Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million 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 United States based COO’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Kathy Gallagher
Chief Operating Officer of Angel Staffing
Kathy is a healthcare manager with extensive experience in education and business development and is primarily responsible for Angel Staffing’s Disaster Relief efforts throughout the country. She has been an RN for 16 years with her clinical discipline focusing in Neurology and Neonatal ICU and is effectively versed in areas of patient care, project management, disaster response organization, contract negotiations and budget analysis. Kathy’s effective problem-solving and crisis management skills provide our clients, and employees, with a steadfast resource for business and employee relations in everyday operations and times of disaster.
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About Angel Staffing: Angel Staffing is a San Antonio based corporation that serves private, state and federal medical treatment facilities,.
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Patrick Flynn
Chief Operating Officer of SilverCloud Health
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About SilverCloud Health: SilverCloud Health provides immediate access to evidence-based and supported digital therapies.
Chief Operating Officer of Clearstep
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About Clearstep: Clearstep is a platform for health systems to provide a complete and digital front door experience.
Howard Dubinett
EVP & COO of Bio-Reference Laboratories
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About Bio-Reference Laboratories: BioReference is the third largest full service clinical diagnostic laboratory in the U.S. providing testing .
Tomer Jackman
Co-founder and COO of Variantyx
Tomer serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Variantyx and is responsible for delivering services to customers. This includes day-to-day operations such as supply chain management, customer care, and above all, productivity. Prior to co-founding Variantyx, Tomer was responsible for hardware development operations in Pivotal/Greenplum division of EMC2 where he helped develop server clusters for “Massive Parallel Processing” databases. This followed a decade with EMC2 in several hardware engineering roles, and work in R&D with HP/Indigo. He holds a high-tech MBA from Northeastern University in Boston, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.
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About Variantyx: Variantyx offers a comprehensive set of advanced genomic diagnostic products and services with a focus on whole genome sequencing.
David Deacon
Co Founder, COO of Ria Health
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About Ria Health: Ria Health’s evidence-based telehealth alcohol treatment program helps people drink less and live better.
Aaron Sheedy
Chief Operating Officer of Xealth
Mr. Aaron Sheedy serves as Chief Operating Officer at Xealth Inc.
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About Providence Health & Services, Xealth: Xealth is a platform for digital health, enabling clinicians to prescribe and monitor digital tools from within the EHR workflow.
Mandy Berman
Chief Operating Officer of Marathon Health
Mandy Berman is the Chief Operating Officer at Marathon Health.
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About Marathon Health: Marathon Health offers a proven solution for helping employers reduce the total cost of healthcare
Jennifer Jacobs
Co-Founder COO of PerceptiMed
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About PerceptiMed: PerceptiMed develops an advanced pill identification system designed to eliminate human errors in medication dispensing in pharmacies.
Jason Rickard
Chief Operating Officer of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
Jason Rickard is the Chief Operating Officer at Ironwood Pharmaceuticals.
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About Ironwood Pharmaceuticals: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is an entrepreneurial pharmaceutical company, develops drugs for gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases.
Gene Castagnini
COO, CFO, CAO & Co-founder of Biocare Medical
Gene J. Castagnini, MS, MBA, co-founded Biocare Medical LLC in 1997 and serves as its Co-Owner and Chief Financial Officer. Gene Castagnini serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Biocare Medical, LLC Gene Castagnini served as the Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer of BioGenex Laboratories. Inc., for 10 years. Gene Castagnini’s experience includes 15 years as a Director and Officer of Medi-Physics Inc., formerly a Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. subsidiary. Gene Castagnini has a BS in accounting and an MBA in Human Resource Management from the California State University school systems.
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About Biocare Medical: Biocare Medical is a provider of immunohistochemistry instrumentation.
Julie Skaff
Chief Operating Officer of Viz
Julie is Head of Operations at OODA Health.Prior to OODA she served as the Vice President of Implementation & Account Management at Grand Rounds, Inc. She managed the growth in their customer base to more than 80 direct customers. Prior to Grand Rounds, Julie was the Director of Implementation at Castlight Health, where she led the strategic implementation group. Julie has also worked in Booz & Company’s Global Health Practice and served Senator Dianne Feinstein as an aide for taxes, budget, and commerce. Julie has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA from Northwestern University.
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About Viz: Viz is a medical imaging company that helps optimize emergency treatment using deep learning technology.
Shobin Uralil
Co-founder & COO of Lively
Shobin Uralil is Co-founder & COO at Lively.
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About Lively: Lively is a modern Health Savings Account (HSA) platform for employers and individuals.
