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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top York based Founder operating in the Health Care space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Adam Karp
Co-Founder & CEO of Lively
Prior to Lively, Adam was the Chief Marketing Officer of 1stdibs – the world’s premier destination for unique, luxury design. At 1stdibs, Adam was instrumental in increasing the company’s revenue almost 10x; recruited and led a team of 100 and had full P&L responsibility for 1stdibs’ B2B business. Before 1stdibs Adam worked in senior roles at leading brands such as FreshDirect, Barnes & Noble and Century 21 real estate. At Century 21 he was responsible for developing and launching Century 21’s first website which at the time became the most recognized real estate website in the country and currently generates almost 50 million visits a year. After Century 21, Adam spent almost a decade at Barnes & Noble in increasingly senior roles ultimately becoming VP of Direct Marketing for both the retail stores and online. At Barnes & Noble, Adam managed some of the largest digital marketing programs in the industry, overseeing a budget of $100M. Adam graduated from the The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
Elad Kolet
Co-Founder & CTO of Lively
Elad is a technology leader with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. Most recently Elad ran the North America Solutions Engineering team at Facebook where he managed a team of 32 full-stack engineers responsible for building Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to working at Facebook, Elad worked as an Engineering Lead at Microsoft, driving the development of Windows Azure. Before Microsoft, Elad was a Senior Software Engineer at RiT technologies LTD., where he designed and built network products used by large corporate clients including Goldman Sachs UK and Morgan Stanley UK. Elad was raised in Israel and spent four years as a software engineer in the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200, an incubator of tech talent whose alumni have gone on to found numerous technology companies. Elad earned his BS in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
David Rust
Co-Founder & Advisor of Lively
David is a seasoned operator who helped scale Lyft from 25 to 1,600 employees and an $11B+ valuation. He launched Lyft’s first markets across the US and translated these learnings into the company’s national expansion playbook. David then went on to build and lead Lyft’s internal strategy team, reporting to Lyft’s COO. This team was responsible for leading high-priority strategic initiatives, from Lyft’s partnership with General Motors to its first self-driving car implementations. Prior to Lyft, David led market expansion and local marketing for one of the early pioneers in the car sharing industry, Wheelz, which was acquired by RelayRides (not Turo). David graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Engineering and was named as a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2017.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
Esther Dyson
Founder of Way to Wellville
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About 23andMe, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, EDventure Holdings, GridPoint, HICCup, New York Angels, Way to Wellville, Wellgood: 10-year nonprofit project to show impact of investing in health (vs. renting it)
Laurence Girard
CEO & Founder of Fruit Street
Laurence Girard is the CEO and Founder of Fruit Street which is the first company to deliver the CDCs National Diabetes Prevention Program via telehealth and live video conferencing with registered dietitians. The company had raised more than $20 million in funding from approximately 300 physician investors. Laurence graduated from the Harvard Extension School with a Bachelor’s Degree. His passion for entrepreneurship started during his first year of college when the Harvard Innovation Lab was opened in the Harvard Business School campus. While in college, Laurence was volunteering in an emergency room while taking a nutrition epidemiology course. It was at this point he decided our healthcare system needed to focus more on prevention and that he decided to focus his career in public health, technology, and entrepreneurship. Laurence is also the Managing Director of Hippocrates Ventures, a physician funded VC fund. His company Fruit Street recently launched COVIDMD.com, a new national telemedicine service battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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About Fruit Street, Hippocrates Ventures, New Amsterdam Football Club: Fruit Street is a developer of a digital diabetes prevention and weight loss program.
April Koh
Co-Founder & CEO of Spring Health
April Koh is Co-Founder & CEO at Spring Care. She is a former Product Management at Shazam and Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Spylight. Ms. Koh received a bachelor of arts in Sociology and Computer Science at Yale University.
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About Spring Health: Spring Health provides employers with a comprehensive and effective solution for employee mental well-being.
Artem Petakov
President and Co-Founder of Noom
Artem Petakov is the president and co-founder of Noom Inc. Prior to that, Artem co-founded WorkSmart Labs and served as CTO. He is also a former software engineer at Google.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Saeju Jeong
CEO & Co-Founder of Noom
A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Saeju has always an intense desire to help people. He sits on South Korea’s Ministry of Science & Technology’s steering committee and the board of Chonnam Hospital, South Korea’s largest private hospital.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Zachariah Reitano
Co-Founder and CEO of Ro
Zachariah is the CEO and cofounder of Ro. Founded in 2017, Ro is a healthcare technology company with a mission to provide personalized healthcare to everyone on the planet. Ro has three end-to-end verticals: Roman (men’s health), Rory (women’s health), and Zero (fighting addiction). As CEO and cofounder, Zachariah leads all medical and regulatory operations and oversees all verticals. Zachariah was named Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30, Business Insider’s 30 Under 40 in Healthcare, and a finalist in EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Ro was named #2 in Wellness in Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies 2019.
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About Ro, Roman: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Rob Schutz
Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer of Ro
Rob Schutz is a Co-Founder at Ro.
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About BarkBox, Ro, Roman: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Saman Rahmanian
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Ro
Saman Rahmanian is the co-founder of Ro, a mission-driven healthcare technology company, and Managed by Q, the smart office management company. Saman also holds a partner role at Prehype, a venture development firm that incubates new businesses together with large corporations. Before Prehype, Saman started his career in advertising agencies around the world, where he became the 5th most awarded creative around the globe.
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About Ro, Roman: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Lady Gaga
Founder of Born This Way Foundation
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress
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About Born This Way Foundation, Haus Beauty: BTWF is for the wellness of young people, and empowering them to create a kinder and braver world.
Kevin Chan
Co-Founder of Headway
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About Headway, Maderight: Headway is a mental healthcare system provider that helps patients connect with therapists and submit insurance claims online.
Sylvana Quader Sinha
Founder, Managing Director and CEO of Praava Health
Sylvana Quader Sinha is an attorney and entrepreneur with a passion for innovative, impactful approaches to governance and international development. Sylvana Quader Sinha has over a decade of experience leading diverse, interdisciplinary teams in international law, business, development, and government relations at major international law firms, management consulting firms, the World Bank, and think tanks in the Middle East and South Asia. She has independently advised private and sovereign clients on investments, projects, and disputes in frontier markets in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. She has advised governments in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Asia on governance and legal reform, and counseled on investing to multinational and regional corporate clients; she has also moderated disputes in these and other markets on political, economic, and legal risk. Sylvana Quader Sinha also served as a foreign policy advisor to the 2008 Presidential campaign of then-Senator Barack Obama. Based out of New York City, Sylvana Quader Sinha’s legal practice included Investor-State and commercial arbitrations and international litigation, including as part of the International Arbitration Group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and the International Litigation and Arbitration Group at Lovells LLP (now Hogan Lovells LLP). Her clients consisted primarily of Fortune 500 companies and other multinational entities involved in disputes in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. She has particular expertise in business and human rights. She represented a Canadian oil company in litigation involving allegations of international law violations in Sudan. She also conducted research on business and human rights issues for the Special Representative to the UN Secretary General. Additionally, Sylvana Quader Sinha served as a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she earned a certificate from the Parker School of Comparative and International Law. She also earned a master’s degree in Public Administration / International Development from Harvard’s Kennedy School and her Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in economics and philosophy from Wellesley College.
