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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Fitness space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
James Park
CEO and Co-Founder of Fitbit
James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing company acquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Laurence Girard
CEO & Founder of Fruit Street
Laurence Girard is the CEO and Founder of Fruit Street which is the first company to deliver the CDCs National Diabetes Prevention Program via telehealth and live video conferencing with registered dietitians. The company had raised more than $20 million in funding from approximately 300 physician investors. Laurence graduated from the Harvard Extension School with a Bachelor’s Degree. His passion for entrepreneurship started during his first year of college when the Harvard Innovation Lab was opened in the Harvard Business School campus. While in college, Laurence was volunteering in an emergency room while taking a nutrition epidemiology course. It was at this point he decided our healthcare system needed to focus more on prevention and that he decided to focus his career in public health, technology, and entrepreneurship. Laurence is also the Managing Director of Hippocrates Ventures, a physician funded VC fund. His company Fruit Street recently launched COVIDMD.com, a new national telemedicine service battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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About Fruit Street, Hippocrates Ventures, New Amsterdam Football Club: Fruit Street is a developer of a digital diabetes prevention and weight loss program.
Saeju Jeong
CEO & Co-Founder of Noom
A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Saeju has always an intense desire to help people. He sits on South Korea’s Ministry of Science & Technology’s steering committee and the board of Chonnam Hospital, South Korea’s largest private hospital.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Jessica Richman
Co Founder & CEO of uBiome
Jessica Richman is the co-founder and CEO of uBiome, a startup that uses big data and citizen science to understand the human microbiome. Jessica started and sold her first company after high school. Returning to formal education, she attended Stanford University, where she earned degrees in Economics and Science, Technology & Society (interdisciplinary engineering, emphasis in computer science). Along the way, she worked for Google, McKinsey, Lehman Brothers, the Grameen Bank, and top-tier Silicon Valley venture firms as well as other entrepreneurial projects and adventures. Her work has been published in The New York Times and other national publications. Jessica arrived at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar and completed an MSc at the Oxford Internet Institute. Currently a Green Templeton DPhil Scholar, her academic interests include network analytics, innovation, and collective intelligence. Her work has been featured in Wired, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, NPR, FoxNews, ABC News, and dozens of other media outlets. She has spoken at TEDMED, TEDxBrussels, Partnering for Cures, the American Society for Microbiology, HealthFoo, SciFoo, Oxford University, the University of California San Francisco, and many other conferences and venues.
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About uBiome: uBiome is a provider of public access to DNA sequencing technology to understand the microbiome.
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.
Alex Rodriguez
CIO, Founder & CEO of A-Rod Corp
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez is an American professional baseball infielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers. During his 20-year career, Rodriguez has amassed a .299 batting average, 677 home runs, 2,027 runs batted in (RBIs), and over 3,000 hits. He is a 14-time All-Star and has won three American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten Silver Slugger Awards, and two Gold Glove Awards.
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About A-Rod Corp, BRX Holdings, Fitplan, JLo Beauty, Slam Corp: A-Rod Corp identifies, originates and manages investments across a broad array of industries.
Ric S Kolluri
Co-founder & CEO of Bitcare
Hyper focused on transforming healthcare through technology and innovation. Developing a unified personalized care model for connected health consumers and patients.
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About Bitcare: Unified Personalized Healthcare for the connected health consumers & patients.
Jeff Wells
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Marathon Health
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About Marathon Health: Marathon Health offers a proven solution for helping employers reduce the total cost of healthcare
Alexia Brue
Co-founder & CEO of Wellgood
Alexia Brue is co-founder and CEO of pioneering wellness media company Well+Good. She guides the company’s strategic direction and leads the revenue and business development functions.
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About Leaf Group, Wellgood: Wellgood is an organization that writes articles about exercise and healthy living.
Avrum Elmakis
Founder and CEO of CLMBR
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About CLMBR, TDBBS: CLMBR offers a vertical climbing machine, featuring a large-format touch display with on-demand classes.
Allen Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of Fitbod
Allen is the Co-founder & CEO of Fitbod.
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
Ian Lopatin
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiritual Gangster
Ian Lopatin is a Co-Founder of Spiritual Gangster Holdings, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Spiritual Gangster: Spiritual Gangster is yoga-inspired clothing for high vibration living.
Jon Mayfield
CEO and VP, Product R&D of Zwift
Zwift Co-Founder and Vice President of Product at Zwift. He is a games industry veteran, having worked at Applied Minds and High Impact Games before his hobby project of Zwift turned pro.
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About Zwift: Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
Jeffrey Morin
Co-Founder and CEO of Liteboxer
Jeffrey Morin is the founder and CEO of Liteboxer.
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About Liteboxer: Liteboxer is a provider of a digital fitness platform used to provide an engaging full-body boxing workout.
Kevin Wall
Founder and CEO of PTK Capital
Kevin Wall is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first person to receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.
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About Control Room, Craton Equity Partners, Dreamscape Immersive, Live Earth, PTK Capital, Sustainable Holdings: PTK Capital invests in businesses that benefit the human condition in the areas of Entertainment, Wellness and their intersection.
Ron Schneidermann
CEO of AllTrails
Ron Schneidermann is the Founder and CEO of AllTrails.
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About AllTrails: AllTrails is a community of 10 million hikers, campers and mountain bikers who share a passion about the outdoors.
Ranj Bath
CEO of Nurosene Health
Ranj is the CEO of Nurosene, a technology-driven wellness company committed to building a generation of healthier brains, publicly traded on the CSE (CNSX: MEND). With over 20 years at the forefront of building brands across technology, entertainment and finance, Ranj is an inspirational leader that has held various senior leadership roles at companies such as Intel and Beats (Apple). As VP Corporate Strategy at Beats Music Ranj was instrumental in driving strategy and partnerships that would lead to both subscriptions and revenue, working with the Beats brand all the way through a $3Bn acquisition by Apple.
