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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 Founder operating in the Medical space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Lin Jixun
Founder & CEO of ACON Laboratories
Lin Jixun has served as our director since 2008 and is the founder and chief executive officer of ACON Laboratories Inc., a worldwide leading manufacturer of high-quality rapid diagnostic test products. Mr. Lin founded ACON Laboratories Inc. in 1995 and serves on the company’s board of directors. He also serves on the board of directors for ACEA BioSciences Inc., a company providing innovative cell-based assay systems for basic life science research and drug discovery. Mr. Lin received his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Medicine from Zhejiang Medical University.
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About ACON Laboratories: ACON Laboratories is a biotechnology firm that offers medical diagnostic and healthcare products.
Yury Yakubchyk
Founder of Elemy
Yury Yakubchyk is the Founder of Sprout Therapy. He is also the Chief Technology Officer at Life House, where he manages the technology, growth marketing, data analytics, and digital design teams. Yury is responsible for Life House’s unique digital strategy. Previously, Yury was a Chief Technology Officer at New York-based Wing (wingalpha.com, Wing Tel, and Wing Call on the Apple App Store), a modern millennial-tailored mobile virtual network operator selling custom cellular subscription plans and mobile devices on the Sprint network. The wing is venture-backed by several prominent venture capital firms and angel investors. Prior to Wing, Yury worked in the financial services industry. Yury is a self-taught programmer and digital product designer as well as a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Yury is originally from New York City.
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About Cold Start Ventures, Elemy, Life House, Wing Tel, Inc.: Elemy is a B2B2C platform helping provide access to in-home pediatric care for ongoing behavioral challenges, including autism.
Yi Liu
Founder & CEO of iHealth Labs
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About iHealth Labs: iHealth offers cloud-based, personal healthcare products for individuals of all ages to take a more active role in managing their health.
Stephanie Tilenius
CEO, Founder of Vida Health
Stephanie is CEO & Founder of Vida Health.
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About Nextdoor, Vida Health: Vida Health is a virtual care platform that provides health coaching from experienced health care providers and medical institutions.
Raja Dhir
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seed Health
Raja Dhir is a life sciences entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Seed Health, a venture-backed microbiome company pioneering the application of bacteria for both human and planetary health. He leads Seed’s R&D, academic collaborations, technology development, clinical trial design, supply chain, and intellectual property strategy. Together with Dr. Jacques Ravel, he Co-Chairs Seed’s Scientific Advisory Board–an interdisciplinary group of scientists and doctors who lead research teams and teach at institutions including the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the Trial Innovation Unit of Mass. General Hospital (MGH). Raja has designed clinical trials with leading academic institutions including the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the Trial Innovation Unit of Mass. General Hospital (MGH). Raja has unique expertise translating scientific research for product development with a track record that includes patented inventions to stabilize sensitive compounds to improve alpha-diversity of the gut microbiome (derived from micro-algae) and most recently, the co-invention of microbial technologies to protect honeybee populations (Apis mellifera) from neonicotinoid pesticides and pathogen colonization. His work also includes biofermentation and scale-up for both facultative and strict anaerobic organisms. Raja has negotiated multiple joint-ventures, strategic partnerships, technology transfer and licensing agreements with publicly traded companies (NYSE, LSE) and academic institutions (Harvard Medical School, UCLA). To date, entities he has co-founded own the rights to 15+ patents and research emerging from $25MM+ of non-dilutive funding over 10+ years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and National Institute of Health (NIH). Raja serves on the Editorial Board for the scientific journal, Microbiome. He is a member of the Microbiome Think Tank at Mass. General Hospital (MGH) and sits on the Advisory Committee for the International Scientific Association of Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP). Raja is also a Director and Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Micropia, a $20MM microbial ecology / education platform and the world’s first museum dedicated to microbes.
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About Seed Health: Seed Health is a microbial company that focuses on therapeutics, consumer health innovations, and environmental solutions.
Ara Katz
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seed Health
Ara Katz is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Seed Health, a microbial sciences company pioneering the application of bacteria to impact human and planetary health. She has worked at the intersection of technology, consumer, design, and media is now working to steward a new standard in probiotics and how science is communicated to change how we discern evidence from evangelism to make the most informed choices for our bodies, our health, and our world. Ara previously co-founded and served as CMO of mobile commerce marketplace, Spring (backed by LMVH, sold to ShopRunner), and was on the founding team of social commerce company, BeachMint (sold to Conde Nast), where she launched six direct-to-consumer, influencer subscription brands. She is an angel investor and advisor in companies such as mindbodygreen, Stadium Goods (recently sold to FarFetch), RXDefine, women’s healthcare startup, Mahmee, and new biomaterials company, C16. Ara has been a fellow at the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Future Storytelling and CCA’s Design MBA program, was named in Marie Claire’s “The New Guard: The 50 Most Influential Women in America”, listed on Business Insider’s “Silicon Alley Top 100” and “36 Rockstar Women in NYC Tech”, and Create + Cultivate’s 100 List for STEM.
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About Seed Health: Seed Health is a microbial company that focuses on therapeutics, consumer health innovations, and environmental solutions.
Sam Santhosh
Founder Chairman & Global CEO of MedGenome
Sam Santhosh is the Founder and CEO of MedGenome. He has been an entrepreneur, with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Currently, he is at the helm of affairs as CEO and promoter of MedGenome Labs Pvt Ltd. Sam sits on the board of a number of companies, both in the US and India. In this role he advises, guides and mentors companies to help them grow and realize their true potential. Prior to this Sam was the CEO and Managing Director of California Software Limited (Calsoft) from 1992 – Feb 2012. He founded Calsoft in 1992 and under Sam’s vision, Calsoft rapidly grew from a niche player in the Silicon Valley to a global player with over 1200 employees and presence in 8 countries. Sam took Calsoft Public and the company is listed the in Indian Stock Exchanges. Sam oversaw the growth of Calsoft in all key areas – Finance, Strategy, Customer Acquisition, and inorganic growth through eight acquisitions including companies in the U.S, UK, Japan, and India. He has been constantly retooling himself and has attended various training programs in different U.S universities including MIT. In 2010, he completed the Executive Education program at the Singularity University in Sunnyvale, California. Sam has an engineering degree and an MBA (majoring in Management Information Systems) from India’s premier institute, IIM Calcutta.
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About Agrigenome, MedGenome: MedGenome develops a genomics-based diagnostics and research solution for healthcare providers to understand the genetic basis of diseases.
David Deacon
Co Founder, COO of Ria Health
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About Ria Health: Ria Health’s evidence-based telehealth alcohol treatment program helps people drink less and live better.
Andrew Ninh
Co-Founder and CSO of Docbot
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About Docbot: Docbot is an AI technology company that offers AI-assisted image analysis solutions to revolutionize gastrointestinal care.
