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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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Wellness 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.
Laurence Girard
CEO & Founder of Fruit Street
Laurence Girard is the CEO and Founder of Fruit Street which is the first company to deliver the CDCs National Diabetes Prevention Program via telehealth and live video conferencing with registered dietitians. The company had raised more than $20 million in funding from approximately 300 physician investors. Laurence graduated from the Harvard Extension School with a Bachelor’s Degree. His passion for entrepreneurship started during his first year of college when the Harvard Innovation Lab was opened in the Harvard Business School campus. While in college, Laurence was volunteering in an emergency room while taking a nutrition epidemiology course. It was at this point he decided our healthcare system needed to focus more on prevention and that he decided to focus his career in public health, technology, and entrepreneurship. Laurence is also the Managing Director of Hippocrates Ventures, a physician funded VC fund. His company Fruit Street recently launched COVIDMD.com, a new national telemedicine service battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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About Fruit Street, Hippocrates Ventures, New Amsterdam Football Club: Fruit Street is a developer of a digital diabetes prevention and weight loss program.
Kal Vepuri
Founder, CEO of Hero Health
Kal Vepuri is Founder and Chairman of Brainchild. Brainchild Holdings is Kal’s personal direct investment vehicle. Brainchild & Company is a collective of engineers, operators, and designers that build physical products and digital services. Prior to forming Brainchild, Kal was a technology entrepreneur, a consultant at Bain & Company and an institutional private equity investor. Kal earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Economics with High Distinction from Duke University and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Economics.
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About Brainchild Holdings, Hero Health: Hero manages every part of your loved one’s medication, so they never miss a dose again.
Saeju Jeong
CEO & Co-Founder of Noom
A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Saeju has always an intense desire to help people. He sits on South Korea’s Ministry of Science & Technology’s steering committee and the board of Chonnam Hospital, South Korea’s largest private hospital.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Zachariah Reitano
Co-Founder and CEO of Ro
Zachariah is the CEO and cofounder of Ro. Founded in 2017, Ro is a healthcare technology company with a mission to provide personalized healthcare to everyone on the planet. Ro has three end-to-end verticals: Roman (men’s health), Rory (women’s health), and Zero (fighting addiction). As CEO and cofounder, Zachariah leads all medical and regulatory operations and oversees all verticals. Zachariah was named Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30, Business Insider’s 30 Under 40 in Healthcare, and a finalist in EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Ro was named #2 in Wellness in Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies 2019.
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About Ro, Roman: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Yarden Tadmor
Founder & CEO of Livekick
Yarden Tadmor is the CEO and founder at Livekick.
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About Livekick, Switch: Livekick is a live virtual mindful movement platform bringing the world’s greatest teachers to your home
Sylvana Quader Sinha
Founder, Managing Director and CEO of Praava Health
Sylvana Quader Sinha is an attorney and entrepreneur with a passion for innovative, impactful approaches to governance and international development. Sylvana Quader Sinha has over a decade of experience leading diverse, interdisciplinary teams in international law, business, development, and government relations at major international law firms, management consulting firms, the World Bank, and think tanks in the Middle East and South Asia. She has independently advised private and sovereign clients on investments, projects, and disputes in frontier markets in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. She has advised governments in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Asia on governance and legal reform, and counseled on investing to multinational and regional corporate clients; she has also moderated disputes in these and other markets on political, economic, and legal risk. Sylvana Quader Sinha also served as a foreign policy advisor to the 2008 Presidential campaign of then-Senator Barack Obama. Based out of New York City, Sylvana Quader Sinha’s legal practice included Investor-State and commercial arbitrations and international litigation, including as part of the International Arbitration Group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and the International Litigation and Arbitration Group at Lovells LLP (now Hogan Lovells LLP). Her clients consisted primarily of Fortune 500 companies and other multinational entities involved in disputes in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. She has particular expertise in business and human rights. She represented a Canadian oil company in litigation involving allegations of international law violations in Sudan. She also conducted research on business and human rights issues for the Special Representative to the UN Secretary General. Additionally, Sylvana Quader Sinha served as a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she earned a certificate from the Parker School of Comparative and International Law. She also earned a master’s degree in Public Administration / International Development from Harvard’s Kennedy School and her Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in economics and philosophy from Wellesley College.
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About Praava Health: Praava Health is a patient-driven company disrupting the healthcare standard for Bangladesh’s 170 million citizens.
Christopher Morris
Founder & CEO of Daybreak Health
Christopher is an Internal Medicine and HIV specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center focused on digital health innovations as means to transform health care quality and access. He is most interested in using emerging telehealth technologies to transform the primary care experience.
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About Daybreak Health, NYU Langone Health, NYU Langone Medical Center: Daybreak Health is a digital health platform that facilitates mobile care solutions.
Alexia Brue
Co-founder & CEO of Wellgood
Alexia Brue is co-founder and CEO of pioneering wellness media company Well+Good. She guides the company’s strategic direction and leads the revenue and business development functions.
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About Leaf Group, Wellgood: Wellgood is an organization that writes articles about exercise and healthy living.
