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Who is Jorge?

Jorge Cortell

“Don't ask me who I am, or ask me to stay the same”

Michel Foucault. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972)

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Bill Aulet

“[Jorge's] strong commitment, efficiency, and energy were crucial for the successful work of the Expert Group on Venture Philanthropy and Social Investments and the high quality of its timely advice.”

20181207

Jean-David Malo

European Commission

Director DG Research & Innovation

Sean Roberts

HIMSS

Vice President HIMSS EMEA

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about me

Kristin Burkland

Oracle

Senior leader Partners

Rob Orwin

Microsoft

Technology Strategist

“[Jorge] has ably demonstrated his capacity to meet the rigorous academic challenges found at Harvard.”

20240603

Harvard University

DCE Dean of Academic Programs &

Chief Academic Officer

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Jon Friis

Miiskin

Founder & CEO

“[Jorge is] way ahead.”

20210409

Max Ma

Johnson & Johnson

Principal AI Engineer

Dr. Raminderpal Singh

Eagle Genomics

Vice President

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about me

Count Markus Matuschka de

Greiffenclau

Lysando AG

Chairman of the Board of Directors

“For years a reference in innovation.”

20210408

Juan Carlos de la Fuente Córdoba

Indra

Technical Leader - Aircraft Simulators

Paul Henderson

KPMG

Director of Health Data and Analytics

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about me

David (Dave) Wilson

Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Sr. Director, CC & IM

“I am incredibly enthusiastic about having [Jorge] join the Innovation Fellows program [at Harvard University].”

20220601

Paul B. Bottino, Esq.

Harvard University (SEAS-TECH)

Executive Dir., Innovation Education

Tomás Ledo Guerrero

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about me

Miguel Borras
Juan Tatay
Germán Valdés

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe…

paraphrasing Roy Batty

I have advised a king to abdicate and establish a republic, I have been completely surrounded by snakes, I have survived earthquakes, hurricanes and floods, I have traveled through 5 continents circling the Earth over 30 times, I have been shot at and poisoned and drowned, I have overcome cancer, I've spent months in the hospital before I was even born, I have photographed archaeological excavations in a war zone and documented illegal deforestation in the Cambodian jungle, I have won international sports championships, I have created software that has been used to cure millions of patients inspired by my wife's cancer, I lived with a severely ill psychiatric patient for years, I have been held by an anti-terrorist squad in Turkey, I have won awards in different scientific disciplines, I've had breakfast with cabinet members on a private island in Bali, lunched with ambassadors, and dined in a palace with British Royalty, I have served food to homeless people in Bangladesh, I have partied in California beaches with billionaires, and I've surfed in Ibiza, the girlfriend of a Colombian drug lord did a striptease for me in front of him in Bogota, I have gathered evidence about an organized crime group and handed it over to prosecutors which led to arrests and political resignations, I have organized demonstrations in the streets of New York and strikes in Spanish classrooms, I've had more than a dozen surgeries and I have fractured my neck (twice) and all my limbs, I fled from the secret police during the performance of a censored theater play in pre-democracy Spain, the police thwarted a plan to kidnap me in Peru, I have been under so much stress that I have cracked five teeth, in Moscow my bodyguard (unbeknownst to me) stopped the traffic with an AK47, as a child I was beaten so badly that one of my eyes changed color permanently (traumatic heterochromia iridis), I developed software in collaboration with NASA to be able to give my fiancée an extraterrestrial engagement ring and for an anniversary I went down an active volcano and got lava to make another, I'm the first person in my family to attend university, I've given lectures to thousands of people in a stadium and to dozens in universities (like Stanford, Oxford, MIT and Harvard), I've witnessed the birth of my children and I've held a loved one in my arms as he exhaled with last breadth, a policeman has stolen from me and a thief has helped me, I have climbed into the ring to fight in several martial arts, I'm the father of a videogame character, as a child during a coup d'état I stared for hours through the window at a tank aiming towards my apartment threatening to shoot, I've bled under a waterfall in an Indonesian jungle, the university that forced me to resign later gave me two medals, I've been buried in the snow, I've seen my son sink into a frozen lake, I've been so rich that I went on luxury cruises, and I've been so poor that I could not afford basic utilities, I've lived in a skyscraper in New York, a castle in London, a house on the lake in Canada, and a sea view mansion by the Med, I sailed on a fishing boat during a storm in the North Atlantic, in a solar-powered catamaran, in superyachts, a hurricane has lifted me off the ground, I have snowboarded in Canada during a polar vortex… Above all, I've loved and been loved. I've found beauty.


