Medical device CRO leadership

Meet the senior experts accountable for your clinical programme.

Former Notified Body reviewers, practising clinicians, clinical operations leaders, medical writers and data experts supporting Class IIb and Class III medical devices from evidence strategy through study delivery and regulatory review.

Dr Mark Da Costa, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Cardiovascular
Mark Da Costa · Cardiovascular
Dr Nikhil Khadabadi, Chief Medical Officer for Orthopaedics and Spine
Nikhil Khadabadi · Ortho & spine
Susanne Höfer, Head of Clinical Operations for the DACH region
Susanne Höfer · Clinical ops
Sébastien Meier Piantanida, Chief Data Officer
Sébastien Meier Piantanida · Data
  • Notified BodyFormer TÜV SÜD senior reviewers on the leadership team
  • Cardiovascular400+ cardiovascular devices assessed
  • Risk classClass IIb and Class III expertise
  • DeliveryClinical delivery across Europe and the US
Why it matters

Experts from both sides of the table

Successful medical device programmes require more than regulatory knowledge. They require people who understand how reviewers assess clinical evidence, how clinicians evaluate meaningful outcomes and how clinical studies are delivered across sites, countries and data systems.

At Eclevar MedTech, senior experts remain involved throughout the programme. They define the strategy, challenge key assumptions, review critical deliverables and provide clear escalation routes to the operational teams responsible for delivery.

Routing

Find the expertise your programme needs

Select a capability to filter the leadership profiles below.

Executive

Executive and corporate leadership

The leaders responsible for Eclevar’s strategy, governance, therapeutic direction and international development.

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Chems Hachani

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Chems founded Eclevar MedTech to give medical device manufacturers specialised clinical and regulatory support built around scientific quality, senior accountability and practical execution. He oversees strategic development, international partnerships and sponsor relationships, and makes sure complex programmes get the right therapeutic, operational and regulatory leadership.

  • Company strategy
  • Sponsor relationships
  • International development
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Dr Mark Da Costa

Chief Operating Officer and Head of Cardiovascular · Senior Consultant Surgeon

NB experienceFormer TÜV SÜD Team Leader and Senior Clinical Reviewer Cardiac surgeon

Cardiac surgeon and former TÜV SÜD Team Leader and Senior Clinical Reviewer. Having assessed hundreds of cardiovascular technologies, he helps manufacturers anticipate the questions that arise during Notified Body review and build evidence strategies that hold up scientifically, clinically and operationally.

  • Cardiovascular and structural heart
  • Class III clinical evidence
  • Notified Body interactions
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Christophe Bourrilly

Chief Financial Officer

Christophe oversees financial governance, commercial planning and sustainable international growth. He supports the executive team in structuring complex client engagements and keeps clinical programmes backed by transparent, reliable commercial frameworks.

  • Financial governance
  • Commercial planning
  • Contractual oversight
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Sébastien Meier Piantanida

Chief Data Officer

Sébastien leads data strategy, data management and digital clinical systems. He owns the frameworks used to collect, standardise and analyse clinical data so that datasets stay traceable, interpretable and ready for scientific and regulatory use.

  • Clinical data strategy
  • EDC and eCOA governance
  • Biometrics and reporting
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Jimmy Andrew Hayek

Head of Quality and Compliance

Jimmy runs quality management and regulatory compliance across the group. He owns the ISO 13485 certified quality system, keeps every study and every dataset audit ready from the first day, and provides the quality oversight that sits above all clinical programmes.

  • ISO 13485 quality system
  • Audit readiness
  • Quality oversight
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Joining September 2026

Managing Director, Germany

Appointment effective September 2026

Germany DACH region

Our incoming Managing Director joins in September 2026 to lead Eclevar MedTech’s German organisation, covering commercial development, sponsor and institutional relationships across the DACH region. The role brings manufacturer-side medical device experience to the sponsor conversation and connects German programmes to the group’s European clinical, data and regulatory teams.

  • Germany and DACH
  • Sponsor development
  • Institutional relationships
Clinical and scientific

Clinical and scientific leadership

Therapeutic strategy, clinical interpretation and the scientific writing that carries the evidence.