William Karnes
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Docbot
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About Docbot, UC Irvine Health: Docbot is an AI technology company that offers AI-assisted image analysis solutions to revolutionize gastrointestinal care.
Branko Cerny
Founder of SquareOne
Branko Cerny joined Radical as Founder, CEO in 2017
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About Radical, SquareOne, SquareOne Mail, Wasabi Ventures: SquareOne works with the biggest and most established personalities and content creators in gaming.
Jennifer Jacobs
Co-Founder COO of PerceptiMed
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About PerceptiMed: PerceptiMed develops an advanced pill identification system designed to eliminate human errors in medication dispensing in pharmacies.
Jennifer Jacob
Co-Founder of PerceptiMed
With a successful background in accounting, human resources and business engagement, Jenn oversees day-to-day operations of PerceptiMed while evangelizing the benefits of its VeriFill products. Prior to co-founding PerceptiMed, Jenn handled sales and marketing for Perseid Professional Services, a private consulting firm. She also provided executive financial services, strategic business management consulting and infrastructure creation for both start-up and established high tech companies. Previously Jenn served as the business development officer at Greater Bay Bank, which was a community bank subsidiary of Greater Bay Bancorp (acquired by Wells Fargo 2008). She is credited with closing more than $20 million in annual sales. Prior to that she was vice president and COO for Ulta.com, an on-line initiative for Ulta, Inc. She has also served in various controller positions at Interwise, Inc.; Metromedia Fiber Networks; and Associated Venture Networks. She has also served as an accountant for Arthur Anderson, LLC, and Price Waterhouse, LLC. Jennifer received a bachelor’s of science degree in accounting, cum laude, from the University of Maryland. She additionally holds a CPA and a certificate in mediation from The University of California at Berkeley.
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About PerceptiMed: PerceptiMed develops an advanced pill identification system designed to eliminate human errors in medication dispensing in pharmacies.
Ian Van Every
Co-Founder & UK Managing Director 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.
Nicholas Chang
CEO & Founder of The Pill Club
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About The Pill Club: The Pill Club provides online birth control prescription and at-home delivery services.
Seth Sternberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Honor
Seth Sternberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Honor, a non-medical home care company with a mission to enable our parents to remain in their homes as they age. Prior to Honor, Seth was the Co-Founder and CEO of Meebo, which brought instant messaging to the web and reached close to half the internet population in the United States. Meebo was acquired by Google, where Seth became a Product Director working on the Google Identity Platform, and then within GoogleX. Seth started his career with IBM’s Corporate Development group after graduating from Yale.
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About Honor, Meebo: Honor is a senior care network and technology platform that offers personalized care to improve the in-home care experience.
Roy Paxton Yih
Co-Founder and CEO of Biocare Medical
Roy Paxton Yih, BS, MA, co-founded Biocare Medical, LLC in 1997 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Roy Yih served as a Director of Sales & Marketing at Biocare Medical LLC. Roy Yih is primarily involved at sales, marketing and business development activities. He holds a BS Degree in Biochemistry from U.C. Davis and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara.
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About Biocare Medical: Biocare Medical is a provider of immunohistochemistry instrumentation.
Chris Mansi
CEO, Co-Founder of Viz
Dr Mansi is a former Neurosurgeon and the CEO of Viz.ai an Applied AI Healthcare company.They recently received FDA clearance for the first ever AI aided triage and notification platform, opening the door to AI in acute emergency healthcare. Chris is a clinician innovator, entrepreneur and optimist focused on increasing healthcare access, building and supporting great teams and improving provider experience. Viz.ai builds clinician facing products that enable and empower doctors, allowing them to provide the best care to patients, everytime, everywhere.
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About Viz: Viz is a medical imaging company that helps optimize emergency treatment using deep learning technology.
Daniel Perez
Co-Founder, CEO of Hinge Health
With a long personal history of MSK injuries including several leg surgeries, Dan has long been passionate about improving outcomes for musculoskeletal disorders. Originally from Miami, Dan pursued a PhD in the medical sciences at the University of Oxford (currently paused), founding the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable and OneStart, a large healthcare accelerator program. As CEO, Dan brings startup technology experience and healthcare expertise to Hinge Health.
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About Hinge Health: Hinge Health is a patient-centered digital clinic for treating chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
Zhen Li
Founder, President & CEO of ADARx Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Li is a co-founder of ADARx and a successful executive with more than two decades of diverse experience in research and development in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Prior to ADARx, Dr. Li served as Senior VP at Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals where she led the discovery and non-clinical development of Arrowhead’s delivery platform and multiple product candidates that are now in clinical studies. Previously, Dr. Li was a director at Merck, leading a team dedicated to siRNA development. Dr. Li received her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University, and her B.S. from Peking University.
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About ADARx Pharmaceuticals: ADARx Pharmaceuticals is a genetic medicine company focusing on the base editing of mRNA transcripts.
Dwight Crow
Co-Founder and CEO of Whisper
Dwight Crow is a product manager at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Previously, he served as the founder of Carsabi.com. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO at Whisper.ai. Crow holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical biology and computer science from the [University of California, Berkeley](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-california-berkeley#/entity). He is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Meta, Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Andrew Song
President and Co-Founder of Whisper
Andrew Song is the President and Co-Founder at Whisper.
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Shlomo Zippel
Co-Founder of Whisper
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Mehdi Maghsoodnia
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 1Health
Mr. Maghsoodnia is currently serving as CEO of 1Health.io and Vitagene. He is also on the board of SpineZone and MedCorder. He previously served as CEO of Rafter, BookRenter.com, SVP of products at CafePress, COO at Actiance and SVP at Intellisync. Mr. Maghsoodnia is a industry fellow at UC Berkeley where he teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He studies EECS in UCB and Stanford with an emphasis in AI and Machine learning.
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About 1Health: 1health’s Testing as a Service (TaaS) Solution empowers precision testing and end-to-end process management in one simple, scalable tool.
Philip Fung
Founder / CEO of Kit.com
Founder/CEO @Kit.com, Engineer #15 @Facebook
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About Kit.com: Kit.com is a home medical exams, delivered. Kit makes health testing simpler, easier and more reliable for your patients.
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.
Drew Perkins
Co-Founder and CEO of Mojo Vision
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
Cheng Liu
Founder, CEO of Eureka Therapeutics
Cheng Liu is the founder and CEO of Eureka Therapeutics, a California biotech company dedicated to antibody research and discovery for cancer immunotherapy. Prior to founding Eureka, Dr. Liu was a Principal Scientist in antibody drug discovery at Chiron (now Novartis), where he championed anti-CSF1 antibody program for treatment of bone metastasis to human clinical trials. He is the inventor of multiple issued US patents in drug discovery. In 2007, he was awarded Special US Congressional Recognition for his contributions to improving human health. Dr. Liu received his B.S. in Cell Biology and Genetics from Beijing University and a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Eureka Therapeutics: Eureka Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focusing on immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer.
