Kickstart Innovation
Hicham Naim Pharm D MBA is an accomplished executive currently serving as Vice President and Head of Strategy & Transformation for the Global Portfolio Division at Takeda since March 2016. Naim is responsible for shaping the division’s Data, Digital & Technology strategy, driving digital transformation, and overseeing investment areas while managing organizational change. With a strong background in integrated care, digital health, and business operations across various roles within Takeda, Naim has also founded Health Tech Without Borders and Curated Health, showcasing a commitment to advancing digital health solutions globally. Education credentials include multiple MBAs and leadership training from prestigious institutions such as Oxford and Columbia.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.