Munich, Bavaria, Germany
With 30 years of experience, I have worked on transformative and growth initiatives across government, insurance, and technology domains in social protection and health, through social policy making, market development, business transformation and pipeline creation. 1. Health and Social Protection Sectors: Roles: Healthcare, workers’ compensation insurance, dependency and care insurance. Organizations: Government, social insurers/payers (public and private), providers, and academia. Contributions: Social policy making, market development, risk management, population health, value-based care, operational aspects, clinical and technology issues. 2. International Experience: Countries: Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore, Finland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, and China, among others. Networking: WHO, World Bank, ILO, ISSA, NIOSH, DGUV, insurance associations, professional associations, and academia. Impact: Gained a global perspective and built a broad, diverse network of contacts. 3. Colombian Social Security Transformation: Roles: Clinical practitioner, emergency rooms, inpatient settings, insurance company leadership. Achievements: social protection reforms, established strategies, built processes, contracted healthcare networks, contained costs, developed programs and insurance packages, managed people, co-founded two primary care providers. 4. Government Executive Role: Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs: Designed and implemented reforms for prevention, healthcare, compensation, and rehabilitation. Market Impact: Addressed a competitive market with over 10 different insurance players for osh/WCI 5. Reinsurance Sector: Munich Re: Supported global market penetration in healthcare, rehabilitation, and compensation for occupational accidents and diseases. Engagements: Governments, insurance associations, insurers, providers, and academia. Focus: Challenges, best practices, program settings, transformation systems design, risk transfer mechanisms. 6. Technology Sector: IBM Watson Health & Merative: Addressed industry solutions with technology, such as software for case management and AI. Stakeholders: Governments, payers, and providers. Emphasis: Social programs, health with social 7. Approach and Skills: Practical Experience: Macro and micro levels, consultative to operational roles. Leadership: Budget and people management responsibilities. Problem-Solving: Translating challenges into solutions. Knowledge Transfer: Facilitating the transfer of knowledge from technology to functional areas.
Merative, formerly IBM Watson Health, became a new standalone company as part of Francisco Partners in June 2022. I transfer in March 2023 to Merative, where I am within the brand Cúram internationally responsible for strategy and market development in the fields of: Healthcare, Social protection (Social Security) with emphasis on bridging health and social, i.e. Coordinated Health and Social Outcomes (CHSO). This is a great opportunity to help to bridge health and social but focusing on outcomes, not on processes, while being person-centric
Within Watson Health Government and Human Health Services pillar, I am worldwide responsible for strategy, market development and business development in the fields of: Healthcare, Social protection (Social Security) with emphasis on Coordinated Health and Social Outcomes (CHSO). I'm also Chief Health Officer for GHHS, International, supporting research activities, understanding trends and providing clinical knowledge input to colleagues and clients.
Munich Re is a reinsurance company with more than 125 years. With over 5,000 clients in around 160 countries, Munich Re Group is one of the world's largest reinsurers and the second-largest primary insurer in Germany. With an experience of almost 15 years I joined the Center of Competence for Workers’ Compensation (Social Security) of Munich Reinsurance Company in 2001, where I held a worldwide Senior position as primary insurance specialist in workers’ compensation insurance for Munich Re’s clients worldwide. I was responsible for analysing and benchmarking workers' compensation primary markets, understanding trends and interactions with other lines of business like healthcare, disability social insurance and casualty insurance lines, defining strategies/tactics for innovative and established actions to positively impact results. I was responsible for building networks at international and national levels to expand thought leadership and to learn from the markets their challenges and solutions. Author or co-author of different papers and publications like: "Future Challenges in Workers Compensation Insurance". "Covering just simple risks? Residual markets and uninsured risks in workers’ compensation systems". "Economic incentives: A reflection on workers’ compensation systems"; "Occupational diseases are they insurable?", "Assessing disability: An international comparison of workers’ compensation systems.
Advisor to C level: SURA(early Suratep), LA POSITIVA (early Previatep), - Interacted with several stakeholders in the social protection (social security) field like government (legislative and executive branch), healthcare organizations (government, payers and providers), workers' compensation insurance and commercial casualty lines insurance companies - Special activities with the Chamber of Social Security/Workers’ Compensation Insurance in Colombia - Special projects on investment and expansion - Analysis of Latinamerican workers' compensation insurance and healthcare systems, specially Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Brazil.