Team
CM (Christian Marolt)
CEO and Member of the Board; Executive Director
Creative communications, marketing and relationship building professional with 35 years of experience. Initiated in the late 90ties the first European management platform for Hospital CEOs, Critical Care, Imaging, IT and Cardiology directors.
Secretary General of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers.
10+ years lobbyist to the European Parliament. Holder of a Masters in Business Administration and a Private Pilot license.
Iphigenia Papaioanou
Deputy CEO and Member of the ExCom; Project Director
As project director of HealthManagement.org responsible for the overall planning, and spearheading expanding brand and community.
Dedicate and results-driven, she always makes sure to go above and beyond what was promised in terms of marketing and media campaigns. Her strategic sense of high integrity around the need for confidentiality grants her the opportunity to develop strong, transparent and honest relationships with key partners.
Holder of a Masters in Political Sciences she joined MindByte in 2007.
Claire Pillar
Editorial Director & COO, HealthManagement; Managing Editor, ICU Management & Practice
With over 20 years’ experience in healthcare information management and publishing in Australia and the UK, Claire joined MindByte in 2012. She originally trained as a librarian and has a particular interest in information literacy and information for patients.
Katya Mitreva
Communications Director, ICU Management & Practice
Katya joined the company in 2006 and since 2008 has been Communications Director of ICU Management & Practice. With solid knowledge in the sophisticated area of critical care, emergency medicine and anaesthesiology her work supports the communications activities of the industry partners in the field with results-driven campaign management.
Carine Khoury
Director Corporate Engagement Programme
Responsible for managing the VIP client portfolio, Carine ensures campaign bookings are fulfilled and partners’ marketing exposure is maximized across all media channels.
Joined the company as Managing Webeditor in 2013, ensuring the web portal’s content and performance.
Prior to that, she enjoyed an international management career in the luxury hospitality industry, with strong emphasis on guest service.
Maria Christodoulidou
Marketing Manager
A motivated individual working as HM’s Communication & Social Media Manager. Responsible for driving social media strategies in order to boost the brand’s visibility, as well as building key partnerships and collaborating with healthcare events. Holding a BA in Communications from University of Leeds and MA in Strategic Communication and Public Relations from DEREE (Greece).
Lucie Robson
Senior Editor
Lucie Robson joined HealthManagement.org in 2015 as Senior Editor. She trained in broadcast, print and digital media and media law. She has worked for The International Telegraph (UK), The Globe and Mail (Canada), Balkans.com Business News (Serbia), Filelefteros Group (Cyprus) and as a stringer for broadcasters that include ITV (UK) and RT (Russia).
Within MindByte she is running the strategic editorial development. Her key assignments are executive management and healthcare IT.
Venetia Kyritsi
Editor
Venetia joined HealthManagement as an editor in 2018 with a focus on imaging and cardiology. She has 25+ years of journalism experience starting from NBC in New York City during her college years and then reporting for various US and European media. She was one of the first on the ground in NYC’s – Ground Zero reporting on 9/11 and was part of the team covering the Athens 2004 Olympics for Reuters News Agency. Venetia has extensive experience in eHealth having served as an executive at an international forum organizing digital health events and initiatives. She loves inventions, technology and is convinced she will spend her retirement years aboard the Federation Starship Enterprise. Or Deep Space 9.
Samna Ghani
Staff Editor
Published author, healthcare writer and editor for nearly 15 years. Samna has a Masters in Business Administration and a Diploma in Pharmaceutical Marketing. Her work has been published on different online platforms and print publications. She has been part of the HealthManagement team since 2014.
Dran Coronado
Staff Editor
Prior to joining MindByte in 2014, Dran was connected with a BPO company as a member of its technical communication and documentation team. He also has had stints with several newspapers based in key cities in Asia and the Middle East. His other previous jobs were with corporations involved in banking, investment & finance and advertising.
Marilena Patatini
Creative Director
Passion in what I do is what drives my motives. Having earned a BA in Graphic Communication and MA in Illustration and with over 10 years experience in the graphic design industry I have a particular understanding and ability to create visuals that engage and connect with the viewer.
Marianna Keen
Staff Editor
Marianna was first appointed by MindByte Communications in 2012, as Managing Editor of ICU Management journal. She immediately immersed herself in the role, heading the editorial board meeting at the International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM) in Brussels in her first week on the job.She has since attended prestigious congresses throughout Europe and taken on a leading role in inviting journal contributions from key physicians and practitioners in the field.Her meticulous editorial skills have been revered company-wide, as has her flair for writing engaging, concise content for print and online.Marianna holds an Honours Degree in International Business Studies with Spanish in addition to a Master’s Degree in Journalism.
Sergey Chygrynets
Front-end developer
Joined MindByte on May 2017 as front-end developer. Working on weekly emails and quarterly journals.Holds a master degree in electrical engineer and bachelor degree in economy both at National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”. In 2016 finished course of front-end development in Brain Academy and since that time working as front-end developer. Nowadays study in CyberBionic Systematics on C# course.
