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This list showcases the top New York based VP’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Raj Krishnan
Vice President Of Product Management of Noom
Raj Krishnan is VP Product at Noom
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Michael Berger
VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer and VP, Enterprise Data Science Center of Excellence of Mount Sinai Health System
Michael Berger is the VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer and VP, Enterprise Data Science Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai.
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About Mount Sinai Health System: The Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated health care system providing exceptional medical care to their local and global communities.
Jonathon Kellerman
EVP, Global Chief Compliance Officer of Allergan
Prior to joining Actavis, Mr. Kellerman spent 20 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in leadership roles of increasing responsibility, most recently 10 years as Partner in the company’s Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Advisory practice. Mr. Kellerman was responsible for helping lead the firm’s Governance, Risk & Compliance practice. He has extensive experience in compliance strategy and commercial performance improvement, including global anti-bribery/anti-corruption program assessment, design and implementation work; building and implementing effective global compliance programs; managing fraud investigations and remediation activities; re-engineering processes supporting key commercial and R&D business activities and compliance controls; and re-designing how companies engage health care professionals. Mr. Kellerman received a B.A. in Sociology from Franklin & Marshall College.
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About Allergan: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Stephen Barat
Associate Vice President, Non-Clinical Development of Allergan
Stephen Barat is currently the Executive Director of Non-clinical and Translational Sciences – Safety Assessment and Bioanalysis for Allergan. He has 20 years of experience in global drug development and registration, with a specific interest in drug device combinations, the interface of safety assessment and CMC requirements, and extensive experience in the safety assessment of impurities. Dr. Barat is a member of the PQRI – PDP working group and toxicology sub-team as well as the USP Expert Panel for Biocompatability of Packaging Materials.
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About Allergan, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Dante Gaudio
SVP of Revenue and Media Strategy of Healthline Media
Dante has been with Healthline for over 8 years, leading the sales team of the fastest growing health site. Dante has a long running passion for Healthcare marketing, having led sales efforts for the pharmaceutical and other health related verticals at The New York Times and the Meredith Corporation. His other passions include cooking, staying healthy and surfing.
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About Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Jason Moskowitz
VP of Sales, Clinical Care Division of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Joseph Lewarski
Senior Vice President/General Manager, Clinical Care & North America Manufacturing of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Karen Lerner
Regional Vice President of Pressure Prevention of Drive Medical
Karen is a registered nurse, wound care and rehab specialist with over 25 years of industry experience. Karen has extensive experience as a public speaker, educating DME providers and clinicians on a variety of topics. Karen’s speaking engagements included testifying before Congress on behalf of the HME industry. Since October 2013, Karen has worked as part of Team Pressure Prevention at Drive Medical. Prior to coming to Drive and for over 10 years, Karen was VP of Clinical Services at a Northeast based DME, responsible for Pressure Prevention, Respiratory and Rehab sales, as well as service and training. Before DME, Karen worked in sales for a hospital equipment and support surface manufacturer. Karen began her career as a critical care nurse specialist in major teaching hospitals from Florida to NJ. Karen received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her graduate education from the University of Florida.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Josh Gordon
Vice President of Inside Sales for North America of Drive Medical
After graduating from Penn State University in 1999, Joshua Gordon spent several years growing a sales portfolio in recruiting and admissions for the Katharine Gibbs School. Josh joined Drive Medical in 2002 as a Territory Business Manager for the Philadelphia Region. In 2009, Josh took his experience from outside sales and developed a new Inside Sales Department for the company.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Michael Serhan
Executive Principal & Executive Vice President of Product Development of Drive Medical
Michael Serhan is an Executive principal to Drive Medical. Michael joined the company in 2004, with the Company’s merger of Dr. K international, a West Coast manufacturer and distributor of durable medical products, where he served as President and Principal stock holder. At Dr.K, Mr. Serhan was able to redirect the company’s direction and grow annual revenues to approximately $14 million. In the industry from 1987, Michael has served as West Coast division President of an approximately $180 Million publicly traded company. Michael is primarily responsible for product development and product design, overseeing core product categories, and handling large national customers for Drive Medical.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Jeffrey Schwartz
Executive Vice President of Sales of Drive Medical
Jeffrey Schwartz is a principal founder of Drive medical. Jeffrey served as the Vice President of Sales of Diamond Medical and National Healthcare from 1987 until 1992. Following the sale to a publicly traded healthcare company, Jeffrey served as the Vice President of Sales of such public company until 1996. In 1996, Jeffrey formed Jofra Enterprises, Inc., a distributor of medical products, located in Mt. Vernon, New York, which was subsequently acquired by a publicly traded healthcare company in 1998. Jeffrey served as the Executive Vice President of Sales of the publicly traded healthcare company from 1998 through 2000.
