Manuel Gea (58 years old) is the Co-founder and Chairman of Centrale-Santé, the French Health Think-Tank, the Chairman at the Independent trans-discipline biotech Think Tank Adebiotech and CEO & EVP R&D IT of the world’s first Mechanisms-Based Medicine Company Bio-Modeling Systems. He is a Keynote Speaker, independent board member, “responsible” A.I. and block chain expert, serial entrepreneur, business angel developing and supporting disruptive solutions addressing complex systems problems.

He spent 30 years creating value in various domains and executive jobs:
- From consumer goods industry to cosmetics, nutrition, biotechnology & pharmaceutical companies and,
- From business to R&D ( International business manager at Colgate-Palmolive (consumer goods company), Senior consultant creator of the Pharma Practice at McKinsey France, Managing director at Boehringer Ingelheim, CEO Europe at HemispherX Biopharma, Co-founder & President of the Advisory Board of Pherecydes-Pharma, Co-founder & board member of Formitel, Co-founder & CEO of BMSystems.

He also spent these 30 years co-founding or contributing as member, chairman & senior advisor to leading professional organizations:
- Co-founder & V-P of Leem Biotech, co-founder of Medef Health, co-founder & executive board member of Medicen.
- Chairman at the Independent trans-discipline biotech Think Tank Adebiotech.
- Co-founder and Chairman of Centrale-Santé, the French Health Think-Tank gathering 2500 members, professionals involved in health sector innovations and creating value for patients.

As a digital transformation expert, he is:
- Co-founder & VP Strategy of Diagnostic Management et Digital : Le premier diagnostic interactif abordant en même temps Management & Digital.
- Co-founder and representative of Medicen Cluster Executive Board at the Paris Region Digital Health cluster gathering Cap Digital, Medicen, and Systematic Paris-Region clusters.
- Co-founder of the Digital Health Commission at Medicen Paris region

He is graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris (economist engineer, data scientist, operational research, modeling), and has a sociology of organizations degree from Paris IX Dauphine University where he discovered and implemented ‘general semantic’ to address complex systems problems.