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This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Medical space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Elad Kolet
Co-Founder & CTO of Lively
Elad is a technology leader with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. Most recently Elad ran the North America Solutions Engineering team at Facebook where he managed a team of 32 full-stack engineers responsible for building Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to working at Facebook, Elad worked as an Engineering Lead at Microsoft, driving the development of Windows Azure. Before Microsoft, Elad was a Senior Software Engineer at RiT technologies LTD., where he designed and built network products used by large corporate clients including Goldman Sachs UK and Morgan Stanley UK. Elad was raised in Israel and spent four years as a software engineer in the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200, an incubator of tech talent whose alumni have gone on to found numerous technology companies. Elad earned his BS in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo.
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About Lively: Lively’s mission is to democratize, simplify and de-stigmatize the adoption and use of technically advanced hearing aids.
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Benjamin Maisano
Chief Technology Officer & Head of Engineering of Mount Sinai Health System
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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.
Cameron Marlow
CTO at Apella Technology of Apella Technology
Cameron Marlow is a researcher at [Stanford University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stanford-university). He founded and led the data science team at Facebook, which was responsible for applied research, product optimization, and user behavioral modeling within the company. Marlow received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. After completing his Ph.D., Marlow joined Yahoo Research where he studied social incentives, community evolution and social search in emerging applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, and Last.fm. He was also a research assistant at the University of Chicago and developer at Lafayette Project.
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About Apella Technology, Physera: Apella Technology is an AI startup that brings modern engineering to improve surgery.
Odero Otieno
Founder and Chief Technology Officer in Residence of Texas Medical Center
As a Founder and Chief Technology Officer in Residence at the Texas Medical Centre (TMC) Innovation in Houston, Odero works with other talented innovators from diverse backgrounds to quickly bring breakthrough products to market. Odero’s work involves collaborating with various key stakeholders from TMC member institutions ($25B in annual revenue), a global network of advisors and embedded corporate partners within the broader American healthcare ecosystem.
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About DawaSwift, Entrepreneur First, HealthBank, Healthipy, Texas Medical Center: Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a life sciences medical complex focused on patient care, research, education, and prevention.
Robert Buckman
Chief Technology Officer of ActiveProtective
Robert F. Buckman, Jr., M.D. is an internationally- known surgeon and inventor of medical technology. Formerly a full professor of surgery in the Temple University School of Medicine, he served for 15 years as the director of the busiest trauma center in the city of Philadelphia. During this period, he won numerous awards for clinical excellence and surgical teaching. He is the author or co-author of approximately 100 surgical publications and 15 United States patents. Dr. Buckman has been an examiner for the American Board of Surgery. He served for more than a decade in the medical corps of the United States Army Reserve achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. He saw overseas duty with the 300th Field Hospital in Saudi Arabia, during operation Desert Storm. Dr. Buckman is a 1972 graduate of the Duke Medical School, and received his surgical training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers and the University of Maryland Shock /Trauma Unit. He spent three years as a researcher in the division of Surgery at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
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About ActiveProtective, Operative Experience: ActiveProtective is a consumer device company that produces smart garments to reduce traumatic injury using wearable airbag technology.
Herb Yoo
Co-Founder, CTO of Senaptec
Herb has extensive experience in the innovation and delivery of sensory performance products and services. While working for Nike, he created sensory assessment and treatment tools resulting in over 25 patents and directed the sensory research program that led to collaboration and published work with research universities. He also provided sensory performance training directly to professional sports teams, college athletic programs, and special operations units in the US military. Herb also spent 8 years in the Nike Sport Research Lab, conducting performance product research and conceptualizing athlete performance evaluation services. He completed both undergraduate work and Masters degree at the University of Michigan in the College of Engineering where he studied human factors and biomechanics. During his graduate school years, he conducted research on the visual demand and impact of in-vehicle systems on driving performance at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Herb lives near Portland, Oregon with his wife Christine and two children.
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About Senaptec: Senaptec is developing a portfolio of tools to assess and improve brain health and performance.
Bryan Lynch
Chief Technology Officer of ReliantHeart
Mr. Lynch is the Chief Technology Officer, VP of Worldwide Sales and Co-Founder of ReliantHeart. Mr. Lynch is one of the principle designers of the HA5 LVAD system including the compelling new wireless remote monitoring technology embedded in the new controller. Mr. Lynch began working on the NASA blood pump in 1997. Previously, he served as director of marketing and product development with Komet Medical Inc., a German maker of surgical instruments and hard tissue cutting systems. From 1990 to 1994, he served as manager of engineering, research and development for Surgimedics Inc., a Texas-based medical device company, developing products for minimally invasive surgery, laser surgery, and autologous blood transfusion. He is the inventor and co-inventor of several patents, including catheter access, pulsatile loop and implantable pump patents.
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About Explorer Aircraft, ReliantHeart: ReliantHeart, Inc. is a leading innovator in mechanical circulatory support therapies for advanced stage heart failure.
Robert Nix
CTO of Ria Health
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About Ria Health: Ria Health’s evidence-based telehealth alcohol treatment program helps people drink less and live better.
Ram Subramanian
Chief Technology Officer of PerceptiMed
Ram has 15 years of experience in image processing and machine learning. He has had many years of experience in product development with specific emphasis on high throughput intelligent systems. Prior to working at PerceptiMed, Ram has had experience in the area of life sciences and in the semiconductor industry. Ram holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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About PerceptiMed: PerceptiMed develops an advanced pill identification system designed to eliminate human errors in medication dispensing in pharmacies.
Aadil Diwan
Co-Founder & CTO of SafKan Health
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About SafKan Health: Ear care for the 21st century.
Simon Williams
CTO of Lemonaid Health
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Alex Aravanis
Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President of Illumina
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About Illumina: Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
Claire Hough
Chief Technology Officer of Carbon Health
Claire Hough is the CTO of Carbon Health.
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About Carbon Health: Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Michael Wiemer
VP Eng / Co-Founder and CTO of Mojo Vision
Michael Wiemer is the Co-Founder and CTO at Mojo Vision.
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About Mojo Vision: Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world’s first AR smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers Invisible Computing
David Tsao
CTO of BillionToOne
David leads development of BillionToOne’s bioinformatics pipeline and is the source behind many of the technological developments at BillionToOne. He has a PhD in Bioengineering from Rice University. Before his PhD, he was a software engineer at Adku and Groupon, where he leveraged big data to build recommendation engines and search engine marketing solutions. David earned an AB in Physics from Princeton University. When not coding or pipetting, he enjoys rock climbing, backpacking, and pursuing the perfect cup of coffee.