And I'm only getting started… but all those moments will be lost in time,

like tears in rain.

Business

General Partner (GP) at UnveilPharma (biotech VC fund based in Singapore) and Jinsei (a MedTech VC fund based in Japan). Member of the Board of Advisors at Lysando (Liechtenstein)—world leader in the development of antimicrobial proteins—and AugMend Health (USA)—pioneer in virtual reality for mental health—. Former Technology Advisor and Venture Partner at NLC.health (The Netherlands), Europe's most active early stage investor in healthcare, with over 100 healthtech ventures, of which I've personally helped co-build (in my portfolio): FlashPathology, Pryfiber, Matermend, PathBrite, GenoTell, WaveFront Microscopy, and OmicSystems, while also managed University accounts like Columbia, Harvard, NYU, CSIC...

CEO 6 times and Entrepreneur 6 (5 exits) in 5 industries (fashion, marketing, architectural tech, music production, and healthtech) in Spain, England and the USA. My last company, a Covid-19 victim, was chosen among the Top 18 EU Startups, bootstrapped via multi-million $ sales in 15 countries and profitable, being valued at $1.2B by a NY investment bank and receiving a buyout offer by a Japanese corporation, earning 4.9/5 stars and 100% approval rate as CEO from my coworkers and 85/100 (top in the industry) by my competitors and peers.

I have advised governments in Latin American countries, as well as the European Commission, IBM, Microsoft, UBS bank, and several large Japanese companies, on matters related to copyleft, technology, innovation and healthcare.

My negotiation style is being used as an example in negotiation training, both at Harvard University and the United Nations (UNITAR).

I speak 3 languages fluently, traveled to over 50 countries in all continents, lived in 5.

If you want to know more, take a look at my LinkedIn profile.


Art & Activism


Hacktivism: I've lobbied against software patents in the European Parliament, lectured against restrictive copyright throughout Europe and the USA, founded a citizen participation platform and Valencia's hacker lab, given lectures at hacker conferences, documented environmental abuses in Cambodia, copyright-lobby illegal activities in Spain, and police abuses in the USA, defied jail time as conscientious objector of compulsory military service...

I have been an Advisor for the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Arts. I've curated art exhibits in Lithuania and Spain, edited and wrote the texts for Nebula's first photography art book 'Gaze, Reflexion, Fusion', and had some of my uncomissioned art works exhibited in some of the main museums and galleries around the world (Singapore Art Museum, 2014, Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Chile 2016, Ludwig Museum in Cologne 2016, Konsthall in Malmö 2021, Contemporary Art Museum of Copenhagen 2021, Saatchi Gallery in London 2021, Die Neue Sammlung and Haus der Kunst in Munich 2022, Hermitage and Straat in Amsterdam 2022).

Science & Technology

Executive Director of the Technology Exchange and Collaboration Hub in Tokyo (TECH-Tokyo); Visiting Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo and Visiting Lecturer at University of Tokyo.

Former Senior Advisor, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Harvard Innovation Laboratories (i-lab) serving the 13 Harvard schools; by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) as Senior International Innovation Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH); and by Harvard HealthLab as Mentor.

Honored to have played a part in advancing the field of Computational Bioinformatics for Precision Medicine at Kanteron. Inventor of the first precision medicine software platform (2014), first vendor-neutral digital pathology dicomizer (2012), and pioneer developer of commercial augmented reality via surface projection in live surgery (2009). Our technology helped save millions of lives and received innovation awards from: NASA, HIMSS, IBM, DPA, F&S, WSJ, and others.

Invited to deliver Lectures over 60 times in universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and MIT, and in events like HIMSS, RSNA, Longevity World Forum, etc. Ex-assistant professor in 3 universities, student in 7 and graduated from 3, even though I'm a first-generation college graduate.

If you want to know more, take a look at my profile in : Orcid, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, y Academia.edu.


& more…

I've been former pro-basketball player (Spanish NBA - ACB Preseason Pamesa Valencia 1993), child-actor, writer, husband, father…

But there is only so much one can fit in a website, or is even willing to share with complete strangers.

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Who is Jorge?

Jorge Cortell

“Don't ask me who I am, or ask me to stay the same”

Michel Foucault. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972)

Download my ResumeRead my BLOG

CHECK OUT WHAT SOME COOL PEOPLE SAY

about me

Bill Aulet

“[Jorge's] strong commitment, efficiency, and energy were crucial for the successful work of the Expert Group on Venture Philanthropy and Social Investments and the high quality of its timely advice.”

