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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 CTO’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Eric Friedman
Co-Founder & CTO of Fitbit
Eric is our Co-Founder and has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and most recently as our CTO. Previously, Eric served as an Engineer Manager at CNET Networks, as a Co-Founder of Wind-Up Labs, a founding engineer of Epesi Technologies, and a technical member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. Eric holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder and CTO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Gaurav Agarwal
Co-Founder & CTO of 1mg
Gaurav Agarwal is CTO @ HealthKart Plus.
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About 1mg: 1mg is an online pharmacy network platform and generic medicine engine.
Zachary Apte
Co – Founder and CTO of uBiome
Zachary Apte is a Co-Founder and CTO of uBiome. Trained in both theoretical high-energy physics and biophysics, Dr. Apte earned his PhD in biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco. Before uBiome, he founded a synthetic biology company based on his invention of a novel microfluidics devices and funded by the US Department of Energy. While a university student at Hampshire College, he built an open science web platform and was integral in the initial research and development for the project that became the first published carbon-emissions rating label in North America.
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About Bioparaiso, uBiome: uBiome is a provider of public access to DNA sequencing technology to understand the microbiome.
Jerome Fodor
CTO of TOOTRiS
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About TOOTRiS: TOOTRiS is a technology platform that allows parents affordable access to high-quality Child Care, anytime, anywhere.
Kevin Cho
CTO/Co-founder of AWAIR
Kevin Cho is a Founder & CTO at Bitfinder.
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About AWAIR: Awair’s mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely through cutting-edge indoor air quaity monitoring.
Glenn Lortscher
Co-Founder and CTO of Curology
Co-Founder and CTO @ Curology
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About Curology: Curology is a cosmetic company that provides actual prescription skincare customized for their skin and delivered to their door.
Cameron Marlow
CTO at Apella Technology of Apella Technology
Cameron Marlow is a researcher at [Stanford University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stanford-university). He founded and led the data science team at Facebook, which was responsible for applied research, product optimization, and user behavioral modeling within the company. Marlow received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. After completing his Ph.D., Marlow joined Yahoo Research where he studied social incentives, community evolution and social search in emerging applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, and Last.fm. He was also a research assistant at the University of Chicago and developer at Lafayette Project.
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About Apella Technology, Physera: Apella Technology is an AI startup that brings modern engineering to improve surgery.
Robert Nix
CTO 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.
Ram Subramanian
Chief Technology Officer of PerceptiMed
Ram has 15 years of experience in image processing and machine learning. He has had many years of experience in product development with specific emphasis on high throughput intelligent systems. Prior to working at PerceptiMed, Ram has had experience in the area of life sciences and in the semiconductor industry. Ram holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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About PerceptiMed: PerceptiMed develops an advanced pill identification system designed to eliminate human errors in medication dispensing in pharmacies.
Simon Williams
CTO of Lemonaid Health
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
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.
Tom Berry
Co-founder & CTO of Carbon Health
Tom is co-founder and CTO at Carbon Health. Prior to Carbon, he built web apps and data pipelines at Twitter and co-founded eyewear startup coolbeams. He’s happy to play a small part in putting the healthcare system on the solid technological footing it deserves. Tom received his Engineering degree at Stanford University with a focus in product design.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Claire Hough
Chief Technology Officer of Carbon Health
Claire Hough is VP of Engineering at Apollo.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Justin White
CTO and Co-Founder of Notable
Justine White is the Co-Founder & CTO at Notable.
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About Notable: Notable is an AI-powered health start-up that automates and digitizes every physician-patient interaction.
Mandeep Dhillon
CTO/CPO and Co-Founder of Be Me Health
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About Be Me Health: Be Me Health is operating in stealth mode.
David Tsao
CTO of BillionToOne
David leads development of BillionToOne’s bioinformatics pipeline and is the source behind many of the technological developments at BillionToOne. He has a PhD in Bioengineering from Rice University. Before his PhD, he was a software engineer at Adku and Groupon, where he leveraged big data to build recommendation engines and search engine marketing solutions. David earned an AB in Physics from Princeton University. When not coding or pipetting, he enjoys rock climbing, backpacking, and pursuing the perfect cup of coffee.
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About BillionToOne: BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company that makes molecular diagnostics accurate, efficient, and accessible for all.
Aditya Rajagopal
Co-Founder & CTO of ChromaCode
Aditya Rajagopal is the Founder & CTO of ChromaCode, Inc, and a Visiting Associate in Electrical Engineering at Caltech. He completed his education at Caltech (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) and has fifteen years of experience in medical engineering, microfluidics, nanotechnology and bioengineering. Aditya Rajagopal’s research has resulted in innovative technology developments and he has authored over 50 patents and publications. He is the recipient of numerous honors including the Caltech Grubstake Award in 2017 and the Caltech Innovation Initiative (CI2) in 2014 and 2015.
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About ChromaCode: ChromaCode is a molecular diagnostics company focusing on bioinformatics.