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About BillionToOne: BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company that makes molecular diagnostics accurate, efficient, and accessible for all.
Craig Muir
Partner and Chief Technology Officer of Third Rock Ventures
Craig Muir brings to the company more than 25 years of technology development, implementation and application experience across the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. As a Partner and Chief Technology Officer at Third Rock Ventures, Muir leads the identification and integration of drug discovery and development technology platforms for companies across Third Rock’s portfolio, provides solutions for developing platform systems to manage R&D and informatics, and contributes to scientific diligence for investment opportunities. Muir has been instrumental in expanding Third Rock’s San Francisco presence to increase access to innovative technologies and support its West Coast companies. He also assumes leadership roles in several of Third Rock’s portfolio companies, serving as Interim Chief Technology Officer or Information Officer through the first 12–18 months after launch. Prior to Third Rock, Muir served as Senior Vice President of Technical Operations for Codon Devices. Before that, he spent 12 years at Millennium Pharmaceuticals as Vice President of Platform Technology, where his teams were instrumental in raising $1.8 billion from pharmaceutical partners. Earlier in his career, he served in a number of technology development and scientific roles at Genentech, Tularik and the University of Vermont. Muir serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Muir completed his B.S. in animal physiology at the University of California, Davis and is a pioneer in the fields of laboratory automation and technology in biotech and pharmaceutical applications.
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About Global Blood Therapeutics, Pliant Therapeutics, Third Rock Ventures, Third Rock Ventures: Third Rock Ventures invests in transformational life science companies that show high growth potential
Lateef Jackson
CTO of Troy Medicare
Lateef is an entrepreneur, advisor, and investor focused in healthcare technology. He is passionate about investing in non-traditionally funded founders. Lateef is an investor and CTO of Troy Medicare, a tech-enabled Medicare Advantage company focused on underserved communities. He has over 20 years of experience leading engineering teams at startups and large companies. He has led teams in building technology for cloud computing, real estate, healthcare and finance. Lateef holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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About iMedicare, Troy Medicare: Troy Medicare is arming independent pharmacies with a health plan and platform tailored to their most vulnerable patients.
Richard Boylan
Chief Technology Officer of Virgin Pulse
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About Virgin Pulse, Virgin Pulse: Virgin Pulse, part of the famed Virgin Group, is passionate about inspiring and engaging employees to live better every day.
Claus Torp Jensen
CTO & Head of Architecture of CVSHealth
Claus is the Chief Technology Officer for CVS Health, leading Technology Innovation, Business Transformation Incubation, Architecture Planning, Delivery and Forensics, Digital Integration and M&A activities across CVS Health. Plays a pivotal role in becoming a trusted health partner delivering a connected experience. Claus is a transformational change agent. He and his team have been instrumental in critical initiatives such as defining and executing the Next Gen Platform strategy, creating a 3 year business platform transformation roadmap, launching the Digital Transformation program and optimizing the quality of Provider Directories. Claus has been with CVS Health/Aetna since February 2015. His prior background spans 20 years of transformational leadership roles at Danske Bank and IBM. During his time at IBM he was a trusted advisor on business and IT transformation journeys for many of the Fortune 100 companies.
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About Aetna, CVSHealth: CVS Health provides an integrated healthcare services offering for its members.
John Putman
President & CTO of Nanotronics Imaging
John Putman is president at Nanotronics Imaging.
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About Nanotronics Imaging: Nanotronics Imaging is a microscopy and software company delivering rapid testing and analysis solutions.
Ray Botha
Co-founder & CTO of HealthLeap
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About Crypto20, HealthLeap, Invictus Capital: Solving disease-related malnutrition with a mobile clinical assistant for healthcare professionals.
Andrew Toy
CTO & President of Clover Health
Andrew is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Clover Health, a technology oriented Medicare Advantage company focused on changing healthcare by developing models and interventions that improve member outcomes. Prior to Clover, Andrew was a Product Management Director at Google working in the Google Cloud team and was responsible for Developer Platform and Intelligence features. Previously, he was the Product Director for Android for Work – the enterprise platform for Android. Andrew joined Google in 2014 via the acquisition of Divide where he was co-founder and CEO. At Divide, Andrew helped drive the company’s founding vision of bringing Work and Play together on a single device with no compromises. Divide raised over 25MM in venture funding before being acquired by Google. Before co-founding Divide in 2010, Andrew was VP of Mobile and Syndication Technology at MTV Networks. In this role, he provided technological leadership for digital distribution of Viacom content, serving cable brands including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon. Prior to joining MTV Networks, Andrew headed mobile application development for Morgan Stanley, where he specialized in mobile security as well as fixed-mobile convergence telephony. Before Morgan Stanley, Andrew was chief architect for Jarna Inc., a startup focused on enabling mobile workflows on event-based platforms. Andrew holds both a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he has also served as an associate lecturer.
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About Clover Health, Divide: Clover is a healthcare technology company helping members live their healthiest lives with its Medicare Advantage plans.
Jeffrey Kaditz
Founder, CEO & CTO of Q Bio
Jeffrey Kaditz is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor who has helped drive a wide range of technologies and businesses. His fields of exploration have included rockets, high-energy particle physics, anti-ICBM technologies, consumer electronics, mobile gaming, finance, enterprise software, network security, and biotechnology. In 2012, he co-founded a leading fintech company, Affirm, with Manny Arias and they were later joined full-time by Nathan Gettings (Palantir co-founder) and Affirm’s first Angel Investor, Max Levchin (PayPal co-founder). Prior to Affirm he served as Chief Data & Analytics Officer at mobile gaming giant ngmoco which was acquired by DeNA. Jeffrey has degrees in Physics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Q Bio: On a mission to build the first Clinical Digital Twin Platform and make it accessible to everyone
Troy Astorino
Co-Founder & CTO of PicnicHealth
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About PicnicHealth: PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Jerry Bryant
Founder, Managing Member & CTO of Cell Point
Jerry Bryant, Jr., is a founding member of Cell>Point, the CTO and has been providing financial support to the company since its beginning. Mr. Bryant is also President and Managing Member of Vyripharm Biopharmaceuticals, a majority owned subsidiary of Cell>Point. Mr. Bryant brings 15 years in research experience in molecular biology, imaging and oncology. Prior to the establishment of Cell>Point, Mr. Bryant worked as a research assistant from 1994 through 1999 in the Department of Medicine, Division of Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. During 1999 and 2000, Mr. Bryant served as President of Allcure JEMA, Inc. Mr. Bryant received his B.S. from Tennessee State University in 1987 and M.S. from the University of Florida in 1991.