20181207

Jean-David Malo

European Commission

Director DG Research & Innovation

Sean Roberts

HIMSS

Vice President HIMSS EMEA

CHECK OUT WHAT SOME COOL PEOPLE SAY

about me

Kristin Burkland

Oracle

Senior leader Partners

Rob Orwin

Microsoft

Technology Strategist

“[Jorge] has ably demonstrated his capacity to meet the rigorous academic challenges found at Harvard.”

20240603

Harvard University

DCE Dean of Academic Programs &

Chief Academic Officer

CHECK OUT WHAT SOME COOL PEOPLE SAY

about me

Jon Friis

Miiskin

Founder & CEO

“[Jorge is] way ahead.”

20210409

Max Ma

Johnson & Johnson

Principal AI Engineer

Dr. Raminderpal Singh

Eagle Genomics

Vice President

CHECK OUT WHAT SOME COOL PEOPLE SAY

about me

Count Markus Matuschka de

Greiffenclau

Lysando AG

Chairman of the Board of Directors

“For years a reference in innovation.”

20210408

Juan Carlos de la Fuente Córdoba

Indra

Technical Leader - Aircraft Simulators

Paul Henderson

KPMG

Director of Health Data and Analytics

CHECK OUT WHAT SOME COOL PEOPLE SAY

about me

David (Dave) Wilson

Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Sr. Director, CC & IM

“I am incredibly enthusiastic about having [Jorge] join the Innovation Fellows program [at Harvard University].”

20220601

Paul B. Bottino, Esq.

Harvard University (SEAS-TECH)

Executive Dir., Innovation Education

Tomás Ledo Guerrero

CHECK OUT WHAT SOME COOL PEOPLE SAY

about me

Miguel Borras
Juan Tatay
Germán Valdés

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe…

paraphrasing Roy Batty

I have advised a king to abdicate and establish a republic, I have been completely surrounded by snakes, I have survived earthquakes, hurricanes and floods, I have traveled through 5 continents circling the Earth over 30 times, I have been shot at and poisoned and drowned, I have overcome cancer, I've spent months in the hospital before I was even born, I have photographed archaeological excavations in a war zone and documented illegal deforestation in the Cambodian jungle, I have won international sports championships, I have created software that has been used to cure millions of patients inspired by my wife's cancer, I lived with a severely ill psychiatric patient for years, I have been held by an anti-terrorist squad in Turkey, I have won awards in different scientific disciplines, I've had breakfast with cabinet members on a private island in Bali, lunched with ambassadors, and dined in a palace with British Royalty, I have served food to homeless people in Bangladesh, I have partied in California beaches with billionaires, and I've surfed in Ibiza, the girlfriend of a Colombian drug lord did a striptease for me in front of him in Bogota, I have gathered evidence about an organized crime group and handed it over to prosecutors which led to arrests and political resignations, I have organized demonstrations in the streets of New York and strikes in Spanish classrooms, I've had more than a dozen surgeries and I have fractured my neck (twice) and all my limbs, I fled from the secret police during the performance of a censored theater play in pre-democracy Spain, the police thwarted a plan to kidnap me in Peru, I have been under so much stress that I have cracked five teeth, in Moscow my bodyguard (unbeknownst to me) stopped the traffic with an AK47, as a child I was beaten so badly that one of my eyes changed color permanently (traumatic heterochromia iridis), I developed software in collaboration with NASA to be able to give my fiancée an extraterrestrial engagement ring and for an anniversary I went down an active volcano and got lava to make another, I'm the first person in my family to attend university, I've given lectures to thousands of people in a stadium and to dozens in universities (like Stanford, Oxford, MIT and Harvard), I've witnessed the birth of my children and I've held a loved one in my arms as he exhaled with last breadth, a policeman has stolen from me and a thief has helped me, I have climbed into the ring to fight in several martial arts, I'm the father of a videogame character, as a child during a coup d'état I stared for hours through the window at a tank aiming towards my apartment threatening to shoot, I've bled under a waterfall in an Indonesian jungle, the university that forced me to resign later gave me two medals, I've been buried in the snow, I've seen my son sink into a frozen lake, I've been so rich that I went on luxury cruises, and I've been so poor that I could not afford basic utilities, I've lived in a skyscraper in New York, a castle in London, a house on the lake in Canada, and a sea view mansion by the Med, I sailed on a fishing boat during a storm in the North Atlantic, in a solar-powered catamaran, in superyachts, a hurricane has lifted me off the ground, I have snowboarded in Canada during a polar vortex… Above all, I've loved and been loved. I've found beauty.


