At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Personal Health space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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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.
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Eric Friedman
Co-Founder & CTO of Fitbit
Eric is our Co-Founder and has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and most recently as our CTO. Previously, Eric served as an Engineer Manager at CNET Networks, as a Co-Founder of Wind-Up Labs, a founding engineer of Epesi Technologies, and a technical member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. Eric holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder and CTO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Steve Gatena
Founder & CEO of Pray.com
Steve is the founder of pray.com, the digital destination for faith. Steve is an American Entrepreneur, Media Producer, and NCAA Champion. In 2019, Steve was honored as a CSQ 40 Under 40 Visionary. Steve has also received an Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the United Nations in a program sponsored by Dell & Intel, and been named #8 on the Forbes list of Famous Multi-Generational Entrepreneurs.
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About Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
Michael Lynn
Founder & CFO of Pray.com
Michael is the founder of pray.com, a social impact company for Non-Profits and Faith Organizations. Pray.com’s vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others. Pray.com’s private social network gives Faith Organizations and Non-Profits the ability to organize their membership, run small groups & events, and raise funds for causes they care about most.
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About Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
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.
Leonard Pershing Guarente
Founder & Chief Scientist of Elysium
Leonard Guarente, Ph.D., is a founder of Elysium and the company’s chief scientist, a role in which he directs research and product development. Since 1982 he has led the Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research at MIT, where his research has focused on the genetic and molecular basis of aging — first in model organisms and now in mouse models and humans. Guarente is best known for his research on the role of sirtuins, a class of proteins that play a key role in regulating metabolic systems. In particular, Guarente was the first to identify SIR2 as the gene that controls aging in yeast cells. The mammalian version of SIR2, SIRT1 (and its associated proteins), has since been shown by Guarente and others to play a key role in longevity and metabolic function in mammals. Additional research is needed to confirm similar effects in humans. Guarente’s lab is currently focused on understanding how the human aging transcriptional program works and how it is regulated. His team is particularly interested in the role of sirtuins in human aging. They are investigating the role of sirtuin levels and also sirtuin polymorphisms in regulating human aging rates as well as looking broadly using unbiased genome-wide strategies. Guarente is the Novartis Professor of Biology at MIT. He holds a B.S. from MIT and a Ph.D. from Harvard.
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About Elysium: Elysium Health offers health products built with science such as dietary supplements and anti-aging drugs.
Stephanie Tilenius
CEO, Founder of Vida Health
Stephanie is CEO & Founder of Vida Health.
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About Nextdoor, Vida Health: Vida Health is a virtual care platform that provides health coaching from experienced health care providers and medical institutions.
Mike McSherry
CEO & Founder of Xealth
CEO at Xealth.
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About Xealth: Xealth is a platform for digital health, enabling clinicians to prescribe and monitor digital tools from within the EHR workflow.
Eric Fu
Co-Founder and CTO of Xealth
Eric Fu is Co-d=founder and Chief Technology Officer at Xealth. Before this, he was with Providence Health & Services as resident entrepreneur. He was director of engineering at Nuance Communications as well.
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About Xealth: Xealth is a platform for digital health, enabling clinicians to prescribe and monitor digital tools from within the EHR workflow.
Connie Wan
Founder and CEO of Seattle Gummy Company
Connie Wan Business, technology and IP executive with proven sucess in technology and product development and commercialization; intellectual property creation, portfolio strategies, management and commercialization; IP landscape and whitespace analysis; patentability search; patentability and freedom to operate analysis and opinions; IP due diligence; patent validity and infringement analyses; IP assets evaluation, acquisition, and licensing; technology transfer; IP strategy, patent portfolio development and trademark strategy for startups; inventors training, development, and management; patent preparation and prosecution in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutics, therapeutic methods, biotechnology, medical devices, polymers, material sciences, and nanotechnology; design patent preparation and prosecution; client counseling and case management; trademark searches and availability opinions; trademark registrations, oppositions, and cancellations; and limited amount of copyright work.
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About Seattle Gummy Company: A specialty pharma company focusing on delivering drug ingredients (APIs) using innovative gummy (chewable gel) formulations.
Waleed Mohsen
Founder & CEO of mynurse.ai
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About mynurse.ai: a digital health program to help seniors with chronic conditions live their best lives.
Maisha Leek
Operating Partner and Head of Founder & Studio Ops of Human Ventures
Maisha Leek is chief of staff at United Masters and Translation. Prior to Translation, she served as the National Vice President, Government Relations for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America where she led a team advocating for 4 million youth across the country, including on military installations and Native lands. Before BGCA, she served as senior advisor to the President of Howard University, and chief of staff to a senior member of Congress. She also led a team in establishing the Equity and Excellence Commission at the U.S. Department of Education . During the Bush Administration, she was appointed to serve as special assistant to the Vice Chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Maisha is a trustee of Trinity College – Washington DC and a member of the Corporate Advisory Council of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
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About Human Ventures: Human Ventures is a business creation platform, comprised of a venture fund, studio and enterprise agency.
Joe Marchese
Co-Founder of Human Ventures
Joe Marchese is the Executive Chairman and lead investor in Human Ventures. Joe serves as president of Advanced Advertising Products at Fox Networks Group, where he leads operations in non-linear advertising products and services for 21st Century Fox’s global portfolio of channels. Joe was appointed to his current position after the company he founded, true[X], was acquired by 21st Century Fox in 2015. true[X], the leader in engagement advertising technologies, is now a part of the Advanced Advertising Products division. Joe is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Human company, Reserve. Prior to true[X], Joe spent several years as a television executive at the cable network Fuse TV, where, as SVP of Digital and Advertising. Joe currently serves on the board of trustees of the Paley Center for Media and the Board of Directors of the Tribeca Film Institute. Mr. Marchese holds a B.A. in Economics and Finance from Bentley University. He lives in New York with his wife Christie and their dog
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About Attention Capital, Casa Komos Beverage Group, Human Ventures: Human Ventures is a business creation platform, comprised of a venture fund, studio and enterprise agency.
Jonathan M. Rothberg
Co-Founder, Product Architect & CEO of Butterfly Network
Jonathan Rothberg is Co-Founder, Product Architect & CEO at Butterfly Network.
