Selected Advocates
Adam Brown
Founder & CEO, ClinArk
Adam Brown obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Wittenberg University in Biology. He is a renowned analyst with a passion for increasing clinical trial access and eradicating inequalities in healthcare. He has lead feasibility initiatives that span across a multitude of indications, ranging from common to extremely rare diseases at small to large CROs. He also intends to change the way the feasibility process is performed by bring trials to research sites.
Adam Brown obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Wittenberg University in Biology. He is a renowned analyst with a passion for increasing clinical trial access and eradicating inequalities in healthcare. He has lead feasibility initiatives that span across a multitude of indications, ranging from common to extremely rare diseases at small to large CROs. He also intends to change the way the feasibility process is performed by bring trials to research sites.
Adam Houtman
Senior Managing Member, Dont Panic; Senior Partner, Aegis Health Services
Mission Statement: Have fun, be fun and live your Passions.
Adam Houtman is an accomplished Senior Executive and Board Member, with more than 25 years of success across the healthcare, marketing, technology and real estate. Leveraging extensive experience in business strategy, Adam is a valuable asset for those seeking assistance with profitability, and getting past critical growth points. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and development, team leadership, business process improvement, sales, marketing and operations.
Known by colleagues and clients as a fun and inspiring leader, empowering the team through personal and business success.
Mission Statement: Have fun, be fun and live your Passions.
Adam Houtman is an accomplished Senior Executive and Board Member, with more than 25 years of success across the healthcare, marketing, technology and real estate. Leveraging extensive experience in business strategy, Adam is a valuable asset for those seeking assistance with profitability, and getting past critical growth points. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and development, team leadership, business process improvement, sales, marketing and operations.
Known by colleagues and clients as a fun and inspiring leader, empowering the team through personal and business success.
Ana Margarida Alves
CEO, Cortexxus; Neighborhood Lead, StartX
Ana Margarida Alves is the CEO at CortexXus who’s most recognized for leveraging financial strategy and data science to help forward-thinking companies achieve high-growth. Additionally, she offers a wide-range of global business experience: helping innovative companies compete in new markets at a higher level.
Ana Margarida Alves is the CEO at CortexXus who’s most recognized for leveraging financial strategy and data science to help forward-thinking companies achieve high-growth. Additionally, she offers a wide-range of global business experience: helping innovative companies compete in new markets at a higher level.
Andre Wilson
Managing Partner, Altima Business
Twenty-four years ago, Andre Wilson relocated to Arizona, relocating himself out of a job! Former investment banker for Prudential syndicating or making a market in companies to list them on the NASDAQ exchange, Andre was rapidly promoted to M&A, acquiring companies for his portfolio businesses such as Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, GE etc.
NYU double major in Finance & Marketing, Andre wondered how to put his skills to good use in his new Arizonan community. Starting as a marketing company servicing major car dealerships Altima Business Solutions has been blessed to acquire the talents to morph into a full-service firm, helping startups, small to medium-sized businesses scale by empowering management to focus on what moves their needle.
Former nationally ranked amateur kick boxer, and basketball player, Andre still plays hoops for fun or for a good stogie and a premium blended scotch (at least 12 years of age!).
Andre excels in negotiating and structuring simple to complex capital acquisitions. His trusted network of lenders and investors ranges from banks, alternative lenders to VC, corporate ventures and private equity firms. In 20 years of business, he's secured over $400 million dollars.
Double kidney transplant recipient, Andre has served as Director of the Board for the National Kidney Foundation of Arizona, as well as Venture Devil Mentor for Arizona State University and Mentor for the Business Mentoring Team. Our blessings in life come from helping others!
Twenty-four years ago, Andre Wilson relocated to Arizona, relocating himself out of a job! Former investment banker for Prudential syndicating or making a market in companies to list them on the NASDAQ exchange, Andre was rapidly promoted to M&A, acquiring companies for his portfolio businesses such as Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, GE etc.
NYU double major in Finance & Marketing, Andre wondered how to put his skills to good use in his new Arizonan community. Starting as a marketing company servicing major car dealerships Altima Business Solutions has been blessed to acquire the talents to morph into a full-service firm, helping startups, small to medium-sized businesses scale by empowering management to focus on what moves their needle.
Former nationally ranked amateur kick boxer, and basketball player, Andre still plays hoops for fun or for a good stogie and a premium blended scotch (at least 12 years of age!).
Andre excels in negotiating and structuring simple to complex capital acquisitions. His trusted network of lenders and investors ranges from banks, alternative lenders to VC, corporate ventures and private equity firms. In 20 years of business, he's secured over $400 million dollars.
Double kidney transplant recipient, Andre has served as Director of the Board for the National Kidney Foundation of Arizona, as well as Venture Devil Mentor for Arizona State University and Mentor for the Business Mentoring Team. Our blessings in life come from helping others!
Andrew Meadow
General Partner, International Cancer Impact Fund
Andrew Meadow is a senior principal investor and healthcare innovation, corporate finance, business development and commercial strategy executive with over 23 years of multinational experience in Venture Capital, large pharma, early to mid-market stage bio/med tech companies, and investment banking. Over his career Andrew has established himself as a proven relationship builder and deal maker across all facets of the healthcare innovation continuum, from product concept development to launching best in class treatment modalities. During this time, Andrew cultivated a successful track record for building blue chip investor syndicates, growing businesses, and originating, negotiating, and executing pharmaceutical licensing, alliances/partnerships, and acquisitions that generated significant shareholder value and tangible financial returns.
His success as a healthcare venture capitalist and senior healthcare operating executive results from a unique ability to combine a strong clinical foundation in the underlying epidemiology of several therapeutic areas and tenured experience in clinical and program management with a successful track record in business development, new product creation, and commercializing innovation. This established track record is in no small part the result of Andrew’s ability to bridge the divide that often exists between these disciplines to create and achieve shareholder value that yields significant Net Cash on Cash exit multiples.
Andrew Meadow is a senior principal investor and healthcare innovation, corporate finance, business development and commercial strategy executive with over 23 years of multinational experience in Venture Capital, large pharma, early to mid-market stage bio/med tech companies, and investment banking. Over his career Andrew has established himself as a proven relationship builder and deal maker across all facets of the healthcare innovation continuum, from product concept development to launching best in class treatment modalities. During this time, Andrew cultivated a successful track record for building blue chip investor syndicates, growing businesses, and originating, negotiating, and executing pharmaceutical licensing, alliances/partnerships, and acquisitions that generated significant shareholder value and tangible financial returns.
His success as a healthcare venture capitalist and senior healthcare operating executive results from a unique ability to combine a strong clinical foundation in the underlying epidemiology of several therapeutic areas and tenured experience in clinical and program management with a successful track record in business development, new product creation, and commercializing innovation. This established track record is in no small part the result of Andrew’s ability to bridge the divide that often exists between these disciplines to create and achieve shareholder value that yields significant Net Cash on Cash exit multiples.
Anne McCune
Principal, ECG Management Consultants
Anne McCune is a nationally recognized strategic healthcare leader with a distinguished career as a senior executive for several leading pediatric health systems and academic medical centers and as a managing director in consulting. She is an industry expert in leading large-scale transformational change, merger management, value network design, and organizational topics such as culture and organizational change.
Anne currently serves as CEO of the Carol Emmott Foundation, a national nonprofit based in California that is committed to achieving fully inclusive gender equity in health. She also serves as a principal in the Children's Health Systems practice at ECG Management Consultants where her work focuses on strategy and improving organization health and performance.
Expertise: Post-Merger Integration; Healthcare Consumerism; Business Development; Market Growth Strategy; Physician-System Alignment; Hospital Administration; Board and Executive Alignment; Executive Coaching.
Anne McCune is a nationally recognized strategic healthcare leader with a distinguished career as a senior executive for several leading pediatric health systems and academic medical centers and as a managing director in consulting. She is an industry expert in leading large-scale transformational change, merger management, value network design, and organizational topics such as culture and organizational change.
Anne currently serves as CEO of the Carol Emmott Foundation, a national nonprofit based in California that is committed to achieving fully inclusive gender equity in health. She also serves as a principal in the Children's Health Systems practice at ECG Management Consultants where her work focuses on strategy and improving organization health and performance.
Expertise: Post-Merger Integration; Healthcare Consumerism; Business Development; Market Growth Strategy; Physician-System Alignment; Hospital Administration; Board and Executive Alignment; Executive Coaching.
Antonio Fonduca
Partner, Venture Diplomat
Antonio Fonduca is an ex-entrepreneur, corporate and VC with two decades of experience in visioning, ideating and leading global implementation and growth in new business technologies, while driving sustainable revenue and profit development in multiple industries on a global scale.
For the past decades Antonio has actively served as a stakeholder in the start/scale-up ecosystem, identifying and implementing novel technologies to accelerate top and bottom line business growth. Antonio has also served as Department Head of Innovation at publicly listed multinational corporation (€2+ billion turnover, +20% EBITDA). Previously, Antonio was the co-founding Managing Director of a medtech venture which was eventually publicly listed (valued at €80+ million).
Business area experiences include commercialization, business & corporate development, innovation, business modeling - while sector experiences include health, food & deep tech.
Demonstrated experience in concept shaping and leading start/scale-ups, creating and implementing global strategies, marketing and business plans, growing industrial and consumer businesses, developing disruptive innovations and business models, managing global organizations in B2B industries and implementing M&A strategies.
Antonio currently connects the dots, primarily in the European triple helix landscape as a Venture Diplomat and seasoned deal- and matchmaker. With a focus on international deal transactions, M&A, negotiations & due diligence, clients include investment firms and multinational F1000 corporations as well as governmental bodies such as the European Commission and the European Innovation Council.
Antonio Fonduca is an ex-entrepreneur, corporate and VC with two decades of experience in visioning, ideating and leading global implementation and growth in new business technologies, while driving sustainable revenue and profit development in multiple industries on a global scale.
For the past decades Antonio has actively served as a stakeholder in the start/scale-up ecosystem, identifying and implementing novel technologies to accelerate top and bottom line business growth. Antonio has also served as Department Head of Innovation at publicly listed multinational corporation (€2+ billion turnover, +20% EBITDA). Previously, Antonio was the co-founding Managing Director of a medtech venture which was eventually publicly listed (valued at €80+ million).
Business area experiences include commercialization, business & corporate development, innovation, business modeling - while sector experiences include health, food & deep tech.
Demonstrated experience in concept shaping and leading start/scale-ups, creating and implementing global strategies, marketing and business plans, growing industrial and consumer businesses, developing disruptive innovations and business models, managing global organizations in B2B industries and implementing M&A strategies.
Antonio currently connects the dots, primarily in the European triple helix landscape as a Venture Diplomat and seasoned deal- and matchmaker. With a focus on international deal transactions, M&A, negotiations & due diligence, clients include investment firms and multinational F1000 corporations as well as governmental bodies such as the European Commission and the European Innovation Council.
Brad Barbera
Brad Barbera helps both businesses and nonprofits to excel at innovation, strategic planning, and change management. He brings three decades of diverse experience together with exhaustive research, engineering and economics degrees from Northwestern University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has helped dozens of organizations launch innumerable new products and services worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He enables mission-driven organizations to build the capabilities necessary for uniquely and sustainably serving their customers.
Barbera is the author of Keep Innovation Simple – Lead with Clarity and Focus in a World of Constant Change, a complete reference guide to all you need to know about how to design, build, and maintain an innovation system for your organization. You’ll learn all the best evidence-based practices, proven by rigorous academic research, without all that annoying-to-read Academic-ese. Plus over fifty simple tools you can use on the job right away. And more Brussels sprouts jokes than any business book in history.
Barbera is the author of Keep Innovation Simple – Lead with Clarity and Focus in a World of Constant Change, a complete reference guide to all you need to know about how to design, build, and maintain an innovation system for your organization. You’ll learn all the best evidence-based practices, proven by rigorous academic research, without all that annoying-to-read Academic-ese. Plus over fifty simple tools you can use on the job right away. And more Brussels sprouts jokes than any business book in history.
Brad Michaels
Founder, SociaLab
Creating access at scale – via market-based solutions:
• Access to business training and mentoring for over 30 young social enterprises in 15 countries in our first 3 years of our “all virtual” offering, which I designed, launched & led. [implemented with NESsT; financed by various governments and private foundations.]
• Access to safe drinking water for over 1 million Cambodians delivered by co-investing with local water entrepreneurs. [implemented with Palladium; financed by Australia DFAT.]
• Access to finance and business support to 4 million women entrepreneurs by leveraging local financial institutions, tech platforms and trainers/mentors in Pakistan, Peru & Vietnam [implemented with CARE; financed by MasterCard Foundation.]
Passion for maximizing social impact - especially for people with greatest needs
Focused on sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Creating access at scale – via market-based solutions:
• Access to business training and mentoring for over 30 young social enterprises in 15 countries in our first 3 years of our “all virtual” offering, which I designed, launched & led. [implemented with NESsT; financed by various governments and private foundations.]
• Access to safe drinking water for over 1 million Cambodians delivered by co-investing with local water entrepreneurs. [implemented with Palladium; financed by Australia DFAT.]
• Access to finance and business support to 4 million women entrepreneurs by leveraging local financial institutions, tech platforms and trainers/mentors in Pakistan, Peru & Vietnam [implemented with CARE; financed by MasterCard Foundation.]
Passion for maximizing social impact - especially for people with greatest needs
Focused on sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Brant Cooper
Author, Startup Bluebook
Brant Cooper travels the globe speaking with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs about how to discover and create new value; about empowering individuals to make the change they want to see in the world.
Brant Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves the Needle. With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, he blends agile, design thinking, and lean methodologies to ignite entrepreneurial action within large organizations.
Brant has a unique take on disrupting our current way of thinking in order to be closer to customers, move faster, and act bolder. He has experienced monumental milestones such as IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure.
He serves as a global keynote speaker, mentor to entrepreneurs, and trusted advisor to corporate executives. His mission is to teach leaders how to find personal and economic growth through creating new value for fellow humans.
Brant Cooper travels the globe speaking with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs about how to discover and create new value; about empowering individuals to make the change they want to see in the world.
Brant Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves the Needle. With over two decades of expertise helping companies bring innovative products to market, he blends agile, design thinking, and lean methodologies to ignite entrepreneurial action within large organizations.
Brant has a unique take on disrupting our current way of thinking in order to be closer to customers, move faster, and act bolder. He has experienced monumental milestones such as IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure.
He serves as a global keynote speaker, mentor to entrepreneurs, and trusted advisor to corporate executives. His mission is to teach leaders how to find personal and economic growth through creating new value for fellow humans.
Carina Boston Pinales
Founder & CEO, Splash Coworking
Carina Boston Pinales brings over eight years of experience in social impact, and change management with a focus on addressing community needs through technology, collaboration, and work-space solutions.
She has built a reputation by collaborating with some of the leading progressive minds in social innovation and business, including Fortune 100 Companies, The Brown and Black Founders, Tech Jobs Tour, Start-up Chile,The Rocky Mountain Institute, and various public institutions.
Carina drives the strategies that help facilitate solutions with business sustainability and growth focusing on opportunities to achieve the required outcomes and beyond. Carina holds a background in Psychology and Design as well as a certification in Life Coaching from the American Union of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This has equipped her to be a visionary and manage teams by optimizing process, tools, and techniques to navigate the people side of change to achieve efficient results. Trained in ethics, multicultural and diversity issues, she is routinely sourced to help facilitate and manage personal transitions resulting in the adoption of strategic practices. She is a recognized Unsung Hero by Ecosystem Builder Hub community, a Shining Star under 40, and the Distinguished Alumni in Business Development and Innovation award by the National Hispanic Institute.
She founded the first-ever award-winning coworking space in what is now being called “The Innovation Corridor”, Splash Coworking (Splash). Splash offers a diverse, inclusive entrepreneurial environment which provides access to tools and opportunity for underrepresented founders and start-ups. Locally driven and globally connected, Splash has developed an innovative ecosystem in the heart of Texas including funding, mentoring, and educational resources.
Carina Boston Pinales brings over eight years of experience in social impact, and change management with a focus on addressing community needs through technology, collaboration, and work-space solutions.
She has built a reputation by collaborating with some of the leading progressive minds in social innovation and business, including Fortune 100 Companies, The Brown and Black Founders, Tech Jobs Tour, Start-up Chile,The Rocky Mountain Institute, and various public institutions.