Maria Artunduaga
Founder and CEO of Respira Labs
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About Respira Labs: Respira Labs is building an AI-powered sensor platform to track, predict, and prevent chronic lung disease.
Sami Inkinen
CEO & Founder of Virta Health
Sami Inkinen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Virta Health, a specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Previously, Mr. Inkinen was the co-founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO and president and board member until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. He also worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. A physicist by training, Mr. Inkinen started his career as a radiochemist at a nuclear power plant and holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He thinks his greatest luxury today is a small vegetable garden at his San Francisco Bay area home.
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About Virta Health: Virta delivers a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases.
Oguzhan Atay
Co-Founder of BillionToOne
Oguzhan is responsible for implementing BillionToOne’s vision and for all day-to-day management decisions. During his PhD at Stanford, he has combined machine learning and genetics to solve problems in cell biology. His PhD research has been featured as Cover Article in Cell Systems, and his work has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, including Cell and Journal of Cell Biology.
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About BillionToOne: BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company that makes molecular diagnostics accurate, efficient, and accessible for all.
Danny JJ Wang
CSO and Co-Founder of Hura Imaging
Danny JJ Wang is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Hura Imaging.
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About Hura Imaging: Hura Imaging develops and commercializes novel CT technology that decreases radiation dose significantly in patient management.
Erica Chidi
Co-Founder & CEO of LOOM
Erica Chidi is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at LOOM.
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About LOOM: LOOM is a platform helping women optimize their sexual and reproductive wellbeing.
Stephen Chen
Founder & CEO of Scanwell Health
Co-Founder and President at Learn To Be Foundation. Founder at Petnostics.
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About Learn To Be Foundation, Petnostics, Scanwell Health: Scanwell Health is an FDA-cleared urine testing application.
Fabien Beckers
Founder & CEO of Arterys
Fabien Beckers is the CEO and co-founder of Arterys, a cloud/deep learning startup that is disrupting the medical imaging space and building image-based precision medicine tools. Fabien has led the growth of the company from four co-founders to a team of 34 today. Under his leadership, the company has become a pioneer in cloud-based medical imaging software, offering the first FDA-cleared end-to-end cloud infrastructure for medical imaging. They key advantages of the platform being automatic aggregation of real-world data and ability to scale and distribute the processing of increasingly large, complex datasets. Fabien’s vision for the company is to accelerate data-driven medicine by building precision medicine tools based on the consistent quantification of medical image features in combination with molecular, genomics and patient history data. Fabien holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of Cambridge and a masters of business from Stanford University.
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About Arterys: Arterys is a medical imaging platform to deliver clinical AI products over the internet.
Amit Vohra
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Promaxo
Promaxo is led by Dr. Amit Vohra who is a serial entrepreneur, business strategist and advisor to several healthcare and technology startups. Amit is a Partner in Advanced Biopharma Consulting, a management consultancy offering strategic business development and commercialization services in the life sciences space. He also serves as an advisor to Cricking, MedDx and HealthyX and a strategy consultant to Precision Biopsy and Weinberg Medical Physics. Prior to Promaxo, Amit was the CEO/President of Convergent Life Sciences wherein he took a MRI-US fusion product, for targeted laser ablation of soft tissue cancer, through FDA clearance within 18 months of Company formation. Previously, as VP of Strategy and Operations at Eigen, he led the development and successful commercialization of two class II medical devices in the prostate biopsy space. In 2009, Amit co-founded Navya Biomedical Technologies, a biotechnology company using proprietary polyhydroxy fullerenes (PHF) for non-invasive imaging and destruction of solid tumors. Amit has a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from University of Florida, and an Executive MBA (Fuqua Scholar) from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
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About 8chili, Neuro42, Promaxo, TriOcula Technologies: Promaxo is commercializing customer-centric MRI systems and robotic guidance tools for live diagnosis and treatment in a physician’s office.
Irv Edwards
Founder & President of Emergent Medical Associates
Dr. Irv Edwards obtained his Bachelor’s Degree from McGill University and his Medical Degree from the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He came to Los Angeles to pursue his interest in Emergency Medicine and interned at Los Angeles County Hospital. After his internship, Dr. Edwards completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Following his residency, Dr. Edwards pursued private practice at a variety of hospital sites in Los Angeles and Orange Counties including Chino Valley Medical Center, Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, La Palma Intercommunity Hospital, Mission Community Hospital, Montclair Hospital Medical Center, Olympia Medical Center, Sherman Oaks Hospital, and Valley Presbyterian Hospital. He was the Director of Performance Improvement at Mission Community Hospital from 1998 – 2003 and he currently serves as the Director of Case Management at Mission Community Hospital and as the Chief of Staff at Chino Valley Medical Center. He is the Director of Emergency Services at Chino Valley Medical Center, Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, Mission Community Hospital, and Montclair Hospital Medical Center. In 1989, Dr. Edwards founded Emergent Medical Associates and has served as its President since inception. Since 2001, Dr. Edwards has been a dedicated member of CAL/ACEP and he currently sits on their Executive Board. He served as its President from 2005-2006.
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About Emergent Medical Associates: Emergent Medical Associates is a provider of emergency care and episodic care management services to patients.
Tarek Tabsh
Co-Founder of Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies
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About Alta Flora, Arcview Group, New Amsterdam Naturals, Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies, Province Brands of Canada: OCT is a biopharmaceutical company established to combine cannabinoid medicine with world class scientific research.
Christine Lemke
Co-Founder & President of Evidation Health
As Chief Product Officer, Christine leads product management and development at Evidation Health. Previously, Christine co-founded and led The Activity Exchange, an insight and personalization platform that helps healthcare companies deliver the right digital interventions and incentives to consumers to help them achieve sustainable behavior change. Prior to her work in healthcare, Christine was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sense Networks, developers of the first machine learning platform for mobile phone activity data (exited to YP.com). She has also held roles at 3iGroup (Paris), Microsoft XBOX and co-founded Chicago-based Channel IQ, a product analytics platform. Christine has a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from HEC Paris.
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About Evidation Health, Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Mikki Nasch
Head of Business Development & Co-Founder of Evidation Health
Mikki Nasch is responsible for business development at Evidation Health. Most recently, Mikki cofounded and led business activities at The Activity Exchange. Previously, Mikki was on the founding team of Sense Networks (exited to YP.com) and served as EVP of Business Development. Mikki has been the Vice President of Market Management at Fair Isaac, Inc. (NYSE: FIC), held leadership positions in the incubation phase of numerous startups, and led development of products, sales strategies, business models and corporate vision, leading early-stage software venture capital funds. She was a founding member of BackWeb Technologies (NASD: BWEB), and began her career as a network engineer for the US and European governments.
