Boutros Bear is a company founded after an aggressive course of breast cancer where Founder and CEO, Sheila Kissane, saw first-hand a gap in her own treatment and care.
Boutros Bear delivers comprehensive rehabilitation programs, empowering individuals facing cancer, chronic pain, and mental health challenges.
This is a very personal and insightful conversation with someone who has taken an issue that affects many, understood it, and created something to improve health and wellness.
From civil engineering to a healthcare entrepreneur
An initial 12-week programme to an integrated #employeewellness platform
From blind naivety to raising initial capital and the move to Series A
Scoping what ‘tech’ meant in such a people centric programme (and how tech for healthcare / passive apps don’t necessarily have the benefit for the user)
18-months of persistence to sign up the perfect partner
How to engage with corporates on #CorporateWellness #WorkplaceHealth
Scoping out the US market and being ‘in-pursuit- of sales
A pursuit of asking questions and flowing honesty!
In this week's Tech News we have ARM, Evonetix, Riverlane, Founders at the University of Cambridge, plus two upcoming events:
Growing as a Founder/CEO when scaling up a business, 21st March
Trialblazing Women in STEM, 28th March
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