Carina drives the strategies that help facilitate solutions with business sustainability and growth focusing on opportunities to achieve the required outcomes and beyond. Carina holds a background in Psychology and Design as well as a certification in Life Coaching from the American Union of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This has equipped her to be a visionary and manage teams by optimizing process, tools, and techniques to navigate the people side of change to achieve efficient results. Trained in ethics, multicultural and diversity issues, she is routinely sourced to help facilitate and manage personal transitions resulting in the adoption of strategic practices. She is a recognized Unsung Hero by Ecosystem Builder Hub community, a Shining Star under 40, and the Distinguished Alumni in Business Development and Innovation award by the National Hispanic Institute.
She founded the first-ever award-winning coworking space in what is now being called “The Innovation Corridor”, Splash Coworking (Splash). Splash offers a diverse, inclusive entrepreneurial environment which provides access to tools and opportunity for underrepresented founders and start-ups. Locally driven and globally connected, Splash has developed an innovative ecosystem in the heart of Texas including funding, mentoring, and educational resources.
Chris Pacheco
Sr. Associate, Polaris Partners
Chris Pacheco received his BA in Chemistry from the University of Vermont and his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. He did his postdoctoral work in the lab of Susan Lindquist at MIT’s Whitehead Institute and was the chair of the Postdoctoral Association during his tenure. Prior to joining the LS Polaris Innovation Fund, he was VP of business development at seqWell, a business development specialist at Roche Diagnostics and Director of Life Science Technologies at HighRes Biosolutions.
During his career, Chris has held leadership roles at major academic institutions and critical business development positions across multiple industries including gene therapy, high-throughput robotics, diagnostics, and NextGen sequencing.
Chris Pacheco received his BA in Chemistry from the University of Vermont and his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. He did his postdoctoral work in the lab of Susan Lindquist at MIT’s Whitehead Institute and was the chair of the Postdoctoral Association during his tenure. Prior to joining the LS Polaris Innovation Fund, he was VP of business development at seqWell, a business development specialist at Roche Diagnostics and Director of Life Science Technologies at HighRes Biosolutions.
During his career, Chris has held leadership roles at major academic institutions and critical business development positions across multiple industries including gene therapy, high-throughput robotics, diagnostics, and NextGen sequencing.
Chinedu Enekwe
General Partner, Aux21 Capital
Partner at Aux21 Capital, investment fund advisor, securities attorney and startup mentor.
Partner at Aux21 Capital, investment fund advisor, securities attorney and startup mentor.
Chris Sanborn
COO, Hy Edge Inc.
Highly accomplished executive, with comprehensive domestic and international experience with heavy emphasis in the Healthcare, EdTech and CPG industries. This depth of experience is complemented with a solid reputation for driving tactical vision and creating long-term value. Innovative professional with proven expertise in marketing, corporate communications, sales interface, and project and financial asset management. Frequently tapped for high-level turnaround decisions, rapid conflict resolution, and core analysis of product leadership and margins. A visionary leader with well-defined management skills and powerful communication, organization, problem-solving, and analytical aptitude. Effective communicator, negotiator, and consultant; expert at establishing strong, professional relationships with partners, clients, and executives.
Highly accomplished executive, with comprehensive domestic and international experience with heavy emphasis in the Healthcare, EdTech and CPG industries. This depth of experience is complemented with a solid reputation for driving tactical vision and creating long-term value. Innovative professional with proven expertise in marketing, corporate communications, sales interface, and project and financial asset management. Frequently tapped for high-level turnaround decisions, rapid conflict resolution, and core analysis of product leadership and margins. A visionary leader with well-defined management skills and powerful communication, organization, problem-solving, and analytical aptitude. Effective communicator, negotiator, and consultant; expert at establishing strong, professional relationships with partners, clients, and executives.
Christiana DelloRusso
Advisor, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Skilled executive with 20+ years experience in technical product, business and funding strategy of early-to-mid stage for- and non-profit ventures. Domain expertise in healthcare and life sciences, strategic venture capital, angel investing and non-dilutive funding. Superlative interpersonal and public speaking skills, work ethic and strategic mindset. Unique strengths building relationships that drive complex projects forward with the support of executive management and varied interests of diverse stakeholders.
Skilled executive with 20+ years experience in technical product, business and funding strategy of early-to-mid stage for- and non-profit ventures. Domain expertise in healthcare and life sciences, strategic venture capital, angel investing and non-dilutive funding. Superlative interpersonal and public speaking skills, work ethic and strategic mindset. Unique strengths building relationships that drive complex projects forward with the support of executive management and varied interests of diverse stakeholders.
Connie Luthy
Product Strategist, Medical Product Innovation
Dr. Luthy is an inventor, medical product developer and angel investor with over 25 years of experience in global translational research and new product development (NPD): biologicals, drugs and all classes of medical devices. She trained in medical product development at Alcon Laboratories (Novartis), the ophthalmic drug/device global leader, while scouting new technology and managing two portfolios of diverse R&D projects, including Upjohn/Pharmacia compounds. There she was taught to maximize value while minimizing risk using 'virtual' or 'lean' NPD methods.
Her product design group at Alcon: 1) co-developed the first-in-man human genetically-engineered biotechnology product for use in the general population, Provisc®, which put start-up Genzyme (Sanofi) on the map, 2) designed the BSS Plus® formulation/stability studies that won Japan approval for joint-venture partner, Santen Pharmaceuticals. Her most robust invention is the technology platform for the multi-billion dollar Opti-Free® product line, sold world-wide by Alcon/Novartis.
Prior to Alcon, Dr. Luthy led immunoconjugate chemistry for venture capital-funded BioDiagnostics Inc. (CooperBiomedical, Technicon, Bayer). Since 1996 she has been product strategist at Medical Product Innovation (MPI), helping client companies and investors with the data-based decision making required to develop medical inventions into global manufactured products (GSK, Medtronics, Dow Chemical, NeoRx).
Dr. Luthy did her post-doctoral training in the Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at UT Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Luthy holds a B.A. degree from Rice University and the Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, both in Chemistry, and an MBA (strategy, finance, entrepreneurship) from SMU's Cox School of Business.
She tweets industry news and insights as MPDexpert.
Dr. Luthy is an inventor, medical product developer and angel investor with over 25 years of experience in global translational research and new product development (NPD): biologicals, drugs and all classes of medical devices. She trained in medical product development at Alcon Laboratories (Novartis), the ophthalmic drug/device global leader, while scouting new technology and managing two portfolios of diverse R&D projects, including Upjohn/Pharmacia compounds. There she was taught to maximize value while minimizing risk using 'virtual' or 'lean' NPD methods.
Her product design group at Alcon: 1) co-developed the first-in-man human genetically-engineered biotechnology product for use in the general population, Provisc®, which put start-up Genzyme (Sanofi) on the map, 2) designed the BSS Plus® formulation/stability studies that won Japan approval for joint-venture partner, Santen Pharmaceuticals. Her most robust invention is the technology platform for the multi-billion dollar Opti-Free® product line, sold world-wide by Alcon/Novartis.
Prior to Alcon, Dr. Luthy led immunoconjugate chemistry for venture capital-funded BioDiagnostics Inc. (CooperBiomedical, Technicon, Bayer). Since 1996 she has been product strategist at Medical Product Innovation (MPI), helping client companies and investors with the data-based decision making required to develop medical inventions into global manufactured products (GSK, Medtronics, Dow Chemical, NeoRx).
Dr. Luthy did her post-doctoral training in the Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at UT Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Luthy holds a B.A. degree from Rice University and the Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, both in Chemistry, and an MBA (strategy, finance, entrepreneurship) from SMU's Cox School of Business.
She tweets industry news and insights as MPDexpert.
Dan Wasserman
Founder & CEO, Mammoth Health Innovation Inc
Dan Wasserman's focus has always been Return on Investment; be it for his employer, his clients or his own businesses in Canada and the USA.
With a business development background in marketing, augmented by sales, and capped by developing one of the largest strategic relationships in the world, Dan has sold concepts and products to both industry and government. This includes a record breaking contract approval by the US Department of Defense.
Over the years, through leading-edge presentations, mentoring, and direct involvement with key industry bodies, Dan has built a wide-ranging network. This cross segment includes Information Technology, Entertainment, Advertising, Communications, Green Tech and Health innovation.
Career highlights include:
Created the Oreo™ cookie promotion for Sympatico™ to become Canada’s largest Internet service provider (ISP) and generated $25M (ROI 80,000:1)
Engineered the strategic deal between Lucent and Sun to create Java™ (a significant portion of Sun’s valuation of $7.4 billion for the 2009 acquisition by Oracle)
Articulated the need for IP protection globally through the support of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and other major industry groups like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), etc.
Founded the first competitive intelligence consultancy targeted to highly contested categories (Company acquired by A.C. Nielsen)
Grew advertising agency billings through new business, primarily Agency of Record (AOR) assignments, thereby doubling agency revenues in less than 18 months
Secured advertising sales for the oldest monthly magazine in North America, increasing revenues nearly 100% each year for 3 profitable years
As a global marketer, with an entrepreneurial spirit, Dan delivers ROI’s that significantly exceed expectations.
Additionally, Dan has recently published his inaugural novel called "Hong Kong Hollywood" that is available on Amazon in either Kindle or paperback formats.
Specialties: -Expert in business and strategic development
-Internationally recognized marketing professional
-Extensive planning, budgeting and P&L responsibilities
-Early Information Technology pioneer for applications in marketing, entertainment, homeland security, and intellectual property
Dan Wasserman's focus has always been Return on Investment; be it for his employer, his clients or his own businesses in Canada and the USA.
With a business development background in marketing, augmented by sales, and capped by developing one of the largest strategic relationships in the world, Dan has sold concepts and products to both industry and government. This includes a record breaking contract approval by the US Department of Defense.
Over the years, through leading-edge presentations, mentoring, and direct involvement with key industry bodies, Dan has built a wide-ranging network. This cross segment includes Information Technology, Entertainment, Advertising, Communications, Green Tech and Health innovation.
Career highlights include:
Created the Oreo™ cookie promotion for Sympatico™ to become Canada’s largest Internet service provider (ISP) and generated $25M (ROI 80,000:1)
Engineered the strategic deal between Lucent and Sun to create Java™ (a significant portion of Sun’s valuation of $7.4 billion for the 2009 acquisition by Oracle)
Articulated the need for IP protection globally through the support of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and other major industry groups like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), etc.
Founded the first competitive intelligence consultancy targeted to highly contested categories (Company acquired by A.C. Nielsen)
Grew advertising agency billings through new business, primarily Agency of Record (AOR) assignments, thereby doubling agency revenues in less than 18 months
Secured advertising sales for the oldest monthly magazine in North America, increasing revenues nearly 100% each year for 3 profitable years
As a global marketer, with an entrepreneurial spirit, Dan delivers ROI’s that significantly exceed expectations.
Additionally, Dan has recently published his inaugural novel called "Hong Kong Hollywood" that is available on Amazon in either Kindle or paperback formats.
Specialties: -Expert in business and strategic development
-Internationally recognized marketing professional
-Extensive planning, budgeting and P&L responsibilities
-Early Information Technology pioneer for applications in marketing, entertainment, homeland security, and intellectual property
Darnell McCullough
Chairman & Managing Partner, McCullough Group, LLC
Darnell McCullough is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner of McCullough Group, LLC., a Venture Capital firm that invests in qualified, underrepresented, early-stage enterprises. He is an author, entrepreneur, and investor who focuses on advancing humanity through investment capital.
Darnell McCullough is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner of McCullough Group, LLC., a Venture Capital firm that invests in qualified, underrepresented, early-stage enterprises. He is an author, entrepreneur, and investor who focuses on advancing humanity through investment capital.
David Vance
President, Vance Intellectual Property
• Over 20 years of patent experience in various fields, particularly the pharmaceutical and chemical arts
• Drafted and prosecuted numerous patent applications relating to chemical processes, pharmaceuticals (e.g., cardiovascular, inflammation, and obesity), semiconductor processing and substrates, organic light-emitting diodes, graphene production, and chemical sensors
• Have drafted, filed, and maintained an extensive docket of U.S. and foreign patent applications
• Enjoy providing technical counseling for in-licensing of technology, freedom-to-operate opinions, competitive analyses, and drug candidate protection
• Over 20 years of patent experience in various fields, particularly the pharmaceutical and chemical arts
• Drafted and prosecuted numerous patent applications relating to chemical processes, pharmaceuticals (e.g., cardiovascular, inflammation, and obesity), semiconductor processing and substrates, organic light-emitting diodes, graphene production, and chemical sensors
• Have drafted, filed, and maintained an extensive docket of U.S. and foreign patent applications
• Enjoy providing technical counseling for in-licensing of technology, freedom-to-operate opinions, competitive analyses, and drug candidate protection
Deon Norals
President and CEO, iHealth Innovative Solutions
Deon Norals is the President and CEO of iHealth Innovative Solutions (iHealth), a Health Information Technology company that provides robust innovative technology solutions to help solve today’s healthcare constraints. iHealth supports customers by delivering innovative and visionary technology solutions to help transform and improve patient care, health information technology and health intelligence.
Prior to iHealth, Deon served as Chief Information Officer for Westover Consultants, Inc., which is a management consulting and Health Information Technology (HIT) organization.
Mr. Norals is a highly seasoned, results-driven executive with IT-to-business vision, industry leading execution, and a proven successful track record in delivering innovation. His career spans over 23 years of conceiving, designing and implementing Information Technology (IT) solutions, as well as managing IT resources, data center migrations, security operations management, and service desk management both domestically and internationally within various healthcare environments.
Mr. Norals has a proven commitment to innovation at all levels that have helped achieve critical business and IT imperatives to deliver exceptional outcomes across various value chains. He is also experienced with and has prudently applied many business and information technology practices, ranging from Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), COBIT, ITIL, CPHIMS, and Six Sigma.
Deon earned his Executive M.B.A. from the prestigious Howard University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology and Security from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and his Associate of Science degree from Dunwoody College of Technology. He serves on various alumni and advisory boards, and is an advocate of community service.
Deon Norals is the President and CEO of iHealth Innovative Solutions (iHealth), a Health Information Technology company that provides robust innovative technology solutions to help solve today’s healthcare constraints. iHealth supports customers by delivering innovative and visionary technology solutions to help transform and improve patient care, health information technology and health intelligence.
Prior to iHealth, Deon served as Chief Information Officer for Westover Consultants, Inc., which is a management consulting and Health Information Technology (HIT) organization.
Mr. Norals is a highly seasoned, results-driven executive with IT-to-business vision, industry leading execution, and a proven successful track record in delivering innovation. His career spans over 23 years of conceiving, designing and implementing Information Technology (IT) solutions, as well as managing IT resources, data center migrations, security operations management, and service desk management both domestically and internationally within various healthcare environments.
Mr. Norals has a proven commitment to innovation at all levels that have helped achieve critical business and IT imperatives to deliver exceptional outcomes across various value chains. He is also experienced with and has prudently applied many business and information technology practices, ranging from Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), COBIT, ITIL, CPHIMS, and Six Sigma.
Deon earned his Executive M.B.A. from the prestigious Howard University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology and Security from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and his Associate of Science degree from Dunwoody College of Technology. He serves on various alumni and advisory boards, and is an advocate of community service.
Doreen Rosenstrauch
CEO, DrDoRo Institute Healthcare Consultancy and Advisory Services
Global citizen-Mother-Wife-Physician-Nurse-Entrepreneur-Scientist-Mentor-Educator-Expert Witness-Subject Matter Expert-Angel Investor
Doreen Rosenstrauch, FACHE, MD, PhD, MPA-HCA, RN, BSN, FAHA: HealthCare Professional with over 20 years of experience in Medicine, Science, Nursing, Research, Education, Business Administration and HealthCare Management with background in HealthCare planning, LEAN management, HealthCare Accounting, Economics, Budgeting and Finance, Ethics, Strategic Planning for HealthCare Organizations, Human Resource Management, Managerial Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HealthCare Advertising, Promotion and Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Theory, Public and Health Service Administration, Policy Analysis. Board Certified in HealthCare Management.
Received US citizenship in the Category EB 1 as outstanding Professor and Researcher.
*International Medical Graduate: active physician license to practice medicine in Germany/ Approbation als Ärztin in Deutschland; and Swiss Physician Diploma/ Diplôme Fédéral de Médecine en Suisse/ Eidgenossisches Diplom als Arzt in der Schweiz; and U.S. Board eligible but not ECFMG-Certified.
