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This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Fitness space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
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 Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
James Park
CEO and Co-Founder of Fitbit
James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing company acquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Eric Friedman
Co-Founder & CTO of Fitbit
Eric is our Co-Founder and has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and most recently as our CTO. Previously, Eric served as an Engineer Manager at CNET Networks, as a Co-Founder of Wind-Up Labs, a founding engineer of Epesi Technologies, and a technical member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. Eric holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder and CTO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
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.
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.
Jessica Richman
Co Founder & CEO of uBiome
Jessica Richman is the co-founder and CEO of uBiome, a startup that uses big data and citizen science to understand the human microbiome. Jessica started and sold her first company after high school. Returning to formal education, she attended Stanford University, where she earned degrees in Economics and Science, Technology & Society (interdisciplinary engineering, emphasis in computer science). Along the way, she worked for Google, McKinsey, Lehman Brothers, the Grameen Bank, and top-tier Silicon Valley venture firms as well as other entrepreneurial projects and adventures. Her work has been published in The New York Times and other national publications. Jessica arrived at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar and completed an MSc at the Oxford Internet Institute. Currently a Green Templeton DPhil Scholar, her academic interests include network analytics, innovation, and collective intelligence. Her work has been featured in Wired, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, NPR, FoxNews, ABC News, and dozens of other media outlets. She has spoken at TEDMED, TEDxBrussels, Partnering for Cures, the American Society for Microbiology, HealthFoo, SciFoo, Oxford University, the University of California San Francisco, and many other conferences and venues.
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About uBiome: uBiome is a provider of public access to DNA sequencing technology to understand the microbiome.
Zachary Apte
Co – Founder and CTO of uBiome
Zachary Apte is a Co-Founder and CTO of uBiome. Trained in both theoretical high-energy physics and biophysics, Dr. Apte earned his PhD in biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco. Before uBiome, he founded a synthetic biology company based on his invention of a novel microfluidics devices and funded by the US Department of Energy. While a university student at Hampshire College, he built an open science web platform and was integral in the initial research and development for the project that became the first published carbon-emissions rating label in North America.
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About Bioparaiso, uBiome: uBiome is a provider of public access to DNA sequencing technology to understand the microbiome.
Yi Liu
Founder & CEO of iHealth Labs
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About iHealth Labs: iHealth offers cloud-based, personal healthcare products for individuals of all ages to take a more active role in managing their health.
Alex Rodriguez
CIO, Founder & CEO of A-Rod Corp
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez is an American professional baseball infielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers. During his 20-year career, Rodriguez has amassed a .299 batting average, 677 home runs, 2,027 runs batted in (RBIs), and over 3,000 hits. He is a 14-time All-Star and has won three American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten Silver Slugger Awards, and two Gold Glove Awards.
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About A-Rod Corp, BRX Holdings, Fitplan, JLo Beauty, Slam Corp: A-Rod Corp identifies, originates and manages investments across a broad array of industries.
Ben Evans
Founder & Chief Growth and Strategy Officer of Marathon Health
Along with Jeff Wells, Ben Evans founded OurHealth in February, 2009 to solve a growing problem in the healthcare delivery system, a lack of access and unaffordable cost escalation for employees and employers. Developing a model that is dedicated to independence, OurHealth has grown to be a leader in employer based onsite healthcare. Ben is a dedicated leader responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company. He has investment and management experience in multiple industries as an investor, manager and entrepreneur. A native of Indianapolis, Ben is active in the community, working with non-profits such as the American Lung Association, Special Olympics of Indiana, and the Penrod Society.
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About Marathon Health: Marathon Health offers a proven solution for helping employers reduce the total cost of healthcare
Jeff Wells
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Marathon Health
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About Marathon Health: Marathon Health offers a proven solution for helping employers reduce the total cost of healthcare
Melisse Gelula
Co-Founder of Wellgood
Melisse Gelula is senior vice president of brand for Leaf Group’s fitness and wellness division, overseeing the editorial, brand content, design, and video teams. As co-founder of Well+Good, Gelula was named to “Inc.” magazine’s Most Creative Entrepreneurs of 2018. Previously, Gelula was editor-in-chief of SpaFinderLifestyle.com, beauty director at “Luxury SpaFinder,” and travel editor at Fodor’s.
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About Wellgood: Wellgood is an organization that writes articles about exercise and healthy living.
Avrum Elmakis
Founder and CEO of CLMBR
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About CLMBR, TDBBS: CLMBR offers a vertical climbing machine, featuring a large-format touch display with on-demand classes.
Allen Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of Fitbod
Allen is the Co-founder & CEO of Fitbod.
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
Jesse Venticinque
Co-Founder, Product Head of Fitbod
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
Ian Lopatin
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiritual Gangster
Ian Lopatin is a Co-Founder of Spiritual Gangster Holdings, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Spiritual Gangster: Spiritual Gangster is yoga-inspired clothing for high vibration living.
Vanessa Lee
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Spiritual Gangster
Vanessa Lee is the Co-Founder & Creative Director of Spiritual Gangster Holdings.
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About Spiritual Gangster: Spiritual Gangster is yoga-inspired clothing for high vibration living.
Alarik Myrin
Co-Founder and CSO of Zwift
Zwift Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Zwift. Co-founded and worked as Chief Technology Officer at Sakonnet Technology, he oversees all aspects of product development, before co-founding Zwift in 2014. He is a Member of the Board of Advisors at the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT), a non-profit organization dedicated to recruiting talented undergraduates into the field of teaching. IRT is affiliated with Phillips Academy at Andover.
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About Zwift: Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
Todd Dagres
Chairman and Founder of Liteboxer
Todd Dagres is the Chairman and Founder at Liteboxer.