Heather Hartnett
CEO and Founding Partner of Human Ventures
Heather Hartnett is the CEO and founding partner of Human Ventures, an early-stage venture studio in NYC that backs and builds industry-changing business. Heather has spent her career in venture capital, technology startups, and philanthropy. She was recently featured in Business Insider as “the first female-led startup studio in New York City” bringing a fresh new perspective to the tech scene. Heather also serves on the Leadership Council for tech:nyc. Prior to Human Ventures, Heather incubated companies within a NYC-based venture fund that invests in companies seeking to generate measurable social impact alongside financial returns. Heather leads the Human team with a knack for identifying innate talent, and a track record of building strong, successful early teams.
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About AARP, Human Ventures: Human Ventures is a business creation platform, comprised of a venture fund, studio and enterprise agency.
Coley Parry
CEO and Founder of FriendHealth
Coley Parry is the Founder & CEO of FriendHealth.
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About FriendHealth: FriendHealth is a risk-bearing provider that deploys multidisciplinary care teams and proprietary technology to bring health home.
David Ronick
Co-Founder and CEO of Minded
David is a co-founder of Minded and Stash, an LP in The Fund, and mentor to entrepreneurs at TechStars, Harvard Business School and Brown University
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About Minded: Minded is a consumer telehealth company that makes getting mental health medication easy and affordable
Isabelle Kenyon
Founder, CEO of Calibrate
Isabelle is the Founder & CEO of Calibrate. Prior to Calibrate, she led the business operations, growth, and strategic partnerships & communications teams at Capsule, a technology business that has raised $270 million to rebuild the pharmacy from the inside out. Before Capsule, Isabelle worked at beloved consumer brands in London and New York and was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Retail & E-commerce list in 2015. She began her career as an investment banker in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Calibrate: Calibrate is a digital metabolic health business that is changing the way the world treats weight.
Maxime Germain
CEO, Founder of Jour
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About Jour: Jour is a guided journaling app that helps teens and adults with battling mental illness and commit mindfulness.
Harry Ritter
Founder and CEO of Alma
Harry Ritter is the Founder of Alma Health.
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About Alma: Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care providers.
Lesley Eccles
Founder and CEO of HelloRelish
Lesley Eccles is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of HelloRelish. She is a serial entrepreneur and start-up advisor, now working on her third start-up, in the health and wellness space. She is co-founder of FanDuel, the fantasy sports company, and served as its Head of Marketing for 9 years.
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About HelloRelish: HelloRelish is a relationship wellness app that delivers personalized plan to rebuild your relationships.
Alessandra Henderson
CEO and Co-Founder of Elektra Health
Entrepreneur building something new in the women’s health space.
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About Elektra Health, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship: Elektra Health is a new healthcare platform on a mission to tackle the menopause taboo for women.
Marc Atiyeh
CEO of Pawp
Marc is the former CSO of Clarity Money (Acquired by Goldman Sachs) where he focuses on growth efforts from User Acquisition, Operations, Partnerships, and Marketing. Prior to joining Clarity Money, he was the Head of Growth at Paribus. He oversaw the growth of the company from 10,000 users to almost 1,000,000 in 12 months until Paribus got acquired by Capital One. Prior to that, he was a Business Operations and Planning Analyst at Flurry (acquired by Yahoo). Before he became part of the Flurry team, Marc founded Help Me Get In, a college consulting start-up that mentored 50+ high-schoolers to gain admission into top notch US/UK universities. Marc has also been involved in other industries including ad-tech and venture capital. Marc currently advises The Lobby and Cushion.ai. He graduated from Harvard College, where he earned my degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Marc also played on the Harvard squash team. He energized the early stage entrepreneurial community at Harvard and collaborated with the Innovation Laboratory (iLab) at Harvard Business School. Marc graduated High School from College Notre-Dame de Jamhour in Beirut, Lebanon. He also received the French Baccalaureate with highest honors. Marc is fluent in English, French, and Arabic, while having conversational skills in Spanish and Italian. Besides squash, Marc enjoys playing tennis and basketball. Moreover, He is an avid fan of Chelsea F.C. and a poker amateur.
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About Pawp: Pawp is a digital health clinic and telehealth platform for pet owners and their pets that connects them with veterinary professionals.
Omri Yoffe
Co-Founder & CEO of Vi
Omri Yoffe is Founder & CEO at Vi
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About Vi: Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.
Tom Aulet
Co-Founder & CEO of Ergatta
Tom Aulet is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ergatta.
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About Ergatta: Ergatta is an at-home connected fitness startup that offers a rowing machine and proprietary digital content.
Edouard Gaussen
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Mantra Health
Edouard Gaussen is a Co-Founder and CEO at Mantra Health. Edouard has had experience operating and advising startups on growth and user acquisition. He was one of the early employees at Tinder, a social discovery app based in Los Angeles, which disrupted the online dating industry and creates millions of matches every day. His role evolved from handling all on ground growth strategies in the Canadian market to leading the international marketing team across 15 different markets worldwide. As an active member of the Montreal tech community, Edouard serves as a mentor at the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at McGill University. Edouard holds a B.A. in Economics and Finance from McGill University. Born and raised in Switzerland, he is a dual French-Swiss citizen and calls Montreal home.