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About Nurosene Health: Nurosene Health is a technology-driven wellness company that helps healthy habits improve their brain, mind, and body.
Moawia Eldeeb
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tempo
Moawia Eldeeb is the co-founder and CEO of Tempo.
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About Tempo: Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Farbood Nivi
CEO & Co-Founder of Orchestra One
After teaching for a decade, Farb founded Grockit in December of 2006 with the goal of helping learners connect to teach each other. He grew up in both Canada and The United States and is a graduate of The University of Michigan. In the past, he founded Vision Computer Solutions in Northville Michigan and WAPonimizer, the first privacy service for cell phones. He has been a winner in the MIT Sloan Business School 1K Entrepreneurship competition and has been The Princeton Review’s National Teacher of the Year.
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About Coinmine, Learnist, Orchestra One, Socratic Labs: Orchestra One is a free web-based scheduling, payments and communications system for private practices.
Chris Milk
Co-Founder, CEO and COO of Supernatural
Chris Milk is the Co-Founder, CEO, and COO of Supernatural. He is an artist, director, and technologist.He is the founder and CEO of [Vrse](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vrse#/entity). Milk has gained recognition as a music video director, working with Arcade Fire, U2, Kanye West, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, John Mellencamp, Courtney Love, and Modest Mouse. He has been honored with the top industry awards for his music video and commercial work, including the Grand Prix Cannes Lion, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW’s ’Best of Show’, as well as multiple Grammy nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK’s MVA Innovation Award. Milk’s short film, Last Day Dream, played at film festivals around the world, and he directed the second unit of A Mother’s Promise, the film that introduced Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards recognized his work in design and art in 2011. The Wilderness Downtown was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 30 Best Music Videos of all time, and was exhibited at MoMA in NY for 6 months in 2011. Milk builds multiple projects with Virtual Reality as the canvas. The collaboration with Beck called “Sound & Vision” has been exhibited in an Oculus Rift at the Future of Storytelling Summit, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festival. Chris Milk was born in New York.
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About Here Be Dragons, Supernatural, Within (VR/AR): Supernatural is an immersive, virtual reality fitness experience that combines music, coaches, destinations, and movements.
Gregory Stewart
CEO of Ladder
Gregory Stewart is the CEO at Ladder.
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About Ladder: Ladder is a strength training app that provides a workout plan, every single day.
Will Ahmed
Founder & CEO of WHOOP
Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, which has developed next generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance and health. WHOOP members range from professional athletes and fortune 500 CEOs to fitness enthusiasts and executives to military personnel and healthcare workers. Ahmed has raised more than $200 million from top investors and has an active advisory board that consists of some of the world’s most notable cardiologists, technologists, marketers, and designers. Ahmed wrote “The Feedback Tool: Measuring Fitness, Intensity, and Recovery,” which sparked the underlying physiology and engineering for his work today. Ahmed was recently named to the 2021 Sports Business Journal 40 under 40 list as well as 2020 Fortune 40 Under 40 Healthcare list and previously named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40. In 2020, WHOOP was named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company for Wellness. Before founding WHOOP, Ahmed was named a 2011 Harvard College Scholar for finishing in the top 10% of his class and a CSA Scholar Athlete; he captained the Harvard Men’s Varsity Squash Team.
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About WHOOP: WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Boris Lipchin
Founder and CEO of BRIO Systems
Boris Lipchin, co-founder and CEO of Brio Systems, Inc.. Boris was previously a co-founder and CTO of Airmada, Inc. before Airmada four years as a flight software engineer, launch operator and GN&C engineer for SpaceX.
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About Brio, BRIO Systems, Techstars: BRIO Systems offers a complete COVID-19 testing system to help employers keep teams safe and businesses on track.
Jon Carder
Co-founder & CEO of Vessel
Jon Carder is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded five internet businesses, his first at the age of 19. In college Jon founded eHeaven.com, an online e-commerce superstore that was purchased by BabyUniverse in 2002. Jon Carder then founded Client Shop inc. a website dedicated to finding consumers the lowest rates on home loans. ClientShop was San Diego’s fastest growing company in 2005 (San Diego Business Journal) and was sold to Internet Brands in 2006. After a short “retirement” he realized building companies beats is more fulfilling than being retired and started his next venture, MojoPages.com, an online local search engine which received $5M (series A) from Austin Ventures and operates out of La Jolla, CA. Most recently Jon is founder and CEO of Mogl.com – a frictionless online to offline rewards program & Empyr.com – an online to offline ad platform. Mogl/Empyr has raised $35M in funding and has a partnership with Visa, Mastercard and Amex to effortlessly track any purchase from an enrolled consumer at a participating offline merchant in under 1 minute..
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About Vessel: Vessel is an at-home wellness tracker that helps in accessing, understanding, and optimizing health and wellness from the comfort of home.
Trevor Tice
Co-Founder & CEO of CorePower Yoga
An unlikely candidate for owning yoga studios, Trevor opened the first CorePower Yoga in Denver in 2002, and filled a niche in an emerging yoga market. His goal? To create an empowering and health-focused environment where individuals are not bound by conventional ideas about the limits of body and mind. Prior to CorePower Yoga, Trevor owned TechPartners International, a $60 million dollar IT company he sold to a public UK firm in 2001. He received a degree in Business from the University of Colorado, and serves on the Board of Directors for MindBody Online and BridgeView IT. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in the Retail & Consumer Products category in the Rocky Mountain region. In 2011, Trevor Tice and CorePower Yoga received the ACG Emerging Corporate Growth Award, an honor given to companies with annual sales less than $100 million that have demonstrated steady growth for three consecutive years. An avid believer in giving back, Trevor formed CorePower Cares, a nonprofit organization that leverages the generosity of the CPY community to support a myriad of philanthropic causes, most recently supporting the Japan relief effort. Trevor approaches challenges with “yes, we can – go do it”, encouraging all employees to explore new ideas. An avid yoga practitioner and teacher, he visits at least one CPY studio every day, providing positive feedback to instructors and managers.