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About Drive Medical, Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Rowley Jackson
Senior Vice President of Corporate Accounts of Drive Medical
Rowley Jackson has been in the medical products industry for over 25 years and has served in many capacities from managing sales to product development. Rowley has been with Drive Medical since the beginning. He was the first vendor for Drive, supplying product from a domestic manufacturer where he served as the Executive Vice president. Rowley joined Drive in January of 2001 to create its initial sales force.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Seth Diamond
Vice President of Ecommerce Division of Drive Medical
Seth Diamond has been part of the Drive team since its inception. In his tenure, Seth has held many roles and his diverse contributions have made him an integral factor in Drive success. His knowledge of durable medical equipment, sales experience and background in Ecommerce has allowed him to flourish as V.P. of the Ecommerce Division. Seth’s responsibilities include the management and development of the Drive brand via the World Wide Web.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Greg Eaton
Regional Vice President of Respiratory Sales of Drive Medical
Greg Eaton started with Drive Medical in July of 2015 through the acquisition of DeVilbiss Healthcare. Greg brings over 29 years of medical sales and sales management experience in Orthopedics, Spine, Sleep and Respiratory. Greg started his medical career with Medtronic as a territory sales manager in Indianapolis, and earned President’s Club honors in his first year. Medtronic promoted him to management covering the Southeast District based out of North Carolina. Greg then moved to a start up territory opportunity with ResMed, specializing in sleep disordered breathing. During his tenure, Greg was instrumental in growing a small market of less than $500,000 annual sales to a market of $50 million and was honored with 5 President’s Club awards. Greg then accepted an opportunity in the Spine industry with Orthofix as the Regional Director. His leadership took the Mid-Atlantic Region to 3 consecutive years as Region of the Year and President’s Club honors. After his time with Orthofix, Greg was recruited back to the Sleep and Respiratory industry by Devilbiss Healthcare as the Eastern Region Manager.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Francheska Markman
Vice President of Customer Service of Drive Medical
Francheska Markman is a Customer Service and Call Center professional with over 18 years of experience. Most recently, Francheska led and directed a 65-seat Customer Service and Accounts Receivable Departments at Southern Wine and Spirits, a mutli-million dollar national distributor of adult beverages. Francheska has been recognized for her strength in strategic work flow planning, managerial expertise of a fast paced, high volume call center, resourcefulness and commitment to success.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Tony Crisitello
Senior Vice President of Long Term Care of Drive Medical
Tony Crisitello joined Drive Medical in 2014 as Senior Vice President – Long Term Care. Tony responsible for strategic development and growth of this division through both acquisitions and organic growth in North America. Prior to joining Drive Medical, Tony was Co-Founder and President of Next Day Medical, a regional distribution business based in Baltimore, MD. Tony sold this business to McKesson Medical Surgical in 2012, and held various leadership positions in their organization during the two year integration period of Next Day Medical. Tony holds a degree in marketing from Old Dominion University and has attended several executive level programs at NYU Stern School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Vanessa Saltmarsh
Regional Vice President of Drive Medical
Vanessa Saltmarsh joined Drive Medical in 2012 as the Director of Respiratory Business Services. In this role, she called on her 16+ years of industry related experience to provide direction and leadership to key accounts. Prior to joining Drive Medical, Vanessa began her career at evo Medical Solutions, where she took on progressively responsible roles in the areas of sales, marketing, and operational management. Vanessa has been recognized as a leader in respiratory sales, program development and strategic account management. In August 2015, Vanessa was promoted to Regional Vice President of Respiratory Sales, where she owns responsibility for key account management, training, marketing communications content, and salesforce clinical support for Drive’s respiratory category.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Thomas Antonio
Vice President of Financial & CFO of Drive Medical
Thomas Antonio joined the Company in February 2004, and is primarily responsible for financial reporting. From 1986 through 1997, Thomas Antonio served as the Assistant Vice President and Controller of Charan Industries, a privately-held company which owned and operated bowling centers throughout the United States. From 1997 through February 2004, Thomas served as the Chief Financial Officer of several privately-held companies located in the metropolitan New York area.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Dan O’Malley
Regional Vice President of Pressure Prevention Sales of Drive Medical
Dan O’Malley joined Drive Medical in 2013, as Regional VP of Pressure Prevention Sales in connection with the Company’s acquisition of a national manufacturer of durable medical products. Dan is primarily responsible for the Company’s category sales in Pressure Prevention for the homecare and long term care markets. Dan has 20 years of experience working in the acute care, long term care, and homecare settings in the medical device, rehabilitation, and durable medical equipment industries. More recently, Dan served as the National Sales Manager for Mason Medical Products, a manufacturer of Pressure Prevention products. Dan is a 1995 graduate of the University of Massachusetts.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Steve Wakser
Vice President of Sales for Southeast of Drive Medical
Steve Wakser started with Drive in January 2009, with over 10 years of experience in the DME industry running a successful dealership in Ohio. Steve quickly grew his Michigan territory to top numbers and achieved Rookie of the Year in 2009 and Rep of the Year in 2010, with over $6 million in sales. Continued success led Steve to Regional Vice President of the Southeast in 2012. Steve holds a Bachelors Degree in Communications from Kent State University.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
John Zelczak
Regional VP of Respiratory Sales of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Christopher Cheek
Vice President of Distributor Sales of Drive Medical
Christopher Cheek joined Drive Medical in July of 2014 as Vice President of Distributor Sales through the acquisition of MEDQUIP Inc. Christopher brings with him over 25 years of successful experience within the medical products industry and has specialized in distributor-wholesale partner management for most of his profession. In January 2006, Christopher joined MEDQUIP shortly after its inception as National Sales Manager and relocated to the company’s headquarters in South Carolina in 2008, where Christopher served as the organization’s Vice President and General Manager. Throughout his career, Christopher has served in many capacities within the industry including Director of Business Development for a major manufacturer and distributor of orthotic braces, compression hosiery and durable medical equipment. Other positions held include National Sales Manager of a leading Medical Hosiery Manufacturer. Christopher’s experience within the industry is comprised of an extensive history within the business and has a strong acumen in sales management, marketing, product development, sales training and continuing education.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
John Zelczak
Regional VP of Respiratory Sales of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Christopher Cheek
Vice President of Distributor Sales of Drive Medical
Christopher Cheek joined Drive Medical in July of 2014 as Vice President of Distributor Sales through the acquisition of MEDQUIP Inc. Christopher brings with him over 25 years of successful experience within the medical products industry and has specialized in distributor-wholesale partner management for most of his profession. In January 2006, Christopher joined MEDQUIP shortly after its inception as National Sales Manager and relocated to the company’s headquarters in South Carolina in 2008, where Christopher served as the organization’s Vice President and General Manager. Throughout his career, Christopher has served in many capacities within the industry including Director of Business Development for a major manufacturer and distributor of orthotic braces, compression hosiery and durable medical equipment. Other positions held include National Sales Manager of a leading Medical Hosiery Manufacturer. Christopher’s experience within the industry is comprised of an extensive history within the business and has a strong acumen in sales management, marketing, product development, sales training and continuing education.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Will Fraser
VP Corporate Accounts of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Vidya Raman-Tangella
Senior Vice President, and Head, UHC Innovation Center of Excellence of UnitedHealth Group
Vidya Raman-Tangella is leading innovation at the country’s largest health care company, helping people live healthier lives through an ongoing transformation of the health care system. Raman-Tangella heads UnitedHealthcare’s Innovation Center of Excellence, developing breakthroughs with practical solutions for improving health care quality, access and affordability. UnitedHealthcare is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which serves more than 132 million people worldwide. A physician-innovator with more than 20 years of experience in the health field, Raman-Tangella collaborates with diverse partners to develop simpler, more intelligent, and cost effective health care solutions. Her colleagues say she is exceptional with designing ecosystems that drive change in the health care market through the use of data and technology. Raman-Tangella and her team design, develop and scale breakthrough innovations that help address unmet health needs with holistic solutions. They use Human-Centered Design, outside-in thinking, and co-creation models to create meaningful solutions that deliver lasting value. Deep partnerships internally and strategic partnerships externally enable the team to create multi-faceted, holistic solutions. As a senior healthcare leader with a passion for personalized health journeys, she previously held an executive role at Johnson & Johnson, where she led the design of integrated and tailored health and wellness solutions for employers and health care plans. She was instrumental in the company’s start-up organization, providing expertise about strategic partnerships and enterprise integration. “My biggest career leap was entering the world of innovation from a world of clinical medicine,” Raman-Tangella said. “I have since learned that it is possible to have the best of both these worlds, and my daily quest is to find ways to pursue them both. This for me has resulted in a deep passion for the world of personalized health, medicine and health care.” She also says being a woman in her profession is fulfilling and fascinating. “I think women are inherently great at innovation, given their ability to think and apply multiple facets and look beyond the here and now,” she explained. Raman-Tangella’s desire to address unmet health care issues has led to the development and launch of several innovations, including the Baby Block program, a free online and mobile healthy-baby initiative. Another of her innovations is Solutions for Caregivers, a program for large employers featuring in-person, telephonic, and online resources designed to help caregivers save money and more effectively provide assistance to the people they support. Raman-Tangella holds a bachelor’s of medicine and a bachelor’s of surgery from Osmania University in India, and a master’s of health administration from Cornell University.
