SVP Precision Medicine at Elsevier, Germany

Olaf Lodbrok is the Senior Vice President for Precision Medicine at Elsevier. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Aachen University (Germany) and an MBA from Duke University (USA).

He has 25 years of experience in the healthcare sector. In 2000 he launched a start-up which was acquired by Global Healthcare Exchange in 2005.

At Elsevier, Olaf launched Precision Medicine to develop machine learning algorithms on five million German and five million US patient datasets. The group also applies natural language processing to the medical literature and combines it with the insights from health data for clinical decision support.

Olaf Lodbrok joined Elsevier in 2007 as the Managing Director of Elsevier Germany.