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About Evidation Health: We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
Walter De Brouwer
Co-Founder & CEO of doc.ai
CSO & founder at doc.ai, Chief Executive Officer at XY.ai, Chair at IEEE, Stanford MD Admissions MMI Rater at Stanford University & Investment Banker at Lazard Asset Management.
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About doc.ai, Lazard Asset Management, Stanford University, Stanford University School of Medicine, XY.ai Inc., Yale School of Management (SOM): doc.ai is a digital health company designed for a new generation of medical research.
Uday Kumar
Founder, President, CEO, and Board Member of Element Science
Co-Founder & Board Member at Sympara Medical – Dr. Uday N. Kumar, a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist by training.
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About Element Science, Stanford University, Sympara Medical: Element Science is a medical device and digital health start-up that develops lifesaving wearable solutions.
Hira Thapliyal
Founder, President & CEO of Aneumed
Hira Thapliyal is the founder, president & CEO of AneuMed, Inc.AneuMed is an early stage company engaged in developing devices for the treatment of various ailments affecting the human cardiovascular system. Prior to that, Dr. Thapliyal was the co-founder, president & CEO of VytronUS, Inc., a development stage company working on products for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Currently, VytronUS is conducting human clinical trials for its products. Before that, Hira was the co-founder, president & CEO of Tescient, Inc. Tescient was focused in developing products aimed at tissue regeneration and wound healing in human body. Tescient prototype products did not perform well in early animal tests, so Dr. Thapliyal closed Tescient and returned 60% of the invested capital back to the investors. Prior to Tescient, Dr. Thapliyal co-founded ArthroCare Corp (NASDAQ: “ARTC”) in 1993, and served its president & CEO and took the company public in 1996. ArthroCare was recently acquired by Smith & Nephew for $1.7 billion. ArthroCare markets products in the field of arthroscopy, ENT, spine, skin, and wound healing. Before ArthroCare, Hira served as the president of MicroBionics, a company developing products for continuous measurements of blood parameters in critically ill patients. Before MicroBionics, Hira co-founded and served as the president of CardioVascular Imaging Systems (NASDAQ: “CVIS”) which developed and marketed an ultrasound based imaging system, Intravascular Ultrasound (‘IVUS’), for the human blood vessels. CVIS went public and was later acquired by Boston Scientific (“BSX”). Prior to that, Hira served as the Vice President of Devices for Vascular Interventions (DVI) which developed and marketed products for removal of plaque form inside on the diseased arteries. DVI was acquired by Eli Lilly in 1989. Prior to DVI, Dr. Thapliyal held engineering and management positions at Oximetrix, Inc., Amdahl, and Corning. Dr. Thapliyal holds a BSEE degree from Washington State University, a MSEE from University of Idaho, and a PhD degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University. Hira has received numerous awards, and currently serves as an advisor to the Stanford-India Biodesign Program at Stanford University. Dr. Thapliyal also served as a judge for the Entrepreneur of the Year award at Earnst & Young. Dr. Thapliyal currently holds over 193 issued US and International patents for various medical devices.
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About Aneumed, VytronUS: Aneumed is a biotechnology company based in California, United States.
Naama Stauber Breckler
CEO & Co-Founder of Better Health
Naama is a healthcare entrepreneur and the CEO and Co-founder of Better Health. She holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and is an experienced software engineer and product manager. She is dedicated to creating human centric healthcare solutions to improve our healthcare system. Naama previously co-founded CompactCath, MocaCare and Avails Medical.
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About Avails Medical, Better Health, MOCACARE: Better Health offers an end-to-end care solution, bundling peer-support, coaching, education and home delivery of medical supplies
Adam Breckler
Co-Founder and Head of Product of Better Health
Adam Breckler is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Better Health.
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About Better Health: Better Health offers an end-to-end care solution, bundling peer-support, coaching, education and home delivery of medical supplies
Lucia Huang
Co-Founder and CEO of Osmind
Lucia is CEO and co-founder of Osmind. We’re building a care platform for treatment-resistant mental health to accelerate drug development & precision medicine. She was previously Director of Operations & Finance and employee #10 at Verge Genomics (YC S15), an early stage AI-driven biotech startup focused on brain diseases. She began her career in healthcare in investment banking at Evercore and then as a investor at Warburg Pincus focused on growth-stage healthcare IT companies. She will complete her MBA at Stanford Graduate Business School of Business in June 2020 and studied Chemistry at Yale.
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About Osmind: We build software and accelerate research for the future of mental health.
Andrew Lockhart
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Executive Officer of Fathom
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About Fathom: Fathom develops a coding automation platform designed to expedite medical coding practice.
Kristina Cahojova
Founder & CEO of kegg
Kristina Cahojova is the Founder and CEO of Kegg.
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About kegg: Kegg is a two-in-one device that combines fertility tracking with pelvic floor exercising.
Yulun Wang
Founder, Chairman & Chief Innovation Officer of InTouch Health
Yulun Wang, Chairman, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, InTouch Health, Inc. Dr. Wang founded InTouch Health in 2002, and served as Chairman & CEO until 2016, when he assumed the position of Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer. InTouch Health is a pioneering and market leading telehealth company that enables patients to receive clinical care from specialists at a distance. InTouch has received numerous awards including Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 Award and Inc Magazine’s Inc 500 award as one of the fastest growing companies in America. Previous to InTouch, Dr. Wang founded Computer Motion in 1990, the company which pioneered surgical robotics. He was the principal architect and inventor of the voice-controlled robotic arm called AESOP, the first FDA-cleared surgical robot, as well as the ZEUS robotic surgical system, which performed the world’s first transatlantic surgery. Computer Motion IPO’d in 1997 and merged with Intuitive Surgical (NASD: ISRG) in 2003 for one third of the resulting company. Dr. Wang is author to more than 50 technical publications and inventor on over 100 patents.
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About InTouch Health: InTouch Health is the leader in Acute Care Telemedicine solutions.
