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This list showcases the top San Francisco 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.
Varsha Rao
Chief Executive Officer of Nurx
Varsha Rao is the CEO of Nurx, which is revolutionizing healthcare by home-delivering prescriptions, medication, and screening tests. She is a Board Member at ViaSat Inc., and the former COO of Clover Health, a health insurance startup developing an innovative platform that collects and analyzes long-term medical data to improve the health management and wellbeing of its clients. Varsha previously served as Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, where she was responsible for managing 16 offices across the globe and leading the company’s customer service and trust and safety teams in Oregon, Portland, Singapore, Dublin and San Francisco. Under her leadership, the company’s operations in Asia expanded, with many new hosts and visitors joining the Airbnb family. However, her entrepreneurial journey began much earlier, in 1998 when she founded Eve.com together with Mariam Naficy. Eve.com quickly became the leading e-commerce retailer for beauty and accessories. Within two years the company grew to 125 employees. Eve.com was sold to Idealab in early 2000 for $110M. In 1999, Fortune Magazine named the company as the 6th Best e-commerce site. Between founding Eve.com and landing at Airbnb, Rao has held a variety of senior roles. She was appointed VP, Category Marketing at Keen/Ingenio (acquired by AT&T) in 2001 and managed P&L for new and emerging major categories. In 2004-2008, she was VP, General Manager for OldNavy.com, the online division of Gap, Inc., where she led the company’s product development, marketing and merchandising efforts, resulting in a 60% increase in revenues. Rao went on to join SingTel as CEO, Digital Media in 2008 and led the team to launch its local search & reviews business inSing.com. After 3 years at SingTel she left to become Senior Vice President, International for LivingSocial where she was the first LivingSocial employee in Asia. As Senior VP, Rao managed more than 2,000 employees in the company’s network of offices in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and Europe. Varsha is a Sequoia Capital Scout, and a mentor for the KStart Catalyst, an incubator and seed investment program for early stage startups in India. She herself has also invested in several startups in various fields including e-commerce, finance and renewable energy. In 2014, she was named by San Francisco Business Times as one of the ‘Most Influential Business Women’ in the Bay Area and in 2016 she featured in The Boardlist’s top 20 list of women every Silicon Valley tech company should be adding to their board. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned to school to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School. As a strong believer in the power of education she contributes to a variety of educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.
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About Nurx: Nurx is a digital healthcare company offering 10 services across reproductive health, at-home testing, dermatology, migraine care, and more.
James Park
CEO and Co-Founder of Fitbit
James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing company acquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Stephanie Tilenius
CEO, Founder of Vida Health
Stephanie is CEO & Founder of Vida Health.
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About Nextdoor, Vida Health: Vida Health is a virtual care platform that provides health coaching from experienced health care providers and medical institutions.
Waleed Mohsen
Founder & CEO of mynurse.ai
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About mynurse.ai: a digital health program to help seniors with chronic conditions live their best lives.
Mike Nolan
Chief Executive Officer of Freenome
Mike brings nearly three decades of experience to his role as Freenome’s Chief Executive Officer, building on a proven record of delivering transformative diagnostic technologies that help clinicians drive better outcomes for their patients. Previously, Mike served as the company’s Chief Business Officer, where he led Freenome’s corporate and business development, product management, clinical development and operations, program management, and marketing teams. He also oversaw partnerships with biopharma companies, academic medical centers, and health systems where our multiomics platform is deployed to move research and medicine forward.
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About Freenome, Freenome, Freenome: Freenome is a biotechnology company with a comprehensive multiomics platform for cancer detection using a routine blood draw.
Sami Inkinen
CEO & Founder of Virta Health
Sami Inkinen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Virta Health, a specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Previously, Mr. Inkinen was the co-founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO and president and board member until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. He also worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company within the software, telecommunications, and government sectors. A physicist by training, Mr. Inkinen started his career as a radiochemist at a nuclear power plant and holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He also earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. He thinks his greatest luxury today is a small vegetable garden at his San Francisco Bay area home.
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About Virta Health: Virta delivers a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases.
Kristina Cahojova
Founder & CEO of kegg
Kristina Cahojova is the Founder and CEO of Kegg.
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About kegg: Kegg is a two-in-one device that combines fertility tracking with pelvic floor exercising.