Scott Royston
CTO of TRUINJECT
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About TRUINJECT: TRUINJECT™ is a software company focused on the innovation, development & commercialization of medical products for the injectable market.
Varun Ganapathi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of AKASA
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About AKASA, Terminal.com: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Saran Chari
CTO of Lumos Labs
Saran is CTO of Lumos Labs. Before Flixster, Saran was one of the early employees at the startup Edusoft, where he ran the engineering team. Edusoft provided assessment management software based on unique, low-cost scanning technology to public school districts. Edusoft was bought by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. Before Edusoft, Saran worked for Scient, the former internet consulting firm. Before Scient, Saran earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
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About Lumos Labs: Lumosity is a neuroscience research company that provides online brain training programs.
David Drescher
Co-founder & CTO of Lumos Labs
David is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lumos Labs.He oversees all product and technology operations of Lumosity.com. David is the inventor of Lumosity’s cognitive training platform and its adaptive training algorithms. He’s also the game designer behind many of Lumosity.com’s enjoyable games. David received a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Columbia University.
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About Lumos Labs: Lumosity is a neuroscience research company that provides online brain training programs.
Ray Botha
Co-founder & CTO of HealthLeap
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About Crypto20, HealthLeap, Invictus Capital: Solving disease-related malnutrition with a mobile clinical assistant for healthcare professionals.
Andrew Toy
CTO & President of Clover Health
Andrew is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Clover Health, a technology oriented Medicare Advantage company focused on changing healthcare by developing models and interventions that improve member outcomes. Prior to Clover, Andrew was a Product Management Director at Google working in the Google Cloud team and was responsible for Developer Platform and Intelligence features. Previously, he was the Product Director for Android for Work – the enterprise platform for Android. Andrew joined Google in 2014 via the acquisition of Divide where he was co-founder and CEO. At Divide, Andrew helped drive the company’s founding vision of bringing Work and Play together on a single device with no compromises. Divide raised over 25MM in venture funding before being acquired by Google. Before co-founding Divide in 2010, Andrew was VP of Mobile and Syndication Technology at MTV Networks. In this role, he provided technological leadership for digital distribution of Viacom content, serving cable brands including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon. Prior to joining MTV Networks, Andrew headed mobile application development for Morgan Stanley, where he specialized in mobile security as well as fixed-mobile convergence telephony. Before Morgan Stanley, Andrew was chief architect for Jarna Inc., a startup focused on enabling mobile workflows on event-based platforms. Andrew holds both a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he has also served as an associate lecturer.
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About Clover Health, Divide: Clover is a healthcare technology company helping members live their healthiest lives with its Medicare Advantage plans.
Troy Astorino
Co-Founder & CTO of PicnicHealth
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About PicnicHealth: PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Kairui Zeng
CTO of DeepScribe
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About DeepScribe: DeepScribe is an AI-driven platform for medical record-taking.
Vahid Kowsari
Founder & CTO of ixlayer
Vahid Kowsari is the Co-Founder and CTO at ixLayer Inc.
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About ixlayer: ixlayer develops a telehealth platform that provides an infrastructure for payors, providers, and government partners to scale testing.
Ming Yan
Co-Founder and CTO of Cytek Biosciences
Ming Yan is a co-founder of Cytek Biosciences, Inc. with over 20 years of R&D experience in leadership and innovation. Prior to Cytek, Ming Yan held research and development positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Labs and BD Biosciences. He is one of the thought-leaders in flow cytometry instrumentation and standardization. Ming Yan has published several research papers relating to laser spectroscopy and cell analysis in top peer-reviewed journals. He has over a dozen patents and patent pending applications for his innovations.
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About Cytek Biosciences: Cytek Biosciences is a manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services.
James H. Bullard
Co-Founder and CTO of Pendulum Therapeutics
James Bullard is a Computational Biologist and Biostatistician with extensive experience in analyzing complex genomic systems. Prior to co-founding Whole Biome, Jim served as a Senior Staff Scientist at Pacific Biosciences. Jim, completed his Ph.D. in Biostatistics with a focus in Computational and Genomic Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. in Computing and Information Systems at Northwestern University.
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About Pendulum Therapeutics: Pendulum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company improving health through products targeting the microbiome.
Debkishore Mitra
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of Lucira Health
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About Lucira Health: Lucira Health is a biotechnology company that offers disposable test kits to detect RNA and DNA of infectious diseases.
Thor Clark
CTO of Well Health
Co-Founder and CTO at CudaSign (SignNow)
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About CudaSign, Well Health: WELL Health® is the #1 patient communication platform for enterprise healthcare systems (2021 and 2022 Best in KLAS for Patient Outreach).
Graham Melcher
Co-founder & CTO of Hint Health
Co-Founder & CTO at Hint Health. Specialties: Systems Architecture, Product Design, Ruby, Rails, Restful API Design, Postgresql, DB Design, Angular.js, Node.js, Management, Leadership
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About Hint Health: Hint Health fixes healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered.
