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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 California based VP’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Caroline Savello
VP of Commercial of Color
Caroline Savello is the VP of commercial at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Wendy Mckennon
VP of Design of Color
Wendy Mckennon is the VP of Design at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Emily Reuter
Vice President of Strategy and Operations of Color
Emily Reuter is the Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Alicia Zhou
VP of Research and Scientific Affairs of Color
Alicia Zhou is the VP of Research and Scientific Affairs at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Fatima Sabar
VP of People of Color
Fatima Sabar is the VP of people at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Ashley Chandler
VP of Marketing of Color
Ashley Chandler is the VP of Marketing at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Jonathan Wilner
VP, Product, Software & Services of Fitbit
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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.
Shelten Yuen
VP Research of Fitbit
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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.
Noora Raj Brown
SVP of Global Communications of Goop
Noora Raj Brown is the SVP of Global Communications at Goop.
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
Stephen Martinez
SVP of Operations of Goop
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
Paul Benigeri
VP of Growth & Engineering of Health Via Modern Nutrition
Paul Benigeri graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science. He manages technology development for HVMN.com, our proprietary e-commerce platform, as well as driving growth of the H.V.M.N. Blog—one of the most trafficked health blogs in the space. In addition to spearheading all H.V.M.N.’s technology, Paul also oversees digital marketing strategy across paid social and SEM.
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About Archive, Health Via Modern Nutrition: H.V.M.N. leads the way in science, product, and community building around low-carb diets, ketones, and metabolic health.
Stephen Buck
VP & GM, Ro Pharmacy of Ro
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About Courage Health, Courage Health, Ro: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Kris Snodgrass
Vice President of Talent of Norwest Venture Partners
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Ellie Javadi
Vice President | Head of Communications, PR, Marketing of Norwest Venture Partners
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Nadia Asoyan
VP of Finance of Trusted Health
Nadia Asoyan is the VP of finance at Trusted Health. Prior to Trusted Health, she was an Accounting & finance Leader at Robinhood, the fastest-growing brokerage in the world, offering commission-free stocks & digital currency trading. Starting her career in Ernst and Young, Nadia focused on tech & biotech clients. Discovering Fintech at Square, she joined a small team as accounting lead, and later, became the IPO process key member. Nadia was also acting as Assurance & Senior Associate at EY, global leader in assurance, tax, transaction & advisory services, performing inception to date audit for tech companies Natera, iControl Networks, Altheos, Arista Networks, Cloudera
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About Airbase, Pillar Life, QD Ventures, Trusted Health: Trusted Health is a labor marketplace for healthcare professionals.
Barrett Dwyer
VP of Finance of Modern Health
Modern Health VP of Finance Barrett Dwyer brings more than a decade of experience in financial modeling, business development strategy, market assessment, and economic valuation of intellectual property to the company. Before joining Modern Health, he held finance and business operations leadership roles at BreezeLabs (a short-term vehicle lease solution for ride-sharing drivers working for Uber and Lyft), where he spearheaded the company’s acquisition by Ford in 2016. He drove strategy and financial modeling behind the rebranding and repositioning of Breeze to Canvas, a subscription-based auto subsidiary of Ford that bundled maintenance, insurance, and roadside assistance. While at Canvas, he was CFO and head of business operations. Barrett also held the VP of finance and operations role at Fair.com, and spent his early career as an analyst and consultant with The Kenrich Group, Stout Risius Ross, and GreatBridge Consulting. He holds a BBA in finance from George Washington University and a master’s in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University. Barrett lives in San Francisco with his wife and enjoys watching content by Stephen Colbert and Sarah Cooper.
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About Canvas, Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Lorna Henri
VP of Customer Success of Modern Health
Lorna Henri is a global customer success leader with 25+ years of experience at enterprise SaaS startups, software companies, and wireless carriers. Before joining Modern Health, she was the global VP of customer success and support at Mapbox, a mapping platform for developers. Prior to that, she spent three years at AppAnnie, where she was the global VP of customer success and helped the mobile app analytics company achieve dominant market share, securing 90% of the top100 iOS and Android publishers. Lorna was global VP of client services at the SEO SaaS platform BrightEdge, where she was a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 CMOs, delivering a client retention rate of more than 95%. She spent nine years as the top marketing executive at U.S. Communities, responsible for customer acquisition and relationship management. She also held leadership roles at Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. She is a frequent speaker at customer success conferences and received the Gainsight Stellar Customer Success Leader award and the MindTouch Top Customer Success Influencer award. Lorna holds a BS in engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Lorna and her husband live in the East Bay where they raised three sons, several dogs, a cat, and a bunny. When she isn’t meeting with customers, you can find her hiking in the Walnut Creek open space.
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Hannah Adams Willson
VP of Sales of Modern Health
Hannah Adams Willson serves as vice president of sales at Rainforest QA. Most recently, she was a sales manager and executive at Zenefits and vice president for business development at HelloWallet. Prior to these, Hannah was a director at The Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner). Hannah holds a BA degree from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Raymond H. Diradoorian
Executive Vice President of Allergan
Mr. Diradoorian has been Executive Vice President, Global Technical Operations since February 2006. From April 2005 to February 2006, Mr. Diradoorian served as Senior Vice President, Global Technical Operations. Since February 2001, Mr. Diradoorian served as Vice President, Global Engineering and Technology. Mr. Diradoorian joined Allergan in July 1981. Prior to joining Allergan, Mr. Diradoorian held positions at American Hospital Supply and with the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Mr. Diradoorian received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine and a Master of Science degree in Technology Management from Pepperdine University.