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About Butterfly Network: Butterfly Network designs a medical imaging device that reduces the cost of real-time and three-dimensional imaging and treatment.
Nevada Sanchez
Co-Founder, ASIC Design Lead of Butterfly Network
Nevada Sanchez is a co-founder of [Butterfly Network](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/butterfly-network#/entity). Previously, he was an FPGA developer and hardware engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sanchez holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and master’s degree in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Branford, Connecticut, United States.
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About Butterfly Network: Butterfly Network designs a medical imaging device that reduces the cost of real-time and three-dimensional imaging and treatment.
David Ronick
Co-Founder and CEO of Minded
David is a co-founder of Minded and Stash, an LP in The Fund, and mentor to entrepreneurs at TechStars, Harvard Business School and Brown University
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About Minded: Minded is a consumer telehealth company that makes getting mental health medication easy and affordable
Charles Roberts
Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer of Freenome
A clinician by training, Charlie is Freenome’s Chief Partnership Officer, focusing on mid- and longer-term relationships that will help define the company’s future directions and revenues and works closely with the business development team in managing corporate client accounts and institutional collaborations. Prior to co-founding Freenome, Charlie co-founded a company that uses circulating cell-free (cf)DNA from maternal blood samples to diagnose chromosomal abnormalities during pregnancy. The resulting in-vitro diagnostic, IONA, has been marketed successfully across Europe and the Middle East. Charlie studied medicine and neuropsychology in the UK, earning a Masters degree from Oxford with a focus on immunotherapy. He has worked in some of the UK’s leading oncology centers, including the Royal Marsden.
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About Freenome, Relation Therapeutics: Freenome is a biotechnology company with a comprehensive multiomics platform for cancer detection using a routine blood draw.
Riley Ennis
Co-Founder and COO of Freenome
Riley is a Thiel Fellow who created a cancer vaccine with his previous company Immudicon as Co-Founder & Chair. Co-Founder, COO at Freenome.
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About Freenome, Immudicon, Oncolinx, The Thiel Foundation: Freenome is a biotechnology company with a comprehensive multiomics platform for cancer detection using a routine blood draw.
Ric Elias
Co-Founder & CEO of Red Ventures
Ric attended Boston College and Harvard Business School before beginning his career as part of GE’s Financial Management program. Ric co-founded Red Ventures in 2000, just days before the dot-com bubble burst. The company weathered the storm and by 2007 it was ranked 4th on the Inc. 500 list. In 2009, Elias was a survivor of Flight 1549, an event which drastically changed his life and led to his widely viewed TED Talk “3 things I learned while my plane crashed.” Elias is cited as aspiring to create the “Google of the East Coast” within his company’s culture and facilities. Ric’s leadership style earned him noteworthy recognition in 2011, when he was named an Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year. His inspirational views on both business and family have been featured on CNN, TED Talks and MSNBC. Ric Elias is the co-founder and CEO of Red Ventures, a portfolio of digital companies headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. With over 3,000 employees in 10 US cities, Puerto Rico, the UK, and Brazil, Red Ventures’s digital platform spans across many industries, including home services, financial services, health services, education, and entertainment. Through its influential brands, strategic partnerships, and powerful technology platform, Red Ventures connects millions of people to premium content, intuitive digital experiences, and consumer advice to help make life’s most important decisions. Over the last decade, Red Ventures has compounded growth at over 30%. In 2010, General Atlantic made a strategic investment in the company, and in 2015 Silver Lake also joined as a shareholder. Ric has cultivated an award-winning and technology-centric company culture, ranking as one of Charlotte’s “Best Places to Work” for ten years in a row. A native of Puerto Rico, Ric graduated from Boston College and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He co-founded Red Ventures in 2000, months before the dot-com bubble burst. The company weathered the storm; by 2007 it was ranked 4th on the Inc. 500 list. Ric’s leadership style has earned him noteworthy recognition; in 2011, he was named an Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year, and in 2016 he was inducted into the Carolinas Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. In 2009, Ric survived Flight 1549, also known as the “Miracle on the Hudson,” an event which changed his life and led to his widely viewed TED Talk “3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed.” In 2019, he launched a podcast, “3 Things with Ric Elias,” where he shares conversations and insights with top business leaders, athletes, and remarkable guests. In addition to being deeply committed to his family and Red Ventures, Ric is passionate about creating economic mobility opportunities for underserved groups who have the motivation and work ethic to succeed. In 2013, he founded and funded what is now Road to Hire, a 501(c)(3) that connects young adults with on-ramps to professional development and high-earning careers. Programs provided through the Road to Hire platform include career-readiness classes in Charlotte Mecklenberg Title 1 high schools, digital marketing courses at Johnson C. Smith University, on-the-job training and placement with top employers in Charlotte , and scholarships for high-performing undocumented students seeking college degrees. Additionally, in 2018 Ric launched Forward787, a $100M social enterprise committed to building digital businesses based in Puerto Rico. To date, the program has trained and supported more than 100 Puerto Rican professionals, fueling a new economic growth engine on the island.
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About Red Ventures: A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life’s most important decisions.
Charles Desmarais
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Club
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About Athena Club: Athena Club provides a wide range of feminine care products.
Maria Markina
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Athena Club
Maria is the Co-Founder at Athena Club, a feminine care company aiming to make women’s day to day lives easier through an easy and personable service. Prior to launching Athena Club, Maria worked at McKinsey and Company.
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About Athena Club: Athena Club provides a wide range of feminine care products.
Mirza Cifric
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Veritas Genetics
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About Veritas Genetics, YPO: Veritas Genetics is a provider of a genetic testing platform intended to empower people to live healthier and longer.
Jonathan Zhao
Founder & Managing Director, Asia of Veritas Genetics
Jonathan Y. Zhao, Ph.D. is Co-Founder of Veritas Genetics and serves as its Managing Director of Asia. Jonathan Zhao is responsible for Asia strategy and new products at Amgen and Pfizer. He holds MBA from MIT Sloan and Ph.D. in Chemistry.
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About Veritas Genetics: Veritas Genetics is a provider of a genetic testing platform intended to empower people to live healthier and longer.
