Meet our leadership

Meet the team of Better visionaries who are striving to improve health and care by simplifying the work of health and care teams, accelerating digital transformation underpinned by data for life.

The Board

Tomaž Gornik
Chief Executive Officer and Founder,
Co-chair of openEHR International
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As a company founder, CEO, and experienced manager of teams building world-class software products for more than 30 years, Tomaž has a proven track record of delivering innovative turn-key solutions. He is always challenging teams to build better software using state-of-the-art technology, architectures, and processes, and has a good understanding of software platforms, architecture, deployment, and business models.
Roland Petek
Chief Operating Officer
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Roland has more than 20 years of international business experience in information technology, focusing on the healthcare industry in the last 10 years. He is passionate about constant learning and bringing out the best in people. In the future, he sees himself contributing to and developing high-performance teams and mentoring talented people.
Iztok Dernovšek
Member of the Board
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With more than 40 years of experience in the business and technology world, Iztok is skilled in business development, people and business management, sales, soft skills training, and coaching. For the last few years, he has been working as a certified business trainer and has been helping Better to become even better in delivering world-class technology for improving patient care.

Product units

Borut Fabjan
Borut Fabjan
Chief Innovation Officer, Better Platform Business Unit Director
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With his over 20 years of experience, Borut is highly skilled in product development, software design & architecture, telco 2.0, and healthcare technologies. He is a reliable partner and problem solver with an ear for customers. As an innovation addict, he doesn't just solve problems, but also invents the technology to go with it.
Roko Malkoč
Better Meds Business Unit Director
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Roko has dedicated a good deal of the past ten years to innovation in healthcare IT. As a trained biomedical engineer passionate about organisational networks, he is confident that we can enable a data-driven revolution by building trust between different stakeholders. In such environments, new communities will act as accelerators of new technologies and innovation.

Market units

Matthew Cox Better
Matthew Cox
Managing Director UK & Ireland
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Matt has over 20 years of digital strategy and transformation experience, as well as deep knowledge of health data platforms and accelerating digital programmes. He is a firm believer in a digital health platform approach that enables clinicians to get the right information at the right time and a vocal advocate of data persistence and vendor-neutrality.
Björn Better
Björn Lehnhoff
Managing Director Better Deutschland
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Björn has over 20 years of international experience working in the healthcare industry. He is passionate about both healthcare and technology, so he wants to challenge the status quo of healthcare rigidity and help make healthcare data handling better. He got his EMBA from ESMT in Berlin.
Jovan Pavićević - Better
Jovan Pavićević
International Markets Director
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With over 10 years of experience in international sales and product development, Jovan currently manages global market sales. His past experiences cover a variety of industries including banking, telecommunications, energy, and healthcare, selling both enterprise-grade products and turn-key solutions in the EMEA region. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Economics in Ljubljana.

Management team

Alastair Allen
Chief Technology Officer
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Alastair is an experienced technology leader with a proven track record of leading strategy, design, and development of large transformational services and products. He is responsible for technology innovation, strategy, and leadership for Better's suite of platforms, tools, and applications that are leading the way for improved healthcare delivery and outcomes.
Boštjan Lah
Boštjan Lah
SVP of Engineering
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As an experienced software architect and developer, Boštjan has a vast knowledge in the technology field and has a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is skilled in Hibernate, Databases, Kotlin, Java, Web Applications, and ElasticSearch, and has been developing health data platforms for more than 10 years.
Anže Droljc
Anže Droljc
Business Development Director
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Anže has been working with different healthcare professionals around the world for the last 16 years. His focus is to gain insights into their needs to understand how IT solutions could help them be better. He has vast experience in product development and global GoTo Market Strategy for digital health platforms, clinical registries, clinical information systems, medicine optimisations, and regional eHealth projects.
Tomaž Grbec
Clinical Lead
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With more than 20 years of experience in digital health projects, analysis, and database management, Tomaž is currently leading the Better Clinical team. Under his leadership, the team has supported several digital transitions in the largest Slovenian hospital (UKC Ljubljana) and other health institutions, and merged different information systems under unified solutions.
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Alenka Gruden
Chief of Project Office
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As a recognised practitioner of projects and program management, Alenka has more than 20 years of experience as a project manager, consultant, mentor, and trainer in a variety of demanding and challenging industries in the private and public sectors. She helps ideas come to life and the success rate of her delivered projects is almost 100%. One of her personal goals is to help people to implement servant leadership principles in everyday life.
Ajda Bevc
Design System Lead
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Ajda is an award-winning graphic designer with more than 10 years of experience in art direction, infographics, data visualisations, publications, identities, and branding both as a freelancer and in a design studio. She is currently leading the implementation of Better design system and exploring new ways of merging design with digital healthcare. For more than 8 years, Ajda has also been a member of Brumen foundation.
Mitja Cimerman
Head of HR
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With more than 20 years of experience in human resources, Mitja is an expert in change management, target management, and work performance management, as well as optimising work flow of the organizations. He is a firm believer that the well-being of employees will be reflected in their productivity. He is active as a lecturer and consultant for senior management in various organizations and as a mentor to HRM managers.
Igor Osolnik
Igor Osolnik
Head of Legal
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Igor has more than 20 years of experience in working for Slovenian corporations, the banking industry, and IT companies. He believes that the role of the lawyer in the company is to proactively and pragmatically find a business solution within the legislative framework and that legal support is a part of the solution for business demands and not part of the problem.
Klemen Hazabent
Head of Finance
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Klemen is an experienced Principal Owner with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry for more than 20 years. He is skilled in business planning, risk management, corporate finance, business strategy, and management consulting. He is a strong business development professional with a Master's degree in banking and financial support services from University of Economics in Ljubljana.