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About CorePower Yoga: CorePower Yoga is a platform for any individual to learn and practice various styles of yoga.
John Doyle
Co-CEO , President & COO of Castlight Health
John leads the finance, human resources and corporate development teams. John joined Castlight after serving as chief operating officer at Achaogen, a biopharmaceutical company. In that role, John managed business development, finance, information technology, and business strategy. Previously, John was vice president of finance and corporate planning at Genentech, Inc. John received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a member of the 2012 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and serves on the Achoagen board of directors.
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About Castlight Health: Castlight Health provides a healthcare navigation platform with resources for benefits, and vendors.
Khalil Zahar
Co-founder and CEO of FightCamp
Co-Founder @ FightCamp (Hykso), YC alum (W16), M.A.Sc. @ University of Toronto, Djaying whenever I can
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
David J Long
Chief Executive Officer of Orangetheory Fitness
David J Long As CEO for Orangetheory Fitness, Dave leads the company’s franchise model, regional development and product development strategy. After founding the company in 2010 with two partners, Dave has led the brand through countless pivotal achievements, including the launch of two apps, creating a proprietary heart rate monitor with strategically chosen partners and signing celebrity brand ambassadors. In addition, Dave facilitated Orangetheory Fitness‘ exponential growth, and expanded the brand worldwide, with studios now open in several countries.The scientifically backed fitness franchise continues its rapid expansion with no end in sight under Dave’s leadership. Prior to founding Orangetheory Fitness, Dave started out in the wellness industry with Massage Envy. With his business acumen and unwavering perseverance, he helped grow the franchise from 25 to 800 locations. After that much success, most people would likely consider retirement, but Dave wanted a new challenge. He joined European Wax Center as a consultant (and eventually as an area representative and franchisee) and helped build an area representative network at a time when there were only 4 family owned locations. With the area representative network that Dave and his partner helped build, European Wax Center expanded the concept from 4 to over 550 locations in less than 9 years. A health nut since his youth, Dave has tried almost every fitness fad, including submerging himself in ice. He is a walking encyclopedia on nutrition, weight loss and overall wellness, and helps others around the office stick to their fitness goals, inspiring his team to never give up. In addition, Dave regularly appears on TV to reach a larger audience and speak about the fitness industry. Dave is a true visionary in today’s franchise business realm. Dave is also a University of Florida alum and recently achieved a lifelong goal of being named #1 on the Gator100 list of fastest-growing, Gator-owned businesses in the world.
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About Orangetheory Fitness: Orangetheory is a science-based group personal training workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training.
Carl Daikeler
CEO & Co-Founder of Beachbody
CEO/ Co-Founder at Beachbody
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About Beachbody: Beachbody has developed and offering an in-home fitness and weight loss solutions.
Nick Sarnicola
Co-Founder & CEO of ViSalus
Nick Sarnicola is a lifestyle entrepreneur, sales leader, business catalyst, master team builder, and philanthropist with more than two decades of experience in building billion-dollar sales teams and transforming aspiring professionals into multi-millionaire entrepreneurs. In corporate and field roles, Nick has developed wildly successful people, products and companies in various industries—from direct sales and technology, to health and fitness, to international events and non-profits. A self-made decamillionaire by age 35, Nick develops people of all different backgrounds on how to maximum their potential. While leading a 100,000+ person sales force, his innovation of leadership systems and strategies produced high-performing teams in 16 countries, creating more than 50 millionaires. Nick is the Co-Founder & CEO of two global lifestyle brands with platforms that power health transformations and inspire people to turn their “Bucket List” into a “Liv List.” Recognized as a purpose-driven Leaders’ Leader, he has built companies from the ground up by investing in its people, leveraging their skillsets, raising up new leaders, and running his businesses as a lifestyle. Nick is able to market anything out of nothing. He’s an entrepreneurial firestarter with an expertise in launches of new brands, platforms, products, marketplaces and global sales leaders. He also specializes in producing stadium-sized events and curating multi-day epic life experiences. A career highlight was architecting an international sales team to pioneer the new vertical of “Challenge Marketing,” which grew his company’s Body by Vi Challenge into a nearly $2 billion-dollar platform. Nick most recently created a new Life Experience category by building a social platform around turning people’s Bucket Lists into Liv Lists—ensuring they don’t take their list to the grave. A charismatic keynote speaker, Nick educates audiences on business growth topics: sales leadership, the science of goal-setting, result-driven strategies, return on time (ROT) methods, and dynamic team building. He speaks all over the world at conferences and events, in pursuit of his personal mission: to educate, develop, contribute to, and entertain millions of people through entrepreneurship, mentorship, speaking and writing. Through mastermind classes and mentorship programs, he guides the world’s most talented, passionate and successful high achievers to their greatest victories. Committed to supporting social causes, Nick is actively involved in his companies’ give-back initiatives, ViCares and Liv2Giv. He founded NextGen, which educates and supports young aspiring entrepreneurs. In 2017, the Muskegon Community College named one of their buildings the Rooks Sarnicola Center for Entrepreneurial studies in honor of Nick’s contributions to entrepreneurial graduates. Ask Nick what he is most proud of, and he’ll tell you it’s raising his daughter and son to become confident leaders who will positively impact this world.
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About Liv Global, ViSalus: ViSalus is a health promoting company that created the Body by Vi 90-Day Challenge.
Gillian Tee
Co-founder & CEO of Homage
Gillian Tee is a technopreneur who has leveraged on her professional and personal experiences to establish Homage, which seeks to use technology to overcome long-standing gaps in the delivery of holistic healthcare for seniors and families. Under her leadership, the company has built a proprietary engine which connects qualified Homage Care Professionals – including caregivers, nurses, doctors and therapists – to care recipients according to their specific needs, in addition to using real-time data to help their loved ones monitor their health and appointment status remotely. First established in Singapore and now in Malaysia, Homage has set sights on further expanding regionally to help seniors and families – especially people with chronic conditions – by replicating its proprietary technology across markets and working with ecosystem stakeholders to improve accessibility to healthcare for all.