U.S. Board-Certified in Healthcare Management.
Global citizen-Mother-Wife-Physician-Nurse-Entrepreneur-Scientist-Mentor-Educator-Expert Witness-Subject Matter Expert-Angel Investor
Doreen Rosenstrauch, FACHE, MD, PhD, MPA-HCA, RN, BSN, FAHA: HealthCare Professional with over 20 years of experience in Medicine, Science, Nursing, Research, Education, Business Administration and HealthCare Management with background in HealthCare planning, LEAN management, HealthCare Accounting, Economics, Budgeting and Finance, Ethics, Strategic Planning for HealthCare Organizations, Human Resource Management, Managerial Epidemiology and Biostatistics, HealthCare Advertising, Promotion and Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Theory, Public and Health Service Administration, Policy Analysis. Board Certified in HealthCare Management.
Received US citizenship in the Category EB 1 as outstanding Professor and Researcher.
*International Medical Graduate: active physician license to practice medicine in Germany/ Approbation als Ärztin in Deutschland; and Swiss Physician Diploma/ Diplôme Fédéral de Médecine en Suisse/ Eidgenossisches Diplom als Arzt in der Schweiz; and U.S. Board eligible but not ECFMG-Certified.
U.S. Board-Certified in Healthcare Management.
Edie Okamoto
CEO-President, RioVida Networks
Edie Okamoto helps clients scale while reducing go-to-market costs by creating an ecosystem of success, tying together products/services, distribution channels, and a targeted customer base. Past clients include Microsoft, Seagate and National Semiconductors in Tech, Macy’s, Walgreens and Ingram Micro in distribution, and ABC, Ziff, and IDG in media.
Edie Okamoto helps clients scale while reducing go-to-market costs by creating an ecosystem of success, tying together products/services, distribution channels, and a targeted customer base. Past clients include Microsoft, Seagate and National Semiconductors in Tech, Macy’s, Walgreens and Ingram Micro in distribution, and ABC, Ziff, and IDG in media.
Eithan Ephrati
Chairman, SerenusAI
Eithan Ephrati left the academia after many joyful years of research to become a hands-on serial entrepreneur. Eithan founded companies in Israel, in California, and in the UK. He has also acted as an active investor, as an angel and as a team member of Benchmark Capital Europe, Ariadne Capital, Nielsen Innovate and most recently Insurtech.vc. He is most excited by the utilization of deep technology to solve complex problems in a disruptive way. Especially when the solution relies on paradigms, methodologies, and algorithms from other domains.
Eithan Ephrati left the academia after many joyful years of research to become a hands-on serial entrepreneur. Eithan founded companies in Israel, in California, and in the UK. He has also acted as an active investor, as an angel and as a team member of Benchmark Capital Europe, Ariadne Capital, Nielsen Innovate and most recently Insurtech.vc. He is most excited by the utilization of deep technology to solve complex problems in a disruptive way. Especially when the solution relies on paradigms, methodologies, and algorithms from other domains.
Emily Blum
Medical Affairs Liaison and MD; Georgia Urology
Dr. Emily Blum graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with special honors in Biology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her medical doctorate from Boston University where she graduated cum laude and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. While completing her residency at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, Dr. Blum spent a significant amount of time working on urban farming community development campaigns in Detroit. Her community work lead to a nomination for the AAMC Resident Physician Community Service Award during her chief year.
Dr. Blum continued her training as the A. Barry Belman Pediatric Urology Fellow at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. During the research year of the 2-year fellowship program, she was also awarded the Joseph E Robert (JER), Jr. Fellowship for Pediatric Surgical Innovations. Dr. Blum’s research projects focused on utilizing artificial intelligence to assist in analyzing radiographic studies. She won top honors at the JER Academic Symposium both years.
She continues to pursue her interest in medical device innovations, particularly in bridging the gap between research and commercialization to improve patient care. Dr. Blum is a member of the research faculty at Georgia Tech and serves as a Medical Affairs Liaison for the Global Center for Medical Innovations.
In addition to general pediatric urology, Dr. Blum’s special surgical interests are in hypospadias and congenital hydronephrosis.
Dr. Emily Blum graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with special honors in Biology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her medical doctorate from Boston University where she graduated cum laude and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. While completing her residency at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, Dr. Blum spent a significant amount of time working on urban farming community development campaigns in Detroit. Her community work lead to a nomination for the AAMC Resident Physician Community Service Award during her chief year.
Dr. Blum continued her training as the A. Barry Belman Pediatric Urology Fellow at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. During the research year of the 2-year fellowship program, she was also awarded the Joseph E Robert (JER), Jr. Fellowship for Pediatric Surgical Innovations. Dr. Blum’s research projects focused on utilizing artificial intelligence to assist in analyzing radiographic studies. She won top honors at the JER Academic Symposium both years.
She continues to pursue her interest in medical device innovations, particularly in bridging the gap between research and commercialization to improve patient care. Dr. Blum is a member of the research faculty at Georgia Tech and serves as a Medical Affairs Liaison for the Global Center for Medical Innovations.
In addition to general pediatric urology, Dr. Blum’s special surgical interests are in hypospadias and congenital hydronephrosis.
Frank Nice
President, Nice Breastfeeding LLC
Dr. Frank J. Nice has practiced as a consultant, lecturer, and author on medications and breastfeeding for over 45 years. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, a Masters Degree in Pharmacy Administration, Masters and Doctorate Degrees in Public Administration, and Certification in Public Health Pharmacy. He retired after 43 years of government service, including 30 years of distinguished service with the US Public Health Service, 29 years at the Clinical Neurosciences Program, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health; and five years at the Food and Drug Administration. He currently is self-employed as a consultant and President, Nice Breastfeeding LLC and President, Dr. Nice’s Products LLC.
Dr. Nice has published Nonprescription Drugs for the Breastfeeding Mother, The Galactagogue Recipe Book, Recreational Drugs and Drugs Used To Treat Addicted Mothers: Impact on Pregnancy and Breastfeeding, and Haiti Beyond Belief. Dr. Nice has also authored over four dozen peer-reviewed articles on the use of prescription medications, recreational drugs, Over-the-Counter (OTC) products, and herbals during breastfeeding, in addition to articles and book chapters on the use of power, epilepsy, medical missions, and work characteristics of health care professionals. He has organized over 70 medical missions to Haiti and has been on the ground in Haiti 24 times.
Dr. Frank J. Nice has practiced as a consultant, lecturer, and author on medications and breastfeeding for over 45 years. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy, a Masters Degree in Pharmacy Administration, Masters and Doctorate Degrees in Public Administration, and Certification in Public Health Pharmacy. He retired after 43 years of government service, including 30 years of distinguished service with the US Public Health Service, 29 years at the Clinical Neurosciences Program, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health; and five years at the Food and Drug Administration. He currently is self-employed as a consultant and President, Nice Breastfeeding LLC and President, Dr. Nice’s Products LLC.
Dr. Nice has published Nonprescription Drugs for the Breastfeeding Mother, The Galactagogue Recipe Book, Recreational Drugs and Drugs Used To Treat Addicted Mothers: Impact on Pregnancy and Breastfeeding, and Haiti Beyond Belief. Dr. Nice has also authored over four dozen peer-reviewed articles on the use of prescription medications, recreational drugs, Over-the-Counter (OTC) products, and herbals during breastfeeding, in addition to articles and book chapters on the use of power, epilepsy, medical missions, and work characteristics of health care professionals. He has organized over 70 medical missions to Haiti and has been on the ground in Haiti 24 times.
Gage Dutkin
Private Equity Associate, 3CR-Riverbend; President, C-Safe Solutions
Gage Dutkin is a Texas Tech Rawls College of Business MBA graduate who is passionate about the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. From starting the dominant student entrepreneurship organization at Texas Tech, establishing his own startup, and completing accelerator programs at multiple universities, Gage exemplifies the work ethic and mentality it takes to be successful in the industry.
Gage works for a capital management firm and an angel network, where he raises private equity for startups.
With the long-term vision of becoming a prominent VC/Angel investor, he is currently seeking high-octane roles that will help him achieve those goals.
2020 Texas Business Hall of Fame Scholar Award Candidate
Gage Dutkin is a Texas Tech Rawls College of Business MBA graduate who is passionate about the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. From starting the dominant student entrepreneurship organization at Texas Tech, establishing his own startup, and completing accelerator programs at multiple universities, Gage exemplifies the work ethic and mentality it takes to be successful in the industry.
Gage works for a capital management firm and an angel network, where he raises private equity for startups.
With the long-term vision of becoming a prominent VC/Angel investor, he is currently seeking high-octane roles that will help him achieve those goals.
2020 Texas Business Hall of Fame Scholar Award Candidate
Gaye Woods
System Director Population Health, SCL Health
Operations Executive Manager with over 12+ years of experience in such areas as program management, community engagement, strategy and health equity. Industry experience includes healthcare, academia, media/communication and professional services. Gaye Woods is a highly skilled leader who is able to perform in roles that are dependent upon strategic planning, project management, evaluation and influence.
Gaye's career has been distinguished by a high energy, servant leader approach to management with a continuous commitment toward performance excellence. Her most recent experience has further expanded knowledge in the areas of integrated healthcare management, evidence based interventions and population health management (MSSP/ACO, CHNA, PCMH). Academic credentials include a MBA from Northwestern University - Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Knowledge Specialties: Program development and evaluation, advocacy, data trends/analysis, grants management, organizational development, marketing, and executive coaching.
Operations Executive Manager with over 12+ years of experience in such areas as program management, community engagement, strategy and health equity. Industry experience includes healthcare, academia, media/communication and professional services. Gaye Woods is a highly skilled leader who is able to perform in roles that are dependent upon strategic planning, project management, evaluation and influence.
Gaye's career has been distinguished by a high energy, servant leader approach to management with a continuous commitment toward performance excellence. Her most recent experience has further expanded knowledge in the areas of integrated healthcare management, evidence based interventions and population health management (MSSP/ACO, CHNA, PCMH). Academic credentials include a MBA from Northwestern University - Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Knowledge Specialties: Program development and evaluation, advocacy, data trends/analysis, grants management, organizational development, marketing, and executive coaching.
Gregory Charlop
Owner, Gregory Charlop, MD; Book Author; TV Personality
Gregory Charlop, MD, is an award-winning physician, author, speaker, and aging expert.
Known as the anesthesiologist to the stars, Dr. Charlop is one of the most sought-after physicians in California.
After training at Stanford and UCLA, Dr. Charlop built a career attending to some of the most complex patients in the San Francisco area. He's spent years on the front lines of healthcare, treating adults and children with uncontrolled pain and complicated medical issues.
Now, he's brought his talents to Beverly Hills and Hollywood. Celebrities and executives fly in from all over the country for plastic surgery under his expert care.
An authority in wellness and advanced nutrition, Dr. Charlop is now sharing his expertise with the world. He's the author of Why Doctors Skip Breakfast: Wellness Tips to Reverse Aging, Treat Depression, and Get a Good Night's Sleep.
Dr. Charlop is the founder of a telemedicine wellness and anti-aging clinic in Beverly Hills where sees athletes and high achievers by special appointment. His ketamine clinic for depression is available to a limited number of patients by exclusive arrangement.
Gregory Charlop, MD, is an award-winning physician, author, speaker, and aging expert.
Known as the anesthesiologist to the stars, Dr. Charlop is one of the most sought-after physicians in California.
After training at Stanford and UCLA, Dr. Charlop built a career attending to some of the most complex patients in the San Francisco area. He's spent years on the front lines of healthcare, treating adults and children with uncontrolled pain and complicated medical issues.
Now, he's brought his talents to Beverly Hills and Hollywood. Celebrities and executives fly in from all over the country for plastic surgery under his expert care.
An authority in wellness and advanced nutrition, Dr. Charlop is now sharing his expertise with the world. He's the author of Why Doctors Skip Breakfast: Wellness Tips to Reverse Aging, Treat Depression, and Get a Good Night's Sleep.
Dr. Charlop is the founder of a telemedicine wellness and anti-aging clinic in Beverly Hills where sees athletes and high achievers by special appointment. His ketamine clinic for depression is available to a limited number of patients by exclusive arrangement.
Greg Zlevor
President, Westwood International
Greg Zlevor is President and Founder of Westwood International. With over 25 years of experience in executive leadership development and education, he has served as a coach, consultant, and facilitator for companies across the globe. A four-time #1 Amazon Best-Selling author and regular participant for industry webcasts and conferences, Greg’s insights and tools change lives, workforces, and deliver results.
With a passion for bringing people together in the spirit of collaboration, Greg has a deep respect for the power of organizational culture and teams. In his early career, Greg founded the Community Building and Organizations Conference, developed the orientation program “48 Hours” for Boston College students and spent ten years working on community building with M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled. Most recently, Westwood International has worked with Thoughtspace, a company founded by Texas A&M University students, to develop an online course for rising leaders.
Under Greg’s leadership, Westwood International developed into a consulting collaborative that reimagined what it means to lead wisely in a global age. They develop leaders who are wise inside and smart outside through human-centered programming that emphasizes emotional intelligence and fosters community, all while tackling real business challenges. Westwood's signature, global-scale, action learning programs, and change management initiatives have energized the vision of global brands like Volvo, The Singapore Police Force, ConMed, General Electric, and Cochlear, Boston college, J&J, among others.
Greg is a frequent speaker and facilitator at the Global Institute of Leadership Development, and his areas of expertise include teaming, effective communication, mindfulness, resilience, and leadership presence. Westwood International founded the Global Community for Leadership Innovation. Their mission is to create space for conversation with global thought-leaders in the field of leadership development towards developing leadership models fit for today's workforce.
Westwood International has made it its mission to give back, supporting not-for-profit organizations that help homeless children and at-risk youth across the United States, Mexico, Thailand, India, and South America. Additionally, the company has been a member of the B Corp community since 2015 and was recently honored as a B Corp “Best for the World 2019” in the fields of Changemakers and Governance.
Greg Zlevor is President and Founder of Westwood International. With over 25 years of experience in executive leadership development and education, he has served as a coach, consultant, and facilitator for companies across the globe. A four-time #1 Amazon Best-Selling author and regular participant for industry webcasts and conferences, Greg’s insights and tools change lives, workforces, and deliver results.
With a passion for bringing people together in the spirit of collaboration, Greg has a deep respect for the power of organizational culture and teams. In his early career, Greg founded the Community Building and Organizations Conference, developed the orientation program “48 Hours” for Boston College students and spent ten years working on community building with M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled. Most recently, Westwood International has worked with Thoughtspace, a company founded by Texas A&M University students, to develop an online course for rising leaders.
Under Greg’s leadership, Westwood International developed into a consulting collaborative that reimagined what it means to lead wisely in a global age. They develop leaders who are wise inside and smart outside through human-centered programming that emphasizes emotional intelligence and fosters community, all while tackling real business challenges. Westwood's signature, global-scale, action learning programs, and change management initiatives have energized the vision of global brands like Volvo, The Singapore Police Force, ConMed, General Electric, and Cochlear, Boston college, J&J, among others.
Greg is a frequent speaker and facilitator at the Global Institute of Leadership Development, and his areas of expertise include teaming, effective communication, mindfulness, resilience, and leadership presence. Westwood International founded the Global Community for Leadership Innovation. Their mission is to create space for conversation with global thought-leaders in the field of leadership development towards developing leadership models fit for today's workforce.
Westwood International has made it its mission to give back, supporting not-for-profit organizations that help homeless children and at-risk youth across the United States, Mexico, Thailand, India, and South America. Additionally, the company has been a member of the B Corp community since 2015 and was recently honored as a B Corp “Best for the World 2019” in the fields of Changemakers and Governance.
Harvey Liu
MH2 Technology Law Group - University of Texas at Dallas
Harvey Liu has experience in many facets of patent law, including U.S. patent preparation and prosecution; foreign prosecution; patentability and infringement opinions; reexamination; patent portfolio development, analysis, and valuation; and patent landscape analysis.
He has extensive experience in material science and chemical related arts, including the synthesis, development, and fabrication of organic and inorganic materials, including LEDs and photovoltaics. Particularly, Dr. Liu has first-hand experience in synthesizing, developing, and fabricating aligned polymeric fibrous materials for LEDs and photovoltaics, and the doping of the polymeric fibrous materials with nanoparticles (e.g., carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc.) to develop composite materials for photovoltaics. Dr. Liu also has first-hand experience in developing and fabricating self-healing materials for flexible electronics (e.g., OLEDs, solar cells, etc.).