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About Praava Health: Praava Health is a patient-driven company disrupting the healthcare standard for Bangladesh’s 170 million citizens.
Christopher Morris
Founder & CEO of Daybreak Health
Christopher is an Internal Medicine and HIV specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center focused on digital health innovations as means to transform health care quality and access. He is most interested in using emerging telehealth technologies to transform the primary care experience.
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About Daybreak Health, NYU Langone Health, NYU Langone Medical Center: Daybreak Health is a digital health platform that facilitates mobile care solutions.
Peter Roberts
Founder of Pure Gym
Peter is a serial entrepreneur with a distinguished career in the leisure industry. Earlier ventures include the formation of Langdale Group Plc which sold for £29m in 1989 to Scottish & Newcastle. He set up nightclub company Luminar, which completed a successful IPO in 1998, food/pub chain Countrystyle Inns which sold in 1995 for an IRR of 35% and a Venture Capital Fund with Lazard Ventures. In 2000 Peter founded Golden Tulip Hotels, a budget hotel group, sold to Whitbread in 2008. In 2015 Peter was named a winner in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards and overall winner for the North of England. Peter is now involved with helping young entrepreneurs to develop their businesses.
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About Pure Gym: PureGym is a gym operator that provides affordable and convenient access to fitness facilities in the U.K.
Michael B. Sheffery
Partner & Co-Founder of OrbiMed
Michael B. Sheffery, Ph.D., is a founding Partner of OrbiMed. Dr. Sheffery was formerly Head of the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He received both his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and his B.A. in Biology from Princeton University. Dr. Sheffery joined Mehta and Isaly in 1996 as a Senior Analyst covering the biotechnology industry.
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About OrbiMed: OrbiMed is a healthcare-dedicated investment firm focusing on biopharmaceuticals to medical devices and diagnostics.
Bridget Osetinsky
Founder & CEO of Hyperfine
Bridget is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperfine. She earned her Juris Doctor from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law in 2011 and her Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Notre Dame in 2007.
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About Hyperfine: Advanced Analytics For Precision Medicine
Agustin Fernandez III
CEO & Co-Founder of Rational Vaccines
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About Duende Media, Rational Vaccines: Rational Vaccines is a pre-clinical stage that develops live-attenuated herpes simplex virus vaccines.
Paul Parmar
Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer of Constellation Healthcare Technologies
Parmar has provided consultancy services to a number of the world’s largest companies including a major healthcare company, to improve their operational platforms by reducing costs and driving efficiencies. Parmar has previously invested in healthcare businesses and technologies. In 2008 a group represented by Parmar bought a controlling interest in a medical billing company and subsequently sold the business to NextGen. In 2013 he founded Constellation Health to acquire Orion. Parmar built a private aviation business through both acquisition and organic growth which was sold to Delta Airlines in 2010.
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About Constellation Healthcare Technologies, Pegasus Blue Star Fund, Vericlaim: Constellation Healthcare Technologies provides a holistic, integrated suite of practice management support services to hospitals.
John Fontein
Co-Founder of Sesame
John Fontein is Co-Founder and President at Sesame. Previously, he was the VP of Business Development at GoEuro where he oversaw all revenue functions including sales, marketing and partnerships. John began his career at Goldman Sachs where he worked in both the Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions of the firm. John is a multi-platinum song-writer, producer, and sound designer. He is the recipient of numerous awards including an MTV Video Music Award, a Berklee Jazz Festival Award and a FringeNYC Award. John attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Music and a certificate in Computer Science.
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About Sesame: Sesame is a healthcare superstore, with over 10,000 medical practices offering affordable prices for care in-person or online.
David Goldhill
Co-Founder & CEO of Sesame
David Goldhill is the founder and CEO of Sesame.
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About Game Show Network, Sesame: Sesame is a healthcare superstore, with over 10,000 medical practices offering affordable prices for care in-person or online.
Mehmet Oz
Co-Founder of Sharecare
Dr. Oz has won Nine Daytime Emmy® Awards for “The Dr. Oz Show” and is an attending physician at NY Presbyterian- Columbia Medical Center. He still performs dozens of heart operations annually. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive surgery, alternative medicine and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books, has received numerous patents, and still performs heart surgery. He also authors a newspaper column syndicated by Hearst in 175 markets internationally. Dr. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Delaware and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1982) and obtained a joint MD and MBA (1986) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He was awarded the Captain’s Athletic Award for leadership in college and elected Class President twice followed by President of the Student Body during medical school. He lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife Lisa of 32 years and their four children, Daphne, Arabella, Zoe and Oliver and three grandchildren Philomena, John and Domenica. Previously, Dr. Oz was a featured health expert on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for six seasons, spanning over 60 episodes. He also served as chief medical consultant to Discovery Communications, where his “Transplant!” series won both a Freddie and a Silver Telly award. He also served as medical director of Denzel Washington’s “John Q” and performed in the hip-hop video “Everybody” as part of the Let’s Move Campaign. Dr. Oz authored eight New York Times Best Sellers, including “Food Can Fix It”, “You: The Owner’s Manual”, “You: The Smart Patient”, “YOU: On a Diet”, “YOU: Staying Young”, “YOU: Being Beautiful”, “YOU: Having a Baby”, “YOU: The Owner’s Manual for Teens”, as well as the award-winning “Healing from the Heart”. He has a regular column in Oprah Magazine and his article “Retool, Reboot, and Rebuild” for Esquire magazine was awarded the 2009 National Magazine Award for Personal Service. He co-founded Sharecare.com which won “Best Medical App” award for AskMD in 2014 and its DoctorOz app was nominated for an Emmy in 2017. In 2003, Dr Oz founded Healthcorps which emulates the Peacecorps by putting energetic recent college graduates into high schools around the country to reach diet, fitness, and mental resilience. Over a million teens have been influenced this nationwide program. In addition to belonging to every major professional society for heart surgeons, Dr. Oz has been named Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Forbes’ most influential celebrity, Esquire magazine’s 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, Harvard’s 100 Most Influential Alumni, as well as receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and AARP 50 Influential people over 50. He won the prestigious Gross Surgical Research Scholarship, and he has received an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University. He was voted “The Best and Brightest” by Esquire Magazine, a “Doctor of the Year” by Hippocrates magazine and “Healer of the Millennium” by Healthy Living magazine. Dr. Oz is annually elected as a highest quality physician by the Castle Connolly Guide as well as other major ranking groups. He is also an honorary police surgeon for New York City.
