Leadership
Our amazing leadership team paves the way for success.
Founder & CEO
Dr. Derk Arts has more than 10 years of experience in medicine, research and data management. He also founded Castor and launched a platform that enables researchers to easily capture, standardize and integrate data from any source.
COO & Board Member
Rob joined Castor in 2015 from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as the Chief Operating Officer. He also holds the position of Data Protection Officer. With his mother being a nurse and his father working in health insurance, Rob has been submerged in healthcare all of his life.
Principal Innovation Engineer
During his studies and subsequent PhD he gained critical experience in the medical research world as well as in IT as freelance PHP developer. Since 2012 he is Castor’s lead developer. His interests lie with Continuous Integration & Testability, User Interaction and cutting edge front-end and back-end technologies.
Chief Revenue Officer
Before joining Castor, David spent over 5 years researching chemistry and nanotechnology. He also brings with him a wide range of experience of more than 10 years guiding technology companies through major business growth including building operations management and strategic planning. His expertise ranges from sales-drive, customer experience to global operations, and P&L management.
Chief Product Technology Officer
Andrew Sadler is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in leading software engineering teams in startups and enterprises. Prior to joining Castor, Andrew led Engineering teams at Yieldify and H4, where he worked cross functionally to architect SaaS products for the MarTech and LegalTech spaces. Andrew led teams at Google that integrated financial price comparison products directly into search results following the successful acquisition of BeatThatQuote, where he was the Head of Engineering.
Advisory Board
Our team of industry experts helps guide us and provide us with advice.
Prof. Dr. / Founder of ThromboDX
Tom is a professor at the cancer center of Amsterdam and VU and director of the neuro-oncology research group. Tom has received the “Brain Award” from the STOPbersentumoren Foundation. He is also one of the best-publishing researchers at VUmc CCA.
Senior Director, Global Markets, External Innovation
Accomplished executive with 18 years HealthTech/MedTech/Sector Convergence experience in global corporate entrepreneurial ventures.
Head of Cardiology Department (Prof. dr)
Niels van Royen is a full professor at the Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences. He is connected to the Vascular damage theme and head of the Cardiology department.
Senior Vice President
Mark currently leads Pharma Business Development for Sidekick Health, a leading Digital Therapeutics company. Prior to joining Sidekick, Mark was the Commercial Leader-Pharma for Philips; an Independent Member of the Board of Directors at Castor; and the Founder and CEO of venture backed hospital informatics company Cohealo.
Head of Strategic R&D and Digital Health Innovation
Amir Lahav is a strategic consultant currently serving as Head of Strategic R&D and Digital Health Innovation at Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Holding America as well as Chief of Digital Health Strategy at Redenlab.
Formerly, Amir served as the Head of Digital Innovation for Rare Diseases at Pfizer and was a Prof. of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific
Baljit (Boo) Samra has over 25 years of experience in clinical trials and is a seasoned leader with global expertise in operations, digital health and technologies, account leadership, quality, and general management. Having lived in the UK, USA, and Asia including China, Japan, India, and Singapore, his work experience spans the globe.
Board of Directors
Helping supervise the management of the company.
Chairman
With over two decades’ experience in drug development and commercialisation for pharmaceutical giants BayerSchering, GlaxoSmithKline and Quintiles. Managing well over a billion dollars of deals.
Member
Dr. Derk Arts has more than 10 years of experience in medicine, research and data management. He also founded Castor and launched a platform that enables researchers to easily capture, standardize and integrate data from any source.
Member
Rob joined Castor in 2015 from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as the Chief Operating Officer. He also holds the position of Data Protection Officer. With his mother being a nurse and his father working in health insurance, Rob has been submerged in healthcare all of his life.
Member
Villi Iltchev joined Two Sigma Ventures in 2019 and focuses on SaaS, enterprise software, developer tools, and mobile applications. Prior to joining August, he was a member of the leadership teams at Box and Lifelock. Previously, Villi was a Vice President at Salesforce.
Member
Corné focuses on early stage investing in the areas of enterprise SaaS & financial technology. He has 7 years of investment experience in technology.
Member
Michael focuses on venture and growth investments in technology companies across Europe and Israel. Previously, he invested in technology companies at Accel in London, and Warburg Pincus in San Francisco and New York. Michael received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
