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A graduate of HEC (Msc.), Sciences-Po (MPA) and La Sorbonne in philosophy (Ba), Alexis has a background in public policy, healthcare reform and strategic consulting. In 2013, he created the B2B department of French start-up Withings, acquired by Nokia in 2016. He became head of B2B for Nokia Digital Health and moved to the US in 2017 to leads its Boston office, until the company became Withings again. He is now VP of Healthcare. Alexis has driven the adoption of digital devices in healthcare with employers, medical providers and life sciences. He has helped healthcare stakeholders move from a logic of “fee for service” to “value based healthcare” with practical digital health solutions. This worked has involved managing the successful launch of eHealth solutions with leading hospitals in North America and Europe He has been an active keynote speaker (Connected Health, HIMSS, AHA, OECD etc.), a lobbyist, e.g., as a member of the GDPR working Group on eHealth for the EU commission and has authored publications, including a book on "The Revolution of eHealth", blog articles and columns in leading newspapers Les Echos & Le Monde. Recently, he took the head of the Embleema Blockchain for Health consortium, an alliance of patient communities, life sciences and research organisations aimed at allowing patients to better control their health data with Blockchain.