Andy Bleaden
Community Director
ECHAlliance
Andy Bleaden works for ECHAlliance as the Communities Director where he has developed and built a large network of over 75+ Global Digital Health Ecosystems, 12 thematic innovation ecosystems and grown a Membership Community of over 1000 Health organisations where he connects, convenes, amplifies and accelerates both innovation and most importantly adoption.
He has had a long career in both health and social care as well as funding going back over 35 years starting in the mental health field working with mentally disordered offenders, homeless young people, regeneration and economic development and then later in the field of social care, dementia and robotics.
Alongside this Andy has been an External Expert for the European Commission since 2013 assessing proposals and reviewing projects for FP and Horizon Programmes. He has worked directly for the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) on both Health and Manufacturing programmes and has assessed proposals and reviewed projects for other funds such as Urban Innovation Actions,Cost Actions, Urbact,Innovative Medicines Initiative and most recently the European Urban Initiative Programme.
He brings a wealth of experience and skills in securing and management of strategic external funding, procurement, innovation funding and forming and development of large and complex partnerships across Europe.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-bleaden-a355245a/
