About our Keynote Speakers
Learn more about our keynote speakers for the 2024 Innovation for Day One Conference.
Gregory Dajer
Director, MTTS Asia
Gregory Dajer is a director and co-founder of Medical Technology Transfer and Services (MTTS), an award-winning social enterprise, specializing in creating appropriate medical devices for neonatal intensive care. With a passion for innovation and problem-solving, Gregory has dedicated his career to pushing the boundaries of technology to create smarter, more efficient, and affordable systems.
Having Started his professional career in car industry, Gregory soon realized that his talent and enthusiasm can be used in more meaningful ways working with like-minded people on the other side of the world. He moved from Poland to Vietnam where he joined his wife with what turned out to be a life-long adventure in creating in impact in global public health.
Throughout his career, Gregory has worked on projects impacting millions of lives on all continents, ranging from equipping small clinics for Burmese refugees in Mae Sot to large national projects by USAID and UNICEF in Ghana and Ethiopia. His expertise lies in delivering the appropriate medical technologies to the one who need them, no matter how remote the location is.
Gregory's contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship were recognized by Shwab Foundation awarding him the title of the Social Entrepreneur of the year 2017. Together with his team at MTTS, he continues to create innovative solutions at a scale with the goal of achieving 10 million lives saved by the end of the decade.
Anne Shee CC Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics - Harvard University
Dr. Lee is an attending pediatrician in the Brigham and Women's Faculty Newborn Service and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of Global Newborn Health at BWH and leads the Global Advancement of Infants and Mothers (AIM) Lab. Her research aims to improve the health outcomes of mothers and infants in low-resource settings.
Kristoffer Gandrup Marino
Chief of Innovation, UNICEF
Kristoffer has spent approximately 15 years working with technology-based innovation, including as an entrepreneur, venture investor, corporate business developer, and now as Chief of Innovation at UNICEF. His specialities include creating structures and strategies that enable ideas to be turned into products that have a real impact.
Ranjani Ramaurthy
Vice President of Program Innovation, Global Health Labs
As Vice President of Program Innovation at Global Health Labs (GHL), Ranjani Ramamurthy leads strategic efforts to integrate effective healthcare technologies into a cohesive portfolio of solutions that together address challenges impacting the delivery of quality primary healthcare in low-and middle-income countries.
Most recently, Ranjani served as Chief Product Officer for Truveta, a startup that uses aggregated data from health care systems for analytics and research. Prior to that, she was founder of EmpowerMD at Microsoft where her team built and shipped one of the first co-pilot like products developed for healthcare using conversational speech recognition and natural language processing.
Ranjani earned her MD from the University of Washington. She also holds Masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.
Lina Sayed
CEO, Gradian Health Systems
As Chief Executive Officer, Lina directs Gradian Health Systems’ business and strategic development, applying experience from more than 7 years in various leadership positions at Gradian and before then in the financial industry. Most recently, Lina served as Gradian’s Chief Operating Officer and focused on developing existing and new country markets, building local distribution networks, managing product sales, and overseeing training activities.
Lina’s career spans the global health and financial sectors. She spent several years working in JP Morgan Chase’s nonprofit/healthcare group and, more recently, consulted for several companies in the fields of diagnostics and maternal health, specifically focused on products designed for low-resource settings.
Lina has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from New York University.