At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 Los Angeles based CEO’ operating in the Personal Health space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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.
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

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.
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.
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.
Kyle Michelson
Founder & CEO of Getlabs
Kyle Michelson is the Founder and CEO of Getlabs. He previously founded Streamup, a live video streaming platform backed by Y Combinator, and studied at the University of Southern California and London School of Economics.
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About Getlabs: Getlabs is the nationwide leader for at-home diagnostic collections. Patients can book a nearby phlebotomist to draw their labs for Labcorp and Quest. Healthcare organizations and providers can dispatch medical specialists to their patients and collect labs, vitals, biometrics, and more.

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.

Katerina Markov Schneider
Chief Executive Officer of Ritual
Katerina Markov Schneider is the CEO & founder of Ritual, a stealth health technology company. Previously, she was a Venture Partner with Troy Carter in his investment fund, AF Square, where she managed an active portfolio of over 70 investments, including Styleseat, Dropbox, Warby Parker, Spotify, Uber, and Lyft. Earlier in her career, Katerina served as Head of Global Innovation at Atom Factory, a branding, digital, and entertainment management company, where she led digital strategy & high-level technology partnerships for artists such as Lady Gaga and John Legend, along with associated brands and investment portfolio companies. She previously worked as Global Lead of Digital Innovation at Universal Music Group; and before that, was the Senior Business Development Advisor to the company’s Chairman & CEO. Before Atom Factory, Katerina served as Global Lead of Digital Innovation at Universal Musical Group, and as an advisor to the CEO of Shine America where she developed strategies to build digital brands for TV properties. She also worked in business strategy & operations at FOX Audience Network and worked as an Investment Banker at Lehman Brothers in the Global Gaming and Lodging Business. Katerina earned a degree from Brown University in Applied Mathematics-Economics and is on the board of several startups. She was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 for Venture Capital list for 2014, serves as a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum and lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Michael, who is also an entrepreneur, and daughter, Tali
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About Ritual: Ritual is a health technology company that is re-inventing consumer products.

Nick Desai
Co-founder and CEO of HeyRenee
Nick Desai is the Founder and CEO of HeyRenee. He was the Advisor and Founder at Heal before that and leads the vision, strategy, recruiting, and fundraising for Heal. He’s raised over $47 million in venture capital for his four start-ups since 1998. Most recently, Nick was CEO of FitOrbit – the leader in internet-based weight loss coaching solutions funded by Spark Capital and health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross. Nick holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Irvine and an MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. He lives in the Pacific Palisades with his wife and one-year-old son – who is his pride and joy.
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About HeyRenee: HeyRenee is a patient-centric personal health concierge, designed to consolidate, coordinate and connect all aspects of medical care.

Ross Ingram
Cofounder & CEO of Maslo
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About Maslo: We make companions that care about people.
Kiki Freedman
Co-founder and CEO of Hey Jane
Kiki Freedman is the Co Founder of Hey Jane.
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About Hey Jane: Healthcare, on your terms
Ryan Roddy
Founder and CEO of Kyoku
Ryan Roddy is the Founder and CEO of Kyoku.
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About Kyoku: Kyoku is a foodtech brand that makes personalized nutrition for endurance athletes.

Kent Yoshimura
Co-founder and CEO of Neuro
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About Neuro: Neuro is a functional confectionary company that creates products that creates products to get you in the right state of mind.

Noah Craft
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of People Science
Noah Craft is Chief Scientific Officer of Direct Dermatology and is a practicing dermatologist in Los Angeles. He completed his Dermatology Residency at UCLA and was a graduate of the prestigious STAR Program there. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Brown University and then attended UCLA for both his MD and PhD degrees. In 2005, he completed the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Noah Craft has been a leader of several local and statewide teledermatology programs in California.He is also focused on the development and implementation of decision-support innovations to reduce diagnostic errors while providing performance-improving education at the point-of-care including VisualDx. Noah Craft has published over 45 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 17 book chapters, and he is the senior editor of a popular dermatology textbook, VisualDx: Adult Dermatology Essentials. He has received over 25 NIH and private research grants to support his basic science, translational, and telemedicine research.
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About BioGraph 55, People Science: People Science is a tech-led R&D platform for alternative medicine.

Sameer Sontakey
CEO / FOUNDER of Biostrap
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About Biostrap: We Turn Health Data into Health Opportunity

