How it works
Dashboard
The dashboard is designed to support healthcare professionals with objective insights into symptom progression beyond the clinical setting. By enabling continuous monitoring of patient progress and facilitating more informed communication between clinicians and patients, it supports more precise and efficient treatment and strengthens the therapeutic alliance. At the same time, the longitudinal data generated through real-world care provides a foundation for generating meaningful Real-World Evidence.
App
The evidence-based companion app is designed specifically for adolescents and young adults. It supports self-management and treatment engagement by providing personalized insights into correlations between mood and biofeedback, helping users better understand their emotional well-being. It also supports psychoeducation and helps prevent memory gaps by enabling users to track and reflect on their experiences over time.
Please meet the Smilamind family
Polina Veltmann
CEO
Polina brings over 15 years of experience in strategic sales, with a strong focus on the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. She holds an MBA in General Management and is passionate about leveraging technology and data to transform mental healthcare. As CEO and co-founder of Smilamind, she leads the development of a regulatory- and privacy-compliant Real-World Evidence infrastructure for Precision Mental Health, connecting health data from everyday life and clinical care to generate actionable insights for healthcare professionals, research and pharmaceutical companies. Polina combines industry expertise with a strong commitment to improving mental healthcare through data-driven innovation.
Dr. Remo Minder
Medical advisor
Dr. Remo Minder is a board-certified pediatrician with over 20 years of experience in child and adolescent health. In addition to his clinical work, he has held leadership roles at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich and Hirslanden Clinic St. Anna and brings extensive expertise in healthcare management, digital health, and innovation. He holds an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Beyond his clinical and entrepreneurial activities, he is committed to improving care for vulnerable children and led the establishment of a specialized childcare service for preschool children with chronic illnesses and complex care needs. As Co-Founder and Medical Advisor of Smilamind, he is passionate about developing evidence-based digital solutions that help younger generation and contribute to addressing the youth mental health crisis.
Dr. med. Kurt Albermann
Psychiatrist & domain expert
Dr. med. Kurt Albermann, EMBA brings extensive experience as a specialist in pediatrics as well as child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. He serves as Chief Physician at the Social Pediatric Center of Kantonsspital Winterthur, where his work focuses on prevention, early detection, and intervention for developmental and mental health disorders in the younger generation. He has conducted pioneering research on the impact of parental mental illness and is committed to advancing interdisciplinary, evidence-based care. With his broad clinical and scientific expertise, he sees Smilamind as a promising way to strengthen prevention, foster health literacy, improve mental health outcomes for the younger generation, and support professionals with data-driven insights.
Benedikt Schmid
Market access advisor
Benedikt is a young politician from Zurich. During the pandemic, he experienced the consequences of the long waiting lists for mentally ill children and adolescents and decided to speak up for fast and adequate treatment. Together with his youth party, he launched a cantonal popular initiative, which was adopted early by the Zurich government & parliament and is the first initiative in the history of the canton of Zurich to be implemented directly without a popular vote. Thanks to his initiative, Benedikt is very well networked and acts as an access advisor. His main motivation remains better treatment for mentally ill children and young people. In addition to his political commitment and various other voluntary activities, Benedikt is studying economics at the ZHAW in Winterthur.
Romain Meisterhans
CTO
Romain has more than 15 years of experience in software engineering and related fields. After studying Electronics, Robotics and Software Engineering in Switzerland, he moved to Australia and worked for companies such as Boeing and Leica Geosystems where he obtained several managerial promotions before to take a new challenge: to develop and manage the engineering teams of a start-up. After a rapid growth, he moved to Ukraine to act as General Manager for the local technical hub. After the sale of the company, he decided to devote himself to personal engineering projects. Returning in 2022 to Switzerland he worked first as an engineering manager before taking up the challenge with Smilamind.
Hans-Hermann Kirchhoff
IT & Data security advisor
Hans-Hermann has been in IT for over 25 years and has a strong focus on data protection and IT security. He has worked at Bertelsmann arvato and at Vodafone with international high-performance teams, which he built and continuously developed further himself. In both positions, he was responsible for IT operations following the DevOps approach, which increasingly included IT security, a major cornerstone of data protection. Hans-Hermann currently has end-to-end responsibility for all online and analytics systems at ADAC as Director of Development and Deputy CIO.
Blaise K. Jacholkowski, MBA
Strategic advisor medical software development
Blaise holds a Master’s Degree in engineering from the EPFL and an executive MBA from Hult in London. He spent the past 5 years working in digital health where he gained expertise in digital biomarkers and the applications of AI in health, and led the development of many ‘smart’ medical devices for medtech and pharma corporations. Blaise is a former founder, board member, investor, and advisor of several startups; today, he is mentoring healthtech early-stage startups, notably in the Future of Health Grant Program.
Nicolas Keller, lic. iur. HSG, LL.M.
Board President
Nicolas is a Swiss attorney-at-law and partner with schochauer ag, St. Gallen, Switzerland. He has almost two decades of experience in advising domestic and foreign companies predominantly in Swiss contract, commercial and corporate law matters. Most of his advisory services relate to M&A and start-up related transactions and contracts on sale and purchase, work, distribution, and licensing, with a particular view to the negotiation of such transactions and agreements. He serves as a board member or secretary of several companies. Nicolas Keller holds law degrees from the University of St. Gallen (HSG; lic. iur.) and the Columbia University, New York City / USA (LL.M.) and a CAS from the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law of the University of St. Gallen on global negotiations.
Our vision
Smilamind aims to develop an evidence-based digital healthcare solution to enhance efficiency by treating the right child or adolescent at the right time, reducing the overall burden on the healthcare system in the mental health field.
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