Founder/Managing Director at Dhenin and adjunct Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore.
Founder/Managing Director at Dhenin and adjunct Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical
School Singapore.
Passionate about accelerating new ventures, Dr. Nicolas Foin is Founder at Dhenin and adjunct
Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore.
He brings 15 years of experience in leadership and advisory board roles across Healthcare
Innovation. He has worked and been involved in several ventures and advised larger Healthtech
companies including Medtronic, Abbott, Biosensors, Biotronik and Philips on Product and Business
development strategies for devices and SaaS.
Nic started his career with the Imperial College Cardiology research unit. He joined after the National
Heart Centre Singapore in 2013, setting-up and leading as PI the Medical technologies theme, with a
focus on bench to bedside innovations with a direct impact on clinical care.
In 2017, he joined the Image Guided Therapy team at Philips Healthcare, working on Market
Development, Strategy & BD Venture Investment. Then, as VP of BD and Strategy at Wondr Medical,
he led the company strategy and first equity financing preparation.
He currently serves on the executive board of CoreAalst, a clinical research incubation company and
with Dhenin, his mission is to bring to market and accelerate disruptive ventures that are addressing
large pain points in healthcare, while reducing costs.
Nic graduated with a MSc in Engineering in Medicine and a PhD fellowship from Imperial College
London. He authored multiple patents and contributed to over 150 publications, editorials, and book
chapters in the field of cardiovascular interventions, receiving several awards for innovation and
research contributions.