We are delighted to welcome Devesh Varma to the advisory board of Intelehealth – a seasoned professional with over two decades in the development sector, who brings a wealth of experience from both the US and Indian organisational and entrepreneurial landscape.
Currently working as the Head of OLA Foundation leading their initiative on Livelihoods and Healthcare in the rural to urban continuum, Devesh has been Chief Technology Officer at Piramal Swasthya, Apollo Telehealth, and Community Science Alliance @SocialAlpha. In these roles, Devesh has played a pivotal role in leading, designing, and implementing technology-enabled healthcare solutions across multiple states, emphasizing accessibility and affordability. His experience in the public healthcare domain is not just limited to overseeing the program design and technology aspects but also insights into the socio-cultural dynamics that truly make or break the on-ground implementation of these programs.
We hope to tap into this rich experience on and off the field to shape tech solutions that are more intuitive and consistently aware of people’s needs in different contexts.
RED CLUB x CARTIER ANNOUNCES THE WINNER OF THE 2023 EDITION OF THE YOUNG LEADER AWARD Dr Bea Bakshi (United Kingdom) Co-founder and CEO, C the Signs
New York, June 15, 2023 – Dr Bea Bakshi, founder of C the Signs based in the United Kingdom has been crowned the winner of the Young Leader Award, 2023 edition, at the annual Award Ceremony which took place in New York. C the Signs is a clinical platform that uses artificial intelligence to identify patients at risk of cancer at the earliest and most curable stage of the disease.
Initiated in 2021, the Young Leader Award aims to provide young entrepreneurial leaders with support to grow their businesses and amplify their voices. The initiative has been developed as an annual international award for young entrepreneurs, aged between 20 and 40 years old, running impact driven businesses or non-for-profit organisations as founder or owner, and in which they hold an executive position.
Themed “Bettering lives”, the 2023 edition sheds a light on young entrepreneurial endeavors that support and empower under-represented communities by providing them more accessible, inclusive, and effective healthcare solutions, paving the way for a better world for future generations.
For this year’s edition, four finalists were selected last April, amongst 280 registrations hailing from 33 countries, all driven by a common conviction: making waves in business for a concrete impact to drive change.
Led by the North America chapter of RED CLUB x Cartier, the 2023 Young Leader Award Ceremony kicked off on June 14, 2023.
“I am thrilled to welcome the second edition of the Young Leader Award in New York and celebrate these young and passionate entrepreneurial leaders. They are a constant source of awe and inspiration”. Walter Bolognino, CEO and President of Cartier North America.
Co-hosted by Mercedes Abramo, former CEO and President of Cartier North America and currently Deputy Chief Commercial Officer of Cartier International and Walter Bolognino, CEO and President of Cartier North America and moderated by Jaya Venugopal, International Talent Acquisition and Engagement Director of Cartier International, the celebration began with a pre-recorded keynote speech from Cyrille Vigneron, President and CEO of Cartier International, who reaffirmed the Maison’s willingness to support and amplify the efforts of the young generation of impact entrepreneurs and encouraging them to continue the quest for a more equitable world.
The ceremony then moved on to speeches and conversations involving Giada Zhang, CEO and Co- founder of Mulan Group and President of RED CLUB x Cartier as well as Anthony Wilbon, Dean of Howard University School of Business and Jeff Reid, Director of Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Initiative, the two academic partners of the 2023 Young Leader Award. They collectively highlighted the social and environmental impact that the next generation of conscious leaders seeks to have on the world and pointed out the importance of accompanying them to shape the future together.
“It was an absolute honor and joy to participate in this year’s RED CLUB x Cartier Young Leader Award as an academic partner. All of the entrepreneurs have businesses that are impactful to underserved populations in so many ways across the globe. I am impressed with the passion displayed through their innovative solutions to important social problems in the health care industry. I look forward to hearing great things coming from all these young leaders and their businesses and offer congratulations to this year’s award winner”. Anthony Wilbon, Dean of Howard University School of Business.
“I have met a great number of young entrepreneurs in my life. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more impressive group than the four RED CLUB Cartier Young Leader Award finalists. The impact of their entrepreneurial leadership in their respective organizations is already mind blowing, and it leads me to be quite optimistic for the future”. Jeff Reid, Director of Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Initiative.
The celebration then featured the four selected finalists and concluded by Walter Bolognino who announced the winner of this year’s edition.
THE WINNER OF THE 2023 EDITION OF THE YOUNG LEADER AWARD
Dr Bea Bakshi (United Kingdom) Co-founder and CEO, C the Signs
Dr. Bea Bakshi will take home €50.000 in grant money and will also benefit from international exposure, media visibility as well as a tailor-made mentorship programme provided by the Young Leader Award academic partners, Georgetown University and Howard University, and ad-hoc coaching and mentoring sessions by RED CLUB x Cartier networks.
