mackintosh

Programme Lead for Diverse Data at Genomics England

Milana Trucl

European Patients’ Forum

Mirna Hussein

Advisor One Health Data Alliance Africa (OHDAA) at German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)

Pavle Zelic

Master of Science in Pharmacy, communicator, and certified diplomat

Peter Drury

UK National Health Service

Päivi Sillanaukee

Ambassador for Health and Wellbeing at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Raquel Castelo Branco

Director of the Social Cohesion Department of Porto Municipality

Robin van Kessel

Research Associate in the Dpt of Health Policy at the London School of Economics

Rui Gaspar

Associate Professor at Lusófona University

Vicente Traver

Head of innovative Technologies for Health & Wellbeing (SABIEN) at the ITACA Institute

Vladimir Obradovic

State Secretary in the Ministry of Health of Montenegro

Wolfgang Gaebel

Professor of Psychiatry, Director em. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LVR-Klinikum, Heinrich-Heine-University, Director WHO-CC DEU-131, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Digital Health Specialist

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

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Shawna Butler

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Medical doctor and MA student at Deggendorf Institute of Technology in Germany

Maria de Belém Roseira

Lawyer and Jurist

Tomas Zapata

Unit Head, Health Workforce and Health Services, WHO Europe

Gratiela Iordache

Head of Unit for Projects’ Implementation for Romanian National Authority for Quality Management in Healthcare

Luís Abegão Pinto

Head of the Glaucoma Clinic of the Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital Santa Maria, Portugal

Alexandru Gasnas

State secretary of MoH (Vice-Minister of Health), Moldova, PhD Associate Professor

Ketevan Stvilia

Manager of the Global Funds HIV Program, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health of Georgia

Heleen Riper

Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Jerome de Barros

Policymaker at the European Commission (DG SANTE)

Rachel Dunscombe

Professor, CEO of OpenEHR

Steven Becknell

Deputy Director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office

Anca del Rio

Lead Health Tech Community and Stakeholder Relations, Basel Area Business & Innovation and HIMSS Changemaker in Health Award Winner 2023

Anne Moen

Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, and adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research in Norway

Ed Pertwee

Research Fellow at the Vaccine Confidence Project at LSHTM

Alenka Kolar

Director General, Directorate for Digitization in Healthcare, Slovenia

Alexandre Lourenço

Hospital Administrator at Coimbra Hospital and University Center, Portugal

Galit Shaham

Head of Data Science at Clalit Innovation, Israel

Ivo Rakovac

Regional Adviser for Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Surveillance and Unit Head in the WHO European Region

António Marques

Director – Magalhães Lemos Hospital, Porto, Portugal

Carl Leitner

Technical Officer for Architecture and Informatics, WHO

Ana Rita Pereira

Government and Healthcare lead for Western Europe, Microsoft

Beth Wolff

Director, Digital Health Solutions in Global Corporate Strategy & BD, Lundbeck

Peter Speyer

Head of Data & Analytics at the Novartis Foundation

Vincent Dupont

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Kristine Sørensen

President of International Health Literacy Association and Chair of Health Literacy Europe

Nuno Costa

Member of the Board of Directors of Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, Vice President, European Health Public Procurement Alliance

Alisha Davies

NHS Consultant in Public Health, Head of Research & Evaluation at Public Health Wales, and Health Lead for AI For Science and Government at The Alan Turing Institute

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Coordinator, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Netherlands

Chris Wright

Advisor for Digital Mental Health and Leads the national Digital Mental Health Programme in Scotland

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Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)

Giovanni Monti

Strategic Advisor. Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Health

Ognjen Milicevic

Statistics teacher at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, and machine learning team lead and health tech domain expert in HTEC Group

Fulvia Raffaelli

Lead of the Digital Health unit, DG SANTE

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Deputy Director of the eHealth Center, Ministry of Health, Kyrgyz Republic

Irina Javakhadze

Acting Head at the Health Policy Department, the Ministry of IDP from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

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