Victor Crawford
Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare, Education & Facilities of Aramark
Victor manages our healthcare sector that provides patient and retail dining and facility solutions to hospitals and senior living facilities as well as biomedical and diagnostic imaging services. He also oversees facility maintenance services we provide to business and industry clients. Before joining Aramark in 2012, Victor served as president of field operations at Pepsi Beverages Company and led the company’s North American operating business and guided the field leadership in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of supply chain and system transformation. Joining the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company in 1990, Victor quickly moved up through several finance and sales roles in Michigan and Ohio. In 1998, he was appointed vice president and general manager of the greater Chicago division of Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc. Victor left the Pepsi system in 2000 to join Marriott as senior vice president of Marriott Distribution Services (MDS). He was named executive vice president and general manager of MDS in 2001 and, in 2003, became senior vice president and chief operations officer for the Eastern Region of Marriott International. He spent the early years of his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michigan-based Federal-Mogul Corporation. Victor serves on the board of directors for the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, as well as the board of the National Urban League. He is also a member of Aramark’s Executive Leadership Council and serves as co-chair of Aramark’s Diversity Advisory Board. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Boston College.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Brad Drummond
Chief Operating Officer, Uniform & Refreshment Services of Aramark
Brad Drummond is the Chief Operating Officer of Aramark’s uniform and refreshment services—leading providers for uniforms, facility supplies and food beverage services. He is responsible for nearly 15,000 employees with more than 300 distribution and market facilities across North America. Brad joined the Aramark team in April 1999 as a Vice President of Business Development. That November, he moved to Burbank, CA to become Senior Vice President of the Western Region for our Uniform business. He returned to Philadelphia, PA in 2005 to serve as Executive Vice President of Aramark’s Healthcare and Education business units and just a year later Brad became President of Aramark’s Uniform Division. In 2015, his role was expanded to Chief Operating Officer of both our Uniform and Refreshments business units. Before joining Aramark, Brad held positions of increasing responsibility with Deloitte Consulting and Black and Decker. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Captain. Brad earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the Naval Academy, an MS Degree from the Naval Post Graduate School and an MBA from Loyola.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Brent Franks
Chief Operating Officer, International of Aramark
Brent leads our operations in international markets. In his role as chief operating officer (COO), Brent manages all food, facilities management and uniforms services, as well as any other operations in Europe, South America and Asia. His efforts further our presence and commitment abroad, accelerate growth in those regions and focus on delivering outstanding service and quality on behalf of clients and consumers. Before taking on his role overseeing International, Brent has served as COO for our education businesses as well as sports, leisure, and corrections sectors. While in those positions, he was responsible for the development and execution of master retail strategies and maintaining our high standard of service excellence across several industries. He joined Aramark after much success with Pepsi Bottling Company where he was president of their Mexico division and led the turnaround efforts for the country’s sales, manufacturing and distribution business. He also held roles as SVP, global sales and chief customer officer accountable for revenues of $14 billion. While at Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., Brent served as president of several groups. He was senior vice president of global sales and chief customer officer and held positions of senior vice president of PBG North America and chief customer officer of PBG North America, a subsidiary of Pepsi Bottling Group. Brent led PBG’s selling organization in the U.S. and Canada and acted as vice president of retail sales for the Southeast Business Unit of Pepsi Bottling Group. Brent joined Pepsi-Cola North America in 1982 and held a number of field sales and general management positions. He was general manager of the Capital Market Unit of Pepsi-Cola North America and vice president of customer development of the Great West Market Unit of PBG. Additionally, he held the position of vice president of food service at PBG’s Southeast Business Unit and was its vice president of retail sales. Brent graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas.
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About Aramark: Aramark provides food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions and more.
Steven Weidman
Chief Operating and Development Officer of SENSEI Holdings
Steven Weidman is a proven leader in operations, general management, sales and marketing with more than 16 years of experience in both Fortune 500 companies and venture backed startups.
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About SENSEI Holdings: Guiding you towards greater wellbeing.
Riley Ennis
Co-Founder and COO of Freenome
Riley is a Thiel Fellow who created a cancer vaccine with his previous company Immudicon as Co-Founder & Chair. Co-Founder, COO at Freenome.
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About Freenome, Immudicon, Oncolinx, The Thiel Foundation: Freenome is a biotechnology company with a comprehensive multiomics platform for cancer detection using a routine blood draw.
Dominick Colabella
President & Chief Operating Officer of Retriever Medical/Dental Payments
Dominick C. is the Chief Executive Officer at Rectangle Health.
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About Rectangle Health, Retriever Medical/Dental Payments, Retriever Medical/Dental Payments: Retriever Medical/Dental Payments is a provider of payment technology and merchant services to healthcare providers
Jonathan Magolnick
COO of Carewell
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About Carewell: Carewell is a family-run company that provides advocacy for caregivers and an e-commerce site for home health products.
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.
Jason Carter
Chief Operating Officer of Post Acute Medical
As Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Carter oversees the operations and daily management of all Post Acute Medical long-term acute care and inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. As an advocate for our patients, Jason strives to ensure quality, successful patient outcomes. A proud graduate of Texas State University, with a Master’s Degree in Communication Disorders, Carter joined Warm Springs Specialty Hospital of Luling (now PAM Specialty Hospital of Luling). A few years later, Jason was promoted to Director of Rehabilitation and continued his growth and career path, accepting other roles such as CEO of several PAM hospitals, Regional Vice President of Operations, and, most recently, Chief Operating Officer.
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About Post Acute Medical, Post Acute Medical: Post Acute Medical is a specialty healthcare company focused on providing high quality, post-acute care.
Claudia Huapaya
COO of Calibrate
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About Calibrate: Calibrate is a digital metabolic health business that is changing the way the world treats weight.
Don Calabria
COO of Endonovo Therapeutics
Don Calabria Chief Operating Officer brings over seventeen years of leadership and experience in national business operations to emerging growth companies, mergers and acquisitions, finance, and business development. Mr. Calabria has a deep level of experience in analyzing companies, determining the operational efficiencies, and conducting operational due diligence on targeted acquisitions. Previously, Mr. Calabria served as President of Gemini Consulting Group, Inc., a boutique consulting firm which specialized in providing consulting services to companies in multiple marker segments with a core focus directed towards capital structuring and investments, brand strategy and marketing, M&A activities, and operational efficiencies. Prior to this, Mr. Calabria was the VP of Operations for TrinTel Communications; the largest privately held Infrastructure Company in the wireless telecommunications industry. As part of the Company’s initial Senior Management team, which grew the company to a $350+ million valuation in under three years, Mr. Calabria specialized in managing joint venture agreements and strategic alliances as well as directing all subsidiary operations including regional sales, marketing, and business development practices. Prior to this, as the Director of Operations for Wireless Solutions, LLC, he helped facilitate the sale of the company to TrinTel Communications. Mr. Calabria holds an MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University and a BS in Management from Arizona State University.
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About Endonovo Therapeutics: Endonovo Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing off-the-shelf regenerative products.
Jason Klarreich
Managing Director, CFO, COO, & CCO of JW Asset Management
Jason Klarreich is the managing director, CFO, COO, and CCO at JW Asset Management. Before joining JWAM, Jason was a director and trader at Heartland Securities. He previously worked in fixed income sales at Morgan Stanley and at Smith Barney as a financial analyst in the asset management division. Jason serves on the board at Arbor Pharmaceuticals. He graduated from Emory University with a bachelor’s degree in finance.
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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.
Amin Rezapour
COO of Curogram
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About Curogram: A HIPAA Telemedicine & Two-Way Text Communication Platform, Curogram Streamline Patient Communication and will Increase Revenue.
