Innovation: Fibricheck

Bieke is Chief Business Development Officer and co-founder of FibriCheck, an innovative smartphone and smartwatch application that detects cardiac arrhythmias in order to prevent unnecessary strokes. Bieke’s mission with FibriCheck is to contribute to transformations in the health care sector by introducing the use of smartphones or wearables as medical devices to open up healthcare services to more individuals, regardless of their proximity to health care providers, and by shifting the focus of healthcare towards prevention, helping people to live a long and healthy life.

Bieke holds a Master in Business Administration from KU Leuven – part of which she completed in Bangalore, India – and a Master in Finance from Leuven School of Business and Economics. At FibriCheck she uses her extensive financial and strategic expertise to manage the steps required for successful market entry and the roll-out of different business models.