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About Allergan: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Christine A. Tsingos
EVP & CFO of Bio-Rad Laboratories
Ms. Christine A. Tsingos is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Bio Rad Laboratories Inc. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Attest Systems, Inc., a provider of information technology asset discovery and management tools, from August 2002 to November 2002. Prior to that, Ms. Tsingos was a consultant to Attest Systems, Inc. from October 2000 to July 2002. She was the Chief Financial Officer at Tavolo, Inc., an online retailer of gourmet cookware and food, from November 1999 to September 2000, and she was Treasurer, and later Vice President and Treasurer, of Autodesk, Inc., a developer of design software, from May 1990 to November 1999.
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Ronald Hutton
Vice President, Treasurer of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
James Stark
Vice President, Corporate Controller of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Mike Crowley
Executive Vice President, Global Commercial Operations of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Timothy Ernst
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Jillian B. Thomsen
SVP Finance and Chief Accounting Officer of Nektar Therapeutics
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About Nektar Therapeutics: Nektar Therapeutics develops therapeutics based on its advanced polymer conjugate chemistry technology platform.
Rachel Gollub
Vice President of Benefitter Technology of UnitedHealth Group
Founder at Benefitter
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About Benefitter, HealthMarkets, UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Maynd Jolly
Vice President Strategic Corporate Accounts of Siemens Healthineers
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About Siemens Healthineers: Siemens Healthineers is a healthcare technology company that provides diagnostic and therapeutic products and services.
Jay Lezcano
SVP & Business Development of Precision for Medicine
Jay Lezcano is the SVP & Business Development at Precision For Medicine.
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About Precision for Medicine: Precision for Medicine is a specialized scientific services company helping life science innovators develop medical products.
Chris Fuller
Vice President of Informatics of Caribou Biosciences
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About Caribou Biosciences: Caribou Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops CRISPR technologies and allogenic cell therapies for oncology.
Jen Cameron
AVP of Cigna
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About Cigna, RetailNext: CIGNA Corporation operates as a health service company that helps people to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind.
Alex Aravanis
Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President of Illumina
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About Illumina: Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
Craig Ciesla
Vice President Advanced Engineering of Illumina
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About Illumina: Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
Richard Klausner
Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of Illumina
Richard Klausner joined Illumina in September 2013 as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. Richard is responsible for Illumina’s strategies for advancing genomics into clinical medicine and public health. He is also part of Illumina’s executive management team, which is responsible for directing all aspects of company strategy, planning and operations. Richard is a Scientific Advisor at Cyterix Pharmaceuticals Inc. He co-founded Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc. (Alternative name is Predicant Biosciences Inc.) in 2002. He serves as the Managing Partner at The Column Group LLC. He served as the Chairman of the Strategic Development and Scientific Advisory Council at Sanofi from March 1, 2011 to January 2013. Richard serves as the Chairman of the National Science Education Standards Projects of the National Academy of Science, overseeing the first comprehensive process to provide a vision of scientific literacy in the American educational system and the criteria required to achieve it. He served as Co-Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board and Scientific Advisor at Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He served as an Executive Director for Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Richard served as the President at the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He served as an Advisor to the President of the Academies for counter-terrorism, and a Liaison to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. From 1979 to 1981, he worked at NIH in National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Laboratory of Mathematical Biology. He served as a Director of Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc. and Immune Design Corp. He served as Director of 3-V Biosciences, Inc. He served as a Director of NCI from August 1, 1995 to 2001. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Immune Design Corp., Constellation Pharmaceuticals and Audax Health Solutions. Richard served as a Distinguished Scientific and Strategic Advisor of Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Richard currently sits on the board of Juno Therapeutics. He is also the Chief Strategy Advisor for USAID. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Igenica, Inc. and T2 Biosystems, Inc. Rick holds an M.D. from Duke Medical School.
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About Audax Health Solutions, Illumina, Pathwork Diagnostics: Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
Austin Harkness
Executive Vice President, Operations of Honor
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About Honor, Sunoco – Stores: Honor is a senior care network and technology platform that offers personalized care to improve the in-home care experience.
Margaret Dowling
VP, Clinical Engagement of Hinge Health
Margaret Dowling, MPH is the VP of Clinical Engagement at Hinge Health.
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About Hinge Health: Hinge Health is a patient-centered digital clinic for treating chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
Rufus Burlingame
VP Clinical Assay Development of Genalyte
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About Genalyte: Genalyte is a life sciences company developing and commercializing innovative next-generation multiplexing technology.
Andy Iseli
Vice President and General Manager, CCL Tube of CCL Industries
Andy Iseli is a Vice President and General Manager, CCL Tube at CCL Industries.
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About CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Srinu Adira
VP Engineering of TigerConnect
Srinu Adira is the senior director of data engineering at [TigerText](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tigertext#/entity), a California-based company that offers secure, mobile, real-time messaging solutions for healthcare providers to communicate with their employees. Previously, he held managerial positions in data analytics and infrastructure at Yahoo! and LinkedIn. Adira holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering from Osmania University, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Lamar University, and an MBA in business administration and management from the University of Phoenix.
