Incision: Our team

We are Incision

We are a dynamic group of highly motivated professionals working to improve access to high-quality surgical care. We are designers, doctors, video editors, business strategists, creatives. We draw on backgrounds from eLearning, technology, nursing, product development, academia — using our skillsets to develop innovative approaches to sharing standardized best practices. Together with our global partners, we are committed to developing solutions to the biggest challenges facing surgical care today.

Shareholder Board

Strategic advisor

Derk Haank

Derk Haank is president of the Supervisory board at TomTom. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of KPN.

Derk is a former board member of Reed Elsevier and from 2004 to 2018 he was the CEO of SpringerNature.

He has also been a member of the Nuon Supervisory Board.

Board member and founding father

Jaap Maljers (MD MBA)

Jaap Maljers is a serial entrepreneur in health care & IT. He was the founder of Plexus (consultancy company), ZorgDomein (Systems integrator platform) and Bergman Clinics (focus clinics).

Across the globe he has advised policy makers on health care systems. He was on the board of Amref Flying Doctors and chairman of the Dutch Children Cancer research foundation ‘KiKa’.

As co-founder of Incision he brings his belief into practice that there should be no boundaries to access to the best possible medical knowledge.

Board member and strategic advisor

Reinier Feitz

After training as a plastic surgeon, Reinier Feitz specialized in hand, wrist and peripheral nerve surgery

Reinier is a co-founder of the Xpert Clinic, with 22 branches in the Netherlands.
He publishes extensively in the field of hand surgery and is active as a medico-legal expert (NVMSR)

His MTP (massive transformation purpose) is to change the incidental and ad hoc collection of patient data into a routine and democratized outcome monitoring of health data. His current goals are personalized handsurgery and outcome prediction.

Board member and founding father

Guido Geerts (MSC)

Guido Geerts is the President & CEO of Delft Imaging Systems. He has over twenty years of experience in the medical imaging industry. He was director of Oldelft Benelux and Rogan, and is currently also CEO of Thirona.

He is a serial developer of business concepts for low cost high quality healthcare in the digital age.

Board member and founding father

Theo Wiggers (MD PhD FRCS)

Theo Wiggers founded Incision in 2014, to provide the world with the best surgical care. As Medical Director he is very passionate about the creation of our medical content, with a sharp eye for the educational details, and is full of ideas how we can apply the latest visualisation technologies to our Incision products.

Theo is also a Member of the Supervisory Board of the ZGT hospital in Almelo.

Medical Advisory Board

Chair of the Board

Jaap Bonjer

Jaap Bonjer is a minimally invasive surgeon and Head of the Department of Surgery at Amsterdam University Medical Center. His focus lies on innovating surgical technology and surgical education. His vision is to shorten the training period from student to surgeon.

Board member

David Farley

Professor Farley worked previously as a surgical consultant in the Department of Surgery at Mayo Clinic. He joined the Department in 1994 and served as the director of the General Surgery residency program for 15 years, educating over 300 residents during this period.

Management Team

Chief Executive Officer

Ritsaart van Montfrans

Since January 2017 I am leading the team at Incision. Prior to Incision, I started a company called NewMotion, now the leading European player in charging solutions for electric cars. I love leading start-ups where commercial success goes hand-in-hand with achieving impact.

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Raimo van der Klein

For more than 20 years I have been working in the field of innovation and technology. Starting off at larger organisations such as Nokia and KPN. Followed by a period of entrepreneurship. With my company Layar I succeeded in becoming a global leader in the world of Augmented Reality and interactive print. Last few years I focused on realizing digital transformation and digital growth through building healthy product development processes and teams.

Chief Medical Officer/Surgeon

Marian Scheer (MD/PhD)

After finishing my surgical residency I aspired a function beyond the borders of the hospital in which my surgical knowledge could be useful.The goal of helping other people by improving the education of surgeons worldwide inspired me. As a surgeon I’m responsible for the medical content of the Incision Academy. I’m managing and supervising the production team and I’m responsible for the planning of the film shoots.

Chief Operating Officer

Alexander van Ooijen

Head of People & Organization

Annelize Klomp

As Head of People & Organization, and a member of the MT, I am looking forward to support all Incisionaries, teams, managers and leaders to build a stronger organisation together! I have extensive experience in the full employee life cycle, from recruitment, to L&D, talent and performance management and HR strategic leadership.

Commercial Team

Head of Sales: UK

Charles Pallandt

I am really excited to work at Incision, a growing and dynamic company on a mission! I find the positive feedback we receive from surgeons as well as from residents across the globe extremely encouraging.

