Healthcare Operators
Hundreds of healthcare operators have signed up to attend HBI 2023 in person this June, where we’ll be reuniting the entire industry across 3 days.
Discover why you should join them below…


Reasons to attend HBI
Meet with investors and acquisitive operators
who can take your business to the next level and help you meet your growth ambitions through partnership and collaboration.
Optimise your business growth strategy
through insights and conversations with your peers who have shared experiences and unique stories to tell.
Save time by meeting with hundreds of leading operator CEOs and investors
under one roof over 3 days to set you up for long term success.
Learn the latest intel on what does and doesn’t work in digital and AI
investment through case studies and anecdotes from pioneering elite who will transform the industry in the next 10 years.
Hear stories, case studies and data points to help seize the opportunity
stay ahead of the curve and keep up to date on the current investment landscape.
Keep informed of regulatory and policy changes
that can impact how your business is run through insightful discussions with your peers.
Uncover territories, sectors and global big picture themes
and opportunities via relevant workshops and practical sessions which will help you develop and de-risk your growth strategy.
Meet other operators who are leading the charge with new digital and technology solutions
and identify top talent set to make waves in the next 3-5 years.
The types of Healthcare Service Operators that attend:
Find out why these organisations attend the HBI conference
- Hospital Groups
- Diagnostic Organisations
- Dentistry Groups
- Laboratory Services Companies
- Primary Care Groups
- Outpatient Organisations
Highlight sessions
Monday 19 June
Monday June 19, 2023
Keynote: What is possible today?
Perhaps the most advanced genetic and population health management in the world is operated by Clalit, an integrated payor/provider that covers 3m Israelis which has had sophisticated electronic patient records for over 20 years. So with the right data, the right culture and the right systems, what is possible today? And what will be possible tomorrow?
Prof Ran Balicer, Chief Innovation Officer, Clalit


Monday June 19, 2023
Keynote: Implementing personalised medicine in a university hospital setting
Anna looks at how Karolinska has created a virtual organisation where scientists and physicians find new ways of interacting, promoting cross-disciplinary collaborations. She also reflects on the real potential offered by a new generation of genomic tests, embedded in clinical medicine.
Prof Anna Wedell, Director, Precision Medicine Center, Karolinska
Center for Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet


Monday June 19, 2023
Keynote: How to partner better
Building these new platforms calls for multi-decade programmes and much deeper and more intricate partnerships between university hospitals and research centres and industry. In this keynote we explore what these partnerships should look like.
Neil Wright, Commercial Director, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust


Thursday January 01, 1970
Healthcare Operators
Tuesday 20 June
Tuesday June 20, 2023
The 2023 Healthcare M&A Landscape
Will M&A in health care come to a standstill or will mountains of dry powder see it power through? What will be the impact as inflation soars to its highest levels since the early 1980s and we face recession and a workforce crisis.
Hedley Goldberg, Partner, Rothschild & Co


Fleming - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Healthcare regulation: Opportunities and risks
This remains the number one issue for health care investors and operators in most countries. Here we look in detail at what risks there are in different countries and sectors. What, if anything, can the sector do to allay them?
Speakers include:
Dr Stephan Rau, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery
Sharon Lamb, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery
Joe Ryan, CFO, Medicover
Matthew Strassberg, Partner, MidEuropa
Darshak Shah, Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director, Newmedica
Moderated by David Farbrother, Editorial Director, HBI













Fleming - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Building the best model for digital
Finding the business model that best leverages digital and technology is tough. Health care is littered with failed attempts at innovation and transformation. Often this is due to a misunderstanding of where value is really created and a failure to build integrated systems. This session looks at mistakes and lessons learnt. What does success look like for providers large or small and how is it achieved?
Speakers include:
Sourabh Pagaria, EMEA Lead Digitally-enabled Service, EVP & Managing Director Southern Europe, Siemens Healthineers
Hafid Rifi, CFO, Asklepios
Thomas Hagemeijer, Healthcare Lead, TLGG
Oskari Eskola, CEO, BeeHealthy
Moderated by Klaus Boehncke, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Hafid explains how €5bn hospital group Asklepios has brought efficiency, cost saving and new revenue streams through digital investments. Thomas lays out the various business models adopted in digital health and identifies the challenges and benefits of each. Oskari shares how Mehilainen is leveraging its learnings to build a digitally enabled pan-European outpatient network.