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Dr Nikhil Khadabadi

Chief Medical Officer, Orthopaedics and Spine · Senior Consultant Surgeon

NB experienceFormer TÜV SÜD Senior Reviewer NHS orthopaedic surgeon United Kingdom

NHS orthopaedic surgeon and former TÜV SÜD Senior Reviewer specialising in Class III implantable devices. He combines current surgical practice with first-hand knowledge of Notified Body expectations, and has worked as a Principal Investigator in robotic surgery research.

  • Orthopaedics and spine
  • Class III implantables
  • CER and PMCF strategy
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Pierre-Marie Boutanquoi

Head of Medical Writing

10+ years of EU MDR clinical evidence

Pierre-Marie leads the medical writing function with more than ten years on EU MDR clinical evidence programmes. He specialises in Clinical Evaluation Reports, PMCF documentation, clinical investigation reports and responses to complex Notified Body deficiencies.

  • Clinical Evaluation Reports
  • PMCF plans and reports
  • Deficiency responses
Delivery

The people responsible for delivery

Clinical strategy creates value only when it can be delivered consistently across sites, countries and data systems. These are the named leaders who run start-up, monitoring, data management and project execution.

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Susanne Höfer

Head of Clinical Operations, DACH region

DACH region Class I to III devices

Susanne runs clinical operations across Germany, Austria and Switzerland: study start-up, site delivery, monitoring strategy and operational quality, on Class I to III devices in multiple therapeutic areas.

  • DACH operations
  • Study start-up
  • Monitoring strategy
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Strategic Clinical Advisor

US Clinical Operations

United States

This role plans and supports medical device clinical programs in the United States, aligning study execution with US site expectations while staying coordinated with Eclevar’s central therapeutic, data and project leadership.

  • US clinical operations
  • Site and investigator engagement
  • Cross-border coordination
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Charline Petitdemange

Project Delivery Lead, France and United Kingdom

France United Kingdom

Charline coordinates French and UK clinical programmes from mobilisation through close-out, across sponsor teams, clinical operations, data management, medical writing and external vendors.

  • France and UK delivery
  • Project mobilisation
  • Risk and issue management
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Mathilde Renier

Senior Data Manager, Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular data

Mathilde runs data management for cardiovascular clinical investigations and registries, from eCRF design and data review through query management to database lock preparation.

  • Cardiovascular data
  • eCRF design and validation
  • Database lock
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Scott Roe

UK Site Delivery Lead and Lead CRA

United Kingdom

Scott leads monitoring and site delivery across the United Kingdom: feasibility, activation, monitoring, recruitment oversight and escalation with UK investigators.

  • UK site feasibility
  • Monitoring and site management
  • Recruitment oversight
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Teresa Cosentino

Lead CRA, Italy

Italy

Teresa Cosentino leads clinical monitoring and site delivery in Italy, from site qualification and activation through monitoring and close-out, in close contact with investigators and central study teams.

  • Italian site feasibility
  • Clinical monitoring
  • Investigator coordination
Regional coverage

Named leadership in every country we deliver in

Sponsors always know who is responsible locally and who to escalate to centrally.

DACH
Susanne HöferClinical operations
Germany
Managing DirectorJoining September 2026
United Kingdom
Scott RoeSite delivery and Lead CRA
France and UK
Charline PetitdemangeProject delivery
Italy
Teresa CosentinoLead CRA
United States
Strategic Clinical AdvisorClinical operations
First contact

Commercial partnerships and communication

The people you are most likely to speak to first, before the therapeutic and operational leaders join the discussion.

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Karina Schönborn

Business Development Lead

Karina is the first point of contact for manufacturers approaching Eclevar. She qualifies incoming programmes, sets up scoping calls with the relevant therapeutic and operational leaders, and follows the sponsor relationship through proposal and contracting.

  • Sponsor qualification
  • Proposals and scoping
  • Manufacturer relationships
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Sullivan Benedetto

Head of Marketing

Sullivan Benedetto leads marketing, digital presence and scientific communication across Europe, the US and Asia, turning the expertise of the clinical and regulatory leads into webinars, whitepapers, regulatory explainers and the group’s multilingual website.