Alex Meshkin
Co-Founder & CEO of Flow Health
Alex Meshkin is currently Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GroupMD, a patient care social network enabling healthcare providers to effectively communicate, collaborate and coordinate care. Additionally, Meshkin is Executive Chairman of huvi, a social commerce platform, enabling consumers to buy and sell digital movies. huvi works in partnership with major Hollywood studios to reduce piracy, monetize consumer to consumer transactions and enable a secondary market for digital goods. In 1999, at the age of 19, Meshkin launched his first consumer internet start-up and experienced the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. In the years that followed, Meshkin became the CEO of Toyota Motorsports’ flagship NASCAR racing team, Bang! Racing. Toyota selected the young Meshkin from 83 NASCAR race team candidates; to lead Toyota’s factory supported NASCAR racing team. Toyota’s partnership with Meshkin created one of the most successful racing organizations in its first year of operations. In 2004, Bang! Racing made NASCAR history – setting numerous milestones. As the principal owner of Bang! Racing, Meshkin became the youngest team owner in NASCAR history and the team became the most successful first year NASCAR race team – winning Toyota’s first two races in their inaugural season. Bang Holdings, the parent company of Bang! Racing was also a success off the race track. In its first year of operations, Bang generated over $15 million in revenues; partnered with Vertrue to form a joint venture; and with their strategic technology partner eBay created and operated a NASCAR consumer membership and affinity marketing club. By the age of 23, Meshkin was one of NASCAR’s elite team owners and a recurring guest on Fox News Channel and CNBC Squawk Box; and featured in numerous publications, including Fortune, Sporting News, Racer, Associated Press and Sports Illustrated. Bang! Racing sponsors included, Toyota Motor Sales, DuPont, Viacom (Showtime Networks), Line-X, Valvoline and Snap-On Tools. In 2005, the race team was acquired by Toyota Motorsports and Bill Davis Racing. The technology divisions were merged in 2006 into Cloverleaf Partners and the NASCAR membership club became FastTrack Savings operating as DealPass.com. Prior to Bang! Racing, Meshkin founded and operated a global software development company and interactive agency with a focus on healthcare and pharmaceuticals with clients such as Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly. Additionally, Meshkin served as Director of Product and Strategic Development of cyberCFO, a venture funded financial services firm and later as VP and GM at Cloverleaf Partners. Keep up with Alex on Twitter @alexmeshkin. And to learn more about please visit his blog at http://alexmeshkin.com and LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/meshkin. Check out his videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/alexmeshkin
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About Flow Health, GroupMD: Flow Health is a collaboration platform based of universal health data, combining data from all sources around a patient
Rodney Perkins
Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Earlens
Rodney Perkins, the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of EarLens, is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully launched many healthcare technology companies including ReSound Corporation, Laserscope, Collagen Corporation, Sound ID, Novacept, SurgRx, DFine, Pulmonx and Cohesion.As an internationally known otologic surgeon, he has created a number of surgical procedures and techniques that are widely practiced throughout the world. Dr. Perkins founded the California Ear Institute at Stanford and is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. For his visionary leadership that has lead to innovation in multiple medical specialties, Dr. Perkins has received the Phoenix Hall of Fame Innovators Award, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Santa Clara County Medical Society and the Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from Indiana University. Dr. Perkins holds eighteen issued patents with 37 pending, received his medical degree from Indiana University, and completed his surgical residency at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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About DFine, Earlens, Pulmonx: Earlens is a privately held medical technology company transforming the hearing experience with the only direct sound delivery system.
Daniel Burnett
Founder and Chairman of Bone Health Technologies
Dr. Burnett has a long history of biomedical device design and testing. After graduating from University of Pennsylvania’s school of Bioengineering, Dr. Burnett spent a year at the Food and Drug Administration both testing devices and writing congressional reports on the current state-of-the- art devices. Following receipt of his MD and MBA degrees from Duke University, Dr. Burnett completed his one-year internship at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL and is currently a licensed physician in the state of California. After working for two years as a General Partner with MedVenture Associates, a medical device venture capital firm in Emeryville, CA, Dr. Burnett left the firm in 2006 and committed himself to TheraNova and its subsidiaries.
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About Ananya Health, Anathem Ventures, Bone Health Technologies, Channel Medsystems, Consano, Gravitas Medical, Perikinetics, Potrero Medical, Respirix, TheraNova LLC., University of California, San Francisco: Bone Health Technologies is developing a new standard of care for treating both osteoporosis and osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis.
Chih-Ping Liu
Co-Founder of Bolt Biotherapeutics
Chih-Ping Liu is the Founder, Managing Director, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Angarus Therapeutics. He is also serving as a co-founder at Bolt Therapeutics. He received his Ph.D. degree in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Angarus Therapeutics, Bolt Biotherapeutics: Bolt Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops a platform for cancer immunotherapy.
Edgar Engleman
Founder of Bolt Biotherapeutics
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About Bolt Biotherapeutics: Bolt Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops a platform for cancer immunotherapy.
Michael Geer
Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity
Michael Geer (MG) was founding team at Badoo (grew to largest dating site in the world and spawned the Social Discovery sector). He then ran operations at AnchorFree which became the largest consumer VPN in the world with over 700 million users. He now has cofounded Humanity with Peter Ward to extend the healthspan (healthy fully functional years of life) of every person on earth.
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About Humanity, Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Ben Jacobs
Co-Founder of Modern Animal
Ben Jacobs is the Co-Founder of Modern Animal.He co-founded Whistle as an Entrepreneur in Residence at venture capital firm DCM Ventures. Prior to DCM, he was at Bain where he worked with clients in the pet and technology industries. Ben holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale University with a focus on China.
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About Modern Animal: Modern Animal is an innovative veterinary platform building a new kind of veterinary experience for animals and humans.
Steven Eidelman
Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Animal
Steven Eidelman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Animal. He co-founded Whistle following his time at Spectrum Equity, where he focused on investments in consumer Internet. Previously he spent time driving online strategy for Warner Music Group and working at Bain for a number of technology, healthcare, and private equity clients. Steven graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Political Science.
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About Modern Animal: Modern Animal is an innovative veterinary platform building a new kind of veterinary experience for animals and humans.
Michael Snyder
Founder of Q Bio
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine. Dr. Snyder received his Ph.D. training at the California Institute of Technology and carried out postdoctoral training at Stanford University. He is a leader in the field of functional genomics and proteomics, and one of the major participants of the ENCODE project. His laboratory study was the first to perform a large-scale functional genomics project in any organism, and has developed many technologies in genomics and proteomics. These including the development of proteome chips, high resolution tiling arrays for the entire human genome, methods for global mapping of transcription factor binding sites (ChIP-chip now replaced by ChIP-seq), paired end sequencing for mapping of structural variation in eukaryotes, de novo genome sequencing of genomes using high throughput technologies and RNA-Seq. These technologies have been used for characterizing genomes, proteomes and regulatory networks. Seminal findings from the Snyder laboratory include the discovery that much more of the human genome is transcribed and contains regulatory information than was previously appreciated, and a high diversity of transcription factor binding occurs both between and within species. He has also combined different state-of-the-art “omics” technologies to perform the first longitudinal detailed integrative personal omics profile (iPOP) of person and used this to assess disease risk and monitor disease states for personalized medicine. Snyder is a cofounder of several biotechnology companies, including Protometrix (now part of Life Tehcnologies), Affomix (now part of Illumina), Excelix, Personalis and founder of Q, and he presently serves on the board of a number of companies. Dr Snyder is the author of the book: Genomics and Personalized Medicine: What Everyone Needs to Know
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About Metagenomix, Q Bio: On a mission to build the first Clinical Digital Twin Platform and make it accessible to everyone
Ben Hindson
CSO, CO-Founder & President of 10X Genomics
Ben Hindson has served as Chief Scientific Officer and Director of 10x Genomics since its founding in 2012. Prior to 10x Genomics, Hindson was Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Quantalife, a privately-held life sciences company that developed and commercialized a droplet digital PCR platform, until its sale to Bio-Rad in 2011. From 2002 to 2008, he served in various positions of increasing responsibility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in the Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-proliferation Program. He has published extensively in his field and holds many patents for assays and instrumentation. Hindson earned his BSc in Chemistry in 1998 and his PhD in Chemistry in 2001 from Deakin University, Australia.