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About Cell Point: Cell Point is a biotechnology company developing universal molecular imaging agents and intra-nuclear metallic therapeutics.
Kairui Zeng
CTO of DeepScribe
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About DeepScribe: DeepScribe is an AI-driven platform for medical record-taking.
Ryan Kelly
CTO of Capital Rx
Ryan Kelly is the CTO of Capital Rx.
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About Capital Rx: Capital Rx is a healthtech platform that provides pharmacy benefit management solutions.
Kevin Roche
CTO of Wellthy
Kevin Roche is the co-founder and CTO of Wellthy.
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About Wellthy: Wellthy is a family care concierge service that brings relief to families managing complex or ongoing care situations.
Alison Fleming
EVP ,Product Development & Chief Technology Officer of Collegium Pharmaceutical
Alison Fleming was appointed Chief Technology Officer in 2017. Alison Fleming first joined Collegium Pharmaceutical in 2002, shortly after completing her Ph.D. in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to joining Collegium, her academic research focused on implantable drug delivery systems for cancer therapy. Alison Fleming is an inventor on several United States Patents and pending patent applications and has authored numerous scientific publications and poster presentations in the field of novel drug delivery systems. In 2001 she was the recipient of the Jorge Heller Journal of Controlled Release Outstanding Paper Award. She received her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Collegium Pharmaceutical: Collegium Pharmaceutical is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of products for the treatment of chronic pain.
Ming Yan
Co-Founder and CTO of Cytek Biosciences
Ming Yan is a co-founder of Cytek Biosciences, Inc. with over 20 years of R&D experience in leadership and innovation. Prior to Cytek, Ming Yan held research and development positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Labs and BD Biosciences. He is one of the thought-leaders in flow cytometry instrumentation and standardization. Ming Yan has published several research papers relating to laser spectroscopy and cell analysis in top peer-reviewed journals. He has over a dozen patents and patent pending applications for his innovations.
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About Cytek Biosciences: Cytek Biosciences is a manufacturer and supplier of flow cytometry products and services.
James H. Bullard
Co-Founder and CTO of Pendulum Therapeutics
James Bullard is a Computational Biologist and Biostatistician with extensive experience in analyzing complex genomic systems. Prior to co-founding Whole Biome, Jim served as a Senior Staff Scientist at Pacific Biosciences. Jim, completed his Ph.D. in Biostatistics with a focus in Computational and Genomic Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. in Computing and Information Systems at Northwestern University.
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About Pendulum Therapeutics: Pendulum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company improving health through products targeting the microbiome.
Sammy Khalifa
Co-Founder and CTO of Vicarious Surgical
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About Vicarious Surgical: Vicarious Surgical improves the lives of patients and surgeons by giving access to high quality care through the use of surgical robotics.
Behrooz Abiri
CTO and Co-Founder of GuRu
A hardware hobbyist and International Physics Olympiad gold medalist – Behrooz has always been an avid inventor. He’s spent his life studying, learning, and exploring emerging technologies. His work at GuRu stems from a wish to share miraculous technology with the world at large. At GuRu, Behrooz is responsible for the ongoing development of core technology and system architecture. Under his leadership, GuRu’s millimeter-wave technology has been developed into an accessible consumer product. Before GuRu, Behrooz helped develop system design and architecture in Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech.
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About GuRu: Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Nayan Jain
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Heartbeat Health
Nayan Jain is the CTO of Heartbeat, after founding two other healthcare businesses in New York, he now focuses on heart disease prevention by matching patients with the right doctor. He completed a Presidential Innovation Fellowship at the White House, where he worked on national health data initiatives and deployed one of the first sensor networks for employee wellness. As founding engineer at Rally (acquired by UnitedHealth), Nayan was responsible for the company’s core mobile and web platforms. He received his BS in Computational Media (CS and HCI) at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Heartbeat Health, Leo Health: Heartbeat Health is a healthcare technology company that delivers virtual-first cardiovascular disease prevention and management.
Qirong Ho
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Petuum
Qirong Ho is vice president of technology at Petuum, Inc., an adjunct assistant professor at the Singapore Management University School of Information Systems, and a former principal investigator at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research. Qirong’s research focuses on distributed cluster software systems for machine learning at big data and big model scales, with a view toward theoretical correctness and performance guarantees, as well as practical needs like robustness, programmability, and usability. Qirong also works on statistical models for large-scale network analysis and social media, including latent space models for visualization, community detection, user personalization, and interest prediction. He is a recipient of the Singapore A*STAR National Science Search Undergraduate and PhD fellowships and the KDD 2015 Doctoral Dissertation Award (runner up).
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About Petuum, Singapore Management University: Petuum, Inc. is building a platform that serves the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence
Tynan Szvetecz
CTO of Nicolette
Tynan Szvetecz believes the future of patient engagement and informed consent will be anchored in transformational organizations like Nicolette. As Chief Technology Officer, Tynan is leveraging a two-decade career focused on building cross-functional and dynamic partner ecosystems that enable delivering progressive digital health technology with speed. He is an advisor for multiple accelerators and incubators across the country, and has deployed next-generation digital health solutions into DaVita, University of Texas Medical Branch, US Oncology, Allscripts and more.
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About Boomtown Accelerators, Commerce Kitchen, Firepoint Studios, Jende Solutions, Nicolette: Nicolette operates as a patient empowerment company.
Graham Melcher
Co-founder & CTO of Hint Health
Co-Founder & CTO at Hint Health. Specialties: Systems Architecture, Product Design, Ruby, Rails, Restful API Design, Postgresql, DB Design, Angular.js, Node.js, Management, Leadership
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About Hint Health: Hint Health fixes healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered.
Amir Belson
Founder and CTO of Emboline
Amir Belson Prior to conceiving of and starting ZipLine Medical, Amir Belson, M.D., was the founder of Neoguide Systems, a company that developed platform technology for minimally invasive surgical procedures that was later acquired by Intuitive Surgical in 2009. Belson is also the founder of Vascular Pathways, a company that developed an FDA cleared vascular intervention technology that has been chosen as one of the 10 best inventions of 2009 by Popular Science magazine, Thermocure, a minimally invasive therapeutic hypothermia technology company, Radguard Medical, a radiation protection medical device company and VasoStitch, which develops large vessel access and closure technology. Belson graduated cum laude from the school of medicine of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. He did his pediatric residency at Dana Children’s Hospital in Tel Aviv and his pediatric nephrology fellowship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He also served several years as a flight surgeon in Israel’s air force rescue unit before moving to the US for a three year Pediatric Nephrology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. Belson also spent one year as a research fellow with the Biomedical Technology Innovation Program at Stanford.