And I'm only getting started… but all those moments will be lost in time,

like tears in rain.

Business

General Partner (GP) at UnveilPharma (biotech VC fund based in Singapore) and Jinsei (a MedTech VC fund based in Japan). Member of the Board of Advisors at Lysando (Liechtenstein)—world leader in the development of antimicrobial proteins—and AugMend Health (USA)—pioneer in virtual reality for mental health—. Former Technology Advisor and Venture Partner at NLC.health (The Netherlands), Europe's most active early stage investor in healthcare, with over 100 healthtech ventures, of which I've personally helped co-build (in my portfolio): FlashPathology, Pryfiber, Matermend, PathBrite, GenoTell, WaveFront Microscopy, and OmicSystems, while also managed University accounts like Columbia, Harvard, NYU, CSIC...

CEO 6 times and Entrepreneur 6 (5 exits) in 5 industries (fashion, marketing, architectural tech, music production, and healthtech) in Spain, England and the USA. My last company, a Covid-19 victim, was chosen among the Top 18 EU Startups, bootstrapped via multi-million $ sales in 15 countries and profitable, being valued at $1.2B by a NY investment bank and receiving a buyout offer by a Japanese corporation, earning 4.9/5 stars and 100% approval rate as CEO from my coworkers and 85/100 (top in the industry) by my competitors and peers.

I have advised governments in Latin American countries, as well as the European Commission, IBM, Microsoft, UBS bank, and several large Japanese companies, on matters related to copyleft, technology, innovation and healthcare.

My negotiation style is being used as an example in negotiation training, both at Harvard University and the United Nations (UNITAR).

I speak 3 languages fluently, traveled to over 50 countries in all continents, lived in 5.

If you want to know more, take a look at my LinkedIn profile.


Art & Activism


Hacktivism: I've lobbied against software patents in the European Parliament, lectured against restrictive copyright throughout Europe and the USA, founded a citizen participation platform and Valencia's hacker lab, given lectures at hacker conferences, documented environmental abuses in Cambodia, copyright-lobby illegal activities in Spain, and police abuses in the USA, defied jail time as conscientious objector of compulsory military service...

I have been an Advisor for the Saint Charles Royal Academy of Arts. I've curated art exhibits in Lithuania and Spain, edited and wrote the texts for Nebula's first photography art book 'Gaze, Reflexion, Fusion', and had some of my uncomissioned art works exhibited in some of the main museums and galleries around the world (Singapore Art Museum, 2014, Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Chile 2016, Ludwig Museum in Cologne 2016, Konsthall in Malmö 2021, Contemporary Art Museum of Copenhagen 2021, Saatchi Gallery in London 2021, Die Neue Sammlung and Haus der Kunst in Munich 2022, Hermitage and Straat in Amsterdam 2022).

Science & Technology

Executive Director of the Technology Exchange and Collaboration Hub in Tokyo (TECH-Tokyo); Visiting Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo and Visiting Lecturer at University of Tokyo.

Appointed by Harvard Business School (HBS) as Innovation Fellow— former Senior Advisor, Healthcare & Life Sciences—at Harvard Innovation Laboratories (i-lab) serving the 13 Harvard schools; by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) as Senior International Innovation Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH); and by Harvard HealthLab as Mentor.

Honored to have played a part in advancing the field of Computational Bioinformatics for Precision Medicine at Kanteron. Inventor of the first precision medicine software platform (2014), first vendor-neutral digital pathology dicomizer (2012), and pioneer developer of commercial augmented reality via surface projection in live surgery (2009). Our technology helped save millions of lives and received innovation awards from: NASA, HIMSS, IBM, DPA, F&S, WSJ, and others.

Invited to deliver Lectures over 60 times in universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and MIT, and in events like HIMSS, RSNA, Longevity World Forum, etc. Ex-assistant professor in 3 universities, student in 7 and graduated from 3, even though I'm a first-generation college graduate.

If you want to know more, take a look at my profile in : Orcid, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, y Academia.edu.


& more…

I've been former pro-basketball player (Spanish NBA - ACB Preseason Pamesa Valencia 1993), child-actor, writer, husband, father…

But there is only so much one can fit in a website, or is even willing to share with complete strangers.

CopyLeft CC0: Jorge Cortell - Share the wealth

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