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About 10X Genomics: 10X Genomics ELV solutions and security systems company that provides an innovative genomics platform.
Noga Leviner
Co-Founder & CEO of PicnicHealth
Noga was inspired to create Picnic after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and struggling to keep track of her own health data. She had previously co-founded Lumni USA, where she raised and deployed the first US investment fund to help underserved students access low-risk, equity-style student loan products. She has been a regular speaker and consultant on financial innovation for the underbanked and, more recently, an advocate for patient data access in the healthcare system. Noga has a BA from Stanford where she studied Human Biology and Economics. She can regularly be found spacing out while trying to meditate.
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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.
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.
Akilesh Bapu
Co-Founder and CEO of DeepScribe
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About DeepScribe: DeepScribe is an AI-driven platform for medical record-taking.
Rakesh Mathur
Co-Founder & CEO of Whiterabbit.ai
Rakesh is a co-founder of Webaroo. He has been a founder of three technology start up companies in the past 10 years and also an early stage investor in several other companies. He was a founder and CEO of Junglee, whose virtual database technology led to the creation of comparison shopping on the Internet. Junglee was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. He founded Armedia, which was one of the first companies with chip designs for the video component of the DVD standard. Armedia was acquired by Broadcom in 1999. He also founded PurpleYogi, now Stratify which provides enterprise solutions to the management of unstructured data. Rakesh is a board member of Geodesic, a BSE listed company whose Mundu Instant Messenger is used by millions of people. Rakesh was recognized as a member of the 1998 Upside 100, the 2001 India Today Global 100 and Junglee technology was given the Computerworld – Smithsonian award as one of the top five technologies of 1998. Rakesh received his MS from the University of Texas at Arlington and his B.Tech from IIT Bombay.
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About GupShup, Percipient.ai, Terralogic, WhiteRabbit, Whiterabbit.ai: Whiterabbit.ai develops software using artificial intelligence to detect cancer at the earliest stages.
Pratik Shah
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Design Therapeutics
Pratik Shah is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Design Therapeutics.
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About CNS Therapeutics (Old), Design Therapeutics: Design Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies for serious degenerative disorders.
Kyle Robertson
Founder and CEO of Cerebral
Kyle Robertson is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cerebral.
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About Cerebral: Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that offers online care and medication management for anxiety, depression, ADHD and more.
Daniel Shen
Founder and Chief Clinical and Science Officer of Eargo
Daniel is a Founder and the Chief Clinical & Science Officer of Eargo. Brilliant, logical, curious, he’s our Mr. Spock, but way more fun at parties. Daniel is a lifelong entrepreneur who’s co-founded three medical device companies and holds numerous patents. Plus, he holds degrees from MIT and studied medicine at Stanford. He’s also an avid scuba diver and kite boarder, so we’re assuming he can swim. Leading our Clinical Research department, he’s ensuring that Eargo boldly goes where no hearing aid has gone before…we’re waiting for him to invent di-lithium crystals.
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About Eargo: Eargo makes direct-to-consumer hearing aids, allowing customers to access help for their hearing loss from their homes.
Konstantinos Alataris
Founder, CEO of Nesos
Konstantinos Alataris is the President and CEO of the Nevro Corp. Prior to founding Nevro, Dr. Alataris was a venture capitalist with Bay City Capital in San Francisco, focusing on investment and strategic advisory services. He was previously a Business Development Manager with Compass, Guidant’s Corporate Venturing Group, where he analyzed and structured medical device/healthcare investments and evaluated acquisition targets. He was also a Research Fellow at the House Ear Institute, a research center and clinic in Los Angeles. Dr. Alataris holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, an MBA, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
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About Nesos: Nesos develops wearable interfaces and software components for the treatment of neurological disorders.
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Talha Sattar
CEO & Founder of NimbleRx
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About NimbleRx: Nimble provides a pharmacy experience centered around the patient’s needs to provide a more streamlined workflow.
Martyn Gross
Co-Founder & CEO of Zerigo Health
Advisor at Cooler Heads Care & Chief Business Officer at Mindera.
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About Dthera Sciences, MiNDERA Corporation, Zerigo Health: Clarify Medical is a developer of a handheld medical device used to treat psoriasis, eczema, and vitiligo .
Remo Qajar
Co-Founder of Zerigo Health
Remo Qajar is the Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Skylit Medical. Remo’s postgraduate career as an academic researcher and trained Surgeon at the Yale School of Medicine led him to invent a number of medical devices, from implantable respiratory diaphragms to orthopedic and wound care products, some of which have been spun-off into companies. Remo is the founder of InQMEDS LLC. an accelerator of growth for early stage life-science products.
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About Zerigo Health: Clarify Medical is a developer of a handheld medical device used to treat psoriasis, eczema, and vitiligo .
Kyle Michelson
Founder & CEO of Getlabs
Kyle Michelson is the Founder and CEO of Getlabs. He is a former Founder of Streamup and Instameet.
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About Getlabs: Getlabs delivers healthcare to patients with in-person medical professionals.
Nitin Nanda
CEO,Founder & Chairman of Aligned TeleHealth
Dr. Nitin Nanda, founder of Aligned Telehealth, is a respected physician, entrepreneur, leader, and educator. Since founding the Company in 2000, Dr. Nanda has grown Aligned Telehealth into one of the largest behavioral health specialty practices in the US. He built a successful practice model based on clinical expertise, compassion, operational efficiency and fiscal responsibility. He is Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Nanda is Chief of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Los Angeles Jewish Home. He also serves as Medical Director of the Lisa and Ernest Auerbach Geriatric Psychiatry Unit at the Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Nanda obtained his medical training in India and served briefly in Africa, where he worked with community hospital and clinics, caring for the very ill and underserved. He then joined UCSF School of Medicine’s Clinical Research department. Later, Dr. Nanda completed an Internship and Residency at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he was nominated Chief Resident. With a deep interest and passion in caring for seniors, Dr. Nanda pursued a Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA.