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About TigerConnect: TigerConnect is a healthcare collaboration platform that streamlines clinical workflows and systems.
Allan Ng
VP Marketing of Freenome
Allan Ng is the VP of Marketing at Freenome. In that role, he is responsible for all of the company’s marketing activities. A leader in consumer and technology marketing, Allan brings broad experience marketing leading companies. Previously, he was SVP of Marketing for Livongo, a leading digital health company where he helped scale the company to tens of millions in revenue. While at Google, he led the development of the Google Fiber brand from its infancy, and helped grow Fiber to be a disruptive leader in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Google, Allan was Director of Global Consumer Marketing for Yahoo, where he managed the company’s brand marketing activities. Allan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia University and an Master of Business Administration from The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Freenome: Freenome is a biotechnology company with a comprehensive multiomics platform for cancer detection using a routine blood draw.
Greg Burrell
Co-Founder, VP of Clinical Product & Strategy of Carbon Health
Greg is co-founder and Director of Medicine at Carbon Health. He brings to Carbon a long-standing passion for using smart technology to overhaul the health system and improve the quality of care to patients. He has been advising and leading Bay Area healthcare startups for a number of years and most recently served as Director of Content and Clinical Solutions at CareMessage, Inc. Greg received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco and maintains a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Ashwin Pushpala
SVP of OneDrop
Ashwin Pushpala is the SVP at One Drop
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About OneDrop: One Drop is a diabetes management platform that helps people navigate diabetes together.
Steven Barnes
SVP of Investor Relations of Endonovo Therapeutics
Steven Barnes Senior Vice President of Investor Relations has over 18 years of extensive banking and corporate finance experience representing both the buy and sell side. His corporate, strategic and operational expertise includes public markets, private debt and equity, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic planning. He spent 8 years in the securities industry as a licensed (series 7, 63 & 55) representative of a NASD (now FINRA) Beverly Hills/New York based trading firm where he worked as an institutional trader, financial analyst and money manager. In 2003 Steven founded and was the principal of Empire Financial, Inc., a full service investment banking and corporate advisory firm in Los Angeles, California. He structured numerous private and public debt and equity offerings in many diverse sectors including biotechnology, healthcare, entertainment, and hardware/software technology companies.
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About Endonovo Therapeutics, WHINS Insurance Agency: Endonovo Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing off-the-shelf regenerative products.
Kelvin Kwong
VP of Product Management of Big Health
Kelvin Kwong is the VP Product at Big Health.
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About Big Health: Big Health is a digital therapeutics company operating a healthcare portal to offer behavioral programs for mental health issues.
Luca Rigazio
VP of Artificial Intelligence of Koko
Luca Rigazio’s work focuses on Intelligent Software, based on AI & Machine-Learning, which is taking over the world. Autonomous systems such as agents, autonomous vehicles, robots and drones are just around the corner. Luca’s goal is to give these machines a human touch while giving humans access to these machines without the hurdles of talking their language. His focus is on real user-driven problems, looking for solutions that leverage machine-learning, hardware and sensors to achieve a high degree of autonomy and usability. Luca’s specialties include: AI, Machine-learning, Deep-Learning, Computer-Vision, Speech-Recognition, Signal-Processing, Autonomous Systems, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, UX/Product design and Ideation/Management.
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About Koko: Koko makes a device to monitor the health and safety of older adults in a completely passive way–with no wearables required.
Lynn Salo
Advisor, Former VP of Facial Aesthetics Allergan Medical of TRUINJECT
Lynn Salo is a 25-year veteran of Allergan whose career has provided her with strong strategic and commercial experience across global healthcare pharmaceutical, biologic, and device markets in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Formerly the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Facial Aesthetic Division of Allergan Medical, Lynn led a growth strategy through strategic business development acquisitions. Prior to her current position, Lynn has held various business unit leadership positions throughout her years at Allergan. Highlights include leading the 250-person U.S. Neurosciences Division as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, overseeing BOTOX® therapeutic applications for patients with neurologic conditions resulting in movement disorders and upper limb spasticity, spearheading the creation and expansion of a new 226-person Urology business vertical as Vice President of Sales and Marketing – U.S. Urologics, developing the Glaucoma Ophthalmic commercial strategy for Europe, Middle East, and Africa as Strategic Marketing Director EMEA, and leading Allergan’s commercial UK/Eire organization as Business Unit Head of Allergan Ophthalmics. Lynn has launched several important products for Allergan including BOTOX®, Vectra®XT, ALPHAGAN®, LUMIGAN®, SANCTURA XR®, and numerous dry eye products. Lynn sits on the Boards of the Medical Device Manufacturer’s Association, Girls Inc. Orange County, and is a member of Orange County United Way Women’s Philanthropy Society. Lynn was recently nominated for an Orange County Business Journal ‘Women in Business’ Award, and is now the recipient of Girls Inc. Member of the Year Award for her philanthropic contributions. She holds an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
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About : TRUINJECT™ is a software company focused on the innovation, development & commercialization of medical products for the injectable market.
Agatha Martindale
Vice President and Global Finance of Rakuten Medical
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About BUILTBYGIRLS, Rakuten Medical, Rakuten Medical: Rakuten Medical is a biotechnology company that develops therapies to treat cancer.
Benjamin Beadle-Ryby
Co-Founder & VP Operations of AKASA
Benjamin Beadle-Ryby is a Co-Founder and the Vice President of Operations at Alpha Health.