Sami Inkinen
CEO & Founder of Virta Health
Sami Inkinen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Virta Health, a specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Previously, Mr. Inkinen was the co-founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO and president and board member until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. He also worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. A physicist by training, Mr. Inkinen started his career as a radiochemist at a nuclear power plant and holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He thinks his greatest luxury today is a small vegetable garden at his San Francisco Bay area home.
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About Virta Health: Virta delivers a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases.
Isabelle Kenyon
Founder, CEO of Calibrate
Isabelle is the Founder & CEO of Calibrate. Prior to Calibrate, she led the business operations, growth, and strategic partnerships & communications teams at Capsule, a technology business that has raised $270 million to rebuild the pharmacy from the inside out. Before Capsule, Isabelle worked at beloved consumer brands in London and New York and was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Retail & E-commerce list in 2015. She began her career as an investment banker in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Calibrate: Calibrate is a digital metabolic health business that is changing the way the world treats weight.
Maxime Germain
CEO, Founder of Jour
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About Jour: Jour is a guided journaling app that helps teens and adults with battling mental illness and commit mindfulness.
Andrew Grover
Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Tend
Andy Grover is Head of Development at Tend, the dental brand bringing a hospitality mindset to oral health. With vast experience in real estate, healthcare and branding, Andy has established himself as a leader in building spaces tailored specifically to guests’ needs and emotions. At Tend, Andy spearheads every aspect of development, focusing on finding the right locations to create a holistic environment that supports guests, marrying hospitality and the sensibility of the healthcare industry. Prior to Tend, Andy was the VP of Real Estate and Development at One Medical Group. In this role, he worked with clinicians and technology specialists to develop the practice’s signature design, helping scale the industry-leading healthcare model into the business it is today.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Doug Hudson
CEO and Co-Founder of Tend
Doug Hudson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tend. Born out of the need for systemic change across the dental industry, Doug’s vision is for Tend to set a new standard for oral health, starting at the dentist. As CEO, Doug applies his past experience spearheading numerous high-growth healthcare ventures to bring a hospitality mindset to the dental industry. Previously, Doug was the founding CEO of SmileDirectClub, a leading direct-to-consumer orthodontics company. Prior to this, he founded and led several consumer health companies including DiabetesCareClub and CPAPCareClub, Inc. and HearingPlanet, Inc., the latter of which became the largest online hearing aid distributor in the U.S. during his tenure.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Michael Stenclik
Co-Founder of Tend
Michael Stenclik is co-Founder and Chief of Staff at Tend, the dental brand bringing a hospitality mindset to oral health. Michael’s eye for innovation and expertise in bridging gaps within disjointed systems played a key role in the early stages of Tend’s development. In his current role as Chief of Staff, Michael oversees operations across finance, regulation, talent and product, in addition to driving various strategic projects internally. Previously, Michael held a product management role at Quartet Health, a behavioral health technology company. In this role Michael helped develop an innovative product that delivered improved outcomes while lowering the total cost of care, creating a better experience for both guest and provider. Prior to this, Michael served as an engagement manager for Farenheit 212, consulting for several Fortune 500 companies.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Victoria Eisner
Founder, Chief Creative Officer of GLAMSQUAD
Victoria Eisner is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at GLAMSQUAD.
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About GLAMSQUAD: GLAMSQUAD is a next-generation, omni-channel beauty brand offering services as well as hair styling and makeup products.
David Goldweitz
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of GLAMSQUAD
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About GLAMSQUAD: GLAMSQUAD is a next-generation, omni-channel beauty brand offering services as well as hair styling and makeup products.
Stephen Chen
Founder & CEO of Scanwell Health
Co-Founder and President at Learn To Be Foundation. Founder at Petnostics.
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About Learn To Be Foundation, Petnostics, Scanwell Health: Scanwell Health is an FDA-cleared urine testing application.
Irv Edwards
Founder & President of Emergent Medical Associates
Dr. Irv Edwards obtained his Bachelor’s Degree from McGill University and his Medical Degree from the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He came to Los Angeles to pursue his interest in Emergency Medicine and interned at Los Angeles County Hospital. After his internship, Dr. Edwards completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Following his residency, Dr. Edwards pursued private practice at a variety of hospital sites in Los Angeles and Orange Counties including Chino Valley Medical Center, Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, La Palma Intercommunity Hospital, Mission Community Hospital, Montclair Hospital Medical Center, Olympia Medical Center, Sherman Oaks Hospital, and Valley Presbyterian Hospital. He was the Director of Performance Improvement at Mission Community Hospital from 1998 – 2003 and he currently serves as the Director of Case Management at Mission Community Hospital and as the Chief of Staff at Chino Valley Medical Center. He is the Director of Emergency Services at Chino Valley Medical Center, Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, Mission Community Hospital, and Montclair Hospital Medical Center. In 1989, Dr. Edwards founded Emergent Medical Associates and has served as its President since inception. Since 2001, Dr. Edwards has been a dedicated member of CAL/ACEP and he currently sits on their Executive Board. He served as its President from 2005-2006.
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About Emergent Medical Associates: Emergent Medical Associates is a provider of emergency care and episodic care management services to patients.