John Doyle
Co-CEO , President & COO of Castlight Health
John leads the finance, human resources and corporate development teams. John joined Castlight after serving as chief operating officer at Achaogen, a biopharmaceutical company. In that role, John managed business development, finance, information technology, and business strategy. Previously, John was vice president of finance and corporate planning at Genentech, Inc. John received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a member of the 2012 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and serves on the Achoagen board of directors.
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About Castlight Health: Castlight Health provides a healthcare navigation platform with resources for benefits, and vendors.
David Carney
COO of Orangetheory Fitness
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About Orangetheory Fitness, Orangetheory Fitness: Orangetheory is a science-based group personal training workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training.
Josh Disbrow
COO of Ampio Pharmaceuticals
Joshua Disbrow joined Zynex Medical as Board Of Directors in 2018.Josh is the Chief Operating Officer of Ampio Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Ampio Josh served as the Vice President of Commercial Operations at Arbor Pharmaceuticals. He joined Arbor in 2007 as the company’s second full-time employee and led the company’s commercial efforts from its inception to $127 million in net sales in 2011. Arbor was acquired by an investor group in 2010 and since the company’s acquisition, Josh remained with Arbor and led the growth of the company’s commercial organization to comprise over 150 people in sales, marketing, and other commercial functions. Josh has spent nearly 17 years in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device industries and has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing, sales management, commercial operations, and commercial strategy. Before joining Arbor, he was in sales management with Cyberonics, Inc., a medical device company focused on neuromodulation therapies. Prior to joining Cyberonics, Josh served as Director of Marketing at LipoScience, Inc., a specialty diagnostics company where he oversaw commercialization of the company’s lead in vitro diagnostic product. Josh began his career at Glaxo Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline) where he held various positions within sales and marketing. Josh received an MBA from Wake Forest University and a BS in Management from North Carolina State University.
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About Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Aytu BioScience, Neos Therapeutics: Ampio Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical firm that discovers and develops novel therapies for treating inflammatory conditions.
Steven Ertel
Chief Operating Officer of Acceleron Pharma
Mr. Ertel joined Acceleron in January 2006 as a Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ertel established Acceleron’s business development function and currently leads business development, commercial strategy and program management functions. Mr. Ertel has over 20 years of experience in the biotechnology industry at Vivus, Inc., Genentech, Inc., Biogen Idec, Inc., and Synta. His responsibilities at these companies included program management for preclinical and clinical stage programs, commercial strategy for clinical stage programs, market launch of a novel biologic agent, and business development. Mr. Ertel began his career in the venture capital industry at Oxford Bioscience Partners. Mr. Ertel received a BSE in biomedical engineering from Duke University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Acceleron Pharma: Acceleron is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing, manufacturing and commercializing novel biotherapeutics.
Jannine Versi
COO and Co-Founder of Elektra Health
Jannine Versi joined the International Trade Administration as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade in August 2014. Previously, she worked as a Product Marketing Manager at Google, where she focused on strategy and operations for the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Marketing, and helped to grow Google’s business in the Middle East and North Africa. Jannine spent time in India researching economic development as Fulbright Scholar and also interned in the White House at the National Economic Council. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Elektra Health, International Trade Administration: Elektra Health is a new healthcare platform on a mission to tackle the menopause taboo for women.
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.
Nandini Ramani
Chief Operating Officer of Outcome Health
Nandini Ramani is the COO of Outcome Health.
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About Makers, Outcome Health: Outcome Health delivers better health outcomes and impacts the human condition positively through technology.
Matthew Chaiken
Co-founder & COO of Blink Health
Matthew is the co-founder and COO of Blink Health. He has been responsible for overseeing the creation of the first e-commerce experience in pharmacy and currently oversees product, engineering, marketing, customer experience and analytics across the company. Prior to co-founding Blink, Matthew served as an investment professional at Marble Arch Investments – a New York-based investment firm – where he was responsible for many of the firm’s technology and consumer product investments. Prior to his time at Marble Arch, Matthew was an investment professional at Merchants’ Gate Capital, specializing in the retail, industrials and business services industries. Before joining Merchants’ Gate, Matthew served as an investment banker for Citigroup after graduating from Yale with a BA in Biology.
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About Blink Health: Blink Health is a web-based application that enables users to search for medical prescriptions online and pick them up from any pharmacy.
Matthew Chance
President & Chief Operating Officer of myNEXUS
As Chief Operating Officer Matt is responsible for providing strategic direction, product innovation, and valuebased network models within the delivery system. Prior to joining myNEXUS Matt provided strategic and operational oversight for all Health Engagement Initiatives for Cigna-Healthspring. These areas include Stars, Risk Adjustment, Utilization Management, Clinical Programs and Customer retention. These activities drove revenue and quality optimization related to all Medicare Advantage customers based on their unique needs. Matt worked with HealthSpring for 9 years, and was the COO of Healthspring of Alabama before moving to Cigna-HealthSpring enterprise operations. While in Alabama he helped develop various aligned incentive models to better connect the Healthplan and Provider community. Matt began his career in healthcare working with Hospitals and Insurers at AIM Healthcare Services. He lead operations for the Southeast region and was with AIM for 5 years.
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About myNEXUS, myNEXUS: myNEXUS is a healthcare management system that enables doctors to remotely monitor their patients’ health.
Clarissa Shen
COO of Q Bio
Clarissa Shen is Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Q. She is an international executive and entrepreneur who enjoys scaling high-growth teams who are on a mission to change the world for good. Most recently, she was COO at Udacity, where she joined as the first business hire and helped grow the company from $0 to $100MM revenue run rate. She started her career in management strategy consulting at Monitor Group (now Deloitte Monitor) advising Fortune 500 executives and companies in Greater China, Southeast Asia, and Europe. In her past life, she has led a top 10 Google digital marketing team, managed an internationally-touring contemporary dance company, and co-founded a pioneering K-12 foreign language education start-up. Clarissa graduated magna cum laude from Williams College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Q Bio: On a mission to build the first Clinical Digital Twin Platform and make it accessible to everyone
Myong Lee
Co-Founder, COO & Board Member of Clever Care Health Plan Inc.
Myong Lee is a Co-Founder, COO, and Board Member at Clever Care Health Plan. He is also an advisor to multiple early stage companies.
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About Clever Care Health Plan Inc.: Clever Care Health Plan is a healthcare company that offers medicare advantage health plans to its members.
