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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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.
Caroline Savello
VP of Commercial of Color
Caroline Savello is the VP of commercial at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Wendy Mckennon
VP of Design of Color
Wendy Mckennon is the VP of Design at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Emily Reuter
Vice President of Strategy and Operations of Color
Emily Reuter is the Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Alicia Zhou
VP of Research and Scientific Affairs of Color
Alicia Zhou is the VP of Research and Scientific Affairs at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Fatima Sabar
VP of People of Color
Fatima Sabar is the VP of people at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Ashley Chandler
VP of Marketing of Color
Ashley Chandler is the VP of Marketing at Color.
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About Color: Color is a population health technology company that enables the delivery of advanced healthcare through clinical genetics.
Jonathan Wilner
VP, Product, Software & Services of Fitbit
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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.
Shelten Yuen
VP Research of Fitbit
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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.
Noora Raj Brown
SVP of Global Communications of Goop
Noora Raj Brown is the SVP of Global Communications at Goop.
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
Stephen Martinez
SVP of Operations of Goop
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
Paul Benigeri
VP of Growth & Engineering of Health Via Modern Nutrition
Paul Benigeri graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science. He manages technology development for HVMN.com, our proprietary e-commerce platform, as well as driving growth of the H.V.M.N. Blog—one of the most trafficked health blogs in the space. In addition to spearheading all H.V.M.N.’s technology, Paul also oversees digital marketing strategy across paid social and SEM.
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About Archive, Health Via Modern Nutrition: H.V.M.N. leads the way in science, product, and community building around low-carb diets, ketones, and metabolic health.
David Fabrizio
VP, Translational Strategy of Foundation Medicine
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About Foundation Medicine: Foundation medicine is a molecular information company developing clinical diagnostic tests that facilitates personalized cancer therapies.
Raj Krishnan
Vice President Of Product Management of Noom
Raj Krishnan is VP Product at Noom
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Michael Berger
VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer and VP, Enterprise Data Science Center of Excellence of Mount Sinai Health System
Michael Berger is the VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer and VP, Enterprise Data Science Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai.
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About Mount Sinai Health System: The Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated health care system providing exceptional medical care to their local and global communities.
Stephen Buck
VP & GM, Ro Pharmacy of Ro
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About Courage Health, Courage Health, Ro: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Meghan Pianta
VP Communications of Ro
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About Ro: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Mark Mallon
Executive Vice President, Global Product and Portfolio Strategy, Medical Affairs and Corp. Affairs of AstraZeneca
Mark Mallon is responsible for the growth and performance of AstraZeneca’s International region, which predominantly includes AstraZeneca’s commercial businesses in Asia Pacific, Russia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Most recently, Mark served as Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific where he was accountable for the growth and performance of the AstraZeneca business in 14 markets. While in this role Mark has also served as President of AstraZeneca China, responsible for the company’s overall operations in China and Hong Kong. Previously, Mark led the marketing, sales and commercial operations for AstraZeneca K. K. (Japan). Since joining AstraZeneca in 1994, Mark has held a number of additional leadership roles, Including Marketing Company President of the AstraZeneca Italian subsidiary company and Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations of AstraZeneca’s US business. While in the US, Mark also was a Board Member for the Christiana Care Network, one of the the largest healthcare networks on the East Coast. Mark received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Wharton School of Business. He is based in Shanghai.
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About AstraZeneca, NeoGenomics: AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines.
Kris Snodgrass
Vice President of Talent of Norwest Venture Partners
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Ellie Javadi
Vice President | Head of Communications, PR, Marketing of Norwest Venture Partners
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Nadia Asoyan
VP of Finance of Trusted Health
Nadia Asoyan is the VP of finance at Trusted Health. Prior to Trusted Health, she was an Accounting & finance Leader at Robinhood, the fastest-growing brokerage in the world, offering commission-free stocks & digital currency trading. Starting her career in Ernst and Young, Nadia focused on tech & biotech clients. Discovering Fintech at Square, she joined a small team as accounting lead, and later, became the IPO process key member. Nadia was also acting as Assurance & Senior Associate at EY, global leader in assurance, tax, transaction & advisory services, performing inception to date audit for tech companies Natera, iControl Networks, Altheos, Arista Networks, Cloudera
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About Airbase, Pillar Life, QD Ventures, Trusted Health: Trusted Health is a labor marketplace for healthcare professionals.
Barrett Dwyer
VP of Finance of Modern Health
Modern Health VP of Finance Barrett Dwyer brings more than a decade of experience in financial modeling, business development strategy, market assessment, and economic valuation of intellectual property to the company. Before joining Modern Health, he held finance and business operations leadership roles at BreezeLabs (a short-term vehicle lease solution for ride-sharing drivers working for Uber and Lyft), where he spearheaded the company’s acquisition by Ford in 2016. He drove strategy and financial modeling behind the rebranding and repositioning of Breeze to Canvas, a subscription-based auto subsidiary of Ford that bundled maintenance, insurance, and roadside assistance. While at Canvas, he was CFO and head of business operations. Barrett also held the VP of finance and operations role at Fair.com, and spent his early career as an analyst and consultant with The Kenrich Group, Stout Risius Ross, and GreatBridge Consulting. He holds a BBA in finance from George Washington University and a master’s in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University. Barrett lives in San Francisco with his wife and enjoys watching content by Stephen Colbert and Sarah Cooper.
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About Canvas, Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Lorna Henri
VP of Customer Success of Modern Health
Lorna Henri is a global customer success leader with 25+ years of experience at enterprise SaaS startups, software companies, and wireless carriers. Before joining Modern Health, she was the global VP of customer success and support at Mapbox, a mapping platform for developers. Prior to that, she spent three years at AppAnnie, where she was the global VP of customer success and helped the mobile app analytics company achieve dominant market share, securing 90% of the top100 iOS and Android publishers. Lorna was global VP of client services at the SEO SaaS platform BrightEdge, where she was a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 CMOs, delivering a client retention rate of more than 95%. She spent nine years as the top marketing executive at U.S. Communities, responsible for customer acquisition and relationship management. She also held leadership roles at Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. She is a frequent speaker at customer success conferences and received the Gainsight Stellar Customer Success Leader award and the MindTouch Top Customer Success Influencer award. Lorna holds a BS in engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Lorna and her husband live in the East Bay where they raised three sons, several dogs, a cat, and a bunny. When she isn’t meeting with customers, you can find her hiking in the Walnut Creek open space.
