Michael Chekroun (EDHEC 2000) : nominee for the EDHEC Entrepreneur award 2017

Michael founded Carenity in 2011 with the aim of offering patients and their loved ones a social network that would facilitate connections between people trying to move medical research forward.

Carenity now boasts 250,000 members of a worldwide community in which patients share their views on their treatment and quality of life by participating in online surveys. The results enable medical researchers to improve the quality of treatments and services made available to patients.

Michael oversees an international team of 20, with an innovative and ethical economic model in which individual, anonymous and combined experiences help stakeholders in the healthcare industry to better meet the needs of patients. Carenity is the market leader in Europe and is profitable with a 250% increase in revenue between 2014 and 2016.

Michael is a graduate of EDHEC (2000) and the LSE and began his career as a consultant on strategy and M&A. He is a member of the EDHEC Club Entrepreneur and Health Club.

Find out more about : www.carenity.com

The award

The EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year prize is awarded to an Edhec entrepreneur who has decided to take a leap into the unknown and has contributed to EDHEC’s image as a creator of talent by their taste for risk and adventure.
Their daring and sense of innovation will have impacted on the winner’s sector or region, or on the vision others have of the sector. .

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