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About Sharecare: Sharecare is a health and wellness engagement platform providing consumers with information, programs and resources to improve their health.
Jonathan M. Rothberg
Co-Founder, Product Architect & CEO of Butterfly Network
Jonathan Rothberg is Co-Founder, Product Architect & CEO at Butterfly Network.
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About Butterfly Network: Butterfly Network designs a medical imaging device that reduces the cost of real-time and three-dimensional imaging and treatment.
Richelieu Dennis
CEO & Founder of Sundial Brands
Sundial Brands founder and CEO Richelieu Dennis has a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation that traces back to his family’s roots in Africa and that is sustained by a vision to fill unmet consumer needs. This passion has resulted in the independent 26-year-old family-owned & operated manufacturing company’s success today as the maker of top hair, natural, bar soap and bath and body brands via its SheaMoisture and Nubian Heritage lines, as well as its newest brands and forays into prestige beauty via its Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Culture hair care line and Nyakio skin care line.
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About Essence Ventures LLC, New Voices Fund, SheaMoisture, Sundial Brands: An Amityville, N.Y.-based maker of branded skin and hair products
Coley Parry
CEO and Founder of FriendHealth
Coley Parry is the Founder & CEO of FriendHealth.
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About FriendHealth: FriendHealth is a risk-bearing provider that deploys multidisciplinary care teams and proprietary technology to bring health home.
David Ronick
Co-Founder and CEO of Minded
David is a co-founder of Minded and Stash, an LP in The Fund, and mentor to entrepreneurs at TechStars, Harvard Business School and Brown University
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About Minded: Minded is a consumer telehealth company that makes getting mental health medication easy and affordable
Jason Feldman
Co-Founder & CEO of Vault Health
Co-Founder & CEO at Vault Health.
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About Vault Health: Vault Health is a telehealth company that leverages diagnostics, specialty telehealth capabilities, and technology infrastructure.
Rhodemann Li
Founder, EVP Strategy & Finance of Vesselon
Mr. Li is the founder of Vesselon and is a serial medical device entrepreneur and brings more than thirty years of experience in finance, business development, strategy, patents and regulatory submissions. Prior to founding Vesselon in 2012, Mr. Li worked in private equity evaluating investment opportunities. Mr. Li co-founded an orthopedic implant company, Li Medical Technologies, which developed and sold sports medicine surgery and spinal implants. Li Medical was venture capital funded and ultimately acquired by ConMed Corporation. Mr. Li has five issued patents for medical devices. Mr. Li also worked for FMR Group, an investment vehicle for healthcare investors, and Golden Pond Healthcare, a special purpose acquisition corporation formed to assume a healthcare company, where he sourced investment opportunities. Prior to his healthcare experience, Mr. Li was a Vice President in Corporate Finance at UBS Securities and a Vice President in Corporate Lending at Manufacturers Hanover. Mr. Li holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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About Accelerator for Biosciences in Connect, Vesselon: Vesselon is a medical device company developing novel therapeutic Immuno-Oncology complexes.
Clay Larsen
President and CEO, Co-Founder of Vesselon
Mr. Larsen co-founded Vesselon in 2012 and brings over thirty years of executive management, marketing, sales, clinical innovation and engineering/project management in the healthcare industry. Mr. Larsen was a senior executive with FUJIFILM Medical Systems, where he was largely responsible for building the company’s first healthcare software division from the ground up. Mr. Larsen recruited the original senior architects and was instrumental in the development, marketing, commercial release and field support of Fuji’s Synapse® Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS). In a move to Silicon Valley in 1988, Mr. Larsen served in several senior roles at Acuson Corporation culminating as Vice President of New Market Development. Acuson was one of the leading ultrasound technology companies that was later acquired by Siemens. Early in his career he specialized in Sales and Marketing Management of Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine for Picker International. Mr. Larsen holds a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.
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About Vesselon: Vesselon is a medical device company developing novel therapeutic Immuno-Oncology complexes.
Patrick Freuler
Founder and CEO of Audicus
Patrick Freuler is the founder of Audicus, an internet platform that aims to make hearing aids more affordable. He previously worked at McKinsey and Bain Capital, before co-founding Imperdivel, a leading social e-commerce platform in Brazil. Patrick holds BSc. and MSc. in engineering from MIT.
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About Audicus: Audicus is an e-commerce startup that offers high-tech, affordable hearing aids online.
Florent Peyre
Co-Founder & President of Small Door
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About Small Door: Small Door provides veterinary services that are elevated, customer-centric, and hospitality-infused.
Josh Guttman
Co-Founder and CEO of Small Door
Prior to co-founding Small Door, Josh led a successful with diverse experiences that included management roles at a number of significant technology companies and roles in both investment banking and venture capital. From 2013 – 2017, Josh worked as a Partner on the early stage investing team at Softbank Capital, a $500 million venture capital arm of Softbank Corporation. While at Softbank, Josh led early stage investments in software businesses with a focus on healthcare and real estate. Before Softbank, Josh served as Senior Vice President at Outbrain, the leading content marketing platform, where he oversaw growth of the business from 50 to 250 worldwide employees in a three-year timespan. Previously, in 2007, Josh joined the early team at Sphere and helped grow the business to their eventual acquisition by Aol in 2008. Post-acquisition, Josh led the business as CEO for two years, ultimately initiating its divestiture and sale to Outbrain in early 2011. Josh began his career in investment banking at Robertson Stephens & Co in San Francisco where he participated on more than $400 million of private equity and debt financings from 1998 – 2002. Josh earned an AB from Duke University and an MBA from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and boxer, Morrison.
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About Small Door: Small Door provides veterinary services that are elevated, customer-centric, and hospitality-infused.
Jeff Dachis
Founder, Chairman & CEO of OneDrop
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About OneDrop: One Drop is a diabetes management platform that helps people navigate diabetes together.
Ashok Subramanian
Founder/CEO of Centivo
Ashok is a successful founder and CEO with significant expertise in HR and healthcare technology businesses. He is co-founder and CEO of Liazon, the nation’s leading private benefits exchange for active employees. In 2013, Liazon was acquired by Towers Watson. Ashok continues to serve as CEO of Liazon, as well as the Head of Willis Towers Watson’s Group Exchange business. Prior to Liazon, he worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. Ashok is often sought out for his expert commentary on private and public exchanges, their role in the new healthcare landscape and their effect on businesses. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a Masters degree from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Centivo: Centivo offers a digital health plan aimed at self-funded employers looking to provide employees with quality care they can afford.