Amir Belson
Founder and CTO of Emboline
Amir Belson Prior to conceiving of and starting ZipLine Medical, Amir Belson, M.D., was the founder of Neoguide Systems, a company that developed platform technology for minimally invasive surgical procedures that was later acquired by Intuitive Surgical in 2009. Belson is also the founder of Vascular Pathways, a company that developed an FDA cleared vascular intervention technology that has been chosen as one of the 10 best inventions of 2009 by Popular Science magazine, Thermocure, a minimally invasive therapeutic hypothermia technology company, Radguard Medical, a radiation protection medical device company and VasoStitch, which develops large vessel access and closure technology. Belson graduated cum laude from the school of medicine of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. He did his pediatric residency at Dana Children’s Hospital in Tel Aviv and his pediatric nephrology fellowship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He also served several years as a flight surgeon in Israel’s air force rescue unit before moving to the US for a three year Pediatric Nephrology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. Belson also spent one year as a research fellow with the Biomedical Technology Innovation Program at Stanford.
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About Emboline, Modular Surgical, Qool Therapeutics, Radiaction, Zipline Medical: Emboline is a medical device company with a game-changing device for total embolic protection during percutaneous heart valve repair.
Chris Wiebe
CTO & Co-Founder of Athos
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About Athos: The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.
Shadi Saberi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of iSono Health
Shadi loves solving challenging problems in healthcare that impact lives of so many, especially women. She believes consumer engagement in their own health through accessible and personalized medical technology is key to prevention and early detection. She has over 10 years of experience designing consumer electronic. Before co-founding iSonoHealth, she worked at broadcom and Intel. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
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About iSono Health: iSono Health develops an AI platform for accessible and personalized breast health monitoring
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.
Wenzhe Gao
Co-Founder & CTO of Nom Nom
Wenzhe is Nom Nom’s co-founder and CTO, leading efforts to build and scale Nom Nom’s technical infrastructure and digital product suite. Prior to Nom Nom, Wenzhe spent 10 years at Google, where he led engineering for various consumer business units. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Nom Nom: We make real food to support healthier, longer lives for folks with paws. Because what’s good for people is good for pets too.
Henry Chan
Co-Founder & CTO of OrthoFX
Henry Chan is a Co-Founder and CTO at OrthoFX.
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About OrthoFX: Innovation Leader in Clear Aligner Orthodontics
Tom Chokel
Co-Founder & CTO of Modern Fertility
Tom Chokel is a Co-Founder at Modern Fertility.
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About Modern Fertility: Modern Fertility is a women’s health company closing the fertility information gap by letting women test key fertility hormones at home.
Charles A. Taylor
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of HeartFlow
Charles Taylor is a co-founder, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and member of the Board of Directors of HeartFlow Inc. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Surgery at Stanford University with courtesy faculty appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Radiology. He is internationally recognized for the development of computer modeling and imaging techniques for cardiovascular disease research, device design and treatment planning. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Stuart Parmenter
CTO of One Medical
Stuart Parmenter is the Chief Technology Officer at One Medical.
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About One Medical: One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services.
James Coletti
CTO of MedCircle
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About MedCircle: MedCircle is a San Diego based company redefining the mental health care market
James Wong
CTO, Co-founder of XP Health
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About Sand Hill Angels, XP Health: XP Health is an artificial intelligence-powered vision benefits platform for employees.
Max Hsieh
Co-founder & CTO of Twic
Max Hsieh is the Co-founder and CTO at TWIC.
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About Twic: Forma is a modern-day benefits platform that gives employees the freedom to choose health and wellness options that are right for them.
Sean Miller
Co-Founder and CTO of Blueberry Pediatrics
Sean Miller graduated from Duke University and post-graduation worked for Google for over three years as a software engineer lead. Originally from Philadelphia, Sean was excited to use his expertise in software and systems development to build Blueberry Pediatrics.
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About Blueberry Pediatrics: Blueberry Pediatrics provides parents with live access to top pediatricians for a flat monthly rate.
Andrew McMurry
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder of Medal
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About Medal: Extract, transport, translate, and share medical records faster.
Penjit Moorhead
Co-Founder and CTO of Arine
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About Arine: Arine optimizes medications and improves human health through data-driven clinical services.
Ammar Khan
Co-Founder & CTO of Medsender
CTO @ Medsender
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About Medsender: Modernizing healthcare communication and automating care coordination workflows
Kevin Huang
CTO & Co-Founder of Backbone Labs, Inc.
Kevin’s engineering skills and passion form the foundation for the technology that powers Backbone Labs. He began his career as a consultant implementing and integrating enterprise systems where he learned the intricacies of automated systems. He then moved to the world of software engineering, helping develop various applications for companies and consumers. Outside the office, Kevin enjoys following hockey (go Sharks!) and MotoGP.
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About Backbone Labs, Inc.: Identify at-risk behavior in the workplace and recommend actions to promote and maintain overall back-related wellness.
