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Dirk Schapeler

Dirk Schapeler

Healthcare Technology
San Francisco, California, United States of America

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Dirk Schapeler is Vice President of Digital Health US at Bayer. He previously served as Head of Bayer's LifeScience iHUB innovation center that he founded in Silicon Valley in 2015. An engineer in electronics and mechanics he studied in Karlsruhe Germany. Dirk previously served as the CEO of Bayer's ViviTouch subsidiary Artificial Muscle Inc. in Sunnyvale. He is a co-inventor of electroactive polymers and owns more than 13 patents. He has been working in Automotive, Material Science and Healthcare for almost 2 decades in the US, Germany, France, and Mexico. In his current role, he focuses on the digitalization of the pharma, consumer care, and crop science industry.
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