Melissa Lim
Founder of MelissaWithLove.co
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About GoFibre, M Travels, MelissaWithLove.co, Tech Nation, Tech Nation: Global Retailer of Luxury Organic Beauty and Personal Care Products
Blake Mallen
Co-Founder & President of ViSalus
Blake Mallen is a Billion-Dollar Lifestyle Entrepreneur, CoFounder and President of two global lifestyle brands, TED Speaker, and Creator, who has spent over two decades helping people ‘wake up’ to become who they are ‘meant to’ be. After 19 years of excelling on the traditional path, yet never feeling fully fulfilled, Blake had a wake-up call: He had spent his entire life chasing achievements solely because it was what he was told he was “supposed to” do. Realizing that script would never lead to what he was really “meant to” do, Blake made the leap into entrepreneurship, becoming a self-made Millionaire by age 25 and co-owning a billion-dollar brand by his early 30s. Grateful for his journey, Blake gives back by empowering entrepreneurs and leaders to ‘shift the script’ so they too can find what they’re meant to do, become who they’re meant to be, and feel more alive. Blake builds companies that are aligned with his mission. He is a creator of products, programs, and platforms that have impacted over 3 million people and inspired mainstream movements expanding across 15+ countries. In his early 20s, Blake’s co-founded Vi, a health transformation platform that has generated more than $2 billion in cumulative revenue, was coined the “#1 Weight-Loss and Fitness Challenge in America,” has impacted millions, and is now expanding across Europe and Latin America. Blake also serves as the President of Vi’s sister company, Liv, an experience platform he co-founded to inspire people to trade in the notion of the “Bucket List” for a “Liv List,” by providing the everyday person access to extraordinary curated life experiences. Passionate about helping entrepreneurs create mission-driven movements, Blake takes on investor and advisor roles in select passion projects, and is a partner in HashTagOne, a $20M investment fund that invests in High Growth Seed and Series A companies. A values-driven leader, Blake is married to his high school sweetheart and has daily ‘dad-life’ adventures with his young son, daughter, and their big American Bulldog. From life enthusiast and high adventurer, to health advocate and longtime surfer, to world traveler and family man, Blake actively lives the lifestyle brands he sells. Blake is also a globally recognized influencer, thought leader, conscious living expert, and speaker, who is often profiled in industry publications (Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., SUCCESS) speaking on the topics of entrepreneurship, personal development and leadership. He has spoken in thousands of live events, to hundreds of thousands of people, and his recent TED Talk: “Shift The Script – Why Your ‘Supposed To’ No Longer Works,” is inspiring a movement to help even more “wake up,” move toward their “meant to,” and feel more ALIVE!
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About Liv Global, ViSalus: ViSalus is a health promoting company that created the Body by Vi 90-Day Challenge.
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.
Kristina Cahojova
Founder & CEO of kegg
Kristina Cahojova is the Founder and CEO of Kegg.
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About kegg: Kegg is a two-in-one device that combines fertility tracking with pelvic floor exercising.
Nanea Reeves
CEO and Co-Founder of TRIPP
As CEO of TRIPP, Nanea Reeves brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Prior to co-founding TRIPP, Nanea was President & COO of textPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on the iOS and Android platforms. Before joining textPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video influencer and content network focused on video games now owned by Warner Brothers. Nanea has also served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. Previous to Gaikai, Nanea was SVP/COO of Global Online for Electronic Arts where she was responsible for building the foundation for EA’s digital revenue streams. Nanea came to EA through their acquisition of JAMDAT where she was SVP of Enabling Technologies. JAMDAT was one of the first breakout mobile games company with a successful IPO in 2005 before being acquired by EA in 2006. Nanea is very committed to supporting the evolution of the technology sector in Los Angeles and has worked as an Advisor and Angel Investor in many exciting So-Cal start-ups including Oculus, Haku and Saucey. Nanea is an active mentor and enjoys public speaking having given 3 Tedx talks on various subjects – including one focused on why girls should play video games. An avid meditator, Nanea also spends her free time playing video games, her ukulele and golf. She is also very active in her late husband’s non-profit Bodhicitta, Inc. as well as dedicated to helping women in recovery at the Peggy Albrecht Friendly House.
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About TRIPP: The award-winning digital psychedelic wellness platform that uses the power of virtual and augmented reality to change the way you feel.
Tom Chang MD
Co-CEO , Founder and Retina Surgeon of Acuity Eye Specialists
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About Acuity Eye Specialists: Acuity Eye Specialists is a team of doctors and staff that provides best eye care services and comprehensive treatment to communities.
Landy Toth
CEO, Founder & CTO of LifeLens Technology
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About Autonomix Medical, DavosPharma, LifeLens Technology: LifeLens Technology is a biotechnology company that leads in innovative next generation treatment devices for personal health monitoring.
Robert Van Tassel
Founder & Chief Medical Officer of LifeLens Technology
Robert Van Tassel is a Founder and Chief Medical Officer at LifeLens Technology.
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About Autonomix Medical, BackBeat Medical, LifeLens Technology: LifeLens Technology is a biotechnology company that leads in innovative next generation treatment devices for personal health monitoring.
Ryan Grant
CEO and Founder of Vori Health
Ryan A. Grant serves as the CEO and Founder of Vori Health.
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About Nomad Health, Vori Health: Vori Health is a medical and health provider practicing a holistic, integrated approach starting with musculoskeletal care.
Michael Geer
Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity
Michael Geer (MG) was founding team at Badoo (grew to largest dating site in the world and spawned the Social Discovery sector). He then ran operations at AnchorFree which became the largest consumer VPN in the world with over 700 million users. He now has cofounded Humanity with Peter Ward to extend the healthspan (healthy fully functional years of life) of every person on earth.
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About Humanity, Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Stefan Behrens
CEO & Co-Founder of GYANT
Stefan is a repeat entrepreneur in the digital consumer space. After spending almost a decade in strategy consulting driving large-scale transformation programs for international telco companies, he took multiplayer gaming company Aeria Games from humble beginnings to an acquisition by ProSiebenSat.1, Europe’s leading media company. As a co-founder of Invincible Brands, he oversaw the launch and development of two lifestyle brands (Natural Mojo and Hello Body) in the healthy living space leveraging the power of social influencers to drive growth. At GYANT he focuses on product, bridging the gap between engineering, clinical content teams and UX to deliver a compelling patient experience.
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About GYANT: GYANT is a digital front door solution for health systems that uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and resources.
Michael Cline
Co-Founder of Accolade
Michael Cline is the Founder and Chairman of Accolade.
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About Accolade, Accolade, Accretive, Accumen: Accolade features personalized health and benefits solutions that help to improve experience, outcomes, and healthcare cost for employers.
Stephen Hays
Founder of What If Ventures
Stephen Hays is the founder, and managing partner of What If Ventures, a VC firm investing in early stage mental health and addiction recovery related startups. What If Ventures was formed in the spring of 2019 and closed its first investment in January 2020. Stephen also founded and managed Deep Space Ventures from 2015 until 2018. During that time he invested in 25 seed and series-A stage startups in the B2B SaaS, esports and FinTech spaces. Personal struggles with addiction and mental health led Stephen to step away from Deep Space Ventures in late 2018 and begin to focus on addiction recovery and mental health both personally and professionally. The Deep Space portfolio has achieved outsized returns with approximately 3x TVPI just 4 years since inception with 5 exits and nearly a dozen series-A and later rounds within its portfolio companies. Prior to founding Deep Space Ventures, Stephen worked as an investment banker for 6+ years in both New York and Dallas. During this time, he executed a numerous capital markets and M&A transactions for Fortune 500 companies. Stephen is a a graduate of West Point and obtained his MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.