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Hannah Adams Willson
VP of Sales of Modern Health
Hannah Adams Willson serves as vice president of sales at Rainforest QA. Most recently, she was a sales manager and executive at Zenefits and vice president for business development at HelloWallet. Prior to these, Hannah was a director at The Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner). Hannah holds a BA degree from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
William H. King, IV
Senior Vice President, Strategic Development of Danaher
Mr. King is the Senior Vice President, Strategic Development for Danaher Corporation. Mr. King and his team drive market development, deal sourcing and commercial diligence at Danaher, thus co-owning the M&A process at Danaher with Mr. Daniel Raskas and the Corporate Development team. In addition, he and his team hold responsibility for the strategic planning process, tools and training. Mr. King joined Danaher in 1998 and has held positions as Managing Director of the Special Purpose Systems Motion Control Group, as well as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Motion Control Group. Prior to joining Danaher, he held positions of increasing responsibility in live production and logistics for Perdue, Inc. Mr. King has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from University of Maryland.
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About Danaher: Danaher is a global science and technology innovator committed to helping their customers solve complex challenges and improve quality.
Joakim Weidemanis
Group Executive/VP Product Identification Platform of Danaher
Joakim Weidemanis has been Vice President and Group Executive of Danaher Corp. since March 2014. Joakim Weidemanis served as Managing Director of Elster Metering Limited. He served as the Head of Product Inspection at Mettler-Toledo International Inc., since January 2006. From August 2005 to January 2006, he served as Head of Business Development of the Product Inspection Division. He held various management positions at ABB, including from July 2000 to August 2005 when he served as President of the North American water metering systems business and from early 2004 as the Head of the global water metering division that became Elster Water Metering Systems.
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About Danaher, Danaher: Danaher is a global science and technology innovator committed to helping their customers solve complex challenges and improve quality.
Raymond H. Diradoorian
Executive Vice President of Allergan
Mr. Diradoorian has been Executive Vice President, Global Technical Operations since February 2006. From April 2005 to February 2006, Mr. Diradoorian served as Senior Vice President, Global Technical Operations. Since February 2001, Mr. Diradoorian served as Vice President, Global Engineering and Technology. Mr. Diradoorian joined Allergan in July 1981. Prior to joining Allergan, Mr. Diradoorian held positions at American Hospital Supply and with the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. Mr. Diradoorian received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine and a Master of Science degree in Technology Management from Pepperdine University.
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About Allergan: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Jonathon Kellerman
EVP, Global Chief Compliance Officer of Allergan
Prior to joining Actavis, Mr. Kellerman spent 20 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in leadership roles of increasing responsibility, most recently 10 years as Partner in the company’s Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Advisory practice. Mr. Kellerman was responsible for helping lead the firm’s Governance, Risk & Compliance practice. He has extensive experience in compliance strategy and commercial performance improvement, including global anti-bribery/anti-corruption program assessment, design and implementation work; building and implementing effective global compliance programs; managing fraud investigations and remediation activities; re-engineering processes supporting key commercial and R&D business activities and compliance controls; and re-designing how companies engage health care professionals. Mr. Kellerman received a B.A. in Sociology from Franklin & Marshall College.
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About Allergan: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Stephen Barat
Associate Vice President, Non-Clinical Development of Allergan
Stephen Barat is currently the Executive Director of Non-clinical and Translational Sciences – Safety Assessment and Bioanalysis for Allergan. He has 20 years of experience in global drug development and registration, with a specific interest in drug device combinations, the interface of safety assessment and CMC requirements, and extensive experience in the safety assessment of impurities. Dr. Barat is a member of the PQRI – PDP working group and toxicology sub-team as well as the USP Expert Panel for Biocompatability of Packaging Materials.
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About Allergan, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Dante Gaudio
SVP of Revenue and Media Strategy of Healthline Media
Dante has been with Healthline for over 8 years, leading the sales team of the fastest growing health site. Dante has a long running passion for Healthcare marketing, having led sales efforts for the pharmaceutical and other health related verticals at The New York Times and the Meredith Corporation. His other passions include cooking, staying healthy and surfing.
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About Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
Christine A. Tsingos
EVP & CFO of Bio-Rad Laboratories
Ms. Christine A. Tsingos is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Bio Rad Laboratories Inc. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Attest Systems, Inc., a provider of information technology asset discovery and management tools, from August 2002 to November 2002. Prior to that, Ms. Tsingos was a consultant to Attest Systems, Inc. from October 2000 to July 2002. She was the Chief Financial Officer at Tavolo, Inc., an online retailer of gourmet cookware and food, from November 1999 to September 2000, and she was Treasurer, and later Vice President and Treasurer, of Autodesk, Inc., a developer of design software, from May 1990 to November 1999.
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Ronald Hutton
Vice President, Treasurer of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
James Stark
Vice President, Corporate Controller of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Mike Crowley
Executive Vice President, Global Commercial Operations of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Timothy Ernst
Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Bio-Rad Laboratories
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About Bio-Rad Laboratories: Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 50 years by providing a broad range of
Jillian B. Thomsen
SVP Finance and Chief Accounting Officer of Nektar Therapeutics
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About Nektar Therapeutics: Nektar Therapeutics develops therapeutics based on its advanced polymer conjugate chemistry technology platform.
Junfeng Luo
Co-Founder & Vice President, R&D – NuProbe, China of NuProbe
Junfeng Luo is a Co-Founder and Vice President of R&D at NuProbe, China.
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About NuProbe: An early stage molecular diagnostics company.