Whittle - 3rd Floor
Thursday January 01, 1970
Healthcare Operators
Tuesday June 20, 2023
This time it’s Personal: Rethinking patient pathways
One-size-fits-all health care delivery is stuck in the past. Using data, genomics and an understanding of each patients specific needs, environment and history and developing a personal care pathway is proving to increase outcomes and lower costs. Payors in markets such as France are starting to fund such an approach, opening up new revenue opportunities. This session evaluates early data from such endeavours and looks at how operators and health systems can scale-up efforts.
Speakers include:
Thierry Chiche, CEO, Elsan
Vasilis Sakkas, General Manager Partnerships & Solutions, EMEA, GE HealthCare
Dirk Kneuppel, CEO, Primärmedizin TMVZ GmbH
Moderated by Thomas London, Partner, McKinsey & Company









Fleming - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Managing your costs in challenging times
Rising costs from inflation, wages, and energy are indiscriminately hitting the healthcare sector and despite government support packages being pledged, the road ahead looks arduous. So how do providers control costs? This session explores strategies to keep costs at bay from strategic procurement to efficiency gains and getting more out of your existing technology.
Speakers include:
Joe Ryan, Chief Financial Officer, Medicover
Few people are better placed than Joe to deal with challenging operating environments. In his 27 years at Medicover he has seen it all from credit crisis to political instability and war. Rising inflation and new health reform in Finland has meant that Terveystalo has had to focus hard on managing costs. Ville discusses the impact whilst increasing productivity and the service to patients
Ville Iho, President and CEO, Terveystalo
Jim Easton, Group CEO, Practice Plus Group
Moderated by Max Hotopf, Founder and Chairman, HBI









Whittle - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
How to solve the workforce puzzle
How do you best recruit and retain a strong workforce in nurses, doctors and specialist staff? What role does training and culture play here? Providers present case studies on how they have managed to shift the needle.
Speakers include:
Dr Fatih Mehmet Gul, Vice President, Fakeeh Care Group; CEO, Fakeeh University Hospital
Dr Sandra Roddinger, Executive Partner, RadioOnkologieNetzwerk, Ergéa Group
Rachel King, Group People Director, Spire Healthcare
Emma Pearson, CEO, Achieve Together
Moderated by Eilert Hinrichs, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
The gulf has long been known for its dependence on expat workers. Fatih discusses how Fakeeh is building a pipeline of locally trained Saudi and UAE clinicians to plug gaps and even export to other markets.
Sandra explains how RadioOnkologieNetzwerk (RON) has developed its own training institute and talent pipeline offering a more practical approach than the traditional university pathway.










St James - 4th Floor
Wednesday 21 June
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Building a robust ESG framework
Environmental, Social and Governance frameworks are of vital importance, following a series of scandals which have had a huge impact on brands and share price. A good ESG framework can justify a higher valuation for healthcare businesses. This session at why it’s crucial to get ESG framework right.
Therese Lennehag, Head of ESG Advisory EMEA, UBS Investment Bank / Global Banking
Glyn Richards, Group Head of Sustainability, Bupa
Thomas Rajzbaum, Partner, EQT Partners
Marion Cardon, Chief Brand and Engagement Officer, Korian
Moderated by Libbi Lee, Partner, McKinsey & Company










Fleming - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The Outpatient Differential
Traditional hospitals face massive change. The drive towards outpatient and the creation of virtual wards promises to reduce costs and grow supply. This session looks at how and why outpatient models will shape the future of healthcare delivery globally with real data and examples of cost savings, efficiency increase and patient satisfaction.
Speakers include:
Chris Robson, Managing Director, Akeso&Co
Chris is working with NHS England to implement 40-50 virtual beds per 100,000 people. He shares the lessons learned implementing such wards, the technology required and the early outcomes from projects.
Zisis Sotiriou, Senior Vice President, Regional COO, Affidea
Vivek Shukla, Managing Partner, Surge Management Consulting
Dr Arun Thiyagarajan, Global Healthcare Transformation Director, Bupa
Moderated by Joe Quiruga, Analyst, HBI