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About What If Ventures: What If Ventures invests primarily in mental health, addiction, and stigmatized healthcare services from seed stage to pre-IPO.
Khaled Kteily
Founder & CEO of Legacy
Khaled Kteily is the Founder & CEO of Legacy, a digital fertility clinic for men helping change the outdated view that fertility is a “women’s issue”. Legacy is a graduate of Harvard’s Innovation Labs and Y Combinator, has raised over $20M from top-tier investors like FirstMark Capital & Bain Capital Ventures, as well as celebrities like Justin Bieber and DJ Khaled. The company works with leading insurers, military partners, and clinics in additions to its Direct to Consumer offering. A former healthcare consultant at Oliver Wyman in Toronto, Khaled studied public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he received a full scholarship and graduated with distinction. He previously graduated with a triple concentration from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Khaled is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), is an Aspen Ideas Health Scholar, and a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow. He was recently recognized as 40 under 40 by the Arab America Foundation. He serves on the boards of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership (Alumni Council) and the Harvard Arab Alumni Association.
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About Legacy: Legacy is a digital fertility clinic for men, founded at Harvard & backed by Y Combinator, FirstMark Capital, Bain Capital and celebrities.
Kyle Michelson
Founder & CEO of Getlabs
Kyle Michelson is the Founder and CEO of Getlabs. He is a former Founder of Streamup and Instameet.
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About Getlabs: Getlabs delivers healthcare to patients with in-person medical professionals.
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.
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
Renuka Babu Brown
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of DOTS
Renuka Babu is the CEO & Co-Founder of DOTS. Babu has held leadership positions both in biotech and financial start-ups including the RiskMetrics Group (now MSCI), ArQule (ARQL), and MEND (delivery technologies for diseases of poverty). She also served as Executive Director of New Ventures at Boston University where she focused on commercializing intellectual property. Babu obtained her BA from Bryn Mawr College and her MBA from the University of Chicago.
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About DOTS: DOTS (Detection On The Spot) is creating a revolutionary protein detection platform to improve the quality of life for millions of people.
Dr. Adi Gilboa-Geffen
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer of DOTS
Harvard molecular biologist specializing in immunology, Dr. Gilboa-Geffen has extensive experience in Oligonucleotide therapeutic research. Her work has focused on therapeutic treatment of triple negative breast cancer, and she successfully led therapeutic constructs from IBD and Alzheimer’s disease. She has a PhD with Honors from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and did her post-doctoral training at Bonn University and Harvard Medical School.
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About DOTS: DOTS (Detection On The Spot) is creating a revolutionary protein detection platform to improve the quality of life for millions of people.
Sandeep Acharya
CEO & Co-Founder of Octave
Prior to co-founding Octave, Sandeep Acharya led strategy at One Medical for 5 years. In this role, he was responsible for launching and scaling several new services and oversaw the growth of its employer business to over 1,000 companies, while being a member of a senior leadership team that expanded the company to over sixty clinics in eight cities. Before One Medical, he spent his career as an investor, operator, and consultant in the healthcare, retail, and technology sectors at Bain & Co, Bain Capital & Insight Venture Partners. Sandeep holds degrees in computer science & business from Wharton and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
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About Octave: Octave is a modern mental health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible to more people.
Benjamin Kruger
Co Founder of Sollis Health
Ben Kruger operates out of Vandewater’s Los Angeles office, sourcing and analyzing new business opportunities while managing preexisting investments within the company’s diverse portfolio. Ben contributes a majority of his time to Vandewater Media where he leads its Content and Creative team. Before joining Vandewater, Ben was the Creative Director of Jesta Digital. Ben has also contributed as a writer and producer for ABC Studios and Paramount Pictures. Kruger holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Brown University and is the recipient of a History Research Fellowship from St. Edmund Hall at Oxford University, UK.
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About Sollis Health: Sollis Health offers 24/7 concierge medical centers that handle emergencies, everyday checkups, and everything in between.
Dr. Bernard Kruger
Founder of Sollis Health
Board-certified in Oncology and Internal Medicine and on faculty at Weill Cornell, Dr. Kruger has been serving the needs of his patients for more than 30 years from his office in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. As a pioneer of concierge medicine, Dr. Kruger has devoted his career to making the doctor–patient relationship as comfortable, reliable and easy as possible.
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About Sollis Health: Sollis Health offers 24/7 concierge medical centers that handle emergencies, everyday checkups, and everything in between.
Andrew Olanow
Founder of Sollis Health
A passionate advocate for improvements in the healthcare industry, Andrew has been a healthcare investor and analyst for more than 10 years at Generation IM, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. He has consulted for many health systems and advised multinational institutions toward more effective and efficient healthcare models. Andrew holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Columbia University.
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About Sollis Health: Sollis Health offers 24/7 concierge medical centers that handle emergencies, everyday checkups, and everything in between.
Nadya Okamoto
Co-Founder and CEO of August
Nadya Okamoto is the Co-Founder and CEO of August, a lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods to be powerful. She is also the author of the book PERIOD POWER: a Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement, and founder and former Executive Director of the nonprofit organization, PERIOD. Outside of her work in the menstrual health space, Okamoto is also a mental health advocate and known as a Gen Z marketing expert. She recently graduated from Harvard College, class of 2021. Her debut book, PERIOD POWER, published by Simon & Schuster in 2018, made the Kirkus Reviews list for Best Young Adult Nonfiction that year. Nadya is also the former Chief Brand Officer and Board Member of JUV Consulting, a Generation Z marketing agency based in NYC. She has been recognized on the lists of Forbes 30 under 30, Bloomberg 50 “Ones to Watch” and People Magazine’s Women Changing the World.
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About August: A lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods to be powerful.