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About UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Ben Wiegand
Senior Vice President, R&D of UnitedHealth Group
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About UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Sebastian Kronmueller
Vice President, Head of Strategy & Business Development – Laboratory Diagnostics of Siemens Healthineers
Sebastian Kronmueller incubates startup businesses within Healthineers with a focus on novel molecular applications. His current incubation businesses include the Siemens Healthcare Laboratory in Berkeley, California and NEO New Oncology in Cologne, Germany. Previously he led the execution of strategic initiatives as Head of Special Projects for Siemens Healthineers, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategy of Siemens Healthineers in preparation for the IPO planned in 2018. Before this role he led a project management team for companion diagnostics and software development and was responsible for the carve-out and divestment of the Healthineers Microbiology business. He began his career as strategy consultant with Siemens Management Consulting. Sebastian holds a graduate degree in physics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany and a graduate certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
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About Siemens Healthineers: Siemens Healthineers is a healthcare technology company that provides diagnostic and therapeutic products and services.
Mohammed Ali
VP Digital Analytics and Performance of GSK
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About GSK: GSK Venture Fund is a Massachusetts-based venture capital fund focused on investments within the area of bioelectronics.
Elizabeth Colonna
Vice President of Health Enterprise Partners
Elizabeth joined HEP in 2016, while completing her MBA at Columbia Business School. Prior to business school, Elizabeth was a Senior Consultant at FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN). As a member of FTI’s Health Solutions practice, she provided data analytics, litigation support, and other consulting services for a variety of healthcare clients, including large commercial payers, retail pharmacy chains, and healthcare data management companies. During her time in business school, she was a hospital administration and operations intern at UCLA Health. Elizabeth serves as a board observer of Wildflower Health and AxiaMed. Elizabeth holds a BA with Distinction from the University of Virginia and received Dean’s Honors with Distinction from Columbia Business School.
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About Health Enterprise Partners: Health Enterprise Partners is a private equity firm that provides its services for healthcare services and information technology companies.
Pete Tedesco
Vice President & Managing Partner of Health Enterprise Partners
Prior to joining HEP, Pete was a Vice President at Olympus Partners, a middle-market private equity firm managing over $5 billion. At Olympus, he was responsible for evaluating and executing leveraged buyout and growth equity transactions and served on the board of directors for companies across a variety of industries. Pete previously worked at Chicago-based private equity firm Waud Capital Partners, where he focused primarily on investments in the healthcare services sector, and in the Corporate Business Development group at Becton Dickinson & Co. (NYSE: BDX). Pete began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Diversified Industrials groups at UBS Investment Bank. Pete holds an A.B. from Princeton University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Health Enterprise Partners: Health Enterprise Partners is a private equity firm that provides its services for healthcare services and information technology companies.
Vinod Mitta
Vice President – Pharmaceuticals of Oscar Health
Vinod Mitta is the Vice President at Oscar Health.
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About Oscar Health: Oscar is a health insurance company that offers individual and family plans, medicare advantages, and small group products.
Christopher Moretti
Vice President of Cigna
Christopher Moretti has been an executive leader with Cigna since October, 2015 and is currently responsible for all infrastructure engineering Leading the Global Engineering & Infrastructure Services. In this role, Chris provides executive leadership over the teams that deliver Cigna’s voice & data networks, security engineering, contact center, database, compute, storage, information management, mainframe, cloud & devops. Previous to Cigna, Chris spent 14 years at General Electric and its subsidiaries in various executive leadership roles supporting its insurance, consumer and commercial banking businesses. While at GE, Chris attended and graduated many of their prestigious management training classes including AIMC and EIMP. Most recently, Christopher was Managing Director of Global Networks for J.P. Morgan Chase & Company based in midtown Manhattan. Chris started his career in IT performing many different hands on technical roles in client/server, network and security for various sized firms in the greater New York market including a period where he consulted for Greenwich Technology Partners. Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and currently resides in Shelton, CT with his wife and 3 sons.
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About Cigna: CIGNA Corporation operates as a health service company that helps people to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind.
Jim Pasquale
EVP North America of Digime
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About Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Christine Lui Chen
VP, Marketing of Hinge Health
Wharton MBA, Johns Hopkins Neuroscience, Product Launch & BD at J&J, pug aficionado.
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About Hinge Health: Hinge Health is a patient-centered digital clinic for treating chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
Gioel Molinari
Executive Vice President & Chief Product Officer of Butterfly Network
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About Butterfly Network: Butterfly Network designs a medical imaging device that reduces the cost of real-time and three-dimensional imaging and treatment.
Rhodemann Li
Founder, EVP Strategy & Finance of Vesselon
Mr. Li is the founder of Vesselon and is a serial medical device entrepreneur and brings more than thirty years of experience in finance, business development, strategy, patents and regulatory submissions. Prior to founding Vesselon in 2012, Mr. Li worked in private equity evaluating investment opportunities. Mr. Li co-founded an orthopedic implant company, Li Medical Technologies, which developed and sold sports medicine surgery and spinal implants. Li Medical was venture capital funded and ultimately acquired by ConMed Corporation. Mr. Li has five issued patents for medical devices. Mr. Li also worked for FMR Group, an investment vehicle for healthcare investors, and Golden Pond Healthcare, a special purpose acquisition corporation formed to assume a healthcare company, where he sourced investment opportunities. Prior to his healthcare experience, Mr. Li was a Vice President in Corporate Finance at UBS Securities and a Vice President in Corporate Lending at Manufacturers Hanover. Mr. Li holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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About Accelerator for Biosciences in Connect, Vesselon: Vesselon is a medical device company developing novel therapeutic Immuno-Oncology complexes.