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About Liteboxer, Signpost, Spark Capital: Liteboxer is a provider of a digital fitness platform used to provide an engaging full-body boxing workout.
Jeffrey Morin
Co-Founder and CEO of Liteboxer
Jeffrey Morin is the founder and CEO of Liteboxer.
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About Liteboxer: Liteboxer is a provider of a digital fitness platform used to provide an engaging full-body boxing workout.
David Agus
Co-Founder of SENSEI Holdings
David Agus is an American physician and a New York Times bestselling author. He is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is co-founder of Navigenics, a personalized medicine company and Applied Proteomics, as well as a CBS News contributor.
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About Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, SENSEI Holdings, University of Southern California: Guiding you towards greater wellbeing.
Kevin Wall
Founder and CEO of PTK Capital
Kevin Wall is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first person to receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.
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About Control Room, Craton Equity Partners, Dreamscape Immersive, Live Earth, PTK Capital, Sustainable Holdings: PTK Capital invests in businesses that benefit the human condition in the areas of Entertainment, Wellness and their intersection.
Rod Burreson
Founder and President of Roex
Rod Burreson, the company’s founder and President, is a former athlete and body builder who has experienced a myriad of ailments and injuries resulting from these activities. Mr. Burreson became committed to finding and developing non-pharmaceutical solutions to improve his own quality of life. Not content with the current products and formulas on the market, Mr. Burreson, through education, research, and the collaboration of many of the finest professionals in their field, began to develop the highest quality formulas and comprehensive products that would meet his own specific health needs. Recognizing the tremendous health benefits he experienced, Rod realized that many other people could benefit from these types of products as well. Armed with the antioxidant (PC-95) he imported from Europe, Rod subsequently formed Roex Inc. in 1994, a company dedicated to finding solutions for some of the many problems associated with aging and nutritional deficiency. Since introducing PC-95, Roex has steadily added products to its line. Today, thanks to you, our loyal customers, Roex is one of the fastest growing companies in the nutritional supplement industry.
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About Roex: Roex is one of the fastest growing companies in the nutritional and dietary supplement industry.
Moawia Eldeeb
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tempo
Moawia Eldeeb is the co-founder and CEO of Tempo.
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About Tempo: Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Farbood Nivi
CEO & Co-Founder of Orchestra One
After teaching for a decade, Farb founded Grockit in December of 2006 with the goal of helping learners connect to teach each other. He grew up in both Canada and The United States and is a graduate of The University of Michigan. In the past, he founded Vision Computer Solutions in Northville Michigan and WAPonimizer, the first privacy service for cell phones. He has been a winner in the MIT Sloan Business School 1K Entrepreneurship competition and has been The Princeton Review’s National Teacher of the Year.
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About Coinmine, Learnist, Orchestra One, Socratic Labs: Orchestra One is a free web-based scheduling, payments and communications system for private practices.
Chris Milk
Co-Founder, CEO and COO of Supernatural
Chris Milk is the Co-Founder, CEO, and COO of Supernatural. He is an artist, director, and technologist.He is the founder and CEO of [Vrse](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vrse#/entity). Milk has gained recognition as a music video director, working with Arcade Fire, U2, Kanye West, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, John Mellencamp, Courtney Love, and Modest Mouse. He has been honored with the top industry awards for his music video and commercial work, including the Grand Prix Cannes Lion, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW’s ’Best of Show’, as well as multiple Grammy nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK’s MVA Innovation Award. Milk’s short film, Last Day Dream, played at film festivals around the world, and he directed the second unit of A Mother’s Promise, the film that introduced Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards recognized his work in design and art in 2011. The Wilderness Downtown was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 30 Best Music Videos of all time, and was exhibited at MoMA in NY for 6 months in 2011. Milk builds multiple projects with Virtual Reality as the canvas. The collaboration with Beck called “Sound & Vision” has been exhibited in an Oculus Rift at the Future of Storytelling Summit, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festival. Chris Milk was born in New York.
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About Here Be Dragons, Supernatural, Within (VR/AR): Supernatural is an immersive, virtual reality fitness experience that combines music, coaches, destinations, and movements.
John Capodilupo
Co-Founder & CTO of WHOOP
John Capodilupo is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at WHOOP.
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About WHOOP: WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Aurelian Nicolae
Co-Founder & Director of Mechanical Engineering of WHOOP
Aurelian Nicolae is a Co-Founder and Director of Mechanical Engineering at WHOOP.
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About WHOOP: WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Will Ahmed
Founder & CEO of WHOOP
Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, which has developed next generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance and health. WHOOP members range from professional athletes and fortune 500 CEOs to fitness enthusiasts and executives to military personnel and healthcare workers. Ahmed has raised more than $200 million from top investors and has an active advisory board that consists of some of the world’s most notable cardiologists, technologists, marketers, and designers. Ahmed wrote “The Feedback Tool: Measuring Fitness, Intensity, and Recovery,” which sparked the underlying physiology and engineering for his work today. Ahmed was recently named to the 2021 Sports Business Journal 40 under 40 list as well as 2020 Fortune 40 Under 40 Healthcare list and previously named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40. In 2020, WHOOP was named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company for Wellness. Before founding WHOOP, Ahmed was named a 2011 Harvard College Scholar for finishing in the top 10% of his class and a CSA Scholar Athlete; he captained the Harvard Men’s Varsity Squash Team.
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About WHOOP: WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Boris Lipchin
Founder and CEO of BRIO Systems
Boris Lipchin, co-founder and CEO of Brio Systems, Inc.. Boris was previously a co-founder and CTO of Airmada, Inc. before Airmada four years as a flight software engineer, launch operator and GN&C engineer for SpaceX.