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About Emboline, Modular Surgical, Qool Therapeutics, Radiaction, Zipline Medical: Emboline is a medical device company with a game-changing device for total embolic protection during percutaneous heart valve repair.
Paul Hindrichs
Co-Founder, CTO of Conventus Orthopaedics
Paul Hindrichs is a veteran business leader and innovator with more than 20 years of medical device experience. He has served in various management capacities during his career, including positions with several other start-up and early stage medical device companies. Prior to founding Conventus, he worked for St. Jude Medical (SJM), Vascular Science, Inc., Optical Sensors, Inc., and Schneider USA (Pfizer). Most recently, he was responsible for the Structural Heart Business and Cardiac Technologies Group at SJM. Mr. Hindrichs earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and is a named inventor on 20 issued and 22 pending patent applications.
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About Conventus Orthopaedics, Endogenex: Conventus Orthopaedics is a provider of a range of orthopedic and sports medicine services.
Giulio Ruffini
President, CSO and co-founder of Neuroelectrics
Dr. Giulio Ruffini is the CEO and CTO of Starlab and the president and CSO of Neuroelectrics. He obtained a BA in Mathematics & Physics from Berkeley and a PhD in theoretical physics from UC Davis/LANL in 1995. In 2000 he founded Starlab to transform science into high-impact technologies.
12 years later he founded Neuroelectrics, a company which combines high-precision multichannel stimulation technologies with advanced biophysical and neuro-computational models.
For the past 15 years, Giulio has been developing technology for and researching the use of non-invasive brain monitoring and brain stimulation techniques, with a focus on EEG and transcranial current stimulation. His paper on brain-to-brain telepathy communication was the top 10 most shared papers of 2014. He is currently leading or involved in several European programs such as Galvani ERC Synergy, STIPED or Neurotwin.
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About Neuroelectrics: Neuroelectrics is a digital brain health company that diagnoses and treats brain disorders with personalized neuromodulation, and improves overall brain health.
Sharat Israni
Exec Dir & CTO, Bakar Computational Health Sci Institute of University of California, San Francisco
Sharat Israni is the Exec Dir & CTO, Bakar Computational Health Sci Institute at UCSF.
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About University of California, San Francisco: Director of the Lab for Advanced Cytometry (LAC) and the Sony Biotechnology Center at UCSF in the Department of Laboratory Medicine
Dan Horbatt
CTO and Founder of Particle Health
Dan Horbatt is the CTO and Founder of Particle Health.
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About Particle Health: Particle Health is an API designed for healthcare innovators that gives access to vital medical data.
Shadi Saberi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of iSono Health
Shadi loves solving challenging problems in healthcare that impact lives of so many, especially women. She believes consumer engagement in their own health through accessible and personalized medical technology is key to prevention and early detection. She has over 10 years of experience designing consumer electronic. Before co-founding iSonoHealth, she worked at broadcom and Intel. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
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About iSono Health: iSono Health develops an AI platform for accessible and personalized breast health monitoring
Chas Andre
CTO & Head of I.P. and Instrumentation of Depixus
Chas has over 17 years of experience successfully bringing life science tools to market with companies such as Applied Biosystems, MJ Research; BioRad, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. He graduated from The University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in biology, and earned a Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University. He has overseen the launch of dozens of products in the PCR, qPCR and DNA sequencing sectors, including instruments, consumables, and software, with a particular focus on applications and system integration.
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About Depixus: Depixus are pioneering the development of MAGNA, a novel genetic analysis technology for decoding the dynamic genome.
Matt Wallington
Co-founder & CTO of Reperio Health
Entrepreneur with experience in several startups and large enterprises. Founded two technology companies in the connected car and cloud computing space. Recently participated in Highway1, a renowned hardware incubator, launched an API based cloud video encoding service, and scaled a 10,000+ instance geo-dispersed cloud computing cluster that was used for automated trading and to catch criminals, which we launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield.
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About Reperio Health: Reperio is the only at-home health assessment that provides comprehensive results immediately.
Shane Colley
CTO of Tempus
Shane Colley is the Chief Technology Officer at Tempus. Prior to joining Tempus, Colley was Vice President of Research and Development at R1 RCM (formerly Accretive Health), where he built and led a global organization of over 200 product, architecture, design, and development professionals that were responsible for R1’s technology portfolio. Colley earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Iowa State University.
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About Tempus: Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
Henry Chan
Co-Founder & CTO of OrthoFX
Henry Chan is a Co-Founder and CTO at OrthoFX.
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About OrthoFX: Innovation Leader in Clear Aligner Orthodontics
Charles A. Taylor
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of HeartFlow
Charles Taylor is a co-founder, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and member of the Board of Directors of HeartFlow Inc. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Surgery at Stanford University with courtesy faculty appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Radiology. He is internationally recognized for the development of computer modeling and imaging techniques for cardiovascular disease research, device design and treatment planning. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About HeartFlow: HeartFlow is a medical technology company that provides new methods of diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Stuart Parmenter
CTO of One Medical
Stuart Parmenter is the Chief Technology Officer at One Medical.
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About One Medical: One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services.
Guangqiang Jiang
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Axonics Modulation Technologies
Dr. Jiang is a seasoned technical executive with a 15-year track record of developing complex, implantable Class III medical devices. He was previously VP of R&D at the Alfred Mann Foundation. Dr Jiang was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)’s College of Fellows and served as Principal Investigator on several government contracts. Dr Jiang holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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About Axonics Modulation Technologies: Axonics Modulation Technologies is a pre-revenue company developing novel implantable neuromodulation.
Konstantin Konstantinov
Chief Technology Officer of Codiak Biosciences
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About Codiak Biosciences, Codiak Biosciences: Codiak is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics.
Jason Troutner
CTO of Teal Bio
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About Teal Bio: Teal Bio offers a reusable N95 respirator system for healthcare workers
Andrew McMurry
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder of Medal
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About Medal: Extract, transport, translate, and share medical records faster.
Michael Hoey
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Board of Directors of NxThera
Michael Hoey is the Founder and CTO of NxThera.
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About Francis Medical, NxThera: NxThera develops medical technologies to treat a variety of endourology conditions, including BPH.
Tom Lowery
Chief Technology Officer of Satellite Bio
Tom Lowery is the Chief Technology Officer at Satellite Bio.
