The Bridge Built in 90 Days
Hear it from the leaders and founders who lived it!
Kairos: the right moment for decisive action.
That's what Stephanie Lena and Areltys named their 90-day mission.
Most senior leaders eyeing a portfolio career don't have a map to the next chapter. Stephanie didn't either.
Two decades as a scientist in pharma had given her expertise nobody would question. What she didn't have was a way into the startup ecosystem with a mission that would let her prove it.
That's the gap Match for Impact closes. Our smart AI-matching placed Stephanie into a 90-day leadership mission at an early-stage startup - Areltys.
Ninety days later, Stephanie had made a major impact at Areltys. We documented it and filmed it to turn into proof she could carry into whatever came next.
Hear how it actually worked, from the person who lived it.
Stephanie Lena and Areltys
Pia is a seasoned commercial and business strategy leader with experience across Pharma, healthcare and digital health, combining a strategy consulting background with over five years in various global and local roles at Roche. Pia is a commercial and business strategy leader with five-plus years across pharma, healthcare, and digital health at Roche. She was curious about the startup world. She just didn't know how to get in.
Match for Impact was the turning point. After 18 months of experimentation in commercialization, Pia helped structure the learning into a clear strategy and operating model — giving the team a far more focused way to approach the market.
From May to October 2025, she joined Equal Care as Chief Commercial Officer — a Swiss venture building the first certification and registry for sex- and gender-specific medicine, working to turn its methodology into a scalable business.
She built the commercial strategy: pricing, positioning, a market expansion roadmap. She shaped the go-to-market plan and the investor narrative, co-presenting at pitches with the CEO. She mapped the knowledge gap on sex- and gender-specific medicine, gathered insights straight from healthcare professionals, and built the first version of an insights platform scanning FDA, EMA, and Swissmedic data. She set up the CRM, built the pipeline, and defined the OKRs that would guide the team past her mission.
Pia Lai and EQUAL CARE