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About Brio, BRIO Systems, Techstars: BRIO Systems offers a complete COVID-19 testing system to help employers keep teams safe and businesses on track.
Trevor Tice
Co-Founder & CEO of CorePower Yoga
An unlikely candidate for owning yoga studios, Trevor opened the first CorePower Yoga in Denver in 2002, and filled a niche in an emerging yoga market. His goal? To create an empowering and health-focused environment where individuals are not bound by conventional ideas about the limits of body and mind. Prior to CorePower Yoga, Trevor owned TechPartners International, a $60 million dollar IT company he sold to a public UK firm in 2001. He received a degree in Business from the University of Colorado, and serves on the Board of Directors for MindBody Online and BridgeView IT. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in the Retail & Consumer Products category in the Rocky Mountain region. In 2011, Trevor Tice and CorePower Yoga received the ACG Emerging Corporate Growth Award, an honor given to companies with annual sales less than $100 million that have demonstrated steady growth for three consecutive years. An avid believer in giving back, Trevor formed CorePower Cares, a nonprofit organization that leverages the generosity of the CPY community to support a myriad of philanthropic causes, most recently supporting the Japan relief effort. Trevor approaches challenges with “yes, we can – go do it”, encouraging all employees to explore new ideas. An avid yoga practitioner and teacher, he visits at least one CPY studio every day, providing positive feedback to instructors and managers.
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About CorePower Yoga: CorePower Yoga is a platform for any individual to learn and practice various styles of yoga.
Patrick Chandler
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of FightCamp
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer. Currently running the FightCamp marketing team, deep knowledge in Paid Social (Facebook, Instagram), Content Marketing (Youtube, SEO), Website Optimization (CRO), Email marketing, TV advertising and Influencer marketing. Also created the attribution modeling framework and the data analysis system we use. On the technical side, was previously Chief Data Scientist and have experience in Machine Learning, IMU sensors, kinematics / 3D motion tracking, startups and data science.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
Alexandre Marcotte
Co-Founder and CTO of FightCamp
Mr. Marcotte graduated from Sherbrooke University with an Electrical Engineering degree with a major in microelectronics. While launching Hykso with Mr. Zahar, Mr. Marcotte lead his team to the international electric car competition Eco Shell Marathon in Texas, USA. Mr. Marcotte’s team broke the world record for the most economic electric prototype ever built and their car, E-Volve received much attention by the press.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
Carrie Rezabek Dorr
Founder of Pure Barre
Carrie grew up professionally dancing, performing and choreographing events all over the U.S. She has extensive training in dance, pilates and fitness. After earning a Business degree from Michigan State and a Law Degree from Wayne State, Carrie opened her first studio in Birmingham, MI in 2001 where she developed the Pure Barre workout. Carrie lived like a gypsy as she personally moved all over the country opening Pure Barre locations in different markets and began franchising the concept in July 2009 while living in LA. She has since created an extensive line of DVDs and exercise equipment. Carrie is a member of the Entrepreneur’s Organization as well as being involved with the Summit Series, Renaissance and the Legacy Foundation. She is a guest speaker on entrepreneurship and franchising for the MBA programs at the University of Southern California and the University of Colorado. Carrie is passionate about giving back to the community and launched the Pure Give movement in 2009. In 2009 while visiting the Pure Barre Denver studio, Carrie was completely caught off guard when she met Frank Dorr. They were married in 2011 and live in Boulder & Vail with their son Luke, two twin girls, Ruby and Ellie, and two labs, Logan and Moe.
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About Pure Barre: Pure Barre is the largest, most established barre concept worldwide
Ellen Latham
Creator & Co-Founder of Orangetheory Fitness
Ellen Latham is a highly trained physiologist with a lifelong passion for health and fitness. Her desire to be on the cutting edge of fitness inspired Ellen to design “The Ultimate Workout,” which became the foundation for Orangetheory Fitness – hailed by the New York Times as an effective new plateau-busting workout.Ellen is a Partner and Founder of Orangetheory Fitness, and Owner of Ellen’s Ultimate Workout gym in Florida. Inspired by her father Arthur Calandrelli, a very popular Physical Education teacher and coach in Niagara Falls, NY, Ellen has been motivating and training clients for over 35 years. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Buffalo in New York.
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About Orangetheory Fitness: Orangetheory is a science-based group personal training workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training.
Carl Daikeler
CEO & Co-Founder of Beachbody
CEO/ Co-Founder at Beachbody
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About Beachbody: Beachbody has developed and offering an in-home fitness and weight loss solutions.
