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Sandra Schoenes

Swiss and German, completing my MBA at IESE business school Barcelona. Medical doctor with work experience as surgeon and healthcare consultant. Passionate traveler, kite/snow surfer. Six-lingual, fascinated about healthcare online...

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Full-Time Student
Website: http://www.afreek.com
Industries: Health, Internet, Sports, Travel
Skills: Business, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, French, German, Italian, Languages, Management, Portuguese, Spanish
Location: Barcelona
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: KENCALL EPZ LTD
Position: Project manager Business Development
Time period: May 2008 - August 2008
Description: • Developed Business and Operational Modell for Kenya's first Emergency Operations Centre.
• Raised 400'000 $ for joint trial with Kenyan Red Cross.
• Designed and implemented trial for call centre to perform computer assisted triage, alert emergency services and give medical advice.

Employer: EXECUTIVE INSIGHT
Position: Junior Consultant
Time period: December 2005 - June 2007
Description: European healthcare consulting boutique with 20 employees, founded 6 years ago. 3 Million Euros
revenues in 2006.
• Calculated pan-European sales force size and designed pre-launch activities for a specialty product
in phase III for Johnson & Johnson. Won implementation phase against competitor.
• Advised 4 international Biotech companies and Eli Lilly CCE Europe in business development and
go to market strategies.
• Built new business unit in charge of supporting clients in Pricing, Reimbursement and Access to
Budget matters. Coordinated and trained European sales managers to promote complex service offer
for chief physicians. Roll-out phase led to 6 new service implementations.
• Led cross functional, multicultural client team to achieve change in reimbursement class for a
specialty drug marketed in Belgium. Reversal of sales decrease achieved.
• Grew the business by selling referral network improvement and marketing projects to two Swiss
hospitals.
• Delivered qualitative and quantitative information in one week for 2 billion M&A project in the
Swiss healthcare market. High customer satisfaction achieved.
• Developed strategy for first in class disease management program for a specialty drug involving the
largest German insurer, Pfizer and clinical specialists.
• Organized company internal medical 360 degree pharma industry training.

Employer: HOSPITAL MAENEDORF
Position: Resident of Surgery
Time period: October 2004 - October 2005
Description: • Coordinated teams for the emergency department with final responsibility for patient survival
.
Managed an average of 20 gravely ill in-patients.
• Helped patients and their families through psychological and social problems.

Employer: HOSPITAL MUNICIPAL MIGUEL COUTO
Position: Resident of Surgery and Orthopedics
Time period: April 2004 - September 2004
Description: • Volunteered at trauma unit of biggest public hospital in southern Rio de Janeiro.
• Leveraged improvisation skills under adverse working conditions, lacking human and material resources.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: Published two scientific articles (in "European Journal of Nuclear Medicine" and Journal "Fuss und Sprunggelenk").

INFORMATION

Sports: Running, Kite-surfing, Snowboarding, Surfing, Tennis, Squash, Yoga
Hobbies: Traveling, Cooking, Cinema
Clubs: Professional Clubs: President of IESE MBA Entrepreneurs and Healthcare Club, organizing the healthcare track at DGDW conference at IESE
Leisure Club: Tennis Club

Sandra's Contacts (2)

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  • Varun Backliwal

    Bachelors of Commerce from Delhi University, currently pursuing MBA at IESE Business School, Spain. 6 years of work experience at La Boutique, India.

  • Richard Morgan

    Work for the U.S. Coast Guard. I also have a travel business on the side.