Alan Cohen
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder of Centivo
Alan Cohen is the Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Centivo. He leads the development of Liazon’s award-winning Bright Choices® Exchange and has forged numerous partnerships with national and regional benefits providers. He knows the insurance and health care industry inside and out and is often called upon by the media for his expertise. Alan was the CEO and Co-Founder of Online Benefits, a benefits management and communication technology firm. He sold Online Benefits to A.D.A.M., and then served as President of that company. He also worked in the insurance industry for Prudential, Mass Mutual and CIGNA, and managed an insurance brokerage. Alan is a graduate of Cornell University, and earned MBAs from the Columbia Business School and the London Business School, where he won the Award for Academic Excellence.
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About Centivo: Centivo offers a digital health plan aimed at self-funded employers looking to provide employees with quality care they can afford.
Isabelle Kenyon
Founder, CEO of Calibrate
Isabelle is the Founder & CEO of Calibrate. Prior to Calibrate, she led the business operations, growth, and strategic partnerships & communications teams at Capsule, a technology business that has raised $270 million to rebuild the pharmacy from the inside out. Before Capsule, Isabelle worked at beloved consumer brands in London and New York and was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Retail & E-commerce list in 2015. She began her career as an investment banker in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Calibrate: Calibrate is a digital metabolic health business that is changing the way the world treats weight.
Maxime Germain
CEO, Founder of Jour
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About Jour: Jour is a guided journaling app that helps teens and adults with battling mental illness and commit mindfulness.
Jason Wild
Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer of JW Asset Management
Jason Wild is the Founder, President and Chief Investment Officer of JW Asset Management, LLC, the advisor for three investment partnerships. Mr. Wild received his license as a pharmacist in 1997, and subsequently founded JW Asset Management, LLC in 1998. The firm has a strong history of finding opportunities within the specialty pharmaceutical sector. He is a graduate of the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy where he received a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy.
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About JW Asset Management: JW Asset Management is a New York-based investment firm that primarily invests within the healthcare sector.
Marina Hadjipateras
Co-Founder and General Partner of TMV
Marina Hadjipateras is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Trail Mix Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund focussed on the future of living well. Prior to co-founding Trail Mix, Marina was VP of Investor Relations for Dorian LPG and a key figure in taking her family’s 200-year old shipping company public in 2014 (NYSE: LPG). She restructured Dorian and oversaw talent, PR and IR, accepting the Tanker Company of the Year award. Marina serves as vice chair of the INTERTANKO Environmental Committee. In 2018 Marina received the NYOT Innovators and Disruptors award for venture capital.
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About TMV: TMV is an early-stage investment firm that focuses on the future of living well.
Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder and General Partner of TMV
Soraya is a General Partner and founder of TMV, an early-stage venture firm investing in purposeful startups reimagining the future. TMV backs start-up companies focused on ideas that will reshape industries or inspire new ones. Fund I and Fund II investments focus on: frontier health organizations, marketplaces and design-driven technologies. Soraya is also the host of “Business Schooled – a Podcast by Synchrony,” – a “Top 20 Business Podcast” on Apple – for which she travels the United States interviewing persevering founders who have made it past their startup days. Soraya began her career as Manager of Digital Partnerships & Social Media at The New York Times, where she positioned the global news leader on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, partnered with startups large and small, and established award-winning campaigns. She went on to co-found the application Foodspotting, named by Apple and Wired Magazine as an “App of the Year,” later acquired by OpenTable, then Priceline. Then Poly & Co, a digital growth marketing agency based in Boston and New York. For her work at The Times and startups, Soraya has been featured on the cover of Fast Company Magazine’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” issue and on the cover of Brand Week’s “Digital Best” issue. Soraya was named an Inc. Magazine “30 Under 30” (2012), Fortune Magazine “40 Under 40: Women to Watch” (2015). She sat on the first digital advisory board of General Electric. She is a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader,” a six-time mentor to TechStars New York – three-times named a “Mentor of the Year.” Soraya graduated with honors from Georgetown University and completed the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century module at Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently on the board of directors for the non-profit Yamba Malawi, her 12th year advising the organization.
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About TMV, Zady: TMV is an early-stage investment firm that focuses on the future of living well.
Harry Ritter
Founder and CEO of Alma
Harry Ritter is the Founder of Alma Health.
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About Alma: Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care providers.
David Whelan
Co-Founder and General Partner of Town Hall Ventures
David runs Oxeon Ventures, the venture start-up studio and investment business at Oxeon Holdings. The ventures studio designs, provides initial capital, incubates, and builds de novo or purpose-built-from-scratch healthcare companies. Our team develops and hones concepts and business plans and then leverages Oxeon Holding’s service lines and vast network of relationships to bring founding leadership, product/market validation, enterprise clients and then secure additional capital for these early stage companies. We build these companies independently or in partnership with entrepreneurs-in-residence or co-developed with outside healthcare companies including leading health systems, health plans or technology or service companies. Companies developed inside of Oxeon Ventures include Docent Health, Risalto and Abaka. Oxeon Ventures also manages a series of Funds investing in growth stage healthcare technology and service companies. Oxeon Ventures has been an early-stage investor in over 70 companies including Evolent Health (NYSE: EVH), Privia (acq. by Brighton Holdings), Liazon (acq. by Towers Watson), Avalon, Bright, Capsule, CIOX, Imagine Health, Iora Health, Landmark, Oak Oncology, Oak Street Health, Pager, Privia, Quartet, VillageMD, WiserCare and others. David Whelan was previously a General Partner of Accretive LLC, a private investment firm with a distinctive track record of creating, funding and building disruptive technology enabled companies. David served as a director on the Accretive portfolio company boards of Arise Virtual Solutions and Insureon. Previously, David was the Chief Executive Officer of the Cloverleaf Group, a private investment group and prior to that Vice President of Corporate Development with the Virgin Group in the US and UK where he led the development and startup of Virgin America, the U.S. based low cost airline. David was also an investment banker in London, England and Sydney, Australia with Goldman Sachs & Company and before that Deutsche Bank. Starting his career at Price Waterhouse in the firm’s Corporate Finance division in Sydney, Australia, David qualified as a Chartered Accountant of Australia. David has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce from Bond University in Queensland, Australia. David also serves on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park Trust an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the completion, care, and enhancement of the HudsonRiver Park, and is the designated fundraising partner of the Hudson River Park Trust. FofHRP creates opportunities for public contributions to and participation in the Park’s operations and growth, to guarantee its future for generations of New Yorkers, Americans and visitors from around the world. David lives in Tribeca and with his wife, Melanie, and his two children, Lachlan and Charlotte.
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About Eleanor Health, Empiric Health, Oxeon Partners, Risalto Health, Strive Health, Town Hall Ventures: Town Hall Ventures is an investment firm aimed at transforming the woefully broken U.S. health care market through technology.