Blake Mallen
Co-Founder & President of ViSalus
Blake Mallen is a Billion-Dollar Lifestyle Entrepreneur, CoFounder and President of two global lifestyle brands, TED Speaker, and Creator, who has spent over two decades helping people ‘wake up’ to become who they are ‘meant to’ be. After 19 years of excelling on the traditional path, yet never feeling fully fulfilled, Blake had a wake-up call: He had spent his entire life chasing achievements solely because it was what he was told he was “supposed to” do. Realizing that script would never lead to what he was really “meant to” do, Blake made the leap into entrepreneurship, becoming a self-made Millionaire by age 25 and co-owning a billion-dollar brand by his early 30s. Grateful for his journey, Blake gives back by empowering entrepreneurs and leaders to ‘shift the script’ so they too can find what they’re meant to do, become who they’re meant to be, and feel more alive. Blake builds companies that are aligned with his mission. He is a creator of products, programs, and platforms that have impacted over 3 million people and inspired mainstream movements expanding across 15+ countries. In his early 20s, Blake’s co-founded Vi, a health transformation platform that has generated more than $2 billion in cumulative revenue, was coined the “#1 Weight-Loss and Fitness Challenge in America,” has impacted millions, and is now expanding across Europe and Latin America. Blake also serves as the President of Vi’s sister company, Liv, an experience platform he co-founded to inspire people to trade in the notion of the “Bucket List” for a “Liv List,” by providing the everyday person access to extraordinary curated life experiences. Passionate about helping entrepreneurs create mission-driven movements, Blake takes on investor and advisor roles in select passion projects, and is a partner in HashTagOne, a $20M investment fund that invests in High Growth Seed and Series A companies. A values-driven leader, Blake is married to his high school sweetheart and has daily ‘dad-life’ adventures with his young son, daughter, and their big American Bulldog. From life enthusiast and high adventurer, to health advocate and longtime surfer, to world traveler and family man, Blake actively lives the lifestyle brands he sells. Blake is also a globally recognized influencer, thought leader, conscious living expert, and speaker, who is often profiled in industry publications (Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., SUCCESS) speaking on the topics of entrepreneurship, personal development and leadership. He has spoken in thousands of live events, to hundreds of thousands of people, and his recent TED Talk: “Shift The Script – Why Your ‘Supposed To’ No Longer Works,” is inspiring a movement to help even more “wake up,” move toward their “meant to,” and feel more ALIVE!
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About Liv Global, ViSalus: ViSalus is a health promoting company that created the Body by Vi 90-Day Challenge.
Nick Sarnicola
Co-Founder & CEO of ViSalus
Nick Sarnicola is a lifestyle entrepreneur, sales leader, business catalyst, master team builder, and philanthropist with more than two decades of experience in building billion-dollar sales teams and transforming aspiring professionals into multi-millionaire entrepreneurs. In corporate and field roles, Nick has developed wildly successful people, products and companies in various industries—from direct sales and technology, to health and fitness, to international events and non-profits. A self-made decamillionaire by age 35, Nick develops people of all different backgrounds on how to maximum their potential. While leading a 100,000+ person sales force, his innovation of leadership systems and strategies produced high-performing teams in 16 countries, creating more than 50 millionaires. Nick is the Co-Founder & CEO of two global lifestyle brands with platforms that power health transformations and inspire people to turn their “Bucket List” into a “Liv List.” Recognized as a purpose-driven Leaders’ Leader, he has built companies from the ground up by investing in its people, leveraging their skillsets, raising up new leaders, and running his businesses as a lifestyle. Nick is able to market anything out of nothing. He’s an entrepreneurial firestarter with an expertise in launches of new brands, platforms, products, marketplaces and global sales leaders. He also specializes in producing stadium-sized events and curating multi-day epic life experiences. A career highlight was architecting an international sales team to pioneer the new vertical of “Challenge Marketing,” which grew his company’s Body by Vi Challenge into a nearly $2 billion-dollar platform. Nick most recently created a new Life Experience category by building a social platform around turning people’s Bucket Lists into Liv Lists—ensuring they don’t take their list to the grave. A charismatic keynote speaker, Nick educates audiences on business growth topics: sales leadership, the science of goal-setting, result-driven strategies, return on time (ROT) methods, and dynamic team building. He speaks all over the world at conferences and events, in pursuit of his personal mission: to educate, develop, contribute to, and entertain millions of people through entrepreneurship, mentorship, speaking and writing. Through mastermind classes and mentorship programs, he guides the world’s most talented, passionate and successful high achievers to their greatest victories. Committed to supporting social causes, Nick is actively involved in his companies’ give-back initiatives, ViCares and Liv2Giv. He founded NextGen, which educates and supports young aspiring entrepreneurs. In 2017, the Muskegon Community College named one of their buildings the Rooks Sarnicola Center for Entrepreneurial studies in honor of Nick’s contributions to entrepreneurial graduates. Ask Nick what he is most proud of, and he’ll tell you it’s raising his daughter and son to become confident leaders who will positively impact this world.
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About Liv Global, ViSalus: ViSalus is a health promoting company that created the Body by Vi 90-Day Challenge.
Jake Mor
Founder & CEO of FitnessAI
Jake Mor is the founder and CEO of Fitness AI, an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
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About FitnessAI: Fitness AI is an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
Terry Anderton
Founder and CEO of WAGZ
Terry Anderton is the founder and CEO of Wagz and a lifelong dog owner. Terry has a long history of building disruptive and forward-thinking technology companies, including Gemr, a social commerce platform; Trunity, a cloud-based textbook company he took public in 2012; and NitroSecurity, a network security developer acquired by Intel in 2011. Terry has also served as a Senior Sales Executive for Cabletron Systems and McAfee. He started his career leading world wide sales and launching the game of Paintball for the inventor of the game.
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About WAGZ: Helping humans stay connected to their dogs through the world’s smartest dog collar.
Leonardo von Prellwitz
CEO and Founder of Eon
Leo has been leading the strategic analysis team within the Smart Grid (IoT/M2M) unit at Cisco since the inception of the business unit three years ago. He has been awarded as one of the top 100 thought leaders in the industry by the leading industry journal in 2012 and is a speaker at conferences worldwide on topics dealing with decentralized energy as well as economics and policy of the electricity industry. Beyond his work in Cisco’s Emerging Technology Group, he has also been actively working as a mentor for start-up funders for the Surge Accelerator, an energy software incubator program based in Houston. Leo is also active in the Online Social Networks (OSN) start-up sphere and is working on projects dealing with the unified social fabric, data mining and semantic analysis. Leo holds a Degree in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) and is a candidate for an MBA at Chicago Booth.
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About Eon: Eon Is a fitness platform that uses robotics, AI and streaming content to provide measurably better exercise in a fraction of the time.