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About Satellite Bio: Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering.
Chuks Onwuneme
Co-Founder & CTO of Pillsy
Chuks Onwuneme is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pillsy (now Optimize.health)
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About Optimize.health, Pillsy: Pillsy is a connected pill container platform and mobile app that makes it easier to manage medications.
Ammar Khan
Co-Founder & CTO of Medsender
CTO @ Medsender
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About Medsender: Modernizing healthcare communication and automating care coordination workflows
Steve Flammini
Chief Technology Officer of Partners HealthCare
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About Partners HealthCare: Partners HealthCare was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Glen McLaughlin
President, Founder,CTO of Zonare Medical Systems
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About Zonare Medical Systems: Zonare Medical Systems develops compact ultrasound systems that are used for diagnostic imaging activities in clinical applications.
ShivaKumar Chandrasekaran
Co-Founder & CTO of Dentulu
Founder and member of the Board of Directors for CA Infotech India Private Limited, has served as President and CEO since the division’s inception in 2005. Shiva is a proven leader whose entrepreneurial spirit has led him to successfully create and sustain high level of competition and market fluctuations. Currently Shiva is running successfully his operations in various IT enabled services around the globe. Dentulu being his new venture.
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About Dentulu: Dentulu is a provider of teledentistry and mobile dentistry technology solutions to existing non-profits around the world.
Andrew J. Buckler
President and CTO of Elucid
Andrew Buckler comes to Elucid Bioimaging with 30 years of industry R&D experience spanning imaging science, medical devices, and molecular medicine. He founded Elucid’s predecessor company BBMSC and co-founded vascuVis. with Philips, Agilent, HP, Siemens, and Eastman Kodak. Andrew Buckler has developed a number of quantitative imaging products, including a program that netted $100M new revenue in its first year, with a life cycle > 7 years and with spin offs touching all parts of a $1B annual imaging business, and holds 9 patents. He is also the originator of an in-vivo imaging hardware and software molecular medicine product for research applications in disease management and drug discovery. Andrew Buckler has served as Program Director for the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) since its inception, is presently a scientific advisor to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) for regulatory decision making in clinical trials, and has served as Subject Matter Expert in imaging for both radiology and pathology informatics to the NCI, and Principal Investigator (PI) for grant programs from NSF in computer-aided prognostics and from NIST for the pursuit of informatics services for statistically valid and clinically meaningful development and performance assessment of quantitative imaging biomarkers. Andrew Buckler holds a certificate in “Leading Science-Based Enterprises” from Harvard Business School, an MSCS from the University of Rochester, and a BSEE from Lehigh University.
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About Elucid: Elucid improves accuracy, experience, and cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular diagnostic imaging.
Greg Tracy
Co-founder & CTO of Propeller Health
Greg is a technology enthusiast who excels at applying technology in new domains with the potential for large scale. He balances the big vision of how software technology can improve our lives with being an advocate for customers still living in the present. He has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He previously ran the engineering team at Emageon, a medical imaging company. You can also follow him on Twitter at @gregtracy.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Propeller Health: Propeller Health is a mobile platform that offers sensors, mobile apps, analytics, and services to support respiratory health management.
Alberto Scicali
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of SleepWell.ai
Alberto Scicali is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of SleepWell.ai.
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About SleepWell.ai: SleepWell.ai is a technology platform that resolves your sleep issues with research backed science.
Sergio Aguirre Valencia
Founder & CTO of EchoPixel
A pioneer in stereoscopic 3D systems, Aguirre has over 15 years of experience in visualization systems. Prior to forming EchoPixel, Aguirre developed one of the first stereoscopic 3D video systems. Aguirre is responsible for leading technological development at EchoPixel as they continue to partner with leading luminary sites.
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About EchoPixel: EchoPixel develops medical imaging devices that enable doctors to use CT images of a patient’s abdomen and display a 3D model.
Stephen Turner
CTO of Pacific Biosciences
Dr. Turner founded Pacific Biosciences (formerly Nanofluidics) and secured its Series A funding in 2004. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics by Cornell University in 2000, where he worked with Prof. Harold Craighead to study the behavior of biomolecules in nano-fabricated structures. His work contributed to the establishment of the Nanotechnology Center at Cornell. He was a member of the project team at Cornell which developed the technology now employed by Pacific Biosciences and was co-author of the cover story in Science magazine (January 31, 2003) that introduced the technology to the scientific community. Dr. Turner’s undergraduate work was at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Physics. He is the author of over 30 scientific papers in fields ranging from nanofluidics, genetics, cell attachment to chemically- and topographically- modified surfaces, x-ray lithography and process modeling. He is listed as the inventor on nine U.S. patents and more than 20 published patent applications. Dr. Turner was recipient of the MIT Technology Review “TR100” Award in 2003 and the University of Wisconsin Madison Distinguished Young Alumnus Award in 2008. He is a sitting member of the National Institutes of Health grant review study section on new technologies. He oversees the scientific and technical direction of Pacific Biosciences.
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About InVivo Biosystems, Pacific Biosciences: Pacific Biosciences designs, develops, and manufactures sequencing systems to resolve genetically complex problems.
Michael Hanson
Chief Technology Officer of ShouTi
Michael Hanson is the Chief Technology Officer at ShouTi.
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About ShouTi: ShouTi specializes in the discovery and development of drugs against a type of targets called GPCR.
Ray Myers
Co-Founder / CTO of DoctorLogic
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About DoctorLogic: DoctorLogic offers an EHR-integrated marketing service that helps doctors grow their practice.