Marco Taglietti
Executive Vice President of Forest Laboratories
Dr. Taglietti is Executive Vice President, Drug Development and Research, and Chief Medical Officer of Forest Laboratories, Inc. He continues to be President of the Forest Research Institute. He previously served as Senior Vice President—Research and Development of the Company and President, Forest Research Institute, Inc. from December 2010 to December 2013. Prior thereto, Dr. Taglietti served as Vice President—Research and Development from December 2008 to December 2010. Dr. Taglietti joined Forest in August 2007 as Executive Vice President—Research and Development and Chief Medical Officer of Forest Research Institute, Inc. Prior to joining Forest, Dr. Taglietti was Senior Vice President and Head of Global Research and Development at Stiefel Laboratories for three years. Prior to that, Dr. Taglietti was at Schering-Plough Corporation for twelve years in positions of increasing responsibility including Vice President—Worldwide Clinical Research for Anti-Infectives, Oncology, CNS, Endocrinology and Dermatology. Dr. Taglietti received his medical degree and board certifications from the University of Pavia in Italy.
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About Forest Laboratories, SCYNEXIS: Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) is a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company with a long track record of building partnerships.
Sanjay Virmani
Executive Vice President of Indegene Lifesystems
Sanjay Virmani is the CEO at Exeevo Inc.
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About Exeevo, Indegene Lifesystems: Indegene helps global healthcare organizations address complex challenges by seamlessly integrating Analytics, Technology.
Sameer Lal
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Indegene Lifesystems
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About Indegene Lifesystems: Indegene helps global healthcare organizations address complex challenges by seamlessly integrating Analytics, Technology.
Anna Fagin
Vice President & Principal of Town Hall Ventures
Anna Fagin serves as the Vice President and Principal at Town Hall Ventures.
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About Town Hall Ventures: Town Hall Ventures is an investment firm aimed at transforming the woefully broken U.S. health care market through technology.
Hal Pyke
Vice President of PetVet Care Centers
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About PetVet Care Centers, United States Taekwondo Association: PetVet Care Centers is an operator of specialty and general practice animal hospitals in the United States.
William Friedman
Vice President of Health Plan Partnerships of Carrot Fertility
Prior to joining Zipari, Bill held senior positions in the Health Payer space for many years. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer for Health Republic Insurance of New York. At the largest CO-OP Health Insurance Carrier in the nation, Bill led sales operations, broker relations, strategic sales planning and marketing. He designed, developed and implemented the sales methodology leading to the company’s growth from Start-Up to a Billion dollar revenue stream. Prior to joining Health Republic Bill was Senior Vice President of Sales at Easy Choice Health Plan of New York where he was instrumental in the launch of the company’s Medicare Advantage products. Bill also spent 8 years at Atlantis Health Plan as SVP of Sales. Atlantis was a Commercial Provider owned HMO focused on the Individual and Group Market. Bill has a deep understanding of customer engagement and retention strategies in the health payer world and has intimate knowledge of the challenges faced by the industry in the post PPACA healthcare landscape.
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About Carrot Fertility: Carrot Fertility helps employers offer their workers fertility benefits that are flexible, transparent, and cost-conscious.
Tim Tompkins
Vice President & Deputy Chief Information Security Officer of CVSHealth
Vice President & Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at CVS Health.
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About CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
Vaibhav Narayan
Vice President, Digital Health Innovation of Johnson & Johnson
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About Johnson & Johnson: Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field.
Ravi Parameswar
Vice President, Head of Global Strategic Insights & Analytics of Johnson & Johnson
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About Johnson & Johnson: Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field.
Amy Foley
Vice President, Product Innovation & Delivery of Johnson & Johnson
As Vice President of Product Innovation & Delivery, Amy Foley leads the Johnson & Johnson portfolio of health and wellness capabilities, including new product and service innovation, creation, implementation, operations, customer service and compliance and quality.
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About Johnson & Johnson: Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field.
Sal Borea
VP of Sales of VoyagerMed
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About VoyagerMed: A medical tourism marketplace faciliating access to life changing medical innovations from trusted doctors around the world.
Ismail Kola
Executive Vice President & President UCB NewMedicines of UCB
Dr. Kola has served as our Director since October 18, 2010. Dr. Kola currently serves as Executive Vice President of UCB S.A. in Belgium, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative medicines focused on the fields of central nervous system and immunology disorders, and also serves as President of UCB New Medicines, UCB’s discovery research through proof-of-concept organization, since November 2009. Since March 2007, Dr. Kola was Senior Vice President, Discovery Research and Early Clinical Research & Experimental Medicine, and Chief Scientific Officer at Schering-Plough Corporation. Previously, Dr. Kola held senior positions commencing in 2003 at Merck & Company, where he was Senior Vice President and Site Head, Basic Research, and responsible for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, infectious diseases, immunology and rheumatology, animal pharmacology and basic and medicinal chemistry. Prior to that, Dr. Kola was Vice President, Research, and Global Head, Genomics Science and Biotechnology, with Pharmacia Corporation, and served as consultant to SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, where he was also a member of the Genomics Advisory Board. During his tenure of proven leadership at several major pharmaceutical companies, Dr. Kola has overseen the successful development of numerous innovative new medicines, including products in the fields of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and central nervous system disorders.
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About UCB: UCB Pharma is a biopharmaceutical and specialty chemical company.
John DeYoung
Vice President of Worldwide Business Development of Pfizer
John DeYoung is Vice President of Worldwide Business Development for Pfizer Oncology. He is a member of the Oncology Leadership Team and the Worldwide Business Development Leadership Team. John joined Pfizer in 1991 and has held leadership positions in Finance, Marketing, Commercial Development and Business Development. He received a bachelor’s degree in business from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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About Pfizer: Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services.
Morten Sogaard
Vice President and Head, Target Sciences of Pfizer
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About Pfizer: Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services.
Barbara Dalton
Senior Managing Partner, Pfizer Ventures; VP, Worldwide Business Development of Pfizer
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About Pfizer: Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services.
Sonal Bhatia
Vice President, North America Medical Lead of Pfizer
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About Pfizer: Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services.
