Bristol-based Wanda Health has appointed Michael Steel as its new chair, less than four months after it raised £1.9 million in investment. 

Steel brings a combination of operational leadership, board experience and healthcare scale-up expertise. 

He founded Greenbrook Healthcare, a provider of urgent care services to the NHS, growing it into a £40m+ revenue organisation employing more than 700 staff before its acquisition by Totally plc, where he went on to serve as COO and board member.

He has chaired and advised several health-tech startups, including serving as a non-executive director and now chair of DemDx over the past three years.

Steel is also an active angel investor in UK HealthTech and early-stage companies. 

Earlier in his career, he held senior roles in global strategy consulting, including as a Partner at Roland Berger and previously at Booz Allen & Hamilton. 

He also co-founded a 30-person advisory firm that was successfully sold to Roland Berger.

As chair at Wanda Health, Steel will work closely with the leadership team to advance the company’s commercial execution, accelerate strategic partnerships and support the rollout of its platform. 

Wanda has built an intelligent platform for remote patient monitoring and virtual care.