William McKeon
Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy & Operating Officer of Texas Medical Center
William McKeon is the executive vice president, chief strategy officer, and chief operating officer of Texas Medical Center. He is responsible for driving strategic, operational and programmatic initiatives across the Texas Medical Center’s member institutions to enhance its leadership position in the life sciences. McKeon has served as an executive for some of the leading companies and institutions in the world, including: Du Pont, Stanford University Medical Center, Raytel, US Oncology, Medtronic, MicroPort (Shanghai) and Cellnovo. He has served as the chief executive officer for industry-changing companies in Shanghai, China, and London, UK and raised over $67 million in equity financing. McKeon was twice awarded the Computer World – Smithsonian Award in Medicine for innovations in cardiovascular monitoring and the automation of matching cancer patients to clinical trials. He holds a Bachelor of Science in legal studies from Roger Williams University and earned a Master’s Degree from the University of San Francisco – School of Management.
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About Texas Medical Center, Texas Medical Center: Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a life sciences medical complex focused on patient care, research, education, and prevention.
RJ Fitch
Vice President Operations & General Manager of WuXi AppTec
Innovative senior management leader Raymond J. “RJ” Fitch possesses more than two decades of experience in the biotech and global healthcare industries. As the Vice President of Operations & General Manager for WuXi AppTec Advanced Therapies, Mr. Fitch leverages his knowledge of site operations and supply chain functions to oversee logistics operations, biological testing services, engineering, and other operations at the company’s Philadelphia location. RJ Fitch is responsible for three facilities within the Philadelphia site. Mr. Fitch began his career more than 20 years ago, graduating from Philadelphia University with a bachelor of science in biology. After working for Merck & Company, he joined Sanofi Pasteur as a director of vaccine aseptic filling & formulation. He stayed with the company for seven years, rising through the ranks to become the senior director of influenza viral manufacturing. Mr. Fitch later served as the associate vice president at Genzyme, a Sanofi company, and vice president of Sanofi Pasteur in Toronto, Canada. During his time with Sanofi Pasteur, RJ Fitch returned to school to earn an executive MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.
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About WuXi AppTec: WuXi AppTec provides a broad portfolio of R&D and manufacturing services that enable companies in the pharmaceutical.
Jason Moskowitz
VP of Sales, Clinical Care Division of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Joseph Lewarski
Senior Vice President/General Manager, Clinical Care & North America Manufacturing of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Karen Lerner
Regional Vice President of Pressure Prevention of Drive Medical
Karen is a registered nurse, wound care and rehab specialist with over 25 years of industry experience. Karen has extensive experience as a public speaker, educating DME providers and clinicians on a variety of topics. Karen’s speaking engagements included testifying before Congress on behalf of the HME industry. Since October 2013, Karen has worked as part of Team Pressure Prevention at Drive Medical. Prior to coming to Drive and for over 10 years, Karen was VP of Clinical Services at a Northeast based DME, responsible for Pressure Prevention, Respiratory and Rehab sales, as well as service and training. Before DME, Karen worked in sales for a hospital equipment and support surface manufacturer. Karen began her career as a critical care nurse specialist in major teaching hospitals from Florida to NJ. Karen received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her graduate education from the University of Florida.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Josh Gordon
Vice President of Inside Sales for North America of Drive Medical
After graduating from Penn State University in 1999, Joshua Gordon spent several years growing a sales portfolio in recruiting and admissions for the Katharine Gibbs School. Josh joined Drive Medical in 2002 as a Territory Business Manager for the Philadelphia Region. In 2009, Josh took his experience from outside sales and developed a new Inside Sales Department for the company.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Michael Serhan
Executive Principal & Executive Vice President of Product Development of Drive Medical
Michael Serhan is an Executive principal to Drive Medical. Michael joined the company in 2004, with the Company’s merger of Dr. K international, a West Coast manufacturer and distributor of durable medical products, where he served as President and Principal stock holder. At Dr.K, Mr. Serhan was able to redirect the company’s direction and grow annual revenues to approximately $14 million. In the industry from 1987, Michael has served as West Coast division President of an approximately $180 Million publicly traded company. Michael is primarily responsible for product development and product design, overseeing core product categories, and handling large national customers for Drive Medical.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Ryan Mahoney
Regional Vice President – Midwest Sales Division of Drive Medical
A graduate from University of Dayton and previously working for a homecare provider in the Pittsburgh market, Ryan joined Drive Medical in 2009 as a Territory Manager for Western Pennsylvania. With a highly successful territory, Ryan earned the 2010 Rookie of the Year award, the 2011 Rep of the year award and was promoted in 2012 to Vice President of Sales for Drive’s Midwest division.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Jeffrey Schwartz
Executive Vice President of Sales of Drive Medical
Jeffrey Schwartz is a principal founder of Drive medical. Jeffrey served as the Vice President of Sales of Diamond Medical and National Healthcare from 1987 until 1992. Following the sale to a publicly traded healthcare company, Jeffrey served as the Vice President of Sales of such public company until 1996. In 1996, Jeffrey formed Jofra Enterprises, Inc., a distributor of medical products, located in Mt. Vernon, New York, which was subsequently acquired by a publicly traded healthcare company in 1998. Jeffrey served as the Executive Vice President of Sales of the publicly traded healthcare company from 1998 through 2000.