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About CodeUpStart, Homage: Homage is a complete solution that combines technology and the best care professionals to enable seniors to age at home with dignity.
Jitendra Gupta
Co-founder & CEO of myYogaTeacher
Jitendra started his career as a software engineer in the EDA industry. In 2000, after his MBA, Jitendra joined Siebel systems. In 2005 Jitendra joined InQuira as director product management. After InQuira Jitendra started (late 2006) and sold (March, 2009) SezWho, an online reputation service for social media participants. SezWho raised $1.3 M in VC money, built up massive distribution and was sold in early 2009. Jitendra Gupta launched Punchh out of a need to help restaurants find, retain and grow their customer base. Jitendra has led Punchh to be the first and leading one-stop mobile solution for restaurants. Drawing on his knowledge of social media and technology, Jitendra tapped into his network of skilled entrepreneurs and brought together a brain trust of diverse talent to create Punchh. Prior to launching Punchh in 2010, Jitendra held several key product, marketing, and engineering positions at Siebel Systems, Synopsys and Inquira. He founded and sold his first company, SezWho, a widely distributed and used consumer/social media ratings and reputation product in 2007. Jitendra earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Most crave-able restaurant dish on Jitendra’s mind: A good burger and fries
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About myYogaTeacher: myYogaTeacher is a live and interactive yoga platform that offers group and one-on-one yoga classes.
Jake Mor
Founder & CEO of FitnessAI
Jake Mor is the founder and CEO of Fitness AI, an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
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About FitnessAI: Fitness AI is an app that uses AI to generate personalized weight lifting plans.
Terry Anderton
Founder and CEO of WAGZ
Terry Anderton is the founder and CEO of Wagz and a lifelong dog owner. Terry has a long history of building disruptive and forward-thinking technology companies, including Gemr, a social commerce platform; Trunity, a cloud-based textbook company he took public in 2012; and NitroSecurity, a network security developer acquired by Intel in 2011. Terry has also served as a Senior Sales Executive for Cabletron Systems and McAfee. He started his career leading world wide sales and launching the game of Paintball for the inventor of the game.
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About WAGZ: Helping humans stay connected to their dogs through the world’s smartest dog collar.
Leonardo von Prellwitz
CEO and Founder of Eon
Leo has been leading the strategic analysis team within the Smart Grid (IoT/M2M) unit at Cisco since the inception of the business unit three years ago. He has been awarded as one of the top 100 thought leaders in the industry by the leading industry journal in 2012 and is a speaker at conferences worldwide on topics dealing with decentralized energy as well as economics and policy of the electricity industry. Beyond his work in Cisco’s Emerging Technology Group, he has also been actively working as a mentor for start-up funders for the Surge Accelerator, an energy software incubator program based in Houston. Leo is also active in the Online Social Networks (OSN) start-up sphere and is working on projects dealing with the unified social fabric, data mining and semantic analysis. Leo holds a Degree in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) and is a candidate for an MBA at Chicago Booth.
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About Eon: Eon Is a fitness platform that uses robotics, AI and streaming content to provide measurably better exercise in a fraction of the time.
Justin Marston
Founder & CEO of Tribe
Justin Marston is CEO and co-founder at Bamboo App. He served as a CEO and Co-Founder at Hypori, he is responsible for the company’s overall business strategy, operations, and long-term vision. A seasoned entrepreneur and technology innovator, Justin previously served as founder and CEO at BlueSpace Software, where he developed trusted virtualization security solutions for the defense and intelligence communities. Justin holds multiple patents, is a published author and a frequent speaker who has presented at numerous international defense and entrepreneurship conferences. He holds a master’s degree in chemistry from Durham University and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
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About Bamboo App, Tribe: Tribe is an application that offers an online workout and provides ways to connect and interact with local fitness members.
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Krisna Bhargava
CEO and Co-Founder of ARENA
Krisna Bhargava is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Go Arena.
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About ARENA: ARENA leads the at-home training center that uses cutting-edge engineering and industry.
Shane Heath
Founder and CEO of MUD\WTR
He is designer of ishBowl.
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About MUD\WTR: MUD\WTR is a food & beverage company that provides natural organic ingredients for health benefits.
Omri Yoffe
Co-Founder & CEO of Vi
Omri Yoffe is Founder & CEO at Vi
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About Vi: Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.
Tom Aulet
Co-Founder & CEO of Ergatta
Tom Aulet is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ergatta.
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About Ergatta: Ergatta is an at-home connected fitness startup that offers a rowing machine and proprietary digital content.
Stephen Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Kitman Labs
Stephen is co founder of Kitman Labs, the worlds most advanced athlete management platform. Stephen holds a Higher Diploma in Human Physiology and Health Science, a BSc (Hons) in Sports & Exercise Rehabilitation and an MSc in Football Rehabilitation. He worked with Leinster Rugby as a Sports Injury Rehabilitation Coach within the Strength & Conditioning Department between 2008-2014. Stephen founded Kitman Labs in 2012 and now lives in Palo Alto, CA where he focuses on expanding Kitman Labs in elite US sports. His areas of expertise include injury prevention, rehabilitation and analytics and he has a strong interest in the use of technology and emerging trends in sport science to further enhance sport science and medicine.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
Anatoly Tikhman
Co-Founder, President, & CEO of Monclarity
Anatoly Tikhman joined Monclarity as Co-Founder, President, & CEO in 2012.Anatoly has more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience developing and marketing innovative software applications. He is a successful entrepreneur, computer scientist and technology visionary. Anatoly’s ability to forge strategic technology license agreements with companies such as Microsoft has resulted in tens of millions of PCs carrying the technology he developed as a part of Microsoft Windows. Anatoly founded a number of companies, most of which were acquired by public companies such as Microsoft, Quarterdeck, Symantec, L&H, VASCO Data Security and others. Anatoly created cutting-edge, best-selling applications for technologies such as lossless data compression, speech recognition, biometrics, and several others. He is currently the Chairman of TikGames, LLC, which he founded in 2002. He built an industry-leading studio that has delivered a broad range of top quality proprietary and licensed games for numerous platforms. Among some of the highlights are Texas Hold’em Poker for Microsoft Xbox which is one of the most successful games in XBLA’s run, as well as the megahit Cuboid for Sony PlayStation.