Trevor Price
Co-Founder & General Partner of Town Hall Ventures
Trevor Price is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Town Hall Ventures.
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About Oxeon Partners, Town Hall Ventures: Town Hall Ventures is an investment firm aimed at transforming the woefully broken U.S. health care market through technology.
Dennis Purcell
Founder & Senior Advisor of Aisling Capital
Dennis Purcell has served as the Senior Managing Partner of Fund I and Fund II since February 2000 and is responsible for the management of the Partnership. Prior to joining Fund I, Dennis Purcell served as Managing Director of the Life Sciences Investment Banking Group at Chase H&Q (formerly Hambrecht & Quist, “H&Qâ€) for over five years, and served on the Executive Committee of Hambrecht & Quist. While at Hambrecht & Quist, he was directly involved with over two hundred completed transactions and supervised over $10 billion of financing and advisory assignments in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical products industries. During his tenure, BioWorld and other industry publications cited H&Q as the leading underwriter of life sciences securities. Dennis Purcell has also often been cited as one of the sector’s leaders. He was honored in the “Biotech Hall of Fame†by Genetic Engineering News and named to the Biotechnology All-Stars list by Forbes ASAP. Prior to joining H&Q, Dennis Purcell was a Managing Director in the Healthcare Group at PaineWebber, Inc. Dennis Purcell currently serves as a director of Dynova Laboratories, Inc. and Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Previously he served as a director of Aton Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cengent Therapeutics, Inc., and Valentis, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) – Emerging Companies Section. He has served as a member of the Advisory Council at Harvard Medical School.
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About Aisling Capital, bioWorld, Hambrecht & Quist, PaineWebber, Poliwogg Holdings: Aisling Capital believes the next decade will be marked by a revolution in healthcare driven by new therapeutics generated by
Andrew Grover
Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Tend
Andy Grover is Head of Development at Tend, the dental brand bringing a hospitality mindset to oral health. With vast experience in real estate, healthcare and branding, Andy has established himself as a leader in building spaces tailored specifically to guests’ needs and emotions. At Tend, Andy spearheads every aspect of development, focusing on finding the right locations to create a holistic environment that supports guests, marrying hospitality and the sensibility of the healthcare industry. Prior to Tend, Andy was the VP of Real Estate and Development at One Medical Group. In this role, he worked with clinicians and technology specialists to develop the practice’s signature design, helping scale the industry-leading healthcare model into the business it is today.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Michael Stenclik
Co-Founder of Tend
Michael Stenclik is co-Founder and Chief of Staff at Tend, the dental brand bringing a hospitality mindset to oral health. Michael’s eye for innovation and expertise in bridging gaps within disjointed systems played a key role in the early stages of Tend’s development. In his current role as Chief of Staff, Michael oversees operations across finance, regulation, talent and product, in addition to driving various strategic projects internally. Previously, Michael held a product management role at Quartet Health, a behavioral health technology company. In this role Michael helped develop an innovative product that delivered improved outcomes while lowering the total cost of care, creating a better experience for both guest and provider. Prior to this, Michael served as an engagement manager for Farenheit 212, consulting for several Fortune 500 companies.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Samir Housri
CEO & Co-Founder of The Mednet
Samir Housri the CEO & Co-founder of theMednet. Under his leadership theMednet has become the largest online physician network in Oncology and one of the fastest growing in medicine. Samir’s career spans nearly 20 years in digital media that spans operations, technology and strategy. Most recently he was part of the investment team at Rho Ventures where he sat on multiple boards and deployed over $50M in capital. Prior to that, he was part of EMI Music’s global business development team where he drove the launch of EMI’s ad-supported video platform. He was also involved in all aspects of digital content licensing and distribution, including contract negotiations, technical implementation and monetization. Prior to EMI, Samir served as a management consultant with Bain & Company where he worked on strategy for technology and media clients. He started his career as a software engineer for Major League Baseball and was a key member of the team that built MLB.com.
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About The Mednet: The Mednet is a physician-only community for expert answers to real world clinical questions in oncology.
Nadine Housri
Co Founder & Chief Medical Officer of The Mednet
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About The Mednet, Yale University School of Medicine: The Mednet is a physician-only community for expert answers to real world clinical questions in oncology.
Sahaj Patel
Chairman, Co-Founder of Medly Pharmacy
Sahaj Patel is the Co-founder and Chairman of Medly. Previously, he’s managed multiple independent pharmacies in New York City
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About Medly Pharmacy: Medly Pharmacy is a digital pharmacy platform that offers free, same-day prescription delivery.
Marg Patel
Co-Founder, CEO of Medly Pharmacy
Dr. Marg Patel is the Co-founder and CEO of Medly. Previously, he’s managed multiple independent pharmacies in New York City.
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About Medly Pharmacy: Medly Pharmacy is a digital pharmacy platform that offers free, same-day prescription delivery.
Nick Ganju
Co-Founder of Zocdoc
Nick Ganju is a founder at ZocDoc and leads strategic initiatives that address some of the company’s most impactful opportunities. He helped build ZocDoc because he believes that the power of technology can bring about a more efficient healthcare system. He has extensive experience in product development, database management and site architecture, including having personally built the earliest iterations of ZocDoc and directly overseeing its development for many of its first years Prior to ZocDoc, Nick worked as the CTO of cfX, where he oversaw the design and implementation of financial software used by several Fortune 100 Wall Street firms. A Trilogy Development Alumnus, Nick previously lived in Silicon Valley. There, he played a pivotal role in the architecture and development of eBoodle (later acquired by BizRate), and in 2002 founded his first company, called Mixonic. He remained at Mixonic as the architect, manager, and lead programmer until moving to New York. Nick was awarded an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He first met ZocDoc founder and CEO Cyrus Massoumi when the two shared a desk at Trilogy Software. Nick was born and raised in Chicago, and currently resides in New York. When he’s not working, the former Bay Area Amateur Billiards Champion can be found fronting his semi-professional cover band.
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About Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Oliver Kharraz
CEO & Co-Founder of Zocdoc
Oliver Kharraz, MD, is CEO and founder of Zocdoc. Oliver is the most recent doctor in a 300-year family tradition. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Oliver has accrued comprehensive experience effecting change and building efficiency in large scale healthcare organizations using information technology. Prior to Zocdoc, Oliver was an Associate Principal at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. During his seven-year tenure at McKinsey & Co., Oliver developed and implemented new patient utilization models for the national health services of a number of governments and major hospital chains. In 1994, Oliver built and sold his first business – a forerunner of early internet software. He later became a resident doctor at the clinic of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, where he earned an MD and a Doctorate in Neuroscience. Oliver also has a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the Jesuit College of Philosophy in Munich. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Born in Germany, Oliver immigrated to the U.S. during his work for McKinsey & Co. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and their twin daughters.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Robin Berzin
Founder & CEO of Parsley Health
Robin Berzin, MD is the founder and CEO of Parsley Health, a primary care medicine provider with a data-driven, whole body approach. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she completed medical school at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr. Berzin also trained with the Institute for Functional Medicine, where she acts as an advisor on digital technology. She speaks regularly for organizations including Stanford Medicine X, Health 2.0, Rock Health, Summit Series, and Further Future about how health care can be reinvented.