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About Mantra Health: Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students.
Jeff Krahel
CEO & Co-Founder of Playbook
Founder at Fitner Media.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Jeff Krahel
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbook
Jeff Krahel is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Playbook.
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About Playbook: Playbook is the #1 creator economy platform for talent in the fitness & athletic industry.
Lindsay Jurist-Rosner
Co-founder and CEO of Wellthy
Lindsay Jurist-Rosner is the Co-founder at Wellthy.
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About Wellthy: Wellthy is a family care concierge service that brings relief to families managing complex or ongoing care situations.
Andrew Vagenas
CEO of Pharmapacks
Andrew Vagenas is a co-founder and CEO at Pharmapacks.
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About Pharmapacks: Pharmapacks is an e-commerce company that offers products for daily health and wellness needs.
Aaron Albert
Co-Founder/CEO of Mine’d
Co-Founder/CEO at Mine’d
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About Mine’d: The Emotional Network – Daily, live guided emotional health sessions
Craig Elbert
Co-Founder and CEO of Care/of
Craig Elbert is the co-founder and CEO of Care/of. Prior to co-founding Care/of, Craig served as the founder of Juxtapose and vice president of marketing at Bonobos.
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About Care/of: Care/of is a healthcare technology company dedicated to simplifying consumer health, starting with a fully personalized vitamin pack.
Cesar Carvalho
Co-Founder & Global Chief Executive Officer of Gympass
Cesar Carvalho is the Co-Founder and Global CEO at Gympass.
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About Gympass: Gympass is a fitness discovery platform connecting the world’s network of fitness facilities to companies and its employees.
Nadya Okamoto
Co-Founder and CEO of August
Nadya Okamoto is the Co-Founder and CEO of August, a lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods to be powerful. She is also the author of the book PERIOD POWER: a Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement, and founder and former Executive Director of the nonprofit organization, PERIOD. Outside of her work in the menstrual health space, Okamoto is also a mental health advocate and known as a Gen Z marketing expert. She recently graduated from Harvard College, class of 2021. Her debut book, PERIOD POWER, published by Simon & Schuster in 2018, made the Kirkus Reviews list for Best Young Adult Nonfiction that year. Nadya is also the former Chief Brand Officer and Board Member of JUV Consulting, a Generation Z marketing agency based in NYC. She has been recognized on the lists of Forbes 30 under 30, Bloomberg 50 “Ones to Watch” and People Magazine’s Women Changing the World.
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About August: A lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods to be powerful.
Chris Mirabile
CEO of NOVOS
Chris Mirabile is Founder & CEO of Healthy Hand, and formerly a co-founder and CEO of the geosocial networking technology, Hotlist. Mirabile, a graduate of New York University Stern School of Business, was the youngest entrant to win the NYU Stern Business Plan Competition, from which Hotlist.com was launched. Mirabile and co-founder Gianni Martire went on to raise an $800,000 first round of capital for their venture from Joseph J. Grano, Jr.’s Centurion Holdings, and was accepted into Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s startup incubator program in the SoHo district of New York City. After more than 700,000 nominations for 25 categories, Chris was a top five finalist in the category of Entrepreneur of The Year at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, as part of the 2010 Mashable Awards. Mirabile’s technology career began at age 15, when he worked as a Web Consultant to the now defunct Silicon Alley startup, InternetCash.com. In 2002, at the age of 18, Mirabile led international expansion efforts for a US-based industrial contracting firm, United States Rebar. The resulting Mumbai, India-based technology subsidiary was recently acquired by an international steel conglomerate. Immediately prior to Hotlist, Mirabile worked in Private Equity at Putnam Lovell Investment Bank, and as a Consultant to hedge funds both on behalf of Morgan Stanley, as well as independently.
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About NOVOS: NOVOS is a Longevity supplements brand.
Amanda Freeman
Founder & CEO of SLT Group
Amanda Freeman is the Founder & CEO of Limber & she attended Duke University in 1994.
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About Limber, SLT Group: SLT Group is a boutique fitness studio operator engaging clients with full body workouts.
Robert J. Hariri, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder, Chairperson, and Chief Executive Officer of Celularity
Robert J. Hariri joined us as a Director in July 2011 and was elected Chairman of the Board in April 2012. Robert Hariri has served as the chairman and chief scientific officer of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, a division of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG), since 2014. From 2002 to 2014, he served in various positions at Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, including chief executive officer and president. Prior to joining Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, Robert Hariri was founder, chairman and chief scientific officer at Anthrogenesis Corporation/LIFEBANK, Inc., a privately held biomedical technology and service corporation involved in the area of human stem cell therapeutics, which was acquired by Celgene Corporation in 2002. Robert Hariri also serves as president of Human Longevity Cellular Therapeutics, Inc., a privately-held genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy, high performance human life span, which he co-founded in 2013. He has also served as co-founder, vice chairman and chief scientific officer of Neurodynamics, a privately held medical device and technology corporation. Robert Hariri is an adjunct associate professor of pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has also held key academic positions at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Science, including serving as the director of the Center for Trauma Research. Robert Hariri is also a director of Cryoport, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYRX), Bionik Laboratories Corp. (OTCQX: BNKL), Provista Diagnostics and Rocket Racing, Inc. Robert Hariri is a member of the scientific advisory board for the Archon X Prize for Genomics, which is awarded by the X Prize Foundation. Robert Hariri also serves as a trustee of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a trustee of the Liberty Science Center and a commissioner of the New Jersey Commission for Cancer Research. Robert Hariri received the Thomas Alva Edison Award in 2007 and 2011, The Fred J. Epstein Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and numerous other honors for his contributions to biomedicine and aviation. He has served as a member of the board of visitors at Columbia University School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and the Science & Technology Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Robert Hariri received his undergraduate training at Columbia College and Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and was awarded his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University Medical College. Robert Hariri received his surgical training at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and directed the Aitken Neurosurgery Laboratory and the Center for Trauma Research. We believe Robert Hariri’s training as a scientist, his knowledge and experience with respect to the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries and his extensive research and experience qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.