Justin Marston
Founder & CEO of Tribe
Justin Marston is CEO and co-founder at Bamboo App. He served as a CEO and Co-Founder at Hypori, he is responsible for the company’s overall business strategy, operations, and long-term vision. A seasoned entrepreneur and technology innovator, Justin previously served as founder and CEO at BlueSpace Software, where he developed trusted virtualization security solutions for the defense and intelligence communities. Justin holds multiple patents, is a published author and a frequent speaker who has presented at numerous international defense and entrepreneurship conferences. He holds a master’s degree in chemistry from Durham University and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
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About Bamboo App, Tribe: Tribe is an application that offers an online workout and provides ways to connect and interact with local fitness members.
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Zachary Rubin
Co-Founder of ARENA
Zachary Rubin is a Co-founder of Go Arena.
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About ARENA, LiftLab, W8X: ARENA leads the at-home training center that uses cutting-edge engineering and industry.
Krisna Bhargava
CEO and Co-Founder of ARENA
Krisna Bhargava is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Go Arena.
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About ARENA: ARENA leads the at-home training center that uses cutting-edge engineering and industry.
Shane Heath
Founder and CEO of MUD\WTR
He is designer of ishBowl.
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About MUD\WTR: MUD\WTR is a food & beverage company that provides natural organic ingredients for health benefits.
Kunal Sarkar
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board of Lumos Labs
Kunal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumos Labs. Prior to founding Lumosity, Kunal co-founded the private equity fund AIMLP, which manages over $400MM in capital. The fund focuses on investments in infrastructure and natural resources. Prior to founding AIMLP, Kunal was Vice President at McCown De Leeuw and Co., a $1.2 billion private equity fund making growth equity investments. Kunal started his career in the Strategic Planning and Development group at the Walt Disney Company, where he was involved in the development of Disney’s acquisition strategy and over $5 billion of M&A transactions. Kunal graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Economics and a certificate in Finance.
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About Lumos Labs: Lumosity is a neuroscience research company that provides online brain training programs.
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.
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.
Stephen Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Kitman Labs
Stephen is co founder of Kitman Labs, the worlds most advanced athlete management platform. Stephen holds a Higher Diploma in Human Physiology and Health Science, a BSc (Hons) in Sports & Exercise Rehabilitation and an MSc in Football Rehabilitation. He worked with Leinster Rugby as a Sports Injury Rehabilitation Coach within the Strength & Conditioning Department between 2008-2014. Stephen founded Kitman Labs in 2012 and now lives in Palo Alto, CA where he focuses on expanding Kitman Labs in elite US sports. His areas of expertise include injury prevention, rehabilitation and analytics and he has a strong interest in the use of technology and emerging trends in sport science to further enhance sport science and medicine.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
Anatoly Tikhman
Co-Founder, President, & CEO of Monclarity
Anatoly Tikhman joined Monclarity as Co-Founder, President, & CEO in 2012.Anatoly has more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience developing and marketing innovative software applications. He is a successful entrepreneur, computer scientist and technology visionary. Anatoly’s ability to forge strategic technology license agreements with companies such as Microsoft has resulted in tens of millions of PCs carrying the technology he developed as a part of Microsoft Windows. Anatoly founded a number of companies, most of which were acquired by public companies such as Microsoft, Quarterdeck, Symantec, L&H, VASCO Data Security and others. Anatoly created cutting-edge, best-selling applications for technologies such as lossless data compression, speech recognition, biometrics, and several others. He is currently the Chairman of TikGames, LLC, which he founded in 2002. He built an industry-leading studio that has delivered a broad range of top quality proprietary and licensed games for numerous platforms. Among some of the highlights are Texas Hold’em Poker for Microsoft Xbox which is one of the most successful games in XBLA’s run, as well as the megahit Cuboid for Sony PlayStation.
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About Monclarity, Playteau, TikGames: Monclarity has assembled a unique interdisciplinary team of scientists and professionals.
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.
John DenBoer
Founder, CEO and CMO of SMART Brain Aging
John Denboer is a gourmet chef who specializes in group meals. His favorite dishes to prepare are mostly those from Asian cuisine. He loves to share what he knows to his students, who may not have had the chance to learn exotic and gourmet food preparation from other classes.
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About SMART Brain Aging: SMART Brain Aging provide aging individuals with a truly research-supported system of brain exercise.
Michael Horvath
Co-Founder & CEO of Strava
Michael Horvath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Strava. He earned his degree at Harvard University.
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About Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Mark Gainey
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Strava
Mark Gainey is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Strava.
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About AlterG, Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Earvin Johnson
Founder & CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises
Earvin “Magic” Johnson has become the most powerful African-American businessman in the world. He is a Major League Baseball owner, an NBA Legend, a 2-Time Hall of Famer, an Entrepreneur, a Philanthropist and a Motivational Speaker. The business mogul has successfully parlayed his skills and tenacity on the court into the business world, propelling his company to the status of #1 Brand in Urban America. He is Chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE), which provides high quality products and services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities through strategic alliances, investments, consulting and endorsements. The conglomerate is comprised of multiple business entities and partnerships that include Canyon Johnson, a $1 billion dollar real estate fund, Yucaipa Johnson, a $500 million dollar private equity fund, ASPIRE, a new African-American television network, SodexoMAGIC, Magic Airport Holdings, Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, Magic Johnson Bridgescape Academies, and Vibe Holdings, LLC – Johnson is the Chairman of the multi-cultural media company that houses the Vibe, Uptown, and Soul Train brands. Most noted for his unprecedented Starbucks partnership, which served as the catalyst for redevelopment in urban communities and is literally the blueprint for Corporate America’s engagement and success with urban consumers. In 2010, the savvy businessman divested his Starbucks and Los Angeles Lakers shares in excess $100 million dollars. However, he will continue to assist Starbucks with their community development initiatives and will remain Vice President of the Los Angeles Lakers. Johnson has also teamed up with Tim Leiweke of AEG in an effort to build a new stadium and bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles as well as thousands of jobs to the city. The story of Johnson and Larry Bird’s inspiring friendship and rivalry was presented in a theater adaptation of Magic & Bird on Broadway in April 2012. Johnson also serves as Chairman and Founder of the Magic Johnson Foundation, where his unwavering commitment to transform Urban America continues through HIV/AIDS Awareness & Prevention Programs, Community Empowerment Centers, and the Taylor Michaels Scholarship Program. Celebrating over 20 years of success, the Magic Johnson Foundation has become one of the most recognizable philanthropic organizations around the world.
