Meet our board of directors

Olof Sandén (born 1962) works as Partner at TRANSEARCH, an international search organization. He has many years of experience from medical device companies in different leadership roles but also from other industries. 

After studying at Chalmers, Gothenburg and ETH, Zurich, Sandén worked at the Boston Consulting Group, first in Munich and later in the Stockholm office. He lived many years in Germany and worked as the Swedish Trade Commissionaire to Germany/Regional Manager Europe at Business Sweden. After that Sandén held several senior positions at Elekta, including the role as Executive Vice President. He has also been CEO of RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden, with a focus on merging the Swedish research institutes into one national organisation. He has carried out several M&A projects with subsequent integration work.

Sandén’s board experiences are from different industries, including research institutes, medical technology, e-commerce, sports equipment/facilities, and for private, listed and PE-owned companies. Today he serves on the board of two medical device companies, Micropos and Scandidos, as well as a PE owned company Unisport OY. Sandén holds a master's degree from Chalmers/ETH Zurich and an Executive MBA from Columbia, New York. 

Martin Ingvar (born 1955) has a background in cognitive neuroscience and is the Barbro and Bernard Osher Professor of Integrative Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He has led the MR Research Center for more than two decades. His present research interest is in formal description of clinical knowledge and quality in clinical care. He has devised new modes for semantic interoperability in information systems and laid a foundation for patient centric knowledge building in health care.

Ingvar has published some 250 research papers and contributed to 15 books. His latest book is on knowledge and AI.