Jeffrey Schell
Managing Director, CTO, Patent Attorney of Proov
Jeff’s mission is to transform innovative concepts into companies. In 2015, Jeff leveraged the valuable IP that he cultivated and developed to raise three million dollars in debt financing to acquire medical device company TranS1’s assets out of a failed merger. Within a few years of rebuilding TranS1 as CEO, ColoradoBiz Magazine named TranS1 one of the top 250 companies in Colorado by revenue. The Denver Post also named TranS1 Denver’s “Most Innovative Workplace” in 2016. Further, the Colorado Technology Association named TranS1 a nominee for “Company of the Year.” Under Jeff’s leadership, Orthopedics This Week awarded TranS1 with the 2017 Spine Technology Award. In 2018, Jeff had a successful exit from TranS1. In 2018, Jeff took a significant stake in Proov – evolving its underlying tech into multiple patent pending products and an emerging brand in women’s health – and he continues to play a leadership role. Soon thereafter, the company was featured in Forbes and won the “Best Family Tech at CES” award given by Parents Magazine. In 2019, the company won SXSW Startup of the Year. In 2020, the company raised several million dollars in VC and grant funding, gained distribution at leading retailers, won the coveted “Colorado Companies to Watch” recognition, and in 2021 grew to become named as one of the Denver Business Journal’s “25 largest biotechnology companies in Colorado.” Proov closed a $10MM Series A with the involvement of multiple prominent venture capital firms in 2021. In 2019, top tier law firm Hall Estill acquired the rights to the Rocky Mountain Patent brand. Jeff now leads the Ventures Growth practice for Hall Estill. In addition to building intellectual property strategies with the Rocky Mountain Patent team, Jeff now advises, operates and invests in multiple companies. Jeff is the former President of TiE Denver and remains heavily engaged with investment and startup advisory groups including Rockies Venture Club, BoomTown, TechStars and Prime Health. Jeff attended Northwestern University, graduating with degrees in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences and Economics in 2004. He subsequently earned his JD and masters degrees in International Studies and Medical Informatics. Jeff separately studied economics at Harvard University, and in 2007, was a delegate at the Harvard China-India Development & Relations Symposium. ColoradoBiz Magazine named Jeff one of the 25 “Most Influential Young Professionals in Colorado” and he is a “40 under 40” honoree. He was also a finalist for the Denver Post’s “Colorado Innovator of the Year” and “Denver Trailblazer” awards. In 2017, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock invited Jeff to participate in Denver’s official trade delegation to South Africa and Kenya.
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About MindMiner, Proov, Rocky Mountain Patent: Proov offers the most advanced system for women to evaluate their hormones at home, built upon patented, FDA cleared medical devices.
Kyle Matthews
CTO & Co-Founder of Laicos, Inc.
COO & Co-Founder at Laicos.
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About Laicos, Inc.: A Tampa Based Startup Studio turning ideas into products into companies
Bo Hu
Co-Founder and CTO of MORE Health
Former senior software engineer in Sina. M.S. University of San Francisco and B.S. University of Science and Technology of China.
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About MORE Health: MORE Health delivers access to the best physicians in the world via its cloud-based medical collaboration platform.
Glenn Kramer
CTO of xCures
Glenn Kramer is an inventor, systems architect, and technology leader. At EIT in 1993 he founded one of the first Internet consultancies. When EIT was acquired by VeriFone, he architected the suite of Internet Commerce products that helped foster the sale of VeriFone to Hewlett Packard. Glenn next founded a boutique consultancy focused on solving hard Internet-based business problems while developing intellectual property for his clients. More than a decade later, he joined SRS Acquiom as Head of Development, and subsequently Chief Data Scientist, where he developed data and financial products for M&A, including the SRS Clearinghouse product and a patented, SEC-registered investment fund that used predictive analytics to get merger parties better returns for escrow funds. Glenn is currently CTO at xCures, using AI to help cancer patients get the best treatments possible when they have exhausted the standard of care options available to them. He holds 22 issued US Patents and is the author of a book published on the MIT Press, plus numerous journal and conference articles.
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About xCures: xCures is an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care.
Dmitry Samarsky
Chief Technology Officer of Sirnaomics
Dmitry is a recognized expert in RNAi technology and brings 15+ years of scientific, technology, and business development leadership experience at RNAi companies in the US, Asia, and Europe. Most recently he served as a Chief Scientific Officer at Silence Therapeutics (UK, Germany). Dmitry’s role is to secure Sirnaomics’ position as a leader in RNAi technology and to initiate and facilitate pharma partnering discussions.
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About Silence Therapeutics, Sirnaomics: Sirnaomics is a biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for critical human diseases by using RNA interference technology.
Jon Clagg
CTO of Immertec
Jon Clagg is the co-founder and CTO of IMMERTEC. He is a visionary full-stack developer with over a decade of experience in automation and telecommunications.
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About Immertec: Immertec is a real-time virtual observation platform for remote, fully-immersive surgical and medical training.
Adam Nazar
CTO of RxVantage
Adam Nazar is a technology executive, entrepreneur, investor, and strategic advisor. Nazar got his start developing software at the age of 16 where he worked for HealthLine Systems on one of the first web-based management systems in the Health Care industry. At 19, Adam became a developer during the early formation of The Content Project, which became Schematic/POSSIBLE, a leading global creative agency. At age 20, Nazar co-founded ACD (f/k/a Autoclaims Direct), which under his tenure grew into one of the largest claims technology & service companies in the industry with over 1,000 employees and contractors. Over the past 20 years, Nazar has worked with many early and mid-stage companies to build products and scale teams, leading to successful private companies and multiple acquisitions. He is still an avid programmer and continues to serve as a hands-on CTO and advisor for multiple companies including RxVantage and WeRecover. Adam is also an active angel investor with investments in over a dozen Southern California companies with multiple successful exists, including Dollar Shave Club. Adam holds a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and an MS in Computer Science, as well as an MBA from the University of Southern California, where he has also served as a part-time faculty member in the Viterbi School of Engineering.
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About RxVantage, Wendi: RxVantage provides cloud-based software that enables efficient communication of medical practices.
William Kaiser
CTO of Sensydia
William J. Kaiser Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. His background includes product development focused on advancing patient outcomes, promoting health and wellness and creating new healthcare delivery methods.
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About Sensydia, UCLA Health System: Developer of a portable, point-of-care hemodynamic measurement system that uses proprietary sensor tech and machine learning to guide care.
Clint Berry
Chief Technology Officer of Weave
Clint Berry is the CTO at Weave, the premier customer communication platform for service-based businesses, where he has helped grow the engineering team to over 50+ engineers. He has over 14 years experience in developing software and technology leadership. Clint was named a 2019 Utah Business Magazine CXO of the Year, which is awarded to senior executives for outstanding performance in their roles.
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About Weave: Weave makes communicating with customers easier for businesses by integrating features like texting, phone service, fax, and reviews.
Nathan Rodman
CTO and Co-Founder of Perch
Nathan Rodman and Jacob Rothman founded Perch in July 2016, since which Nate has been serving as its chief technology officer.
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About Perch: Perch utilizes cameras mounted to weight racks to measure, store, and analyze weightlifting performance.