  • Scientific communication
  • Website and SEO
  • Webinars and whitepapers
Governance

Senior expertise throughout the programme

Five points where named senior experts are involved, from first scoping call to reviewer response.

Programme scoping

The relevant therapeutic, operational and data leaders review the device, evidence position, development stage and regulatory objective.

Strategy definition

Senior experts define or challenge the clinical strategy, study model, endpoints, evidence gaps and key regulatory assumptions.

Delivery ownership

Named project, clinical operations and data leaders manage day-to-day execution with defined responsibilities and escalation routes.

Senior review

Critical deliverables receive specialist review before sponsor approval, database lock, final reporting or regulatory submission.

Regulatory defence

Clinical, therapeutic and medical writing leaders support responses to reviewer questions and evidence deficiencies.

Operating model

Strategy, delivery and evidence in one team

This integrated model reduces the gaps that appear when strategy, clinical delivery, data management and regulatory writing are managed by disconnected providers.

Former Notified Body reviewers
Anticipate reviewer expectations.
Practising clinicians
Keep endpoints and outcomes clinically meaningful.
Clinical operations leaders
Test whether the strategy can be delivered across real sites.
Data specialists
Protect consistency, traceability and interpretability.
Medical writers
Turn the programme into a coherent and defensible evidence package.
Selected experience

Leadership connected to real delivery

Programme examples are described without sponsor names. Named references and testimonials are available on request.

Structural heart reimbursement programme

600+ patients enrolling · 8 UK cardiac centres · evidence aligned to NICE requirements

Clinical evidence strategy, study planning and senior cardiovascular oversight for a transcatheter valve technology.

Dr Mark Da Costa and the cardiovascular delivery team

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Orthopaedic and spinal implant evidence

Class III implantable devices · CER and PMCF strategy · former Notified Body review experience

Clinical and post-market strategy built by a practising orthopaedic surgeon who previously assessed these device families for a Notified Body.

Dr Nikhil Khadabadi

Explore orthopaedics and spine →

European multicountry PMCF

Randomised PMCF · 160 patients · 14 sites across 5 European countries

Regional coordination with named operational and monitoring leadership, and all authority and ethics submissions prepared in house.

Susanne Höfer, Scott Roe, Charline Petitdemange and Teresa Cosentino

Explore European clinical operations →
Leadership appointments in progress

Continuing to strengthen our leadership team

Eclevar MedTech is expanding its digital clinical capabilities. This role is open and being recruited now, alongside the data leadership already in place.

Head of Clinical Product Design, EDC and eCOA

Leads the user experience, workflow design and functional evolution of Eclevar’s EDC and eCOA solutions, working with clinical operations, data management, quality, technology, sites and patients so that digital products support real clinical workflows.

Appointment in progress
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Will the people shown on this page work on our programme?

The relevant senior leaders participate according to the programme’s therapeutic area, complexity and scope. Day-to-day delivery is managed by named project and functional specialists, with defined senior oversight, quality reviews and escalation routes.

Does Eclevar have former Notified Body reviewers?

Yes. Eclevar’s leadership includes former TÜV SÜD Senior Reviewers with experience in cardiovascular, orthopaedic, spinal and Class III implantable medical devices.

Can Eclevar support multicountry European studies?

Yes. Eclevar combines central programme leadership with regional clinical operations and monitoring capabilities, including named leadership for Germany and the DACH region, France, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Can the same team support strategy and execution?

Yes. Eclevar integrates therapeutic strategy, clinical operations, data management, biostatistics and medical writing within one programme governance model.

Who should we contact first?

Send us a device description, therapeutic area, development stage and current evidence challenge. Business development coordinates the first call and brings in the appropriate senior and operational leaders.

Start here

Find the right leadership for your programme

Tell us about your device, evidence challenge and target market. We bring the relevant clinical, operational, data and regulatory experts into the first discussion.

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Class IIb and Class III programmes, EU MDR and beyond.

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