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About Drive Medical, Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Rowley Jackson
Senior Vice President of Corporate Accounts of Drive Medical
Rowley Jackson has been in the medical products industry for over 25 years and has served in many capacities from managing sales to product development. Rowley has been with Drive Medical since the beginning. He was the first vendor for Drive, supplying product from a domestic manufacturer where he served as the Executive Vice president. Rowley joined Drive in January of 2001 to create its initial sales force.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Seth Diamond
Vice President of Ecommerce Division of Drive Medical
Seth Diamond has been part of the Drive team since its inception. In his tenure, Seth has held many roles and his diverse contributions have made him an integral factor in Drive success. His knowledge of durable medical equipment, sales experience and background in Ecommerce has allowed him to flourish as V.P. of the Ecommerce Division. Seth’s responsibilities include the management and development of the Drive brand via the World Wide Web.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Greg Eaton
Regional Vice President of Respiratory Sales of Drive Medical
Greg Eaton started with Drive Medical in July of 2015 through the acquisition of DeVilbiss Healthcare. Greg brings over 29 years of medical sales and sales management experience in Orthopedics, Spine, Sleep and Respiratory. Greg started his medical career with Medtronic as a territory sales manager in Indianapolis, and earned President’s Club honors in his first year. Medtronic promoted him to management covering the Southeast District based out of North Carolina. Greg then moved to a start up territory opportunity with ResMed, specializing in sleep disordered breathing. During his tenure, Greg was instrumental in growing a small market of less than $500,000 annual sales to a market of $50 million and was honored with 5 President’s Club awards. Greg then accepted an opportunity in the Spine industry with Orthofix as the Regional Director. His leadership took the Mid-Atlantic Region to 3 consecutive years as Region of the Year and President’s Club honors. After his time with Orthofix, Greg was recruited back to the Sleep and Respiratory industry by Devilbiss Healthcare as the Eastern Region Manager.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Francheska Markman
Vice President of Customer Service of Drive Medical
Francheska Markman is a Customer Service and Call Center professional with over 18 years of experience. Most recently, Francheska led and directed a 65-seat Customer Service and Accounts Receivable Departments at Southern Wine and Spirits, a mutli-million dollar national distributor of adult beverages. Francheska has been recognized for her strength in strategic work flow planning, managerial expertise of a fast paced, high volume call center, resourcefulness and commitment to success.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Tony Crisitello
Senior Vice President of Long Term Care of Drive Medical
Tony Crisitello joined Drive Medical in 2014 as Senior Vice President – Long Term Care. Tony responsible for strategic development and growth of this division through both acquisitions and organic growth in North America. Prior to joining Drive Medical, Tony was Co-Founder and President of Next Day Medical, a regional distribution business based in Baltimore, MD. Tony sold this business to McKesson Medical Surgical in 2012, and held various leadership positions in their organization during the two year integration period of Next Day Medical. Tony holds a degree in marketing from Old Dominion University and has attended several executive level programs at NYU Stern School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Vanessa Saltmarsh
Regional Vice President of Drive Medical
Vanessa Saltmarsh joined Drive Medical in 2012 as the Director of Respiratory Business Services. In this role, she called on her 16+ years of industry related experience to provide direction and leadership to key accounts. Prior to joining Drive Medical, Vanessa began her career at evo Medical Solutions, where she took on progressively responsible roles in the areas of sales, marketing, and operational management. Vanessa has been recognized as a leader in respiratory sales, program development and strategic account management. In August 2015, Vanessa was promoted to Regional Vice President of Respiratory Sales, where she owns responsibility for key account management, training, marketing communications content, and salesforce clinical support for Drive’s respiratory category.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
David Pugh
Regional VP Respiratory of Drive Medical
David Pugh joined Drive Medical in 2012 as Regional Vice President, Respiratory Sales, bringing 29 years of sales and sales management experience in the home healthcare sector. David began his career with DeVilbiss Healthcare in a sales capacity in 1986. David was subsequently promoted to Regional Sales Manager and then to Sales Director. Through an acquisition in 1996, David joined Sunrise Medical and held various roles including the Director of Respiratory Business Development, Vice President, and finally National Accounts. David joined evo Medical Solutions in 2004 to develop and run their sales organization. David hired and directed sales groups until leaving to join Inspired Technologies in 2008 as Vice President of Sales. During his career at Inspired Technologies, David hired and directed the start up sales group, launched 5 new products in 2 and a half years, and assisted in the development of the SmartDose Auto Adjusting technology. David holds a Business and Marketing Degree from Georgia State University, Atlanta GA.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Thomas Antonio
Vice President of Financial & CFO of Drive Medical
Thomas Antonio joined the Company in February 2004, and is primarily responsible for financial reporting. From 1986 through 1997, Thomas Antonio served as the Assistant Vice President and Controller of Charan Industries, a privately-held company which owned and operated bowling centers throughout the United States. From 1997 through February 2004, Thomas served as the Chief Financial Officer of several privately-held companies located in the metropolitan New York area.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Dan O’Malley
Regional Vice President of Pressure Prevention Sales of Drive Medical
Dan O’Malley joined Drive Medical in 2013, as Regional VP of Pressure Prevention Sales in connection with the Company’s acquisition of a national manufacturer of durable medical products. Dan is primarily responsible for the Company’s category sales in Pressure Prevention for the homecare and long term care markets. Dan has 20 years of experience working in the acute care, long term care, and homecare settings in the medical device, rehabilitation, and durable medical equipment industries. More recently, Dan served as the National Sales Manager for Mason Medical Products, a manufacturer of Pressure Prevention products. Dan is a 1995 graduate of the University of Massachusetts.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Steve Wakser
Vice President of Sales for Southeast of Drive Medical
Steve Wakser started with Drive in January 2009, with over 10 years of experience in the DME industry running a successful dealership in Ohio. Steve quickly grew his Michigan territory to top numbers and achieved Rookie of the Year in 2009 and Rep of the Year in 2010, with over $6 million in sales. Continued success led Steve to Regional Vice President of the Southeast in 2012. Steve holds a Bachelors Degree in Communications from Kent State University.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Jim McGuiness
Vice President of Sales – Retail Division of Drive Medical
Jim McGuiness joined Drive Medical in March of 2010. Jim brings over 25 years of executive sales leadership experience from the Consumer Package Goods industry (GSK & Bayer Consumer Healthcare). Jim is a graduate of LSU and currently resides in Dallas, Texas. Jim is responsible for leading the Retail Sales Division for Drive Medical.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
John Zelczak
Regional VP of Respiratory Sales of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Christopher Cheek
Vice President of Distributor Sales of Drive Medical
Christopher Cheek joined Drive Medical in July of 2014 as Vice President of Distributor Sales through the acquisition of MEDQUIP Inc. Christopher brings with him over 25 years of successful experience within the medical products industry and has specialized in distributor-wholesale partner management for most of his profession. In January 2006, Christopher joined MEDQUIP shortly after its inception as National Sales Manager and relocated to the company’s headquarters in South Carolina in 2008, where Christopher served as the organization’s Vice President and General Manager. Throughout his career, Christopher has served in many capacities within the industry including Director of Business Development for a major manufacturer and distributor of orthotic braces, compression hosiery and durable medical equipment. Other positions held include National Sales Manager of a leading Medical Hosiery Manufacturer. Christopher’s experience within the industry is comprised of an extensive history within the business and has a strong acumen in sales management, marketing, product development, sales training and continuing education.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
John Zelczak
Regional VP of Respiratory Sales of Drive Medical
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Christopher Cheek
Vice President of Distributor Sales of Drive Medical
Christopher Cheek joined Drive Medical in July of 2014 as Vice President of Distributor Sales through the acquisition of MEDQUIP Inc. Christopher brings with him over 25 years of successful experience within the medical products industry and has specialized in distributor-wholesale partner management for most of his profession. In January 2006, Christopher joined MEDQUIP shortly after its inception as National Sales Manager and relocated to the company’s headquarters in South Carolina in 2008, where Christopher served as the organization’s Vice President and General Manager. Throughout his career, Christopher has served in many capacities within the industry including Director of Business Development for a major manufacturer and distributor of orthotic braces, compression hosiery and durable medical equipment. Other positions held include National Sales Manager of a leading Medical Hosiery Manufacturer. Christopher’s experience within the industry is comprised of an extensive history within the business and has a strong acumen in sales management, marketing, product development, sales training and continuing education.