Cat Lee
Co-Founder & COO of Pace
Cat Lee is the Co-Founder and COO at Pace. Her varied operating roles across people, marketing, product, and engineering enable her to help founders in many different capacities.
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About Pace: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
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.
Matthew Ko
Co-founder and COO of DeepScribe
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About DeepScribe: DeepScribe is an AI-driven platform for medical record-taking.
Scott Chesrown
Chief Operating Officer of K Health
Scott Chesrown is the COO of K Health and Co-Founder of [Vroom](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vroom-com#/entity). Chesrown holds a bachelor’s degrees in Business and Spanish from the [University of San Diego](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-san-diego-2#/entity) and Master’s degree in Engineering from [Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rose-hulman-institute-of-technology#/entity). He also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and PhD in Leadership Studies from [Gonzaga University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gonzaga-university-2#/entity). Chesrown lives in New York, United States.
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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.
Joanne Hsieh
Chief Operating Officer of Walker & Company Brands
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About Walker & Company Brands: We make health and beauty simple for people of color.
Michael Staffieri
Chief Operating Officer, Kidney Care of DaVita Healthcare Partners
Michael Staffieri became our chief operating officer, Kidney Care, in March 2014. From July 2011 to February 2014, he served as a senior vice president, Kidney Care. From March 2008 to July 2011, he served as our vice president of operations and new center development. Mr. Staffieri joined the Company in July 2000 and has served in several different roles. Prior to joining us, Mr. Staffieri worked for Arthur Andersen LLP in Finance from 1999 to 2000.
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About DaVita Healthcare Partners: DaVita® and HealthCare Partners® have joined forces to become one of the nation’s largest and most innovative healthcare communities.
Shiri Avnery
COO of Thistle
Shiri Avnery is a COO and Co-Founder of Thistle.
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About Thistle: Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers.
Jeff Brizzolara
Chief Operating Officer of Wellthy
Jeff Brizzolara is the chief operating officer of Wellthy.
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About HERO Health, Wellthy: Wellthy is a family care concierge service that brings relief to families managing complex or ongoing care situations.
Melissa Baird
COO of Hims & Hers
Melissa Baird is The COO and head of technology at hims & hers. Previously, she was the VP of Systems & Procedures at Reese Witherspoon’s lifestyle brand, Draper James, VP of Operations and Product management at Bonobos, and built the operation and fulfillment system for Zulily. Baird holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Missouri.
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About Hims & Hers: Hims is a wellness brand that helps men and women get access to products for skin care, hair loss, and sexual health.
Paul LaViolette
Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer of SV Health Investors
Paul brings over 33 years of global medical technology management experience. Paul was most recently Chief Operating Officer at Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC), an $8 billion medical device leader. During his 15 years at BSC, he served as COO, Group President, President-Cardiology and President-International as the company grew revenues over 20 times. Paul integrated two dozen acquisitions and led extensive product development, operations and worldwide commercial organizations. Paul previously held marketing and general management positions at CR Bard, and various marketing roles at Kendall (Covidien). He served on the boards of Urologix, Percutaneous Valve Technologies and Advamed and currently serves on the boards of *Baxano Surgical, *Cardiofocus, CardioKinetix, Coridea NC2, CSA Medical, *DC Devices, *Direct Flow Medical, Thoratec, *TransEnterix, ValenTx and the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA). Paul received his BA in Psychology from Fairfield University and his MBA from Boston College.
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About CardioFocus, Medtech Convergence Fund, SV Health Investors: SV Health Investors is a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on investments in biotechnology and healthcare industry.
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.
Mike Nill
Chief Operating Officer of Cerner
As executive vice president and chief operating officer, Mike Nill is responsible for Cerner’s core worldwide business operations including intellectual property, consulting, information technology (IT) transformation, infrastructure, managed services and client support. He improves the quality and effectiveness of Cerner’s delivery organizations by aligning all aspects of the development process, from implementation through management and support. A software engineer by background, Mike began his Cerner career in 1996, rolling out Cerner Millennium® solutions. During this time he built capabilities to help clients effectively implement and manage their technology infrastructure. During his time at Cerner, Mike has led the development of several new offerings, including Cerner ITWorksSM, a world-class remote hosting offering. He also spearheaded the Cerner ITWorksSM offering, which further aligns the company with clients to improve quality and lower costs. Under his leadership, Cerner’s $4.9 billion cumulative research and development investment has resulted in Cerner solutions having the highest code quality in company history, resulting in the most complete set of integrated capabilities in the health care industry. Mike is a graduate of Rockhurst University and has a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems.
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About Cerner: Cerner is a supplier of healthcare information technology solutions, services, devices, and hardware.
Karan Singh
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer of Ginger
Karan co-founded Ginger.io and currently leads its clinical operations and strategy. He has over 13 years of experience in healthcare from management consulting for biopharma to data analytics, having worked at leading health care firms including ZS Associates and Humedica. A leader in the digital health community, Karan is a frequent speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, health innovation and new models of care. He has served as a scholar at the Aspen Institute, delivered keynotes at Public Health Institute (PHI) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and recognized as a rising star in Healthcare by LinkedIn’s Next Wave. Karan holds his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan, attended the Harvard Medical School / MIT Health, Science & Technology (HST) program, and received his BA and BS in Economics and Business Administration from UC Berkeley.
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About Ginger, Pixel Vector Media: Ginger is an on-demand mental health company providing around-the-clock access to emotional support via coaching, therapy, and psychiatry.
Scott Brame
President and Chief Operating Officer of Radialogica
Scott is a co-founder of Radialogica and serves as President and Chief Operating Officer. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis and Chief of Clinical Development. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Clinical Design and Research at CMS, Inc. with global responsibility for product management and roadmap planning, and was a Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Scott received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and his MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
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About Radialogica: Radialogica is a bioinformatics company providing software solutions for radiation oncology and the healthcare market.
Christopher Coleridge
Co Founder & COO of HUM Nutrition
Christopher Coleridge is the co-founder at Hum Nutrition.
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About HUM Nutrition: HUM is the leading beauty nutrition brand with the mission is to help you look and feel your absolute best all the time.