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About AKASA: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Helene Klein
Executive-Vice President, People of Beachbody
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About Beachbody: Beachbody has developed and offering an in-home fitness and weight loss solutions.
Joe Villanueva
VP Product of Moving Analytics
I research, design, and code intuitive, effective, delightful experiences with beautiful interactive content.
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About Moving Analytics: Moving Analytics is a provider of turnkey and home-based post-acute care management solutions for cardiopulmonary disease.
David Woods
VP of Product Engineering, Health Technology of Johnson & Johnson
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About Johnson & Johnson: Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field.
Hartmuth Kolb
Vice President, Neuroscience Biomarkers and Janssen R&D Global Imaging of Johnson & Johnson
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About Johnson & Johnson: Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field.
Thomas Witzel
VP of Radiomics of Q Bio
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About Q Bio: On a mission to build the first Clinical Digital Twin Platform and make it accessible to everyone
Asish Xavier
Vice President, Venture Investments of Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
Asish Xavier is the Vice President of Venture Investments at joined Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) in 2004. Asish is based in Silicon Valley, California. Asish previously worked in business development at BioRexis Pharmaceutical, Inc., which was acquired by Pfizer in 2007. While at BioRexis, Asish assisted the company in raising a $30 million second round of financing. Asish has worked in business development at Structural GenomiX, Inc., acquired by Eli Lilly in 2008, and was a project leader at Message Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Asish received a Ph.D. from the University of Houston and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honors. Asish received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Asish was also a postdoctoral research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.
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About Cue, ESCAPE Bio, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Legend Biotech, Paige, ViaCyte, XWPharma: Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, a venture capital subsidiary, finances technology companies focused on patient health.
Stacy Feld
Vice President, Consumer Venture Investments of Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
Stacy received a B.A. in sociology, graduating magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School.
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About Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation: Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, a venture capital subsidiary, finances technology companies focused on patient health.
Albert Chan
Enterprise Vice President, Chief of Digital Patient Experience of Sutter Health
Albert Chan, M.D., M.S., FAAFP, as Vice President, Chief of Digital Patient Experience at Sutter Health, is the corporate champion for the transformation of web and mobile health care services, translating the latest advancements in digital health into consumer-centric patient experiences and digitally empowered clinician workflows. He also leads the Sutter Health My Health Online initiative. He practices in Family Medicine at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and a medical degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He completed his residency and year as chief resident in family medicine at the San Jose Medical Center Family Practice Residency, affiliated with Stanford University of School of Medicine. He concurrently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University School of Medicine and Family Medicine Research at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, studying the effects of point of care decision support in the management of hypertension. During fellowship, Dr. Chan also assisted with the launch of PAMFOnline, now Sutter’s My Health Online, one of the earliest PHRs in the United States.
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About Sutter Health: Sutter Health is a non-profit organization operating a network of hospitals and physicians in Northern California.
Alex Muresan
VP of Engineering of Foodsmart
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About Foodsmart: Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes.
Hakan Sakul
Vice President and Head of Diagnostics of Pfizer
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About Pfizer: Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services.
Keith Patton
VP Software Development of Zerigo Health
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About Zerigo Health: Clarify Medical is a developer of a handheld medical device used to treat psoriasis, eczema, and vitiligo .
Hilary Coles
Co-Founder and VP Product of Hims & Hers
Hilary Coles is the co-founder and VP of product at Hims & Hers, men’s and women’s wellness brands that provide access to medical-grade products and preventative solutions via telemedicine.
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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.
Bob Colloton
Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Neuravi
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About MIVI Neuroscience, Neuravi: Neuravi provides medical products and services.
Joshua Sommerfeld
Vice President of Redmile Group
Josh is a member of the investment team at Redmile Group. Prior to Redmile, Josh was Director of Operations at Stride Health, where he built the company’s sales, customer support, regulatory, and data operations teams. Prior to Stride Health, Josh was the lead Associate for Bain Capital Venture’s early-stage and growth equity activity in the healthcare vertical, where he focused on healthcare IT and healthcare services. Companies in Josh’s portfolio included Liazon (sold to Tower’s Watson) and National Cardiovascular Partners (sold to Fresenius). Josh began his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company in Chicago and Melbourne, Australia. Josh graduated with honors from University of Chicago where he received a BA in South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
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About Redmile Group, Wellington Management: Redmile Group is a healthcare investment organization that makes venture, growth, and crossover investing across healthcare.
Steve Pham
Vice President of Clinical and Research Affairs of Eko Health
Steve Pham is a practicing emergency medicine physician, the head of medical and research affairs at Eko, and a new father. His passion is translating between digital and clinical insights.
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Tyler Crouch
Co-Founder, VP of Mobile Engineering & Product Development of Eko Health
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Sejal Shah
SVP of Operations of Octave
Sejal is a veteran healthcare and services leader, with well over a decade of experience in executive roles. As the SVP of Operations at Octave, she leads the team that is responsible for delivering exceptional customer service to our clients. Prior to Octave, Sejal was VP of Business Operations and Strategy at AltSchool, where she led various teams and helped the company scale through Series C. Previous to AltSchool, she was the Director of Operations at One Medical, where she oversaw a region spanning four cities and 20+ clinics, led teams of more than 200 people, and was a key force in scaling the company through 4x growth. Sejal holds undergraduate degrees from Duke University and an MBA from Wharton.