William Herlands
CEO and Co-Founder of Willow
Will Herlands is the CEO of Willow. After graduating from Princeton University where he studied electrical engineering, Will worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory conducting research on AI, robotics, and cybersecurity. He then entered a dual PhD in Machine Learning and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, focused on helping policy makers and create more effective, intelligent, and just decisions. In 2017 he took these analytical approaches to help develop a novel way of providing stylish, affordable, and convenient adult incontinence products, allowing people to live proud and in style without losing their wallets.
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About Willow: Willow is stylish, comfortable, affordable disposable underwear — delivered discreetly to your door at a fraction of the price.
Alicia Chong Rodriguez
Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomer Health Tech
Alicia Chong Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech. She holds two master’s degrees in engineering and management/integrated design and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Aceil Halaby
Co-Founder & COO of Bloomer Health Tech
Aceil Halaby is the co-founder and COO at Bloomer Health Tech.
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Iryna Korolenko
Founder and CEO of iSALON Beauty App
The founder of iSALON, a businesswoman and entrepreneur, fashion model and world-traveler, Iryna Korolenko is a portrait of the modern Renaissance woman. Born in Ukraine, she balanced passion and professionalism, ambition and sophistication from an early age, modeling internationally by 16 while prioritizing higher education. After receiving postgraduate degrees both in international economy and psychology, Iryna began a career working for global corporations, negotiating multi-million dollar contracts. By seamlessly navigating between the worlds of business and beauty, from airline to fashion runways, she has gained a worldview unique among her peers. Seeking new opportunities, Iryna packed a single suitcase and moved to the United States in 2014. Despite having no support network, she paved her way in an unfamiliar environment, and continues to trailblaze her singular career workingwith prominent designers and global brands both as a model and businesswoman. In boardrooms and at photo shoots, presentation matters, but it doesn’t have to be inconvenient. It was during a commute in traffic that Iryna realized it was smarter, safer, and simpler to have beauty services delivered directly to her door. Any modern professional will recognize the importance of quickly connecting with services wherever they are, whenever they are – and with iSALON, you can. Iryna is based in California but continues to pursue her passion exploring new places and meeting new people, always looking forward to new challenges and discovering innovative ideas. A consummate Capricorn, culinary dilettante, and classic cinema enthusiast, she most appreciates the simple things in life, especially her French bulldog, Blu.
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About Coleman Research, Fohr, GLG, iSALON Beauty App, Kelly Moore Paints, Look Model Agency, RED HOT MONDE: Delivering Beauty to Your Doorstep
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.
Guy Snir
Co-Founder & COO 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.
Brian Ha
Co Founder/Operations/Business Dev. of Vitagene
Founder at Vitagene
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About Vitagene: The world’s First and Only Personalization Platform for Health and Wellness Products and Services Tailored to Your DNA and Lifestyle.
Reza Malek
Founder & CMO of Vitagene
Former Chief Medical Officer at Genophen, Neuro-Interventional Radiologist, Interventional Radiologist, President of Minimally Invasive Surgical Solutions.
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About Vitagene: The world’s First and Only Personalization Platform for Health and Wellness Products and Services Tailored to Your DNA and Lifestyle.
Amir Glogau
Co-Founder & CEO of Guidely
Entrepreneurial executive with more than 30 years of experience in business turnarounds and growth management with small and medium-size companies. Personally, led the turnaround and exits of 12 companies across four countries for an aggregated exit value of over $500M, including taking two companies public—one of which has a current market cap of over $5B. Additionally, developed SOULeadership© a unique integrated and intuitive leadership method to allow individuals and organizations to operate from their higher purpose.
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About Citrine Capital Partners, Guidely: Guidely is a marketplace that creates powerful matches between Guides and people looking for personal and spiritual growth.
Shannon Woodruff
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Guidely
Shannon Woodruff brings over a decade of successful entrepreneurial experience to the Guidely team as Creative Director. Shannon is also the host of our LIVE interview series, where she greatly enjoys exchanging meaningful conversations with top mentors, coaches, authors and visionaries. She resides in the sunny desert of AZ with her husband and three strong-willed, spirited daughters, where she can often be found hiking, drinking tea and playing her singing bowls.
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About Guidely: Guidely is a marketplace that creates powerful matches between Guides and people looking for personal and spiritual growth.
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.
Marc Lemann
Co-Founder of Go4it Capital
Marc is the Co-Founder of Go4it and a Partner of Growth Interface Fund. Marc graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor of arts in Economics.
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About Go4it Capital: Go4it partners with entrepreneurs innovating in sports, digital media and well-being, to create an active and enjoyable world.
Daniel Hanover
Co-Founder & CEO of Orthly
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About Dandy, Orthly: Orthly provides doctor-prescribed invisible aligner treatment that combines convenience and quality at less than half of the usual price.
Toni Oloko
Head of Business Development/Co-Founder of Orthly
Toni Oloko is the co-founder of Orthly. He was the founder and CEO of PracticeGigs.
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About Dandy, Orthly: Orthly provides doctor-prescribed invisible aligner treatment that combines convenience and quality at less than half of the usual price.
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 Wechsler
Founder & Managing Director of Blue Star Innovation Partners
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About Blue Star Innovation Partners: BSIP is an investment capital fund run by serial entrepreneurs who co-manage and invest alongside Jerry Jones and the Jones Family.
Josh Bruno
Co-Founder & CEO of Path
Josh Bruno is the Founder & CEO of Path. Prior to Path, he founded Hometeam when his family struggled to care for his 93-year-old grandfather. He believes that home care should go beyond the basics to provide a safe, reliable, and interactive service that creates happier days for seniors. Prior to Hometeam, Josh worked as an investor, operator, and engineer at companies like Bain Ventures, Bain & Co, and Yahoo. Learn More: www.pathccm.com
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About Path: Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
Gabriel Diop
Co-Founder & Head of Partnerships of Path
I enjoy working hard, being scrappy, and bringing people together. Whether it is prospecting clients for a sale or candidates for an all-star team, I enjoy connecting with people on a personal level. Learn More: www.pathccm.com
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About Path: Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
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.