In addition to the above-mentioned research, Dr. Liu’s scientific background also includes research in nitric oxide releasing smart bandages/fibers for the preservation of donor organs, and electrospinning of proteins for bio-fuel cell applications. During his scientific career, he was selected as one of eight finalists for the Collegiate Inventors Competition for his graduate work in nitric oxide releasing smart bandages, and was later issued a U.S. Patent for this work (U.S. Pat. No. 9,216,198). http://www.invent.org/challenge/
In addition to the material science and chemical related arts, Dr. Liu has experience in other technologies and disciplines including oilfield technologies, nanotechnology, smart materials, rotating machines (e.g., turbines, compressors, I/C engines, etc.), additive manufacturing (e.g., 3-D printing), bearings, waste heat recovery systems, heat pump systems, refrigeration systems, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CCNG) technologies, and Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technologies.
Harvey Liu has experience in many facets of patent law, including U.S. patent preparation and prosecution; foreign prosecution; patentability and infringement opinions; reexamination; patent portfolio development, analysis, and valuation; and patent landscape analysis.
He has extensive experience in material science and chemical related arts, including the synthesis, development, and fabrication of organic and inorganic materials, including LEDs and photovoltaics. Particularly, Dr. Liu has first-hand experience in synthesizing, developing, and fabricating aligned polymeric fibrous materials for LEDs and photovoltaics, and the doping of the polymeric fibrous materials with nanoparticles (e.g., carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc.) to develop composite materials for photovoltaics. Dr. Liu also has first-hand experience in developing and fabricating self-healing materials for flexible electronics (e.g., OLEDs, solar cells, etc.).
In addition to the above-mentioned research, Dr. Liu’s scientific background also includes research in nitric oxide releasing smart bandages/fibers for the preservation of donor organs, and electrospinning of proteins for bio-fuel cell applications. During his scientific career, he was selected as one of eight finalists for the Collegiate Inventors Competition for his graduate work in nitric oxide releasing smart bandages, and was later issued a U.S. Patent for this work (U.S. Pat. No. 9,216,198). http://www.invent.org/challenge/
In addition to the material science and chemical related arts, Dr. Liu has experience in other technologies and disciplines including oilfield technologies, nanotechnology, smart materials, rotating machines (e.g., turbines, compressors, I/C engines, etc.), additive manufacturing (e.g., 3-D printing), bearings, waste heat recovery systems, heat pump systems, refrigeration systems, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CCNG) technologies, and Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technologies.
Helen Dempster
Chief Visionary Officer & Founder, Karantis360 Ltd
Helen Dempster, founder of Karantis360 Ltd, has direct experience of how obtaining care for a loved one can go wrong. Helen spent several years caring for members of her family; one, in particular, who suffered from dementia. She explains: “I struggled with the care system; we simply didn’t seem to be able to achieve the level of personal involvement and care I feel everyone in later life should expect and deserve. The experience was frustrating, upsetting and an eye-opening insight into the failings of the current care system. So I decided I’d create something to help make things better”.
Helen Dempster, founder of Karantis360 Ltd, has direct experience of how obtaining care for a loved one can go wrong. Helen spent several years caring for members of her family; one, in particular, who suffered from dementia. She explains: “I struggled with the care system; we simply didn’t seem to be able to achieve the level of personal involvement and care I feel everyone in later life should expect and deserve. The experience was frustrating, upsetting and an eye-opening insight into the failings of the current care system. So I decided I’d create something to help make things better”.
Herb Paine
President, Paine Consulting Services
Specialties: Organizational development and change management; turnaround management; strategic planning, marketing, and implementation; mergers and strategic alliances; governance and board development; political and social advocacy.
Specialties: Organizational development and change management; turnaround management; strategic planning, marketing, and implementation; mergers and strategic alliances; governance and board development; political and social advocacy.
Hillary Strobel
President, The Flyways
Hillary Strobel is a content single mother, fierce learner and teacher, and ardent lover of life. After a long and varied career in just about every kind of Liberal Arts field imaginable, and in every type of job position- volunteer, employee, entrepreneur, non-profit worker, and freelancer- Hillary decided to put her money where her mouth is and marry her two deepest passions: storytelling and social justice. The results have surpassed her wildest expectations.
Hillary also coaches individuals, businesses and organizations to meaningfully build their social impact programs from the ground up. This includes: designing outcomes and developing goals, measuring impact and creating a universal metric, and quantifying results to the public. To this end, she has also written several books on Social Impact and Innovation.
Hillary is committed to excellence and devoted to entrepreneurship. She's been a creative person, entrepreneur, and master communicator for most of her life.
Hillary's career began in university as she worked her way up from an outreach program to heading the staff responsible for creating a Community Service Learning degree. Since then, she's been the managing editor of both scholarly and professional journals, run a communications department at a non-profit arts agency, and founded several successful start ups as well as a non-profit agency. Hillary has always pursued a variety and diversity of skills and knowledge, picking up valuable experience and constantly "rising in the ranks."
Hillary Strobel is a content single mother, fierce learner and teacher, and ardent lover of life. After a long and varied career in just about every kind of Liberal Arts field imaginable, and in every type of job position- volunteer, employee, entrepreneur, non-profit worker, and freelancer- Hillary decided to put her money where her mouth is and marry her two deepest passions: storytelling and social justice. The results have surpassed her wildest expectations.
Hillary also coaches individuals, businesses and organizations to meaningfully build their social impact programs from the ground up. This includes: designing outcomes and developing goals, measuring impact and creating a universal metric, and quantifying results to the public. To this end, she has also written several books on Social Impact and Innovation.
Hillary is committed to excellence and devoted to entrepreneurship. She's been a creative person, entrepreneur, and master communicator for most of her life.
Hillary's career began in university as she worked her way up from an outreach program to heading the staff responsible for creating a Community Service Learning degree. Since then, she's been the managing editor of both scholarly and professional journals, run a communications department at a non-profit arts agency, and founded several successful start ups as well as a non-profit agency. Hillary has always pursued a variety and diversity of skills and knowledge, picking up valuable experience and constantly "rising in the ranks."
Jamie Van Iderstine
Vice President Client Engagement, Cyan Health
Jamie Van Iderstine, Vice President of Client Engagement, sits on the leadership team of Cyan Health, where she develops comprehensive and high-impact market access strategies for a spectrum of biopharma clients, large and small, across many categories, including multiple rare diseases. Prior to her tenure at Cyan, Jamie cultivated her deep market access expertise at Ogilvy Commonhealth, where she led market access launches in complex disease states, including pulmonary hypertension and cystic fibrosis. With experience navigating all points in the product life cycle and addressing a wide range of market scenarios, Jamie specializes in connecting the dots of opportunity required to maximize access potential for pharmaceutical brands. Challenged daily to overcome the obstacles that stand between patients and the therapies they need, Jamie has developed a passion for principles of patient access and affordability.
Jamie Van Iderstine, Vice President of Client Engagement, sits on the leadership team of Cyan Health, where she develops comprehensive and high-impact market access strategies for a spectrum of biopharma clients, large and small, across many categories, including multiple rare diseases. Prior to her tenure at Cyan, Jamie cultivated her deep market access expertise at Ogilvy Commonhealth, where she led market access launches in complex disease states, including pulmonary hypertension and cystic fibrosis. With experience navigating all points in the product life cycle and addressing a wide range of market scenarios, Jamie specializes in connecting the dots of opportunity required to maximize access potential for pharmaceutical brands. Challenged daily to overcome the obstacles that stand between patients and the therapies they need, Jamie has developed a passion for principles of patient access and affordability.
JB Woodruff
Director Partnerships, 84.51°
JB Woodruff currently serves as Director Partnerships at 84.51°. He previously served as the Program Director of UpTech and as the Commercialization Director of the Northern Kentucky office of the Kentucky Innovation Network. He first became affiliated with UpTech as a mentor for UpTech 2. During UpTech 3, he was recruited to become the program’s first entrepreneur-in-residence to lead the Lean Startup education and one-on-one company support.
A little bit of history on JB. He attended Penn State where he received his bachelors of science in Information Sciences and Technology. He joined Accenture upon graduating where he worked as a SAP consultant for companies including Microsoft, Dow Chemical and Exxon Mobil. In 2009, he joined Centric Consulting in Cincinnati to stay closer to home. Leaving Centric in 2012, he began startup journey as an entrepreneur-in-residence with the 88mph accelerator in Nairobi, Kenya, and Cape Town, South Africa. JB founded JB Woodruff Design in 2009, and, in 2013, he helped launch two Cincinnati startups, Araytha and CampFinder.co. His myriad talents include passions for marketing, graphic design, technology consulting, photography, and travel.
JB Woodruff currently serves as Director Partnerships at 84.51°. He previously served as the Program Director of UpTech and as the Commercialization Director of the Northern Kentucky office of the Kentucky Innovation Network. He first became affiliated with UpTech as a mentor for UpTech 2. During UpTech 3, he was recruited to become the program’s first entrepreneur-in-residence to lead the Lean Startup education and one-on-one company support.
A little bit of history on JB. He attended Penn State where he received his bachelors of science in Information Sciences and Technology. He joined Accenture upon graduating where he worked as a SAP consultant for companies including Microsoft, Dow Chemical and Exxon Mobil. In 2009, he joined Centric Consulting in Cincinnati to stay closer to home. Leaving Centric in 2012, he began startup journey as an entrepreneur-in-residence with the 88mph accelerator in Nairobi, Kenya, and Cape Town, South Africa. JB founded JB Woodruff Design in 2009, and, in 2013, he helped launch two Cincinnati startups, Araytha and CampFinder.co. His myriad talents include passions for marketing, graphic design, technology consulting, photography, and travel.
Jeff Stinson
Director, HealthTech Arkansas
Early stage investor and fund manager helping to drive healthcare innovation through programs and investments.
Early stage investor and fund manager helping to drive healthcare innovation through programs and investments.
Jeffrey Champagne
Director of Business Development, MPR Associates
From Concept to Commercialization, Jeff Champagne has helped clients solve big challenges in biotech, medical devices, specialty chemistry, energy, advanced materials, food and consumer products.
A Creative MBA, Jeff develops relationships with business leaders to help them benefit from the expertise of a network of analysts and engineers. Clients improve productivity and profitability. Specializing in disruptive emerging technologies, Jeff is able to help clients define road maps, navigate obstacles, and realize objectives to speed up commercialization efforts.
Proven Record – Trusted Management Consultant : Clients include top executives at the most innovative companies, the most prolific research institutions in the world, and many other Fortune 500 companies.
Extensive International Business Experience with premium brands and executive teams.
BFA and MBA University of Hartford
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Selected Achievements and Skills
• Business Development for New Product Development, Market Research and Intellectual Property Development
• Entrepreneurial Experience / Start-up: Orchestrated New Product Launch / Established Market Presence:
• Introduced European marketing receipt to US Retail Market
• Developed successful strategic marketing plans for B2B and B2C marketing campaigns.
• Designing award winning product from initial concept
• Coaching, training, and developing winning sales teams
• Turn-around experience: Took Struggling Retail Store with broken SOP to #1 in Region in 8 months with Annual Revenues of $42M using the Gallup Q12 and the Strengths of my team.
• Skills: Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills. Highly personable and capable of dealing with C level executives, peers, subordinates and large audiences. Hands-on creative executive, capable of effectively managing complex projects.
From Concept to Commercialization, Jeff Champagne has helped clients solve big challenges in biotech, medical devices, specialty chemistry, energy, advanced materials, food and consumer products.
A Creative MBA, Jeff develops relationships with business leaders to help them benefit from the expertise of a network of analysts and engineers. Clients improve productivity and profitability. Specializing in disruptive emerging technologies, Jeff is able to help clients define road maps, navigate obstacles, and realize objectives to speed up commercialization efforts.
Proven Record – Trusted Management Consultant : Clients include top executives at the most innovative companies, the most prolific research institutions in the world, and many other Fortune 500 companies.
Extensive International Business Experience with premium brands and executive teams.
BFA and MBA University of Hartford
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Selected Achievements and Skills
• Business Development for New Product Development, Market Research and Intellectual Property Development
• Entrepreneurial Experience / Start-up: Orchestrated New Product Launch / Established Market Presence:
• Introduced European marketing receipt to US Retail Market
• Developed successful strategic marketing plans for B2B and B2C marketing campaigns.
• Designing award winning product from initial concept
• Coaching, training, and developing winning sales teams
• Turn-around experience: Took Struggling Retail Store with broken SOP to #1 in Region in 8 months with Annual Revenues of $42M using the Gallup Q12 and the Strengths of my team.
• Skills: Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills. Highly personable and capable of dealing with C level executives, peers, subordinates and large audiences. Hands-on creative executive, capable of effectively managing complex projects.
Jody Ranck
EVP, Global Health Strategy, Ram Group
Jody Ranck advises a number of companies (both startups and established firms), non-profits, and foundations on technology strategies, new business models, and strategic partnerships. Recently (September 2013) named to AlwaysOn Top 100 mHealth influencers.
Jody has extensive experience working with major health players in the public and private sectors advising on innovation, mHealth/eHealth, strategy and foresight. Open to consulting while he launches startups. His interests cover the breadth of the digital health eco-system including big data and data analytics. Jody has also convened major global health summits and innovation workshops for top-tier foundations, companies, UN agencies and governments. With over 20 years of experience in health and development, Jody has a strong background in developing innovative organizations and approaches to problems.
Author of "Connected Health: How Mobiles, Cloud and Big Data Will Reinvent Healthcare" (2012), GigaOm Books. See below for an extensive list of publications with GigaOm and others.
Specialties: Research, mHealth, eHealth, digital health, strategic planning, innovation strategy, trends and forecasting, future studies, microfinance, public health, human rights, corporate social responsibility, biotechnology, bioethics, global business, global health, scenarios, development, agriculture, mapping.
Jody Ranck advises a number of companies (both startups and established firms), non-profits, and foundations on technology strategies, new business models, and strategic partnerships. Recently (September 2013) named to AlwaysOn Top 100 mHealth influencers.
Jody has extensive experience working with major health players in the public and private sectors advising on innovation, mHealth/eHealth, strategy and foresight. Open to consulting while he launches startups. His interests cover the breadth of the digital health eco-system including big data and data analytics. Jody has also convened major global health summits and innovation workshops for top-tier foundations, companies, UN agencies and governments. With over 20 years of experience in health and development, Jody has a strong background in developing innovative organizations and approaches to problems.
Author of "Connected Health: How Mobiles, Cloud and Big Data Will Reinvent Healthcare" (2012), GigaOm Books. See below for an extensive list of publications with GigaOm and others.
Specialties: Research, mHealth, eHealth, digital health, strategic planning, innovation strategy, trends and forecasting, future studies, microfinance, public health, human rights, corporate social responsibility, biotechnology, bioethics, global business, global health, scenarios, development, agriculture, mapping.
Jon Brilliant
Co-Founder, Atelier Management; CEO, Celeri Health; CFO, Apricity Health
Jon Brilliant was a co-Founder and the CFO of Bigfoot Biomedical, a Silicon Valley-based company focused on reducing the burden of living with insulin-requiring diabetes and to maximize the leverage of health care providers through data, connectivity, automation, and artificial intelligence.
Prior to Bigfoot, Jon was a founding Board member and CFO of WellDoc, the pioneer in digital health founded in 2005 – first mobile app cleared by FDA, prescribed by physicians and reimbursed by payers. Over the years, Jon has been a board member and/or strategic financial advisor to one of the leading venture funds in digital health and many digital health companies ranging from cancer management, mindfulness, schedule optimization, mental health, pain management, and substance use disorder.
Jon Brilliant was a co-Founder and the CFO of Bigfoot Biomedical, a Silicon Valley-based company focused on reducing the burden of living with insulin-requiring diabetes and to maximize the leverage of health care providers through data, connectivity, automation, and artificial intelligence.
Prior to Bigfoot, Jon was a founding Board member and CFO of WellDoc, the pioneer in digital health founded in 2005 – first mobile app cleared by FDA, prescribed by physicians and reimbursed by payers. Over the years, Jon has been a board member and/or strategic financial advisor to one of the leading venture funds in digital health and many digital health companies ranging from cancer management, mindfulness, schedule optimization, mental health, pain management, and substance use disorder.