The 3 runners-up who were also invited to attend the Young Leader Award Ceremony in New York, will take home €10.000 in grant money and will continue their journey along the RED CLUB Community, joining it’s extended “Friends and Family” circle: Dr. Tatiana Fofanova (USA), Co- founder and CEO, Koda Health; Neha Verma (USA/India), CEO, Intelehealth and Prabhdeep Singh (India), Founder and CEO, Red Health.
Beyond the ceremony, RED CLUB x Cartier has organized a series of networking sessions to connect entrepreneurs with passionate changemakers as well as a RED CLUB’ strategic talk to reflect on the evolution and the roadmap of the community, which is growing whilst keeping its mission to become a platform of impactful entrepreneurs to share and bloom together.
Launched in 2019, RED CLUB x Cartier is a global membership community of audacious and successful young multicultural entrepreneurs, aged 20 to 40 years old, that aim to positively influence society.
A reference in the world of luxury, Cartier, whose name is synonymous with open-mindedness and curiosity, stands out with its creations and reveals beauty wherever it may lie. Jewellery, high jewellery, watchmaking and fragrances, leather goods and accessories: Cartier’s creations symbolize the convergence between exceptional craftsmanship and a timeless signature.
Today, Cartier is part of the Richemont Group and has a worldwide presence through its network of flagships and boutiques, authorized retail partners, and online.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put approximately a third of the global population into quarantine and impacted billions of lives around the world.
The World Economic Forum’s UpLink platform has announced its first cohort of COVID innovators, 15 solutions addressing the immediate and long-term challenges of the COVID crisis.
Innovations from 5 continents tackle a range of challenges, from making healthcare and emergency services more accessible, to increasing the inclusivity of the labour market and financial lending systems in the post-COVID era.
UpLink’s COVID Challenges were launched in collaboration with its Impact Partners, the World Health Organization, Goldman Sachs Foundation, 500 Startups, Top Tier Impact, Impact Africa Network, Village Capital, and the Global Education & Leadership Foundation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put one third of the global population into lockdown, brought industries and economies to a standstill and placed immense strain on health systems all over the world. At the same time, worldwide demonstrations and protests have called for equality across society, reduced economic disparities, and greater inclusion.
In recent weeks, UpLink – a digital platform for surfacing and scaling innovations that could solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges – has been sourcing solutions that address the immediate impacts of the pandemic and its long-term consequences, which are much needed but yet often remain unidentified and unsupported.
All solutions submitted on UpLink have been carefully reviewed and assessed by a high-level group of experts from the World Economic Forum’s public health, impact investor, international organisation and civil society networks to elect the first UpLink cohort of 15 innovators.
The World Economic Forum and UpLink will work extensively with this group of innovators over the next months to scale their impact, promote their work on our social media platforms, present them at our events and introduce them to experts and potential funders who can accelerate their ideas.
UpLink is on a mission to surface and accelerate innovators from around the world. Here are the first UpLink COVID cohort who have answered the call:
Intelehealth is a telemedicine and case management platform connecting patients and frontline health providers with remote doctors to deliver high quality health services to last mile populations.
Flare provides the ‘next generation 911’ for the billions of people around the world who do not have access to help during an emergency.
Quartolio streams research insights from millions of medical and scientific documents in real-time to allow researchers to respond accurately to current and future health crisis.
PanaBIOS is a pan-African reopening digital platform to boost the continent’s long-term recovery from the effects of the pandemic by restoring cross-border travel through digital health clearance, building an electronic vaccine registry and a continental disease hotspot early-warning radar.
Elemeno Express is a cloud-based solution that delivers bite-sized information directly to frontline teams on any device, desktop or mobile.
PEGASI is making medical information accessible, clear and useful for clinicians and patients in the developing world, while tracking epidemic and endemic diseases and creating actionable insights that strengthen healthcare systems.
NEO by PhysioQ is a free platform that allows users to monitor the vital signs of family members and friends via affordable wearable devices.
Medixus is a secure, specialist peer-to-peer African medical community that uses an app to centralize medical knowledge to improve clinical decision making and capacity building.
Carbon Health is a primary care provider delivering a premium experience through its modern clinics and virtual care, making world-class healthcare accessible for everyone.
HelloBetter strives to deliver on the promise that mental health is a human right, by making evidence-based mental healthcare universally accessible and providing digital therapeutics for mental health disorders.
Covoucher is Turkey’s first digital voucher platform to support small businesses at the local level during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides them with cash liquidity and financial sustainability, bringing together small business owners and their frequent customers in an online platform.
Mujeres WOW is an AI-based lending and credit scoring platform targeting female entrepreneurs.
JOWOMO helps companies that have been hit by the COVID crisis by providing an online platform that allows the flexible exchange of employees and a socially more efficient distribution of labour.
origintrail provides certified medical equipment needed to prevent and control COVID-19 and future outbreaks. The tool applies accountability to supply chains and prevents the sale of fake goods.
Desolenator helps remote communities build sustainable water resilience in the face of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic by using solar panels to purify water.
Intelehealth incubated in Atal Incubation Centre. “Intelehealth is a telemedicine platform that enables NGOs & Govt agencies in deploying health workers & doctors to deliver high-quality health services”
