Koray Karakaya
Koray is an innovation executive operating in a broad variety of healthcare and personal health applications, with a 15+ years of global healthcare / medtech industry career. His technology background, combined with his experience in healthcare applications and new business creation, is instrumental for bridging the gap between the advanced technologies and the applications in the market. Koray is an evangelist of patient / user centric innovation practices that creates value for all stakeholders across the care continuum; patients, healthcare professionals, provider and payers. Relying on this perspective, Koray’s emphasis is in designing new business approaches for healthcare service propositions that facilitates a shift from ‘products’ to solutions. Koray has a Ph.D. degree in applied physics and works at Coloplast as the Vice President for New Business Innovation. I this role Koray focuses on establishing an innovation ecosystem for addressing complex chronic care challenges, such as wound care.