Stefan Behrens
CEO & Co-Founder of GYANT
Stefan is a repeat entrepreneur in the digital consumer space. After spending almost a decade in strategy consulting driving large-scale transformation programs for international telco companies, he took multiplayer gaming company Aeria Games from humble beginnings to an acquisition by ProSiebenSat.1, Europe’s leading media company. As a co-founder of Invincible Brands, he oversaw the launch and development of two lifestyle brands (Natural Mojo and Hello Body) in the healthy living space leveraging the power of social influencers to drive growth. At GYANT he focuses on product, bridging the gap between engineering, clinical content teams and UX to deliver a compelling patient experience.
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About GYANT: GYANT is a digital front door solution for health systems that uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and resources.
Anand Sharma
CEO and Founder of Gyroscope Innovations
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About Gyroscope Innovations: Gyroscope Innovations is a new OS for the human body, with an app and website for people to view their health analytics.
Sandeep Acharya
CEO & Co-Founder of Octave
Prior to co-founding Octave, Sandeep Acharya led strategy at One Medical for 5 years. In this role, he was responsible for launching and scaling several new services and oversaw the growth of its employer business to over 1,000 companies, while being a member of a senior leadership team that expanded the company to over sixty clinics in eight cities. Before One Medical, he spent his career as an investor, operator, and consultant in the healthcare, retail, and technology sectors at Bain & Co, Bain Capital & Insight Venture Partners. Sandeep holds degrees in computer science & business from Wharton and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
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About Octave: Octave is a modern mental health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible to more people.
Iryna Korolenko
Founder and CEO of iSALON Beauty App
The founder of iSALON, a businesswoman and entrepreneur, fashion model and world-traveler, Iryna Korolenko is a portrait of the modern Renaissance woman. Born in Ukraine, she balanced passion and professionalism, ambition and sophistication from an early age, modeling internationally by 16 while prioritizing higher education. After receiving postgraduate degrees both in international economy and psychology, Iryna began a career working for global corporations, negotiating multi-million dollar contracts. By seamlessly navigating between the worlds of business and beauty, from airline to fashion runways, she has gained a worldview unique among her peers. Seeking new opportunities, Iryna packed a single suitcase and moved to the United States in 2014. Despite having no support network, she paved her way in an unfamiliar environment, and continues to trailblaze her singular career workingwith prominent designers and global brands both as a model and businesswoman. In boardrooms and at photo shoots, presentation matters, but it doesn’t have to be inconvenient. It was during a commute in traffic that Iryna realized it was smarter, safer, and simpler to have beauty services delivered directly to her door. Any modern professional will recognize the importance of quickly connecting with services wherever they are, whenever they are – and with iSALON, you can. Iryna is based in California but continues to pursue her passion exploring new places and meeting new people, always looking forward to new challenges and discovering innovative ideas. A consummate Capricorn, culinary dilettante, and classic cinema enthusiast, she most appreciates the simple things in life, especially her French bulldog, Blu.
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About Coleman Research, Fohr, GLG, iSALON Beauty App, Kelly Moore Paints, Look Model Agency, RED HOT MONDE: Delivering Beauty to Your Doorstep
Moran Shochat Snir
Co-Founder & CEO of Clear Genetics
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About Clear Genetics, Invitae: Clear Genetics is a digital health company dedicated to the thoughtful integration of genetics into routine patient care.
Anthony Diaz
Founder and CEO of Health Hero
Anthony Diaz is Founder and CEO of Health Hero.
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About Health Hero: Health Hero enables organizations to do smart automated follow up via phone and text messages for patients and employees.
Noosheen Hashemi
Founder & CEO of January
Noosheen Hashemi is the Founder & CEO, January.ai.
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About Council on Foreign Relations, Hand Capital, January, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, The HAND Foundation, The HAND Foundation: January is a mobile app that combines AI with science to provide personalized health insights and recommendations.
Afton Vechery
Co-founder and CEO of Modern Fertility
Afton Vechery is Co-founder and CEO at Modern Fertility. Prior to this, she was product manager at 23andMe, and worked for WillowPump as strategy and finance consultant.
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About Modern Fertility: Modern Fertility is a women’s health company closing the fertility information gap by letting women test key fertility hormones at home.
Kristian Ranta
CEO, Founder of Meru Health
Kristian Ranta is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Meru Health.
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About Meru Health: Meru Health is an online mental healthcare company that teaches people the skills needed to create long-lasting healthy lifestyle habits.
