ICME – International Consulting Management Engineering
ICME Healthcare is a leading, global healthcare consulting firm dedicated to creating integrated solutions. With 5 international locations, our highly skilled network of healthcare specialists and consultants, a case load of success stories and a long history working across the globe demonstrates that ICME Healthcare is well-placed to assist your organization/facility with healthcare projects of any scale.
Founded in 1954, ICME Healthcare is one of the most experienced suisse-german consulting boutiques operating today. We believe that good healthcare management is rooted in effective processes, emotional intelligence, expert knowledge, and a strong understanding of and respect for local cultures. Over the years, we have demonstrated a proven capacity to deliver large scale and complex projects, consistently returning timely and cost-effective results for our clients.
Holger Micheel-Sprenger
CEO & Partner ICME Group
Holger Micheel-Sprenger is a highly accomplished entrepreneur with a wealth of experience gained over a span of more than 25 years. He has held various management positions in the medical device industry, healthcare provider, and consulting, and healthcare services. As CEO of ICME Group, he is in charge of a variety of complex and internationally recognized projects related to the hospital and global healthcare sector. The projects are often key turn and involve client acquisition, financing, medical planning, design, construction, and operation.
Dr. Cyril Toma
Managing Partner
Dr Cyril Toma is an experienced healthcare professional with a proven track record of improving the quality, visibility, and overall success of patient-focused healthcare systems. He has had a distinguished career and demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of all the facets of healthcare operations, finances, and administrative procedures. Dr Cyril Toma can successfully manage projects and build relationships that deliver significant and tangible results. His international work experience spans the regions of South-East Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Wolfgang Möller
Partner & Chairman of the Board
Executive with vast experience in the healthcare sector, including healthcare management, healthcare development and international key-turn projects.
Vincent Zimmer
Director Business Development ICME Healthcare / Smart Care
Experienced in building successful start ups across different industries such as digital Education and digital health with a passion for solving complex problems. With a clear vision and excellent execution, his skills and achievements have been recognized various world-class organizations.
Jürg Pfister
ICME administrative board member
Jürg Pfister is founder and CEO of Pfister Treuhand AG, a corporate service provider in Uster/Zurich. Before he started his independent occupation in 1992, he was working in an international Big4 audit firm in Zurich and London, where he also graduated to a Swiss Certified Accountant. Jürg has long-term experience in consulting and supporting his clients – from SME to subsidiaries of listed companies in different industries and with national as well as international background. He also acts as director in selected companies.
Naser Sali
ICME Director West-Balkan
Naser Sali is the director for the Balkan- and Eastern Europe Region within ICME and oversees the ICME locations in Albania - Tirana - and Kosovo - Pristina. Mr. Sali is well connected within the healthcare economy and networks, operational healthcare provision entities in the outpatient and inpatient sector and regulatory entities on Ministry level. In project processes, Mr. Sali takes on direct communication with the customer and monitors the corresponding project progress within the ICME team.
Dr. Sabine Toma
Senior Clinical Specialist, Certified Healthcare Planner
Dr. Sabine Toma has over 30 years of experience working as both a clinician and a healthcare consultant. She possesses extensive experience in clinical planning and design, clinical project management, and coordination between clinical and non-clinical hospital departments.
Carsten Micheel
Senior Director ICME Healthcare Consultancy Europe
Highly committed and creative young professional who gathered 10 years’ experience in Europe and the Middle East as interims and management consultant in various healthcare domains with tasks ranging from process and product management within a multinational corporation to strategic planning of healthcare facilities, creation of telemedicine and digital health concepts, as well as project management on site. Core competencies include, process management, Health-IT workflow planning, interdisciplinary communication and the development of customized healthcare concepts for rural and underserved areas.
Maraki Merid
Senior Healthcare Consultant
Dr. Maraki Merid is an accomplished and highly skilled strategic, management consultant and business entrepreneur with more than 15 years’ international healthcare industry experience working alongside governments, private clients as well as foundations and non-governmental organizations across Canada, Middle East and Africa.
Omar Dallal
Director, Project Development
Omar has over 25 years’ experience in Healthcare / medical device sales & marketing management, regional business development and Healthcare projects management. He has dealt with various healthcare domains including planning and implementing upstream & downstream marketing and sales strategies, policies and processes in alignment with HQ’s business strategy, and managing all sales & marketing functions to achieve the objectives of sales, profitability, and feasibility while ensuring a consistent growth. Experience also includes Healthcare project management focused on meeting financial objectives, forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, and scheduling expenditures.
Mohamed Al Helo
Senior Biomedical Engineer, Equipment Planner and Consultant
Mohammad is having 25 years of professional career in health care development, project management and medical equipment planning. His experience also included management and directing a team of biomedical engineers covering GCC for client's direct requests, tenders and projects. His experience in UAE as a Project Manager included preparing complete submittals for turnkey projects, matching specifications, budgeting and costing calculations preparing timing schedule for project works, delivery, storage, installation and final commissioning for certificate of acceptance.
Ankita Thakrar
Healthcare Consultant
Ankita has completed her Masters degree in International Health Management at Imperial College Business School in London. She has extensive knowledge in the healthcare sector and a comprehensive view in the management of international healthcare systems including health policy, public health, health economics and innovation. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Science from the UK. She has work experience in Portugal, UK, and UAE; and has an excellent understanding of how laboratories are run in the UAE due to prior work experience in a stem cell laboratory.
Mahadi Salleh
Senior QS / Contracts Administrator
Mahadi has more than 20 years’ experience in Quantity Surveying and Program / Project Management from conception to project close-out. This includes 9 years’ experience in pre-contract and over 12 years in post-contract stage in various positions. He has over 11 years’ experience in the Middle East (GCC). His skills include contracts administration, cost management, cost planning and budgeting, tendering and procurement, and claims evaluation.