Alon Geri
VP Engineering, Co-Founder & CTO of Surgical Theater
Alon Zuckerman is Chief Operating Officer and President of Surgical Theater’s Medical Virtual Reality (mVR) Division headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As a key member of the executive leadership team, he is defining the vision and strategy that will position the company as the market leader in virtual reality for medical applications. Prior to joining Surgical Theater, Alon served as General Manager and Vice President of the Board of the European subsidiary of Elbit Systems. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial & Management Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
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About Surgical Theater: Surgical Theater is a startup that markets a Surgery Rehearsal Platform (SRP) for neurosurgical pre-operative planning and rehearsal.
Agon Avdimetaj
Co Founder, CTO of Vianova Health
Agon is a creative thinker, technology enthusiast, and entrepreneur with over 9 years of experience in companies that are specialized in the field of technology. He has led several tech projects with his own team and partners. His field of interest is Healthcare Technology. Agon is globally connected with several startups that he has transformed into great companies/organizations and they are now considered major key players of technology in different regions, such as North-America, Europe, and Australia.
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About Vianova Health: Vianova Health is reinventing home care. We personalize the technology and daily engagement to remotely care for patients
Karen Havenstrite
Co-Founder & CTO of Tangible Science
Karen Havenstrite, Ph.D., MBA is a Co-Founder of Tangible Science and serves as Chief Technical Officer. Karen has been with Tangible Science since inception and has led development of the HydraPEG technology from concept to commercialization. Karen received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, where her thesis work focused on designing hydrogel materials to improve the regenerative properties of muscle stem cells; she also received her MBA from Stanford University. Karen has authorized multiple research publications, been awarded SBIR grants from the National Science Foundation, and has been recognized by the American Chemical Society as a “Talented 12” young scientist for her novel work on contact lens materials.
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About Life Science Angels, Stanford School of Medicine, Tangible Science: Tangible Science is a developer of contact lenses designed to reduce lens discomfort in dry eye diseases.
Paul Bakoyiannis
Co-Founder & CTO of Cylera
Paul Bakoyiannis is CTO at Cylera.
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About Cylera: Cylera is a healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence company used to protect healthcare organizations.
H. Lee Mosbacker
Founder & CTO of Traycer Diagnostic Systems
H. Lee Mosbacker joined CAPRICA AI as CEO in 2018. Dr. Mosbacker received his B.S. in physics from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College in 1999. From 2000 – 2002 he worked as a programmer analyst at Nationwide Financial developing market timing applications for mutual fund managers. In 2008, Lee received his PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University. Since 2007, Lee has been the Chief Technology Officer of Traycer Diagnostic Systems, where he has been involved in the scientific and technical aspects of growing an early-stage technology company, including grant and fund raising and the conceptualization and development of microwave and terahertz frequency detection arrays. In 2005, Lee co-founded Techriculture, a non-profit that helps inventors and scientists in early stage product ideation and prototype development through educational, networking, technical, and financial consulting.
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About CAPRICA AI, HackCancerSF, OcuDoc, Syndicate app, Traycer Diagnostic Systems: Traycer Diagnostic Systems develops terahertz radiation cameras that are integrated into imaging systems.
Xiao-Jun Ma
Chief Technology Officer of Alamar Biosciences
Dr. Xiao-Jun Ma is a leader in genomic research and molecular diagnostics for personalized medicine. Applying his multi-disciplinary expertise in molecular biology, bioinformatics and statistics, Dr. Ma has a proven track record of developing molecular signatures for cancer diagnostics and identifying novel drug targets for over 14 years. Prior to joining ACD, Dr. Ma was Vice President of R&D/Biostatistics in bioTheranostics (formerly AviaraDx and Arcturus Bioscience), a bioMérieux company, where he led efforts to successfully develop several advanced molecular diagnostic tests in cancer classification and prognosis. Prior to bioTheranostics, Dr. Ma held senior bioinformatics positions at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute and Monsanto/Searle. He received his doctorate training in biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Iowa and post-doctoral training in molecular genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Alamar Biosciences: Alamar Biosciences develops technologies for the detection and treatment of cancer and other diseases at the earliest possible time.
Jie Fu
Cofounder & CTO of Siren Care
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About Siren Care: Multi-specialty virtual care clinic leveraging proprietary technology to cost-effectively care for patients at risk of diabetic foot ulcers.
James H. Pike
Co-Founder, President & Chief Technology Officer of VuCOMP
Jim Pike has over 23 years of experience in computer vision algorithm development. His experience includes computer-aided detection and image understanding for weapons systems. Jim holds an MS in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University.
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About VuCOMP: VuCOMP designs, develops, and markets computer-aided detection (CAD) systems for the automatic analysis of medical images.
Lee Hartley
Founder & CTO of Nalu Medical
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About Nalu Medical: Nalu Medical is an early-stage company that develops a range of medical devices.
Peter Flores
CTO of Dalent Medical
Peter Flores is a dynamic engineer who is as fluent in business management topics as he is in systems design. He is currently a co-founder, CTO and CBDO at Dalent Medical for which he leads the product development, quality management system and commercialization strategies. Peter’s career began as a field sales engineer for a test and measurement leader, solving technical problems for clients while over-delivering on sales quotas. After six years, he traded comfort for passion to start Piper Labs, a consultancy providing services in medical device development, test engineering software development and technical sales/business development training. Throughout his career, Peter has grown and thrived as a technical project manager and business risk manager. Since 2014, Peter has served as a board trustee, now emeritus, for the Awesome Foundation Miami, awarding monthly grants to local, awesome and under-supported ideas in the community. Peter graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida with a BS in computer hardware engineering, with minors in mathematics and business administration. After university, Peter lived in Austin and then Los Angeles. He is pleased to now be back home living in Miami with his wife and two sons. Peter enjoys boating, biking and playing with drones.
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About Dalent Medical: Dalent Medical is a startup medical device launching an innovative new surgical device for the Otolaryngology (ENT).
Carl Botterbusch
Chief Technology Officer of Corwave
Carl Botterbusch brings 25 years of experience in the field of medical devices and expertise in mechanical circulatory support. He has served as Vice President of Global R&D for Teleflex Medical, a $1.5Bn healthcare firm, leading all R&D activities at 6 locations worldwide. He has also served as Vice President, R&D and General Manager, Cardiac Assist Division for Arrow International, a $500M medical device firm. His areas of expertise include mechanical cardiac support, cardiac catheters and access devices, critical care and anesthesia catheters and antimicrobial coatings. He is a degreed Mechanical Engineer and holds a Master of Business Administration. Carl provides overall technical and strategic direction to the project. He brings many years of direct experience in this field, having previously led the development of two left ventricular assist devices (LVAD), including the LionHeart, the only totally implantable LVAD to receive regulatory approval (CE Mark) to date. Carl hails from the United States, is an mechanical engineer by training, and holds a MBA.
