Meet the Leadership Team

Tobias Alpsten

As iPlato’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Tobias Alpsten is responsible for setting the overall strategy and vision for the business.

Committed to evidence based interventions in healthcare, Tobias works with leading institutions including UCL, Imperial College, the Department of Health and Public Health England on increasing the evidence base for Health Tech through research.

After studies in Stockholm and Paris, Tobias earned an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 1996. Tobias joined Accenture’s Paris office before founding iPlato in London in 2000. He has worked in Sweden, France, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, the US, and now the UK.

Martin Rowden

Martin’s background offers a range of entrepreneurial expertise matched with institutional and global experience spanning over 20 years.

With a BEc and as a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA), Martin spent 10 years with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in both Canada and Australia in the Financial Advisory Services division before moving to the UK in 1997 and following his passion as an entrepreneur.

Since 19997 Martin has been involved (in varying executive and non-executive roles) in no less than 6 successful technology ‘start-ups’. In 2005 he co-founded iPLATO Healthcare with Tobias to focus on the nascent but emerging area of mHealth.

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis, is Professor of Life Science Innovation at University of Birmingham following an extensive corporate background in life sciences and digital innovation.

He previously held senior roles at Align Technology (Amsterdam), Boston Scientific (Paris), C.R. Bard (New Jersey), Sybron (Switzerland) and Becton Dickinson (UK) and was President of Gambro (Sweden) leading the £3bn public to private buyout. He Chairs 5 companies and industry experience covers pharma, biotech, digital, dental, devices and diagnostics.

Michael has worked as deal advisor, industry expert and also lectures on business strategy as well as being a TV scriptwriter and finishing his first novel.

Namrata Sarmah

Namrata is the Chief Product Officer at iPlato Healthcare.

She has worked in a number of large and small organisations spanning across sectors like Broadcast Media, Telecom, Healthcare, and Wellness. In her most recent roles, she has led international product teams in ViacomCBS and Babylon Health. She comes from a software engineering background, and has earned her business degree from Manchester Business School.

Namrata sits on the International Advisory Board of the Open University Business School. She is a strong advocate of Diversity & Inclusion at the workplace, and leads several Women in Tech & Leadership initiatives.

Jonathan Selby

Jonathan has over 25 years’ software solutions experience. Within healthtech, Jonathan has worked on some of the most ambitious and innovative healthcare IT programmes in Europe, including NHS Scotland’s national Patient Management System, NHS Wales’ National Laboratory System, a number of England’s largest CCG coordinated care programmes, and also population health management programmes in Spain, France and the Middle East.

Philip Gilgunn