Jan Michalek is a Marketing Product Manager for ICU portfolio at LINET since 2020. After graduating at the Biomedical Engineering faculty at Czech Technical University has gathered more than 10 years of experience in the product management and development of medical devices. As a part of global teams has developed many successful projects mostly in the neurodiagnostic field and patient care supporting patient all over the world. He spent most of his career looking for suitable solutions in the field of patient positioning and mobilization. His focus is to address daily pain points by delivering clever and intuitive solutions supporting both, patients and the medical staff.

Jiri Plecity has been the Global Key Account Manager since 2019. From 2004 to 2010, he worked for the humanitarian organization “People in need” as the Country Representative in Ethiopia and later, as the Desk officer for Africa, responsible for the overall management and supervision of projects. In 2010, he began his career in LINET Group as the Regional Manager for Middle East and Africa and later became the Managing Director at LINET Middle East and Africa. Currently, Jiří manages projects with customers across different offices of LINET Group. His responsibilities include keeping and developing main as well as new customers through coordination, cooperation and sharing experience.

Martin Ricl is Sales Executive for TIMPEL Medical. Martin worked with LINET on the position of Global Clinical Research Manager until 2020. He has eight years of professional experience in health care with a focus on emergency and intensive care. Martin also has eighteen years of experience in product management and working as a Team leader and a Coach in various medical device companies (Medtronic, 3M, and LINET).

Koen De Doncker has more than 25 years of experience in moving and handling techniques. As an osteopath and master in physical therapy and motor rehabilitation, Koen built up his experience when he was working with physically and mentally disabled people. Due to his large interest in solving the transfer problems of his patients, he decided to study Business ergonomics and product development at the University of Antwerp Management School, to be able to develop new tools and helping aids. With this background and experience he organizes national and international trainings/workshops on this topic, preferably ‘on the job.’