Management Team

Jacques Cinqualbre, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Cinqualbre is a transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Strasbourg Medical School. In 1977, he started the Strasbourg Transplant Center, which has since become one of the leading transplant institutions in Europe, having treated more than 3,500 liver, pancreas and kidney cases.

As founder of the Blood Agency, and as its president from 1991 to 1994, Dr. Cinqualbre was in charge of reorganizing the French national transfusion services. During a sabbatical year in 1996, he completed a management program at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He then spent the following two years as deputy chairman of a health insurance company. Resuming his surgical activities in 2000, he created HOPI in 2006 to participate in the national ePHR program (DMP) and to provide physician/nurse-oriented software and hardware solutions.

Fabrice Papst, Chief Technology Officer
Fabrice is a software architect. He has worked in information and communications technology since 1996. Fabrice is focused on meeting customer needs through user feedback and ergonomic approaches.

Fabrice has worked as a consultant to major French companies, and he is a frequent lecturer in industry as well as academia. His interest in the medical field began in 1998 with the web launch of one of the first care-provider registries and an interactive health prevention website (fm33.com.). Since then, Fabrice has been instrumental in developing and programming national health information systems. He is now leading HOPI's software development team.

Christiane Cinqualbre, Chief Executive Officer
Christiane holds both a bachelor's and a master’s degree in plastic arts from the University of Strasbourg. She has been teaching in the field for 10 years. Christiane has been in charge of HOPI communications since 2006.