Loy Lobo

Founder, Digital Health Strategist, Innovator & Leader. President, Digital Health Council at CBS Executive

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Loy is an experienced innovator and leader in healthcare, and an independent professional with a-connect. Over the past decade he has taken a number of healthcare innovations from concept to market. He has launched a UK social enterprise startup in Wellness, and was the founder of the telehealth business at BT Global Health. In his last role at BT, he was the Director of Strategy and Innovation for Global Health.

In 2014, Loy left BT to launch Wegyanik, a health innovation company that works with design agencies, digital technologies and decision sciences to create the health and care services we require for now and the future. Wegyanik is developing markets, scaling up innovations and influencing whole system change in healthcare.

To realise his vision for healthcare, Loy undertakes a number of roles. He is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of its Telemedicine and eHealth Council. His role at the RSM is to expand its international network and share good practice in eHealth. He served on the Expert Panel for Economics, Education and Research at the London Mayor’s Health Commission, where he influenced the creation of Digital Health London. He has also chaired the Joint Economic Trade Committee between the UK and India for collaboration in Healthcare and Life Sciences. He has also been a panel judge for various competitions ranging from EPSRC funding to the eHealth Insider Awards.

He is a Visiting Researcher on Innovation in Healthcare at Imperial College Business School and an External Board Member of The Cumberland Initiative (a multi-sector collaborative to promote the use of business simulation and modelling for the transformation of health services). Loy is also a Trustee at TB Alert, an international tuberculosis charity. He is a mentor and strategic advisor to a number of health technology startups.

Prior to working in Healthcare, Loy worked for 11 years at Accenture leading business transformation programmes for global clients. He has a BSc in Microbiology and an Executive MBA from London Business School.

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