Glen McLaughlin
President, Founder,CTO of Zonare Medical Systems
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About Zonare Medical Systems: Zonare Medical Systems develops compact ultrasound systems that are used for diagnostic imaging activities in clinical applications.
ShivaKumar Chandrasekaran
Co-Founder & CTO of Dentulu
Founder and member of the Board of Directors for CA Infotech India Private Limited, has served as President and CEO since the division’s inception in 2005. Shiva is a proven leader whose entrepreneurial spirit has led him to successfully create and sustain high level of competition and market fluctuations. Currently Shiva is running successfully his operations in various IT enabled services around the globe. Dentulu being his new venture.
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About Dentulu: Dentulu is a provider of teledentistry and mobile dentistry technology solutions to existing non-profits around the world.
Alberto Scicali
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of SleepWell.ai
Alberto Scicali is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of SleepWell.ai.
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About SleepWell.ai: SleepWell.ai is a technology platform that resolves your sleep issues with research backed science.
Arjun Nagendran
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Mursion
Arjun completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in landing mechanisms for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Prior to Mursion, he worked for several years as an academic researcher leading the ground vehicle robotic system for Team Tumbleweed, which was one of the six-finalists at the Ministry of Defense (UK) Grand Challenge. During his academic career, he has contributed to several projects and manuscripts including the development of a robot to explore the Great Egyptian Pyramid, adaptive robots to catch fast-moving objects, and robots that can grasp objects of any shape. The latter parts of his academic career were focused on developing camera-based computer vision systems to detect faults in railroad tracks, aerial video gathering platforms for action recognition, and the bridging of virtual reality and robotics to impact social behavior in people.
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About Mursion: Mursion, a virtual reality environment or platform where professionals practice and master the complex interpersonal skills.
Sergio Aguirre Valencia
Founder & CTO of EchoPixel
A pioneer in stereoscopic 3D systems, Aguirre has over 15 years of experience in visualization systems. Prior to forming EchoPixel, Aguirre developed one of the first stereoscopic 3D video systems. Aguirre is responsible for leading technological development at EchoPixel as they continue to partner with leading luminary sites.
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About EchoPixel: EchoPixel develops medical imaging devices that enable doctors to use CT images of a patient’s abdomen and display a 3D model.
Michael Hanson
Chief Technology Officer of ShouTi
Michael Hanson is the Chief Technology Officer at ShouTi.
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About ShouTi: ShouTi specializes in the discovery and development of drugs against a type of targets called GPCR.
Jon Zerden
CTO of EXOS
Jon Zerden brings a strong background in business and technology leadership to his role as Chief Technology Officer of Athletes’ Performance. Jon is responsible for all of the technology and systems that support both the online content and training presence, as well as all of the in-facility infrastructure and integrated systems. Prior to joining Athletes’ Performance, Jon served as the Vice President of Global Media for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where he was responsible for the strategy, implementation, and operations of WWE’s web and mobile initiatives. Jon’s responsibilities included the strategy, management, and creation of the WWE.com (and associated) Web sites, which boasted more than 600 million monthly page impressions and 50 million monthly video streams. In addition, his team was responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining numerous systems including the live pay-per-view event purchase system, automated content syndication system, WWE Data warehouse/CRM system, and localized content sites in more than 12 countries. Under Jon’s watch, WWE emerged as an industry leader in the development and implementation of a robust wireless strategy including on-deck and off-deck implementations, as well as production of content specifically created for the mobile platform. Prior to joining WWE, Jon held various technology positions at Publishers Clearing House (PCH), including the role of Vice President of Technology. While at PCH, Jon was responsible for the technology and operations of the PCH.com Web site. He was also responsible for the ERP, work-flow, and creative management systems for both on and off-line production. During Jon’s tenure, his team was responsible for many strategic initiatives including the development and implementation of a proprietary web advertising solutions that optimized PCH’s ad inventory and streamline the customer acquisition process. These innovations resulted in a 55 times increase in gross revenue over his five-year term. Prior to PCH, Jon held various positions at Triad Communication and America On-Line/Greenhouse. Jon holds a bachelor’s degree and a masters of science in information systems from The George Washington University.
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About EXOS: EXOS offers integrated performance training, nutrition, and physical therapy services and solutions for athletes.
Erich Kerekes
CTO and Co-Founder of Hallow
Erich Kerekes is the CTO and Co-Founder of Hallow.
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About Hallow: Hallow is a Catholic prayer and meditation app that hopes to help folks grow closer to God.