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About Celularity, Human Longevity, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, MYOS: Celularity is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing off-the-shelf placental-derived allogeneic cell therapies.
Thomas Lee
CEO of Galileo
Tom is a board-certified internist who completed training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He’s interested in improving the quality of care through team-based decision making and an integrative philosophy of care that includes evidence-based medicine and biologic plausibility.
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About Galileo: Galileo — a next-generation health care delivery model designed for the future.
François Kress
CEO of Feelmore Labs
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About Feelmore Labs: Feelmore Labs is an innovative health & wellness technology company.
Ron Belldegrun
CEO and Co-Founder of ByHeart
Ron Belldegrun is the CEO and Co-Founder of ByHeart.
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About ByHeart: ByHeart is an infant nutrition company that translates nutrition science and breastmilk research into evolved foods and formulas.
Mia Funt
President and CEO of ByHeart
Mia (Belldegrun) Funt is the Co-founder and President of ByHeart.
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About ByHeart: ByHeart is an infant nutrition company that translates nutrition science and breastmilk research into evolved foods and formulas.
Alicia Thomas
Co-Founder & CEO of Dibs Technology
Alicia Thomas is Co-Founder & CEO at Dibs Technology.
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About Dibs Technology: Dibs is a platform (web and app) that makes it easy for the fitness industry.
Frederic Dijols
Co-Founder & CEO of Mixlab
Frederic Dijols is a Co-Founder and the CEO at Mixlab.
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About Mixlab: Mixlab is the best-in-class pet pharmacy that partners with veterinarians.
Mason Levey
Co-Founder and CEO of WAVE Meditation
Mason Levey ist eh CEO and founder of WAVE Meditation.
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About WAVE Meditation: WAVE Meditation is a music-guided at-home meditation app for breath, body and beat daily rituals.
Jason Ojalvo
CEO of TUSHY
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About TUSHY: TUSHY is a bidet attachment company that helps ease environmental strife and fight the global sanitation crisis.
Gina Bartasi
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kindbody
A seasoned entrepreneur and thought leader, Gina brings more than 20 years of experience to the digital healthcare industry with a proven track record of building new businesses from the ground up. She has a long history of spotting and capitalizing on market trends, where she’s launched several key brands and digital media properties including Fertility Authority, a suite of sites providing financing and support for both IVF and egg freezing patients. Today, Gina is the Chief Executive Officer for Progyny – a leading digital health company. The company combines data and science to provide the first end-to-end, proactive fertility solution for employers. Our solution increases success rates and reduces time to pregnancy. Gina was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Small Business Person of the Year finalist and a finalist for Woman of the Year in Technology. She received her BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a graduate of Harvard Business School. She serves on the boards of The Carter Center’s Board of Councilors, Camp Sunshine, and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Communications Studies. Gina and her husband reside in New York City.
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About Kindbody: Kindbody is a health and technology company providing fertility, gynecology, and family-building care.
Marah Lidey
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
Marah Lidey is the cofounder of Shine Text, helping people live more intentionally through the power of daily messaging. Her expertise lies at the intersection of millennials and messaging. Lidey previously directed mobile and social for brands like DoSomething.org, American Express, and Viacom. She earned her BA in Journalism at the University of Georgia and currently resides in Brooklyn. A World Economic Forum Global Shaper and one of the “Top 35 People to Watch in NYC Tech” by Built in NYC, Lidey also actively advocates for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in technology and entrepreneurship.
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
Naomi Hirabayashi
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Shine
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About Shine: Shine is a self-care app and community for people with anxiety and depression.
Yogesh Shetty
CEO of Avibra
Yogesh is Avibra’s CEO and Co-Founder. His goal has been to reinvent life insurance as a ‘well-being’ product with a focus on giving something tangible to people to improve their lives right now. Avibra is the first startup to introduce a novel way to use a data-driven model to offer guaranteed micro life insurance with no medical underwriting, all earned simply through people’s good habits. Yogesh was the former Managing Director & Head of Architecture & Innovation at New York Life. Before that, he worked for Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase and a number of startups. He is also a successful author of a book used in universities as a part of master’s level curriculum.