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About Monclarity, Playteau, TikGames: Monclarity has assembled a unique interdisciplinary team of scientists and professionals.
Mason Sexton
CEO & Founder of Soozy’s
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About Nomad Interactive, Soozy’s: Soozy’s is a food and beverage company that offers healthy and tasty grain-free baked goods.
John DenBoer
Founder, CEO and CMO of SMART Brain Aging
John Denboer is a gourmet chef who specializes in group meals. His favorite dishes to prepare are mostly those from Asian cuisine. He loves to share what he knows to his students, who may not have had the chance to learn exotic and gourmet food preparation from other classes.
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About SMART Brain Aging: SMART Brain Aging provide aging individuals with a truly research-supported system of brain exercise.
Michael Horvath
Co-Founder & CEO of Strava
Michael Horvath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Strava. He earned his degree at Harvard University.
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About Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Earvin Johnson
Founder & CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises
Earvin “Magic” Johnson has become the most powerful African-American businessman in the world. He is a Major League Baseball owner, an NBA Legend, a 2-Time Hall of Famer, an Entrepreneur, a Philanthropist and a Motivational Speaker. The business mogul has successfully parlayed his skills and tenacity on the court into the business world, propelling his company to the status of #1 Brand in Urban America. He is Chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE), which provides high quality products and services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities through strategic alliances, investments, consulting and endorsements. The conglomerate is comprised of multiple business entities and partnerships that include Canyon Johnson, a $1 billion dollar real estate fund, Yucaipa Johnson, a $500 million dollar private equity fund, ASPIRE, a new African-American television network, SodexoMAGIC, Magic Airport Holdings, Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, Magic Johnson Bridgescape Academies, and Vibe Holdings, LLC – Johnson is the Chairman of the multi-cultural media company that houses the Vibe, Uptown, and Soul Train brands. Most noted for his unprecedented Starbucks partnership, which served as the catalyst for redevelopment in urban communities and is literally the blueprint for Corporate America’s engagement and success with urban consumers. In 2010, the savvy businessman divested his Starbucks and Los Angeles Lakers shares in excess $100 million dollars. However, he will continue to assist Starbucks with their community development initiatives and will remain Vice President of the Los Angeles Lakers. Johnson has also teamed up with Tim Leiweke of AEG in an effort to build a new stadium and bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles as well as thousands of jobs to the city. The story of Johnson and Larry Bird’s inspiring friendship and rivalry was presented in a theater adaptation of Magic & Bird on Broadway in April 2012. Johnson also serves as Chairman and Founder of the Magic Johnson Foundation, where his unwavering commitment to transform Urban America continues through HIV/AIDS Awareness & Prevention Programs, Community Empowerment Centers, and the Taylor Michaels Scholarship Program. Celebrating over 20 years of success, the Magic Johnson Foundation has become one of the most recognizable philanthropic organizations around the world.
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About JLC Infrastructure, Magic Johnson Enterprises, Magic Johnson Foundation: Magic Johnson Enterprises is a company owned by retired NBA Hall of Fame legend Magic Johnson.
Ron Baldwin
Co-Founder & CEO of Uncommon Giving
Ron Baldwin is Chairman, President & CEO of CrossFirst Holdings, LLC, a private equity company investing in the financial services industry. Ron was a long-time Wichita, Kansas resident who, in 2005 after a 10-year tenure, left the position of President & COO of INTRUST Bank, the largest privately held bank in Kansas. Ron’s 36 years of banking service also includes a 23-year term with Fourth Financial Corporation, a $7.8 billion bank holding company, where he served in various positions including CFO, EVP and Chief Administrative Officer, President of BANK IV Oklahoma and EVP of Retail Banking. He holds a B.B.A. degree from Wichita State University and obtained a CPA designation. Ron resides in Overland Park, Kansas and is a board member of Kanakuk Ministries.
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About CrossFirst Bank, CrossFirst Holdings, Uncommon Giving: Uncommon Giving is a digital financial services company that provides innovative financial solutions for profit businesses.
Jason Langheier
Founder & CEO of Foodsmart
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About Foodsmart, the Partnership for a Healthier America: Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes.
Tricia Han
CEO of DailyBurn
Tricia Han is the CEO of Daily Burn, a leading on-demand fitness brand. Prior to Daily Burn, Han was the chief product officer at IAC’s Dotdash (formerly About.com). Before joining Dotdash, she was the senior vice president of product management at WebMD. Han has also served as GM and vice president at Daily Candy and has worked with a variety of technology startups, including Juno and Vindigo. She is a graduate of Cornell University.
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About Care.com, DailyBurn: DailyBurn offers a fitness and nutrition tracking app with features such as detailed tracking, online accountability, and motivation.
Lorna Borenstein
Founder & CEO of Grokker
Lorna Borenstein is the CEO & Founder ,Author at Grokker.
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About Grokker, Grokker: Netflix for wellbeing with community at its core
Prady Tewarie
CEO of AZOTH LLC
Tewarie Enterprises, PRT Holding Group, AZOTH LLC, Ohner
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About AZOTH LLC, Human Performance Science, The Tewarie Group LLC.: Nootropic Vitamins/Supplements
Jeff Krahel
CEO & Co-Founder of Playbook
Founder at Fitner Media.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Jeff Krahel
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbook
Jeff Krahel is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Willem Bult
Co-Founder & CEO of Cloud Sangha
Willem Bult was the co-founder and CTO at RentMethod.
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About Cloud Sangha: Cloud Sangha is a supportive community of meditators from all over the world that provides live, expert guidance.
Brian Baer
CEO of Growve
Brian Baer currently works as the Chief Executive Officer for Growve. He previously worked at Nutraceutical Corporation as the Vice President.