Taran Ghatrora
Co-Founder and CEO of Blume
Taran Ghatrora is co-founder and CEO of Blume, a digitally native empowerment and education company. She is a 500 startups fellow and G20 youth delegate for Canada. Blume focused on organic personal care products, for girls and women who believe in the power of their choices. Her passion for health and advocacy broadened in law school when she researched gender equality due to lack of access to period products.
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About Blume: Blume is the first direct to consumer brand focused on puberty, from trustworthy education, to safe & effective self care products.
Alexi Suvacioglu
Co-Founder & CEO of Because Market
Alexi Suvacioglu focuses on product and customer acquisition, perfecting the art of CAC vs LTV. Prior to ZenDeals, Alexi cofounded and sold a VC-funded ecommerce business, was a Senior Manager of Internet Marketing at eBay, and spent 6 years doing technology consulting at Accenture in its Consumer practice. Alexi holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Kings College London (Honors).
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About Because Market: Because is personal care direct-to-consumer company focused on meeting the needs of older adults.
Jordan Shlain
Founder & CEO of Private Medical
Jordan is a practicing physician who is building new models of healthcare delivery. On his 15 year journey he is actively deconstructing the status quo and rebuilding a model that honors the existential humanistic qualities of people while infusing the best technologies to enhance the patient experience, the physician experience and ultimately the patient outcome. When not practicing medicine, you can find him reading books on quantum physics, behavioral economics, statistics, art history and anthropology. Dr. Jordan Shlain is a nationally recognized physician for his innovative approach to the delivery of healthcare. In addition to being a full time doctor and founder of Healthloop, he has been appointed commissioner by the Mayor to the SF Health Service Systems Board and sits on the board of the bi-partisian Washington, DC policy think tank, Hope Street Group. He has been named one of the top 100 health care innovators by HealthSpottr. In addition to being a frequent speaker at various conferences; Health 2.0, RockHealth, Economist Big Ideas, Futuremed and UC Berkeley’s Pre-Med 101, he consults with the investor community as a due diligence expert.
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About American Medical Association, Bright HealthCare, Digital Wellness Lab, Eat Real, HealthLoop, Private Medical, TinctureHealth: A Medical Family Office
Claire Tomkins
Founder & CEO of Future Family
Claire is Founder and CEO of Future Family, a startup helping women and couples navigate their fertility journey. Previously, Claire was Director of Product Marketing at SolarCity (now TSLA), where she helped build one of the largest consumer finance businesses in the industry. She holds a PhD from Stanford University and has been recognized as a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Kauffman Fellow. Claire is passionate about women’s health and fertility based on her personal journey.
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About Future Family: Future Family provides women and couples with personal and affordable fertility care.
Harrison Gordon
Co-Founder and CEO of Blueberry Pediatrics
Harrison Gordon graduated from Northwestern University and worked for Microsoft as a program manager and Google as a product manager. With a family full of doctors and both parents practicing physicians based in Florida, Harrison wanted to use his background and expertise to create a company that uses online services to create a better life for everyone. In his spare time, Harrison enjoys cooking, hiking, and playing with his 1-year-old rescue dog Riley.
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About Blueberry Pediatrics: Blueberry Pediatrics provides parents with live access to top pediatricians for a flat monthly rate.
Yunha Kim
Founder & CEO of Simple Habit
Simple Habit was founded by Yunha Kim in Spring 2016.A former investment banker on Wall Street, Yunha quit her job to build her first startup, raising over $3M from prominent investors. Yunha was desperate to manage the extreme stress of her startup, so, she turned to meditation. She began to meditate a few minutes a day and saw dramatic improvements in the quality of her work, relationships and life. She decided to build Simple Habit to help busy people, like herself, experience the benefits mindfulness.
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About Simple Habit: Simple Habit is a meditation app designed to drive a healthy lifestyle.
Noah Kraft
CEO and Co-Founder of Ginger Health Company
Noah Kraft is the CEO and Co-founder at Ginger Health Company.
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About Ginger Health Company: Ginger Health Company provides solutions for digestive health and offers product options, education, and guidance for consumers.
Osh. Agabi
Founder & CEO of Koniku
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About : Koniku merges synthetic biology with silicon to build machines that detect smells. We cyborgs capable of detecting smell.
Manish Shah
CEO & Co-founder of Peerwell
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About Peerwell: PeerWell covers the full continuum of musculoskeletal care — from pain & prevention through to complex surgery & recovery.
