The Big Pitch 2024

| 29 Malone Mukwende Student, Founder of Black and Brown Skin and Co-Author of Mind the Gap Malone is an award-winning Founder, student, and recipient of the prestigious Forbes 30U30 Award. Malone is the Founder of a digital health company called Blackandbrownskin. The mission of the company is to create a world where black and brown people do not have their health compromised due to the colour of their skin. One of the products is the new data-driven platform called Hutano where they connect people, data, and research to improve healthcare for black and brown people. He is also the co-author of Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs in black and brown skin. Since launch, the book has been read over 500,000 times in more than 70% of the countries globally. Mind the Gap has accelerated a dialogue about improving medical education. Email: [email protected] X: /malone_mk LinkedIn: /malone-mukwende-2b9a16168 www.malonemukwende.com Saahil Mehta NHS Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Founder of Plexaa Saahil is an NHS Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, who founded Plexaa in 2019. During his training, he looked at the pre-operative preconditioning of the skin to prevent wound healing complications by improving the blood supply. Plexaa’s first product, Bloom43, was then developed as a wearable device which aims to allow breast cancer surgery patients to precondition their skin prior to surgery to prevent wound complications. www.bloom43.com LinkedIn: /in/saahil-mehta-70372b11a

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