About

Ian Speers is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pacto Medical. With a background in global health, emergency medical services and medical logistics, he brings first-hand experience of the constraints that shape real-world care delivery. Mr Speers is an emergency medical technician, medical logistician and search-and-rescue technician, with extensive experience managing medical supply chains and providing patient care during public health emergencies and disasters.

He has deployed for and co-ordinated responses to disease outbreaks, natural disasters, conflict and humanitarian crises for both governments and non-profit organisations around the world. He holds a Master’s of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Boston, MA, US) and a BA from Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH, US), where he studied anthropology, psychology, geography and global health.