Padmasree Warrior
Founder, President, & CEO of Fable
Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. She also serves as the Chief Development Officer of NextEV, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NextEV’s autonomous, electric vehicles and the overall user experience. She is based in San Jose, CA where NextEV US is headquartered. Previously, Warrior served as the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTSO) for Cisco until September 2015. In this capacity she was charged with aligning the company’s technology and business strategy to business results. She was in charge of corporate strategy, mergers, acquisitions, venture investments, and strategic partnerships. Previous to that she was the GM for Cisco Enterprise segment and co-led Cisco’s worldwide engineering organization. Prior to joining Cisco, she was executive vice president and CTO at Motorola. Under her leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 U.S. National Medal of Technology. Padmasree Warrior has been widely recognized for her creative, visionary leadership. Forbes has named her one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” for three years running. In 2013, The International Alliance for Women gave her the World of Difference Award. In 2012, Business Insider called her one of the “25 Most Influential Women in Wireless”. The Aspen Institute gave her the first Leadership in Science and Technology Award. India’s National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) named her the Global CTO Award winner. The Wall Street Journal has called her one of “50 Women to Watch.” Fast Company included her among the “100 Most Creative People in Business.” The Economic Times listed her as “the 11th Most Influential Global Indian.” Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. In addition to NextEV’s board, Warrior serves on the board of Microsoft. She previously served on the board of Gap and Box.
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About Fable: Fable provides a platform for online book clubs.
Tom Chokel
Co-Founder & CTO of Modern Fertility
Tom Chokel is a Co-Founder at Modern Fertility.
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About Modern Fertility: Modern Fertility is a women’s health company closing the fertility information gap by letting women test key fertility hormones at home.
Carly Leahy
Co-Founder and CCO of Modern Fertility
Carly Leahy is Co-founder and CCO at Modern Fertility.
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About Modern Fertility: Modern Fertility is a women’s health company closing the fertility information gap by letting women test key fertility hormones at home.
Tal J. Zlotnitsky
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Our.Love
A life-long learner who is inquisitive and curious; an avid reader who enjoys developing a broad knowledge base as well as a depth of knowledge; a natural leader; my objectives are to continue to improve as a human, as a father, mentor, friend and entrepreneur through learning from the experience of accomplished leaders and wise laypersons alike; through building relationships and alliances; and through taking risks for ideas I believe in and am passionate about. That, and baseball.
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About Our.Love: “It’s like Home Design Meets Noom, but for Relationships”
Kristian Ranta
CEO, Founder of Meru Health
Kristian Ranta is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Meru Health.
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About Meru Health: Meru Health is an online mental healthcare company that teaches people the skills needed to create long-lasting healthy lifestyle habits.
Taran Ghatrora
Co-Founder and CEO of Blume
Taran Ghatrora is co-founder and CEO of Blume, a digitally native empowerment and education company. She is a 500 startups fellow and G20 youth delegate for Canada. Blume focused on organic personal care products, for girls and women who believe in the power of their choices. Her passion for health and advocacy broadened in law school when she researched gender equality due to lack of access to period products.
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About Blume: Blume is the first direct to consumer brand focused on puberty, from trustworthy education, to safe & effective self care products.
Alexi Suvacioglu
Co-Founder & CEO of Because Market
Alexi Suvacioglu focuses on product and customer acquisition, perfecting the art of CAC vs LTV. Prior to ZenDeals, Alexi cofounded and sold a VC-funded ecommerce business, was a Senior Manager of Internet Marketing at eBay, and spent 6 years doing technology consulting at Accenture in its Consumer practice. Alexi holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Kings College London (Honors).
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About Because Market: Because is personal care direct-to-consumer company focused on meeting the needs of older adults.
Jordan Shlain
Founder & CEO of Private Medical
Jordan is a practicing physician who is building new models of healthcare delivery. On his 15 year journey he is actively deconstructing the status quo and rebuilding a model that honors the existential humanistic qualities of people while infusing the best technologies to enhance the patient experience, the physician experience and ultimately the patient outcome. When not practicing medicine, you can find him reading books on quantum physics, behavioral economics, statistics, art history and anthropology. Dr. Jordan Shlain is a nationally recognized physician for his innovative approach to the delivery of healthcare. In addition to being a full time doctor and founder of Healthloop, he has been appointed commissioner by the Mayor to the SF Health Service Systems Board and sits on the board of the bi-partisian Washington, DC policy think tank, Hope Street Group. He has been named one of the top 100 health care innovators by HealthSpottr. In addition to being a frequent speaker at various conferences; Health 2.0, RockHealth, Economist Big Ideas, Futuremed and UC Berkeley’s Pre-Med 101, he consults with the investor community as a due diligence expert.
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About American Medical Association, Bright HealthCare, Digital Wellness Lab, Eat Real, HealthLoop, Private Medical, TinctureHealth: A Medical Family Office
Renee Dua
Founder and Advisor of Heal
Dr. Dua is board certified in nephrology, hypertension, and internal medicine and served as Chief of Medicine at Valley Presbyterian and Simi Valley Hospitals. She is now the Founder and Advisor of Heal. She completed her BS in Biochemistry at UC San Diego, her MD at Rosalind Franklin University, her residency at UCLA, and her fellowship in nephrology at USC. Renee and her husband are enjoying the travails of being parents to a rambunctious 1-year-old boy.
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About Burrito Labs, Heal: Heal is an in-home primary care practice that offers modern doctor house calls, one-touch telemedicine and remote monitoring for seniors.
Douglas Colbeth
Founder & CEO of MedCircle
Douglas Colbeth became president and chief executive officer of Kinaxis in March 2003. As one of the true visionaries of the Internet explosion in the mid 1990’s, he envisioned the opportunity to be a leader in delivering an on-demand supply chain management service. He then came across what he describes as a “gang of supply chain geniuses” in Canada, who had already developed very powerful modeling and collaboration technology. After going public in 2014 – Kinaxis has a market capitalization of approximately $2 Billion. Doug understood what the Internet’s influence on consumer behavior would be and how it would dramatically increase demand volatility. The problem of effectively responding to consumer demand would be further exacerbated by the dramatic market shift of outsourced manufacturing operations. Under Doug’s leadership, Kinaxis developed a world-class offering which enables companies to build better supply chain plans and quickly respond to constant changes in demand, supply and product — driving breakthroughs in customer service and operations performance. Today, the Kinaxis RapidResponse® cloud service empowers front-line decision makers at brand name companies and contract manufacturers with multi-enterprise visibility and collaborative analysis tools to effectively respond to change across an entire distributed supply chain. Prior to Kinaxis, Doug was chief executive officer of Spyglass Inc., a leading provider of Internet software technologies. Spyglass technologies are utilized inside millions of products including PCs, televisions, telephones, and other hand-held devices. Most notably, Spyglass technology is the foundation of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. In June 1995, Spyglass became the first Internet software company to conduct a successful Initial Public Offering. In March 2000, Doug negotiated its merger with OpenTV Inc., at a value of $2.4 Billion. Outside of his work with Kinaxis, Doug and his wife Margaret are pioneer philanthropists in the area of juvenile brain diseases. Established in 2000, the Colbeth Clinic is operated by the University of Illinois Medical Center and serves inner city children in the Chicago area. This state of the art clinic employs a multidisciplinary approach to treating a wide range of brain diseases including: autism, depression, bipolar, OCD, ADHD, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, and studied Quantitative Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.) in Troy, New York. While attending R.P.I., Doug was awarded a research grant from Texas Instruments Inc. to develop modeling software for various Texas Instruments products.