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About JLC Infrastructure, Magic Johnson Enterprises, Magic Johnson Foundation: Magic Johnson Enterprises is a company owned by retired NBA Hall of Fame legend Magic Johnson.
Russell Robinson
Chairman of the board and Founder of Titan Brands
For more than 10 years, Russell Raynor Robinson has served as founder and CEO of Titan Manufacturing and Distributing in Collierville, Tennessee, where he strives to cultivate a work culture that brings the best out of his employees. Throughout his tenure at the company, Titan has shown consistent growth in its sector. For the past five years, Mr. Robinson’s company has been so successful that it has rated as one of the 30 fastest-growing retailers in the United States. As Titan continues to flourish, Russell Raynor Robinson believes he has a sound growth strategy that will enable the company to become one of the country’s largest 50 retailers. In addition to his everyday work, Mr. Robinson also participates in leadership development and is part of Vistage, an organization that provides executive coaching to top executives around the world. He is also an attendee of the Tony Robbins Business Mastery program and is well-versed in the other Tony Robbins personal development tracks, having attended a number of his seminars over the years.
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About Titan Brands: Titan Brands is an online based retailer of consumer and small business goods.
Ron Baldwin
Co-Founder & CEO of Uncommon Giving
Ron Baldwin is Chairman, President & CEO of CrossFirst Holdings, LLC, a private equity company investing in the financial services industry. Ron was a long-time Wichita, Kansas resident who, in 2005 after a 10-year tenure, left the position of President & COO of INTRUST Bank, the largest privately held bank in Kansas. Ron’s 36 years of banking service also includes a 23-year term with Fourth Financial Corporation, a $7.8 billion bank holding company, where he served in various positions including CFO, EVP and Chief Administrative Officer, President of BANK IV Oklahoma and EVP of Retail Banking. He holds a B.B.A. degree from Wichita State University and obtained a CPA designation. Ron resides in Overland Park, Kansas and is a board member of Kanakuk Ministries.
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About CrossFirst Bank, CrossFirst Holdings, Uncommon Giving: Uncommon Giving is a digital financial services company that provides innovative financial solutions for profit businesses.
Jason Langheier
Founder & CEO of Foodsmart
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About Foodsmart, the Partnership for a Healthier America: Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes.
Lorna Borenstein
Founder & CEO of Grokker
Lorna Borenstein is the CEO & Founder ,Author at Grokker.
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About Grokker, Grokker: Netflix for wellbeing with community at its core
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.
Willem Bult
Co-Founder & CEO of Cloud Sangha
Willem Bult was the co-founder and CTO at RentMethod.
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About Cloud Sangha: Cloud Sangha is a supportive community of meditators from all over the world that provides live, expert guidance.
Matthew Newman
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Growve
Matthew Newman currently works as the Co-Founder and Managing Partner for Growve. He previously worked at Stifel Financial Corp. as the Director.
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About Growve: Growve is a brand aggregator that specializes in the acquisition and management of wellness and beauty brands.
Anand Sharma
CEO and Founder of Gyroscope Innovations
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About Gyroscope Innovations: Gyroscope Innovations is a new OS for the human body, with an app and website for people to view their health analytics.
Tyler Haney
Founder and CEO of Outdoor Voices
Tyler Haney is the Founder and CEO of Outdoor Voices, an active lifestyle brand with the mission to free fitness from performance. A graduate of Parsons School of Design,Tyler grew up in Boulder, CO, where wellbeing revolves around spending time outdoors and casual activity is naturally integrated into everyday life. With Outdoor Voices, she set out to build the next great activewear brand—one that embodies that same approach to wellness. Headquartered in New York, OV has four shops in Manhattan, Austin, and Dallas, and the OV community continues to grow nation-wide, redefining recreation and Doing Things together. Tyler has been named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs and Outdoor Voices one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies (Style).
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About Outdoor Voices: Outdoor Voices is an active lifestyle brand that makes technical apparel for recreation.
Maayan Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder of Hello Heart
Co-Founder, CEO at Hello Doctor
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About Hello Heart: Hello Heart is the leader in cardiovascular digital therapeutics. We help people understand and improve their heart health using technology.
Holly Whitaker
Founder and CEO of Hip Sobriety
Holly Whitaker is Chief Creative Officer, Founder at Tempest.
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About Hip Sobriety, Tempest: Hip Sobriety provides alcohol abuse treatment for Americans.
Chip Hawkins
Founder & CEO of Wahoo Fitness
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About Wahoo Fitness: Wahoo Fitness harnesses the power of your iPhone to transform the way you rid
Cesar Carvalho
Co-Founder & Global Chief Executive Officer of Gympass
Cesar Carvalho is the Co-Founder and Global CEO at Gympass.
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About Gympass: Gympass is a fitness discovery platform connecting the world’s network of fitness facilities to companies and its employees.