Ilan Abehassera
Co-Founder, President & COO of Willo
Ilan Abehassera is the Co-Founder, President & COO at Willo.
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About Diaspora Ventures, Oui Are New York, Willo: Willo develops technology in oral health that automatically empowers everyone to achieve the best at-home clean possible.
Tobias Mezger
Co-Founder – COO/CFO of PayZen
I am passionate about solving big problems by making financial services more straightforward and more accessible. I am excited about building a great company.
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About PayZen: PayZen is a health care fintech startup that aims to tackle the growing patient payment responsibility problem.
Matthew Cauble
Co-Founder & COO of Rosa Labs
Matthew Cauble heads Soylent’s internal project development and marketing, focusing on Soylent product packaging, manufacturing and distribution. He currently manages Soylent’s beta program whereby iterations of the formula, packaging and customer experience are reviewed by a select group in order to ensure the quality and safety of the product shipped to Soylent customers. Prior to joining Soylent, he served as procurement manager at Capital One before co-founding Level RF with Soylent CEO, Robert Rhinehart. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Certificate in Finance.
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About Rosa Labs: Rosa Labs strives to create innovative nutritional products.
Bruce Given
Chief Operating Officer of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
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About Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals: Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses on the development of medicine to treat diseases with a genetic origin.
Aceil Halaby
Co-Founder & COO of Bloomer Health Tech
Aceil Halaby is the co-founder and COO at Bloomer Health Tech.
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
David Dill
President & COO of LifePoint Health
David Dill serves as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to assuming his current position in April 2009, Mr. Dill served as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since joining the Company in July 2007. Previously, Mr. Dill served as Executive Vice President of Fresenius Medical Care North America and as Chief Executive Officer in the East Division of Fresenius Medical Care Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA. Dill previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Renal Care Group, Inc., a publicly traded dialysis services company, from November 2003 until Renal Care Group was acquired by Fresenius Medical Care in March 2006. Mr. Dill is a former director of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., a behavioral health services company.
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About LifePoint Health: LifePoint Health is a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier.
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.
David Kirshenbaum
Chief Operating Officer of HealthNEXT
As COO, David Kirshenbaum puts his vast experience in healthcare operations and information technology to use overseeing the day-to-day activities of HealthNEXT and its interactions with clients. In addition to being COO of HealthNEXT, he is the president and founder of West End Associates Consulting, a healthcare management consulting company with clients in all sectors of the healthcare industry, and the CEO of Equity Health Partners, a service and systems company that operates software and services that support medical home operations. Before joining HealthNEXT, David was the Vice President of Enterprise Information Management at WellPoint. He also served as president of two independent subsidiaries of Aetna – Intelihealth, a healthcare content Web company, and USQA, an informatics company serving both internal Aetna operations and the pharmaceutical industry and government agencies such as the CDC and NIH. David received his graduate degree from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New York, NY and his undergraduate degree from Clark University in Worcester, MA. He is currently a senior fellow at Jefferson School of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.
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About HealthNEXT: HealthNEXT is a developer of workforce population health strategies.
Chris M. Calcaterra
Chief Operating Officer of Glaukos
Chris M. Calcaterra has served as our chief commercial officer since April 2008 and has more than 25 years of experience in the ophthalmic medical technology industry. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Calcaterra was senior vice president at Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (acquired by Abbott Laboratories), and was responsible for its cataract refractive business. Prior to that position, Mr. Calcaterra held increasingly responsible vice president positions in a variety of sales and marketing roles at Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., as well as its predecessor surgical division business at Allergan, Inc. Mr. Calcaterra has a B.S. from Miami University and an M.B.A. from Xavier University, and he was previously a board member of WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc., (acquired by Novartis).
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About Glaukos: Glaukos is a glaucoma treatment company developing micro-bypass therapies to moderate the intraocular pressures that help preserve vision.
Mark Hirschhorn
COO & CFO of Teladoc Health
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About Teladoc Health: Teladoc is a global provider of virtual care, transforming the access, cost, and quality dynamics of health care delivery.
Joseph F. Meyer
Senior Vice President; Global Chief Operating Officer, Global Investments of Aflac
Joseph Meyer received his bachelor’s degree in government and East Asian studies from Colby College in 1979. Upon graduation, he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Prior to joining Aflac in March 2012, he began his career in banking with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York and later held various positions such as treasurer and head of finance, administration and operations at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo and Hong Kong; managing director and chief operating officer at Deutsche Securities and Deutsche Asset Management; and chief operating officer at Shinsei Bank. He founded and was representative director of Chi-X Japan Limited, and also worked as chief administrative officer of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.
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About Aflac: Aflac is a company that offers individuals and companies supplemental disability insurance.
Kathryn Penkus Corzo
Chief Operating Officer of bit.bio
Kathryn Corzo is the Chief Operating Officer of bit.bio. She has more than 25 years of experience in drug development, both early and late, across a variety of indications and platforms.
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About bit.bio: Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell.
Geoff Price
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Oak Street Health
Geoff Price is the Chief Operating Officer at Oak Street Health.
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About Oak Street Health: Oak Street Health is a network of primary care centers for adults on Medicare.
Leonardo Maestri Teixeira
Co-founder & COO of Endpoint Health
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About Endpoint Health: Precision Immunology Therapies
Anna Chukaeva
COO and Co-Founder of Carta Healthcare
Anna spent over seven years in data analytics. She started as a mathematician and hold a master’s degree in economics. She spent three years doing business development for Credit Suisse Fixed Income derivatives department. After starting her first company in art education space she got her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Carta Healthcare: Carta empowers hospitals to personalize the delivery of care to the individual needs of each patient.
Ryan Fukushima
Chief Operating Officer of Tempus
Ryan Fukushima serves as Chief Operating Officer at Tempus. Prior to Tempus, Fukushima was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Vice President at Lightbank, focusing investments on enterprise software and launching businesses. Earlier he was at Hyde Park Venture Partners, where he concentrated on enterprise investments in the Midwest. Before landing in Chicago, Fukushima worked predominantly as an engineer, designing and implementing backend systems for Cisco and VMware. Fukushima has received a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from California Polytechnic University and holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at University of Michigan, where he was a Zell Scholar.