Jonathan Ginter
VP Innovation, Indominus
Jonathan Ginter is a 30-year veteran of the tech industry, having been a developer, software architect, product manager, entrepreneur, and business coach. As a consultant for startups and large companies, he is often brought in to shape a new product vision and then redesign the software architecture to support that new vision. He has helped to design, build, and deliver commercial software solutions for cloud, mobile, and embedded systems that have been sold to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in North America, Europe and Asia. Jonathan has founded two startups in the past, holds a pending patent in the storage and analysis of big data, and is currently creating a series of online courses to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into successful companies.
Jonathan Ginter is a 30-year veteran of the tech industry, having been a developer, software architect, product manager, entrepreneur, and business coach. As a consultant for startups and large companies, he is often brought in to shape a new product vision and then redesign the software architecture to support that new vision. He has helped to design, build, and deliver commercial software solutions for cloud, mobile, and embedded systems that have been sold to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in North America, Europe and Asia. Jonathan has founded two startups in the past, holds a pending patent in the storage and analysis of big data, and is currently creating a series of online courses to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into successful companies.
Joseph Oberlander
Consultant, Syner-G Pharma Consulting
Dr. Joseph Oberlander is an inquisitive research scientist with broad training and technical expertise in neuronal cell biology, synaptic physiology, and pre-clinical animal models of CNS and endocrinology diseases. His background includes evaluation of CNS disease animal models and pharmacologic assessment of treatment candidates and medical device evaluation. His strengths include scientific project management, analytical method development, experimental design, and scientific writing. Joseph is also well-versed in computation and statistical analysis, including machine learning and data representation; he keeps abreast of the fast-paced technical literature in support of research priorities and interests, and he is a highly organized leader with excellent communication skills and ability to mentor and develop team members.
Joseph's journey from academia (post-docs at Dartmouth Medical School and Northwestern University) to industry (contract positions at Abbott Laboratories and Baxter Healthcare) has been exhilarating and eye-opening. He has taken on various roles at each stop, learned how to efficiently generate the necessary data to solve technical problems, and how to transition a product from discovery into development. In his time between positions, Joseph's passion for learning was forward-looking, in that he learned how to program statistical models for machine learning, and about the systematic management of projects from conception to completion. Joseph is trying to leverage his passion for learning, creativity, innovative thought processes, and robust problem-solving skills to bring some clarity to opaqueness of the central nervous system, and debilitating disorders when the underlying biology goes wrong.
Dr. Joseph Oberlander is an inquisitive research scientist with broad training and technical expertise in neuronal cell biology, synaptic physiology, and pre-clinical animal models of CNS and endocrinology diseases. His background includes evaluation of CNS disease animal models and pharmacologic assessment of treatment candidates and medical device evaluation. His strengths include scientific project management, analytical method development, experimental design, and scientific writing. Joseph is also well-versed in computation and statistical analysis, including machine learning and data representation; he keeps abreast of the fast-paced technical literature in support of research priorities and interests, and he is a highly organized leader with excellent communication skills and ability to mentor and develop team members.
Joseph's journey from academia (post-docs at Dartmouth Medical School and Northwestern University) to industry (contract positions at Abbott Laboratories and Baxter Healthcare) has been exhilarating and eye-opening. He has taken on various roles at each stop, learned how to efficiently generate the necessary data to solve technical problems, and how to transition a product from discovery into development. In his time between positions, Joseph's passion for learning was forward-looking, in that he learned how to program statistical models for machine learning, and about the systematic management of projects from conception to completion. Joseph is trying to leverage his passion for learning, creativity, innovative thought processes, and robust problem-solving skills to bring some clarity to opaqueness of the central nervous system, and debilitating disorders when the underlying biology goes wrong.
Kate Tulenko
CEO, Corvus Health
Dr. Kate Tulenko is a globally recognized expert in health workforce and health systems. Dr. Tulenko serves as CEO and Founder of Corvus Health, a global health workforce social enterprise that works to increase access to health workers throughout the world through a novel set of approaches including advisory services, HR management, team and workflow redesign, productivity and quality improvement, training, and retention. Corvus Health’s clients include governments, hospitals and health systems, medical and nursing schools, insurance companies, the World Bank, Tata Trusts, GE Healthcare, and private equity firms. Corvus Health’s achievements include assisting the government of Saudi Arabia with the nationalization of its health workforce, the design of the clinical team for the new hospitals of Ireland’s largest health insurer, and the design of the medical simulation lab for Honoris United University, North Africa’s largest private university system.
Dr. Tulenko served as Director of the US government’s flagship global health workforce project where she was co-Principal Investigator for the World Health Organization’s work to calculate the 18 million global health worker shortage. She has also served as Vice President, Health Systems Innovation, for IntraHealth International, a global health implementor and represented IntraHealth as an official delegate to the World Health Assembly. She served as coordinator of the World Bank’s regional workforce program, working directly with Ministries of Health, Education, and Finance to plan and implement national health workforce strategies. She has received a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship for innovation in global development, is listed in Women In Global Health’s list of 50 woman experts in Global Health Security; was named one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Geneva Graduate Institute of Development Studies, and has published widely, including in the New York Times and Foreign Policy. Dr. Tulenko speaks widely and has served on expert panels for the WHO, the American Hospital Association, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Aspen Institute. She is an occasional health commentate or Fox Business News and the Chinese Global Television Network. She recently delivered the inaugural address for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Eckhert Fazen Health Workforce Lecture Series. Dr. Tulenko is an experienced Board member and has served on the boards of the Global Business School Network, Children’s Heartlink, the National Physicians Alliance, the Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh Foundation, and the Chesapeake Healthcare Foundation. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Longevity and publishes periodically on WEF’s platform.
Dr. Tulenko received her bachelors in biochemistry from Harvard as Phi Beta Kappa class marshal, her masters in history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University, her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where she is an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Systems. She is a committed Rotarian and believes in the power of volunteerism and community service to transform the world. Follow her on LinkedIn and twitter at @ktulenko.
Dr. Kate Tulenko is a globally recognized expert in health workforce and health systems. Dr. Tulenko serves as CEO and Founder of Corvus Health, a global health workforce social enterprise that works to increase access to health workers throughout the world through a novel set of approaches including advisory services, HR management, team and workflow redesign, productivity and quality improvement, training, and retention. Corvus Health’s clients include governments, hospitals and health systems, medical and nursing schools, insurance companies, the World Bank, Tata Trusts, GE Healthcare, and private equity firms. Corvus Health’s achievements include assisting the government of Saudi Arabia with the nationalization of its health workforce, the design of the clinical team for the new hospitals of Ireland’s largest health insurer, and the design of the medical simulation lab for Honoris United University, North Africa’s largest private university system.
Dr. Tulenko served as Director of the US government’s flagship global health workforce project where she was co-Principal Investigator for the World Health Organization’s work to calculate the 18 million global health worker shortage. She has also served as Vice President, Health Systems Innovation, for IntraHealth International, a global health implementor and represented IntraHealth as an official delegate to the World Health Assembly. She served as coordinator of the World Bank’s regional workforce program, working directly with Ministries of Health, Education, and Finance to plan and implement national health workforce strategies. She has received a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship for innovation in global development, is listed in Women In Global Health’s list of 50 woman experts in Global Health Security; was named one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Geneva Graduate Institute of Development Studies, and has published widely, including in the New York Times and Foreign Policy. Dr. Tulenko speaks widely and has served on expert panels for the WHO, the American Hospital Association, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Aspen Institute. She is an occasional health commentate or Fox Business News and the Chinese Global Television Network. She recently delivered the inaugural address for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Eckhert Fazen Health Workforce Lecture Series. Dr. Tulenko is an experienced Board member and has served on the boards of the Global Business School Network, Children’s Heartlink, the National Physicians Alliance, the Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh Foundation, and the Chesapeake Healthcare Foundation. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Longevity and publishes periodically on WEF’s platform.
Dr. Tulenko received her bachelors in biochemistry from Harvard as Phi Beta Kappa class marshal, her masters in history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University, her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where she is an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Systems. She is a committed Rotarian and believes in the power of volunteerism and community service to transform the world. Follow her on LinkedIn and twitter at @ktulenko.
Kate Worthington
Principal, Next Phase Biotech Consulting
Your phase I/II study looks good: what now? Who do you need to talk to or hire? Dr. Kate Worthington can map that out with you. She's worked with small-, mid-, and large-pharma as they move their new therapies to the next phase. When do you need a full-time Sr Dir? What benefit is a medical affairs broad strategy? How far ahead do you need to look and did you need to start a process last year (okay, asap)? Talk to Kate.
Your phase I/II study looks good: what now? Who do you need to talk to or hire? Dr. Kate Worthington can map that out with you. She's worked with small-, mid-, and large-pharma as they move their new therapies to the next phase. When do you need a full-time Sr Dir? What benefit is a medical affairs broad strategy? How far ahead do you need to look and did you need to start a process last year (okay, asap)? Talk to Kate.
Katie Breen
- Director of Program Management and Evaluation, Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative
MPH graduate from Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a passion for addressing quality, safety, equity, and the social determinants of health, particularly in maternal and reproductive health.
Founder and host of The Femtastic Podcast. TEDx Boulder alumna. Ignite Boulder alumna. Selected as 2012 Commencement Speaker for University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Katie McGlenn
- Business Design Expert, Katie McGlenn LLC
Katie McGlenn is an expert in qualitative research and innovation strategy. She uses design thinking to find insights and lead teams to create businesses, products, services, and communication strategies for in CPG, healthcare, insurance, IT, pharmaceuticals, building, telecom, consulting, etc.
Katie Myers
- CEO and Founder, Sweet Sounds Music Therapy LLC
Katie Myers is the CEO and Founder of Sweet Sounds Music Therapy LLC, and a board-certified music therapist and emergency medical technician. She earned her master’s degree in music therapy at The Florida State University, where she also received her certification as a NICU music therapist. Katie completed her undergraduate degree in music therapy, with a minor in psychology, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, along with her internship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Katie has had the pleasure of sharing music therapy experiences with children and adults of all ages and in a variety of settings, both in the United States and in Jamaica. Most recently, Katie was an adjunct professor at Howard University and clinical therapist at Levine Music, where she supervised clinical students and interns, and engaged in clinical work with special learners, at-risk youth and young adults, children and adolescents with autism, and early intervention populations. While at Levine, Kate developed and implemented a national roster music therapy internship program and published an adaptive piano songbook. She has been in leadership roles in local, regional, and national music therapy organizations. Katie is a proud Navy wife, and loves to travel, read, and organize in her free time.
Keith Kocis
- CEO, CMO and Founder, REALTROMINS, Inc
As a pediatric cardiac intensivist with over twenty five years’ experience, Dr. Keith Kocis is able to treat and cure infants and children with critical heart disease by working with teams of physicians, nurses, therapists, laboratory technicians, hospital administrators and others in preparing for: the individual care of a child; the management of numerous children in a highly utilized and limited pediatric intensive care unit; and creating local, statewide, regional, national and international programs for children with congenital and/or acquired heart disease. Keith has successfully performed these duties in several Hospitals and Universities in the USA, resource constrained Uganda, and in the wealthiest country in the world, Qatar. Patient safety and quality initiatives that are both innovative and preventive are the foundation of his ICU leadership focus combined with his personal dedication and commitment to excellence with a strong sense of accountability. Keith's research over the past decade has focused on streaming real time “Big Data” and creating advanced predictive analytics in order to identify rare, and yet, fatal events. Lastly, he serves the Food and Drug Administration’s Pediatric Advisory Committee as a special government employee where he provides insight and expertise into the regulation of drugs and devices used in children.
Kent Cadogan Loftsgard
- Clinical Educator/Researcher, CHILD-BRIGHT/BC Children's Hospital/University of British Columbia
Kent Cadogan Loftsgard is guided by a strong sense of ethical standards, professional best practices, and a commitment to constant improvement.
Specialties:
Radio/TV/Video/Print Producer/Journalist/Host
Announcer/V.O. Artist & Narrator
Media Liaison & Analyst
Writer/Editor/Proofreader
PR & Promotions Manager
Interviewer/Researcher/Fact-Checker
Public Speaker & Trainer
Event Developer/Coordinator
Health & Humanitarian Projects Specialist/Interdisciplinary Clinical Health Educator
Kerry Rupp
- General Partner, True Wealth Ventures
Kerry Rupp is General Partner at True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage VC fund investing in women-led businesses in consumer health & sustainability. She teaches for the NSF I-Corps program, mentors startups, and consults on innovation and strategy. Kerry was previously CEO at DreamIt, a Top Ten US startup accelerator and VC fund. She founded Holiday Golightly, a group travel service for women. Kerry holds an MBA from HBS and a BA from Duke.
Kevin Mehta
- Managing Partner, Fourth Coast Ventures
Kevin Mehta works at the intersection of healthcare financing, technology, & social good. Currently, as the CEO of Aequalis Health, a newly formed consultancy democratizing access to episodic insights and analyticsis. Previously, as both the COO at Payformance Solutions Inc. and Director of the Center for Value in Health Care at the Altarum Institute. Kevin was responsible for leading Altarum and Payformance’s unified strategic roadmap for Value in Health Care through the development of innovative solutions and asset-based product offerings. He actively advises and mentors several healthcare startups and innovators on developing products to address the quad-aim. His expertise includes market dynamics, partnerships, product development, regulatory environments, and public policy. Kevin resides in Lincoln Park, Chicago with his wife and twin daughters.
Prior to launching Aequalis Health (2020) and Payformance Solutions, Inc. (2017), Kevin served as the National Lead for KMPG’s Analytics Driving Insights (KADI) practice with a special focus on Government Health and Human Services. In this role, he focused on transforming healthcare by using data analytics to improve patient outcomes, quality of care, and manage costs. Kevin also played a key role in the design and launch of KPMG’s Data & Analytics Center of Excellence (KPMG Lighthouse), a cross-section of highly specialized teams focused on Data Science & Programming, Applied Statistics & Analysis, Data Visualization & Innovation, and Software & Data Engineering. His other industry experience includes advising clients on enabling technology and analytics in Financial Services and Public Utilities.
Kevon Saber
- CEO, GoCheck Kids
Kevon Saber is passionate about using technology to protect and unleash human potential.
Eight of the leading children's hospitals voted GoCheck Kids the #1 Global Pediatric Health Startup at SXSW 2018. We prevent the most prevalent childhood disabling condition: vision impairment.
Incubated a digital health business for Nestle. Co-founded GenPlay Games and Fig.com. Customers spent over $50M on GenPlay's mobile games. While over 50k people used Fig's healthy habits app, the company generated more lessons than revenue.
Prior digital innovation consultant for Cisco, Palm (HP), Thomas Nelson (Harper Collins), and RWE.
Select Media Hits: Bloomberg Businessweek, Mashable, LifeHacker, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc Magazine, Family Circle, various ABC, NBC, FOX affiliates
Contributing Writer: Forbes, Fast Company, Venture Beat, etc.
Favorite Speaking Engagements: Stanford, Yale, SCU, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Always On
Awards:
-Silicon Valley's 40 under 40, Silicon Valley Business Journal
-Editor's Award, Wireless Gaming World
-Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon Iran
-Most Wholesome Eater, Stanford GSB
At Georgetown, Robert studied innovative payment models and delivery system reform under state Medicaid 1115 waivers used to develop Accountable Care Organizations with a specific focus on information systems, alternative payment models, and delivery system decentralization.
Prior to Wanderly & Avenu, Robert was Director of Product Management at a mHealth digital health technology company working in care management, disease management, and innovative pharmacy solutions.
Robert has consulted for multiple digital health start-ups looking to develop their business strategy in the healthcare market where he has developed effective models for pricing, market access, and clinical integrations.
Robert also speaks at healthcare events and podcasts on a variety of topics from research advocacy in Leukemia, health technology innovation, and the future of the healthcare system.
Robert is a big healthcare fan—it is one of the most intricate, complex, and important industries on the planet.
Krishnaprasad Bannanje
- Founder & CEO, CTQWorks Inc
Krishnaprasad (KP) Bannanje is an accomplished senior executive with over two decades of significant and successful experience in management consulting, product engineering and technology consulting across multiple industries like consumer, automotive, healthcare and digital payment services, working closely with Fortune 500 customers in US, EMEA & APAC. KP currently serves as AVP Strategic alliances and Partnerships at Neusoft Corp, spends time equally between US & China. Prior to joining Neusoft, KP served as Senior consultant and Program manager with Infosys, created value for telecom operators in UK on their digital strategy, technology & operational improvement. Prior to Infosys, KP lead the founding team that setup and operationalize India development center for Cerner Corp.
