Press kit

Resources for when Carlo is part of your event, podcast or publication: how to introduce him, in two lengths, and photos to run.

Name
Carlo Mahfouz
Title
Technology Strategy Executive, author and advisor
Works at the intersection of
Advanced technology, healthcare transformation, leadership ecosystems and human-centered innovation.
Book
Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions (2022)

Short bio

One paragraph, for an introduction from the stage.

Carlo Mahfouz operates at the frontier of AI and human potential. He is Vice President of Strategic Technology Partnerships at Laerdal Medical, the global leader in healthcare simulation and resuscitation training, where he works at the intersection of advanced technology, healthcare transformation, leadership ecosystems and human-centered innovation. A board member and advisor to health and ed-tech companies, he is the author of Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions and speaks internationally on how AI is reshaping the relationship between technology and human potential.

Long bio

Four paragraphs, for a programme, show notes or a profile.

Carlo Mahfouz operates at the frontier of AI and human potential. He is Vice President of Strategic Technology Partnerships at Laerdal Medical, the global leader in healthcare simulation and resuscitation training, where he works at the intersection of advanced technology, healthcare transformation, leadership ecosystems and human-centered innovation. He shapes the technology strategy for AI and emerging technologies across a simulation-based education portfolio, and has guided the transformation from a deep hardware heritage to being digitally native, in service of a mission to help save one million more lives each year. The role builds on fifteen years in health tech and ed-tech, where technology decisions carry human consequences.

He is a board member, advisor and investor across future-looking health and ed-tech companies, and heads innovation at Lyrica Classic, a non-profit that promotes contemporary and lesser-known classical music. He is the author of Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions (2022), nine principles for seeing past the illusions of control, and speaks internationally on how AI is reshaping the relationship between technology and human potential.

An Executive Contributor to Brainz Magazine and a 2022 CREA Global Awards honoree, he has been featured on KevinMD, The Authority Podcast, the Scandinavian Product Podcast, The Speaking Club and by the Global Innovation Institute.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and an Executive MBA from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. With an engineering background and six years across Europe, Asia and the Americas, he marries a technical fluency with an understanding of human behavior.

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Carlo Mahfouz, headshot

Headshot

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Carlo Mahfouz, studio headshot facing the camera

Headshot, studio

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Carlo Mahfouz delivering a keynote at Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital in Oslo

Keynote, healthcare

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Carlo Mahfouz signing copies of Reality Check

Book signing

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Carlo Mahfouz in black tie, seated by a fireplace

Black tie

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The Institute’s mark

The Reality Check Institute mark, an eye in teal and navy

Reality Check Institute, mark

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These photos and the mark may be used to cover Carlo’s appearances and work. Please credit Carlo Mahfouz, Reality Check Institute, and do not alter them beyond cropping.

Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions, book cover

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The book

Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions

Published in 2022. Nine principles to see past the illusions of control, a way of finding the right question, and a habit of saying the complex thing plainly.

For his interviews and podcasts, see Interviews & Podcasts on the founder page. For anything the kit does not answer, write to carlo@realitycheck.institute.