Juliana Anderson
Vice President of Tailwind Capital
Juliana Anderson currently works as the Vice President for Tailwind Capital. She previously worked at CapitalSource Bank as the Senior Analyst.
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About Tailwind Capital: Tailwind focuses on growing middle market companies in the healthcare, business services, and media/communications sectors.
Bryan Perler
SVP & CFO of Sapphire Digital
Bryan has deep experience leading technology companies through fast-paced and high growth environments. As Chief Financial & Administrative Officer, Bryan is responsible for leading and guiding the organizations’ financial growth and ensuring the integrity of the data across the organization; overseeing finance, data engineering, analytics, quality, IT and facilities. Before Sapphire Digital, Bryan was the CFO and Head of Strategy at Benchmark Solutions where he oversaw all strategic, financial and legal activities for the company. He also worked at Tradeweb Markets in a variety of escalating accounting, finance and business development roles, most recently as Director of U.S. Strategy and Business Development. Bryan graduated from Lehigh University with a BS in Accounting.
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About Sapphire Digital, Sapphire Digital: Sapphire Digital is a full omnichannel digital engagement and shopping platform for consumers, employers.
David Pontius
Vice President of WindRose Health Investors
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About WindRose Health Investors: WindRose Health Investors makes private equity investments in businesses that operate within the services sectors of healthcare.
Vadim Axelrod
VP of Integration and Security of Lark
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About Lark: Lark is a digital health startup that provides virtual care through AI coaching, smart devices, and tele-monitoring.
Bay Gross
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer & VP Strategy of Cityblock Health
cofounder Cityblock
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About Cityblock Health: Cityblock Health is a tech-driven healthcare provider for those in underserved communities.
Serge Enokian
Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Capsugel
Mr. Enokian is Capsugel’s Senior Vice President of Global Sales. He joined the Company in March 1986 and has served in a number of sales management and marketing positions with increasing responsibly, including Area Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Director Marketing and the Director of Sales and Marketing for the Americas Region. Prior to joining Capsugel, Mr. Enokian worked for Eli Lilly’s Brazil affiliate, serving as Group Product Manager and National Sales Manager in their Agricultural Products Division. Mr. Enokian holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and an M.B.A. from Louvain University in Belgium.
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About Capsugel: Capsugel is a global leader in delivering high-quality, innovative dosage forms and solutions to healthcare companies around the world.
Josue Munoz
Vice President Global Customer Service, Logistics & Supply Chain Systems of Colgate Palmolive
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About Colgate Palmolive: Colgate-Palmolive is a consumer products company that produces, distributes, and provides household, healthcare, and personal products.
Neal Meropol
Vice President, Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs of Flatiron Health
Neal J. Meropol is a medical oncologist, clinical investigator and health outcomes researcher who serves as vice president of research oncology at Flatiron Health. In this role, he leads efforts to leverage Flatiron’s technology platforms and nationwide provider network to gain insights from real-world data that accelerate research and improve quality of care for cancer patients. Prior to joining Flatiron, Neal was professor and chief of the division of hematology and oncology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, and associate director for clinical research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Neal has a national reputation for his research contributions in gastrointestinal malignancies and health services research, including evaluation of new agents, predictors of response and outcome, development of tools to overcome barriers to clinical trial participation, and assessment of the economic impact of care. He currently serves as chair emeritus of the National Cancer Institute Gastrointestinal Cancer Steering Committee, which oversees the development of clinical trials in the publicly-funded clinical trials system. Neal recently completed a four-year term as an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Board of Directors. He has authored more than 250 manuscripts, book chapters, and editorials related to cancer prevention, treatment, decision making, and health economics. Neal received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Princeton University and MD from Vanderbilt University. He was a resident in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and completed hematology and medical oncology fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent a sabbatical at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Flatiron Health: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Marta Bralic
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Flatiron Health
Marta Bralic Kerns is the Founder & CEO at Pomelo Care. She attended Harvard University.
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About Flatiron Health, Pomelo Care: Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology company that aims to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient.
Julie Zuckerman
Vice President of Clinical Operations & Physician Assistant of Schweiger Dermatology
Julie Zuckerman, RPA-C is a licensed Physician Assistant at Schweiger Dermatology. She is members of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, the Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants, the New York Society of Dermatology PA’s, and the American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants. She received her Physician Assistant degree, with a surgical specialization and focus in dermatology, from Weill Cornell Medical College. She graduated as a member of the Pi Alpha Honor Society. Julie then completed her Physician Assistant training at several Manhattan hospitals including the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Psychology and a Pre-Medical focus.
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About Schweiger Dermatology: Schweiger Dermatology is a full service cosmetic & general dermatology.
Yin Becker
Vice President, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of Stryker
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About Stryker, Stryker: Stryker is a medical technology company that offers products and services in orthopaedics.
Elizabeth A. Staub
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance of Stryker
Elizabeth A. Staub was named Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance, in April 2006. Ms. Staub is responsible for overseeing Stryker’s compliance with worldwide product quality and regulatory requirements, including FDA and other regulatory bodies. Ms. Staub began her career with Stryker in April 1989 and held a number of quality, regulatory and operational positions within the Company’s Orthopaedics division, including Manager, Quality Assurance; Team Leader for the packaging cell; Manufacturing Team Leader for the external support cell; Director of the Knee Steering Team; Vice President, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Compliance and Clinical Research; and Director of the Business Process Excellence Project. She then served as Director, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance, for the Company from 2005 to 2006. Prior to joining Stryker, Ms. Staub spent six years with Baxter Healthcare in a variety of quality assurance positions. Ms. Staub holds a B.S. in Medical Technology from York College of Pennsylvania.
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About Stryker: Stryker is a medical technology company that offers products and services in orthopaedics.
Kai Kuo
VP, Operational Excellence of Included Health
Co-Founder of UNIcre8.
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About Included Health: Included Health is a concierge healthcare platform focused on raising care equality for your LGBTQ+ employees.
Paul Costello
SVP Business Development, US of Huma Therapeutics
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Faisal Mushtaq
SVP & GM, Clinical Networks of Change Healthcare
With over 25 years of healthcare experience, Faisal’s focus as CEO is to ensure that the company delivers on its passion – helping employers, payers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and consumers improve drug pricing transparency across the prescription drug ecosystem. Prior to Truveris, Faisal held leadership positions at Allscripts Healthcare Solutions where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Payer and Life Sciences Business Unit. Before Allscripts, he was Chief Product and Development Officer at Neoforma, Chief Product Officer at Biz360 and Chief Operating Officer at CresSoft. Faisal completed postgraduate studies at Harvard Business School and earned a BS in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Change Healthcare: Change Healthcare is a healthcare technology company that focuses on accelerating the transformation of the healthcare system.
