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Coronary disease shows up in biology long before a catheter ever does.

We're building the diagnostic that reads it.

Milestones

Exploris Health Timeline

2026

  • ISO/IEC 27001 certification
  • First Chest Pain Unit pilot — HGZ Bad Bevensen
  • AOK Niedersachsen study completes; results expected
  • EU IVDR conformity assessment underway

2025

  • ISO 13485 certification
  • Roche partnership for European expansion
  • Integrated into Dedalus ORBIS hospital information system
  • Integrated into the Swiss electronic patient record (Post Sanela)
  • Hospital & network deployments expand (e.g. Medcare)
  • Named a leading Swiss AI start-up (WEF · Microsoft · VentureBeat)

2024

  • Won the DMEA nova Award — “Using AI to improve care”
  • EQUAL CARE certification (gender-equitable AI)
  • AOK Niedersachsen primary-care study launched (ISRCTN67912485)

2023

  • CE-marked (IVDD) & commercially launched in Europe
  • Independent Rubidium-82 PET/CT validation (EPMA Journal)

2022

  • Pivotal intended-use validation — Maastricht cohort, AUC 0.88 (BMJ Open)

2018

  • Exploris Health AG founded in Switzerland
  • LURIC high-risk cohort validation — AUC 0.87 (EPMA Journal)
  • Swiss Biolabs Award & IFAS Innovation Challenge (2nd prize)

2014

  • Foundational machine-learned CAD algorithm published: International Journal of Cardiology

Governance

Board of Directors

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Peter Ruff

Chairman

Peter is the founder and chief executive of Exploris Health and a long-standing digital-health entrepreneur. He began his career as an engineer at a Swiss industrial group, rising to Chief Information Officer before leading a management buy-out of an IT company — the foundation of his work building and scaling technology businesses.

As co-owner of the Ruf Group and, from 2011 to 2023, a member of the board of Zürcher Kantonalbank, Peter brings decades of experience at the intersection of technology, governance, and enterprise leadership. He also chairs the board of Exploris Health, where he sets the company's direction around a single conviction: that disease should be seen through biology, earlier and more precisely.

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Dr. Markus Dennler

Board Member

Dr. Dennler has built a career in finance and independent board roles. He currently serves as Chairman of Swissquote and of Allianz Suisse.

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Christian Schaefle

Board Member

Christian is the founder and CEO of Prospero AG, with over 25 years in consulting and software development specialising in business intelligence and predictive analytics.

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Philipp Gutzwiller

Board Member

Philipp brings life-sciences advisory experience from Santhera Pharmaceuticals, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, UBS, DC Advisory, Lloyds, and Mizuho.

Our people

Team

Portrait of Peter Ruff

Peter Ruff

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Peter is the founder and chief executive of Exploris Health and a long-standing digital-health entrepreneur. He began his career as an engineer at a Swiss industrial group, rising to Chief Information Officer before leading a management buy-out of an IT company — the foundation of his work building and scaling technology businesses.

As co-owner of the Ruf Group and, from 2011 to 2023, a member of the board of Zürcher Kantonalbank, Peter brings decades of experience at the intersection of technology, governance, and enterprise leadership. He also chairs the board of Exploris Health, where he sets the company's direction around a single conviction: that disease should be seen through biology, earlier and more precisely.

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Dr. Manuel Römer

Chief Strategy & Business Development

Manuel leads strategy and business development at Exploris Health. He holds a degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Bayreuth, with a focus on healthcare.

His earlier career spans healthcare roles at Roche and a German single-family office, giving him a perspective that bridges clinical industry, strategy, and investment as Exploris scales its platform.

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Alexander Büsser

Head of Product & Engineering

Alexander leads product at Exploris Health, with more than 12 years of experience across technology and biotech. He completed a postgraduate degree in Computer Science at EPFL, specialising in machine learning.

His research work includes publications in Nature Medicine, and he brings that scientific grounding to shaping a diagnostic product that is both clinically rigorous and usable in everyday care.

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Wendy Lang

Head of Organization & HR

Wendy leads organisation and people at Exploris Health, bringing years of C-level administrative experience from major healthcare institutions — including the cardiac surgery department at University Hospital Zurich.

That background in complex clinical environments shapes how she builds the team and the operating culture behind Exploris's work.

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Mostafa Sabry

Software Engineering Team Lead

Mostafa leads the software engineering team at Exploris Health, with extensive development experience across the finance, e-commerce, and hospitality sectors.

He is responsible for the engineering behind the Cardio Explorer® platform.

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Jehad Khachfa

Full-Stack Developer

Jehad is a full-stack developer at Exploris Health, with experience building full-stack web applications across healthcare technology and education.

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Caroline György

Chief Operating Officer

Caroline leads operations at Exploris Health, focusing on health-economic validation, reimbursement, and the pathways that bring a diagnostic into routine clinical use. She holds an M.A. in Business Administration from the University of Zurich.

Before joining Exploris, Caroline was a Business Development Manager at Novartis / Sandoz, building deep expertise in market access and the commercial and regulatory mechanics of bringing healthcare products to patients.

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Jonas Baer

Chief Financial Officer

Jonas oversees finance at Exploris Health, bringing more than 15 years of experience across startups, SMEs, and corporations.

He previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Strategyzer from 2015 to 2021, where he helped build the financial foundations of a fast-growing technology company — experience he now applies to Exploris's growth.

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Vanessa Kugler

Head of Access & Commercial

Vanessa leads access and commercial at Exploris Health. She holds an M.Sc. in Psychological Medicine from London Metropolitan University.

Her career includes product management and digital-health roles at Roche Diagnostics and F. Hoffmann-La Roche, where she developed the commercial and access expertise she now brings to making Cardio Explorer® available to clinicians and patients.

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José Fluguerto

Quality Manager

José leads quality and regulatory affairs at Exploris Health, with seven years of experience in regulatory affairs for medical devices and diagnostics.

His expertise spans IEC 62304 software lifecycle and ISO 13485 quality-management compliance — the standards that underpin Cardio Explorer®'s path to market.

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Hazem Youssef

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Hazem is a senior full-stack developer at Exploris Health, with over five years building enterprise applications. He was previously a project manager and instructor at Udacity.