Prof. Dr. Moritz Göldner

Co-Founder 

Biomedical engineer
User-centric innovator
(Digital) Health expert

Moritz understands the language of patients, healthcare professionals and innovators and loves to be a translator between the three parties. His fascination about user-centric innovation in healthcare is rooted in his scientific work on patients and caregivers as user innovators with respect to their own unmet medical needs. 

He has worked as an innovation consultant on more than 20 digital and non-digital projects in the healthcare sector with a focus on prostate cancer, diabetes, skin diseases, soft tissue defects and dysmelia. His clients have been medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers of in-vitro diagnostics, software developers, state-owned agencies, and humanitarian organizations.

I believe that understanding unmet needs of both, patients and healthcare professionals, is key to developing value-adding medical devices and digital healthcare applications.

Since late 2019, Moritz is working as a independent innovation consultant in the healthcare sector. In summer 2020, he co-founded Innovatinghealth.care together with Heinrich Schwarz. Since summer 2022, Moritz is an assistant professor for data-driven innovation at Hamburg University of Technology and teaches product planning, digital health and data-driven innovation.

Moritz holds a PhD in Innovation Management from Hamburg University of Technology. He studied Biomedical Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology, Technology Management at Northern Institute of Technology Management (NIT) and Electrical Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Heinrich Schwarz, PhD

Co-Founder

Innovation strategist
Design thinker
Business anthropologist

Heinrich is passionate about finding meaningful solutions to tricky problems by deeply understanding users, markets and technologies. For more than a decade he has led clients into novel territories with future-directed products, services, ventures and strategies – digital and non-digital ones. He has worked with international enterprises, medium-sized firms and startups and enjoys cross-fertilizing learnings from different industries.

He has worked on more than 20 digital and non-digital client projects in healthcare – focusing on a range of medical conditions from diabetes to constipation, skin diseases and hemophilia and a wide range of topics, from clinical trials to doctors' note talking, patient self-care and device use.

I find the diversity, the complexity and the high stakes of the healthcare sector both highly challenging and extremely inspiring. More than in any other field it is essential here to keep the patient firmly at the center of our attention as innovators.

Heinrich founded the innovation strategy consultancy Schwarz Innovation in 2012. He speaks and lectures on people-centric innovation, design thinking and business anthropology in industry and academia, most recently at Hamburg University of Technology and HafenCity University Hamburg.

In the past he worked as management consultant in Denmark and as university faculty and freelance design researcher in various places in the US.

He holds a Ph.D in Science and Technology Studies (M.I.T., Cambridge Mass) and MAs in Social & Cultural Studies (U Cal Berkeley) and Psychology (Free University Berlin). He is a Fulbright Fellow.