Kathy McElligott
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson
Kathy McElligott is Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson Corporation. As CIO, McElligott is responsible for all technology initiatives within the corporation. As CTO, McElligott guides the overall technology direction for the company’s healthcare technology products, and provides support and guidance for application development processes companywide. Prior to McKesson, McElligott served as the CIO of Emerson, a St. Louis-based global manufacturing and technology company, where she managed the company’s information technology strategy and information security for its global operations, including hardware, software, and services, as well as its telecommunications and data center infrastructure. In her 15 years at Emerson, McElligott held a variety of executive positions including vice president of Information Technology for Emerson Industrial Automation and vice president of Information Technology for Emerson Power Transmission. Previously, McElligott spent 22 years with General Electric, holding multiple information systems leadership roles, ultimately becoming CIO of supply chain for GE Aircraft Engines. McElligott was recently appointed to the board of directors at ArcBest, a publicly traded $2.6B freight transportation and logistics company and also serves as board member for Connections to Success, an organization that encourages disadvantaged men and women to achieve economic self-reliance. While in St. Louis, McElligott was a member of the board of trustees for Fontbonne University, the industry advisory council of Washington University and member on the St. Louis CIO Board. McElligott is also a member of the CIO Strategy Exchange, a small and selective multi-sponsor program for chief information officers from the most forward-looking companies. McElligott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Kent State University and a master’s degree in business management from Xavier University.
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Vikas Ramachandra
CTO of Onward Assist
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About Onward Assist, Onward Health: Onward Assist is an Oncology AI platform for better treatment decisions.
Bo Hu
Co-Founder and CTO of MORE Health
Former senior software engineer in Sina. M.S. University of San Francisco and B.S. University of Science and Technology of China.
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About MORE Health: MORE Health delivers access to the best physicians in the world via its cloud-based medical collaboration platform.
Glenn Kramer
CTO of xCures
Glenn Kramer is an inventor, systems architect, and technology leader. At EIT in 1993 he founded one of the first Internet consultancies. When EIT was acquired by VeriFone, he architected the suite of Internet Commerce products that helped foster the sale of VeriFone to Hewlett Packard. Glenn next founded a boutique consultancy focused on solving hard Internet-based business problems while developing intellectual property for his clients. More than a decade later, he joined SRS Acquiom as Head of Development, and subsequently Chief Data Scientist, where he developed data and financial products for M&A, including the SRS Clearinghouse product and a patented, SEC-registered investment fund that used predictive analytics to get merger parties better returns for escrow funds. Glenn is currently CTO at xCures, using AI to help cancer patients get the best treatments possible when they have exhausted the standard of care options available to them. He holds 22 issued US Patents and is the author of a book published on the MIT Press, plus numerous journal and conference articles.
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About xCures: xCures is an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care.
Dave Murray
Chief Technology Officer of SidelineMD
Dave is a tech pioneer who has been at the forefront of shaping technology trends and advancements. At 15 years old, he was recruited by Interscope Records to develop some of the first digital marketing channels and then went on to become the lead growth hacker at a startup that was later acquired by DreamWorks. Today, Dave continues to thrive at the edge of what’s happening in the telemedicine tech revolution.
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About SidelineMD: The First Mobile App for On-Demand Sports Medicine Care
Raphael Morozov
Chief Technology Officer of Eurofins Scientific
Raphael Morozov serves as chief technology officer at Eurofins.
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About Eurofins Scientific, WageSpot: Eurofins provides testing and support services to the pharmaceutical, food, environmental, and consumer products industries.
Ulrich Schaff
Founder & CTO of Trak
Ulrich Schaff is the CTO at Sandstone Diagnostics.
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About Sandstone Diagnostics, Trak: Sandstone Diagnostics provides an integrated wellness technology that empowers consumers to measure, monitor, and improve their health.
Adam Nazar
CTO of RxVantage
Adam Nazar is a technology executive, entrepreneur, investor, and strategic advisor. Nazar got his start developing software at the age of 16 where he worked for HealthLine Systems on one of the first web-based management systems in the Health Care industry. At 19, Adam became a developer during the early formation of The Content Project, which became Schematic/POSSIBLE, a leading global creative agency. At age 20, Nazar co-founded ACD (f/k/a Autoclaims Direct), which under his tenure grew into one of the largest claims technology & service companies in the industry with over 1,000 employees and contractors. Over the past 20 years, Nazar has worked with many early and mid-stage companies to build products and scale teams, leading to successful private companies and multiple acquisitions. He is still an avid programmer and continues to serve as a hands-on CTO and advisor for multiple companies including RxVantage and WeRecover. Adam is also an active angel investor with investments in over a dozen Southern California companies with multiple successful exists, including Dollar Shave Club. Adam holds a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and an MS in Computer Science, as well as an MBA from the University of Southern California, where he has also served as a part-time faculty member in the Viterbi School of Engineering.
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About RxVantage, Wendi: RxVantage provides cloud-based software that enables efficient communication of medical practices.
William Kaiser
CTO of Sensydia
William J. Kaiser Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. His background includes product development focused on advancing patient outcomes, promoting health and wellness and creating new healthcare delivery methods.
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About Sensydia, UCLA Health System: Developer of a portable, point-of-care hemodynamic measurement system that uses proprietary sensor tech and machine learning to guide care.