Susan Sender
Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President of Kindred Healthcare
Susan Sender, RN, BSN, CHCE, is Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Services for Kindred at Home. Ms. Sender joined the company in July 2013 bringing to Kindred nearly three decades of experience. She spent the last five years with Loving Care Agency, a regional provider of home health services in New Jersey, as Chief Clinical Officer and Vice President of Pediatric Operations where she directed increased diversity in payer sources and drove standardization in clinical and business process through quality improvement and policy development. Prior to that, Ms. Sender was Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive with Gentiva, the largest U.S. provider of comprehensive home health services, a position she held for nearly a decade. She also worked for Olsten Health Services, a home healthcare company based in Westbury, NY, where she served as the Corporate Director of Clinical Practice. Ms. Sender has a BSN from Adelphi University in Garden City, NY, and has published articles on a variety of topics, including home care policy, pain management, reducing rehospitalizations, outcomes tracking, and compliance.
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About Kindred Healthcare: Kindred Healthcare is a provider of care in settings from hospitals to even your own home.
Chris Neuner
SVP and GM of Digital Health Solutions of PulsePoint
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About PulsePoint, PulsePoint, PulsePoint: PulsePoint is a technology company using data to accelerate healthcare marketing.
Christopher Seaton
Senior Vice President, Negotiations of Bayer HealthCare
Chris is responsible for major transactions in Bayer HealthCare, including licensing, product acquisition, divestitures and out-licensing. Mr. Seaton is based in the United States with direct reports in the USA and Germany. Mr. Seaton earned both his Masters of Business Administration and his undergraduate degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Seaton has had experience in multiple countries and businesses. Immediately prior to his current role he was responsible for Business Development and Licensing for Bayer HealthCare (a predecessor of Bayer Schering Pharmaceuticals AG) and prior to that, for Business Planning and Administration for Bayer HealthCare in North America, a function which covered Finance, Information Systems, Strategic Planning and North American Licensing.
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About Bayer HealthCare: Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials.
Shane Pittson
VP of Growth of quip
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About quip: quip designs and delivers oral care products, advice, and services.
Roxanne Lagano
Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Zoetis India Ltd
Roxanne Lagano was appointed executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Zoetis in November 2012. In this role, she is responsible for the company’s worldwide human resources management. Prior to joining Zoetis, Ms. Lagano was senior vice president, Global Compensation, Benefits and Wellness for Pfizer. In that role, Ms. Lagano was responsible for the design and implementation of Pfizer’s compensation and employee benefit programs around the globe. She was also responsible for Pfizer’s wellness strategies, including the Healthy Pfizer program, and for the human resources aspects of the company’s merger, acquisition and divestiture activities. Ms. Lagano joined Pfizer in 1997 as manager, Tax Planning after specializing in employee benefits, executive compensation and mergers and acquisitions at Schulte, Roth and Zabel, LLP, a New York law firm. After joining Pfizer’s legal division in 1999, Ms. Lagano joined Pfizer’s Human Resources organization in 2000. During her time in HR for Pfizer, Ms. Lagano held various positions of increasing responsibility, including senior director of business transactions (HR) and senior director, employee benefits. Ms. Lagano holds a Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University.
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About Zoetis India Ltd: Zoetis provides healthcare services for animal.
Paul Herendeen
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Zoetis India Ltd
Paul Herendeen is executive vice president and chief financial officer (EVP and CFO) of Zoetis. In his role, Herendeen oversees the company’s Finance and Information Technology organizations and serves as part of the Zoetis Executive Team, reporting to CEO Juan Ramón Alaix. Herendeen brings more than 30 years of broad financial experience and leadership to his role at Zoetis, including 16 years as CFO of Warner Chilcott and MedPointe. From 2005 to 2013, Herendeen served as CFO at Warner Chilcott, a specialty pharmaceuticals company, which had a successful IPO in 2006, grew its revenue and profitability, and was acquired by Actavis in 2013. He joined Warner Chilcott after four years as EVP and CFO of MedPointe, a privately held health care company. He had been Warner Chilcott’s CFO from 1998 until 2000, joining the company after representing one of its lead investors on Warner Chilcott’s Board of Directors. Herendeen helped grow the company’s revenues and conduct its first successful IPO, and later helped complete the company’s acquisition by Galen PLC. From 1989 to 1998, Herendeen spent nine years as a principal investor at both Dominion Income Management and Cornerstone Partners, where he worked on investments as well as mergers and acquisitions for the firms and their portfolio companies. He also spent the early part of his career in banking and public accounting, having held various positions with the investment banking group of Oppenheimer & Company, the capital markets group of Continental Bank Corporation, and as a senior auditor with Arthur Andersen & Company. Herendeen earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Boston College.
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About Bausch Health, Zoetis India Ltd: Zoetis provides healthcare services for animal.
David Israel
VP of Strategy and Operations of TytoCare
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About TytoCare: TytoCare is a telehealth platform for AI-powered and on-demand remote medical examinations.
Abhi Sharma
VP Product of Loyal
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About Loyal: AI-driven digital patient experience platform.
Sameer Khanna
SVP of Engineering of Pager
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About Pager: Virtual care technology platform that provides communication, collaboration, navigation, and care coordination solutions.
Thomas Brown
CIO and Executive Vice President, Enterprise Services and Operations of Nuance Communications
Thomas “T” Brown is the senior vice president of Services and Operations within Nuance’s Enterprise Division, supporting customer self-service solutions that are used by leading organizations around the world to automate and optimize the customer care experience across all channels including phone, web, and mobile. In this role, Mr. Brown is responsible for leading the divisions’ global services organization, including the day-to-day operations and global strategy for Enterprise Professional Services, Network Services, Global Hosting and Infrastructure, and On-Demand teams and businesses. Prior to joining Nuance, Mr. Brown spent more than a decade in senior technical and management positions with Hughes Aircraft Company, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Laboratories. Mr. Brown holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Penn State University and a MS degree in Computer Science from UCLA.
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About : Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life.
Robert Roose
SVP & Chief Procurement Officer of Option Care Health
Robert Roose is a SVP & Chief Procurement Officer at BioScrip.