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About Drive Medical: Drive Medical is one of the fastest growing global distributors of durable medical equipment.
Will Fraser
VP Corporate Accounts of Drive Medical
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Tom Roos
Senior Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer of UnitedHealth Group
Tom Roos was appointed chief accounting officer for the enterprise in August 2015. He is responsible for SEC reporting, accounting policy, tax and enterprise risk management. Previously, Roos was a Partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP for eight years, where he worked closely with Deloitte & Touche’s national office and industry leaders on emerging technical accounting and reporting matters in the health insurance industry, with experience in company mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings
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About UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
John Cosgriff
Chief Strategy Officer & Senior Vice President of Business Development of UnitedHealth Group
John Cosgriff is Senior Vice President at UnitedHealth Group, where he focuses on strategy, acquisitions, and new business ventures. UnitedHealth Group is the world’s largest healthcare company, ranking number 14 on the Fortune 100, with 200,000 employees serving over 125 million consumers and revenues of $157 billion. John has completed over $3 billion in acquisitions and created partnerships with Sesame Street, Walmart and NASCAR. Prior to UnitedHealth Group John was a management and technology consultant with Accenture, where he served Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and government clients in the United States and Europe. He started his career on Capitol Hill in staff roles in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. John holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MPH from the University of Minnesota.
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About Hinge Health, Orbit Fab, Seasats, UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Richard Migliori
Office of the Chief Executive, Executive Vice President, Medical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer of UnitedHealth Group
In 2013, Richard Migliori, M.D. was appointed executive vice president, Medical Affairs, and chief medical officer, UnitedHealth Group, working with businesses across the enterprise to help improve health care quality, access and affordability. Previously, as executive vice president for Health Services, Dr. Migliori was responsible for the ongoing development, design, and adaptation of market leading clinical innovations aimed at ensuring clinical excellence, improving clinical and economic outcomes, and delivering robust business performance on behalf of UnitedHealth Group’s largest public and private sector clients
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About UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Terry Clark
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of UnitedHealth Group
Terry Clark was appointed senior vice president and chief marketing officer, UnitedHealth Group, in 2014. Clark oversees branding, marketing and advertising for UnitedHealth Group and its two operating platforms, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, with responsibility for helping positively shape the customer experience. Previously, Clark served as chief marketing officer, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, where he led marketing and direct-to-consumer engagement efforts focused on seniors. Clark joined UnitedHealthcare in 2006 from InterActiveCorp, a consumer technology company comprised of leading digital brands, where he served as executive vice president, sales and marketing, for the Entertainment Publications division.
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About UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Sanji Fernando
Vice President, OptumLabs Center for Applied Data Science of UnitedHealth Group
Sanji Fernando is the Vice President and Head of the OptumLabs Center for Applied Data Science. Sanji and his team are responsible for developing new software products implementing the latest innovations in big data technology and machine learning. Selected products are then developed and advanced for potential launch in the market. Before joining OptumLabs, Sanji was Head of Data Science at Nokia’s HERE’s Cloud Computing Group. The Data Science team was responsible for launching the first Big Data computing cluster at Nokia to analyze user activity and engagement. Previously, Sanji held positions in Nokia’s Advanced Business Development team and Nokia Research. Sanji started his career with Nokia as Portfolio Manager at Innovent, Nokia’s early stage venture fund. Before Nokia, Sanji was a co-founder of Vettro, an enterprise mobile application company, as well as consultant at Viant and Accenture.
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About Optum, Optum, Optum, UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Rachel Gollub
Vice President of Benefitter Technology of UnitedHealth Group
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Vinod Bidarkoppa
Senior Vice President and CIO of UnitedHealth Group
Vinod Bidarkoppa is the SVP and CIO at Optum Serve, a UnitedHealth Group Business.
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About UnitedHealth Group: UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare company that offers insurance products and services for everyone.
