Minna Blomster is a MedTech and digital healthcare expert with strong experience in business development, strategic leadership, and international markets. Minna has worked at the core of healthcare innovation, data economy, and digital transformation, building solutions that combine technology, business, and human-centered design. Minna has an exceptional ability to integrate strategic vision, technical understanding, and change management to support organizational growth.

Core competencies:

• Business development and sales strategies
• Digital healthcare and patient engagement
• Go-to-Market strategies and international expansion
• Change management and agile development
• Healthcare data, information systems and regulatory compliance

Previous experience:

• Biobank Cooperative FINBB
  • Minna led the design and implementation of Finland’s first nationwide biobank ecosystem, creating a centralized platform for genomic and clinical data. Under her leadership, and in collaboration with partners, a joint data analysis platform was built with CSC in just six months, enabling cross-organizational data access for researchers and significantly accelerating data request processing. This project was a key step in modernizing Finland’s research infrastructure.

• Auria Clinical Informatics, Data and Project Director
  • Minna spearheaded major digital research infrastructure development projects that transformed researcher services into modern, scalable, and user-centric solutions. The implementation of the TRINETX solution allowed researchers to independently build cohorts and significantly speed up study initiation.
    
    She also oversaw the complete digitalization of the research permit process: transitioning from a manual, error-prone, and slow paper-based system to a fully transparent, real-time service covering the entire organization.
    
    Additionally, Minna led several software development projects (Tuure, Luotsi, Universal Mapper), ensuring compliance with IMS and SHQS standards, and applied LEAN methods to continuously improve processes, governance structures, and collaboration.
• Hibox Systems, Key Account Manager
  • Minna has strong experience in managing healthcare customer relationships and improving customer satisfaction. She successfully turned dissatisfied clients into satisfied ones by solving their challenges with her skilled team and building clear, scalable processes for customer communication and support.
    At the same time, Minna grew accounts through active upselling and identifying new needs in the customer service journey.
• AstraZeneca – IT, Quality Management & Asset Manager
  • IT and Quality Management Role:
    
    Led and supervised quality management of pharmaceutical manufacturing IT environments, ensuring compliance with internal standards and global regulatory requirements.
    
    Monitored production environments and produced validated data for regulatory reporting.
    
    Designed and implemented a governance framework with dashboards and metrics, enabling effective collaboration among QA, researchers, management, suppliers, and contractors.
  • Asset Manager Role:
    
    Led multiple SAP/CMX system optimization projects, delivering multimillion-euro cost savings.
    Awarded the AZ Gothenburg Driving Change Award (2016) for outstanding results in improving operational efficiency.
    
    Implemented a lifecycle strategy for laboratory asset management, enabling researchers to reuse equipment and auction unnecessary resources.
    
    Improved warehouse logistics, SAP data quality, ROI, and cost efficiency by streamlining processes and strengthening supplier collaboration.
• Ericsson / IMS – Project Management in International Client Projects Project Management
  
  • Minna was responsible for coordinating and executing international client projects in the technology sector, strengthening her ability to operate in a global environment and lead multidisciplinary teams.