Alex Franzusoff
Chief Executive Officer of PACT Pharma
Alex Franzusoff is the chief executive officer of PACT Pharma. Prior to his current position, Alex served as the chief scientific officer and senior vice president of Research and Product Development of the company. Before joining PACT Pharma, he served as the founding CEO of Krypton Immuno-oncology, Inc. He also held executive positions at Bavarian Nordic, Inc, AZTherapies Inc., Permeon Biologics, Inc, and GlobeImmune.
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About PACT Pharma: Pact Pharma is a developer of personalized adoptive T cell therapies designed for the eradication of solid tumors.
Melody McCloskey
CEO & Founder of StyleSeat
Melody McCloskey is co-founder and CEO of StyleSeat, the largest online marketplace for beauty and wellness services. In 2011, after feeling frustrated that there was no easy way to book beauty appointments, Melody founded StyleSeat with Dan Levine. More than 350,000 beauty professionals in nearly 16,000 cities use the platform today and customers more than 30 million appointments each year. Melody was named by Fast Company as one of its Most Creative People in Business 2014.
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About StyleSeat: StyleSeat is an online destination that connects beauty and wellness professionals with clients.
Adrianne Nickerson
CEO and Co-Founder of Oula Health
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About Oula Health, Robin Care: Oula Health reimagines how women experience pregnancy and delivery.
AJ Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Aware Healthcare
AJ Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Aware Healthcare.
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About Aware Healthcare: Aware Healthcare is reinventing therapy by building the first national network of data-driven therapists.
Robin McIntosh
Co-Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Co-Founder of Workit Health
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About Workit Health: Workit Health is a virtual clinic dedicated to medically-assisted treatment and online therapy for substance use disorder.
Steve Lee
Co-founder/CEO of Aura Health
Co-Founder & CEO at Aura Health.
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About Aura Health: Aura is a digital wellness ecosystem that provides personalized content & community from therapists & coaches around the world
Eythor Bender
Co-Founder and CEO of UNYQ
Eythor Bender, the CEO/Co-founder of UNYQ has worked in the prosthetics and bionics industry for 20+ years including leadership roles at two successful startup exits including CEO at Ekso Bionics (IPO) and President at Ossur (IPO), the manufacturer of the prosthetic legs used by ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius in the Olympics.
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About Singularity University, UNYQ: UNYQ is a global medical device company with industry-leading innovative mass customized orthopedic products
Pavel Pravdin
Founder & CEO of Welltory
Pavel Pravdin is Welltory founder and CEO, ex-Director of Founder Institute, entrepreneur.As an engineer and a business leader, He has over 16 years’ experience in helping businesses achieve sustainable growth, reduce costs, and maximize profit through state-of-the-art technologies and business strategies.
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About Adamantify, Welltory: The go-to health app that lets you read your body, track health, and sync gadgets.
Veronica Lee
Founder & CEO of Remrise
Veronica Lee is the Founder & CEO at Remrise.
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About Midas League, Remrise: Remrise is a health, wellness, and fitness company that offers a personalizes plant-powered sleep formulas.
Lea von Bidder
Co-founder & CEO of Ava
Lea co-founded L’inouï, a premium chocolate production and retail chain in Bangalore, India. As COO, she was key to establishing the L’inouï marketing and operation strategy. She holds a Master’s degree in global entrepreneurship from EM Lyon in France, Zhejiang University in China and Purdue Krannert University in the USA. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the University of St.Gallen and HEC Montréal in Canada. In between her studies, Lea worked for the marketing division of Procter & Gamble in Frankfurt and for a strategy-consulting boutique in Paris.
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About Ava: Ava is a patented multi-sensor bracelet, which allows women to precisely and conveniently predict fertile days.
Joar Opheim
Founder & CEO of Nordic Naturals
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About Nordic Naturals: Nordic Naturals offers nutrients essential to health.
Fred Parietti
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiply Labs
Fred (Federico) Parietti is the Co-Founder & CEO at Multiply Labs.
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About Multiply Labs: Multiply Labs deploys advanced robotics technology to manufacture personalized pharmaceutical capsules.
Raymond Wu
Co-founder & CEO of Wynd Technologies
Raymond Wu founded Wynd Technologies, Inc. in 2014 to help people around the world breathe healthier air. Before Wynd Ray was a Principal at Silver Lake, one of the largest investment firms focusing on the technology industry. Prior to joining Silver Lake, he worked at McKinsey & Company, having served clients in technology, private equity, and financial institutions. Mr. Wu graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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About Wynd Technologies: Wynd Technologies develops a portable smart air purifier that monitors and cleans air as needed.