Benson Fan
Founder & CTO of Calyx
Founder of BioInspira.
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About Calyx: Calyx harnesses biology to provide low cost and highly accurate sensors for real-time detection and analysis of air chemicals.
Karen Havenstrite
Co-Founder & CTO of Tangible Science
Karen Havenstrite, Ph.D., MBA is a Co-Founder of Tangible Science and serves as Chief Technical Officer. Karen has been with Tangible Science since inception and has led development of the HydraPEG technology from concept to commercialization. Karen received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, where her thesis work focused on designing hydrogel materials to improve the regenerative properties of muscle stem cells; she also received her MBA from Stanford University. Karen has authorized multiple research publications, been awarded SBIR grants from the National Science Foundation, and has been recognized by the American Chemical Society as a “Talented 12” young scientist for her novel work on contact lens materials.
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About Life Science Angels, Stanford School of Medicine, Tangible Science: Tangible Science is a developer of contact lenses designed to reduce lens discomfort in dry eye diseases.
Aditya Bansod
Co-Founder & CTO of Luma Health
Aditya Bansod is founder at Luma Health.
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About Luma Health: Luma Health solves the central challenge in healthcare — getting a patient in front of the right healthcare provider quickly.
H. Lee Mosbacker
Founder & CTO of Traycer Diagnostic Systems
H. Lee Mosbacker joined CAPRICA AI as CEO in 2018. Dr. Mosbacker received his B.S. in physics from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College in 1999. From 2000 – 2002 he worked as a programmer analyst at Nationwide Financial developing market timing applications for mutual fund managers. In 2008, Lee received his PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University. Since 2007, Lee has been the Chief Technology Officer of Traycer Diagnostic Systems, where he has been involved in the scientific and technical aspects of growing an early-stage technology company, including grant and fund raising and the conceptualization and development of microwave and terahertz frequency detection arrays. In 2005, Lee co-founded Techriculture, a non-profit that helps inventors and scientists in early stage product ideation and prototype development through educational, networking, technical, and financial consulting.
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About CAPRICA AI, HackCancerSF, OcuDoc, Syndicate app, Traycer Diagnostic Systems: Traycer Diagnostic Systems develops terahertz radiation cameras that are integrated into imaging systems.
Cambron Carter
Co-founder & CTO of Pearl
Cambron Carter is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pearl. He is a former Director of Engineering of Computer Vision, Engineering Manager, and Image Scientist at GumGum. Mr. Carter received a master of engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a bachelor of science in Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville.
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About Pearl: Pearl is a computer vision company focusing on solving challenging problems in the dental industry.
Rome Portlock
CTO and Cofounder of Incredible Health
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About Incredible Health: Hospitals and health systems use Incredible Health to hire permanent, high quality clinical workers at scale and in less than 20 days.
Skinner Cheng
Co-Founder & CTO of Ava
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About Ava: Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Emmanuel (Manny) Akintayo
Co-Founder & CTO of Gentem
Co-founder & CTO @GentemHealth
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About Gentem: Gentem develops a medical platform intended to help physicians with instant reimbursements.
Xiao-Jun Ma
Chief Technology Officer of Alamar Biosciences
Dr. Xiao-Jun Ma is a leader in genomic research and molecular diagnostics for personalized medicine. Applying his multi-disciplinary expertise in molecular biology, bioinformatics and statistics, Dr. Ma has a proven track record of developing molecular signatures for cancer diagnostics and identifying novel drug targets for over 14 years. Prior to joining ACD, Dr. Ma was Vice President of R&D/Biostatistics in bioTheranostics (formerly AviaraDx and Arcturus Bioscience), a bioMérieux company, where he led efforts to successfully develop several advanced molecular diagnostic tests in cancer classification and prognosis. Prior to bioTheranostics, Dr. Ma held senior bioinformatics positions at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute and Monsanto/Searle. He received his doctorate training in biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Iowa and post-doctoral training in molecular genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Alamar Biosciences: Alamar Biosciences develops technologies for the detection and treatment of cancer and other diseases at the earliest possible time.
Jie Fu
Cofounder & CTO of Siren Care
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About Siren Care: Multi-specialty virtual care clinic leveraging proprietary technology to cost-effectively care for patients at risk of diabetic foot ulcers.
Nick Woods
Co-Founder and CTO of Hazel Health
Nick Woods co-founded Hazel Health with the goal of increasing healthcare access for underserved children and families. He serves the organization as its Chief Technology Officer where he has responsibility for the technology direction, product architecture, hiring, and development of a comprehensive end-to-end custom telehealth solution. Nick is a software leader, engineer, and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience developing, innovating, and managing products and teams across a diverse set of industries and technologies. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University where he graduated first in his class.
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About Hazel Health: Hazel Health is a healthcare company that improves the health and well-being of students by increasing access to healthcare.
