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This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Clinical Trials 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.
Tom Lemberg
Founder & CEO of Curebase
Tom Lemberg is the Founder & CEO at Curebase.
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About Curebase: Curebase is a provider of decentralized clinical research software solutions and services to patients and medical providers.

Travis May
Founder & CEO of Datavant
Travis May is the Founder and CEO of Datavant.
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About Datavant: Datavant is a provider of a healthcare data solutions to help institutions share, protect, and match health data.
Daniel Hawkins
CEO of Avail Medsystems
Mr.Daniel Hawkins is Founder and Senior Advisor of Shockwave Medical.
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About Avail Medsystems, Shockwave Medical: Avail Medsystems is a medical technology company that develops telemedicine software for the procedure room.

Matt Schwartz
Co-founder & CEO of Virgo Surgical Video Solutions
Matt Schwartz is the Co-founder & CEO of Virgo.
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About Virgo Surgical Video Solutions: Virgo accelerates clinical trials with AI for endoscopy
Duke Rohlen
Founder, CEO & Chairman of Ajax Health
Douglas S. Rohlen, also known as Duke, serves as Chief Executive Officer of Ajax Health LLC. Duke Rohlen serves as an Executive Chairman of EPIX Therapeutics, Inc., and has been its Chief Executive Officer. He is a Co-Founder of Ajax Vascular and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He is a General Partner of D3DC, LLC. He has over two decades of experience in cardiovascular medical devices. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Spirox, Inc. He was a Co-Founder of CV Ingenuity Corp., and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He was a Managing Partner of TauTona Group. He served as President of Fox Technologies. He served as Head of Investor Relations at Foxhollow Technologies Inc. He served as President of Strategic Operations at Foxhollow Technologies Inc. Duke Rohlen served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations and as Director of Business Development since joining Foxhollow Technologies Inc., he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Olive Hill Development, a land development company. He served as a Project Consultant at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as Director of Business Development at LuMend Corporation, a privately-held company that develops chronic total occlusion products in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease which was acquired by Cordis Corporation. In 1999, he served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Alta Partners, a venture capital firm. He served as a Director of Entellus Medical, Inc., Duke Rohlen holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Ablacon, Ajax Health, Atriomx, Cortica, Verix Health: Ajax Health accelerates medical innovation through capital and capabilities.

Akash Bakshi
CEO and Co-Founder of ANA Therapeutics
Akash Bakshi is the Co-Founder and CEO of ANA Therapeutics.
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About ANA Therapeutics, NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals, YourChoice Therapeutics: ANA Therapeutics is a biotech company that is developing a novel coronavirus vaccine intended to save human lives.
Simon Burns
CEO and Co-Founder of Vial
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About Vial: Vial provides a clinical trial research-based site that covers research, equipment setting, and clinical trial services.

Hugh Levaux
Founder & CEO of Protocol First
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About Protocol First: Protocol First platform is a next-gen EDC / CDMS; an end-to-end clinical trial execution software platform.
Jarret Glasscock
Founder & CEO of Cofactor Genomics
Jarret Glasscock is the Founder & CEO at Cofactor Genomics .
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About Cofactor Genomics, Pioneer Fund: Cofactor Genomics builds multidimensional models of disease to deliver true precision medicine.
Junyu Lin
Founder & CEO of Namocell
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About Namocell: Namocell is an instrument company for biotech industry.
Kevin Lyman
CEO of Enlitic
Clinical data scientist, gamer, and entrepreneur. CEO @Enlitic. Former engineer @Microsoft, @SpaceX, and @Hasbro.
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About Enlitic, Inventor’s Guild: Enlitic builds AI deep learning products to streamline radiologists’ workflows and improve healthcare diagnosis.

Kenneth L. Harris
President & CEO of Bell Biosystems
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About Bell Biosystems, Thermogenesis: Bell Biosystems, a research-stage biotechnology company, develops tools that accelerate innovations in oncology and cell therapy research.

Avik Pal
Founder & CEO of CliniOps, Inc.
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About CliniOps, Inc.: CliniOps brings comprehensive and global solutions for eSourcing, Monitoring & Patient Engagement in clinical trials.