Sarah McDevitt
Founder & CEO of Core
Sarah McDevitt, a college basketball star turned hardware founder whose product she hopes to have in consumers’ hands by this holiday season — even while she’s acutely aware that a lot has to go right first.
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About Core: Core provides a meditation experience device that uses haptics and biofeedback to guide progress and personalize techniques.
Tashfeen Suleman
CEO of CloudMedx
Tashfeen drives the company’s vision, strategy and technology. His mission is to improve patient journeys and outcomes. He has over 12 years of experience in different areas of technology, entrepreneurship and management. He is a CS major with industry experience in big data, AI and product design, development, and commercialization. After a misdiagnosis in the family, Tashfeen left Microsoft to take care of his father – a survivor of subdural hematoma, a kind of brain bleed. During this journey, he created a company focused on improving healthcare delivery through technology. He believes in the power of data and the potential impact it can have in the medical industry.
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About CloudMedx: We collect and convert disparate data into holistic and actionable views of individuals and communities.
Ben Hwang
CEO of Profusa
From his early exposure as an undergraduate research fellow at the lab of Leroy Hood at Caltech, where the automated DNA sequencer was developed, to bringing cutting edge life sciences tools to the market at Life Technologies Corp. (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.), Ben has seen first-hand the transformative impact that science and technology have to change our world. Prior to Profusa, Ben served in a variety of leadership roles at Life Technologies Corp., including President of the Asia Pacific Region and Head of the qPCR Division. A former management consultant at McKinsey and Company, Ben earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biology from The Johns Hopkins University.
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About Profusa: PROFUSA is a medical devices company creating tissue-integrated sensors for chronic disease management and healthy living.
Alexandre Wayenberg
Co-founder & CEO of Shape
Founder & CEO with experience of over 10 years designing PCBs, firmware, and electronic products.He loves trying out new techniques and finding the perfect solution for any requirements. Passionate about surfing.
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About Shape: ShapeScale combines computer vision and 3D into a new form of measuring health and fitness.
Jack Oswald
CEO, CTO and Co-Founder of ISOThrive
CEO, CTO and Co-Founder at ISOThrive Inc.
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About ISOThrive: ISOThrive is a developer of microbiome product intended to support human and animal health.
Amy Chiu
Co-Founder/CEO of DearBrightly
Amy Chiu is the Founder of Dear Brightly. She is a former Software Engineer at Optimizely and Associate Product Manager of Airbnb.
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About DearBrightly: DearBrightly offers prescription strength retinoids and a variety of other skincare essentials.
Jonathan Schwartz
CEO of CareZone
Jonathan Schwartz is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CareZone since March 2010. CareZone is a social utility to help individuals and families that care for children, parents or loved ones. Prior to founding CareZone, Jonathan was the President, Chief Executive and a Director of Sun Microsystems, the Fortune 200 technology pioneer acquired by Oracle in 2010. Prior to the acquisition, Sun Microsystems pioneered many of cloud computing’s most important innovations, from the world’s most pervasive open source software platforms, to the most efficient datacenter microelectronics and systems infrastructure. Prior to leading the company as Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan was Sun’s President and Chief Operating Officer, its Executive Vice President of Software, and its Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing mergers, acquisitions and Sun’s venture capital portfolio. Prior to Sun, Jonathan was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lighthouse Design, Ltd., a software company acquired by Sun in 1996. Jonathan began his career with McKinsey & Company, Inc., and holds degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Wesleyan University.
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About CareZone: CareZone makes it easy to manage multiple medications, organize health information, and access health services from your smartphone.
Steven Webster
CEO of Asensei
In-between captaining, competing and coaching Edinburgh University Karate Club, Steven graduated in Computer Science and Electronics. A 4th degree black belt, he proceeded to coach for Edinburgh during the most successful period of the club’s history – coaching several hundred students, awarding over 20 black belts and winning 10 consecutive national championships. Winner of PWC Coach of the Year award, Steven funded his sport coaching as a full-time hardware and software engineer. Selling his first startup to Adobe in 2005, Steven built a global consulting team winning awards with clients including Nike, NFL and BBC.
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About Asensei: The easiest way to add technique coaching and correction to sport and fitness products.
Seibo Shen
Founder and CEO of VapeXhale
After a successful career in various revenue generating roles in the Silicon Valley and having 4 successful exits (Data.com, Successfactors, E2open, Yammer), Seibo Shen founded VapeXhale in 2010 and has served as CEO since the company’s inception. An active leader in the vaporizer community, Seibo works closely with VapeXhale’s product team to shape the technology behind the company’s products.
