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Conny Helder (1958) is a Dutch healthcare manager, who served as the Minister for Long-term Care and Sport and, for a few months, as Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the fourth Rutte cabinet (2022–2024).

She was born in The Hague and trained to be a surgical assistant. She rose to managerial positions in hospitals and served as chair of the board of directors of an Eindhoven network of primary healthcare centers starting in 2010. Helder became director of tanteLouise, a major provider of elderly care in the Bergen op Zoom area, seven years later and was involved in a number of projects to renovate existing and construct new nursing homes. She also led a regional cooperation to promote innovations in the elderly care sector. tanteLouise was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which reached the Netherlands in February 2020. Helder, who had become a board member of the trade association ActiZ the month before, made frequent media appearances to comment on the pandemic and to advocate the association's positions.

When the fourth Rutte cabinet was formed, Helder was asked to join as Minister for Long-term Care and Sport on behalf of the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). She was sworn in on 10 January 2022 and proposed a plan to provide more elderly care at home rather than in nursing homes in reaction to the aging population of the Netherlands. She succeeded Ernst Kuipers as Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in January 2024 following his resignation and served in that position until July 2024.

Helder is driven by a passion for ensuring quality, accessible, and sustainable healthcare, and she brings this dedication to her role at RegMed XB. "Given the immense pressure on healthcare systems and the continually growing demand, I firmly believe that innovation and technology are crucial in easing this burden and creating a sustainable future for healthcare."

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Jopie Nooren (1961) is the Chair for the Executive Board at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She has an extensive career in health care and in politics. She is driven and socially engaged, strives for an inclusive society for the physically and mentally impaired. Her career shows a number of health care organizations. For example, the Dutch association for the disabled (VGN), Zorgverzekeraars Nederland (ZN; the umbrella organization of ten health insurers in the Netherlands), Erasmus University, Rotterdam. She also chaired and co-shared several advisory boards. For example, Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Assen, NVZD, Special Olympics and Vilans.

From 2008 until 2012 Jopie was CEO of Lunet zorg, a health care organization for the mentally impaired. Currently she is CEO of Bartiméus (2013), an expert organization for people with visual impairment. She strives for a strong coalition with other parties active in the same sector, to join forces to contribute to a better life for those who are impaired. Bartiméus aims for living 100% for people with visual impairment, enabling them to live the life they wish. Bartiméus also plays an active role in promoting social inclusion and equal opportunities for the visually impaired.

Between 2015-2021 she has been senator in the Dutch senate for the PvdA (Dutch labor party). In the senate was secretary and treasurer and spokesperson for matters of health care, wellbeing and sports, secondary and higher education, integration, immigration and asylum. Jopie is a gifted ceramist and a long-distance runner in her spare time.

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Maurice Horsten (1967) has a distinguished career in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology. He has worked for multinational companies like Eli Lilly & Company and Mediq NV in various countries and has also been a successful entrepreneur. In 2006, he and his business partner sold medical device supplier DiabetesDirect to Mediq NV. Later, he was an investor and CEO of PharmaCell, a biotech company in regenerative medicine, which was successfully sold to Lonza SA. Currently, Maurice is the Director of the NV Bossche Investment Company (BIM), where he has extensive experience managing public investment companies and established the Bossche Investment Fund (BIF). As a board member of Braventure, he has worked on enhancing the start-up ecosystem. He also served on the board of the Limburg University Fund for nearly 10 years.

In the life sciences sector, Maurice serves on the supervisory boards of Brabant Life Sciences Seed Fund and Basic Pharma BV. For the province of Brabant, he is the chairman of the Leisure Development Fund Brabant, the supervisory board of NV Monumenten Beheer Brabant, and a member of the supervisory board of Van Gogh Sites NV. He is honored to contribute to RegMed XB’s Supervisory Board, supporting the growth of regenerative medicine, which he sees as having great potential.

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Luc Keltjens (1986) is manager Mergers and Acquisitions at Marktlink in Amsterdam and is (inter)nationally active in assisting entrepreneurs with mergers, acquisitions, financing, restructuring and succession issues. In his period Marktlink has tripled in size and currently has 90 employees within 6 offices in the Benelux, successfully completing more than 80 transactions annually. Luc graduated at Maastricht University and worked as financial performance analyst and consultant at ABN AMRO and a consultancy boutique in Amsterdam.

He is the son of entrepreneurial parents, who were required to sell their family businesses due to health reasons (i.e. kidney failure and hearth disease). Luc has been faced with multiple kidney transplantation procedures. In his family and has therefore gained experience from patient perspective.

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Wim van der Meeren (1955) is the former CEO of CZ (2009-2019), one of the mayor healthcare insurers of the Netherlands (3.6 million insured). Wim earned his Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Nijmegen (1980). He started his career as a policy coordinator and head of Public Health in the Gelderland province. In 1986, he accepted the position of Executive Director of the Den Ooiman nursing home in Doetinchem.

In 1992 he moved on to the Drechtsteden hospital in Dordrecht as CEO and in 1998 he became CEO of the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg. Wim is convinced that focus on quality in healthcare reduces costs, whereas a focus on costs reduces quality. Wim currently serves as member of the Supervisory Board of the AVANS University for Applied Sciences, Chairman of the Provincial Council of Health in Noord Brabant, Chairman of the “Begeleidingscommissie evaluatie Juiste Zorg op de Juiste Plek” from the Ministry of Health and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the “Stedelijk Museum Breda”.

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Koenraad Debackere is a professor of Technology and Innovation Management & Policy at KU Leuven since 1995. He has degrees in engineering and business. He was a visiting doctoral student and Fulbright post-doctoral fellow at MIT Sloan School and obtained best paper awards from the TIM Division of the American Academy of Management, the Decision Sciences Institute and the International Association for the Management of Technology. In 2006 he was awarded the Prize for Scientific Excellence of the Belgian Entreprise Foundation (VBO). In 2007 he received an honorary professorship from the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.

He is the managing director of KU Leuven Research & Development and chairman of the KU Leuven seed fund, Gemma Frisius. He is co-founder and chairman of Leuven.Inc, the innovation network of Leuven high-tech entrepreneurs. Since 2005, he is the general manager of KU Leuven. In 2015, he was appointed chairman of EIT Health e.V. --- a KIC of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

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