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About MedCircle: MedCircle is a San Diego based company redefining the mental health care market
Richard J Stephenson
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Cancer Treatment Centers of America
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About Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Gateway for Cancer Research, International Capital & Management Company, Sheridan Capital Partners: CTCA has been helping patients win the fight against cancer using advanced technology and a personalized approach.
Kuldeep Singh Rajput
Founder & CEO of Biofourmis
Kuldeep Singh Rajput is the CEO and Founder of Biofourmis, a fast-growing digital health company filled with committed, passionate people who care about augmenting personalized care and empowering people with complex chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. Biofourmis is pioneering an entirely new category of digital health, by developing clinically-validated software-based therapeutics to provide better outcomes for patients, smarter engagement and tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective solutions for payers. Recognized as the “Forbes 30 Under 30”, Kuldeep has demonstrated strong leadership experience with building teams, developing talents, and successfully growing, and managing strategic partnerships with global pharmaceutical manufacturers, health systems and Payers. Under his leadership, Biofourmis has raised over US$45 Million in venture capital from leading Venture Capital firms including Sequoia Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Singapore Govt-linked EDBI, Aviva plc, and Mayo Clinic Ventures. He uses his background and experience in biomedical engineering and data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to unfold his vision of “Predicting and Preventing Serious Medical Events using AI”. During his Ph.D. studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), he built bioelectronic implants, which aim to control biological processes and treat diseases by modulating electric impulses. He believes in giving back and is part of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (YLC), supporting the mission of providing people access to education and healthcare for stable economic growth. Kuldeep has been featured in major publications and has been a keynote speaker at numerous prestigious conferences like TED. Specialties: Entrepreneur, Fund Raising, Building Companies, Digital Therapeutics, Licensing, and Deal Structure, Healthcare Strategy, Digital Healthcare, Wearable Biosensors, Pharmaceuticals
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About Biofourmis: Biofourmis is a biotechnology company that augments personalized care and therapies using digital therapeutics.
Claire Tomkins
Founder & CEO of Future Family
Claire is Founder and CEO of Future Family, a startup helping women and couples navigate their fertility journey. Previously, Claire was Director of Product Marketing at SolarCity (now TSLA), where she helped build one of the largest consumer finance businesses in the industry. She holds a PhD from Stanford University and has been recognized as a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Kauffman Fellow. Claire is passionate about women’s health and fertility based on her personal journey.
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About Future Family: Future Family provides women and couples with personal and affordable fertility care.
Nick Wernimont
CEO/Founder & Chief Health & Wellness Strategist of Factor_
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About Factor_, Factor_: Factor is a subscription-based prepared meal delivery service that delivers dietitian-designed, chef-crafted meals.
Anthony Vennare
Founder of Fitt
Founder @ Fitt Insider
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About Fitt, Fitt: Funding the future of health, fitness, and well-being
Eric Wu
Co-Founder and COO of Gainful
Eric Wu is the co-founder and COO of Gainful.
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About Gainful: Gainful is a personalized sports nutrition company that offers subscriptions to its Hydration line of electrolyte drink mixes.
Harrison Gordon
Co-Founder and CEO of Blueberry Pediatrics
Harrison Gordon graduated from Northwestern University and worked for Microsoft as a program manager and Google as a product manager. With a family full of doctors and both parents practicing physicians based in Florida, Harrison wanted to use his background and expertise to create a company that uses online services to create a better life for everyone. In his spare time, Harrison enjoys cooking, hiking, and playing with his 1-year-old rescue dog Riley.
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About Blueberry Pediatrics: Blueberry Pediatrics provides parents with live access to top pediatricians for a flat monthly rate.
Sean Miller
Co-Founder and CTO of Blueberry Pediatrics
Sean Miller graduated from Duke University and post-graduation worked for Google for over three years as a software engineer lead. Originally from Philadelphia, Sean was excited to use his expertise in software and systems development to build Blueberry Pediatrics.
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About Blueberry Pediatrics: Blueberry Pediatrics provides parents with live access to top pediatricians for a flat monthly rate.
Sean Engelking
Co-Founder and CEO of Starship
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About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Frederic Dijols
Co-Founder & CEO of Mixlab
Frederic Dijols is a Co-Founder and the CEO at Mixlab.
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About Mixlab: Mixlab is the best-in-class pet pharmacy that partners with veterinarians.
Stella Kim
Co-Founder & CXO of Mixlab
Stella Kim is a Co-Founder and the CXO at Mixlab.
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About Mixlab: Mixlab is the best-in-class pet pharmacy that partners with veterinarians.
Vinnie Dam
Co-Founder & Director of Pharmacy of Mixlab
Vinnie Dam is a Co-Founder and Director of Pharmacy at Mixlab.
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About Mixlab: Mixlab is the best-in-class pet pharmacy that partners with veterinarians.
Michelle Mallette
Founder of Fjord Naturals
Michelle Mallette currently works as the business consultant for The Startup Club. She previously worked at Maybank Kim Eng Securities as the managing director of sales and business development.
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About Alouette & Co, Fjord Naturals, Hemp & Honey RX: Fjord Naturals offers gummy vitamin supplements for both adults and children.
Jeff LeBrun
Co-Founder & CEO of Pillsy
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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.