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About VapeXhale: VapeXhale is a company that manufactures and markets high end, medical grade vaporization systems.
Mo Seetubtim
Founder & CEO of The Happiness Planner
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About The Happiness Planner, Topside Wear: Our mission is to empower the world to heal and master their mind.
Jerry Abrahamson
Chief Executive Officer of Curis AI Inc.
Jerry is an innovative thinker, entrepreneur, python developer and medical doctor with a great passion for making the world a better place using technology, data and empathy. He had his first stint with entrepreneurship at 8 helping his mom to run her pastry business. Since then, he has gone on to start several businesses some of which failed miserably while some were huge successes. This has bred in him a never say die attitude; Jerry will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. Working in the B2B space for 5 years, he has gained valuable insights in management and leadership that he applies to his present endeavors. In 2019, he founded Curis AI, a digital healthcare startup looking to make healthcare personalized, efficient and affordable for everyone with a smartphone. As CEO, he is responsible for strategic direction, technical guidance, personnel and compassionate leadership. He is happy to share some of his insights in business and life in general; and would be more than happy to answer any questions. All inquiries should be via email: [email protected]
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About Curis AI Inc.: Our first product is MyCuris a mobile app that provides on-demand VR psychotherapy & guided meditation.
Maja Zecevic
Founder/CEO of Opionato
Scientist, ex-Lancet Editor, Health Advisor
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About Opionato: Your go-to conception expert. Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime… Finally.
Henry Mahncke
CEO of Posit Science
Dr. Henry Mahncke, Ph.D has been the Chief Executive Officer of Posit Science Corporation since June 2, 2011 and serves as its President. Dr. Mahncke served as Vice President of Research & Outcomes at Posit Science Corporation. Dr. Mahncke leads the Research & Outcomes team, designing scientific research and implementing outcomes trials to advance Posit Science’s product development. Dr. Mahncke served as the Vice-Consul for Science and Technology at the British Consulate-General …
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About Posit Science: Posit Science is the maker of BrainHQ, the brain training program backed by the world’s best science.
Panya Chheng
CEO of Medyear
CEO of Medyear.
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About Medyear: An all-purpose social network for healthcare.
Amanda French
Co-Founder & CEO of Emme
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About Emme: Emme is a healthcare technology company with a mission to put women’s health in women’s hands, starting with birth control.
Jennifer Ernst
CEO and Co-Founder of Tivic Health
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About Tivic Health: Tivic Health is a commercial-phase healthtech company focussed on bioelectronic medicine for inflammation.
Cory Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Wisdom Labs
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About Wisdom Labs: Scalable Mental and Social Health for the Workplace- Solving for stress, anxiety, and loneliness at work
Dr. Golda Joseph
CEO, Co-Founder of Regeneration
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About Regeneration: Regeneration is a New Health Care System. Focused on Women and Children’s Health Through the Circle of Time.
Juliet Starrett
Co-Founder and CEO of The Ready State
A lifelong athelete, Juliet launched her competitive sports resume in high school when her rowing team won the California State Championship. From there, Juliet rowed competitively at UC Berkeley and went on to paddle for the US Women’s Whitewater Team from 1997-2000, winning two World Championships and five national titles. In 2010, Juliet competed on Team San Francisco Crossfit the CrossFit Games, completing her first muscle-up in the finals at the competition, and then completing six more. Before turning her attention to MobilityWOD and San Francisco CrossFit full-time, Juliet had a successful career as an attorney, practicing complex commercial litigation at Reed Smith for nearly eight years. She served for 5 years on the Board of GirlVentures, a local non-profit committed to empowering girls through outdoor experiences, and she is the co-founder of Liquid Kayak Camp, which brings HIV+ teens to the American River for a week of community and whitewater kayaking instruction.
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About The Ready State: The Ready State focuses on enhancing range of motion and movement.
Meha Agrawal
Founder & CEO of Silk and Sonder
Building a mental wellness and self-care startup. Committed to transforming the way modern women reflect, rejuvenate, and achieve through the power of pen to paper, data, and community. Former Software Engineer and Product Manager for Goldman Sachs, Stitch Fix, The Muse, and Fueled. Learn More: www.silkandsonder.com
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About Dreamers & Doers, Silk and Sonder: Silk and Sonder offers a monthly subscription program that includes a hand-curated journal with pages for mental health.