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About Corwave: CorWave is a medical device company developing innovative heart pumps.
Bob Zuk
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of ET Healthcare
Bob Zuk, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, is respected in the life science and clinical diagnostics industries for his repeated success in integrating biochemistry with device design to provide elegantly simple solutions to challenging analytical problems. His contributions encompass diverse applications—from biosensors on the Octet platform (FortéBio) and Threshold instrument (Molecular Devices) for life science applications, to ultrasound enhanced gene delivery in myocardial and skeletal angiogenesis (Pharmasonics), to point-of-care cardiac marker tests (First Medical) and AccuLevel (Syva), one of the first commercially available, instrument-free, quantitative assay for therapeutic drug monitoring. Bob has a portfolio of more than 60 U.S. patents and pending applications. He received his B.S. in Biology from University of California, Riverside.
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About ET Healthcare: ET Healthcare is an in vitro diagnostic technology company.
Charles Tseng
Consulting CTO of SteadyMD
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About SteadyMD: SteadyMD is a healthcare technology company that provides telehealth services.
Tim Growney
CTO & Co-Founder of Medinas Health
Tim Growney is the CTO and co-founder of Medinas Health.
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About Medinas Health: Medinas Health is a pre-owned medical equipment marketplace that helps to manage sales process while saving time and money.
Shekar Tippur
Chief Technology Officer of Cyclops Medtech
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About Cyclops Medtech: Medtech startup working on clinical and wearable diagnostic and rehab products for neuro vestibular disorders using eye tracking technology.
Spencer Allen
Chief Technology Officer of Aethon
Spencer Allen received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University in 1982. He founded Simtronics Inc., a product design business in 1987. Simtronics was a successful contract developer of electronic products, including low-power portable gas monitors, medical instrumentation, power measurement equipment and traffic counting equipment. Allen sold Simtronics to Market Central Inc. in 1996, where he became the Chief Technical Officer. At Market Central, Allen developed physical layer switching systems for wired and fiber optic networks, laboratory instrumentation, high-voltage power supplies for biomedical separation and electrophoresis applications, desktop computer peripheral devices, telephone switching products and a portable high-power microwave dosimeter. Allen joined Aethon, Inc. in 2004 as Chief Technology Officer.
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About Aethon: Aethon offers automated hospital delivery and asset management solutions such as TUGA®, its automated robotic delivery (ARD) system.
J. Fraser Wright
Co Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Spark Therapeutics
Dr. Fraser Wright is director of the Clinical Vector Core Laboratory at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a world-class manufacturing facility that has designed, manufactured, characterized and certified recombinant adeno-associated viruses (AAV) and lentiviruses (rLenti) for human gene therapy trials. He is also an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Fraser has led efforts in basic research, process and analytical methods development, and GMP manufacturing and quality systems supporting translational research. He has overseen investigational product chemistry, manufacturing and controls for gene therapy vectors administered to more than 100 human subjects in 12 clinical studies. His primary research interests focus on the development and clinical translation of gene therapy vectors with the goal of achieving effective new treatments for serious human diseases. With basic training in biochemistry, immunology and virology, Fraser has been engaged for more than 20 years in the development of viral vector-based new biologic products in both industry and academic settings, and previously served as director of development and clinical manufacturing at Avigen, Inc. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Toronto.
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About Sio Gene Therapies, Spark Therapeutics: Spark Therapeutics is focused on the development of gene therapy.
Ferry Tamtoro
CTO & Co-Founder of BrightInsight
Ferry Tamtoro has over 17 years of experience in healthcare technology and digital health within the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. Ferry has launched multiple digital health solutions, including Class 1, 2, and 3 regulated devices and combination products offering improved medication adherence and patient engagement, remote patient monitoring, medical IoT, diagnostic imaging, remote device management, and patient-provider communications. Products that Ferry has worked on include cloud-based medical-grade platforms, mobile medical apps, connected drug delivery devices, patch pumps, diagnostic imaging devices (CT, PET, and X-Ray), infusion systems software, and population health management solutions. Combining an entrepreneurial and corporate innovation background, Ferry is committed to bringing agile product development to customers in the regulated pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. Ferry holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds four patents in the area of healthcare technology.
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About BrightInsight: BrightInsight offers a global regulated digital health platform for biopharma and medtech.
Jessie Ho
Cofounder & CTO of Chai
Jessie Ho is the COO and cofounder of Chai. Prior to Chai she was an engineering manager at CellASIC, and led instrument design teams at EMD Millipore and Accel Biotech. Jessie holds several patents in microfluidics and is a graduate of MIT.
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About Chai: Chai develops products that make the core biological technologies more useful and readily available to all.
Garrett Eastham
Chief Technology Officer of Medical Innovation Labs
Garrett Eastham is the Founder & Chief Scientist at Cognetix.
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About Cognetix, Medical Innovation Labs, Medical Innovation Labs, Open Conjecture, Overton Venture Capital, The Avant-Garde Group: Medical Innovation Labs is a new hub for healthcare innovation in Central Texas.
Christian Del’Aune
Chief Technology Officer of Better Life Partners
Christian Del’Aune is the Chief Technology Officer at Better Life Partners.
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About Better Life Partners: Integrated medical and behavioral health care personalized at scale for managed care populations
Steve Godfrey
Chief Technology Officer of Vyne
Steve Godfrey is the Chief Technology Officer at i2i Population Health.
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About i2i Population Health, Vyne: Vyne serves the health services ecosystem wherever providers, patients, and payers interact.
Sam Mazin
Founder & CTO of RefleXion Medical
Sam Mazin is the President of RefleXion Medical and inventor of the company’s core technology. While a Postdoc in Radiology at Stanford University, Sam was selected by the Kauffman Foundation as one of thirteen postdocs in the nation to commercialize promising innovations. His prior research at Stanford was focused on the design of a novel X-ray computed tomography (CT) system, resulting in several journal papers and a patent, as well as the Joel Drillings Award from the American Heart Association. His work on a PET-based algorithm received the prestigious Cum Laude award from the SPIE international medical imaging society. He has been invited to speak about his research by the American Heart Association, GE’s Global Research Center, US Oncology, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2008 Sam participated in the Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite program for entrepreneurship, where he was one of five participants named a GlaxoSmithKline Garnier Fellow. Sam holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
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About RefleXion Medical: RefleXion Medical is a developer of biologically-guided radiotherapy systems for patients with cancer.