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About Option Care Health: Option Care Health is a provider of comprehensive, cost-effective pharmaceutical and home care solutions.
Owein Reese
VP of Engineering of Arena Analytics
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About Arena Analytics: Arena Analytics applies predictive analytics and machine learning to talent acquisition challenges.
Carly Stockdale
VP Commercial Operations of Prelude Fertility
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About Prelude Fertility: Prelude Fertility is a network of top-tier fertility clinics offering comprehensive fertility care.
Alex Saltzman
VP Business Development of Prelude Fertility
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About Prelude Fertility: Prelude Fertility is a network of top-tier fertility clinics offering comprehensive fertility care.
Sumita Yadav
Vice President Cardiovascular and Orthopedics Servicelines of Catholic Health Services
Sumita is a physician + healthcare executive who is focused on improving healthcare delivery by shaping policies and decisions that are both pro-clinicians and pro-patients. She is a leader who believes in learning and adapting from other industries to find the most innovative approaches.
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About Catholic Health Services: Catholic Health Services of Long Island (CHS) is an integrated health care delivery system.
Marc Lombardo
VP Business Development of Nomad Health
Marc Lombardo is the Vice President of Business Development at Nomad Health.
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About Nomad Health: Nomad Health is an online marketplace for healthcare jobs.
Jay Anderson
Senior Vice President of Global Brand Technologies of Estee Lauder Companies
Jay Anderson is the Senior Vice President, Global Brand Technologies at The Estée Lauder Companies, one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company’s products are sold in 150 countries and territories under brand names including Estee Lauder, MAC, Clinique, Tom Ford, La Mer, Aveda, Jo Malone London and Too Faced. Jay drives brand growth by overseeing the creation of innovative technology solutions that enhance luxury consumer experiences, engagement and personalization. He also leads the IT strategic vision, portfolio execution, and corporate technology innovation. Previously, Jay served as the company’s interim CIO, global head of applications and analytics, and head of value chain technology and tech innovation. Jay grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated Cum Laude from Harvard College. He also received a joint MBA and Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Michigan.
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About Estee Lauder Companies: Estee Lauder Companies is a manufacturer and marketer of skincare products, makeup, perfumes, and hair care products.
Karen Totland
Vice President, Global Procurement, Global Facilities & Corporate Sustainability of FMC Corporation
Karen M. Totland, Ph.D. serves as Vice President, Global Procurement, Global Procurement and Corp Sustainability for FMC Corporation Karen joined FMC in November of 2010, from Firmenich, a leading Fragrance and Flavor company based in Switzerland where she spent 14 years, most recently as Vice President, Global Purchasing. Here she obtained experience leading purchasing and strategic sourcing at a global level. Karen has a proven track record building new organizations, achieving bottom-line results and developing talent. A trained chemist, Karen has a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa and has conducted post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the course of her career Karen has lived in Europe, the Middle East and North America. She grew up in Canada and has Canadian and French citizenship. Karen currently resides in Philadelphia PA.
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About FMC Corporation: FMC Corporation is an US-based chemical manufacturing company producing solutions for the agricultural, textile, and healthcare industries.
Lynn Crowe
Senior Vice President, Member Advocacy of Livongo
With over 20 years as a healthcare professional focused in diabetes, Lynn has successfully led programs to reduce barriers to proper care for people with diabetes. Starting her career with the American Diabetes Association, Lynn developed programs that were adopted as national prototypes, some of which are still in place today. Upon obtaining her Masters degree in counseling, Lynn joined Sanofi’s diabetes division where she honed her insights into the person with diabetes. She led programs with proven success addressing the psychological challenges of the diseases. Lynn has been recognized as an innovator in the diabetes space receiving numerous awards. In 2011, she co-authored and published “The Diabetes Manifesto: Take Control of Your Life”, a book that has been well received by the community. Upon joining Livongo in 2013, she has helped build Livongo’s client experience and now primarily focuses on member advocacy, ensuring the “Member First” philosophy is incorporated in all we do. Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Master of Science in Counseling from the University of Scranton.
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About Livongo: Livongo provides a data science and technology enabled platform for detection of diabetes.
Seth Terbeek
Vice President of Customer Experience of DrFirst
Seth Terbeek currently serves as vice president of business development for DrFirst. In the past, Mr. Terbeek has held positions at DrFirst ranging from vice president of operations, where he had direct responsibility for customer integration, implementation, and support, to Tier 1 support to director of integration services, giving him a broad range of experiences that have allowed him to contribute much throughout his tenure with the company. Mr. Terbeek has a passion for excellent customer service, strongly believes in coaching future leaders from within, and was the driving force behind the design and implementation of an internal corporate culture training program. Mr. Terbeek first joined DrFirst after receiving his B.T. in Web Development from SUNY Canton in Northern NY.
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About DrFirst: DrFirst provides software solutions for physicians and healthcare providers ranging from HIPAA secure messaging, e-prescribing, and EHR.
Nataraj Dasgupta
VP, Advanced Analytics of RxDataScience
Nataraj is the Vice President of Advanced Analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Prior to his current role, he led the Data Science division at Purdue Pharma, L.P. and was responsible for the design, development and architecture of Purdue’s award-winning Big Data and Machine Learning Platform. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years and has worked in the technology divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank and Purdue Pharma. At UBS, Nataraj held the role of Associate Director working with High Frequency & Algorithmic Trading technologies used by investment banks and hedge funds on Wall St and other financial centers across the world. The finance industry has been implementing “Big Data” systems for many decades and has had a mature set of tools that has permitted traders and quants to analyse large volumes of trading-related data in the order of milliseconds. Despite Pharma’s ubiquitous reliance on more traditional enterprise systems, Nataraj and the Systems Development & Analytics group led by Sayee Natarajan, chose to instead leverage technologies that were exclusively used in the financial domain and never before in a healthcare setting to analyse terabyte-scale medical and pharmaceutical datasets. The effort led to a radically simple platform built using trading specific tools which were less expensive than conventional “Big Data” platforms, yet orders of magnitude faster in data processing capabilities facilitating tasks to complete in seconds compared to days in the existing and more popular Pharma enterprise systems. The platform received a wide recognition as one of the most advanced big data solutions for healthcare and led to several awards, including the recognition of Purdue Pharma as one of the top 25 most innovative technological divisions in the US by Information Week. In 2016, investors from Wall Street and the City of London provided funding for a new startup, RxDataScience Inc. responsible of introducing the capabilities of this unique architecture to the broader healthcare industry.