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About Avibra: Avibra is an technology company offering no-cost and affordable financial, insurance and lifestyle benefits
Alex Hall
Co-Founder & CEO of equell
Alex Hall is a successful international two-time tech entrepreneur with a passion for the power of human connection in an age of digital overload and addiction. Now founder & CEO of equell, a platform that trains people to build a healthier relationship with technology by encouraging and rewarding balanced behavior. equell provides tools to better handle the sheer volume of digital inputs and assault on our attention as more and more people express concern at being online almost constantly. Previous to launching equell, Alex built Tigerspike, a global mobile design and development company powering digital solutions for Fortune 500 companies across many industry verticals. Tigerspike sold to Synnex Group (Fortune 158) in 2017. It was his personal journey where he discovered “the bite point” of digital addiction; the fine line between online and offline, healthy and unhealthy digital behavior. The driving force behind equell’s mission is to help you define your personal “bite point”, keeping productivity and fulfillment maximized. Alex is passionate about human technologies, conscious awareness, digital wellness, EQ, tech for good and entrepreneurship. He has a passion for helping people understand their “bite point” in relation to digital balance, ensuring technology remains useful, entertaining, and complementary to real life.
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About equell: Equell offers a mobile app that helps people train to build a healthier relationship with technology.
Thomas Tsang
CEO, Co-Founder of Valera Health
Tom implemented an integrated behavioral healthcare and primary care model at a community health center a decade ago for 40,000 patients and is now taking that experience to Valera Health. His former roles include CMO at Merck’s Healthcare Services and Solutions, Congressional staffer, Medical Director at the Office of the National Coordinator and Advisor to the Governor of Hawaii.
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About Valera Health: Valera Health is a tech-enabled mental health company delivering inclusive, comprehensive and tailored care.
Alexandra Bonetti
Founder & CEO of TalentHack
Alexandra Bonetti is the Founder and CEO at TalentHack.
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About TalentHack: TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry.
Abigail Stone
Co-Founder & CEO of Otherland
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About Otherland: Otherland is a digitally-native candle brand that transforms your home into an expressive world.
Erica Jain
Co-Founder & CEO of Healthie
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About Healthie: Healthie is a comprehensive software for health and wellness organizations to deliver preventative, longitudinal care.
Sam Corcos
Co-founder, CEO of Levels
Sam is the Co-Founder at Levels (levelshealth.com), a health and wellness company committed to advancing personalized metabolic health knowledge. Prior to founding Levels, he was Head of Technology and Co-Founder at CarDash (cardash.com), a Y Combinator company that makes automotive repair and maintenance as convenient and transparent as possible.
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About Levels: Levels is a health and wellness company committed to improving metabolic health through biowearables.
Jason Baptiste
CEO of Studio
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About Studio: Studio makes audio based group running classes available live and on-demand to anyone with access to a treadmill.
Danielle DuBoise
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sakara Life
Danielle DuBoise is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Sakara Life.
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About Sakara Life: Sakara Life is an organic meal delivery and healthy living company that helps clients achieve health and well-being.
Whitney Tingle
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sakara Life
Whitney Tingle is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Sakara Life.
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About Sakara Life: Sakara Life is an organic meal delivery and healthy living company that helps clients achieve health and well-being.
Rushabh Sadiwala
CEO of Framework
Rush Sadiwala is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Framework.
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About Framework: Framework offers a platform for wellness businesses to set up virtual communities.
Ben Huffman
CEO and Co-Founder of Ripe
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About Ripe: Ripe is the everyday meal service providing companies and their people with delicious, freshly-prepared food.
Mike Russell
Co-Founder and CEO of Monument
Mike Russell is the former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Paintzen and currently work at Monument as Co-Founder and CEO.
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About Monument: Monument is an alcohol addiction treatment platform for those looking to change their relationship with alcohol.
Shoshana Shendelman
CEO of Applied Therapeutics
Shoshana Shendelman, PhD founded Applied Therapeutics in 2016. She serves as President and Chief Executive Officer as well as Chair of the Board of Directors. Prior to founding Applied Therapeutics, she founded Clearpoint Strategy Group LLC, a boutique life sciences consulting firm, where she served as the Managing Director from July 2012 to December 2016, and served as a Senior Advisor from January 2017 to December 2018. Prior to that, she served as a scientific consultant and analyst at Bridge Scientific Consulting LLC. Dr. Shendelman received her Ph.D. in Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies (CMBS) from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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About Applied Therapeutics: Applied Therapeutics uses drug-development approach to target molecules and pathways that has roles in fatal or debilitating diseases.
Arianna Huffington
Founder & CEO of Thrive Global
Arianna Huffington is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of 15 books, including, most recently, Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet, and in 2012 won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. In August 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success. Thrive Global provides trainings, seminars, e-courses, coaching and ongoing support based on the latest scientific findings to improve people’s health and increase productivity for both companies and individuals around the world. She has been named to Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.
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About Thrive Global: Thrive develops technology that help individuals and companies improve their well-being and performance.