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About Growve: Growve is a brand aggregator that specializes in the acquisition and management of wellness and beauty brands.
Anand Sharma
CEO and Founder of Gyroscope Innovations
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About Gyroscope Innovations: Gyroscope Innovations is a new OS for the human body, with an app and website for people to view their health analytics.
Tyler Haney
Founder and CEO of Outdoor Voices
Tyler Haney is the Founder and CEO of Outdoor Voices, an active lifestyle brand with the mission to free fitness from performance. A graduate of Parsons School of Design,Tyler grew up in Boulder, CO, where wellbeing revolves around spending time outdoors and casual activity is naturally integrated into everyday life. With Outdoor Voices, she set out to build the next great activewear brand—one that embodies that same approach to wellness. Headquartered in New York, OV has four shops in Manhattan, Austin, and Dallas, and the OV community continues to grow nation-wide, redefining recreation and Doing Things together. Tyler has been named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs and Outdoor Voices one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies (Style).
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About Outdoor Voices: Outdoor Voices is an active lifestyle brand that makes technical apparel for recreation.
Josh McCarter
CEO of Mindbody
Josh McCarter is CEO of Mindbody, the leading technology platform for the fitness, wellness, and beauty industries. Mindbody’s technology powers tens of thousands of wellness businesses, including industry-leading brands such as OTF, F45, and DryBar. In addition to helping these businesses deliver authentic experiences to their clients, Mindbody has built the world’s largest wellness marketplace, where millions of consumers find and book in-person and virtual wellness classes and appointments every month. Josh joined Mindbody in 2018 as chief strategy officer following the company’s acquisition of Booker, where he had served as CEO and co-founder. Prior to taking over as CEO at Mindbody, Josh served as the company’s president. Josh graduated cum laude with a BA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and received his MBA from the Marshall School of Business at USC (and yes, he recognizes the conflict of interest!). He has held board positions with Booker, SpaFinder, several Autobytel subsidiaries, Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). As a result of his youngest daughter’s diagnosis with type 1 diabetes in 2009, his family has been dedicated to finding a cure by supporting a variety of type 1 causes, most recently Beyond Type 1. When not working, Josh is an avid adventurer, having traveled to more than 50 countries and traversed the U.S. on his Harley.
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About Mindbody: Mindbody is a wellness experience platform that allows users to find and engage with fitness, beauty, and integrative health services.
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.
Holly Whitaker
Founder and CEO of Hip Sobriety
Holly Whitaker is Chief Creative Officer, Founder at Tempest.
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About Hip Sobriety, Tempest: Hip Sobriety provides alcohol abuse treatment for Americans.
Chip Hawkins
Founder & CEO of Wahoo Fitness
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About Wahoo Fitness: Wahoo Fitness harnesses the power of your iPhone to transform the way you rid
Cesar Carvalho
Co-Founder & Global Chief Executive Officer of Gympass
Cesar Carvalho is the Co-Founder and Global CEO at Gympass.
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About Gympass: Gympass is a fitness discovery platform connecting the world’s network of fitness facilities to companies and its employees.
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.
Mike Melby
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FITLAB
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About ELECTRIC, FITLAB, FITLAB, FITLAB, Mayweather Boxing & Fitness, XPT: FitLab powers experiences that inspire you to move.
Keith Cowing
Chief Executive Officer of Ruby
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About NextGen Venture Partners, Ruby: Ruby specializes in the health and wellness of seniors and their families with home maintenance and healthcare services for a living.
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.
Caroline Beckman
Founder and CEO of Nouri Life
Caroline Beckman is a Co-Founder & CEO at Nomva.
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About Nomva, Nouri Life, Suja Life: Nouri is for men and women around the world who believe in increasing their mental and physical health.
Moran Shochat Snir
Co-Founder & CEO of Clear Genetics
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About Clear Genetics, Invitae: Clear Genetics is a digital health company dedicated to the thoughtful integration of genetics into routine patient care.
Bob Messerschmidt
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cor
Bob’s career spans more than 25 years in the field of instrumentation for spectroscopy. Bob was awarded the Williams-Wright Award in 1996 for outstanding contributions to infrared spectroscopy. He is the author or co-author of 12 articles and book chapters and co-editor of one book on infrared microspectroscopy, he holds 42 issued and pending US patents. He has made numerous conference and seminar presentations in the United States, Europe and Japan, and organized and chaired symposia in infrared spectroscopy. His interests include biomedical applications of spectroscopy, microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and other developing techniques. He is past president of the Coblentz Society, past president of the Rio Grande section of the SAS, a past-president of the Southwestern Connecticut section of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
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About Cor: Lifestyle Science™ platform
R. Dixon Thayer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HealthNEXT
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About HealthNEXT: HealthNEXT is a developer of workforce population health strategies.
Sarah Jones Simmer
CEO of Found
CEO @ Found. Sarah has spoken at SXSW, the Global Partnership for Education, and UN special sessions on topics ranging from girls’ and women’s rights to the future of ethical business. She has a Masters’ in Public Policy from Northwestern University. She used to run marathons and has completed an Ironman, but now spends her time outside of work raising two amazing young daughters.
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About Found: Found is dedicated to improving people’s overall wellbeing by making evidence-based weight loss accessible and affordable.
Katherine Krug
Founder / CEO of BetterBack
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About BetterBack: Make every chair ergonomic! Use BetterBack for 15 mins a day to improve your posture, ease back pain and improve your health.
Fred Helou
Founder & CEO of Vagaro
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About Vagaro: Vagaro is an online platform that allows its users to find salons and spas in their local area and make appointments online.
