Medixine welcomes Henri Soila, Matthijs Groot Wassink and Michel Tran Van to its advisory board. Together with Kai Öistämö and Peter Alperin the advisory board now offers a rare combination of global medtech leadership, industrial-scale operational excellence and hands-on experience in AI-driven transformation. This combined expertise supports Medixine’s work to bring its remote care solutions to international markets.
Matthijs Groot Wassink is a global business executive in the medical equipment & device industry. Born in Leiden, the Netherlands, he is now based in Munich, Germany. Matthijs holds MSc, PhD and MBA degrees, combining scientific expertise with strategic and commercial leadership.
He brings extensive international leadership experience across both mature and emerging markets, and has a strong track record of accelerating growth and leading strategic turnarounds. Additionally, he has managed partnerships with the U.S. government and BARDA, as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Today, Matthijs serves as President of MedTech at Fresenius Kabi.
Henri Soila is a Finnish business leader based in Switzerland with 25 years of international experience across Europe, Asia, and the Americas at companies including Airbus, Toyota, and Atlas Copco. He has led global businesses and company-wide transformations in operational excellence, product development, and artificial intelligence, combining strategic leadership with a practical focus on execution.
As founder and CEO of SparkFlow, Henri equips leaders to navigate transformations through leadership development, cross-cultural collaboration, and change management. His perspective connects technology’s potential with the people, processes, and leadership needed to translate strategy into results. Henri holds a mechanical engineering degree from Tufts University and an MBA from IMD.
Michel Tran Van is currently a senior executive at Airbus, based in Munich, and has experience in leading multi-billion euro expansion across 4 continents.
Over 20 years, Michel’s experience notably includes leading large Space M&A operations, being CPO in the Defence and space industry and COO for China commercial aircraft.
Michel is recognized for delivering international company growth through operational excellence and structural transformation. Michel was born in Lyon, France, where he received his Master in Mechanical Engineering and complemented it with executive programmes from Harvard Business School.