Dr. Axel Paeger is a medically trained executive leader who brings deep experience in healthcare to the Board as founder of a leading healthcare provider in Europe.

Dr. Axel Paeger is an experienced healthcare executive and corporate leader with more than 30 years of clinical, operational and executive leadership experience. Dr. Paeger currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of AMEOS Group, which he founded as a start-up in 2002 and scaled into one of Europe’s leading healthcare providers. Under his leadership, the Zürich-headquartered group has grown to operate 85 hospitals and polyclinics alongside 23 long-term care facilities across the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), employing approximately 19,300 people and treating approximately 500,000 patients annually. AMEOS is the market leader in psychiatric inpatient care in the DACH region and a major provider of inpatient neurological care.

Prior to founding AMEOS, Dr. Paeger served as Chief Executive Officer of Asklepios Kliniken GmbH, one of Germany’s largest private hospital operators, following leadership positions at Pacific Health Corporation in the United States and early clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital. From 2005 to 2009, he also served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Ascom Group (SWX: ASCN), an international telecommunications and security solutions company.

Dr. Paeger holds a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Business Informatics (MBI) from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Case Western Reserve University.