Robert Lorsch
CEO & Chairman of MMRGlobal
Bob Lorsch si the CEO & Chairman at MMRGlobal.
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About MMRGlobal, RHL Group: MMRGlobal provides secure, easy-to-use multilingual personal health records (PHRs) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions.
John Bracaglia
Co-Founder and CEO of Marvin
John Bracaglia is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Marvin.
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About Marvin: Marvin is a virtual care platform that provides teletherapy and behavioral health services to healthcare workers.
Sky Christopherson
Founder and CEO of Personal GOLD
Called a ‘Wunderkind’ by The New York Times, and recently voted 5th nationwide in ‘Top 40 under 40 in Healthcare Innovation’, Sky is a world record holder and was a member of the U.S. Cycling Team’s ‘Project 96’ prior to the 1996 Olympics. Frustrated by the rampant doping culture in cycling, Sky retired after the 2000 Olympics and dedicated his career in search for a better solution. In 2011, Sky broke a world record using an individualized digital health approach inspired by Dr. Eric Topol, the previous holder of the record receiving a lifetime ban for drugs. This experiment was the genesis of OAthlete that helped athletes win medals at the 2012 London Olympics, receiving international media and featured in the award-winning documentary film ‘Personal Gold (2015)’. Called a ‘Wunderkind’ by The New York Times, and recently voted 5th nationwide in ‘Top 40 under 40 in Healthcare Innovation’, Sky is a world record holder and was a member of the U.S. Cycling Team’s ‘Project 96’ prior to the 1996 Olympics. Frustrated by the rampant doping culture in cycling, Sky retired after the 2000 Olympics and dedicated his career in search for a better solution. In 2011, Sky broke a world record using an individualized digital health approach inspired by Dr. Eric Topol, the previous holder of the record receiving a lifetime ban for drugs. This experiment was the genesis of OAthlete that helped athletes win medals at the 2012 London Olympics, receiving international media and featured in the award-winning documentary film ‘Personal Gold (2015)’. Sky has been featured in Forbes, Sports Illustrated, Outside, AlleyWatch, and speaker at health technology conferences ranging from the New York Digital Health Conference featuring Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, San Francisco Health 2.0 Conference featuring Chelsea Clinton, Consumer Electronics Show, The Quantified Self Conference, Verizon Healthcare & Life Science Summit, TEDx, and others. Sky currently lives in Los Angeles, CA and is bringing the app Personal GOLD to the consumer market.
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About Personal GOLD: GOLD is a global consumer health and fitness movement inspired by the Olympic Games. Award-winning Netflix film and iOS/Apple Watch app.

Darwin Fogt
President and CEO of eWellness Corporation
Darwin Fogt, President & CEO: Darwin Fogt, MPT, is a New York and California Licensed Physical Therapist with a B.S. in Exercise Physiology from USC and a Masters degree in Physical Therapy from Cal State Long Beach. Darwin has worked as a physical therapist in neurological rehabilitation and in-patient settings, but has spent most of his professional career doing orthopedic and sports medicine rehabilitation. Licensed as a personal trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine, Darwin created a clinic which fostered not only exceptional patient care but also provided state of the art fitness and sport training as well as professional, research-based fitness training. Evolution Physical Therapy has been an active participant in community outreach and educational programs including preventive obesity programs in conjunction with the Los Angeles Clippers and hosted a variety of free lectures on various topics within the clinics.
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About eWellness Corporation: We are first to market with our telemedicine based distance monitored physical therapy exercise (“DMpt”) program.

Isharna Walsh
Founder & CEO of Coral
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About Coral, Embark Ventures: Coral is an app designed to help you cultivate your sexuality and transform your relationship with sex.

Naveen Khan
CEO & Founder of Pt Pal
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About Pt Pal: A clinical patient management platform, enabling clinicians to send treatment plans, surveys and reminders a patient’s app & track progress.
Jeff Krasno
Founder & CEO of Commune
Jeff Krasno currently works as the Founder and CEO for Commune.
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About Commune: Commune is a digital course community that aims to build a network of self-sufficient personal and societal well-being.

Kali Rogers
Founder & CEO of Blush Life Coaching
Kali is the CEO, Founder, and Janitor of Blush—an online life-coaching company for girls. She’s also a blogger and a professional life coach at Blush Online Life Coaching. When she’s not life-coaching, she likes to write things and burn things in the kitchen and try to keep plants alive to the best of her ability. She’s also weirdly obsessed with The West Wing. Let Bartlet be Bartlet, right?
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About Blush Life Coaching, Thought Catalog: Affordable app-based life coaching and counseling to help you through relationships, career changes and family issues.

Ken Lim
Founder/CEO/Product Architect of phrhero
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About phrhero: A whole new way to manage your personal health records & costs, all in one place!
Kenneth Rosenblood
CEO, Founder of obVus Solutions
Ken Rosenblood is the CEO and founder of obVus Solutions.
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About obVus Solutions: obVus’ (pronounced “obvious”) minder® is a 3x patented wellness wearable and health coaching platform.

Rea Ann Silva
Founder, President & CEO of Rea.deeming Beauty
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About Rea.deeming Beauty: Manufacturer of the award-winning elliptical-shaped beautyblender® makeup applicator.

Robin Palmer
Founder, CEO, Inventor of My Wake UP Call
Founder of My Successables Inc.
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About My Wake UP Call: My Wake UP Call create innovative products which enable people to achieve their goals and dreams.

Robin Palmer
Founder, CEO, Inventor of My Wake UP Call
Founder of My Successables Inc.
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About My Wake UP Call: My Wake UP Call create innovative products which enable people to achieve their goals and dreams.