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About Octave: Octave is a modern mental health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible to more people.
Kathleen Mullaney
VP Product of Octave
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About Octave: Octave is a modern mental health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible to more people.
Gene Hung
Co-founder and Senior Vice President of XinThera
Gene Hung is a Co-founder and Senior Vice President at Xinthera Inc.
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About XinThera: XinThera is a drug discovery company focused on building small molecule oncology and immunology pipeline.
Kathryn E. Falberg
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Kathryn Falberg was appointed our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in March 2012. She served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2009 to 2012. Her responsibilities include finance, strategy, corporate development and IT. From 1995 through 2001, Kathryn Falberg was with Amgen, Inc., where she served as Senior Vice President Finance, Strategy and Chief Financial Officer, and before that as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, and Vice President, Treasurer. From 2001 through 2008, Kathryn Falberg was President of Canyon Capital & Consulting, a private investment and consulting firm, where she worked with a number of smaller companies while also serving as a corporate director and audit committee chair for several companies. From February to November 2009, she was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at ARCA biopharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Kathryn Falberg received an M.B.A. and B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive). Kathryn Falberg currently serves on the boards, and is chair of the audit committees, of biopharmaceutical companies Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. and Medivation, Inc.
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About Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company that identifies, develops and commercializes innovative treatments.
Rich Mahoney
VP Research of Intuitive Surgical
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Robert Desantis
Executive Vice President Chief Product Officer of Intuitive Surgical
Bob DeSantis joined Intuitive Surgical in January 2013 as Vice President, Research and Development, Instruments and Accessories Engineering. In November 2015, Mr. DeSantis was promoted to the position of Senior Vice President, Instruments and Accessories. In this position, Mr. DeSantis is responsible for managing the development of new technology from design to market as well as production engineering support for the instrument and accessory portfolio. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Mr. DeSantis spent almost twenty years in the medical device industry, holding positions at several companies, including US Surgical and most recently at Covidien, where he last served as the Vice President, Research and Development for the mechanical and energy instrument businesses. Mr. DeSantis holds a B.S. and M.S.in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Mr. DeSantis also holds a certificate in Innovation Management from MIT.
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Dave Rosa
Executive Vice President & Chief Business Officer of Intuitive Surgical
Dave J. Rosa joined Intuitive Surgical in March 1996 and has held leadership positions in Engineering, Clinical Development, Marketing and Product Development. In 2015, Mr. Rosa was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. In 2013, Mr. Rosa assumed the position of Senior Vice President, Scientific Affairs and, in 2014, he was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer. He has been a passionate supporter and evangelist of da Vinci technology since its inception. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Mr. Rosa contributed to the development of trans-esophageal transducers for Acuson Corporation. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo. He also holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Gillian Duncan
Senior Vice President, Professional Education & Program Services – Worldwide of Intuitive Surgical
Gillian Duncan, Ed.D., joined Intuitive Surgical in December 2006 as an Education Manager. After holding several positions of increasing responsibility in clinical, product and professional education, Dr. Duncan was promoted to the position of Vice President, da Vinci® Professional Education & Program Services – Worldwide in August 2015. In this role, Dr. Duncan is responsible for leading the company’s high-quality, worldwide Customer Training, Genesis, Lab Services and Clinical and Product Education programs. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Dr. Duncan held both teaching and research positions at Columbia University and California State University, East Bay. Dr. Duncan holds a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, and master’s and doctorate degrees in Applied Physiology from Columbia University.
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Myriam Curet
Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of Intuitive Surgical
Myriam J. Curet, M.D. joined Intuitive Surgical in December 2005, as Chief Medical Advisor. In February 2014, Dr. Curet was promoted to the position of Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Curet also held a faculty position as Professor of Surgery at Stanford University. Since October 2010, she has served as a Consulting Professor of Surgery at Stanford University with a part time clinical appointment at the Palo Alto Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. Dr. Curet received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed her general surgery residency program at the University of Chicago. She then worked for the Indian Health Service for four years before finishing her Surgical Endoscopy fellowship at the University of New Mexico. She was on the faculty at the University of New Mexico for six years prior to joining the Stanford University Department of Surgery in 2000.
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Craig Child
Sr. Vice President, Human Resources of Intuitive Surgical
Craig Child joined Intuitive Surgical in May 2001 as a Recruiting Consultant. In March 2015, Craig Child was promoted to the position of Vice President, Human Resources. Prior to this role, Mr. Child has held several key positions since the inception of the human resources organization at Intuitive Surgical, playing an instrumental role in the development of key human resources functions. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Mr. Child held positions in human resources at Adobe and Informix. Mr. Child holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Oregon and a M.B.A from Colorado State University.
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Mark Johnson
Sr. VP Quality & Regulatory Quality of Intuitive Surgical
Mark Johnson joined Intuitive Surgical in February 2014. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as Worldwide Vice President of Quality and Regulatory for the Johnson and Johnson Diabetes Care Franchise. During his nearly 15 years with Johnson & Johnson, he worked for a number of operating companies in various quality and regulatory leadership roles. Earlier in his career, Mr. Johnson also worked in numerous operational and quality roles at General Electric and at Haemonetics Corporation. Mr. Johnson graduated from Eastern Nazarene College with a B.S. in Business Administration and an M.S. in Management Leadership.