KP was also involved in a consulting engagement with SamsungPay commercial launch in US for both mobile and Gear S2/S3, working closely with card networks and issuers.
KP is one of the Engineering Development Program graduates from GE and was trained as Six Sigma Black Belt. As certified PMP, he regularly contributed to PMI’s chapters. He is an active member of TiE SV and co-chair of the GlobalConnect Track during TiECon 2018.
He has deep passion on how technology can support entrepreneurship, education, health and wider social outcomes. He has been an advisor and business partner for several startups. KP is also advisor for social entrepreneurs at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Skills & Domain expertise:
Product Design,Product/Program management
Business value articulation & Process consulting
Account Management, Partnership Alliances
Operational experience building Captive Centers
Global work & cultural exposure (APAC/EMEA/LATAM)
Consumer, Automotive, Healthcare IT, Mobile Payments
Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Tensorflow (work in progress)
Krystle Karoscik
- Managing Partner, Onciva Management
Krystle Karoscik is a healthcare management consultant and serial entrepreneur, with 10 years of program development and biotech consulting experience. Krystle serves as an ambassador for the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), and has developed commercialization strategies for novel therapeutics resulting in the launch of early-stage startups. She is the co-founder of GlioLink Inc., pursuing innovative monoclonal antibodies for breast cancer research. She is also the co-founder and managing partner of Onciva Management, focused on consultative services and startup investments.
Lauren Walters
- Board Member, PDI; Board Member, Nuro Retention; Chairman, Concord Consortium
Lauren Walters connects ideas and people. For years, he's done this as a CEO, lawyer, entrepreneur, NGO leader, venture capital investor, real estate developer and investor in the public and private sectors. For six years, Lauren did it as the CEO of 2 Degrees Food, a small food company with a big social mission: making a business case for directly connecting consumer purchasing decisions in the U.S. to hungry children's ability to eat in the US and the developing world.
Lexington Blood
- General Partner, 7BC / Hedge Fund
Obsessively create + invest, nurture, profit or loss, and repeat.
Focus: Quantitative Investment Management, Biomanufacturing, Environmental + Social Impact, Statistical Arbitrage, Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence, Tech, Biotech (Nanotechnology), Blockchain, Fintech, AgTech, Cannabis, Consumer Products, Real Estate, Private Equity.
Thesis: Lexington Blood invests in the betterment of the planet and humanity across a select spectrum of technologies that will positively impact future generations.
Categories: Climate Tech, Sustainability, Impact, Engineering (financial, bio, fabrication), Biotech, Blockchain, Software, Fintech, Medical, Consumer Goods, Material Science, Nanotechnology, Real Estate, Aerospace, AgTech, Cannabis, Clean Energy, Machine Learning, AI, XR, AR, VR.
Highlights: Serial inventor of products across diverse markets. Created a new beverage industry category with the world’s first sleep beverage brand in 2007 ($250M+ category today). Statistically, top 1% algorithmic trading performance by results over 6+ years.
Personal: Lexington is a joyful autistic creative. He recharges with mother nature. Dedicated to personal development, minimalism, social & environmental impact, emotional intelligence, and positive vibrations.
The most valuable currency in his life is "time."
Liz Sara
- Chairman, National Women's Business Council
Liz Sara has more than 25 years of experience in the DC high-tech community as an entrepreneur, business leader and angel investor.
Since founding Best Marketing LLC in 2001, she has consulted with more than 90 early stage and growth-stage tech companies on their go-to-market strategies, delivering increased revenue, market adoption and brand awareness for their B2B products and solutions.
In July 2018, she was appointed by the President as Chairman of the National Women’s Business Council, a federal agency that advocates for female founders. She is immediate past Board Chair of the Dingman Center of Entrepreneurship at U-MD where she is also an adjunct Marketing Professor at the Smith School of Business.
She mentors startup CEOs at the leading incubators and accelerators in the Washington, DC area. She is a frequent author and conference speaker on topics related to entrepreneurship and business.
Marion Neubronner
- Senior Assistant Director, National University of Singapore, Medical School
Marion Neubronner brings leaders from good to great through cutting edge technologies in psychology and neuroscience. Together with her, they regain focus, develop insights and recruit, retain and motivate their key staff and manage their own emotions in a way that transforms them and their companies and relationships. Marion teaches them to coach themselves and create psychological contracts with themselves and others to move to their next achievement stage with greater ease and clarity.
Come to Marion faltering and confused as a leader and she will bring you to stable, calm, clear within 3 months and to focused productive inspiring and empowering within a year. She is a person of her word and SERVICE is her joy and core value. Marion works with clients who want to go deep and transform and have a mission in the world they need support with. Successful clients are Olympians and Guinness Book of Record holders, millionaires, owners of family companies and Directors and C-suites. Marion is highly discreet and is a leaders' best confidant and sounding board with a keen understanding of corporate and personal challenges from her experience not only as a leader and coach but also as a psychologist and counselor.
Marion's own passions include traveling, property investment, singing, dancing, yoga. She is a published children's book writer. Marion considers herself a peak performer who empathizes and connects fundamentally with other peak performers whose designation and role in life do not define them or fulfill and who want more. She facilitates the space for such powerful conversations.
Key projects include training the Singapore Air Force in mental resilience, training senior level leaders and C-suites in coaching skills and business development, working with HIV affected communities to develop leadership and self-coaching strategies.
Specialties: Leadership Development Coach, Learning and Development, Generation Y and M expert, Positive Psychology, Resilience and Mindfulness Practitioner
Mark Ferdig
- VP of Programs, Children's Cancer Association
Mark Ferdig joined CCA as the Vice President of Programs in February 2020. The Vice President of Programs is a catalytic role, ensuring strategic, high quality program design, innovation and implementation. As VP of Programs, Mark leads all CCA program delivery teams, oversees growth of MyMusicRx digital and bedside programs across all markets, provides oversight to CCA’s clinical research partnerships and strategies and serves as CCA’s most vocal and visible ambassador for Joy-based programs.
Mark comes to CCA after 25 years in the international relief and development sector, most recently with Mercy Corps where he focused on establishing the standards for quality program implementation for a portfolio valued at over $400 million. Mark brings strong collaborative executive leadership, strategic change management experience, and innovative complex problem solving to CCA. His most recent role as Vice President of Program Performance & Quality provides additional expertise related to expanding and scaling high quality programs, as CCA strives to scale its programs nationally, starting in Austin, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.
Marquis Cabrera
CEO, Stat Zero
Marquis Cabrera is the Founder and CEO of Stat Zero, which has won awards for being the best sustainable investment company in the world.
Prior to Stat Zero, he was IBM’s Global Leader of Digital Government Transformation, including emerging technologies (i.e. Blockchain). He has advised senior government officials in Switzerland, Africa, Denmark, Australia, Belgium, and UAE. Before IBM, he was CEO of Foster Skills, a social enterprise – supported by Microsoft – focused on citizen-driven social innovation. He also founded two startups: RateMyFosterHome.com, a first mover in public sector customer experience metrics; and Physiocare.io, an upstart Uberizing physical therapy.
Early in his career, Marquis worked for Y-Combinator's Wefunder to champion the Startup Jobs Act; Wayfair, where he developed brand strategy with HGTV celebrities; Massachusetts Appeals and Supreme Courts, where he helped role out case management system; and the White House Chief of Staff’s Office, where he led efforts to improve Recovery Act reporting requirements.
Marquis has won numerous awards: Boston Globe’s Innovator of the Year, Microsoft Changemaker, Massachusetts Nonprofit Excellence Award, Ashoka’s Child Well-being Champion, Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Fellow, Case Foundation Finding Fearless Award, and tied for 1st place in McKinsey’s Agility Hackathon.
Marquis was a plenary speaker at the White House, Harvard Law, IMF, Boston Children's Hospital, United Way Youth Venture, and his TEDx talk at Columbia University on 'How To Build a Social Enterprise' received 60,000+ views. He has been featured in Reuters, NPR, Sydney Herald, and Forbes. Marquis has written for CIO.com and The Huffington Post.
Hillary Clinton nominated him to the Air Force Academy, but he decided to study under former Massachusetts Governor Dukakis and SJC Chief Justice Roderick Ireland at Northeastern University, where he graduated with high honors. Besides work, he loves playing scrabble & basketball, snowboarding, and dancing salsa. Personal site: www.marquiscabrera.com.
Marquis Cabrera is the Founder and CEO of Stat Zero, which has won awards for being the best sustainable investment company in the world.
Prior to Stat Zero, he was IBM’s Global Leader of Digital Government Transformation, including emerging technologies (i.e. Blockchain). He has advised senior government officials in Switzerland, Africa, Denmark, Australia, Belgium, and UAE. Before IBM, he was CEO of Foster Skills, a social enterprise – supported by Microsoft – focused on citizen-driven social innovation. He also founded two startups: RateMyFosterHome.com, a first mover in public sector customer experience metrics; and Physiocare.io, an upstart Uberizing physical therapy.
Early in his career, Marquis worked for Y-Combinator's Wefunder to champion the Startup Jobs Act; Wayfair, where he developed brand strategy with HGTV celebrities; Massachusetts Appeals and Supreme Courts, where he helped role out case management system; and the White House Chief of Staff’s Office, where he led efforts to improve Recovery Act reporting requirements.
Marquis has won numerous awards: Boston Globe’s Innovator of the Year, Microsoft Changemaker, Massachusetts Nonprofit Excellence Award, Ashoka’s Child Well-being Champion, Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Fellow, Case Foundation Finding Fearless Award, and tied for 1st place in McKinsey’s Agility Hackathon.
Marquis was a plenary speaker at the White House, Harvard Law, IMF, Boston Children's Hospital, United Way Youth Venture, and his TEDx talk at Columbia University on 'How To Build a Social Enterprise' received 60,000+ views. He has been featured in Reuters, NPR, Sydney Herald, and Forbes. Marquis has written for CIO.com and The Huffington Post.
Hillary Clinton nominated him to the Air Force Academy, but he decided to study under former Massachusetts Governor Dukakis and SJC Chief Justice Roderick Ireland at Northeastern University, where he graduated with high honors. Besides work, he loves playing scrabble & basketball, snowboarding, and dancing salsa. Personal site: www.marquiscabrera.com.
Maureen Rinkunas
Innovation & Ventures Leader, DuPont Ventures
Moe Rinkunas helps innovators go from inspiration to action, guiding them through the chaos inherent in new markets and undefined opportunities for new technologies. Having worked with hundreds of teams at organizations of all sizes from startups to Fortune 500 companies, she has seen the pinch points where things “get stuck” in the pipeline and has paved the way for the pursuit of early-stage growth opportunities with urgency and at scale.
Most recently, Moe defined her own role with the Emerging Innovation team at DuPont focused on both helping internal teams to think and act more like startups and establishing a scalable model for “bringing the outside in” via open innovation and highly strategic corporate venturing. Similarly, she built acceleration and investing platforms at Dreamit Ventures and laid the groundwork for a new commercialization process at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Most of her career has been focused on the healthcare, nutrition, and education verticals, with a passion for bringing disruptive technologies into these markets. She frequently speaks and facilitates workshops on how to take the first steps in assessing ideas and moving them forward using principles of Lean Startup and Design Thinking.
Moe Rinkunas helps innovators go from inspiration to action, guiding them through the chaos inherent in new markets and undefined opportunities for new technologies. Having worked with hundreds of teams at organizations of all sizes from startups to Fortune 500 companies, she has seen the pinch points where things “get stuck” in the pipeline and has paved the way for the pursuit of early-stage growth opportunities with urgency and at scale.
Most recently, Moe defined her own role with the Emerging Innovation team at DuPont focused on both helping internal teams to think and act more like startups and establishing a scalable model for “bringing the outside in” via open innovation and highly strategic corporate venturing. Similarly, she built acceleration and investing platforms at Dreamit Ventures and laid the groundwork for a new commercialization process at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Most of her career has been focused on the healthcare, nutrition, and education verticals, with a passion for bringing disruptive technologies into these markets. She frequently speaks and facilitates workshops on how to take the first steps in assessing ideas and moving them forward using principles of Lean Startup and Design Thinking.
Michael González Wallace
Founder & CEO, Super Body, Super Brain
Michael Gonzalez-Wallace is the Chief Executive Officer of a Health of an Exercise brand called Super Body, Super Brain.
This exciting mind-body exercise program incorporates fitness with neuroscience along with a physician endorsed workout regimen to benefit everyone.
The program has already been featured in over 25 Media Outlets including O magazine, "The Workout That Does It All", The Washington Post, "Exercises in Your Workout", Fitness, Prevention, the Chicago Tribune and many others.
Michael Gonzalez-Wallac has also received an award from a former US Governor and Ex Presidential Candidate, Tim Pawlenty recognizing Super Body, Super Brain as one of the most unique and innovative exercise programs developed to date.
In 2010 he released his First Book "Super Body, Super Brain" that was featured in CBS "The Early Show" Extra TV. Super Body, Super Brain was featured in Amazon as the "Hottest debut" reaching the Best Seller list in the Kindle Format.
Super Body, Super Brain has gained so much popularity that gyms, schools and hospitals are running the program. CAPISTRANT CENTER has awarded the program a Parkinson Grant for an individualized program for Parkinson disease. In addition the program has been the corporate wellness program for Englewood Hospital where Michael is running a pilot program for Breast Cancer patients.
Several doctors have endorsed the powerful benefits of this program, which includes improving motor skills, physical strength and brain activityy. As a result, it is currently being implemented as a therapeutic approach for special needs and neurological disorders.
Upcoming Project: Launch of a SUPERBODY, SUPER BRAIN PERSONAL TRAINING WEBSITE
CERTIFICATIONS IN SPAIN WITH INTERNATIONAL EVENTS INCLUDING SPAIN, INDONESIA
Goal: Expanding internationally my brand Super Body, Super Brain and establish partnerships worldwide.
Michael Gonzalez-Wallace is the Chief Executive Officer of a Health of an Exercise brand called Super Body, Super Brain.
This exciting mind-body exercise program incorporates fitness with neuroscience along with a physician endorsed workout regimen to benefit everyone.
The program has already been featured in over 25 Media Outlets including O magazine, "The Workout That Does It All", The Washington Post, "Exercises in Your Workout", Fitness, Prevention, the Chicago Tribune and many others.
Michael Gonzalez-Wallac has also received an award from a former US Governor and Ex Presidential Candidate, Tim Pawlenty recognizing Super Body, Super Brain as one of the most unique and innovative exercise programs developed to date.
In 2010 he released his First Book "Super Body, Super Brain" that was featured in CBS "The Early Show" Extra TV. Super Body, Super Brain was featured in Amazon as the "Hottest debut" reaching the Best Seller list in the Kindle Format.
Super Body, Super Brain has gained so much popularity that gyms, schools and hospitals are running the program. CAPISTRANT CENTER has awarded the program a Parkinson Grant for an individualized program for Parkinson disease. In addition the program has been the corporate wellness program for Englewood Hospital where Michael is running a pilot program for Breast Cancer patients.
Several doctors have endorsed the powerful benefits of this program, which includes improving motor skills, physical strength and brain activityy. As a result, it is currently being implemented as a therapeutic approach for special needs and neurological disorders.
Upcoming Project: Launch of a SUPERBODY, SUPER BRAIN PERSONAL TRAINING WEBSITE
CERTIFICATIONS IN SPAIN WITH INTERNATIONAL EVENTS INCLUDING SPAIN, INDONESIA
Goal: Expanding internationally my brand Super Body, Super Brain and establish partnerships worldwide.
Michael Ludden
- Founder, Antler; Founder, The Original Dog Treat Truck Company; Consultant, Ludden Consulting
Michael Ludden is a technologist, futurist, strategist, product leader and developer platform expert who loves to operate on the bleeding edge of what’s possible and is a frequent keynote speaker at events around the world. Currently Global Head of Developer Advocacy and Principal Augmented Reality Product Advocate at Bose, Michael was previously Director of Product at IBM’s Watson Developer Labs & AR/VR Labs, Product/Developer Marketing Manager Lead at Google, Head of Product/Developer Marketing at Samsung and Product/Developer Evangelist at HTC, among other career stops. He has also been involved at various times in development, co-founding startups, tech show hosting, and even cruise-ship singing (don’t ask). As passionate about solving complex real-world problems as he is about Immersive Technologies (AR/VR) and Machine Learning (AI), Michael is also fascinated by all things futurist, and has been continuously involved in the creation of some of the most innovative new products and use cases that exist on the bleeding edge of emerging technology today.