Bob Zuk
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of ET Healthcare
Bob Zuk, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, is respected in the life science and clinical diagnostics industries for his repeated success in integrating biochemistry with device design to provide elegantly simple solutions to challenging analytical problems. His contributions encompass diverse applications—from biosensors on the Octet platform (FortéBio) and Threshold instrument (Molecular Devices) for life science applications, to ultrasound enhanced gene delivery in myocardial and skeletal angiogenesis (Pharmasonics), to point-of-care cardiac marker tests (First Medical) and AccuLevel (Syva), one of the first commercially available, instrument-free, quantitative assay for therapeutic drug monitoring. Bob has a portfolio of more than 60 U.S. patents and pending applications. He received his B.S. in Biology from University of California, Riverside.
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About ET Healthcare: ET Healthcare is an in vitro diagnostic technology company.
Scott Yerby
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of SI-BONE
Scott Yerby has served in an R&D position for several start-up medical device companies for the past 10 years. Most notably, he served as the VP of R&D for St. Francis Medical Technologies, until its acquisition by Kyphon in 2007. Scott has co-authored over 40 peer reviewed publications, 70 abstracts, and 60 patent applications, and been issued 17 patents for a variety of medical technology companies. Prior to entering the medical device technology industry, Dr. Yerby served as the Director of Experimental Biomechanics at the Palo Alto VA Hospital for three years. He has also held appointments as Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Biomechanical Engineering, as well the Department of Functional Restoration, Division of Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Yerby holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, all from University of California, Davis.
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About SI-BONE: SI-BONE advances the diagnostic understanding of lower back pain and minimally invasive surgery for the sacroiliac joint.
Charles Tseng
Consulting CTO of SteadyMD
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About SteadyMD: SteadyMD is a healthcare technology company that provides telehealth services.
Shekar Tippur
Chief Technology Officer of Cyclops Medtech
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About Cyclops Medtech: Medtech startup working on clinical and wearable diagnostic and rehab products for neuro vestibular disorders using eye tracking technology.
Jonathan Wills
CTO and Co-Founder of Uplift Labs
CEO, Co-Founder of Lumific.
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About Lumific, Uplift Labs: Uplift Labs digitizes human movement to improve athletic performance while mitigating injuries for in-person and live remote training.
Ferry Tamtoro
CTO & Co-Founder of BrightInsight
Ferry Tamtoro has over 17 years of experience in healthcare technology and digital health within the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. Ferry has launched multiple digital health solutions, including Class 1, 2, and 3 regulated devices and combination products offering improved medication adherence and patient engagement, remote patient monitoring, medical IoT, diagnostic imaging, remote device management, and patient-provider communications. Products that Ferry has worked on include cloud-based medical-grade platforms, mobile medical apps, connected drug delivery devices, patch pumps, diagnostic imaging devices (CT, PET, and X-Ray), infusion systems software, and population health management solutions. Combining an entrepreneurial and corporate innovation background, Ferry is committed to bringing agile product development to customers in the regulated pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. Ferry holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds four patents in the area of healthcare technology.
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About BrightInsight: BrightInsight offers a global regulated digital health platform for biopharma and medtech.
Christophe Louvion
Chief Technology Officer of PatientPop
Executive (CEO, COO, CPTO) with 20 years of experience in the mid market ($25-$250MM),in the Internet and Digital Media industries.
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About PatientPop: PatientPop is the only complete practice growth solution that empowers healthcare providers to thrive in the digital age.
Nick Goeden
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Capsida
Nick Goeden is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Capsida Biotherapeutics. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech.
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About Capsida: Capsida is a biotechnology company that specializes in tackling monogenetic and sporadic CNS and non-CNS disorders.
Ram Prayaga
CTO of mPulse Mobile
Ram has a passion for solving difficult technology challenges. He brings over 20 years of engineering and project management experience to mPulse. Ram spearheads our product and development teams.
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About Advizo, mPulse Mobile: mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and efficiencies by activating healthcare consumers
Chris Seib
Chief Technology Officer of InstaMed
CHRIS SEIB – Chief Technology Officer and Founder – Before founding InstaMed, Chris was an executive in Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences practice. Chris focused on architecting and delivering portal and connectivity solutions at clients such as UnitedHealth Group, WellPoint Health Networks and many regional health plans. Chris has managed large teams of people in multi-project initiatives such as eCommerce development, software application development and operations. Additionally, Chris has been involved in strategic development efforts regarding government health initiatives, consumer-directed health plans and direct connectivity between providers and payers. Chris has certifications and expertise in Programming, Architecture, Microsoft Technologies, Database Technologies, Networks, Network Architecture, Security and Project Management. Chris graduated Cum Laude from Harvey Mudd College with a BS in Engineering and a minor in Economics. Chris was also a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, captain of varsity water polo and an All-American. Chris is an active board member on the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College and the Newport Beach Junior Lifeguard Foundation, and is an avid fan of water sports including boating and surfing.
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About InstaMed: InstaMed simplifies healthcare payments for providers, payers, and consumers.
