Thomas Balkizas MSC, MEng, MIoD

Thomas Balkizas is a Healthcare and Life Sciences tech futurist & evangelist. Currently the EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Principal Partner at AWS and as well founder at Alpha Tech Capital. Thomas is an accomplished senior executive with a wealth of experience in leadership and consulting for Global Healthcare, Technology and Private Equity businesses. He has enjoyed considerable success managing the strategic direction of businesses, developing sustainable business strategies and delivering unprecedented results in high profile, international environments. Thomas is on a mission to demystify healthcare tech for us all while highlighting its great value & the huge, life changing opportunities it offers both the public and investors of all kinds (VCs, angel, private equity, family offices or corporate) Besides his HCLS investment expertise, Thomas is an experienced senior Cloud & AI executive, currently the Head of EMEA AWS Healthcare & Life Sciences, previously IBM’s Watson Health Executive Director. His private Investment & Advisory Group, Alpha Tech Capital, has been formed with 3 other senior HCLS tech execs and expert advisors. Their mission is to identify and help the UK’s best HCLS startups to scale globally, accelerating their progress with advice, funding & expertise in cloud, AI & health tech; acting as specialist advisors to a select network of investment partners. Thomas is a creative Key Opinion Leader in Healthcare and Life Sciences, with over 120 keynote speeches at Digital Healthcare, Private Equity and Technology conferences globally.