Vidya Raman-Tangella
Senior Vice President, and Head, UHC Innovation Center of Excellence of UnitedHealth Group
Vidya Raman-Tangella is leading innovation at the country’s largest health care company, helping people live healthier lives through an ongoing transformation of the health care system. Raman-Tangella heads UnitedHealthcare’s Innovation Center of Excellence, developing breakthroughs with practical solutions for improving health care quality, access and affordability. UnitedHealthcare is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which serves more than 132 million people worldwide. A physician-innovator with more than 20 years of experience in the health field, Raman-Tangella collaborates with diverse partners to develop simpler, more intelligent, and cost effective health care solutions. Her colleagues say she is exceptional with designing ecosystems that drive change in the health care market through the use of data and technology. Raman-Tangella and her team design, develop and scale breakthrough innovations that help address unmet health needs with holistic solutions. They use Human-Centered Design, outside-in thinking, and co-creation models to create meaningful solutions that deliver lasting value. Deep partnerships internally and strategic partnerships externally enable the team to create multi-faceted, holistic solutions. As a senior healthcare leader with a passion for personalized health journeys, she previously held an executive role at Johnson & Johnson, where she led the design of integrated and tailored health and wellness solutions for employers and health care plans. She was instrumental in the company’s start-up organization, providing expertise about strategic partnerships and enterprise integration. “My biggest career leap was entering the world of innovation from a world of clinical medicine,” Raman-Tangella said. “I have since learned that it is possible to have the best of both these worlds, and my daily quest is to find ways to pursue them both. This for me has resulted in a deep passion for the world of personalized health, medicine and health care.” She also says being a woman in her profession is fulfilling and fascinating. “I think women are inherently great at innovation, given their ability to think and apply multiple facets and look beyond the here and now,” she explained. Raman-Tangella’s desire to address unmet health care issues has led to the development and launch of several innovations, including the Baby Block program, a free online and mobile healthy-baby initiative. Another of her innovations is Solutions for Caregivers, a program for large employers featuring in-person, telephonic, and online resources designed to help caregivers save money and more effectively provide assistance to the people they support. Raman-Tangella holds a bachelor’s of medicine and a bachelor’s of surgery from Osmania University in India, and a master’s of health administration from Cornell University.
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Paul Lopez
Vice President Of Technology Development of UnitedHealth Group
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Ben Wiegand
Senior Vice President, R&D of UnitedHealth Group
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Yaw Kwakye
SVP and Client Support and Cloud of TRIARQ Health
As Chief Software Architect, Yaw is fully responsible for all product research, architecture and engineering. He oversees gloStream’s product development initiatives from design to execution and is wholly responsible for managing the software development team that brings gloStream’s products and services to life. Yaw’s vision, hard work and diligence led to the founding of gloStream in 2006. A talented information technologist with a gift for translating ideas into technological reality, Yaw left Ghana, Africa, more than 12 years ago and came to the U.S. to study technology. Yaw worked in both sales and information technology for various organizations. He started with a Detroit-based software engineering company where he worked to bring multiple systems within the Detroit Medical Center into a single database forming the first hospital management system for the facility’s oncology department. What Yaw saw early in his career has greatly influenced the developmental direction of gloStream products. Having spent time working with doctors who had difficulty using electronic medical record systems that were neither robust nor easy-to-use, Yaw had the vision to create the very first voice-enabled, Microsoft Word-based systems on the market.
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About TRIARQ Health: TRIARQ Health is a physician practice service company for independent doctors to thrive in the value-based healthcare economy.
Ron Pellegrini
Vice President & Head of Field Service LD/POC of Siemens Healthineers
Ron Pellegrini’s career with Siemens Healthcare spans over 20 years. It began as a licensed Medical Technologist specializing in Chemistry with the U.S. Air Force and at hospitals in Dallas / Fort Worth area. His experience led him to an engineering position with Ciba-Corning Diagnostics. He has held the position of Regional Service Manager and Technical Sales Manager for Chiron & Bayer Healthcare. He held the role of National Technical Sales Director at Siemens and was a Zone Vice President in the Midwest & Western Zones for both the In Vivo and In Vitro businesses prior to taking on his recent role as Vice President, Head of Field Service for LD/POC. Ron was awarded Rookie of the Year, Regional Manager & Director of the year, a three time President’s Club award winner and VP of the Year and a four time APEX winner while in his Service and Technical Sales Leadership positions. He is member of the American Medical Technologists (AMT), a mentor with the American Corporate Partners (ACP) for US Military Members, and is very active as a volunteer within his church community. Ron has been married for the past 29 years with four beautiful children. He enjoys traveling, golf and the watching the Dallas Cowboys. He holds Bachelors degree in Medical Technology from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX and has a Masters degree in Business.
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About Siemens Healthineers: Siemens Healthineers is a healthcare technology company that provides diagnostic and therapeutic products and services.
Maynd Jolly
Vice President Strategic Corporate Accounts of Siemens Healthineers
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About Siemens Healthineers: Siemens Healthineers is a healthcare technology company that provides diagnostic and therapeutic products and services.
Sebastian Kronmueller
Vice President, Head of Strategy & Business Development – Laboratory Diagnostics of Siemens Healthineers
Sebastian Kronmueller incubates startup businesses within Healthineers with a focus on novel molecular applications. His current incubation businesses include the Siemens Healthcare Laboratory in Berkeley, California and NEO New Oncology in Cologne, Germany. Previously he led the execution of strategic initiatives as Head of Special Projects for Siemens Healthineers, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategy of Siemens Healthineers in preparation for the IPO planned in 2018. Before this role he led a project management team for companion diagnostics and software development and was responsible for the carve-out and divestment of the Healthineers Microbiology business. He began his career as strategy consultant with Siemens Management Consulting. Sebastian holds a graduate degree in physics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany and a graduate certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
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About Siemens Healthineers: Siemens Healthineers is a healthcare technology company that provides diagnostic and therapeutic products and services.
Howard Dubinett
EVP & COO of Bio-Reference Laboratories
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About Bio-Reference Laboratories: BioReference is the third largest full service clinical diagnostic laboratory in the U.S. providing testing .
Axel Hoos
Senior Vice President, Therapeutic Area Head of GSK
Axel Hoos oversees both its discovery and development functions and builds the Oncology portfolio of GSK across several modalities including antibodies, small molecules, bispecific molecules and cell & gene therapies. The TA’s scientific focus is on Immuno-Oncology, Epigenetics and Cell Therapy. Axel Hoos also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the HIV Cure Center, a co-venture of GSK and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Axel Hoos further serves as Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sabin Vaccine Institute (SVI), a Global Health organization, Non-executive Director on the Board of Imugene, a biotech company, Co-Chairman of the Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC) and Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI). Previously, Axel Hoos was the Global Medical Lead in Immunology/Oncology at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) where he developed Yervoy (Ipilimumab), the first life-extending therapy in Immuno-Oncology.