Steven Forti
Founder & CEO of FitFight
Prior to FitFight, Steven was a consultant for Johnson & Johnson’s Orthopedic Trauma Division, where he utilized eight years of Critical Care and Trauma Nursing experience. In the military, he earned the rank of Master Sergeant after serving 23+ years in Army Special Forces, where his specialties included Special Forces Weapons Sergeant and Special Forces Intel Sergeant. He is a Level 1 Sniper, and attended Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab at DIA as well as the Special Operations Planners Course in Norfolk VA. Steve earned a BS in Nursing from Quinnipiac University, completed a Critical Care Residency at Yale New Haven Hospital Systems, and holds a BS from Southern Connecticut State University.
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About FitFight: FitFight is a combat veteran owned and operated mobile platform.
Anthony Diaz
Founder and CEO of Health Hero
Anthony Diaz is Founder and CEO of Health Hero.
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About Health Hero: Health Hero enables organizations to do smart automated follow up via phone and text messages for patients and employees.
Ray Bradford
Founder & CEO of Spruce Health
Ray Bradford is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He joined the firm in 2011 and focuses on investments for the firm’s digital practice. Before joining KPCB, Ray worked at Amazon Web Services and helped grow the company’s cloud infrastructure business. He led one of the core product management teams and was responsible for the definition, launch, and business growth of new database services, including Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS), Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon DynamoDB. He is named inventor on multiple patent applications related to scalable data systems, and is excited by the opportunity for big data to drive efficiency gains and innovation in many sectors of the economy. Earlier in his career, Ray spent time at Twitter and Linden Lab (creators of the virtual world Second Life). Ray earned his M.B.A. at Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and completed computer science coursework. Ray holds his B.S. degree in economics from Westminster College, where he graduated summa cum laude and served as student body president.
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About Spruce Health: Spruce thinks of a better way to see the doctor by using their platform for communication.
Eugene Baah
Co-Founder & CEO of Resoltz
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About Resoltz: Video streaming fitness content tailored to your goals, schedule and personal preferences
Don Faul
CEO of Athos
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About Athos: The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.
Chris Mirabile
CEO of NOVOS
Chris Mirabile is Founder & CEO of Healthy Hand, and formerly a co-founder and CEO of the geosocial networking technology, Hotlist. Mirabile, a graduate of New York University Stern School of Business, was the youngest entrant to win the NYU Stern Business Plan Competition, from which Hotlist.com was launched. Mirabile and co-founder Gianni Martire went on to raise an $800,000 first round of capital for their venture from Joseph J. Grano, Jr.’s Centurion Holdings, and was accepted into Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s startup incubator program in the SoHo district of New York City. After more than 700,000 nominations for 25 categories, Chris was a top five finalist in the category of Entrepreneur of The Year at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, as part of the 2010 Mashable Awards. Mirabile’s technology career began at age 15, when he worked as a Web Consultant to the now defunct Silicon Alley startup, InternetCash.com. In 2002, at the age of 18, Mirabile led international expansion efforts for a US-based industrial contracting firm, United States Rebar. The resulting Mumbai, India-based technology subsidiary was recently acquired by an international steel conglomerate. Immediately prior to Hotlist, Mirabile worked in Private Equity at Putnam Lovell Investment Bank, and as a Consultant to hedge funds both on behalf of Morgan Stanley, as well as independently.
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About NOVOS: NOVOS is a Longevity supplements brand.
Lou Lentine
President & CEO / Founder of Echelon Fitness
Lou Lentine is the President and CEO at Echelon Fitness Multimedia.
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About Echelon Fitness: Echelon Fitness offers a professional, studio quality fitness experience that clients can do on their time and in their own home.
Rob Hale
CEO of Granite Telecommunications
Rob Hale is President and CEO of Granite Telecommunications and a co-founder of Copley Equity Partners. Rob currently serves on Copley’s investment committee and also serves as an entrepreneur in residence to assist the development of Copley’s portfolio companies. Rob founded Granite in 2002 and has grown the company into one of the largest privately held telecommunications services companies in the U.S., with revenues exceeding $1 Billion. Rob is the founder and board chair of Fox Rock Capital, a single family office based in Boston, founding owner of FoxRock Properties, a commercial real estate firm, and is co-owner of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and Boston Cannons of the MLL. Rob lives in the Boston area with his wife and three children. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the South Shore YMCA, and the Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund.
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About Granite Telecommunications: Granite is a leading communications services provider for businesses with multiple locations.
Noosheen Hashemi
Founder & CEO of January
Noosheen Hashemi is the Founder & CEO, January.ai.
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About Council on Foreign Relations, Hand Capital, January, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, The HAND Foundation, The HAND Foundation: January is a mobile app that combines AI with science to provide personalized health insights and recommendations.
Jason Abromaitis
Co-founder and CEO of Launchpad
Jason Abromaitis co-founded and bootstrapped Corus from 2014 to 2021. He co-founded Launchpad, the first at-home connected fitness platform for aspiring athletes in 2021.
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About Launchpad: Fast Twitch Training for athletes, driven by SpeedAI.
Evan Richardson
Founder and CEO of Form Health
Evan founded Form Health with the mission of making modern medical weight loss available for everyone. He was previously part of the founding management team at Grand Rounds, a telemedical concierge and primary care practice that helps patients get access to the highest quality, most appropriate healthcare. Prior to Grand Rounds, Evan was an early employee at Castlight Health, a pioneer in the healthcare price transparency space. Evan is a member of the board of directors at Bicycle Health, the national leader in delivering medication assisted therapy to people with opioid dependency. He received a BA with honors at Dartmouth College, and an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School.
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About Form Health: Form Health is a telemedical weight loss company that focuses on individuals dealing with obesity.
Amanda Freeman
Founder & CEO of SLT Group
Amanda Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Limber & she attended Duke University in 1994.
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About Limber, SLT Group: SLT Group is a boutique fitness studio operator engaging clients with full body workouts.
Rodolfo Dumenigo
CEO, Founder of Miami Beach Medical Group
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About Miami Beach Medical Group: Miami Beach Medical Group is a provider of primary care, specialty care, and ancillary services to Medicare Advantage plan members.
Mouzon Bass
CEO of Vivature
Mouzon Bass is the CEO of Vivature.