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About Parsley Health: Parsley Health is redesigning primary care by integrating the latest in medical testing, technology and nutrition research.
Tomer Ben-Kiki
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Happify Health
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About Happify Health: Happify Health is a healthcare platform, combining digital therapeutics and care delivery solutions to improve mental and physical health.
Ofer Leidner
Co-Founder & President of Happify Health
As Co-Founder and President of Happify Health, Ofer is an experienced entrepreneur who came into healthcare after spending a decade developing casual games and has a deep expertise in user engagement, gamification and digital delivery platform at scale. Alongside his Co-Founder, Tomer Ben-Kiki, Ofer is committed to developing evidence-based therapeutic interventions to treat, manage or improve people’s mental or physical health through meaningful behavior change. Offered to employers, health plans and pharmaceutical companies, Happify Health’s solutions incorporate behavior therapies, such positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. The company’s clinically-validated digital therapeutic solutions will be FDA-cleared as prescription digital therapies (PDT). Prior to Happify Health, Ofer co-founded several digital media businesses, including iPlay/Oberon Media, a leading casual gaming company and customer relations software startup, Gate42 Technologies. Ofer holds an MBA in Finance and a B.A. in Economics and Information Technologies, both from Tel Aviv University.
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About Happify Health: Happify Health is a healthcare platform, combining digital therapeutics and care delivery solutions to improve mental and physical health.
Alessandra Henderson
CEO and Co-Founder of Elektra Health
Entrepreneur building something new in the women’s health space.
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About Elektra Health, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship: Elektra Health is a new healthcare platform on a mission to tackle the menopause taboo for women.
Ron Vianu
Co-Founder & CEO of Covera Health
Ron is a serial entrepreneur and problem-solver by nature. He’s spent the last 20+ years founding ventures in the healthcare, technology, and insurance spaces. Ron studied Chemistry and Philosophy at NYU. Prior to Covera Health, Ron founded Spreemo in 2010. Under his leadership, Spreemo became the fastest growing referral management platform in the occupational medicine space, growing from six employees to a team of over 200 across offices in NYC and Dallas, and earning the company Deloitte’s Fast 500 award two years in a row for the fastest growing technology businesses. Spreemo, which received venture funding from a multi-billion dollar institutional investor, successfully exited to a strategic acquirer in 2017. In his spare time (and he has little), Ron enjoys biking down the East River and running up the West Side Highway, but rarely at the same time.
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About Covera Health: Covera Health is a provider of analytics-based programs intended to reduce medical misdiagnoses and improve quality of care.
Raz Winiarsky
Co-Founder & Medical Director of Covera Health
Raz is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, Medical Director at Brooklyn Premier Orthopedics, and Director of Joint Reconstruction at Hudson Regional Hospital. Raz received his M.D. degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, underwent his orthopedic surgical training at University of Pennsylvania, and completed his fellowship in Joint Reconstruction at Hospital for Special Surgery, rated by U.S. News as the #1 Orthopedic Hospital in the U.S. In addition to running one of the largest orthopedic groups in NYC, Raz is also a part-time chauffeur for his three children, transporting them to and from events all around the city.
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About Covera Health: Covera Health is a provider of analytics-based programs intended to reduce medical misdiagnoses and improve quality of care.
Evan Roberts
Founder & COO of Phreesia
As VP of Customer Solutions and co-founder of Phreesia, Inc., Evan is the technical visionary responsible for driving Phreesia’s initiative to pioneer patient self-service registration and educational solutions, at a low cost to clinicians in their medical practices. Prior to founding Phreesia, Evan was a Senior Sales Engineer at Spotfire, a leading provider of interactive analytics software, where he helped to penetrate new markets including pharmaceutical sales and marketing, resulting in significant net new revenue. In that capacity he developed innovative applications, and trained and managed his team to support and nurture these new markets. He began his career at Spotfire as a member of the Professional Services team. Evan holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University.
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About Phreesia: Phreesia automates the patient check-in process by collecting personal health information on the PhreesiaPad.
Howard Yeh
Co-Founder, CEO & Board Director of HealthCare.com
Howard Yeh Online marketing entrepreneur and investor. President and Founder of HealthCare.com (Healthcare, Inc.). Founder of ContactUs.com, Inc. (2012), former co-founder of BrokersWeb (a 2x Inc 500 performance marketing company). Former venture capitalist at VantagePoint Capital Partners. Former investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Howard blogs at www.howardyeh.com.
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About HealthCare.com: HealthCare.com is an insurtech platform that allows users to analyze health insurance options that are available in their area.
Alexander Dembitzer
Founder of The Northern Charitable Foundation (NCF)
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About SKY POWER, LLC, SkyREM, The Northern Charitable Foundation (NCF): The Northern Charitable Foundation (NCF) is a tax deductible 501 C3 non-profit organization.
Landy Toth
CEO, Founder & CTO of LifeLens Technology
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About Autonomix Medical, DavosPharma, LifeLens Technology: LifeLens Technology is a biotechnology company that leads in innovative next generation treatment devices for personal health monitoring.
Omri Yoffe
Co-Founder & CEO of Vi
Omri Yoffe is Founder & CEO at Vi
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About Vi: Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.
Siva Namasivayam
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Executive Officer of Cohere Health
Prior to co-founding Cohere Health, Siva was a founding partner of SCIO Health Analytics which served over fifty Fortune 500 clients. Siva’s experience also includes serving as SVP, Chief Revenue Officer at MphasiS, SVP, Payer Services at Dell, and Senior Software Engineer at Intel. Siva received his bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirappalli. He holds a master’s in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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About Cohere Health: Cohere Health is a SaaS company that focuses on aligning patients, physicians, and health plans to create optimal care journeys.
Mike Simmons
CEO & Founder of andros
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About andros: andros is a provider of network management solutions for healthcare organizations.
Tom Aulet
Co-Founder & CEO of Ergatta
Tom Aulet is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ergatta.
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About Ergatta: Ergatta is an at-home connected fitness startup that offers a rowing machine and proprietary digital content.
