Selected work
Currently available for
EXECUTIVE & BOARD
Senior advisory or non-executive board mandates in consumer health, longevity or luxury wellness. Clinical credibility combined with commercial depth.
FRACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Interim CCO, CMO or MD for scale-ups navigating a critical growth or transformation phase. Full commitment, defined timeline, no permanent hire required.
STRATEGIC ADVISORY
Project-based engagements for PE-backed healthcare businesses, sovereign funds or family offices with active health and wellness investments.
I take on a maximum of two mandates at a time.
Fresenius VAMED · MD Middle East · 2022–2024
Dissolved the co-CEO structure. Rebuilt the team. Developed the first market-grounded strategy the region had ever had. Defended and approved at HQ in Vienna.
Built a cross-regional expert hub spanning Middle East, Vienna, Africa and Asia. Developed investable project blueprints across medical wellness, functional medicine, mental health, IVF, orthopaedics and rehabilitation.
Represented the business in senior discussions with PIF, Mubadala and regional family offices.
The business I left was structurally sounder, strategically clearer and commercially more credible than the one I inherited.
Deloitte · Director · 2019 –2022
The healthcare practice was new. The client base didn’t exist yet. The mandate was to build it.
Provider performance improvement, medical strategy, PE due diligence, and digitisation — including developing a process mining methodology for healthcare in collaboration with Deloitte’s global process mining team, one of the first applications of the technology in a clinical setting.
Appointed certified Future of Health speaker for Deloitte. The work operated at every level — from regional government and hospital boards to clinical leadership and operational teams.
What made it formative: fashion, travel, automotive, shipping — the same failure patterns, different industries. That cross-sector exposure sharpened my commercial instincts beyond what any single-sector career could have done.
The Leadership Clinic · Founder · 2024–Present
We spend 80,000 hours of our lives at work. And yet it’s probably the only part of our lives we don’t optimise.
After two decades at the intersection of surgery, strategy and executive leadership — most of it in rooms where I was the only woman — I built a platform to share what I’ve learned.
Online course Operation Success!. Selective 1:1 mentoring for those who want direct access to someone who’s done it across three industries and four continents.
Uniklinik Freiburg & Herzzentrum Berlin · 2006–2017
Eleven years making life-and-death decisions under time pressure, often in the middle of the night, with every eye in the room on me.
Board-certified in the minimum possible time — one of the youngest in Germany at 31. First female attending in cardiac surgery at my university. Trained alongside Denton A. Cooley in Houston. Operated at the site of the world’s first heart transplant in Cape Town. Led surgical teams in Germany, China and Laos.
What that decade built: the ability to diagnose fast, decide with incomplete information, and lead when the margin for error is zero. Every role since has been easier by comparison.