Amit Munjal
Founder & CEO of Doctor Insta
Amit is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Doctor Insta. In his previous role, He was a CFO and Head of Investment Strategy at the $120 Billion Division of CitiGroup. Amit has multiple years of experience in Management Consulting, Private Equity, and Venture Capital and is a Subject Matter Expert in Scaling/Growth and Profit Optimization at e-commerce startups and Fortune 500 companies. Amit has been an active mentor and advisor to many startups in the USA and India and has been involved with Capital Innovators, St Louis, MO (USA)- one of the top 10 accelerators of the Country. Prior to his last role, Amit was a Senior Vice President of Growth & Investment Strategy at Bank of America and also did stints in Corporate Strategy Practice of Deloitte Consulting, in Corporate Development (M&A) with Randstad, and in Venture Capital with Kauffman Foundation. Amit has an MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington (where he was actively involved with Johnson Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Advanced Management Certification from Harvard Business School, and is a CFA Charterholder from CFA Institute, USA. In his spare time, he likes to travel, work out, read and try out new restaurants.
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About Doctor Insta: Bringing Healthcare to Everyone’s fingertaps; India’s 1st Video Medicine Company where One can consult Care-Givers anytime, anywhere.
Mike Melby
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FITLAB
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About ELECTRIC, FITLAB, FITLAB, FITLAB, Mayweather Boxing & Fitness, XPT: FitLab powers experiences that inspire you to move.
Richard Lin
CEO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Jun Kim
CSO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Caroline Beckman
Founder and CEO of Nouri Life
Caroline Beckman is a Co-Founder & CEO at Nomva.
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About Nomva, Nouri Life, Suja Life: Nouri is for men and women around the world who believe in increasing their mental and physical health.
Moran Shochat Snir
Co-Founder & CEO of Clear Genetics
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About Clear Genetics, Invitae: Clear Genetics is a digital health company dedicated to the thoughtful integration of genetics into routine patient care.
Guy Snir
Co-Founder & COO of Clear Genetics
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About Clear Genetics, Invitae: Clear Genetics is a digital health company dedicated to the thoughtful integration of genetics into routine patient care.
Bob Messerschmidt
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cor
Bob’s career spans more than 25 years in the field of instrumentation for spectroscopy. Bob was awarded the Williams-Wright Award in 1996 for outstanding contributions to infrared spectroscopy. He is the author or co-author of 12 articles and book chapters and co-editor of one book on infrared microspectroscopy, he holds 42 issued and pending US patents. He has made numerous conference and seminar presentations in the United States, Europe and Japan, and organized and chaired symposia in infrared spectroscopy. His interests include biomedical applications of spectroscopy, microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and other developing techniques. He is past president of the Coblentz Society, past president of the Rio Grande section of the SAS, a past-president of the Southwestern Connecticut section of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
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About Cor: Lifestyle Science™ platform
R. Dixon Thayer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HealthNEXT
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About HealthNEXT: HealthNEXT is a developer of workforce population health strategies.
Raymond J Fabius
Co-Founder / President of HealthNEXT
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About HealthNEXT: HealthNEXT is a developer of workforce population health strategies.
Katherine Krug
Founder / CEO of BetterBack
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About BetterBack: Make every chair ergonomic! Use BetterBack for 15 mins a day to improve your posture, ease back pain and improve your health.
Fred Helou
Founder & CEO of Vagaro
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About Vagaro: Vagaro is an online platform that allows its users to find salons and spas in their local area and make appointments online.
Steven Forti
Founder & CEO of FitFight
Prior to FitFight, Steven was a consultant for Johnson & Johnson’s Orthopedic Trauma Division, where he utilized eight years of Critical Care and Trauma Nursing experience. In the military, he earned the rank of Master Sergeant after serving 23+ years in Army Special Forces, where his specialties included Special Forces Weapons Sergeant and Special Forces Intel Sergeant. He is a Level 1 Sniper, and attended Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab at DIA as well as the Special Operations Planners Course in Norfolk VA. Steve earned a BS in Nursing from Quinnipiac University, completed a Critical Care Residency at Yale New Haven Hospital Systems, and holds a BS from Southern Connecticut State University.
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About FitFight: FitFight is a combat veteran owned and operated mobile platform.
Joshua Archer
Co-Founder of Sutra Fitness
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About Outreach, Sales Hacker, Sutra Fitness: arketa makes it easy for fitness instructors to build an online business.
Anthony Diaz
Founder and CEO of Health Hero
Anthony Diaz is Founder and CEO of Health Hero.
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About Health Hero: Health Hero enables organizations to do smart automated follow up via phone and text messages for patients and employees.
Jai Jung Kim
Co-Founder of Hydrant
Co-founder of Hydrant and CPG expert. Ex-McKinsey, private equity, venture capital.
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About Hydrant: Hydrant is a wellness brand company providing a balanced mix of electrolytes, minerals, and vitamins.
Ray Bradford
Founder & CEO of Spruce Health
Ray Bradford is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He joined the firm in 2011 and focuses on investments for the firm’s digital practice. Before joining KPCB, Ray worked at Amazon Web Services and helped grow the company’s cloud infrastructure business. He led one of the core product management teams and was responsible for the definition, launch, and business growth of new database services, including Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS), Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon DynamoDB. He is named inventor on multiple patent applications related to scalable data systems, and is excited by the opportunity for big data to drive efficiency gains and innovation in many sectors of the economy. Earlier in his career, Ray spent time at Twitter and Linden Lab (creators of the virtual world Second Life). Ray earned his M.B.A. at Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and completed computer science coursework. Ray holds his B.S. degree in economics from Westminster College, where he graduated summa cum laude and served as student body president.
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About Spruce Health: Spruce thinks of a better way to see the doctor by using their platform for communication.
