Mr. Kratzman has over 40 years’ experience in the international marketplace working with start-ups through Fortune 100 companies. He has worked on both the client and agency sides of the business equation having established US operations for foreign companies; launched new consumer, medical, and scientific products; and has been active in M&A and IP transactions.

Val works with healthcare startups to clinically validate their technologies and then help commercialize those companies. He co-developed Finland’s “Kasvu” accelerated market entry program for start-ups and is the architect of the Nordic AMPlify Accelerated Market Entry Program designed for Nordic digital health companies entering the US that was launched in 2020.

Prior to Business Finland, Mr. Kratzman lead the KPMG team that created the international management consulting company BearingPoint. He was Vice President and Global Director of Economic Development for Burson-Marsteller acting as a foreign direct investment advisor to several prime ministers. As Vice President, Economic Development at Hill and Knowlton, he designed a new model for foreign direct investment that over 20 countries are using today.

Mr. Kratzman is a graduate of the Wharton Business School and the Pennsylvania State University. He completed graduate studies in Health Care Administration at George Washington University. He is a mentor and judge at the Yale CBIT Healthcare Hackathon and a mentor at MIT Hacking Medicine