Overview
Geert Pelsmaeker is the CEO of Leaphy, a role he has held since October 2018, and is based in Brussels. Since January 2001 he has also been CEO of MeDb nv (Medical database and webengineering) - PeDeGe bvba.
Earlier in his career he worked in CRM Sales+ at Associated Business Computing from 1995 to 2000, and before that he was a sales manager at Synthélabo from 1988 to 1994.
He completed a master's in bedrijfsbeheer at KU Leuven in 1987, having earlier studied for a master's in bio medical and health economics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel from 1982 to 1986. From 1979 to 1982 he studied nursing at the St Augustinus instituut Aalst.
Career history
In the news
- EMA ePI roadmap: vaccines (J07) go-live Q3 2026, oncology (L01/L04) Q4 2026 — EMA, draft March/April 2026. Voluntary FHIR-based ePI upload via the PLM Portal alongside Word/PDF; English-language version first, multilingual versions later; publicly available via the EU Web Portal + API. Q3 starts now — the next actual deadline. https://lnkd.in/e-_XFJ_p
- Great breakdown, and a number worth taking seriously. At Leaphy we've built exactly the technology to address this. We convert existing product information documents into FHIR R5-compliant ePI files (aligned with the EMA EMRN implementation guide) and reduce the creation time per unit to a maximum of 30 minutes instead of the 5.2 hours in the pilot report. For the 1,500-unit portfolio you describe, that's the difference between roughly 7,800 hours and a fraction of that. It doesn't remove the need for governance and operational
- Accelerate your transition to EMA-ready ePI. Move from legacy leaflets to EMA-ready ePI. Leaphy helps pharmaceutical organisations convert Word and PDF product information into structured, FHIR-compliant electronic Product Information with AI-supported conversion workflows, built-in quality control, and a path toward scalable ePI operations. Explore this service on our new website: www.leaphy.com
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