Summary
Maximilian Kerz is a founder and operator with 11 years of experience building and scaling digital health ventures, currently serving as Co-founder & COO of Cherry Health, Canada’s leading healthcare jobs platform. He blends deep technical roots—having served as CTO and led frontend development for EU Horizon projects—with strategic investor and advisory roles that guide startups from validation to commercialization. His background spans pharma partnership due diligence at Bayer to venture-building operations, giving him a rare mix of regulatory, product and go-to-market expertise in health tech. Trained as a PhD in Biostatistics & Health Informatics and experienced in hands-on research and design at King’s College and Stanford, he bridges academic rigor with pragmatic execution. An underappreciated strength is his pattern of rotating between technical, commercial and executive roles, enabling him to translate clinician needs into scalable product and business models.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biostatistics & Health Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biostatistics & Health Informatics at King's College London
Research as Design, Research as Design at Stanford University
English, German, French