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About Vivature: Vivature provides practice management software for campus health centers and athletic departments to streamline billing and track injuries.
Steven Yu
Founder & CEO of StandDesk
Steven Yu is the founder and lead product developer for StandDesk, Inc., a innovative company poised to change the way people stay healthy, happy, and productive. From a very young age, Steven and his father (mechanical engineer) have designed, maintained, and repaired complicated machinery, like automative engines and transmissions. Although he received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, he later applied his engineering talents during his International Masters Program in Beijing. Steven took on a project to develop the most affordable electric powered actuating system. Armed with his childhood mechanical engineering skills and married with his unique business flare, Steven completed the project in record time and now is poised to provide an affordable sit-to-stand desk solutions to the world.
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About StandDesk: A Wellness Company That Makes Awesome Standing Desks
Andrea Barrica
Founder & CEO of O.School
Andrea Barrica is the Founder & CEO at O.school.
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About Deep Connection Technologies, O.School, SexTech Revolution, SexTech Revolution: O.school is building a shame-free space by offering pleasure education through live streaming and moderated chat.
Philipp Schulte
CEO of Baze
Philipp brings more than 10 years of experience in life sciences with a focus on innovation, marketing, and strategy. He is currently facing his most uphill struggle yet: getting his young daughter to have her full plate of nutrients. When he’s not at home or the office and it is cold enough he can be found trying to achieve his life goal of getting more than 100 ski days in a year.
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About Baze: Baze are enable every person to achieve their best health through a science-led, results-driven food and supplement platform.
François Kress
CEO of Feelmore Labs
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About Feelmore Labs: Feelmore Labs is an innovative health & wellness technology company.
Alicia Thomas
Co-Founder & CEO of Dibs Technology
Alicia Thomas is Co-Founder & CEO at Dibs Technology.
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About Dibs Technology: Dibs is a platform (web and app) that makes it easy for the fitness industry.
Jonathan Rennert
Chief Executive Officer of ZOLL Medical Corporation
Jonathan Rennert was named Chief Executive Officer of ZOLL in April 2016. Since joining ZOLL in 2008 as President, he has led the company to become the global leader in external defibrillation, diversified the product portfolio through the addition of transport ventilators and intrathoracic pressure regulation (IPR) therapy, and has overseen the establishment of Asahi Kasei ZOLL Medical, ZOLL’s Japanese subsidiary. Prior to joining ZOLL, Jonathan Rennert led the analytical instruments business at PerkinElmer, Inc., and earlier in his career, held manufacturing and engineering leadership positions with United Technologies and General Electric. Jonathan Rennert holds master’s degrees in management and mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University.
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About ZOLL Medical Corporation: ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group company, develops and markets medical devices and software solutions.
Sam Vakhidov
CEO, Co-Founder of Eat Fit Go
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About Eat Fit Go: Provides a simple and easy solution for eating healthy on the go!
Mason Levey
Co-Founder and CEO of WAVE Meditation
Mason Levey ist eh CEO and founder of WAVE Meditation.
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About WAVE Meditation: WAVE Meditation is a music-guided at-home meditation app for breath, body and beat daily rituals.
Heela Yang
Co-Founder & CEO of Sol de Janeiro
Heela Yang is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Sol de Janeiro.
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About Sol de Janeiro: Sol de Janeiro is a cosmetics company that celebrates everything that is unique and joyful.
Anne Mahlum
Founder, Owner & CEO of Solidcore
Anne Mahlum is a businesswoman, public speaker, and fitness innovator. In 2013, she founded [solidcore], a fitness company that expanded to 70 locations in under 7 years and is still growing under Anne’s leadership. The company has more than 100,000 clients, including famous participants like First Lady Michelle Obama. Anne has raised over $70 million dollars in venture capital for [solidcore] over the years and employs more than 500 people. Prior to founding [solidcore], Mahlum was the CEO of Back on My Feet (BoMF). She created this NGO in 2007 to help people experiencing homelessness to change their lives through fitness and physical wellbeing. Anne grew the non-profit to 12 cities in just 4.5 years and has helped thousands of people gain independent living. Anne built BoMF to a 6.5M operation, and the organization is still going strong today. Anne has been recognized many times for her accomplishments, including being named New Yorker of the Week, Penjerdel’s Citizen of the Year, ABC World News Person of the Week, a CNN Hero, a 40 under 40 recipient in both Philadelphia and Washington, DC and most recently named a recipient of the “Women Mean Business” Award by the Washington Business Journal. She is also featured in a book called 50 Everyday Heroes about individuals who have made impressive changes in the lives of others. Mahlum splits her time between North Dakota, New York, and DC. She has run 11 marathons, including one on every continent of the world. She is a motivational speaker and enjoys mentoring entrepreneurs, investing in start-ups, snowboarding and playing volleyball.
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About Back on My Feet, Solidcore: Solidcore is a 50-minute workout that delivers high intensity strength training for the entire body.
Yunha Kim
Founder & CEO of Simple Habit
Simple Habit was founded by Yunha Kim in Spring 2016.A former investment banker on Wall Street, Yunha quit her job to build her first startup, raising over $3M from prominent investors. Yunha was desperate to manage the extreme stress of her startup, so, she turned to meditation. She began to meditate a few minutes a day and saw dramatic improvements in the quality of her work, relationships and life. She decided to build Simple Habit to help busy people, like herself, experience the benefits mindfulness.
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About Simple Habit: Simple Habit is a meditation app designed to drive a healthy lifestyle.
Randy Ray
CEO of Jeunesse Global
Randy Ray has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. He has over forty-two years of experience in the computer industry designing, selling, and installing in excess of $300,000,000 worth of computer hardware and software. Some prominent owners of these major systems include Red Lobster Inns of America, NASA (Space Shuttle Launch Processing System), DOT (National Wheel Rail Simulator System), Personal Blood Storage, and Intercommunity Cancer Centers of America (ICCA).
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About Jeunesse Global: Jeunesse Global is a direct selling platform focused on encouraging healthy living and youth enhancement.