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About Aligned TeleHealth, Amwell: Aligned Telehealth is a provider of a SaaS-based platform used to offer telemedicine and healthcare management services.
Anne DeGheest
Founder & Managing director of HealthTech Capital
Anne DeGheest is a mentor capitalist specializing in investing and mentoring early-stage start-ups in healthcare. She founded MedStars Ventures Partners and HealthTech Capital, a new ecosystem between private angel investors, venture capitalists and industry players to fund and mentor new “HealthTech” companies that decrease healthcare cost by leveraging computer and mobility technology. The life science companies for which she has been a founder or an early advisor have generated over $6 billion in market capitalization including Pyxis (now part of CareFusion), Aspect Medical (acquired by Covidien), VISX (acquired by AMO), Thermage (merged into Solta Medical), VISICU(acquired by Philips), Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), Nellcor (a division of Covidien), MedPool and OmniCell (Nasdaq: OMCL).She has an MBA from Harvard and a Master in Business Engineering from University of Brussels.
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About HealthTech Capital, Medstars: HealthTech Capital is a group of private investors dedicated to funding and mentoring new HealthTech start ups
Terren Peizer
Founder & CEO of Ontrak
Mr. Peizer is an entrepreneur, investor, and financier with a particular interest in healthcare, having founded and successfully commercialized several healthcare companies. Mr. Peizer is the founder of Catasys, Inc., a leader in behavioral and mental health management services. He has also served as the Company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO since the Company’s inception in 2004. Mr. Peizer also is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of NeurMedix, Inc., a biotechnology company with a focus on inflammatory, neurological and neuro-degenerative diseases. NeurMedix’s lead compound NE3107 has shown efficacy in 11 pre-clinical and 6 human studies. These studies resulted in publications in peer-reviewed journals. Mr. Peizer is Chairman of Acuitas Group Holdings, LLC, his personal holding company that is the owner of all of his portfolio company interests, including Catasys, Inc. Through Acuitas, Mr. Peizer also owns Crede Capital Group, LLC, an industry leader in investing in micro and small capitalization equities, having invested over $1.2 billion directly into portfolio companies. Mr. Peizer has been the largest beneficial shareholder, and has held various senior executive positions with several other publicly-traded growth companies, including Chairman of internationally renowned Cray, Inc., the industry’s leading supercomputer company. Mr. Peizer has a background in venture capital, investing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and previously held senior executive positions with the investment banking firms Goldman Sachs, First Boston, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He received his B.S.E. in finance from The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. Raised in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Peizer has been the largest beneficial stockholder and has held various senior executive positions within several technology and biotech companies. He has assisted companies by assembling management teams, boards of directors and scientific advisory boards, formulating business and financial strategies, and investor relations. Mr. Peizer has a background in venture capital, investing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and previously held senior executive positions with the investment banking firms Goldman Sachs , First Boston and Drexel Burnham Lambert . Mr. Peizer received his B.S.E. in Finance from The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. Over the years, Terren Peizer has frequently noted the importance of his family and his Ohio upbringing in various interviews. He has stated that his half brother’s problems with addiction spurred him to found Hythiam, and has named his investment companies after his hometown and home street. Although he has been called “One of Wall Streets top players” Peizer has also exhibited a humble and modest lifestyle consistent with his Midwestern upbringing. It is believed that he still lives in the same condominium home he first purchased in the 1980s when he moved to Los Angeles, California You can follow more of Terren at his personal site: http://www.terrenpeizer.com
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About BioVie, Ontrak: Ontrak provides health management services for health plans, employers and unions through a network of licensed healthcare providers.
Fabian Gerlinghaus
Co-Founder & CEO of Cellares
Fabian Gerlinghaus is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cellares.
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About Cellares: Cellares is a life sciences technology company that develops the Cell Shuttle to automate cell therapy manufacturing.
Connor Landgraf
Co-Founder & CEO of Eko Health
Connor Landgraf is the co-founder and CEO of Eko.
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About Eko Health: Eko develops AI-powered digital tools to detect and monitor heart and lung disease
Jason Bellet
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Board Member of Eko Health
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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
Maayan Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder of Hello Heart
Co-Founder, CEO at Hello Doctor
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About Hello Heart: Hello Heart is the leader in cardiovascular digital therapeutics. We help people understand and improve their heart health using technology.
Wenbin Jiang
Co-Founder and CEO of Cytek Biosciences
Wenbin Jiang is a co-founder of Cytek Biosciences, Inc. and a seasoned entrepreneur and inventor. E2O communications was the first company he cofounded in late 1990s, which was acquired by JDS Uniphase in 2004. He is an inventor of more than 90 US patents and an author of 4 book chapters and more than 50 peer reviewed technical papers.
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About Cytek Biosciences: Cytek Biosciences is a manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services.
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.
Colleen Cutcliffe
Co-Founder and CEO of Pendulum Therapeutics
Colleen Cutcliffe is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pendulum Therapeutics.
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About American Diabetes Association, California Life Sciences Association, Pendulum Therapeutics: Pendulum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company improving health through products targeting the microbiome.
John S. Eid
Co-Founder and CSO of Pendulum Therapeutics
John Eid is a Biophysicist who has led fundamental technology development for over a decade. His research areas include advanced microscopy, single molecule detection and analyses, automated data acquisition system development, biophysical system modeling, genome sequencing applications and bioinformatics. Prior to co-founding Whole Biome, John served as a Principle Scientist at Pacific Biosciences. He joined the company shortly after it was founded and created, developed and applied its core sequencing technology from its incipient stages through commercialization. John completed his postdoctoral research at the Roland Institute at Harvard University, his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computation Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and his B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University.
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About Pendulum Therapeutics: Pendulum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company improving health through products targeting the microbiome.
Amit Munjal
Founder & CEO of Doctor Insta
Amit is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Doctor Insta. In his previous role, He was a CFO and Head of Investment Strategy at the $120 Billion Division of CitiGroup. Amit has multiple years of experience in Management Consulting, Private Equity, and Venture Capital and is a Subject Matter Expert in Scaling/Growth and Profit Optimization at e-commerce startups and Fortune 500 companies. Amit has been an active mentor and advisor to many startups in the USA and India and has been involved with Capital Innovators, St Louis, MO (USA)- one of the top 10 accelerators of the Country. Prior to his last role, Amit was a Senior Vice President of Growth & Investment Strategy at Bank of America and also did stints in Corporate Strategy Practice of Deloitte Consulting, in Corporate Development (M&A) with Randstad, and in Venture Capital with Kauffman Foundation. Amit has an MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington (where he was actively involved with Johnson Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Advanced Management Certification from Harvard Business School, and is a CFA Charterholder from CFA Institute, USA. In his spare time, he likes to travel, work out, read and try out new restaurants.