Whittle - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Laboratory diagnostics – where after Covid?
Diagnostic labs saw massive growth during Covid. How has this changed the long-term outlook for the sector? For instance, has Covid enabled the sector to successfully build new relationships with government and public payors? This session also explores growth opportunities in outsourcing, new tech, verticalisation and emerging markets
Speakers include:
Jerome Thill, CEO, Groupe Cerba Healthcare
Wolf Kupatt, CEO, Amedes
Staffan Ternstrom, COO Diagnostic Services, Medicover
Moderated by Martin Debenito-Gellner, Senior Analyst, HBI









Fleming - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The investment opportunity in fertility and women’s health
The fertility sector continues to steadily grow, but with a fragmented market, consolidation is not straightforward. And the revolution to address health inequalities for women presents a huge opportunity – around fertility, pregnancy and the menopause. Meanwhile femtech is set to be a $50bn industry by 2025. This session looks in depth at future growth prospects with speakers from two of the largest international consolidators – Virtus and TFP.
Speakers include:
Richard Banks, Group Chief Strategy Officer & European Managing Director, Virtus Health
Australian-based fertility group, Virtus was the subject of a bidding war in 2022 highlighting the growth opportunity in fertility services. With 25 clinics in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Austria and Germany the Impilo owned group is focussed on dominating the northern European market.
Johannes Roehren, Group CEO, TFP Fertility
Katya Zubareva, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Annie Coleridge, Product Director, Corporate, SimplyHealth
Moderated by Hugh Risebrow, Managing Director, Latchmore Associates










Whittle - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Opportunities in diagnostic imaging and teleradiology
Diagnostic imaging has seen a huge M&A boom as investors seek to consolidate Western Europe. What’s driving domestic and cross-border consolidation? What are the benefits of scale? Operators of diagnostic clinics have also been acquiring specialist teleradiology groups (Mednax/vRad, Unilabs/TMC, I-MED/Vital, Evidia/4ways). What’s the winning model in teleradiology – independent or vertically integrated ? Where are the new market opportunities?
Speakers include:
Rob Anderson, Global CEO, Everlight Radiology
Jan Hornstrom, CEO, Evidia Nordics
Steve Bird, CEO, Medical Imaging Partnership
Marianna Sampaio e Mello, Associate Director, Rothschild & Co
Moderated by Filipa Baptista, Global Head of Consulting, Siemens Healthineers








Fleming - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The evolution in Primary Care
The huge primary care sector in Europe holds the key to outpatient consolidation. Here we look at how operators are pairing it with digital and telehealth, pharmacies and imaging, and at how they are reimagining its delivery and business models.
Speakers include:
Dr Murray Ellender, CEO and Co-Founder, eConsult Health
Lyndsey Reeves, Director of Operations UK, Kry/Livi
Dirk Knueppel, CEO, Primärmedizin TMVZ GmbH
Martin Lindman, CEO, Doktor.Se
Moderated by Martin Debenito-Gellner, Senior Analyst, HBI












Whittle - 3rd Floor
Our attendees say
‘What struck me was the availability of some of the brightest minds in health care and the seamless interaction. I get to meet a whole lot of people in a very fluid way. I would not be able to do that at any other conference that I am aware of. I’m gonna be following up on quite a few leads. It’s gonna be great in the next few months to bring all of our ideas together.‘
Ronnie van der Merwe, CEO, Mediclinic International, South Africa/Switzerland/UAE
‘It’s very interesting to meet peers and find out about their plans, exchange best practices and ideas. We can also see on the public side what regulators are planning to do in the future and this is good insight.’
Zisis Sotiriou, Senior VP Regional COO, Affidea, pan-European
‘What struck me is the level of participation – the CEOs and CxOs were here. That makes a big difference. And the learning opportunities. We hear about new technologies, hear about examples from other countries.’
Dilip Jose, Managing Director and CEO, Manipal Hospitals, India
‘The value in coming to HBI is to have in one place, all the CEOs and leaders of healthcare companies that share the same problems even though there are cultural differences and it helps me to understand what are the trends and focus on my goals.’
Gustavo Fodrini, CEO, PalCare, Argentina