Montassar Bensalem
Project Coordinator
Focused and hard-working individual committed to all aspects of civil engineering, gathering over two years of experience in structural design, drawing revision, and site inspections within Canada and the Middle East. Skills include complex problem solving, advanced computer and software understanding, technical language and bi-lingual proficiency (English and Arabic).
Juanito Cruz Javier
QA / QC Engineer
Juanito is a registered Civil Engineer in the Philippines and has been working in the construction industry for more than nineteen (19) years, of which he spent over 5 years working in the UAE and nearly a year in Qatar. His has been involved in projects such as the construction of metro railways, hospitals, residential buildings, schools, learning centers, housing projects, clinics and other infrastructure related projects.
Peter Trollope
Senior Mechanical Health Engineer
Peter is a graduated mechanical engineer with a wealth of experience in the design, construction, project management and site supervision of hospital projects in Europe and the UAE.
Richard Alconaba
QA / QC Engineer
Richard is Civil Engineer with more than thirteen eleven years’ experience. Experienced in civil engineering projects (high rise, Infrastructure, Metro Project and Healthcare). Keen knowledge in Quality Assurance and Quality Control Management in ensuring that the project quality system is established, implemented and maintained in accordance to the technical and contractual requirements of the projects.
Barrie Purtell
Head of Project Management
As Head of Project Management with ICME, Barrie works closely with our clients to understand their needs and provide support and guidance through the required processes, establishing the overall success criteria for a project, including; time, cost, technical and performance parameters. Barrie has full awareness of the commercial and contractual aspects of any project enabling the creation of realistic and achievable project schedules, manage the day-to-day operational aspects of the project, monitor and manage the performance of the project team and arrange and manage all project related meetings.
Linda Bredemeyer
Personal Assistant & Corporate Office Management
Linda has extensive experience in managing and coordinating all of ICME's corporate activities, including accounting and HR. As Personal Assistant, Linda supports Holger Micheel-Sprenger with her outstanding organisational skills in all topics.
Luzie Sechser
Group Controlling
With strong analytical skills, Luzie focuses on market analyses, benchmarking and process (re)-organization of clinical as well as non-clinical units. Since July 2011 she represents the group controlling of the mother company of ICME Healthcare GmbH, ICME International AG.
Katy Heidrich
Assistant to the Corporate Management
Katy has gathered 10 years’ experience in assisting project managers directly in international healthcare projects. She is supporting the team in the field of coordination in international projects related to hospitals, office administration with international organizations and translations.
Mohammed Al Achmar
HR-Officer & PRO
Mohammed is a very accomplished and highly qualified office manager, having worked for over 15 years in administrative roles mainly for the ICME office in Abu Dhabi, he has excellent knowledge of local laws & regulations, Mohammed is responsible for the HR, payroll, bookkeeping, accounting, government relation and general office administration duties, he is an integral part of the ICME team.
Isra Bensalem
Business Analyst
Isra is a hardworking and committed analyst primarily focused on the development of proposals, presentations, financial feasibilities, and market research, throughout the MENA region and internationally, as part of the consulting team. She has an academic background in Finance and experience with market and financial feasibility studies. Her work reflects a prominent level of skills in excel, as well as data analysis. Other skills also include financial modelling.
Alex Blaicher
Senior Medical Expert
Alex is a senior professional with a 30+ years of experience in international health systems. He studied medicine, economics, holds a PHD and is Associate Professor on the University of Vienna. He served in over 50 hospitals worldwide as an anaesthesiologist and intensive care physician, including the British NHS, the Royal Naval Hospital in Gibraltar, South Africa, Nepal, Germany and Austria. For 15 years he leaded hospitals, hospital chains as CEO, CMO or CFO. Moreover, he leaded nursing schools and developed systems of nursing applied sciences. Based in the Austrian alps he commits himself to improve health systems and health institutions, by focus on international health care systems, performance/process development, personnel development and strategical improvement, including IT systems. His unique overview over systems worldwide gives him the knowledge to solve problems in every field of health care systems. Alex is married and have 5 daughters.
Sateesh Kendhyala
HSE Inspector
Sateesh is a highly effective senior QHSE practitioner with over nine years’ experience in the UAE with major construction experience. He is a registered QHSE Advisor of the Environmental Health and Safety at JAFZA, Government of Dubai and has experience in various organizations to achieve external recognition leading the achievement of ISO 14001, 9001, OHSAS 19001 and Estidama Pearl Rating.
ICME aims to be a recognised leading provider of healthcare management solutions globally.
Our mission is to support our clients through every step of the journey towards achieving healthcare excellence – from concept to implementation. We aim to provide outstanding healthcare management solutions to help turn our clients’ visions into operational results
At ICME, we provide detailed advice and assistance at every step of the road towards building and operating a highly efficient, effective and functional healthcare organization, from concept to implementation.
We employ a distinctly European working style, combining medical practice and economic principles to ensure that your project achieves your vision and financial objectives without compromising the quality of patient care.
ICME enjoys privileged relationships with its local and international partners as a result of our longevity in the healthcare market. Significant opportunity exists for clients to benefit from this strong network, both in terms of accessing subject matter experts and their resources, and making use of the latest technologies and best-practice methods available.
ICME is dedicated to delivering concrete, measurable results, developing and implementing customized solutions aligned to client’s requirements, and using a multidisciplinary approach to achieve a successful outcome for our clients, drawing upon the expertise of our consultants and other professionals when required.
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