Two digital health startups prepare for growth

Distalmotion, a Swiss-based medical device company aims to remove the complexity out of robotic surgery to fast track its widespread adoption in minimally invasive surgical care. The start-up announced this week that Reinhard Mayer and Heinz Jacqui have joined its Board of Directors. Heinz Jacqui is the former President and CEO of Maquet Medical Systems and Reinhard Mayer currently serves as CFO and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Hansgrohe SE. Both bring extensive experience to Distalmotion as the company sets its sight on regulatory steps ahead of commercialisation. Heinz Jacqui has a 32-year track-record of leading engineering teams and managing business units, as well as global companies within the medtech industry. Meyer ran numerous merger and acquisition projects and established new sales and service entities around the world.

"We warmly welcome Heinz Jacqui and Reinhard Mayer to Distalmotion," said Michael Friedrich, CEO of Distalmotion. "Their extensive experience and achievements bring significant added expertise to our Board. Building on a combined 56 years of industry experience, they share our vision to establish a new global standard of care to allow everyone to access the benefits of robotic surgery."

Optimo Medical: Advancing commercialization with a CCO

As of January 16th, Alexander van der Mey assumes chief commercial officer (CCO) management position with Optimo Medical AG.He is responsible for global marketing and sales. Alexander van der Mey gained his professional experience of over 10 years in commercialization and with many international product launches, through multiple positions in the field of marketing and sales in Ophthalmology. 

Harald Studer, co-founder and CEO of Optimo Medical AG says: “With Alexander van der Mey we have found the ideal candidate to further increase our international market presence, and to ramp-up the commercialization of our products further. Thanks to his extensive market knowledge, his experience with product distribution and partner management, his vast international network with important industry players, and his explicit customer focus, Alexander will significantly advance Optimo Medical further.”

Optimo Medical AG is a Swiss medical technology and IT-cloud business, producing and distributing solutions for patient-specific surgery planning in eye care. Its Optimeyes product-line employs biomechanical computation to manufacture digital twins of the patient’s eyes – inside the computer and uses these virtual copies to calculate the individually optimal incision parameters for the femto-second laser, in order to ideally correct astigmatism. Optimo Medical has an interdisciplinary team of experts in ocular tissue biomechanics, computer simulation technology, software development, ophthalmology, physics, mathematics, and optics.

(Press release / SK)