Mindy Daeschner

Mindy Daeschner is an entrepreneur and expert in the field of healthcare and technology. She draws on a 15-year background of management consultancy, for some of the world’s leading global organisations. Having founded several businesses (start-up and within multinational companies), she acts as a change agent helping shape and evolve business and solutions that actualise value and brings broad leadership, management and commercial experience working in Europe, Asia and the USA.

She is very keen to see more collaboration and discussion regarding new models of healthcare collaboration and services.  Having worked and met with many private healthcare providers across a broad spectrum of services from health insurance and wellness to pharmaceutical, home healthcare and domiciliary to providers running clinics, referral management services and hospitals, she has first-hand experience as to the complexity new care models present and the opportunity they hold for transforming patient care and improving the healthcare economy.

Rob Stevenson

Rob Stevenson is an entrepreneur with a passion for building and advising businesses that are founded on the desire to help people live happier, healthier lives.  He is a Partner with Ignition Law, a start-up and scale-up focused law firm, and is to co-founder of an online health and wellness company.  He studied chemistry at Oxford University before training and qualifying as a corporate lawyer with global law firm Hogan Lovells. 

During his time at Hogan Lovells he specialised in corporate finance and M&A and undertook client secondments to SABMiller plc, BNP Paribas and Barclays Bank plc.  He now advises early stage businesses on strategy, corporate and commercial law, employment, data protection and IP matters relevant to their stage of growth. 

He is a mentor and advisor to a number of early stage medtech companies and a member of the TechLondonAdvocates Healthcare working group.

June Dawson

A pioneer in the digital marketing arena, June, has a vast amount of experience across all aspects of digital strategy, digital brand development, and the creation of patient and professional engagement, education and support services. She is passionate about patient choice and helping bring true transformation to the health and wellness market place. She believes that we have reached a tipping point that will lead to profound changes in the way we deliver healthcare services and engage as consumers in their own health and wellness.   

June was previously EU MD for Digitas Health, the first global digital health agency originally founded in the US, she established the brand outside the US  and worked as part of the global leadership team responsible for key global clients. Prior to Digitas Health, June worked as the business director responsible for digital marketing for  Ogilvy Healthworld's global clients. June has been a partner in several other businesses and also has significant experience in the technology sector which is where she started her career.

Neil McGregor-Paterson

Neil is an experienced healthcare communication strategist with over 30 years working for the pharmaceutical and associated sectors in the UK, EU and US. This includes MD roles for a number of leading communication and market access consultancies. He also has extensive experience in working with the advocacy and third sectors. This includes Board positions with a number of leading HIV charities, a Non-Executive role with a leading housing association and he is currently secretariat to Health Technology Assessment International’s (HTAi) Patient and Citizen Involvement Working Group.

Neil’s strategic expertise spans a number of areas including change management, charity mergers, consumer and medical communications, market access and advocacy relations.

Neil is passionate about putting patients at the heart of their healthcare and he is committed to enabling stakeholders in their informed decision making. He is also passionate about the need for all those involved in heath and wellbeing to demonstrate both the outputs and the outcomes of their work.