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About Tempus: Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Adam Hollander
COO & Board of Directors of OnlineMedEd
Adam Hollander is the COO & Board of Directors of OnlineMedEd.
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About Aria Capital Management, OnlineMedEd: OnlineMedEd is a digital health care learning platform designed for medical students and health professionals.
Eric Hill
Co-founder, Vice President, Chief Operating Officer Of Diplomat Specialty Infusion Group of Diplomat Pharmacy
Eric serves as the chief operating officer of Diplomat Specialty Infusion Group. In his role, Eric oversees the day-to-day operations and leads efforts in strategic planning. Eric previously served as the chief operating officer of BioRx, a position he held since the company’s founding in 2004. Before co-founding BioRx in 2004, Eric Hill accumulated over 20 years of sales, general management and executive management experience in the specialty pharmacy and infusion industry. Eric has served as the vice president of Blood Products for Coram Healthcare, a $500 million public specialty infusion company based in Denver, Colo. In this role, Eric had executive management responsibility for sales and operations related to blood products, including hemophilia clotting factors, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and other related biological agents. While at Coram, Eric held other assignments including vice president of sales and marketing for a managed care subsidiary and regional vice president.
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About Diplomat Pharmacy: Diplomat is a nationally recognized specialty pharmacy, and here, we offer a special kind of care.
Lina Kravetskiy
Chief Operating Officer and Founder of Heally
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About Heally: Heally is an online health and wellness brand that helps patients connect with doctors on the industry’s telehealth platform.
Mattan Griffel
Co-Founder/President & COO of Ophelia
Mattan is an award-winning faculty member at Columbia Business School and a two-time Y Combinator-backed entrepreneur. He co-founded Ophelia, a company that helps people quit opioids without having to go to rehab. Mattan is also an Innovation Fellow at the Lang Center for Entrepreneurship and was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Education.
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About One Month | Learn to Code in 30 Days, Ophelia, Sandbox Network: Ophelia offers medication and support for quitting opioids.
Chris Brown
Chief Operating Officer of hc1
In addition to leading the daily operations of hc1.com, Chris oversees the finance, administrative and legal teams. Chris is a veteran of the software and telecommunications industries and spent the last 5 years as President and CFO of ChaCha. At ChaCha Chris launched the mobile products and guided the company’s growth to the #1 answers service worldwide, answering over 2 Billion questions since its launch in 2008. Prior to ChaCha Chris spent 20 years in the wireless sector where he held a variety of leadership roles in sales operations, finance, customer care, and strategic planning for Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications. At Nextel Chris led the customer lifecycle improvements that led to Nextel achieving the #1 rank from JD Powers in wireless customer satisfaction. Chris helped Nextel grow from $80M to over $15B in annual revenue during his tenure there. In 2005-2006 he led the planning and implementation of the Sprint – Nextel merger, one of the largest U.S. mergers in history. Chris started his career at Deloitte Haskins and Sells and is a CPA. He has a B.A. from Moravian College and a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Business Leadership from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
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About hc1: Hc1 enables real-time lab stewardship and precision prescribing for health systems, laboratories and physicians.
Jim Abrams
Chief Operating Officer of Medline Industries
Jim joined Medline in 1992 where he started as a sales representative. Since then he has held various management positions within the company until being named COO in 1997. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago. Upon graduation from U of C, he worked for the law firm Kirkland and Ellis.
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About Medline Industries: Medline Industries, Inc., based in Mundelein, Illinois,
David Werry
Founder, President & COO of Well
David Werry Co-founder, President & COO at Well
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About Well: Well is a health technology company that provides access to trusted health partners.
Chun Wu
Co-Founder and COO of iCarbonX
Chung Wu is Co-founder and COO of iCarbonX. Dr. Wu joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 2003. As the global Partner and Managing Director, Dr. Wu led her team to assist tens of multinational and domestic companies to formulate corporate strategy and improve business management. Early 2015, Dr. Wu joined the Beijing Genomics Institute as the Chief Operating Officer, overseeing manufacturing, marketing, and sales globally. Dr. Wu received B.S. degree in biology from Peking University and Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University.
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About iCarbonX: iCarbonX is a China-based artificial intelligence platform for health data company.
Mukul Jain
Chief Operating Officer of Senseonics
Mukul Jain is the Chief Operating Officer at Senseonics, Inc. Mukul is responsible for overseeing Quality, Regulatory, Product Development and Global Operations – including manufacturing and supply chain. Prior to joining Senseonics, Mukul spent 13 years at Medtronic working on active implantable devices in CRDM and Neuromodulation space. He was responsible for managing the development of Neurostimulator systems in spinal cord stimulation and sacral nerve stimulation. Prior to that, he worked at Medtronic Energy and Components Center developing various critical components used across Medtronic’s implantable devices. Mukul earned his MBA from Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina and a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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About Senseonics: Senseonics is a medical device startup company that focuses on the design, development, and commercialization of glucose monitoring systems.
Darren Sherman
President, Chief Operating Officer, Director and Founder of Orchestra BioMed
Darren Sherman is a Managing Partner of Orchestra. He is also Chief Technical Officer of Accelerated Technologies, Inc. (ATI) as well as Chief Executive Officer of Caliber Therapeutics, Inc., an OMV II Fund Portfolio Company. He has over 17 years of management and entrepreneurial experience in the medical technology industry spanning interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, sudden cardiac death, stroke, and neurovascular therapies. He currently serves as a director of Caliber Therapeutics and Vivasure Medical. Prior to joining Orchestra, Mr. Sherman held various positions in executive management for Cordis Neurovascular (CNV), a Johnson & Johnson company, including Executive Director R&D and Director of Strategic Marketing for stroke products. He had worldwide responsibility for all neurovascular R&D and global strategic marketing responsibilities for the Stroke franchise, including budgets, portfolio of products and strategic planning. Mr. Sherman made significant contributions to the design and commercialization of a series of key products including the Enterprise Vascular Reconstruction Device and the Orbit Embolic Coil as well as directed the filing of over 100 patents. Prior to joining CNV, Mr. Sherman played an integral role in the formation and development of Revivant Corp (acquired by Zoll) while working with Thomas J. Fogarty, MD at Fogarty Engineering. He was Revivant’s first employee and managed the design, development, and testing of the AutoPulse device from concept through market introduction. In addition to the R&D related activities, Mr. Sherman supported the clinical research, marketing, and intellectual property efforts. The AutoPulse is a lightweight, portable tool replacing the need for manual chest compressions during cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for patients suffering from sudden cardiac arrest. Prior to Revivant, Mr. Sherman held positions in research and development for Cardiac Pathways Corp., prior to its acquisition by Boston Scientific, and Baxter Healthcare. In each of these companies, he participated in the creation, development and launch of products. Mr. Sherman has authored 45 U.S. patents with an additional 58 published applications. He earned a BS degree in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego.