Head of Sales: US

Michael Versluis

Head of Sales: BeNeLux

Femke van der Gaag (MBA)

With almost 10 years experience as a healthcare manager, I know how to establish partnerships between different stakeholders, disciplines and customers, with the aim of improving the quality of the services and solving complex issues. My MBA helped me to see the organisational behaviour, change management and marketing perspective of a hospital and healthcare in a bigger way. I’m convinced that: listening to stakeholders both internally and externally, see the changes as a teameffort and connecting the right people and services, is the key for succes.

Business Development Specialist

Jacqueline Hart-Herval

Jacqueline hails from Cape Town, South Africa and has over 15 years of experience as a project leader in healthcare. She is an experienced LEAN practitioner and her particular areas of interest are the improvement of mental well-being and sustainability within hospitals

Account Executive

Marion de Bont

Incision is on a mission to help improve education and performance in the OR, and I am very happy to be part of this mission!
Not only to contribute to better performance in the OR, but actually also to contribute indirectly to patient care.
My role as an account executive is to get in contact with surgeons and residents of OR, be a good listener, and help them to realize better performance based on our innovative and proven digital solutions.
It is really a pleasure to work with such highly motivated colleagues on this mission!

Event and Field Marketer

Anja van Wijk

Content Director

Thomas Needs (MBBS, MSc)

International Sales Development Representative

Jass Somers

Research Lead

Aiden Molavi

With an academic research background in philosophy and medicine, I have always been passionate about innovative and sustainable approaches to healthcare. At Incision, I help ensure the provision of high-quality surgical care through our products based on real-world evidence.

Customer Success Manager

Esra de Lange

Customer Success Manager

Sylvia Agterberg

After 28 years working in a hospital as a scrub nurse and coordinator of learning programs for the OR was it time for a new challenge. In December 2020 I graduated my Lean Black Belt Six Sigma training. With all my experience I can help other hospitals to improve Incision in the training programs and learning circles. I love to work with people and inspire them with my enthusiasm. In my role as a Customer Success Manager I help hospitals and other customers with the implementation process. Together we are going for the best practice.

Business Development Director, APAC

Elaine Leong

Sales Intern

Diederik Vergouwen

Customer Success Specialist

Vintain Bouman

Sr Project/Implementation Manager

Kiley Black

Product Development Team

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Raimo van der Klein

Design Lead

Bart van de Biezen

My background is industrial design and psychology. During my studies created the concept of CSSEdit, which won an Apple Design Award. Started my career as a usability researcher. I quickly realized I had to combine research and design work and therefore started working at the Aan Zee agency. After 11 years of working as a partner, researcher and designer for various clients, I made the switch to Incision. Attention to detail and designing and creating tools for users to achieve more is ‘close to my heart’, as we say in Dutch.

Graphic Designer

Carla Musumarra

I am a junior graphic designer, passionate about printing and digital production. I strongly believe that together, with creativity we can solve needs and have a positive impact on the world. For this reason, I have always been interested in telling stories through projects. My goal is to support the vision of the Incision's team and develop new skills with industry experts.

UX/UI Designer

Julianne Bezerra

I’m a User Experience Designer with a visual design background, which helps me to create not only functional but beautiful products. My goal at Incision is to put myself in the users shoes to understand their needs and goals and propose valuable solutions for their problems.

Data analyst

Yuxi Cheng

As a data analyst, my responsibility is to make data accessible and understandable for all my stakeholders. My goal is not only to bring insight from data to my team but also to influence the team to be data-driven. I am very excited to be a part of the Incision family and grow together.

Product Owner Apps

Taher Abdel Hadi

Working in tech since 2010, I am an experienced product owner having worked for several start up and corporate enterprises. Mostly experienced in mobile product development.

Solution Architect

Marijke Dekker

E-learning Specialist

Boudewijn van Dee

UX Designer

Linda Deckers

Product Owner

Mara Groothedde

E-Learning Developer

Carla Paulo

Privacy and Security Specialist

Federico Mirri

Sales Operations Analyst

Camille Lecointe

Product Content Team

Amsterdam & International

Content Product Manager

Robbert Wienen

I’ve always been enthusiastic about educating people and I believe in the strength of visual education. That’s why Incision is a good fit for me. I have the chance to create a tool to optimize surgical education in a creative and innovative way. Our team wants to create the best content possible and I’m happy to be part of this process.