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Meet the People Behind Pacmed

Willems interest in social affairs already showed during his studies, when he founded a company in education, helping high school students. Furthermore, Willem was a member of the voluntary board of the Dutch Cancer Society, worked as data scientist for THNK: School for Creative Leadership and founded Waaromkiesjij.nl, an app that facilitates political engagement. After his participation on the National ThinkTank 2014 he founded Pacmed with Wouter and Hidde.
Willem studied Physics at the University of Amsterdam.

Wouter has worked (on the bedside and behind computers) at University Medical Center Utrecht for five years. Furthermore, he has working experience in management consulting and has worked for a software start-up and a service platform for the elderly. Wouter participated in the Dutch National ThinkTank 2014 with Willem and Hidde.
Wouter studied Medicine in Utrecht and Computational Logic at the University of Amsterdam and Stanford University.

Before Pacmed Hidde already had many years of working experience as a data analytics consultant, where he focused on helping large organisations transition to a more data-driven way of working. In 2014 he met Wouter and Willem during the National ThinkTank of which Pacmed originated.
Hidde studied at University College Utrecht before doing a Master’s in Quantitative Finance and a Master in Econometrics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.


Taco has extensive working experience in strategy consulting. He worked 10 years at McKinsey & Co and 3 years at Gupta Strategists. He has led many data driven strategic and operational projects within healthcare.
Taco is trained as a medical doctor and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Medical Information Science.


Chiara has spent the last 5 years leading the product effort at Cardiologs, working on AI-based arrhythmia diagnostic solutions. She has previously worked for educational startup SAM Labs and as a Device Engineer at GSK.
Chiara holds an MEng in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London.



Giovanni is one of the first employees of Pacmed, having extensive working experience as a medical data scientist on the prognosis of chronic diseases in primary care. His formation comprised Philosophy, Mathematics and applied AI: he obtained a MSc in Philosophy of Science from LSE and a PhD in Mathematical Logic at the University of Amsterdam.

Ester gained over 12 years of working experience in quality assurance and regulatory affairs for various medical devices, both at start-ups and more established organisations before joining Pacmed.
Ester obtained her Master’s in Industrial Design Engineering in Delft.

Petra has worked both in smaller and bigger companies before joining Pacmed, also in healthcare and related sectors, and she has several years of experience in quality management.
Petra completed her university studies in Hungary, where she obtained her Master’s degree in Engineering Management - Quality Management in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Before Abigaël joined Pacmed, she did a number of internships at various legal offices and departments, including at the privacy department of law firm Van Doorne in Amsterdam, where she also worked as a legal assistant
Abigaël obtained a Master's degree in law, specializing in private law as well as internet-, IP and IT law.

Before Pacmed, Bas worked as a software engineer at the educational tech start-up Dedact, where he made it to the position of tech lead.
Bas holds a Master’s in Econometrics of the University of Amsterdam.

Before Pacmed, Daan was a senior data science consultant & data science trainer at analytics consultancy firm MIcompany. Daan studied Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam.

Before moving to Amsterdam, Mattia has worked as a researcher in astrophysics for 8 years. In Amsterdam, he led an international research team investigating dark matter by applying machine learning on enormous volumes of gamma-ray data from satellites.
Mattia obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics in his home country Italy.

After his studies Michele worked first as a graduate research engineer in deep learning at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where he researched domain adaptation methods applied to assisted-driving vehicles. He then moved to Amsterdam where he joined Bunq as a data scientist.
Michele obtained a Master's of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and a Master's of Research in Medical Robotics & Image-Guided Intervention at Imperial College London (both with distinction).

Carsten worked as a machine learning/research engineer for Textkernel where he built deep learning models for sequence labeling and representation learning. After this, he worked as data scientist for Trivago where he learned to complete full-loop data science projects under strict time constraints.
Carsten studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam where he focused on machine learning for NLP and computer vision.

Suzanne started her career as Psychology teacher at the University of Twente where she taught students in setting up and carrying out (UX) research. After this, she worked as senior UX researcher at ABN AMRO. In this role she carried out lots and different types of research: from explorative to validating research and from qualitative to quantitative research. Next to that, she matured and evolved the UX research within ABN AMRO.
Suzanne studied HBO Applied Psychology and finished her master Human Factors and Engineering Psychology at the University of Twente.

As a Machine Learning specialist he also has broad ML knowledge ranging from NLP, Computer Vision to time series forecasting.
He uses all these skills to help Pacmed roll out Pacmed Critical and develop new modules for it.
His motto: ‘Never stop learning’

Before Pacmed, Geert worked as a machine learning engineer consultant at Xomnia. There he worked with many clients to support them in their data needs, from data science to data engineering.
Geert has a master degree in Biomedical Sciences and Science Based Business at the University of Leiden.

Previously, Sofia worked as a consultant, developing ML models for various industries and later on joined the healthcare sector during her time at SkinVision. She has a user-centric mindset, focusing on delivering value to users when building AI solutions
Sofia obtained a MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam.


He has an active sport life and became Dutch champion under 23 with competitive rowing. During his studies he gained experience in data science projects in aviation at both KLM and Qantas Airways.
Olivier did a Master’s in Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft and subsequently completed a master's degree in Econometrics at Tilburg University (with distinction).

Next to years of freelancing and getting his own start-up off the ground, Hanne also has a lot of experience in the corporate world.
Hanne holds a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence of the University of Amsterdam.


Within Pacmed, as a front-end engineer, Sophie programs the part of the decision-support software that is visible to the intensivists, providing them with an overview of the information needed to make the right decision right at the bedside.
Before joining Pacmed, Sophie worked as a software consultant on an eHealth application aimed at measuring heart rate and blood pressure. In this role she was in constant contact with doctors, designers and developers. It was the interaction with developers that sparked her interest, which led her to take a course in full-stack web development at Ironhack.
Sophie graduated with a master's degree in Biomedical Sciences in combination with a master's degree in Science, Business & Policy from the University of Groningen.


Before starting at Pacmed, Arjen obtained a MD (cum laude) and a PhD in medicine (thesis: Advancing orthostatic hypotension diagnostics). He worked at several ICU and cardiology departments in the Netherlands.

Marijn is a former data science consultant who both built AI solutions and managed implementation of data-driven solutions, including for healthcare. He is also a former assistant professor in cognitive neuroscience who led a team investigating neural mechanisms that allow the modification of emotional memory and decision-making, aiming to support the development of novel treatments for clinical disorders.
Marijn holds a PhD (Cum Laude) from the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, an MSc in Neuroscience & Cognition from Utrecht University, a BSc in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, and was a postdoc at Universidad Politecnica Madrid and New York University.

Brian has a passion for healthcare – specifically in combination with innovation and digitalization – striving to keep healthcare affordable, sustainable and of the highest quality. Prior to working at Pacmed Brian has gained valuable experience in managing complex software implementations in the hospital setting as consultant of the Electronic Medical Record at Chipsoft. He’ll use his knowledge and experience to increasingly let patients, doctors and hospitals (healthcare systems) benefit from the application of machine learning in clinical practice.
Brian has a background in the health sciences and completed a Master’s Programme in Management and Entrepreneurship in the Health and Life Sciences (MPA) at the VU University Amsterdam.



Emma started at an event bureau of, mainly, diplomatic and corporate events. Here, she grew from hostess to manager. After this she worked as salon manager at Rob Peetoom, an illustrious hair salon, with several locations around the world. Emma is a real go-getter and an essential part of our team, organising the company and office and giving support to the whole team.
Emma has a bachelor Interior Design from the Akademie Vogue, and diplomas in Photography and Senior Management.