Introducing the people powering the Histolog Scanner

Dr. Charles S. Carignan is currently the Executive Chairman of Cairdac, and a Director of Biothea Pharma and Prothea. He is an advisor to several Biotech and MedTech companies. He previously served as the CEO of SoniVie ,Executive Chair and CEO of Rex Bionics, as the President and CEO of BionX Medical Technology (sold to Ottobock), founding President and CEO of NinePoint Medical, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Novasys Medical, Inc. (sold to Roper), Chief Medical Officer at Boston Scientific, and Vice President of clinical research and medical affairs at Conceptus (sold to Bayer).

He received a BA from Yale University and an MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He trained in general surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

He has served healthcare worldwide participating on committees of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Medicare Camp; Medicaid Services, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

From 1981 until 2013, Fabrizio Landi was co-founder and then part of the Executive Management of Esaote, where he held various positions (up to CEO and General Manager). He is currently a Board Member of Menarini Diagnostics, Firma and Silicon Biosystem (Menarini Group). He was also a board member of several Italian and international corporates, including Bracco US, Banca CR of Florence (part of Banca Intesa Group) and Leonardo-Finmeccanica. Since 2014 he is Chairman of Toscana Life Sciences TLS Foundation in Siena, supporting many biomedical and biopharmaceutical start-ups and no-profit and for-profit pharma and biotech research groups. He holds several positions in various Scientific Committees and is also actively involved in Fondazione R&I, focused on supporting Technology Transfer processes in Italy.

Graduated with a degree in bioengineering at the Milan Polytechnic, Fabrizio has a long career in the Life Science sector, started with Bayer in 1979.

In 2015, he co-founded Panakes Partners SGR, an investment company focused on Life Sciences Venture Capital activities: at Panakès, he is currently a Managing Partner of the first Fund, dedicated to Medtech and healthcare IT, investing all over Europe since 2016.

For more than 20 years, Arnoud De Geus has been working for the Sioux Group, which is a technology and production partner for leading industries. Sioux Group has 700 employees, and has an international reach. During the last 15 years, Arnoud has been part of the Sioux Group board of directors. He is mostly focused on the outside of the company in the form of account management and sales roles and since 2016, Arnoud has been promoted to the role of Director New Business Development of the Sioux Group. Besides that Arnoud is part of the Sioux China board.

He studied mechanical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and graduated in the field of mechatronics back in 1994.

Arnoud is also involved in the geographical expansion of Sioux towards Germany by means of acquisitions of a German company which has been added to the Sioux Group. He is currently managing the German Sioux organization during the integration phase.

Jan Dekker is a director of a number of private companies. Jan began his career at Philips Corporation where he worked from 1973 to 1981. He then joined KPMG Meijburg & Co, where he became Senior Partner in the International Tax Practice.

Olivier is CEO of SamanTree Medical, which has developed and commercializes the Histolog Scanner for fresh tissue analysis during cancer surgery or cancer diagnostics biopsies.

Prior to SamanTree Medical, Olivier was CEO of Miracor Medical for 7 years, SVP Commercial at PneumRx for 3 years (acquired by BTG in 2015) and VP Commercial at Tryton Medical for 5 years. Olivier started his medtech career in management positions at Guidant and Abbott.

Olivier is also a Venture Partner with SPRIG Equity, a US Venture Capital fund dedicated to best-in-class teams and medical technologies at growth equity and late-stage venture.

Olivier is a director of Miracor Medical (coronary sinus occlusion & Left ventricular Assist intervention devices), Endotools Therapeutics (Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty) and Intressa Vascular (aortic dissections).

Olivier earned a Masters Degree in Business from the UCL, Belgium, and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.