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Liron Leist
VP Digital & Data Development of Intuitive Surgical
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
Charles Jones
Senior Vice President, Design and User Experience of Intuitive Surgical
Charles Jones joined Intuitive Surgical in April 2016 as the Senior Vice President, Design and User Experience. In this role, Mr. Jones is responsible for leading the company’s efforts to blend leading-edge technology with enhanced human-centered design thinking and driving a consistent design experience for Intuitive products and services. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Mr. Jones has held several key leadership roles at Whirlpool Corp., Xerox Corp. and Herman Miller, and most recently served as the Chief Design and Technology Officer for Newell Rubbermaid. Mr. Jones has received several international design awards, including the prestigious Smithsonian National Design Award, and holds several patents. Mr. Jones is an honors graduate from Purdue University with degrees in Industrial Design and Human Factors Engineering.
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About Intuitive Surgical: The da Vinci Surgical System is changing the experience of surgery for patients around the world.
James Hinrichs
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alere
James (“Jim”) Hinrichs joined Alere in April 2015 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, with global responsibility for Finance, Accounting, Procurement, IT and Shared Services. Prior to his appointment as CFO of Alere, Jim Hinrichs was CFO at CareFusion Corp., a global medical technology corporation, since 2010. He held this position through the completion of Becton Dickinson’s acquisition of CareFusion in March 2015. Prior to this role, Hinrichs served as SVP of Global Customer Support and, before that, Corporate Controller of CareFusion. Previously, he was Executive Vice president and Controller of Cardinal Health, CFO of Cardinal Health’s Clinical and Medical Products segment and CFO of Cardinal Health’s Healthcare Supply Chain Services segment.. He joined Cardinal Health in February 2004, following 12 years of finance and marketing roles at Merck & Co. and two years as the CFO of SangStat Medical Corporation.
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About Alere: Alere provides diagnostics and health management solutions for infectious, heart and cancer-related diseases and drug addicts.
John Bridgen
SVP, Business Development of Alere
John Bridgen, Ph.D. has served as Senior Vice President, Business Development since July 2010, after serving as our Vice President, Business Development from June 2006 to July 2010. He served as our Vice President, Strategy from September 2005 to June 2006. Dr. Bridgen joined our Company in September 2002, upon our acquisition of Wampole Laboratories, LLC. Dr. Bridgen served as President of Wampole from August 1984 until September 2005. Prior to joining Wampole, Dr. Bridgen had global sales and marketing responsibility for the hematology and immunology business units of Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.
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About Alere: Alere provides diagnostics and health management solutions for infectious, heart and cancer-related diseases and drug addicts.
Mark Gladwell
Senior Vice President, Global Operations of Alere
Mark Gladwell has served as Senior Vice President, Global Operations since January 2015. From January 2014 through January 2015, he held the role of Vice President, Operations for North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa. From September 2011 through December 2013, Mr. Gladwell served as Vice President of Operations for North America and as President and General Manager of one of Alere’s key manufacturing facilities in North America. From 2007 to 2010 Mr. Gladwell was Vice President, Quality and Technical Service for Alere. From 2005 to 2007, he served as a director covering multiple functions in the start-up of Alere Technology Limited where he focused on the development and manufacture of the Alere home BNP product. Prior to 2005 Mr. Gladwell held a variety of operations, quality and project leadership positions in North America and Europe for Alere, Johnson & Johnson, Agfa Gavert and DuPont. Mr. Gladwell has more than 18 years of experience in manufacturing high-volume, high-technology in-vitro diagnostics and medical devices.
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About Alere: Alere provides diagnostics and health management solutions for infectious, heart and cancer-related diseases and drug addicts.
Brian Wrightson
VP, Technology of Clariture
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About Clariture: Clariture is a consumer-focused healthcare marketing platform that drives targeted patient acquisitions and patient engagement.
Charles Yang
Vice President of Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs of Blockade Medical
Charles is currently the Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at Blockade Medical. He has been in the medical device industry for over 15 years in the quality and regulatory field with extensive experience in achieving product approvals in a timely manner. Charles has been successful in achieving multiple product approvals through CE Mark, 510K and other regulatory processes all over the world. He has a diversified portfolio of working in start-up companies and large corporations which has allowed him to gain the experience to build efficient quality systems that meet the needs of the medical device industry. Prior to joining Blockade Medical, Charles worked at various medical device companies which include Acutus Medical, MindFrame Inc. (acquired by Covidien), Ablation Frontiers (acquired by Medtronic) and Edwards LifeSciences. Charles received a B.S. in Bio-engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
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About Blockade Medical: Founded in 2011, Blockade Medical is a privately held company dedicated the development of catheter based therapeutic devices for the
Ryan Solomon
Vice President of Marketing & Business Development of Blockade Medical
Ryan is the Director of Global Marketing and Business Development at Blockade Medical and has more than 10 years of medical sales and marketing expertise including extensive interventional neurovascular experience. Ryan has successfully launched many products in the neurovascular field including launching the first flow diversion device in the United States while serving as the Group Marketing Manager at Covidien Neurovascular and global launches of multiple coil lines as a Sr. Product Manager at MicroVention. His previous roles have also included Associate Marketing Manager at Karl Storz Endoscopy, Sr. Clinical Sales Specialist at Glaxo Smith Kline, and a Professional Sales Representative for Boehringer Ingelheim. Ryan received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Riverside and a M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Blockade Medical: Founded in 2011, Blockade Medical is a privately held company dedicated the development of catheter based therapeutic devices for the
Nikhil Arun
VP of Product and Chief of Staff of Vitagene
VP of Products and Chief of Staff at 1Health.io and Vitagene. Also, CEO and Founder of In-Video Impressions. Formerly worked as a Lead Program Manager at Microsoft where he designed and led the team that created Microsoft’s current advertising portal home page and billing system. Started his tech career as technical program manager and developer at Microsoft’s entertainment products. Prior to working in tech, was a hip hop dancer in China and the US. Holds two degrees from Duke University – a BS in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About In-Video Impressions, Vitagene, Vitagene: The world’s First and Only Personalization Platform for Health and Wellness Products and Services Tailored to Your DNA and Lifestyle.
