My Story
Award-Winning Founder & CEO YON E
Inventor and Thought Leader in Women’s Health & FemTech
Roswitha Verwer is the Founder and CEO of YON E, an award-winning FemTech company redefining women’s health through science-led innovation, ethical data practices, and emotionally intelligent design. She is recognized as a leading voice in women’s health and healthcare innovation, with her work featured by global media platforms including Forbes.
She is also an inventor, published author, and advisor at the intersection of health technology, leadership, and human-centered innovation. Roswitha served previously as a member of the G100 Global Advisory Council for Humanity, Technology and Innovation, contributing to global conversations shaping the future of responsible technology and inclusive healthcare systems.
Her work addresses one of the most critical gaps in modern healthcare: women’s bodies are still largely understood through fragmented appointments, late diagnoses, and symptom-based treatment instead of continuous understanding. Reproductive health, hormones, infections, fertility, and wellbeing are biologically connected, yet they are managed in isolation, leaving millions of women guessing about their own bodies. Too often care begins only when something goes wrong.
YON E is being built to change that. By combining measurable biological data with thoughtful design and trust, the goal is to move women’s health from reactive medicine to informed, preventive care, a place where a woman can understand her body across every life stage, from first cycle to fertility to long-term wellbeing, with intelligence, dignity, and emotional safety.
Leadership, Career and Impact
Roswitha’s leadership career spans Europe, the United States, Africa, and the Middle East. She has built and scaled companies across creative industries, private equity, and healthcare, with a strong track record in operational leadership, strategy, and execution.
Before founding YON E, Roswitha held senior leadership roles within a private equity and advisory firm, where she served as Head of Operations. In this role, she directed more than 20 global projects across the United States, South Africa, the European Union, and the United Arab Emirates. She developed international business strategies, streamlined operational and policy frameworks, and managed complex deals exceeding €50 million across multiple markets.
She later served as Chief Operating Officer for global organizations, leading international teams, overseeing growth strategy, and building inclusive, high-performance cultures under pressure. These experiences shaped her ability to operate at scale while maintaining clarity, accountability, and long-term vision.
Today, as Founder and CEO of YON E, Roswitha oversees company strategy, product development, funding, partnerships, and public representation. She works closely with investors, researchers, clinicians, and advisors to ensure YON E’s technology meets the highest standards of scientific credibility and ethical responsibility.
Building the YON E Ecosystem
YON E is designed as a holistic ecosystem for women’s health, combining health technology, research, education, and commerce.
“Our upcoming health technology completes the YON E ecosystem, translating each woman’s unique biology into rituals and product experiences personalized for her body.”
Through YON E’s growing ecommerce platform, women already have access to carefully curated products that support wellbeing with taste, intelligence, and trust. The platform is built to evolve alongside YON E’s health technology, creating a seamless bridge between insight, ritual, and daily care.
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Roswitha founded YON E to shorten the distance between symptoms and understanding, between data and meaning, and between healthcare systems and the women they are meant to serve.
Early Life and Personal Perspective
Roswitha was born in the Netherlands. Her early childhood was marked by prolonged domestic abuse, an environment defined by fear, instability, and survival. During these years, safety was not a given, and access to healthcare or psychological support was largely absent.
At a young age, she and her mother were placed in a women’s shelter. There, she lived alongside women from many cultural backgrounds, including women who had fled war and displacement. While the shelter provided physical safety, it also exposed deep systemic failures. Women were removed from danger but rarely supported in healing, rebuilding, or understanding how trauma was affecting their bodies and long-term health.
These experiences shaped Roswitha’s understanding of the deep connection between trauma, stress, lifestyle, and women’s health. They would later become foundational to her work in healthcare innovation.
Education and Professional Foundation
After returning to society, education became Roswitha’s anchor and pathway to independence. Despite ongoing instability, she consistently excelled academically and developed a strong drive for financial autonomy and leadership.
She studied International Business and Applied Philosophy, grounding her thinking in both strategic execution and ethical inquiry. Alongside her studies, she worked multiple jobs to support herself, developing resilience and discipline under sustained pressure.
Her early career took her to New York, where an internship quickly evolved into a leadership position. Within six months, she advanced from intern to Head of Operations, managing teams and complex projects in a demanding international environment.
She went on to work across Amsterdam, New York, and Budapest, building expertise in operations, strategy, and leadership within high-pressure, global organizations.
Leadership Philosophy
Roswitha’s leadership is defined by clarity, integrity, and responsibility. She believes ethical innovation is non-negotiable in healthcare and that trust is built through rigor, transparency, and respect for lived experience.
Her work emphasizes:
Evidence-based product development
Ethical and privacy-first data practices
Cross-disciplinary collaboration between technology and medicine
Human-centered leadership in healthcare innovation
She is known for bridging clinical credibility with deep human understanding, creating solutions that both the medical community and women themselves can trust.
Today
Roswitha Verwer is a recognized leader in women’s health and FemTech, contributing to global conversations on ethical healthcare innovation, leadership, and the future of health technology. She speaks at international conferences, participates in panels and advisory councils, and continues to build YON E as a long-term, science-driven ecosystem for women’s wellbeing.
This work is not a career choice.
It is a purpose.