Leaving a Medical Career to Thrive as an Entrepreneur

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Frédéric Brunner As CEO & Founder of Genioo, Frédéric helps global corporations, and their senior executives to innovate, transform and grow more rapidly. Frédéric and his teams work together to augment the way that their clients think, plan and execute on big ideas; creating better futures for companies, as well as their employees and shareholders. Frédéric founded Genioo in 2012 to help ambitious leaders realize their visions. Today, Genioo is the leading project platform and one of the fastest growing professional service companies in Healthcare/Life Sciences in the EU and the USA. Genioo serves the most prestigious clients in more than 34 countries with over 1,600 top consultants, to enable clients to get more out of their workforce and projects for superior results. Before Genioo, Frédéric was an Executive at the Novartis Group where he held several top management and executive positions. He led Group Strategy, before becoming CEO of the high-growth BioSimilar Business Unit (EUR 150 m revenues then, EUR >1.5 bn revenues today). In his last position, Frédéric helped grow and transform Novartis as the Chief of Staff to the Group CEO and Chairman. Frédéric started his career as an Orthopedic Surgeon at Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich. He soon realized his desire to explore entrepreneurial paths and decided to pursue the business side of Life Sciences and Healthcare. Frédéric’s business career began at McKinsey & Company, where he advised the top companies in Healthcare, OTC, Pharma, and MedTech in all major markets for six years.