Bhavin Shah
Vice President of Engineering and Quality of Paramit Corporation
Bhavin joined Paramit in 2014. Bhavin brings with him over 20 years of experience in developing products involving hardware and software/firmware for multiple industries. Prior to Paramit, Bhavin spent 5 years at Diamond Systems, managing engineering teams developing high precision digital and analog PCBAs and 9+ years with Asyst Technologies. Bhavin has a BSEE from the Mumbai University(India) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing from C-DAC (India).
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About Paramit Corporation: Paramit designs and manufactures medical devices and life science instruments.
Francesco Grieco
Vice President of Operations of Paramit Corporation
Francesco Grieco is the VP of Operations at Paramit Corporation.
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About Paramit Corporation: Paramit designs and manufactures medical devices and life science instruments.
Craig Warner
VP of Engineering of Rad AI
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About Rad AI: RadAI empowers radiologists for the future.
Brian Maples
VP/Head of Data Science of Prealize Health
Brian Maples leads the company’s development and execution of cutting edge machine learning methods applied to large and diverse member data sets. His work yields precise identification of members who are most at risk for as yet unidentified future high cost events. Prior to joining Prealize, Brian was a Data Scientist at Nuna Health, where he designed and developed machine learning and analytics products and capabilities in the healthcare space. He has also been the lead inventor at Ionian Technologies, a diagnostics startup that was subsequently acquired by Alere. While a PhD student at Stanford, Brian developed a machine learning method for large medical genetics data sets that is currently being privately licensed. Brian received both his PhD in Biomedical Informatics and MS in Statistics from Stanford University, and a BA in Science and Management from Claremont McKenna College.
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About Prealize Health: Prealize Health uses machine learning to transform healthcare from reactive to proactive.
Ed Chuang
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development of ClearCare
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About ClearCare: ClearCare is a web-based software solution that helps home care agencies efficiently focus on what’s important: providing better care.
Thomas Alessi
Vice President, Development and Manufacturing of Intarcia Therapeutics
Dr. Alessi joined Intarcia in December 1997 as Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs and Drug Development and was promoted to Vice President, Development in February 2002 with responsibility for the areas of product development, project management, chemistry and manufacturing. Prior to joining Intarcia, Dr. Alessi served as the Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Project Management at Ansan Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for successful IND filings and for managing five drug development programs with oversight of vendors for preclinical and clinical studies and manufacturing clinical supplies. Before joining Ansan, Dr. Alessi was Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at Glycomed, Inc. where his duties included oversight and compliance of clinical manufacturing. His previous experience includes regulatory affairs and drug discovery experience in large pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Alessi was Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs for Schering-Plough working in the Anti-infectives, Allergy Products and Chemisty, Manufacturing, & Controls groups. While at Schering-Plough, Dr. Alessi had regulatory responsibilities for approval and launch of interferon alfa-2b for hepatitis C as well as for hepatitis B. In his CMC role, he served on separate committees for process development and production of solid oral dosage forms, inhaled products, creams and semisolid products and sterile dosage forms, in addition to regulatory review of the CMC sections of Schering-Plough INDs and NDAs. Prior to joining Schering-Plough, Dr. Alessi invented and patented several new families of antidiabetic drugs while working as a Senior Scientist in the drug discovery group at Wyeth-Ayerst. Dr. Alessi earned a B.S. degree at Allegheny College and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in organic synthetic chemistry from the University of Rochester.
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About Intarcia Therapeutics: Intarcia Therapeutics develops therapies for diseases that require long-term chronic treatment.
Paul Negulescu
Vice President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Paul Negulescu is the Senior Vice President and Site Head of San Diego Research. He’s been leading Vertex’s San Diego research location since 2003, the site that discovered Vertex’s medicines that treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis. Prior to joining Vertex, Dr. Negulescu was Senior Vice President of Discovery Biology and a member of the executive team at Aurora Biosciences. When Vertex acquired Aurora, he was responsible for integrating Aurora’s research into Vertex. Dr. Negulescu received both his B.S. and Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Physiology and carried out post-doctoral work at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Irvine in the areas of ion channel biophysics and immunology.
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About Vertex Pharmaceuticals: Vertex Pharmaceuticals is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases.
Glenn S. Boehnlein
Chief Financial Officer & Vice President of Stryker
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About Stryker: Stryker is a medical technology company that offers products and services in orthopaedics.