Eva Sadej
Founder & CEO of FLOSS BAR
Eva comes from a small town in Poland and the mean streets of Brooklyn. After graduating from Harvard in 2012, Eva worked for Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. Eva dreamed up Floss Bar when she noticed how complicated it was to get a basic dental care without taking 3 hours off of work or getting offered multiple extra services. Upon further research, she realized that over 80% of Americans have gingivitis, and that the rates of those with preventable dental emergencies was consistently rising. In 2018, Eva put her Wharton MBA on hold to build Floss Bar into a household name. Eva’s goal is to improve the expedience, cost, and accessibility of health and beauty services – making others both internally and externally beautiful.
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About FLOSS BAR: The simplest possible way to get basic dental care
Stephen Sokoler
Founder and CEO of Journey Live
Stephen spent years in the business sector, founding and running companies, including Altrum Honors, which helped organizations celebrate and inspire their employees. After years of personal practice, Stephen recognized that meditation needed to be shared with the world in a more approachable, accessible way. In 2015, Stephen founded Journey Meditation with a simple but powerful goal: help people live happier lives with greater clarity and peace of mind.
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About Journey Live: Journey Live offers a preventative mental health solution to reduce turnover, tackle burnout, and help employees live healthier lives.
Avi Dorfman
Founder and CEO of Clearing
Avi Dorfman is the founder of Salvo Health.
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About Accretive, Clearing, Salvo Health: Clearing is a healthcare platform focused on providing opioid-free pain relief.
Jeff Halevy
Founder , CEO & Chairman Of The Board of HLVY Group
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About Altis, FitSafe, HLVY Group, HuffPost, U.S. News & World Report: HLVY Group is a portfolio of companies that spans health club operation, luxury fitness center and amenity management.
Debi Yadegari
CEO and Founder of Villyge
Debi Yadegari is the founder and CEO of Villyge, an employer-paid benefit that sets families up for success and helps employees to thrive. She is a former BigLaw attorney, a Certified Lactation Counselor, and a mother of five.
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About Villyge: Villyge is an employer-paid benefit that sets families up for success and helps employees to thrive.
Manik Bhat
CEO of Healthify
Chief Executive Officer of Healthify.
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About Healthify: SaaS – There’s more to health than healthcare.
Bezalel Arkush
Founder and CEO of Alv.io
Bez is a serial international entrepreneur, created and brought over 20 products to the consumer market.
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About Alv.io, Aveta.Life, GTcardio: Alvio is an all-in-one breathing trainer, symptom tracker and mobile game controller that helps you get healthier as you play.
Prita Kumar
Founder & CEO of Booya Fitness
Former finance professional turned fitness entrepreneur, Prita started Booya to solve her own workout problems. With limited time, she found herself unable to attend fun boutique classes and dreading the treadmill each day. Prita wanted to create a solution that elevated the at-home experience to more closely mirror a high-end fitness boutique. Prita holds a B.S. from NYU Stern School of Business and is expected to graduate from Harvard Business School in May 2014.
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About Booya Fitness: Booya Fitness is a fitness-based video platform that offers the widest variety of on-demand fitness classes.
Eran Ofir
CEO & Co-Founder of Somatix
Eran Ofir is the CEO and Co-Founder of Somatix, a real-time gesture detection platform for effective healthcare intervention,utilizing sensors built into a range of wearables to remotely detect, analyze, gain insights and act on massive volumes of body motion data. Eran has 20 years of experience in executive roles with multinational companies, where he established and led business units at Orange, AOL Mobile, Amdocs, Convergys and NCR. Over the last decade, Eran has lived and worked in Israel, South Africa, China and the US, selling software platforms, hardware, services and consulting to customers in telecom, internet, retail, utilities, financial services and healthcare sectors. Eran is a Tel-Aviv University graduate in Electrical Engineering (BSc) and Finance-Marketing MBA.
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About Somatix: Somatix is a wearable-enabled Remote Patient Monitoring software platform for healthcare.
Alex Zacney
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of ivee
Alex Zacney is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at ivee.
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About ivee: Ivee empowers patients to receive at-home health and wellness services.
LJ Troilo
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of ivee
LJ Troilo is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at ivee.
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About ivee: Ivee empowers patients to receive at-home health and wellness services.
Danielle Cohen-Shohet
Co-Founder & CEO of GlossGenius
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About GlossGenius: GlossGenius is a vertical SaaS platform for small business owners across the salon and studio space.
James Edward Murray
Co-Founder and CEO of Therify
James Edward Murray is the co-founder and CEO of Therify.
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About Therify: Therify provides an inclusive mental healthcare service for companies.
Brynn Jinnett Putnam
Founder & CEO of MIRROR
Brynn Putnam is the founder and CEO of MIRROR, a fitness technology company poised to revolutionize the way people work out by bringing the boutique studio experience in-home. For more than a decade, Brynn has been well-regarded as a pioneer of the fitness industry. She started her career as a professional ballet dancer for the New York City Ballet, spending years training to peak performance while also working in some of New York City’s top gyms and boutique fitness studios. In 2010, Brynn took her learnings from elite trainers and physiologists across the nation and founded Refine Method, the acclaimed fitness studio dubbed “Best New Workout” by New York magazine. Now, Brynn is applying her deep expertise in fitness, both as an entrepreneur with a proven track record and an accomplished athlete, to transform the fitness industry again. Brynn graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Russian Literature and Culture and is based in New York City.