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About GSK: GSK Venture Fund is a Massachusetts-based venture capital fund focused on investments within the area of bioelectronics.
Mohammed Ali
VP Digital Analytics and Performance of GSK
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Elizabeth Colonna
Vice President of Health Enterprise Partners
Elizabeth joined HEP in 2016, while completing her MBA at Columbia Business School. Prior to business school, Elizabeth was a Senior Consultant at FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN). As a member of FTI’s Health Solutions practice, she provided data analytics, litigation support, and other consulting services for a variety of healthcare clients, including large commercial payers, retail pharmacy chains, and healthcare data management companies. During her time in business school, she was a hospital administration and operations intern at UCLA Health. Elizabeth serves as a board observer of Wildflower Health and AxiaMed. Elizabeth holds a BA with Distinction from the University of Virginia and received Dean’s Honors with Distinction from Columbia Business School.
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About Health Enterprise Partners: Health Enterprise Partners is a private equity firm that provides its services for healthcare services and information technology companies.
Pete Tedesco
Vice President & Managing Partner of Health Enterprise Partners
Prior to joining HEP, Pete was a Vice President at Olympus Partners, a middle-market private equity firm managing over $5 billion. At Olympus, he was responsible for evaluating and executing leveraged buyout and growth equity transactions and served on the board of directors for companies across a variety of industries. Pete previously worked at Chicago-based private equity firm Waud Capital Partners, where he focused primarily on investments in the healthcare services sector, and in the Corporate Business Development group at Becton Dickinson & Co. (NYSE: BDX). Pete began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Diversified Industrials groups at UBS Investment Bank. Pete holds an A.B. from Princeton University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Health Enterprise Partners: Health Enterprise Partners is a private equity firm that provides its services for healthcare services and information technology companies.
Jignesh Patel
VP, Chief Software Architect of iCare
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About iCare: iCare provides cloud-based EHR solutions to healthcare facilities.
Patrick Toomey
VP Software Technology of iCare
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About iCare: iCare provides cloud-based EHR solutions to healthcare facilities.
Jared Kohler
Sr. Vice President, Project Management & Data Science Operations & Precision for Medicine of Precision for Medicine
Jared Kohler is the Sr. Vice President, Project Management & Data Science Operations, Precision for Medicine at Precision for Medicine.
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About Precision for Medicine, Quartz Bio: Precision for Medicine is a specialized scientific services company helping life science innovators develop medical products.
Jay Lezcano
SVP & Business Development of Precision for Medicine
Jay Lezcano is the SVP & Business Development at Precision For Medicine.
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About Precision for Medicine: Precision for Medicine is a specialized scientific services company helping life science innovators develop medical products.
Merry Lee
Vice President, Medical Device Regulatory Strategy of Precision for Medicine
Merry Lee Bain is the Vice President, Medical Device Regulatory Strategy at Precision for Medicine.
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About Precision for Medicine: Precision for Medicine is a specialized scientific services company helping life science innovators develop medical products.
Judi Smith
VP of Vitro Diagnostics Regulatory & Quality of Precision for Medicine
Judi Smith is the Vice President, In Vitro Diagnostics Regulatory and Quality at Precision for Medicine. She has worked in the medical products regulatory submissions and approvals, quality, and clinical trial areas for over 30 years. In her role, she oversees the group responsible for the full range of in vitro diagnostic and blood screening assays (IVDs) services. These include regulatory strategy, analytical and clinical study designs, protocol development, all FDA pre-market and post-market submissions, quality system establishment and auditing per FDA Quality System Regulation, and clinical laboratory set-up per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) regulations. In addition, the group provides development and management of clinical trials for these products, the data from which are used in regulatory submissions. In addition, Judi is a member of the FDA/Industry Roundtable and was awarded the FDA Group Recognition Award. She has served as President of the Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers since 2006. This organization is dedicated to the IVD industry and provides educational programs with FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health. Ms. Smith is also a faculty member of the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS) University and serves as a Board Member of RAPS. Judi received her Bachelor of Science from Temple University and her Master of Science from the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
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About Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers, BioPorto Diagnostics, Precision for Medicine, Regulatory Affairs Professional Society: Precision for Medicine is a specialized scientific services company helping life science innovators develop medical products.
Chris Fuller
Vice President of Informatics of Caribou Biosciences
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About Caribou Biosciences: Caribou Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops CRISPR technologies and allogenic cell therapies for oncology.
Vinod Mitta
Vice President – Pharmaceuticals of Oscar Health
Vinod Mitta is the Vice President at Oscar Health.
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About Oscar Health: Oscar is a health insurance company that offers individual and family plans, medicare advantages, and small group products.
Eric Reed
Senior Vice President of Cigna
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About Cigna: CIGNA Corporation operates as a health service company that helps people to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind.
James Beeson
VP, Chief Information Security Officer of Cigna
James Beeson is the Chief Information Security Office at Cigna. He is responsible for all aspects of cyber security and digital information protection for Cigna globally. James also had a robust 20-year career working for General Electric in various security and technology leadership positions. He has an MBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University – Cox School of Business and a BBA in Business from Amberton University.
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About Cigna: CIGNA Corporation operates as a health service company that helps people to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind.
Jackie Aube
Vice President of Personalization & Customer Strategy of Cigna
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About Cigna: CIGNA Corporation operates as a health service company that helps people to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind.