Anthony Girand
CEO, Co-Founder of VoyagerMed
Anthony has over 15 years of experience as a Private Wealth advisor on Wall Street. He left Forbes Family Trust in 2014 to start VoyagerMed and has been spearheading the company’s digital operations ever since. Contact Anthony at anthony@voyagermed.com
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About VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
Struan Coleman
Chief Medical Adviser, Co-Founder of VoyagerMed
Struan Coleman MD, PhD, is a world-renowned, board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip preservation and sports medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia. Struan Coleman earned a medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and holds a D.Phil in Microbiology from Oxford University, England. He completed both his residency in Orthopedic Surgery and a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery. During his fellowship, Struan Coleman worked as an assistant physician for the New York Giants football team and is currently the Head Team Physician for the New York Mets baseball team. Struan Coleman focuses on the treatment and management of sports related injuries of the hip, knee, and shoulder, with a particular interest in hip arthroscopy and hip preservation. In his practice, he treats young, athletic patients with hip pathology; in addition, he has performed arthroscopic surgery on many high level athletes with hip problems, including NFL players from the Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders, and Washington Red Skins. Struan Coleman also combines his clinical practice with research relating to the fields of hip arthroscopy and sports medicine, and he has published numerous articles and written chapters in those fields. Struan Coleman holds numerous patents for technologies that are utilized by sports medicine physicians and surgeons. Most recently, he patented the technology behind the CyMedica QB1 Rehabilitation System, which is used to treat quadriceps atrophy. Struan Coleman is the founder of CyMedica Orthopedics and he is on the board of the company.
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About CyMedica, New York Mets, VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
Mason Sexton
CEO & Founder of Soozy’s
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About Nomad Interactive, Soozy’s: Soozy’s is a food and beverage company that offers healthy and tasty grain-free baked goods.
Bettina Elling
Co-Founder & CMO of Pace
Bettina Elling is the Co-Founder and CMO at PACE. She was the Co-Founder of Foundations Marketing Group before that.
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About Pace, Proof Beverage: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
Edouard Gaussen
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Mantra Health
Edouard Gaussen is a Co-Founder and CEO at Mantra Health. Edouard has had experience operating and advising startups on growth and user acquisition. He was one of the early employees at Tinder, a social discovery app based in Los Angeles, which disrupted the online dating industry and creates millions of matches every day. His role evolved from handling all on ground growth strategies in the Canadian market to leading the international marketing team across 15 different markets worldwide. As an active member of the Montreal tech community, Edouard serves as a mentor at the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at McGill University. Edouard holds a B.A. in Economics and Finance from McGill University. Born and raised in Switzerland, he is a dual French-Swiss citizen and calls Montreal home.
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About Mantra Health: Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students.
Matt Kennedy
Co-Founder, COO of Mantra Health
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About Mantra Health: Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students.
Michael Cline
Co-Founder of Accolade
Michael Cline is the Founder and Chairman of Accolade.
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About Accolade, Accolade, Accretive, Accumen: Accolade features personalized health and benefits solutions that help to improve experience, outcomes, and healthcare cost for employers.
Steven Gutentag
Co-Founder of Keeps
Co-Founder, Keeps
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About Cove, Keeps, Thirty Madison: Keeps is a startup aimed at preventing and slowing age-related hair loss.
Demetri Karagas
Co-Founder of Keeps
Co-founder of Keeps
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About Keeps, Thirty Madison: Keeps is a startup aimed at preventing and slowing age-related hair loss.
Allon Bloch
Co-Founder and CEO of K Health
Allon Bloch is the CEO and Co-founder of K Health. Previously he served as the CEO of Vroom, the largest online car retailer in the U.S, Co-CEO of Wix, the world’s leading website publishing platform, and CEO of mySupermarket, a digital platform that empowers consumers to find the best prices for their groceries. Allon is also a former venture capitalist, serving as a Venture Partner with Greylock’s Europe/Israel fund and a General Partner at JVP. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is based in New York.
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About K Health: K Health is a data-driven digital primary care system that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.
Joel Landau
Founder & Chairman of The Allure Group
Joel Landau is the Managing Director at Pinta Partners.
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About Aurora Health Network, Blueprint Health, Centers Healthcare, Claimex, Pinta Partners, The Allure Group: The Allure Group is a rapidly expanding provider of skilled nursing and rehabilitation services throughout the New York
Helen Egger
Co-Founder, Chief Medical, & Scientific Officer of Little Otter
Helen Egger currently works as the co-founder, chief medical and scientific officer for Little Otter. She previously worked at NYU Langone Health as the director.
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About Little Otter: Little Otter is a children’s mental health company that developed an app that focuses on the mental health of children and their families.
Dr Andrew Botham
Co-Founder and CSO of TestCard Ltd
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About TestCard Ltd: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Samuel D. Waksal
Founder & Chairman of MeiraGTx
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About Brain-Mind Institute, Graviton, MeiraGTx, Weill Cornell Medicine: Meira Gene Therapy is a clinical-stage company developing novel treatments for inherited and acquired genetic disorders.
Jeff Krahel
CEO & Co-Founder of Playbook
Founder at Fitner Media.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Michael Wojcieszek
Co-Founder & CTO of Playbook
Michael Wojcieszek is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Jeff Krahel
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbook
Jeff Krahel is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Richard Forman
Co-Founder of Sapphire Digital
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About Caring.com, Sapphire Digital, Surround Ventures: Sapphire Digital is a full omnichannel digital engagement and shopping platform for consumers, employers.
Mitch Rothschild
Co-Founder of Sapphire Digital
Mitch brings two decades of entrepreneurial experience to his role as co-founder, Chief Perfectionist & CEO of Vitals. Prompted by personal medical experience that could have turned out badly, Mitch helped found Vitals. He designs and oversees the direction of the company and promulgates the Vitals message to the world. Prior to Vitals, Mitch founded RaspberryRed Marketing, NetWorks, Tuff Rhino, Awards.com, RUSS CandyBears and Time Warner Viewer’s Edge. He has also been involved in the rapid growth of Popcorn Indiana, Blue Moon Mexican Cafe and IT’SUGAR. Mitch has an MBA, with honors, from Columbia University and an MA (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) from Queens College.
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About Sapphire Digital: Sapphire Digital is a full omnichannel digital engagement and shopping platform for consumers, employers.
