Gianluca Fontana

Gianluca Fontana is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prova Health, the London-based advisory firm accelerating digital-health and life-sciences innovation with rock-solid clinical and economic evidence. A former McKinsey consultant and Deputy Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, Gianluca has steered billion-pound research programs—from the NHS Digital Academy to the 2-million-participant REACT COVID-19 study—always translating data into real-world health impact. His peer-reviewed work on digital-health evaluation is cited 260 times, and his team now partners with global pharma and AI-medtech scale-ups to shave months off evidence generation while building the in-house skills clients need to sustain growth. Fluent in four languages and armed with dual economics and marketing degrees from Bocconi University, Gianluca sits at the rare intersection of rigorous science and commercial savvy—making him the perfect guide for innovators racing to deliver safer, smarter care at scale.