Christopher Moretti
Vice President of Cigna
Christopher Moretti has been an executive leader with Cigna since October, 2015 and is currently responsible for all infrastructure engineering Leading the Global Engineering & Infrastructure Services. In this role, Chris provides executive leadership over the teams that deliver Cigna’s voice & data networks, security engineering, contact center, database, compute, storage, information management, mainframe, cloud & devops. Previous to Cigna, Chris spent 14 years at General Electric and its subsidiaries in various executive leadership roles supporting its insurance, consumer and commercial banking businesses. While at GE, Chris attended and graduated many of their prestigious management training classes including AIMC and EIMP. Most recently, Christopher was Managing Director of Global Networks for J.P. Morgan Chase & Company based in midtown Manhattan. Chris started his career in IT performing many different hands on technical roles in client/server, network and security for various sized firms in the greater New York market including a period where he consulted for Greenwich Technology Partners. Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and currently resides in Shelton, CT with his wife and 3 sons.
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About Cigna: CIGNA Corporation operates as a health service company that helps people to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind.
Jen Cameron
AVP of Cigna
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About Cigna, RetailNext: CIGNA Corporation operates as a health service company that helps people to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind.
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.
Craig Ciesla
Vice President Advanced Engineering of Illumina
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About Illumina: Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
Richard Klausner
Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer of Illumina
Richard Klausner joined Illumina in September 2013 as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. Richard is responsible for Illumina’s strategies for advancing genomics into clinical medicine and public health. He is also part of Illumina’s executive management team, which is responsible for directing all aspects of company strategy, planning and operations. Richard is a Scientific Advisor at Cyterix Pharmaceuticals Inc. He co-founded Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc. (Alternative name is Predicant Biosciences Inc.) in 2002. He serves as the Managing Partner at The Column Group LLC. He served as the Chairman of the Strategic Development and Scientific Advisory Council at Sanofi from March 1, 2011 to January 2013. Richard serves as the Chairman of the National Science Education Standards Projects of the National Academy of Science, overseeing the first comprehensive process to provide a vision of scientific literacy in the American educational system and the criteria required to achieve it. He served as Co-Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board and Scientific Advisor at Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He served as an Executive Director for Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Richard served as the President at the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He served as an Advisor to the President of the Academies for counter-terrorism, and a Liaison to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. From 1979 to 1981, he worked at NIH in National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Laboratory of Mathematical Biology. He served as a Director of Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc. and Immune Design Corp. He served as Director of 3-V Biosciences, Inc. He served as a Director of NCI from August 1, 1995 to 2001. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Immune Design Corp., Constellation Pharmaceuticals and Audax Health Solutions. Richard served as a Distinguished Scientific and Strategic Advisor of Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Richard currently sits on the board of Juno Therapeutics. He is also the Chief Strategy Advisor for USAID. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Igenica, Inc. and T2 Biosystems, Inc. Rick holds an M.D. from Duke Medical School.
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About Audax Health Solutions, Illumina, Pathwork Diagnostics: Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
James Godsey
TitleVice President, Assay Development Dates Employed of Illumina
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About Illumina: Illumina is an innovative technology and revolutionary assays aiming the analyze genetic variation and function.
Sabrina Chiasson
Vice President of Polaris Partners
Sabrina joined Battery in 2015 as an associate. She focuses on later-stage software investments, including growth equity, buyouts, rollups, carve-outs and take-privates. Before coming to Battery, Sabrina was an associate at H.I.G. Growth Partners, a private equity firm focused on recapitalizations of lower-middle market, growth oriented businesses. There, she sourced, evaluated and executed investments in the consumer, healthcare and technology sectors. She also previously spent time at Westwind Investors, a private investment firm focused on growth-equity investments and buyouts. Sabrina received a B.A. in biology and economics from Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, Sabrina was captain of the varsity Alpine ski team.
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About Polaris Partners: Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages from founding to profitable growth.
Miguel Ilzarbe
Vice President, Executive Operations of Flagship Pioneering
Miguel Ilzarbe joined Flagship Ventures in 2015 as the Vice President of Executive Operations. In this role, he acts as a Sr. Advisor to Flagship’s CEO focused on strategic development of the firm, operational leadership of VentureLabs and support of new initiatives across the firm. Miguel was previously the Chief of Staff and the Director of Operations and Management, within the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT’s Directors Office, supporting Eric Lander. He administratively spearheaded a large international multidisciplinary effort at the Broad titled SIGMA (Slim Initiative in Genomic Medicine for the Americas). SIGMA, a $134M dollar collaboration with the Carlos Slim Health Institute aims to understand the genetic basis of Diabetes, Cancer and Kidney disease with a focus on Latin American populations. Prior to the Chief of Staff role, Miguel served as the assistant director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad. In this capacity he was responsible for project management and administrative issues within the program. He came to the Broad from the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, where he was responsible for all subcontracting and financial activities of the center, as well as leading a team that had fiduciary responsibility over all of Dana-Farber’s core facilities. Before his career in research administration, Miguel spent two years as a lab supervisor of Dana-Farber’s DNA sequencing facility, four years at the sequencing facility at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and four years in military intelligence. Miguel holds a bachelor’s degree in Diagnostic Genetic Sciences from the University of Connecticut and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix. He also completed Electronic Warfare Coursework in the United States Navy.
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About Flagship Pioneering: Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Dick Farrahar
Senior Vice President, Executive Operations of Flagship Pioneering
Dick Farrahar joined Flagship Ventures in 1999 as Senior Vice President, Executive Operations. Dick has over 30 years of experience overseeing operations, human resources, organizational development, team building, and workforce strategy. Before joining Flagship, Dick was Vice President of Applera Corporation, where he was responsible for the integration of PerSeptive Biosystems with Applera Corporation following the merger of the two companies in 1998. In addition, Dick guided the process of combining PerSeptive Biosystems, Applied Biosystems, Tropix and Molecular Informatics into a new $1 billion Applied Biosystems division of Applera. He had previously served as Senior Vice President, Executive Operations for PerSeptive Biosystems. Earlier Dick had a long career with Digital Equipment Corporation in both human resources and operations, and for the last several years of his tenure was a member of DEC’s Executive Committee reporting to the CEO.
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About Applera Corporation, Flagship Pioneering, PerSeptive Biosystems: Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Jim Pasquale
EVP North America of Digime
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About Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