Shian-Jiun Shih
Vice President of Product Development of Tessa Therapeutics
Dr. Shih has over 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, with strong expertise in biological drug development, including cell and gene therapy products and therapeutic proteins, with a focus on immunotherapy. Prior to joining Tessa, she was Director of Molecular Biomarkers and Site Lead of the Translational Medicine and Research Centre, Merck Sharp & Dohme. In that role, her group established non-human primate disease models and developed clinical biomarker assays to support early phase clinical trials, including those for Keytruda. Before that she was Director, Assay Development, Cell Genesys, Inc. She has also held various roles in Bayer, Aventis, and Applied Immune Sciences. Dr. Shih is Founding President of the Chinese Bioscience Association. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of Wisconsin at Madison and completed her post-doctoral training at the School of Medicine, Stanford University.
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About Tessa Therapeutics: Tessa Therapeutics is a provider of therapy designed to focus on T cell therapy for solid tumors.
Wade Chambers
CTO & SVP of Engineering of Included Health
Wade is currently the CTO and SVP of Engineering at Included Health.
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About Grand Rounds Health, Included Health: Included Health is a concierge healthcare platform focused on raising care equality for your LGBTQ+ employees.
Darren Hudgins
Vice President, Software Engineering of Breathometer
Darren Hudgins is the Vice President, Research & Development of Hillrom.
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About Breathometer, Hill-Rom: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Heather A. Brown
Senior Vice President, Market Access & Reimbursement of HeartFlow
Dr. Brown brings 10 years of experience in advanced medical imaging product development and service. She has held leadership roles in multiple startups and drove the development of AAA stent graft and TAVR planning applications as well as novel methods of assessing cardiac wall mechanics. Dr. Brown developed the first Volumetric Medical Imaging college accredited program at Jefferson Community and Technical College in 2005. She holds six patents. She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Tim Fonte
VP Customer Success of HeartFlow
Tim is start-up executive and engineer with experience from early-stage R&D through commercial operations. He has worked in the fields of healthcare, software, hardware, product design, and manufacturing. Tim is currently VP Customer Success at HeartFlow. He has co-founded a custom products company. He was a key individual in bringing two high-impact, award-winning, FDA-approved healthcare technologies from R&D to production and initial commercial use: first at Cameron Health and most recently as an early employee and leader at HeartFlow.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Brigham Hamlin
VP of Sales of Vim
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About Vim: Vim is a technology company building digital infrastructure for healthcare.
Lara Abbaschian
Vice President of Lightstone Ventures
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About Lightstone Ventures: Lightstone Ventures is a leading global venture capital firm.
Dave Schulte
SVP, Managing Director of McKesson Ventures
Dave has more than 15 years of experience, as an investor and investment banker, partnering with entrepreneurs to build innovative health care and technology businesses. He joined Kasier Permanente Ventures in 2003 and helped build KP’s investment program. He is now responsible for managing the Fund’s investment strategy and day to day activities. Prior to KP Ventures, Dave was a health care and software investment banker at J.P. Morgan, UBS, and Piper Jaffray. He serves or served as a Board Director or Observer for several companies: Atheromed, Baxano (sold to Trans1), Hemosphere (sold to Cryolife) , MetricStream, Nursefinders (sold to Goldman Sachs), Proteus Biomedical, Pulmonx, ValenTx, Valeritas and Xanitos. Dave is a graduate of St. John’s University and earned a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University.
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About McKesson Ventures: McKesson Ventures is a California-based venture capital that focuses on the healthcare industry.
Jennifer Carter
Vice President, Portfolio Development of McKesson Ventures
Jennifer Carter is the Vice President of Portfolio Development for McKesson Ventures. Jennifer works closely with portfolio companies to help identify and evaluate synergies across the McKesson ecosystem, which includes McKesson’s business units, customers and employee base. In addition, when these synergies create mutual value she helps facilitate efficient execution by acting as a liaison or project manager in order to ensure McKesson Ventures lives up to its value proposition. Jennifer brings over 15 years of experience from various roles across the McKesson enterprise. Jennifer holds a B.S. in Economics from Boston College. Although born and raised in San Francisco, Jennifer spends harvest season on the family farm cultivating pluots and disrupting the plum and apricot industries.
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About McKesson Ventures, McKesson Ventures: McKesson Ventures is a California-based venture capital that focuses on the healthcare industry.
Jay Wohlgemuth
Chief Medical Officer, SVP R&D, Medical, Population Health of Quest Diagnostics
Jay Wohlgemuth, HealthTap’s Chief HealthCare Officer, has devoted his career to giving patients and doctors access to relevant information that can help them live longer, healthier, and happier lives. Prior to joining HealthTap, Jay Wohlgemuth served as the Chief Scientific Officer and SVP of R&D and Medical at Quest Diagnostics. Jay Wohlgemuth—who was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos—earned his bachelor’s degree at Harvard and his M.D. and Cardiovascular Medicine specialty training at Stanford. Jay Wohlgemuth has deep experience in healthcare research and new product development. Among other accomplishments, Jay Wohlgemuth led all test development efforts and overseen major partnerships in healthcare at Quest Diagnostics, ran companion diagnostics and drug development programs at Genentech, and was a co-founder and head of R&D and medical for CareDx, which developed and commercialized first-of-its-kind molecular testing for transplant recipients that reduces the need for invasive biopsies and is now a standard of care around the world. Jay is a trustee of the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation and a board member for the Personalized Medicine Coalition.
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About Quest Diagnostics: Quest Diagnostics is a clinical laboratory that offers diagnostic testing, services, and information.