Clark Kegley
Chief Technology Officer of Scripps Health
Clark Kegley is the assistant vice president of information services at Scripps Health, a nonprofit healthcare system base in San Diego. Scripps includes four hospitals and 19 outpatient facilities and treats 500,000 patients annually through 2,600 affiliated physicians. Clark has been with Scripps for 16 years, and prior to that was a technology consultant, working on large-scale implementations and interface development within healthcare. Over the years, Clark has held positions such as chief information officer (interim) and director of IS operations, as well as owned his own consulting firm, specializing in healthcare interfaces between clinical systems. Clark also serves as the president of the Southern California Chapter of HIMSS. He holds degrees in economics and computer systems. He is a fellow of the Advisory Board Company, Healthcare Executives Track, ITIL certified and a certified Remedy Administrator and Developer.
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About HIMSS, Scripps Health: Scripps Health is a nonprofit health care system based in San Diego, California.
Peter Kuhar
CTO & Founder of Azumio
Peter co-founded Azumio after his first app, Instant Heart Rate, hit the top charts. Now he’s working on new technologies. Before Azumio he worked on low power wireless mesh networks and voice noise reduction.
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About Azumio: Azumio is a venture-backed company that develops a suite of fitness apps for smartphones.
Jeremy Barth
Co-Founder & CTO of Brightside Health
Every day I get to work on Brightside is an opportunity for me to help improve the lives of people who are struggling. The modern world is relentless and shows no signs of letting up. I’m here to help people fight back.””
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About Brightside Health: Brightside Health is a mental healthcare company that helps employees better navigate and manage their financial well-being.
Simon Yuen
Founder & CTO of Skycart
Simon is a software engineer with a deep knowledge of robotics and over 15 years of experience in UAS/UAV development, embedded software, and artificial intelligence/data science.
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About Skycart: Skycart is building cost effective delivery drones to transport medical supplies to remote regions of developing countries.
Chris A. Rhodes
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Sensulin
Chief Technology Officer of Sensulin.
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About Baywind Bioventures, Drug Delivery Experts, Sensulin: Sensulin is a diabetes drug discovery company developing a once-a-day glucose-responsive insulin.
Erik Fantasia
Co-Founder & CTO of Kindly Care
Erik Fantasia is the Co-Founder & CTO at Kindly Care.
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About Kindly Care: Kindly Care is a company that specializes in non medical home care for the elderly and disabled that require a little extra help.
Sam Mazin
Founder & CTO of RefleXion Medical
Sam Mazin is the President of RefleXion Medical and inventor of the company’s core technology. While a Postdoc in Radiology at Stanford University, Sam was selected by the Kauffman Foundation as one of thirteen postdocs in the nation to commercialize promising innovations. His prior research at Stanford was focused on the design of a novel X-ray computed tomography (CT) system, resulting in several journal papers and a patent, as well as the Joel Drillings Award from the American Heart Association. His work on a PET-based algorithm received the prestigious Cum Laude award from the SPIE international medical imaging society. He has been invited to speak about his research by the American Heart Association, GE’s Global Research Center, US Oncology, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2008 Sam participated in the Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite program for entrepreneurship, where he was one of five participants named a GlaxoSmithKline Garnier Fellow. Sam holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About RefleXion Medical: RefleXion Medical is a developer of biologically-guided radiotherapy systems for patients with cancer.
Alec Zopf
Co-Founder & CTO of Wellth
Alec is a software and hardware engineer and a startup enthusiast. He has a background in music and biomedical engineering, which he has since applied to the problems of algorithmic trading, music consumption analytics, hardware, and mobile health applications.
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About Wellth: Wellth motivates medication adherence using Behavioral Economics
Manish Gupta
Co-Founder, CTO of Vivid Vision
Manish left IBM to co-found the company in 2014. Experienced in both engineering and design, Manish leads development at Vivid Vision.
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About SeQuent Scientific, Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
Nick Ouzounov
Co-Founder and CTO of Geltor
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About Geltor: Geltor is a bio-design company that makes proteins used in beauty, food, & beverage products like collagen and elastin, but without animals.
Zhitong Liu
Co-Founder and CTO of Paragon Genomics
Zhitong Liu is a Co-Founder and CTO at Paragon Genomics.
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About Paragon Genomics: A targeted DNA sequencing company
Vijay Jegan
SVP of Engineering & CTO of Tact.ai
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About Tact.ai: The customer engagement company for life sciences
Alex Vidovich
Founder and CTO of She’s Well
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About She’s Well: She’s Well provides subscription plans to help women and couples to preserve their fertility and have children when they’re ready.
Brian Bolze
Co-Founder, CTO / CPO of Core
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About Core: Core provides a meditation experience device that uses haptics and biofeedback to guide progress and personalize techniques.
Wojciech Adam Koszek
CTO / Co-Founder of Segmed
Wojciech Adam Koszek is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Segmed.
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About Segmed: Segmed provides high quality medical data and tools to companies and researchers developing medical AI algorithms.