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About RxDataScience: RxDataScience is a unique data science software solutions for pharmaceutical & healthcare companies
Teresa Fletcher
VP of Business Development of GenomOncology
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About GenomOncology: GenomOncology enables precision medicine by translating next generation sequencing data into actionable information.
Greg Hocking
VP, Strategy & Marketing, RxCrossroads by McKesson of McKesson
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Ariella Willoughby
VP of Operations of Tia
Ariella Willoughby is the VP of Operations at Tia. She runs the day-to-day clinic operations at Tia and oversees hiring, people operations, and training. She is a forward-thinking operations integrator with experience building and scaling organizations and teams in the hospitality, fitness, education, and lifestyle industries. Ariella thrives in a start-up environment, loves a good operations challenge, and is passionate about developing collaborative and dynamic teams! Ariella was raised by a doctor and an alternative healer and has always applied an integrative approach towards her own care. Through her experience having children, she became increasingly disillusioned with the maternal healthcare system and felt inspired to join Tia and be part of a movement to support and educate women through a new and distinctly female model of care.
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About Tia: At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind.
Patricia Christian
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs of C. R. Bard
Patricia G. Christian joined C. R. Bard, Inc. in December 2008 as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs. She became Vice President, Quality Assurance in February 2011 and was promoted to Vice President, Quality, Regulatory and Medical Affairs in January 2014. She returned to the role of Vice President, Regulatory Affairs in July, 2016. Patty came to Bard from Johnson & Johnson, which she joined in 1997 as Manager, Regulatory Affairs before a promotion to Director, Regulatory Affairs for Independence Technology in 1999. In 2001, she became Director, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs for Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, and was promoted to Senior Director in 2003. Most recently, Patty served as Vice President, Worldwide Regulatory Affairs for LifeScan, Inc.
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About C. R. Bard: C. R. Bard is a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of medical technologies.
Todd Garner
Vice President – Investor Relations of C. R. Bard
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About C. R. Bard: C. R. Bard is a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of medical technologies.
Nicola Kayel
Vice President & GI Marketing of Salix Pharmaceuticals
Nicola Kayel is a Vice President & GI Marketing at Salix Pharmaceuticals.
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About Salix Pharmaceuticals: Salix Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders.
Thomas Hadley
VP – Head of Marketing of Salix Pharmaceuticals
Thomas Hadley is a VP – Head of Marketing at Salix Pharmaceuticals.
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About Horizon Pharma, Salix Pharmaceuticals, UTILITY therapeutics: Salix Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders.
Frederique Menzaghi
Chief Scientific Officer, Senior VP Research & Development of Cara Therapeutics
Dr. Menzaghi, one of our founders, has served as our Vice President – Research and Development since September 2004 leading our drug discovery programs and clinical operations. Dr. Menzaghi has over 20 years of drug development and management experience in biotechnology in the field of ion channels and GPCRs. Her expertise ranges from early exploratory research through clinical development, She has a successful track record in leading numerous drug discovery programs in the areas of pain, inflammation, obesity, psychiatric, cognitive and neurological disorders and guiding numerous compounds to late Phase 2 clinical trials including one compound approved by FDA in 2013 for the treatment of obesity. She has led or contributed to the filing of numerous INDs and CTAs and has led successful interdisciplinary teams spanning the entire drug development process from the validation of novel receptor targets to novel chemical entity formulated for oral, parenteral or transdermal routes of administration. From 2003-2004, she served as VP Pharmacology and Business Development at Psychogenics Inc., a preclinical central nervous system service provider. From 1099 to 2003, she was the Research Director of In Vivo Pharmacology at Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARNA). Prior to that, Dr. Menzaghi established and directed a preclinical research laboratory at SIBIA Neurosciences. Her research expertise ranged from the development of small molecules to small peptides. She has extensive experience with corporate partnering with large pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, Merck and J&J. Dr. Menzaghi received her Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France and a M.Sc. in clinical psychology from the University of Nancy. She has over 55 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, 100 international meeting presentations and is listed as an inventor on numerous patents.
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About Cara Therapeutics: Cara Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics to treat diseases associated with pain and inflammation.
Joy Schare
Vice President of Operations of MediGain
Joy Schare is a VP of Operations for MediGain. As a registered nurse, Joy has a unique insight into the healthcare field; from the standpoint of both patient care and practice management. Joy has held several leadership nursing positions combining both clinical and business expertise. As the Regional Executive Director/Director of Clinical Operations for a major management company, Joy was instrumental in the development and expansion of their primary care and multi-specialty network. Additionally, Joy was instrumental in developing a successful billing and consulting firm providing services to medical providers throughout the Northeast. Joy holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Long Island University.
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About MediGain: MediGain helps physicians by providing improved back-office processes and enabling more time and resources for patient care.
Sudeep Pisipaty
Vice President of Strategy – Value Based Care of Health Recovery Solutions
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About Health Recovery Solutions: Health Recovery Solutions develops a cloud-based warning system to help users reduce readmissions for hospitals and ACOs.
Eddie Bernard
Vice President for Research of Survival Capsule LLC
Dr. Eddie Bernard is a subject matter expert and consultant on issues dealing with tsunami warning systems, tsunami mitigation and education programs, and tsunami research. Dr. Bernard is currently an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington and Scientist Emeritus for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). He retired from Director of PMEL in 2010, after 40 years of NOAA service. In recognition of his outstanding service, he received three Presidential Rank Awards from Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama. As a noted oceanographer and expert on tsunamis, Dr. Bernard has published over 85 scientific papers and served as editor for three tsunami books. He has also produced a scientific movie on tsunami research and has been featured in over 20 television specials on tsunamis, including programs on The History Channel, The Learning Channel, National Geographic, and interviews on national television news programs.
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About Survival Capsule LLC, University of Washington: Survival Capsule is an intellectual property company that develops survival solutions for natural disasters.
Scott Hill
Vice President of Survival Capsule LLC
Scott began his career with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University followed by work in aerospace with the Boeing Company (Everett, WA). more >> From his work on the 747, 757, 767, and 777 Boeing aircraft models, he has earned significant expertise and experience in design and stress analysis. Scott has also worked as a high-pressure design engineer for environmental control systems and has become highly proficient with installation/assembly/detail product structure development, 3D modeling programs, drafting, and Aerospace design requirements.
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About Survival Capsule LLC: Survival Capsule is an intellectual property company that develops survival solutions for natural disasters.
