Bruce Meadows

Managing Partner

Bruce Meadows is the Managing Partner of Takeda Digital Ventures (TDV)–a corporate venture capital group for Takeda investing in the most promising Virtual First Care companies that are using digital to improve outcomes and experiences throughout the patient journey. Since 1999, Meadows has been a Partner of several healthcare investment funds including NM Rothschild and GBS Ventures in Australia.Upon completing his MBA in Switzerland, Bruce saw the importance of having operational experience as an investor and joined Stryker Orthopedics to lead their European thoracolumbar spine business. Meadows oversaw the European sales and marketing strategy and influenced manufacturing and R&D activities. At Stryker, Bruce spent a great deal of time in the operating room to be close to healthcare professionals and patients–a value he has taken with him throughout his investing career. Bruce was then recruited as a founding Partner of Ares Life Sciences, a €1 billion fund investing in all stages of healthcare companies. Amongst other investments he also conducted the leveraged buyout of Esaote, an Italian medical imaging company developing advanced data analysis and connectivity tools. His next investment role was at MD Start, an incubation stage fund where he was involved in founding several companies including CorWave and LimFlow.Previous to Takeda Digital Ventures, Bruce was the Senior Investment Director of MTIP, a Swiss based healthcare fund. Here he led the group’s digital health strategy that ultimately resulted in investments in Tyto Care and Quanta Dialysis Technologies. Meadows has also been a director of many portfolio companies–leading them through IPOs and trade sales.Bruce contributed as a part time Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at Webster University giving back to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Bruce has an MBA from IMD in Lausanne (Switzerland) and a First Class Honors Degree in Biotechnology from the University of Queensland (Australia).

Talks About
#DueDiligence #MedicalDevices #Startups

Preferred Locations
#Switzerland