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About MIRROR, Refine Method: Mirror is a connected fitness system that streams live and on-demand classes to users in-home through a sleek responsive display.
Abby Schneiderman
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Everplans
She is a repeat entrepreneur who loves finding ways to use technology to make people’s lives better. Prior to co-founding Everplans, Abby was a Principal at Tipping Point Partners, a NYC start-up incubator, where she was part of the team that launched several businesses, including AppOrchard, an iOS consultancy for the enterprise, and Cookstr, a recipe-driven nutritional technology company. In 2004, Abby co-founded Haystack Media, one of the first music social networks.
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About Everplans: Everplans provides guidance and original articles and resources, and a secure vault to share the right info with the right people.
Ritvik Singh
Co-Founder & CEO of wayForward
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About wayForward: wayForward provides comprehensive mental health care, powered by technology.
Oke Okaro
Founder & CEO of Burner
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About Burner: Burner is a personal health service that helps employers improve the health of every employee.
Prakash Hosalli
Co-Founder & CEO of Akila Labs
Prakash Hosalli is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Akila Labs.
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About Akila Labs, NovoPlexus: Health as a Service, B2B, HealthTech, AI, Digital Health, Care Manangement
Michael Chernow
Founder and CEO of Kreatures of habit
Michael Chernow is a Founder and CEO of Kreatures of habit.
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About Kreatures of habit: Kreatures of habit creates nutritious items to boost people’s immunity and help them live happier lives.
Jason Wachob
Founder & Co-CEO of mindbodygreen
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About mindbodygreen: Mindbodygreen is an independent media brand dedicated to wellness.
Marco Alfonsi
CEO of Canbiola
Marco Alfonsi is the CEO of Canbiola.Marco Alfonsi is Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman & Co-Founder at Prosperity Systems.
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About Can B, Canbiola, Prosperity Systems: Canbiola specializes in the manufacturing, formulation, and sale of THC-Free Cannabidiol (CBD) Isolate products.
Polly Rodriguez
Co-Founder & CEO of Unbound
Polly Rodriguez is the co-founder and CEO of Unbound, a direct-to-consumer site dedicated to women’s sexuality.
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About Unbound: Unbound is a rebellious sexual wellness company for women.
Denise Woodard
Founder and CEO of Partake Foods
Denise Woodard is the CEO at Partake Foods.
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About Partake Foods: Partake Foods is a food and beverage company that specializes in selling allergy-friendly cookies.
Sadie Kurzban
Founder & CEO of 305 Fitness
Sadie Kurzban is the 29-year old founder and CEO of 305 Fitness, a millennial-inspired disruptive fitness brand. Named “the next fitness cult leader,” by the New York Observer, Kurzban has been featured in numerous media outlets like Good Morning America, Yahoo! Finance, Business Insider, Forbes, Fast Company and more. Her unique message that exercise can be a means of self-expression resonates with today’s young female consumer. Just months out of college, Kurzban bootstrapped 305 Fitness with $25,000 in funding. Kurzban graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Economics.
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About 305 Fitness: Democratizing entrepreneurship and access to affordable group fitness through our instructor certification.
Lamia Pardo
Co-Founder and CEO of Journify – The Audio Journaling App
Lamia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Journify. Entrepreneur, growth marketer and wellness advocate.
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About Journify – The Audio Journaling App: Start an audio timeline of your life’s journey. Encrypted & easy-to-share voice notes. Free burnout tracking included.
Darryl Phipps
Founder | CEO of Fitnessity
Darryl K. Phipps is the Founder and CEO of PEH Global Inc. PEH GLobal is home to Fitnessity.net, Adventure Entertainment and Ur-Trainer.com. Darryl currently attends Penn State University for business. He is a 5th degree black belt and a 2x martial arts hall of fame inductee.
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About Fitnessity, Ur-Trainer.com, Valor Mixed Martial Arts: Fitnessity (Fit-ness-ity) A multi-sport, social & booking marketplace that connects consumers to any sports activity, anytime, anywhere.
Sara LaHayne
Founder & CEO of Move This World
Sara is the Founder & CEO of Move This World, the leading provider of social-emotional learning (SEL) multimedia experiences for PreK-12 students, educators, and families. Move This World has already impacted the lives of over 2 million students across 42 states. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Sara is a 2016 Stevie Award Winner for “Female Innovator of the Year;” a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum; an American Express Ashoka Emerging Innovator; a Cordes Fellow with the Opportunity Collaboration; the only U.S. recipient of the Youth Leader Award in the Americas by the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Meeting; an Ashoka Activating Empathy Award Winner; a three-time Beyond Sport Award Finalist; named a “Woman Entrepreneur” by World Resources Institute New Ventures Mexico; a Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies; a StartingBloc Fellow; a Finalist Nominee Social Entrepreneur/Innovator for the Women’s Information Network 18th Annual Young Women of Achievement Award; 1 of 3 Artists Transforming the World by the Arts and Healing Network; Global Good Fund Fellow; honored among The Jewish Week NY’s “36 Under 36”; and a Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Fellow. She has presented at conferences across 5 continents and been featured in CNN, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, ABC7, The Atlantic, Education Week, The Huffington Post, Inc, USA TODAY, The Hechinger Report, Education Dive, TODAY Parenting, Edutopia, and EdSurge, among others. A life-long dancer and previous professional performer, Sara was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia when she authored, implemented, and evaluated the original Move This World curriculum. Most importantly, she is the inspired mother of two little girls, who present her with hourly opportunities to Move This World, and lives with them and her husband in Brooklyn, NY. For more information about Sara, her speaking, and her writing visit www.sarapotlerlahayne.com.