An expert communicator, Michael is adept at providing deep insights that are inspiring and accessible to broad audiences. As such, he is frequently invited to speak on the global speaking circuit as a keynote speaker, thought leader and panelist, and has spoken at most major tech conferences around the world, a great many prestigious symposiums, several international universities and also private corporate summits looking to inspire their employees & C-Suite executives to think strategically, creatively and with an eye towards breakthrough insights.
Current Areas of Focus: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality (XR), Developer Platforms, AI & Machine Learning & Computer Vision.
Also Interested In: Serverless & Decentralized Technologies such as Blockchain & Crypto, along with Mesh/P2P & Self-healing Networking.
Michael Lyon
- CEO, Lyon Capital Services
Over 30 years experience as legal and business leader/problem solver with record of managing and solving legal issues, growing businesses, negotiating/closing transactions, and delivering value and extraordinary investor returns in multiple sectors, including related to finance, technology, AI, and space commercialization.
*General Counsel and Business-Oriented Legal Expert. General Counsel of three tech and finance firms (including managing outside legal firms), and big firm experience solving problems for clients.
* Space Sector Leader/Entrepreneur. 20 years experience leading/innovating in the commercial space sector.
* Successful Transaction Management and Negotiation. Sourcing, funding, and closing transactions in over 100 countries, $500 million in restructuring work, transactions generating 10x investor return.
* Tech Company Mentor. Adviser/Mentor to growing tech companies with financial, strategic, marketing, HR, and legal planning. CDL Associate.
* Senior Government Experience. Leader in government's response to S&L financial crisis.
Career Highlights:
Legal: GC/VP at Space Adventures leading development of first space tourism flights (Tito, Shuttleworth). GC of leading real estate workout firm, JER, with over $3 billion of distressed assets under management and 20 outside law firm support operation. GC of deep ocean submersible company leading expeditions to Titanic, Hydro thermal Vents, and films with James Cameron. Large firm experience.
Technology and Space Innovator: CEO of leading space mission and entertainment firm, Xtronaut, co-founded with NASA OSIRIS-REx mission leader. Space sector legal and business development/finance expert. Mentor at Tech Accelerator, Creative Destruction Lab, advising tech/space firms regarding strategy, marketing, finance, and legal issues.
Government and Transaction Leader: Special Assistant to Chairman Seidman FDIC/RTC during S&L crisis, resolving over 700 failed financial thrifts, deploying $200 billion, and assisting managing 10,000 personnel. Managed restructuring of over $500 million of debt as CEO of Lyon Capital. Led acquisition/management of real estate portfolios generating 10x return, over $50 million profits.
International, Interests, Education: Experience in over 100 countries, including Asia and the GCC. Expert/writer on cycle touring in Europe (book, articles, presentations), sailor, and deep ocean diver. Foreign Language: Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Harvard Law School, London School of Economics, Brandeis (History/Economics).
Michal Kliman
- Sr. Technical Support Specialist, Waters Technologies Corporation
Life Science Applications Specialist
Areas: High Mass Resolution Instruments (Waters Synapt) LC and Direct Infusion Drug Metabolism, Biomarker Discovery Studies, GLP, ISO characterization of biomaterials (leachables, extractables), proteins; Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) and Electrospray Ionization (ESI) Mass Spectrometry (MS); Ion Mobility MS, IM-MS Analysis of Lipids, Oligonucleotides, Glycans; Lipidomics, Metabolomics; Multivariate Analysis (PCA, PLS) Driven Data Reduction; Imaging MS: Cell and Tissue Imaging MS; Computational Modeling of Lipids (Gaussian, Amber)
Mike Ravenscroft
- Managing Partner, re:Founded Venture Advisory
Mike Ravenscroft is a venture advisor with experience managing startup accelerators and investing in seed stage technology companies. He's built investment strategies for venture-backed accelerators and led equity and debt investments in companies across industries and international geographies. Mike is Managing Partner at re:Founded, a venture consultancy that provides advisory services to venture funds, technology startups, and innovation programs. His guiding philosophy (borrowed from Neil DeGrasse Tyson) is to strive to know more about the world today than he did yesterday.
Monica Weldon
- President/CEO, Bridge the Gap - SYNGAP Education and Research Foundation
In November of 2012, Monica Weldon's twin son, Beckett, was the first to be diagnosed at Texas Children's Genetics Clinic with the gene mutation SYNGAP1. When Beckett was 4 months old, she noticed he was not meeting the same milestones as his twin sister. She then began a journey to find answers to help her son. Monica began to blog about his progress & this led to building a community of parents & caregivers & a strong support group. She is the Founder, President/CEO of Bridge the Gap – SYNGAP Education & Research Foundation. It is her passion to help support these families by raising awareness & creating a strong foundation that will accelerate a path to better therapies.
She retired in 2016 after 23 years in education teaching secondary science. Her new focus is on building the programs & mission of Bridge the Gap – SYNGAP Education and Research Fnd. She is the Primary Investigator on the SYNGAP1 (MRD5) Registry & Natural History Study. She is a life member of the Worldwide Association of Female Professionals & a member of the first class of 2017 Illumina Ambassadors established in the United States. In addition to leading the foundation, she is an author, public speaker, consultant on rare disease business strategies & advocates for rare disease legislation at both the federal & state levels. Several of her authored scientific publications include Nature Neuroscience, The Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and The Journal of Pediatrics. She has authored a book about her son Beckett’s diagnostic journey called “Slow Moving Stream - My Special Boy”. She is a graduate from East Texas Baptist University with a Bachelor's of Science in Biology/Psychology (1991) & Secondary Certification in Education (1995). She will attend Northwestern University Pritzker Law School beginning Fall 2020 to earn her Masters in Science Law. She has five beautiful children, Haleigh (28), Taylor, USMC (25), Sawyer (23), & the twins Beckett & Pyper (12). A Global Genes 2015 & 2016 RARE Champion in Advocacy Award nominee & Wego Health Awards Nominee for years 2015, 2017, 2018, & 2019.
Munawar Abadullah
- CEO, ImpTrax Corporation
Munawar Abadullah is CEO of ImpTrax. Prior to being named CEO. Munawar served as CIO of RTech Healthcare Revenue, Inc. acquired by Transunion in 2016. His role at ImpTrax is focused on the strategic direction and growth.
He spent two decades in senior and executive management positions at healthcare-related companies, including Siemens Healthcare, Bayer Healthcare, JPMorgan Chase, technology companies, and several successful startups.
As a forward-looking visionary global leader, Munawar is a thought-leader in international business, offshore resources management, cost reduction, finance and risk management, research, and development (R & D).
He has extensive international experience across the globe, especially in Pakistan, UAE, Qatar, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK, Estonia, Hungary, Spain, Canada, and the United States of America.
Munawar is a graduate of Columbia Business School, Stanford University, Stanford Business School, and Lahore University of Management Services.He is Entrepreneur in Residence at IBA, once of the most prestigious university in South Asia.
Specialties: Global leadership, leading companies from pre-revenue to market leadership, raising venture capital ($100M+), fundraising, building global sales and support teams, establishing overseas subsidiaries and joint ventures, M&A, strategic partnerships, and sales & business development.
Navi Radjou
- Author, Jugaad Innovation, Frugal Innovation, From Smart to Wise, et al.
Navi Radjou is a French-American scholar, an innovation and leadership advisor, and a bestselling author based in New York. Navi’s most recent book, Frugal Innovation: How To Do More With Less (with a foreword by Paul Polman, ex-CEO, Unilever), published by The Economist in 2015, shows how companies can innovate faster, better, and sustainably in today’s customer-driven, resource-constrained tech-driven global economy shaped by climate change. Navi has also coauthored the global bestseller Jugaad Innovation (over 250,000 copies sold worldwide) and From Smart To Wise. His TED talk on frugal innovation has garnered nearly 2 million video views. And, he has received the prestigious Thinkers50 Innovation Award, given to a management thinker reshaping how we think about and practice innovation.
Neha Bhambhani
- CoFounder, Munich Reinsurance Domain
Experienced Product Management Specialist with an entrepreneur mindset towards building innovative solutions for insurance industry. Neha Bhambhani brings a unique perspective to create elegant solutions applicable to real business problems through a variety of cutting-edge technologies. With a close eye on the market, Insurtechs, evolving business models and trends, Neha provides unique opportunities for rapid prototyping and test and learn, managing the entire process end to end.
Past projects include leading the successful launch of "plug n play" digital platforms for SMB and Middle market leveraging 3rd party data sets and simplified underwriting.
Neil St. Clair
- President & Founder, NES Impact
Neil St. Clair is the President & Founder of NES Impact, a management consultancy. NES Impact works with select single family offices and founder-led businesses to help them develop with social impact goals in mind.
Neil has served as President & COO of the Child Safety Pledge (CSP), a non-profit foundation combating child sexual abuse through storytelling and impact investing (via Group 2050). Both entities are backed by the daughter of Sanford C. Bernstein, the deceased billionaire founder of AllianceBernstein. Neil continues his efforts for child sexual abuse prevention through the CSP-co-founded Child Safety Coalition.
Previously, Neil was President of Karma Impact, a media platform for the next generation of private impact investors. He hosted several shows for the network, and concurrently led Karma's parent company, Timeless Media. Both entities were backed by the resources of the multi-billion-dollar Hinduja single family office.
Neil was the first-ever Chief Growth Officer for Vestorly, a venture-backed, AI marketing platform, and also served as the first-ever Director of Marketing for $11bn+ AUM investment advisor, Shepherd Kaplan. In his early career, Neil was an on-camera television journalist for NY1 and a contributing columnist for Forbes.
A successful founder, Neil pioneered Silicon Alley's digital video news coverage as CEO of award-winning media outlet, AlleyWire. He also co-founded insurtech company Thrice, a machine learning data platform for commercial P&C. He also started the invitation-only Corsair Society and P2P hotel room reseller, UnBuyThat. Neil is now an advisor/investor in several startups in media and fintech.
Neil is an accomplished public speaker, presenting at UPenn's Wharton School, MIT's Sloan School, and Bloomberg News, to name a few.
Neil is charitably involved, including the Birthright Israel Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Academy of St. Joseph, and as the Chairman-Founder of the St. Clair Family Speech & Debate Award. He is also President of Phi Beta Kappa's New York Society.
At the request of Governor Charlie Baker, Neil ran for State Committee in Massachusetts, and later served as a member of the Massachusetts Real Estate Board.
Neil graduated from Boston University Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He later attended graduate school at Yale University. Neil is a competitive marathoner and lives in Manhattan.
Nicholas Antaki
- Managing Director and Director of Marketing, VETS Indexes & St John's University
Nicholas Antaki serves as the Director of Marketing and as a Managing Director of VETS Indexes, where he is charged with promoting the strategic vision and value proposition of the firm. Nick leads the marketing team with a laser focus on executing upon the overall marketing and branding initiatives throughout the many marketplaces in which the firm endeavors. Mr. Antaki joined VETS Indexes in July of 2017 and brings this role seasoned leadership supported by a track record of success.
Nicholas acquired both his B.S. in Finance and MBA in International Business with honors from The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University. He serves on the Board of Directors and as an Executive Officer of the Tobin Alumni Association. Nick has been involved with more than a dozen philanthropic organizations. He also currently maintains several ministries at his Church and is active in his community. He is passionate about Impact Investing, Microfinance, Philanthropic Finance, Venture Philanthropy, Social Entrepreneurship and all innovative forms of using the power of business for good while doing well at the same time.
Nicholas Giangreco
- Biomedical Data Scientist, Columbia University
Nick Giangreco is a Systems Biology PhD Candidate at Columbia University Medical Center. He is working in the lab of Dr. Nicholas Tatonetti, focusing on prediction and population-level inference for applications in translational medicine. Before starting the PhD program in 2016, he was a bioinformatician at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Nick received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester. He is co-organizer and Secretary of New York Health Artificial Intelligence Society, a health technology education 501(c)3 nonprofit based in NYC. At Columbia, he leads various clubs and organizations in domains ranging from student government, biomedical data science, and health entrepreneurship.
Nir Ben-Lavi
- CEO, Pangea Cup
Global innovation evangelist and investor.
Omar Perez
- Vice President - Strategic Business Development, Grant & Weber
Over 25 years in healthcare leadership in revenue cycle management, business operations, quality improvement, physician relations and change management. Omar Perez's experience has brought him to various forums of evolving areas of healthcare discussion including reimbursement, technology, employee relations, community affairs and public affairs.
With this experience, Omar also brings the knowledge of when it is appropriate to lead and when it is appropriate to follow. He's seen a few things, learned a few things and participates in offering solutions to new and current challenges. B2B has become a critical means of constructing new and exciting opportunities to bring the best in class to audiences that will benefit from creativity, integrity, dignity and efficiency.
The healthcare industry is always in a dynamic state of transformation. The environment continues to show us that fluidity and its patient/consumer response matters in how we deliver our services in the most customer centric method. Achieving this is often through a means of complex and simple adjustments in revenue cycle delivery as outcomes are everything.
Orrin Ailloni-Charas
- Managing Partner, CEO, Global Health Impact Fund
Dr. Orrin Ailloni-Charas is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, earned his MD at the NYU School of Medicine, and earned his MBA from Columbia University. He completed his residency as a specialist in anesthesia at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist and served from 2003-2016 as the Chief Financial Officer of a large private anesthesia practice in San Francisco. From 2016-2018, Dr. Ailloni-Charas was the Vice President of Clinical Investments at AngelMD, where he developed an evaluation platform and funding process for healthcare startups as well as built a large network of experts to support due diligence and investment. In 2018 until early 2020, he worked at RedCrow as Managing Director where he developed a comprehensive, qualitative and quantitative analytical platform for evaluating startups. He also produced and hosted a web-based show in partnership with NASDAQ which was focused on healthcare startups. Prior to 2016, he held several consulting positions with digital health and biopharma companies, including with Pacira and HealthTap.
Dr. Ailloni-Charas is the CEO and Managing Partner of the Global Health Impact Fund(GHIF), a venture fund focused on investing in early stage healthcare innovation. The GHIN is physician-led and physician-driven and leverages the expertise of large networks of physicians and domain experts with its proprietary, data science platform. The insights and experiences of the physician leaders, filter through the analytical engine provide the basis for improved investing outcomes by allowing for better understanding of the clinical and business challenges early stage healthcare startups encounter.
Dr. Ailloni-Charas draws on his experience of 25 years in the clinical practice of anesthesia at top medical institutions as well as lessons learned as an investment leader and physician network builder in the early and mid-stage healthcare vertical.
Paul Reed
- Chapter President, Gift of Adoption Fund; GHPE Success, Lifion by ADP
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter F. Drucker
Experienced special projects/ventures professional, partnering with startups, non-profits, and Fortune 500 companies to always put customers first.
Paul Reed advises multiple organizations and serves on numerous boards. His duties include producing go-to-market strategies, evaluating customer experience, creating customer success solutions to improve retention/growth, implementing corporate strategies, board governance, member of finance committees, board recruitment, board expansion, turnaround, and restructuring. Furthermore, Paul has also assisted 3 market-leading companies to expand into international markets.
Additionally, Paul leads special project management functions at ADP's innovation lab Lifion, collaborating with our senior leadership to deliver success.
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Board Of Directors, Board Member, Advisor, Advisor to CEO, Consultant, Account Management, Customer Success, Vendor Management, Corporate Strategy, Corporate governance, Sales Operations, Operations, Innovation, Revenue, C-Level, Project Management, Growth, Retention, Risk, Startups, Expansion, Executive, International Expansion, Turnaround, Restructuring, Dividend Investor, Shareholder, Change Management, CEO, Consulting, Leadership & Management, Strategy, Segmentation, Mirco Markets, Non-profit, NGO, CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility, Fortune Global 500, Fortune 500.
Paulo Machado
- Founder/CEO, Health Innovation Inc
Dr. Paulo Machado is CEO & Founder of Health Innovation Partners LLC. He was guided by his unwavering passion to improve the delivery of healthcare when he launched Health Innovation Partners LLC. Paulo has leveraged his background in innovation, marketing, business management, strategic planning, business development, product development, alliance management and team building to drive success for his clients. Health Innovation Partners guides clients through the development and implementation of innovative customer-centered strategies, which will drive superior performance & stakeholder value.
