THE DIGITAL HEALTH PLATFORM

Prof. Dr. med. Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr is the former Medical Director of the Heart Center Leipzig and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Leipzig. He has been awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding achievements in the development of East Germany after reunification. Focus magazine repeatedly listed the physician in its list of top German doctors.

Prof. Mohr began his professional career in the early 1970s starting a medical degree at Freie Universität in West Berlin, which he later successfully completed in Bonn and Sydney.
He then worked as a medical assistant at the University Hospital for Cardiovascular Surgery Bonn. Soon he became a specialist in cardiac and vascular surgery and was soon promoted to the position of senior physician. In 1986-1988 he worked as a fellow for the German Research Association at University College Los Angeles. In 1990 he was designated a C3 professorship at the University of Göttingen as Deputy Hospital Director. In 1994 Prof. Mohr became Medical Director of the Heart Center Leipzig which – under his leadership – became internationally renowned. Prof. Mohr has headed several German, European and international professional societies as president. In March 2017, Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr retired from his position at Heart Center Leipzig.

Peter Zühlsdorff was on the executive board of Wella AG for almost 20 years, five of which as its chairman (1991-1995). He also received recognition as the president of the Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (GfK) and through heading some major restructuring projects such as the Tengelmann Group and the dual waste system DSD (Grüner Punkt).

Zühlsdorff began his professional career at the age of 16 as a ship’s boy on a small freighter of the East Africa line. Even before his time at Wella AG, he worked in the field of hair care as an entrepreneur. In 1970 he became managing partner of TONDEO Werk GmbH in Solingen, a medium-sized manufacturer of hairdressing supplies. In 1978, Zühlsdorff moved to Wella AG in Darmstadt. In 1999 he took over Deutsche Industrie Holding.

After graduating first as physician and later in laboratory medicine, Dominik Löer took over his father’s private medical laboratory in Münster in 2004. Within a few years he expanded the business to serving 1,300 practicing doctors. He also added 50 hospitals to his clientele, which was a completely new group of customers for the family business at that time.

Working with so many different doctors and medical institutions, he learned to understand the diverse needs and challenges that healthcare providers face. Based on this experience, he co-founded HYBETA, an institute that tests and analyzes hygiene standards in operation and clean rooms and also consults on methods of improving them. HYBETA serves not only hospitals and doctors’ practices but also corporations, and today the company employs over a 100 hygienists and technicians.

In 2008, Löer co-acquired a medical laboratory in the town of Nordhorn and added a second branch to its operation shortly after. Five years later he sold the laboratory in Nordhorn to the Kramer Group and the one in Münster to Limbach Group. The latter is now the market leader in medical laboratories in Germany. Between 2014 and 2016, Löer worked for Limbach as a strategic consultant.

Dr. Martin Bloch is Managing Director of Germany’s largest anaesthetic clinic Anaesthesio. The company, which he founded in 2002, today employs over 100 medical specialists and serves 22.000 patients every year at 40 different ambulatory and stationary surgery sites in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Bloch graduated from RWTH Aachen.

Herbert Henzler was the German face of the global consulting firm McKinsey for 32 years until his departure in 2001. He acted as managing partner for the German offices, was a member of its global Executive Committee and was the driving force behind the expansion into Brazil, Turkey and Eastern Europe.

After McKinsey, Henzler moved into finance, leading the advisory board of Credit Suisse for ten years, up to 2012, and then joining the investment bank Moelis & Company. In the late 2000s he also led the Hightech Innovation Program for the German State of Bavaria. Henzler is an advisory member of several boards including Deutsche Bahn, FC Bayern Munich, Bogner, Ottonova and more. In 2011 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and was named “most powerful consultant in Germany” by business magazine Handelsblatt.

Johannes Pichler has been with Globalways AG for more than 10 years – as co-founder and CEO. During this time, the company has become the leading provider of high-availability fiber optic connections and data center services for business customers in the Stuttgart region. Globalways AG has received multiple awards including the SME Award for Social Responsibility in Baden-Württemberg, the Deloitte Technology Fast50 and Deloitte Technology Fast500 EMEA Awards, and the FT 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies Award.
Parallel to his entrepreneurial activities, Pichler completed his Master’s degree in Business Informatics at the Technical University of Munich in 2010.