Wing Tech Inc.
9916 Newhall Rd.
Potomac, MD 20854
+1 301 660 8000
Wing Tech Inc.
101 Jefferson Dr.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
+1 650 943 3000
Wingtec GmbH
Im Rosengärtle 14
Karlsruhe, DE
+49 721 56044 900
Wing Tech clients benefit from the experience and insight of the company’s core team of scientific and clinical researchers and analysts, coupled with the expertise of collaborating experts from around the world. Wing Tech’s board of directors and advisors have extensive experience in conducting superior evidence development and strategic planning for medical technology companies of all sizes.
Jan B. Pietzsch, PhD, is cofounder and chairman of Wing Tech Inc., and has also served as the company’s president and chief executive officer since 2004. His work at Wing Tech focuses on health-economic evaluation, early-stage technology assessment, and strategic decision support. A primary emphasis is on evaluation of the value proposition of early-stage technologies to provide quantitative input into the selection of the most promising technology concepts and their targeted development. Such evaluations include model-based assessment of the clinical and health-economic benefits of new diagnostics and therapies from the patient, healthcare system, and provider perspectives.
Pietzsch is an adjunct professor of management science engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves as director of health economics and value for the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, a globally leading medical technology innovation program. In this role, he directs Stanford Biodesign’s position and teaching on health economics and value, and coaches the Biodesign innovation fellows in this area.
Pietzsch’s academic training is in management science and engineering, with emphasis on biomedical engineering and decision and risk analysis. He received degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur, 2000), and from Stanford University (MS in engineering-economic systems and operations research, 1998; PhD in management science and engineering, 2004). During his doctoral research, he spent time as a research fellow in FDA’s Office of Device Evaluation, where he investigated the use of Bayesian methods in the assessment of early-stage medical devices.
Dr. Krummel is the Emile Holman Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign. Dr. Krummel’s research interests are in fetal healing, cellular and biochemical mechanisms, and surgical innovation. Over the last two decades, he has also been a pioneer in the application of information technology to enhance the quality and safety of surgical education and reduce its staggering cost. In collaboration with computer scientists, engineers and industry he has participated in the development of several surgical trainers and has begun the systematic study of their use and efficacy in surgical education. For this work he received a 1999 Smithsonian Information Technology Innovators Award.
Dr. Krummel is a member of a number of professional societies including the American College of Surgeons, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the Society for Clinical Surgery, and the American Surgical Association. In 1997 he was named a Director of the American Board of Surgery. He has served in leadership positions in many surgical organizations, and has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Dr. Krummel has lectured throughout the world and is author or co-author of over a hundred publications and/or book chapters.
Dr. Krummel completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin with a medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His surgical residency was at the Medical College of Virginia with a Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh followed by a Research Fellowship both at MCV and UCSF. Following five years on the faculty at MCV he was named Professor of Surgery and Chief of Pediatric Surgery at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Children’s Hospital. Before moving to Stanford in 1998, he was named in 1994 John A. and Marian T. Waldhausen Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at University Hospitals.
Jochen Kleinknecht, PhD, joined the Wing Tech board of directors in April 2023. He is currently operating advisor/partner at Blackstone. Previously, he oversaw the integration of Splunk into Cisco ($28B acquisition) and led AI adoption and strategy for Cisco OneX, the $14 billion services and support arm of Cisco with 30,000 employees.
Prior to joining Cisco, Kleinknecht’s experience spanned both large and small technology companies across software-as-a-service, internet of things, and hardware fields. His experience includes executive roles at LinkedIn, Juniper Networks, and NetApp. He started his career in management consulting with the Boston Consulting Group, where he was a principal in the San Francisco office.
Kleinknecht holds a PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University and an MS in engineering from Eìcole Centrale Paris.
Marie-Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, PhD, is the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor and Founding Chair (2000-2011) of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Her specialty is engineering risk analysis with application to complex systems (space, medical, offshore oil platforms, etc.). Her earlier research has focused on the optimization of warning systems and the explicit inclusion of human and organizational factors in the analysis of systems’ failure risks. Her recent work is on the use of game theory in risk analysis with applications that have included counter-terrorism, nuclear counter-proliferation problems and cyber security. She is the author of more than one hundred publications, and the co-editor of a book on Perspectives on Complex Global Problems (2016).
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, of the French Académie des Technologies and of several boards including Draper Laboratory, InQtel, the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School and the Advisory Committee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Paté-Cornell was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from December 2001 to 2008 and the board of the Aerospace Corporation (2004-2013). She holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics, Marseille (France), an Engineering degree (Applied Math/CS) from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), an MS in Operations Research and a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems, both from Stanford University.
Since 2007, Dr. Malte Pietzsch has been Principal and Managing Director of Wingtec Technologie- und Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Wing Tech Inc.’s European sister company, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, and member of Wing Tech Inc.’s Board of Directors since then. He is also Co-Founder and Managing Director of Cellogic GmbH in Berlin, Germany, a consulting company focusing on health-economic analysis.
From 1997 to 2007, Dr. Pietzsch was employed at Infineon Technologies AG in Munich, Germany serving in several management positions in Germany and the United States.
Dr. Pietzsch completed his Ph.D. (Dr. oec.) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, in 2003. He received a graduate degree in Industrial Engineering (Dipl. Wi.-Ing.) from the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, in 1998. He also earned an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems (M.S.) with distinction from Stanford University, California, in 1996.
For information about Wing Tech’s extensive network of collaborating researchers and analysts, visit the list of publications and presentations found under Insights.