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About Orchestra BioMed, Orchestra Medical Ventures: Orchestra BioMed is a biomedical innovation company that provides high-impact solutions for large unmet needs in procedure-based medicine.
Theodore Wahl
President, COO & Director of Healthcare Services Group
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About Healthcare Services Group: Healthcare Services Group provides professional management of ancillary services to a wide range of clients.
Susan Morris
EVP & Chief Operating Officer of Albertsons LLC
Susan began her career in Albertsons Denver Division while still in high school and worked her way up in the ranks proving her ability to lead, to execute and to bring teams together in one assignment after another in her 30+ years in the retail grocery business. Since March of 2015, Susan has led the Denver Division team after having successfully led our Boise-based Intermountain Division for the two prior years. Her career has spanned roles from Store Director to Corporate Grocery Sales Director, Vice President of Bakery and Operations and, upon the sale of Albertson’s Inc.’s assets to SUPERVALU, Vice President of Customer Satisfaction. In 2010, she was Senior Vice President of Sales and Merchandising when she left SUPERVALU to join Albertsons LLC’s Southwest Division as Grocery Sales Manager, and was appointed Vice President of Marketing & Merchandising in 2012. Susan was named EVP, East Operations in April 2016.
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About Albertsons Companies, Albertsons LLC: Albertsons is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with both a strong local presence and national scale.
Jason Zachariah
President & COO of Kindred Healthcare
Jason Zachariah is Chief Operating Officer, Kindred Hospital Rehabilitation Services, and is responsible for Kindred’s rehabilitation hospitals and non-affiliated hospital locations where Kindred provides rehabilitation services. These services are based on acute hospital partnerships that include Joint Venture Rehabilitation Hospitals, Acute Rehabilitation Units, LTACH Rehabilitation, Outpatient and Medical-Surgical Rehabilitation. Mr. Zachariah joined Kindred in 2006 as Assistant Administrator of Kindred Hospital Chicago North. He was CEO at Kindred Hospital Ft. Lauderdale from 2008 to 2010 and COO/Executive Director for the Kindred Hospital Division California/Arizona District from 2010 to 2013. He was named a Rising Star at Kindred in 2009. Prior to Kindred, he had several management and marketing roles at Abbott Laboratories and Glaxo SmithKline. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree with Distinction in Biology and a Chemistry minor from Duke University. He then earned a Master of Science degree in Biotechnology from Northwestern University and a Master of Business Administration degree with Distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern.
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About Kindred Healthcare: Kindred Healthcare is a provider of care in settings from hospitals to even your own home.
Narendra Lalwani
Executive Vice President of R & D and Chief Operating Officer of Esperion
Narendra Lalwani is Executive Vice President, R & D, and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Esperion, Narendra was Chief Scientific Officer at Cerenis Therapeutics from 2007 to 2014 where he led R&D activities for the company. Previously, Narendra was Vice President of Drug Safety at the original Esperion until its acquisition by Pfizer. Prior to Esperion, Narendra held various positions of increasing responsibility in the Department of Pathology and Experimental Toxicology at Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis. Narendra is a Fellow of American Heart Association (FAHA) and a diplomate of the American board of Toxicology (DABT).Narendra earned a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Bombay (India) and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business.
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About Esperion: Esperion discovers and develops pharmaceutical products for the treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
Soren Therkelsen
Co-Founder and COO of Qvin
Soren Therkelsen is the Co-founder and COO at Qvin.
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About Qvin, Sandbox, SCALEit: Qvin is a developer of a smart sanitary pad for women to proactively track their health.
Eric Wu
Co-Founder and COO of Gainful
Eric Wu is the co-founder and COO of Gainful.
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About Gainful: Gainful is a personalized sports nutrition company that offers subscriptions to its Hydration line of electrolyte drink mixes.
Khaled Nasr
COO & Co-founder of Medely
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About Medely: Medely is an on demand platform for Healthcare professionals, like Registered Nurses and Techs to find Per Diem work.
Maria Opdycke
COO of First Stop Health
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About First Stop Health: We provide care that people love with 24/7 access to licensed doctors via app, web or phone.
Justin Turetsky
Founding Team & COO of FlexIt
Justin is on the Founding Team and is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of FlexIt. Much of Justin’s professional experience lies in company growth and expansion at large global law firms and emerging tech companies. Before joining FlexIt, he worked on international and domestic expansion efforts for M&A and Private Equity practices of large global law firms. He also has experience in finance and risk management and has served non-profit organizations such as America Needs You and Center for Family Representation. Justin has been involved in numerous start ups ranging from engineering services to FinTech. Justin has participated in podcasts and television appearances on behalf of FlexIt.
A former competitive ice hockey player and fitness enthusiast, Justin loves making fitness easier to access and more convenient for customers around the world. He received his BA from Columbia University with honors.
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About FlexIt: FlexIt is a mobile app that enables users to access fitness wherever and whenever they want and only pays for what they use
Darin Buxbaum
Co-Founder, President & COO of WiderCircle
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About WiderCircle: WiderCircle is a provider of an in-personal social platform designed to connect older adults.