Eugene Baah
Co-Founder & CEO of Resoltz
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About Resoltz: Video streaming fitness content tailored to your goals, schedule and personal preferences
Dhananja Jayalath
Founder of Athos
University of Waterloo graduate Dhananja (DJ) Jayalath honed his technical breadth from mechanical to electrical to software engineering as he finished his Electrical Engineering degree. After graduating in 2012 and turning down a lucrative position at Apple, DJ started work on a crazy idea he was already working on – that crazy idea is now called Athos! Like many tech pioneers of his generation, DJ started the development of Athos between classes. Because he couldn’t afford a pricey trainer and was frustrated with the hassle of current training technology, he sought to create a product that could quickly answer his all of his training questions. What began as a passion for making smarter better connected prosthetics turned into a revolutionary wearable EMG fitness technology. The research DJ collected for prosthetics innovations paired with his sewing and engineering skills crossed over perfectly as he sought to seamlessly integrate bulky EMG models, previously limited to Olympian and professional athletes, into affordable, weightless training apparel. DJ reengineered lab sized technology and condensed it to the size of a credit card and literally built it into interchangeable garments. Since co-founding Athos in the summer of 2012, DJ has been working on developing the product and driving the vision for a healthier lifestyle through technology.
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About Athos: The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.
Chris Wiebe
CTO & Co-Founder of Athos
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About Athos: The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.
Lou Lentine
President & CEO / Founder of Echelon Fitness
Lou Lentine is the President and CEO at Echelon Fitness Multimedia.
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About Echelon Fitness: Echelon Fitness offers a professional, studio quality fitness experience that clients can do on their time and in their own home.
Rob Wechsler
Founder & Managing Director of Blue Star Innovation Partners
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About Blue Star Innovation Partners: BSIP is an investment capital fund run by serial entrepreneurs who co-manage and invest alongside Jerry Jones and the Jones Family.
Noosheen Hashemi
Founder & CEO of January
Noosheen Hashemi is the Founder & CEO, January.ai.
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About Council on Foreign Relations, Hand Capital, January, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, The HAND Foundation, The HAND Foundation: January is a mobile app that combines AI with science to provide personalized health insights and recommendations.
Tapasya Bali
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer (Board Director) of YOGASMOGA
Tapasya Bali is an Indian American entrepreneur. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of YOGASMOGA – a yoga inspired, wellness and technical apparel company. The highlights of the company included an authentic approach to wellness, proprietary development of technically advanced performance fabrics and a domestically scalable – Made in USA supply chain. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the company. Tapasya is a seasoned executive with experience across a broad range of financial roles from managing trading strategies to company valuations and capital raising. She has a track record in building and operating businesses, leading strategic initiatives that grow revenue and leading operationally focussed teams. Tapasya is significantly influenced by her upbringing in the Himalayan region of India and the culture of yoga. In addition to being the Founder & COO of YOGASMOGA, Tapasya is a Co-Founder of the Namaskar Foundation –– a 501(c)(3) non-profit, that fosters corporate social responsibility. Tapasya holds an MBA from New York University and was previously a director at the Swiss Investment Bank – Credit Suisse. Tapasya is both a naturalized citizen of the United States of America and an Overseas Citizen of India.
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About Namaskar Foundation, YOGASMOGA: YOGASMOGA designs, manufactures and retails athletic apparel and accessories.
Evan Richardson
Founder and CEO of Form Health
Evan founded Form Health with the mission of making modern medical weight loss available for everyone. He was previously part of the founding management team at Grand Rounds, a telemedical concierge and primary care practice that helps patients get access to the highest quality, most appropriate healthcare. Prior to Grand Rounds, Evan was an early employee at Castlight Health, a pioneer in the healthcare price transparency space. Evan is a member of the board of directors at Bicycle Health, the national leader in delivering medication assisted therapy to people with opioid dependency. He received a BA with honors at Dartmouth College, and an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School.
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About Form Health: Form Health is a telemedical weight loss company that focuses on individuals dealing with obesity.
Amanda Freeman
Founder & CEO of SLT Group
Amanda Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Limber & she attended Duke University in 1994.
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About Limber, SLT Group: SLT Group is a boutique fitness studio operator engaging clients with full body workouts.
Rodolfo Dumenigo
CEO, Founder of Miami Beach Medical Group
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About Miami Beach Medical Group: Miami Beach Medical Group is a provider of primary care, specialty care, and ancillary services to Medicare Advantage plan members.
Mathew Farkash
Co-Founder & General Partner of Blueprint Health
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About Blueprint Health, Brown Angel Group: Blueprint Health is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator program supporting companies at the intersection of health and technology.
Per Lofberg
Co-Founder of Generation Health
Per Lofberg is Executive Vice President of CVS Health. Formerly, he was President of the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) and specialty pharmacy division of the company. Lofberg has an extensive background in health care and is widely respected for his knowledge and understanding of the PBM business. In his current role, Lofberg advises Larry Merlo, President and CEO of CVS Health, on strategy matters and business development and serves on the executive committee of the corporation. Previously, Lofberg served as President and CEO of Generation Health, an early stage company focused on genetic testing benefit management. Lofberg was also Co-Founder and CEO of Merck Capital Ventures, a venture capital company primarily funded by Merck to invest in emerging health care technologies. In an earlier role, Lofberg served as Chairman of Merck-Medco Managed Care LLC, which later became Medco Health Solutions. Before Merck-Medco, Lofberg was a Partner at The Boston Consulting Group and oversaw the firm’s worldwide health care practice. Lofberg holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn., and an undergraduate degree from the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden.
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About CVSHealth, Generation Health: Generation Health operates as a health management company.
