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Interview

In conversation with
Peter Ohnemus

Peter Ohnemus is building dacadoo, a SaaS health-engagement and scoring platform licensed by life & health insurers, banks, retailers, and healthcare operators. Operating in 18+ languages across 40+ countries with an addressable base in the tens of millions, dacadoo translates day-to-day signals (sleep, activity, lifestyle) into an easy-to-grasp Health Score—a “credit score for health”—to drive prevention and sustained engagement.

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People don’t buy healthcare or insurance—they buy services and a great health span.

Lessons from Health Scoring at Population Scale:
Predict & Prevent, then Prove

Ohnemus’s path from ESG data (ASSET4) to health scoring shaped a simple thesis: what you can measure and explain, you can improve. dacadoo’s “Wheel of Life” and patented Health Score give consumers and payers a shared language for risk and progress, while long-cycle, AI/Gen-AI platforms require patient capital and deep trust to scale. He argues policy still lags “Predict & Prevent,” with demographic pressure making reform unavoidable; leaders should keep learning, design services that are mission-critical and cost-saving, and build teams that compound knowledge over time.

What we cover

How dacadoo turns everyday signals into a holistic Health Score and “Wheel of Life” that consumers and payers can act on
Why a licensing model to insurers, banks, retailers, and providers accelerates adoption across markets
What “Predict & Prevent” demands from regulators and investors—and why long-term thinking beats quick wins
Where demographic shifts and system strain make preventive, data-driven models non-optional
Which leadership habits matter—keep listening, keep learning, and build knowledge-sharing cultures that attract scarce SMET talent

Peter Ohnemus founded the dacadoo Health Score/dacadoo ag, Zurich/Switzerland in 2010. The patented dacadoo Health Score & AI-based Lifestyle Navigation Platform is being licensed to key Life & Health Insurance companies (Payers), banks, retailers and global healthcare operators (Providers). Peter has been involved in high-tech and bio-tech investments over the last 25 years and this had led to four IPO’s and multiple trade sells. He was also entrepreneur of the year in Switzerland (EoY) for Switzerland by EY. In 2004 Peter was CEO & co-founded ASSET4, which was sold to Thomson Reuters, New York in November 2009. Peter Ohnemus previously held senior executive positions with Sybase, Logic Works, The Fantastic Corporation, and COS. Peter is a frequent speaker and occasionally teaches digital innovation & entrepreneurship at universities such as ETH, HSG – Switzerland and Bocconi – India.