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About Doctor Insta: Bringing Healthcare to Everyone’s fingertaps; India’s 1st Video Medicine Company where One can consult Care-Givers anytime, anywhere.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Florian Bohn
CEO & Co-Founder of GuRu
Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization. As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Benjamin Kruger
Co Founder of Sollis Health
Ben Kruger operates out of Vandewater’s Los Angeles office, sourcing and analyzing new business opportunities while managing preexisting investments within the company’s diverse portfolio. Ben contributes a majority of his time to Vandewater Media where he leads its Content and Creative team. Before joining Vandewater, Ben was the Creative Director of Jesta Digital. Ben has also contributed as a writer and producer for ABC Studios and Paramount Pictures. Kruger holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Brown University and is the recipient of a History Research Fellowship from St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University, UK.
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About Sollis Health: Sollis Health offers 24/7 concierge medical centers that handle emergencies, everyday checkups, and everything in between.
Nancy Yu
Co-Founder & CEO of AllStripes
Nancy previously led Corporate Development at 23andMe, the largest consumer genetics company. She worked on 23andMe’s next generation sequencing platform, drug discovery strategy, and business development programs. Before that, she worked on Wall Street as a biopharma investment banker. Nancy began her career doing genetics research at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s passionate about bridging the gap between patients and industry to make drug R&D cheaper, faster, and better.
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About AllStripes: AllStripes is a healthcare technology company that accelerates drug development and research for the treatment of rare diseases.
Carlito Lebrilla
Co-Founder of Evolve Biosystems
Carlito B. Lebrilla is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine in the School of Medicine. He received his BS degree from the University of California, Irvine and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a NSF-NATO Fellow at the Technical University in Berlin. He returned to the UC Irvine as a President’s Fellow and has been at UC Davis since 1989. He has served as Chair of the Chemistry Department. His research is in Analytical Chemistry, primarily mass spectrometry with applications to clinical glycomics and biofunctional food. He has over 320 peer-reviewed publications. He is also co-editor of Mass Spectrometry Reviews and has been on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Journal of American Society for Mass Spectrometry, European Mass Spectrometry, and International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.
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About Evolve Biosystems, InterVenn: Evolve Biosystems specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain.
Daniela Barile
Co-Founder of Evolve Biosystems
Daniela Barile is Associate Professor at the University of California Davis. She received her degrees in the area of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Food Science from the Piemonte Orientale University (Italy). Her research, focused at the nexus of food, health, and the environment, aims to understand food bioactive compounds formation, their recovery from food production side streams, and their specific interactions within the human body. Her lab utilizes analytical platforms based on mass spectrometry to investigate foods and a range of relatively untapped organic waste streams for valuable, healthful bioactive compounds (such as free oligosaccharides, peptides, glycoproteins and glycolipids). Her approach of sequential molecular deconstruction of food streams is generating valuable bioinformatic libraries of source materials and the underlying biological and processing conditions that give rise to their formation/preservation.
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About Evolve Biosystems, University of California Davis, University of California Davis: Evolve Biosystems specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain.
Ayub Khattak
Founder & CEO of Cue
Ayub Khattak is the CEO and founder at Cue.
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About Cue: Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep.
Arad Rostampour
CEO and Founder of Zenamins
Arad Rostampour is Founder at Zenamins.
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About Zenamins: Zenamins is a subscription service that home delivers a monthly box of preferred vitamins to its subscribers.
Richard Lin
CEO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Jun Kim
CSO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Sandra Horning
Co-Founder of EQRx
Dr. Sandra Horning, M.D. is the Co-Founder of EQRx. She has been Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Product Development at Roche Holding AG since January 13, 2014. Dr. Horning has been Global Head of Clinical Development Hematology & Oncology and Senior Vice President of Genentech, Inc., since September 2009. Dr. Horning is responsible for leading the medical and scientific strategies for the global clinical development portfolio in oncology. Dr. Horning leads the disease biology leadership team for oncology/hematology. In addition, Dr. Horning leads and manage Genentech’s team of oncology clinical scientists. She has more than 35 years of experience, with a focus on oncology.
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About EQRx, Roche Holdings, Australia: EQRx is a biotechnology company that focuses on re-engineering the process of drug discovery to make them affordable.
Sy Fahimi
Co-Founder and CEO of DocSpera
Sy Fahimi serves as a Member of the Executive Team and Operating Partner at Symphony Technology Group. He was Executive-in-Residence at the firm. Fahimi leads the strategy and innovation charter across several portfolio companies. Until 2012, Fahimi was In Charge of Yahoo’s Monetization and Emerging Market products. Prior to 2012, he held various Vice President positions including Head of Yahoo’s Advertising Products globally, which also encompassed mobile, video, and social monetization. He ran Yahoo Small Business and Emerging Markets Products for the company. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Adteractive, Inc. He joined Adteractive in October 2005. He served as the Managing Director of West Coast Office of SSA & Company, LLC since January 26, 2009. Fahimi has diverse experience with privately held, venture-backed and large public technology companies, along with SSA & Company’s long-standing consulting credibility and process improvement thought leadership. Prior to joining Adteractive, Fahimi spent most of his career in senior executive positions at Fortune 500 companies including Intuit, Sun Microsystems, and General Electric, where he held several executive positions including Operations, Marketing, Sales Ops, Risk Management, Quality, Finance, and Org./Process Excellence. During his tenure at GE, he became a certified Master Black Belt in the Six Sigma methodology, and served in two Vice President Positions. Fahimi began his career at GE, where he provided audit and consulting services to a wide variety of business units around the globe. In 2000, he joined Sun Microsystems as a Director of Six Sigma Quality and Customer Advocacy. After becoming a Senior Director of Global Sales Operations at Sun, he joined Intuit Corporation in a number of operating, customer advocacy, and process/organizational leadership roles. As an active entrepreneur over the last ten years, he has served as an Advisor, Investor or Board Member to several technology enabled start-ups such as Mint (Intuit), Empire Avenue, Sales Portal, Progresso Financiero, Blackfire Research Corporation, as well as being the Co-Founder of Compliant Innovations. Fahimi served as an Advisor, providing consulting services and early stage investment guidance to select start-up companies in Silicon Valley. He has been a Director of Empire Avenue Inc. since December 10, 2013. He has experience in international software, e-commerce, and digital media. Fahimi earned an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and a Bachelors degrees from University of California at Berkeley in and EconomicsEngineering .
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About DocSpera, Symphony Technology Group: DocSpera provides web and mobile solutions addressing surgical care coordination challenges facing health systems & devices
Phil Martie
Co-Founder, CEO of Nicolette
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About Nicolette: Nicolette operates as a patient empowerment company.
