Pierre Plumer is an engineer in electrotechnical engineering from the ETH Zürich, with a specialisation in biomedical engineering. After his studies he worked for one year as a scientific collaborator at the ETH’s Institute for Food Technology, before becoming a research engineer in healthcare technologies at the CRP Henri Tudor in 1994.
In 1996 he became the managing director of Henri Tudor’s department SANTEC (Technologies for Healthcare) where he is responsible for the strategic, administrative and partnership management as well as the definition and follow-up of SANTEC’s activities (R&D projects, technological assistance and consultancy, PhD research, initial and continuous training as well as technological, scientific and regulatory watch).
A year later he became a Member of the Management Board of the CRP Henri Tudor and was co-responsible for all corporate strategic and management matters. During the following years he had the opportunity to become an expert/consultant for various fields such as the eHealth Working Group of the Healthcare Ministry, the evaluation and coaching of start-up’s for Business Initiative and the Technoport.