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Investors
Funds, family offices and corporates. We help you read the market, judge ventures, and shape theses that grow medical technology.
The firm Zürich, Switzerland
A strategy house for medical technology
Medical Standard is a boutique advisory firm, Zürich-based and founded in 2016. We help investors and institutions grow medical technology: where to put capital, how to build and scale ventures, and how to enter markets and de-risk the path. Strategy for medical growth.
Who we are
Senior operators turned advisers, with one focus: medical technology.
Medical Standard was founded in 2016 on a simple idea: the people who allocate capital and shape institutions deserve advisers who have actually built in this sector. Our principals spent decades inside medtech before they advised on it, and that perspective shapes every engagement.
We are independent and deliberately boutique. We work at the level of strategy, not the workshop floor, helping clients decide where to invest, how to grow, and how to navigate regulation as a lever and a risk. The counsel is senior, plain and direct.
01 Who we serve
Capital and institutions, growing medtech
We advise the people and organisations that decide where medical technology goes next.
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Institutions
Governments, development agencies and hospital groups. We help you build capability, enter markets, and develop medtech ecosystems.
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Founders and operators
Teams building medical technology. We help you scale, secure investment, and de-risk the route to market and access.
02 Our values
What clients can count on
Three commitments shape how we advise, and what we will and won't put our name to.
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Independent judgement
We have no product to sell and no allegiance but yours. The view we give is the view we hold.
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Sector depth
Decades inside medical technology, so our advice rests on how this market actually behaves, not theory.
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Outcome focus
We measure ourselves by growth created and risk avoided, not by the length of the engagement.
Our standard
We help medical technology grow.
Good medtech does not scale on its own. It needs the right capital, the right markets, and a clear path through regulation. That is the work we do.
03 Advisory board
Senior advisers
More than 120 years of collective medical-technology experience, across the C-suite, regulation, finance and commercial growth.
Niall Behan, PhD
Founder & CEO
Founder of Medical Standard, with leadership roles across Julier Medical and Horizon Innovations.
Tony Keaveney
Senior Adviser · Regulatory
Former VP Regulatory at Merit Medical and Director of Quality at Boston Scientific.
Bernard Birkett
Senior Adviser · Finance
Former CFO at West Pharma and at Merit Medical.
Patrick Doherty
Senior Adviser · Commercial
Former VP Sales and Marketing at Siemens Healthineers.
04 The team
Day to day, you work with the principals
Senior consultants who lead each engagement end to end.
Niall Grenham
Principal
Niall advises on de-risking growth, helping clients navigate regulation and investment as they scale medical technology.
Leon Gleeson
Principal
Leon advises on how to build and scale medtech ventures, with a focus on market entry and the route to access.
The next step
Let's talk about your medtech strategy
Tell us where you want medical technology to take you, as an investor, an institution or a founder. The principals will come back with a candid view and how we would help you get there.