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About Move This World: The leading social-emotional skills curricula: evidence-based, developmentally appropriate multimedia experiences for schools and families.
Daniel Adler
Founder & CEO of WinkBeds
Daniel Adler is founder and CEO at WinkBeds.
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About WinkBeds: WinkBeds is a direct-to-consumer mattress company.
Yuri Tomikawa
Founder and CEO of Zencare.co
Yuri Tomikawa is the founder and CEO of Zencare.co.
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About Zencare.co: Zencare is the simplest way to find quality vetted therapists. Watch videos and book free initial calls with therapists to find a great fit!
Jacqueline Wasser
Founder / CEO of Recess
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About Recess, sprout group: Recessis a health and wellness industry that provides biodegradable single-use products for skin care.
Jeff Keane
Chief Executive Officer of Noble Biomaterials
Mr. Keane has over 30 years of management experience building brands and profitably growing companies. Jeff began his career working for some of the best-known marketing and consumer product companies, including General Mills and Con Agra/National Foods working on brands such as Betty Crocker and Hebrew National. Since 1995, Mr. Keane has served in executive roles at Playtex Family Products, Minami International and Schieffelin & Somerset. Jeff joined Noble in 2005. Jeff received a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and holds an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
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About Noble Biomaterials: Noble creates intelligent materials designed to PROTECT, SAVE, HEAL, and IMPROVE LIVES
Rebecca Parekh
Co-founder & CEO of THE WELL
Rebecca Parekh is the co-founder and CEO of THE WELL.
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About THE WELL: THE WELL is a modern membership-based wellness club designed for busy urban professionals.
Jo Schneier
CEO & Co-Founder of Trusty.care
Jo Schneier is the CEO and Co-Founder of Trusty.care. He is also the Advisor at Stonewall Community Development Corporation. Mr. Schneier is a former Co-Owner of Third Space Creative and CEO at Cognition. Jo received a bachelor of fine arts in Graphic Design at The Open University of Israel.
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About Trusty.care: Trusty.care is turning health insurance brokers and financial advisors into the HR department for retirees
Erika Zauner
Founder & CEO of HealthKick
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About HealthKick: HealthKick is a digital health company that empowers employers to seamlessly deliver comprehensive wellness benefits to their employees.
Paul O’Reilly-Hyland
CEO of Zeamo
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About Zeamo: Zeamo is a digital fitness platform for businesses that provides employees and members with exercise options, flexibility, and rewards.
Jeremy Lamande
CEO and co-founder of Fit Instructor
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About Fit Instructor: Fit Instructor is a review based app on Fitness Instructors that allows consumer to find and review new/inspiring instructors.
William Walter
Founder and CEO of The Field House
Founder and CEO at the Field House, a groundbreaking reset of the traditional metropolitan sporting club. Lover of racquets, fiction and classical music.
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About The Field House: Designed by Gabriel Calatrava, the Field House is New York’s premier social athletic club.
Eric Posner
Co-Founder & CEO of SWERVE Fitness
Eric Posner, CEO, manages SWERVE’s finances and marketing. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in Psychology and Economics, he began his career as an Equity Sales Trader. It was then that he realized that his love for fitness extended far beyond the lacrosse field and he wanted to devote his career to sharing this passion with others. Through his positivity, ambition, and relentless hard work, Eric builds and boosts team morale every day at SWERVE and in all of his fitness endeavors around the city.
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About SWERVE Fitness: SWERVE is the world’s first Team Indoor Cycling experience, inspired by the enduring power and stickiness of team sports.
Siffat Haider
Co-Founder &CEO of Arrae
Siffat Haider currently works as the Co-Founder and CEO for Arrae.
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About Arrae: Arrae provides natural supplements that aid digestion.
Peter Just
Founder and CEO of Hubbster
Peter Just is the founder and CEO of Hubbster.
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About Hubbster: Hubbster provides easy access to outdoor games and exercise gear in shared spaces, whether public or private.
Andrew Zengilowski
CEO of Selvera
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About Selvera: Personalized Weight Management Program
Geetika Agrawal
Founder & CEO of VAWAA
+ 12+ years design experience working across digital products & services, user-experience, architecture, marketing and brand for clients like Disney, NASA, Mastercard, AARP, Nike, Nokia, Walmart and Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. + Traveled to 40+ c
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About FoodxThought, VAWAA: Vacation with master artists from around the world and learn a new skill.
Julie Bauer
Chief Executive Officer of Parker Naturals
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About Parker Naturals: Parker Naturals is a privately held company that focuses on the health and well-being of families, athletes, and pets.
