Dr Hakima BERDOUZ
Founder & CEO

Dr Hakima BERDOUZ is the Founder & CEO at HOPE VALLEY AI. With 15+ years of R&D as CEA Researcher, she is a pioneer in Trustworthy Multimodal AI, Multiscale Risk Assessment, Early Weak Signals Detection and Uncertainties Quantification. She is the author of 6 CEA granted patents. She has a PhD in AI & Risk Engineering from Sorbonne Université (Paris).

Dr Veronica CUSIN
Chief Medical Officer & Late Founder

Dr Veronica CUSIN is the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Clinical Research Officer at HOPE VALLEY AI. She is a Physician, specialist in Oncogenetics and Medical Genetics. She is a Hospital Practitioner for over 12 years at La Pitié Salpêtrière (AP-HP) in Paris. She has a PhD in Medicine with a speciality in Medical Oncogenetics from University of Verone (Italy).

Marc JULIEN
Chief Business Officer & Late Founder

Marc JULIEN is the Chief Business & Sales Officer at HOPE VALLEY AI. He is a Board member at France Biotech & HTFC. He has been the Managing Director at EIT Health France and the former co-CEO and COO at DIABELOOP. He has a MBA from INSEAD (1998) and he is an Engineer (Ingénieur des Mines) from Ecole des Mines de Nancy.

Meet our Scientific & Medical Committee

  • Pr Frédéric PATAT

    Chairman & Medical Breast Imaging Advisor

    PU-PH Echographie & Professor of Biophysics at Tours University. Head of the Doppler ultrasound Department at CHU Tours since 2014. Head of the diagnostic and interventional radiology-neuroradiology department. Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (1980), PhD in Acoustics (1985) and Doctor of Medicine (1992).

  • Dr Veronica CUSIN

    Chief Medical Officer & Late Founder

    Chief Clinical Research Officer at Hope Valley AI and Oncogenetics Doctor at La Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP) in Paris. Doctor of Medicine from University of Verone (Italy).

  • Pr Stephan EHRMANN

    Chief Clinical Research Coordinator

    Head of the CIC – Innovations Technologiques of CHU Tours. Experienced Professor of Critical Care Medicine at Tours University. MD & PhD from Tours & Paris-Est Universities. Graduated from the Heidelberg University.

  • Pr Gérard BIAU

    Chief Artificial Intelligence Advisor

    Executive Director of Sorbonne Center of AI (SCAI). Full Professor at the Probability, Statistics, and Modeling Laboratory (LPSM) of Sorbonne University in Paris. French Academy of Sciences Award 2018.

  • Dr Frank CARRE

    Chief Scientific Advisor & Late Founder
    Former Scientific Director at CEA. Chair on “Sustainable Energies” at the Ecole Polytechnique and
    Winner of the Jan Runermark Award  (2012).

  • Pr Jean-Marie PIOT

    Chief Patient Education Advisor

    Emeritus University Professor of Biochemistry at La Rochelle University. President of the Charente-Maritime Cancer League Committee.

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