Lori Whelan
Managing Partner & COO of Silversmith Capital Partners
Lori spent 12 years in strategy consulting and CFO roles prior to co-founding Silversmith Capital Partners. Lori began her career by spending two years at both Bain & Company and Berkshire Partners, before completing her MBA at Harvard Business School. She returned to Bain & Company for six years where she worked primarily in the private equity practice, both leading case teams and managing the internal operations of the group. In 2007, Lori joined one of her clients, Papa Gino’s, a private equity backed operator of 350+ Papa Gino’s and D’Angelo restaurants throughout New England, where she worked as Executive Vice President/ CFO for three years. She also worked as CFO for PR Management Corp, a 30 unit Panera Bread Franchisee. Lori received a BSE, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. Lori lives with her husband and two daughters in Newton, MA. She is an avid sports fan (die hard Eagles fan and converted Red Sox/Patriots fan) and enjoys playing golf. Lori serves on the Board of the Friends of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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About Silversmith Capital Partners: Silversmith Capital Partners invests in technology and healthcare companies.
Kurt Knight
Chief Operating Officer of Amwell
Kurt Knight is the Chief Operating Officer at Amwell. He came to Amwell with an extensive background in healthcare, including experience at the Boston Consulting Group focused on pharma and global health, at Hill-Rom where he created a new home care business, and with the Gates Foundation, Save the Children, and Unicef where he worked on various global health challenges. Kurt holds an MPH from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard.
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About Amwell: Amwell is a telehealth platform that provides its patients with more affordable, higher quality health care.
Michael Rahimzadeh
Co-Founder/ COO of Lensabl
Michael Rahimzadeh is co-founder at Lensabl.
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About Lensabl: Lensabl offers an online prescription lens replacement service.
Elizabeth Reifsnyder
COO of Ritual
Elizabeth Reifsnyder is the COO of Ritual.
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About Ritual: Ritual is a health technology company that is re-inventing consumer products.
Bryan Giraudo
Chief Financial Officer & COO of Gossamer Bio
Mr. Giraudo is the Chief Financial Officer of Gossamer Bio. Previously, he was Senior Managing Director at LEERINK Partners, where he was responsible for LEERINK’s Western North America and Asia life sciences investment banking practice. Prior to joining LEERINK Partners in 2009, Bryan was a Managing Director in Merrill Lynch’s Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group. Bryan received his B.A. from Georgetown University.
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About Gossamer Bio: Gossamer Bio is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel and differentiated therapeutic products.
Jonathan Lanfear
Chief Operating Officer of HiberCell
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About HiberCell: HiberCell is a biotechnology company developing treatments to prevent cancer relapse and metastasis.
David de Vries
Co-Founder and COO of Arine
David oversees overall company strategy, operations, sales, marketing and business development for Arine. Prior to Arine, David was the Director of Commercial Strategy and Development at Proteus Digital Health, where he oversaw partnerships, key elements of new product development and other strategic growth initiatives including the design and execution of the first value-based contracts for digital medicines. Before that, he worked at the RAND Corporation on the analysis and evaluation of several elements of the Affordable Care Act. When he’s not focusing on transforming healthcare through technology, he is most likely to be spotted at your local photography exhibit, neighborhood pickup basketball court, or by a large body of water attempting and failing some kind of watersport. David holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Neurobiology from Harvard and a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge.
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About Arine: Arine optimizes medications and improves human health through data-driven clinical services.
Courtney Jerden
COO of Priv
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About Priv: PRIV is a mobile and web platform where clients can book vetted beauty and wellness professionals to their location.
Tao Fu
President, COO & Director of Zai Lab
Tao Fu has been our President & Chief Operating Officer since September 2018. Prior to joining Zai Lab, he worked with Portola Pharmaceuticals, where he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial and Business Officer, responsible for commercial operations, marketing, sales and business development functions. Prior to joining Portola in June 2015, Tao was Vice President and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Alliance Management at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). At BMS, he was responsible for the company’s corporate development, alliance management and venture activities. Between 2003 and 2014, he held several leadership positions with increasing responsibilities at Janssen, the pharmaceuticals group of Johnson & Johnson, most recently as Vice President, Business Development, where he led global M&A activities. He also has experience in business development, commercial strategy and management consulting with McKinsey & Company, Becton Dickinson, etc. Tao holds an M.S. in biology from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A in finance and marketing from Vanderbilt University. He did his undergraduate studies in biology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
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About Zai Lab: Zai Lab brings transformative medicines for cancer, autoimmune, and infectious diseases to patients in China and around the world.
Hai Tran
COO & CFO of SOC Telemed
Ha Tran has over 20 years of experience as an executive with both public and private companies, focusing on building growth-oriented organizations. He contributed to the growth of the Home Infusion business at BioScrip, which yielded double-digit revenue growth during his tenure. He also has significant healthcare and technology experience. Prior to BioScrip, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President International of Harris Healthcare Solutions, which is the healthcare subsidiary of Harris Corporation, a $6 billion diversified technology company. From 2008 to 2011 he served as Chief Financial Officer of Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc., a publicly traded Pharmacy Benefits Management company. He also served as Vice President and Treasurer of Hanger Orthopedic Group, a public healthcare services, products, and distribution company, from 2006 to 2008. Hai Tran holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Richmond.
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About CSG International, SOC Telemed: SOC Telemed is a provider of specialty consultations to acute-care hospitals through telemedicine.
Brent Wilkinson
Chief Operating Officer of Zillion Group
Executive at Turbonomic.
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About Turbonomic, Turbonomic, Zillion Group: Zillion Group, a Norwalk, Connecticut-based technology solution for digital engagement
Pad (Padmanabh) Chivukula
Founder, CSO & COO of Arcturus Therapeutics
Padmanabh (Pad) Chivukula Ph.D., is Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Arcturus Therapeutics. He is responsible for Arcturus’ research and development activities, including clinical and non-clinical development and regulatory affairs for all of Arcturus drug products. Dr. Chivukula has an exceptional and technically solid foundation in nanoparticle technology. Prior to Arcturus, from 2008 until February 2013, Dr. Chivukula was employed by Nitto Denko Technical Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, where his titles included Group Leader and Chief Scientist. Dr. Chivukula brings over 15 years of experience in drug delivery and therapeutic drug development, including leading the polymeric RNAi research department at Nitto Denko.
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About Arcturus Therapeutics: Arcturus Therapeutics focuses on developing novel RNA therapeutics for the treatment of various diseases aiming at Rare Diseases.
Glenn Robertelli
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Admetsys
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About Admetsys: For people at diabetic risk, glucose control is at its most crucial while in hospital or surgery.
