My name is Igor Koval.

I started my career in academia.

My PhD in applied math focused on modeling neurodegenerative disease progression.

That chapter gave me high standards for rigor and focus, but it also forced a painful realization: frontier science alone wasn’t translating into better care.

I co-founded Qairnel to bridge that gap in neurology.

As CTO and CPO, I spent four years bootstrapping the company to help people with cognitive concerns. Through Docmemo.com, we assessed the memory of 45,000+ people, partnered with leading pharma, and recruited for top-tier Alzheimer’s trials.

But as we scaled, I hit a second wall:

The #1 bottleneck to better care is operational failure—not medical.

That realization led me to leave Qairnel in 2025 to focus entirely on this problem.

I’m now building again, focusing on the “cracks” of bad coordination—the handoffs, scheduling, and missing information that too many people still ignore. That’s the kind of problem I want to spend the next decade on.

Contact: koval.igor.92[at]gmail.com

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Other activities and thoughts:

• I taught for years.
• I love working on personal projects organized around three themes::
  • repairing messy workflows (like kaba.eco, a collaborative meal-planning tool),
  • spreading (scientific) knowledge (like liglou.fr, infographics about environmental issues),
  • promoting my Ukrainian roots (like maisondukraine.fr).