Lonny Reisman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HealthReveal
Lonny Reisman, M.D., is Executive Vice President and Aetna’s Chief Medical Officer. Appointed to this role in 2008, he is responsible for the company’s clinical strategy to improve the health of Aetna’s members and to help build a better health care system supported by evidence-based accountability by every participant. He leads health care system change through Aetna’s clinical thought leadership, Innovation Labs, clinical policy and integrated system design. Dr. Reisman is a recognized leader in health information technology, patient safety and evidence-based medicine, and he has published numerous clinical, peer-reviewed articles. He has spent his career confronting the challenges in health care and emphasizes that issues related to cost and quality must be addressed by supporting greater adherence to evidence-based standards of care. By replacing traditional information silos, Dr. Reisman has focused on new ways for information to be easily used and easily shared throughout the health care system. Drawing on expertise from across the health care and technology industries, Dr. Reisman helps align Aetna’s capabilities in clinical research, payment reform, health information technology, health information exchange, and patient and provider collaboration to drive innovations that lead to better health outcomes and lower costs. Prior to his CMO position, Dr. Reisman was Chief Executive Officer of ActiveHealth Management. He co-founded ActiveHealth Management, now an Aetna subsidiary, following nearly 20 years of experience as a physician and consultant to large employers concerned about health care quality and costs. Dr. Reisman led the development of the ActiveHealth CareEngine® System, a clinical decision support technology platform that received a U.S. Patent in 2004. Dr. Reisman is a member of the Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy Committee; the New York eHealth Collaborative Board of Directors; the RCHN Community Health Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors; and the East Coast CMO Executive Summit Committee. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Reisman was a principal in the Managed Care Group of William M. Mercer where he led numerous consulting engagements with Fortune 500 corporations, health care providers, suppliers and payers that focused on managing the demand for health care resources. Dr. Reisman was an attending physician at New York Hospital and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center between 1987 and 1999, and was a cardiology fellow at the University of Chicago from 1985 to 1987. He received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his medical degree from Tel Aviv University.
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About Aetna, HealthReveal: HealthReveal provides a cloud-based clinical analytics platform designed to preempt the avoidable consequences of chronic disease.
Adam Berkowitz
Co-Founder/Chief Operating Officer of Pharmapacks
Adam Berkowitz is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Pharmapacks.
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About Pharmapacks: Pharmapacks is an e-commerce company that offers products for daily health and wellness needs.
Aaron Albert
Co-Founder/CEO of Mine’d
Co-Founder/CEO at Mine’d
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About Mine’d: The Emotional Network – Daily, live guided emotional health sessions
Daniel Berg
Founder of Berg Bites
At age 10, Berg Bites CEO and founder Dan Berg accompanied his father to the gym every week. This exposure to health and fitness was a formative influence over Dan. It didn’t just inspire him to work out. It inspired him to incubate a business idea from the family living room. Preteen Dan began the research and development of Berg Bites in middle school. He taught himself about food and nutrition and purged the family home of junk food. By high school, he was producing the Berg Bites prototype: nutritious and delicious balls of peanut butter, chocolate, oats, and seeds, served to friends and family as the one and only Berg-approved dessert. These crowd-pleasers became the original Chocolate Chip Madness flavor of Berg Bites. Rolled within each bite is the family legacy that nurtured Dan and his vision. Dan’s entrepreneurial spirit and dedication to health food fused in college, where he and his dormmates couldn’t easily find healthy snacks. Dan’s mother shipped the bites to the hungry students, who gratefully devoured them. It was a moment of truth for Dan, who had been thinking about the business angle since high school. It was time to fulfill the call of destiny and transform Berg Bites into the corporation of Dan’s lifelong dream
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About Berg Bites, DRNX, Future Forward Food: Berg Bites provides nutritious, clean label products that consumers can understand and feel good about eating.
Craig Elbert
Co-Founder and CEO of Care/of
Craig Elbert is the co-founder and CEO of Care/of. Prior to co-founding Care/of, Craig served as the founder of Juxtapose and vice president of marketing at Bonobos.
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About Care/of: Care/of is a healthcare technology company dedicated to simplifying consumer health, starting with a fully personalized vitamin pack.
Akash Shah
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Care/of
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About Care/of: Care/of is a healthcare technology company dedicated to simplifying consumer health, starting with a fully personalized vitamin pack.
Ryan Hungate
CEO & Founder of Simplifeye
CEO & Founder of Simplifeye.
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About Simplifeye: Simplifeye empowers doctors by automating the business of their practice
Jordan Feldman
Co-Founder & CEO of Rightway
Bachelor of Arts, Government & Economics – Harvard,Investment Banking – Goldman Sachs,Investment Professional – Redbird Capital.
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About Rightway: Rightway is a health technology company that is simplifying the healthcare experience for clients and members.
Matt Salzberg
Board Member & Co-Founder of Embark
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About AGO Partners, Embark, Material, Suma Brands: Embark offers dog DNA testing that ends preventable diseases in dogs.
Vangelis Vergetis
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Intelligencia
Vangelis is working on the intersection of data science, technology, and healthcare. In 2017 he co-founded Intelligencia, a company that uses AI to assess and minimize the risk of drug development. Prior to that he was a management consultant for more than 12 years – at both McKinsey and Hakluyt – advising healthcare clients and investors on a variety of topics, including digital technologies, clinical development and early commercialization. Outside of Intelligencia, Vangelis is a board member and member of the Executive Committee of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Cornell’s faculty of Computing & Information Science (CIS), and is an advisor and investor in technology companies in both the US and Europe. He holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
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About Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Dimitrios Skaltsas
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Intelligencia
Dimitrios has led McKinsey’s team for big data & AI applications in R&D for life sciences, and has built SaaS products focusing on clinical development. He serves as an advisor, and has also invested, in several technology companies with a focus on big data. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, where he is also currently an Executive in Residence for AI/ Digital.
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About INSEAD, Intelligencia: Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
Linhao Zhang
CTO and Co-Founder of TrialSpark
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About TrialSpark: TrialSpark is a technology company that helps bring treatments to patients faster by reimagining how clinical trials are run.
Eric Kroll
Co-Founder of Medaptive Health
I’m a catalyst who helps businesses, ideas, & people reach their potential. AKA: I’m an entrepreneur, advisor, investor, and connector with experience in various industries. Main Focus: Co-Founder of Medaptive Health, a digital health company that is seeking to transform patient engagement to enhance health and wellness, where I run BD/Sales/Marketing. Secondary Focus: Investing as a venture partner at a VC & as an angel. Indicator Ventures invests in early stage startups helping with digital efficiency (ie, save time/$ for people/orgs), with existing customers & a product at least in beta, mostly seed & some A. As an angel it’s all about the team – I want amazing founders (especially female/minority) and lean towards tech/retail/consumer then impact then B2B, usually seed but can go earlier/later.
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About Ben’s Friends, Indicator Ventures, Medaptive Health, NYU Entrepreneurial Institute: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Jeremy Block
Co-Founder of Medaptive Health
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About Baruch College, Medaptive Health, Memorial Sloan – Kettering Cancer Center, Venture Catalyst: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
Clay Williams
Founder & CEO of Medaptive Health
Entrepreneur, computer scientist, healthcare wonk, cyclist, dachshund lover.
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About Medaptive Health: Medaptive Health™ is an open source solution for creating health offerings using CareKit, ResearchKit, ResearchStack, and the web.