Paulo is a member/advisor/partner with the following organizations: BluePrint Health, CMS Innovation Center, ONC, HealthIT100, Your Encore Expert Network, Health 2.0 Advisors, Jefferson Population Health School, Innovation Management Institute, Center for Connected Health, Drexel University’s MBA/BioPharma Advisory Council, Aurora Capital, Kairon Capital and the Walking Gallery. Paulo has created HealthIT challenges for his clients, that bestow cash prizes on Health technology innovators. He will tell us how these challenges work, what sponsors hope to gain from these challenges and best practices for entrepreneurs.
Pervez Alam
- Managing Director, Accenture
Pervez Alam is the Managing Director at Accenture responsible for leading the company’s Cloud Applications business in its U.S. West region, which comprises 10 states—Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington—and is home to major hubs for innovation, including the Accenture Labs and the Digital Acceleration Center in San Jose and the Accenture Liquid Studio in Redwood City.
As Cloud First Applications Lead ‒U.S. West, Pervez focuses on bringing Cloud Applications Technology – Salesforce.com, Pega, Google Apps and other emerging platform innovation to clients, attracting top talent, building high performing Salesforce Technology and other cloud applications teams and strengthening the company’s impact in its local communities.
Before being appointed to his current role in June 2017, he led the company’s Healthcare Cloud Applications Technology practice in North America as the Industry lead. Previously, Director at Cloud Sherpas responsible for the West Enterprise Business, Center of Excellence Leader-CRM for Tata Consultancy Services, with Profit and Loss accountability. He has completed a Masters of Science in Business Administration with a major in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a Bachelors Degree with Honors in Production/Industrial Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He is a Salesforce Certified Technologist, IBM Certified Specialist in Rational Unified Process and a GE Certified Six Sigma Green Belt.
Pervez also serves as a Director on the Board of Directors of Bohniman Systems, LLC, in a advisory role.
Peter Blanchard
- Consultant, Freelance
Peter Blanchard is a solution-seeker. Wherever he puts his attention, he finds ways to make things better than they already are.
Peter is also driven by impact. Put any widget in front of him, and he’ll seek out ways make it better - but if you want to unlock his full passion and drive, give him something that truly makes a difference in the quality of people’s lives. Give him projects that promote equity; give him programs that empower the disenfranchised; give him products that alleviate suffering. Give him access to policy, products or services that truly serve to make life better, and Peter will work tirelessly to make them the best that they can be.
Peter's background is in social psychology, with a focus on the drivers of human decision-making. He has used gamification to overcome challenges developing financial literacy curricula, designed programs using (his own) photography to improve health outcomes for long-term hospital patients and submitted policy proposals to improve federal asset development programs. He has experience using human-centered design methodologies to tackle tricky problems like housing for youth aging out of foster care, and in his free time you'll often find him working on passion projects, like prototyping an app end the cycle of generational poverty.
Peter asks the big questions and uses a broad array of design tools to make sure we are solving the right problems in the most effective way possible. He's a big fan of contextual inquiry, narrative ideation and seeking insights from analogous contexts. At the end of the day, Peter believes empathy is the most important ingredient in finding solutions that will satisfy and delight the end user.
He's in the market for his next role guiding design/strategy/innovation with a mission-driven organization. Need help with a product or service that lifts people up? Talk to Peter.
Skills & interests: social psychology, design strategy, UX design, service design, human-centered design, evidence-based art, personal finance, financial literacy, social justice, designing for equity and access, product development, fin-tech, experiential learning, gamification, user research, photography, entrepreneurship, bridging political divides, using education and innovation to overcome seemingly intractable challenges, ultimate (frisbee), cycling, climbing, camping and pretty much all things outdoors.
Priscila Espinosa
- Founder, SproutChange
CliftonStrengths: Achiever, Futuristic, Input, Individualization, and Activator. Myers-Briggs: ENFJ.
Quad-lingual (Spanish, Italian, & French) and multicultural professional with over 15 years of business experience ranging from research, executive-level support, to pro bono assistant directorship. I have also worked on event management, social media, sales & marketing, business development, and Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Specialty: finding innovative solutions.
"Hot, hotter, hottest: Citizen scientists help create heat map of Worcester" 2019
https://www.telegram.com/news/20190822/hot-hotter-hottest-citizen-scientists-help-create-heat-map-of-worcester
"SENATORS HEAR FROM HCFA ACTIVIST" 2015
https://www.hcfama.org/blog/senators-hear-hcfa-activist
"Alumna Embraces Role of Global Citizen" 2011
http://d1dhn91mufybwl.cloudfront.net/iframehtml5/embed.html?hash=fdk3epuvl&fullscreen=1&startIndex=5&previous_page=true&t=14138254571413825459&bwd=1&pbs=1&v=4.8
"Study Abroad Advocates Marched on Capitol Hill to Promote Study Abroad Opportunities" 2006
http://ourworld.worldlearning.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8321
Rand Brenner
- CEO, Licensing Consulting Group
Rand Brenner is CEO of Licensing Consulting Group (LCG), intellectual property management and licensing company specializing in assisting companies in strategically use their intellectual property to generate revenues. He is also the founder of Licensing4Profits.com, which offers training, coaching, and courses on licensing and how to use it to make money with all types of intellectual property.
His licensing experience includes medical devices, health care technology, consumer products, food, entertainment, software, digital media, and more. Rand has led international licensing programs as both licensee and licensor for startups and Fortune 500 companies, and through licensing consulting projects focused on strategy, marketing, and business development initiatives.
Before founding LCG, Rand was Vice President of Licensing at Saban Entertainment, where he managed the licensing program for the wildly successful Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Rand was also a licensing executive at Warner Bros. Consumer Products where he licensed out several high profile theatrical, television, and publishing properties, including Batman and Batman II movies, the animation classic Looney Tunes (i.e. Bugs Bunny).
Rand published his first book, Hidden Wealth: The Money Making Power of Licensing, which is available on Amazon. His articles about licensing appearing in several magazines, including The Licensing Journal, Intellectual Property Magazine, and License India. He’s a contributing writer in Creating New Ventures published by the California State University Fullerton Center for Entrepreneurship.
Rand also speaks on licensing at business, startup, and investment conferences. Some of these include the UCI Business School, MedTech Monday Conference, Medical Device Manufacturing Trade Show, ICFO Capital Conferences, and Fast Start Studios startup incubator.
Rand received his undergraduate degree in Advertising from California State University – San Jose and his Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He lives in Orange County, CA, and volunteers as a Judge for the CSUF Entrepreneurship’s business plan and venture launch presentations and a mentor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics.
Randy Fisher
- Founder, Customer Discovery Pros
If you want to grow your business; attract (or reassure) investors; validate an entrepreneurial idea, get insights and engage customers / partners, then talk to Randy Fisher. Randy specializes in accessing and improving performance in new, underserved or declining customer segments in the US and Canada.
As the founder of Customer Discovery Pros., Randy advises promising entrepreneurs / startups in customer discovery and product/market fit to commercialize technology and attract investors.
Renato Del Grosso
- Co-Founder, Head of Market Access & Board Member, Cube Labs
Full focus on applied research (Biotech/Pharma/Med Tech/Nutraceuticals) from Italian Science leveraging the IP to create new start up/scale-up
Robert Berg
- Founding Member, Iridescent Data
Robert Berg has been an executive responsible for launching, commercialization and speeding adoption for businesses and data solutions for longer than he would like to admit. Robert has been using a hands-on approach to demonstrate to executives and professionals how to better use data, measurement, advanced analytics and data tools to drive revenue and profits. Robert has been working with hundreds of clients – large, medium and startup -- and has personally trained thousands of professionals. Robert has worked at IRI, IBM, PwC and founded his own companies. He serves as an advisor to the Center for Advancing Innovation, Norwalk Powder Metal Manufacturing and other companies. Robert has an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and undergraduate degree from University of Michigan.
Robert Longyear
- VP Digital Health and Innovation, Avenu
Robert Longyear is focused on healthcare strategy, innovation, and research. He leads Wanderly's digital health strategy and R&D efforts through its digital care management company, Avenu.
Robert is most interested in innovations that better connect and match health services to patients and that improve the delivery of care through effective, efficient, and equitable models. He explores these in his book, Innovating for Wellness (New Degree Press). Robert has another book focused on remote-patient monitoring expected for publication in 2021 (Taylor & Francis, CRC Press).
Robert studied Healthcare Management and Policy at Georgetown University. He has worked at the intersection between clinical medicine, healthcare payment and delivery systems, and technology.
At Georgetown, Robert studied innovative payment models and delivery system reform under state Medicaid 1115 waivers used to develop Accountable Care Organizations with a specific focus on information systems, alternative payment models, and delivery system decentralization.
Prior to Wanderly & Avenu, Robert was Director of Product Management at a mHealth digital health technology company working in care management, disease management, and innovative pharmacy solutions.
Robert has consulted for multiple digital health start-ups looking to develop their business strategy in the healthcare market where he has developed effective models for pricing, market access, and clinical integrations.
Robert also speaks at healthcare events and podcasts on a variety of topics from research advocacy in Leukemia, health technology innovation, and the future of the healthcare system.
Robert is a big healthcare fan—it is one of the most intricate, complex, and important industries on the planet.
Robert Madonna
- Managing Partner, Diversified Services LLC
Robert “Bob” Madonna is the Managing Partner for Diversified Services, a business advisory firm providing services to both the for, and non-profit sectors. Bob brings more than 40 years of leadership experience in both business and not-for-profit organizations. In the 4 years at Surrey Services for Seniors, (2016-2020) they were recognized locally, regionally, statewide, and nationally for the work that they do in the community for supporting older adults.
Prior to joining Surrey, Bob was a Principal and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for McCoy Enterprises, a leading corporate employee training and consulting firm.
Before that, he held Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing positions at EchoBurst Corporation, a wireless Location Based Service provider, and Numerex Corporation, NASDAQ:NMRX, where he was responsible for the successful turnaround of four business units. His background also includes a diverse and successful career at Bell Atlantic Corporation (now Verizon).
He has served as the Chair of the Delaware County Community College Foundation, a Board of Trustee with The Silver Springs-Martin Luther School, the Boards of the Ryan's Case for Smiles Foundation, ADDA, (Attention Deficient Disorder Association), and an Advisory Board member of Educational Excellence and Entrepreneurship (3E Institute) at West Chester University. In addition, Bob was a founding director of the Golden Cradle Adoption. He was an active member with the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Network Group (GPSEG), now Beacon, helping executives in transition. He now serves as a Board of Trustee for the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, (PIT)
Bob holds degrees from Widener University and Delaware County Community College. He was raised in Delaware County and now lives in Chester County for the past 35 years.
Roy Wallen
- CEO, Directional Healthcare Advisors
Roy Wallen leads Directional Healthcare. He has served in leadership roles for new product initiatives in medical technology companies ranging from pre-revenue start-up to multi-billion, global concerns. His experience includes company formation, raising capital (grants and equity-based), establishing business plans then executing on those plans, and successful completion of multiple market launches. With an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and a biomedical focus, as well as graduate studies in biomedical engineering and business, Roy has spent his career managing existing businesses for sustainable profits and bringing new technologies out of the laboratory and into clinical use. In addition to successful launches in the United States, Roy spent approximately eight years in Europe where he investigated new technologies and launched several new products for a large, global company; established a European presence for a start-up company seeking its initial public offering; and supported, built, and maintained sales and distribution channels. He has overseen the successful launch of products in Japan and southeast Asia through distribution partners by establishing the import, regulatory, safety, and reimbursement elements needed for successful commercialization. Roy has published both peer-reviewed papers and abstracts and short papers and is a regular conference presenter, all on subjects related to healthcare technology and its implementation.
Sachin Mamidwar
- CEO, Orthogen, LLC
Dr. Sachin Mamidwar is one of the founders of Orthogen, LLC and serves as its General Manager. He is responsible for the companys day-to-day operations including manufacturing, packaging, marketing, sales and advertising strategies and developing markets for Orthogens products through its own network and distributors. Previously he was Director of Product Development and Clinical Affairs at the Orthogen Biomaterials Division of Bio-Lok International, Inc., where he was the team leader responsible for the development (including animal studies, clinical studies, manufacturing, packaging, FDA approval, etc.) of a new line of bone graft materials. He was also responsible for the procuring and pursuit of several NIH SBIR Phase I and II grants. His research interest is in bone regeneration.
Sajita Setia
- Director, Transform Medical Communications
Sajita Setia's innovation thrives at the crossroads of science, business and leadership with the ultimate motto to bring value and benefits in health-care for all. She has created a strong legacy of credible and cost-effective 'Continuing Medical Education' at "Transform Medical Communications" in close partnership with leading global and regional medical associations. Sajita has a proven track record of strong strategic leadership, teamwork, project management and demonstrated ability to empower and mentor individuals. She is also a mental health and positive psychology enthusiast whose goal is to bring the utmost potential and meaning to life for all individuals and connect them to their higher self. Prior to founding "Transform Medical Communications", Sajita was Head of Medical Affairs for a pharmaceutical company in Singapore. She has served in a variety of roles in healthcare, ranging from clinical educator to medical lead in pharma.
Sandra Wightman
- Vice President and General Manager, Commercial Operations, Connected Vehicle, SiriusXM
Exceptional record creating best-in-class operational results leading national and global technology teams. Deep managed services experience with results driven delivery maximizing customer experience, quality, and economic efficiency. Create teams with a transformation mindset ensuring exceptional customer service, deliver solutions to support growth and rapid scale, create automation/RPA capabilities, reduce costs and develop new business growth across a diverse industry mix.
Satish Malnaik
- CEO, NextServices; EIR, University of Michigan Ross Business School
Satish Malnaik is a technology and venture creation enthusiast driven by a passion for innovation. He is CEO and co-founder of NextServices, leading a global team delivering a cloud-based health record platform and mobile health care applications that blend technology, analytics, and knowledge-based services for the global healthcare market. Malnaik is also a co-founder at Fantelope, a mobile sports fan engagement solution that aims to aggregate passionate sports fans together on a single platform.
Malnaik serves as an advisor and mentor at the Desai Accelerator, a collaborative effort of The Center for Entrepreneurship and the Zell Lurie Institute at Michigan Ross, collaborating with early stage ventures to advance to a funding-ready stage. He also serves on the board of advisors at TwoScoreTwo, a blockchain commerce company delivering an enterprise blockchain-driven platform for data transactions, and Find Your Ditto, a startup on a mission to revolutionize how patients are supported outside of clinical settings. He also contributes in advisory and mentorship roles at Hacking Health (Windsor-Detroit) and A2 Health Hack.
Prior to NextServices, Malnaik worked on various e-business, ERP, and technology initiatives with Fortune 100 clients such as IBM Watson Health (Thomson Healthcare), and consulting for firms such as BearingPoint (KPMG Consulting). He has also held executive advisory and board roles with other organizations such as AdvancedMD, N-Squared Growth Capital, and DDW (AGA).
Malnaik has an MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and is a passionate Wolverine. He also holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Toledo, Ohio, and received his undergraduate degree in engineering from The University of Mumbai in India.
Saumitra Thakur
- Managing Partner, Med Mountain Ventures
Saumitra Thakur is a hospitalist physician and a Healthcare Venture Capitalist at Med Mountain Ventures. He's also the co-founder and former president of College-100.
Saumitra is an experienced speaker. Among other places, he's spoken at US Special Operations Command and academic conferences about machine learning within healthcare. His passions include coaching entrepreneurs and helping them make the connections that will lead them to success, geeking out on big data, and writing (https://medium.com/@saumitrathakur).
Saumitra holds an MD from NYU, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and a BA from Amherst College. He completed his residency in internal medicine at UCLA.
Sebastian Sanders
- CEO & Founder, The Sanders Hand
Sebastian Sanders "The Youth Principal" is a world Motivational Speaker. Born in Houston Texas, Sebastian is a known community leader & youth advocate since his founding of The Sanders Hand in 2017 Sebastian has been changing the lives of many families & students across the world servicing over 2,000 youth & college students from Texas to Oklahoma. Sebastian is a graduate from the University of Texas at San Antonio with his bachelor's degree in business administration management. In addition to Sanders Hand Sebastian is the founder & chairman of SJS Enterprises, serving as the cultivation of community & business as we know it.
Known for his amazing work with Youth, he is a perceived businessman & Social Entrepreneur with the creation of "Define Success" curriculum & leadership camp. Sebastian is a well rounded entrepreneur with his unique sense of business & thrive for change in our economy & community.
Quote from Sebastian - "Don't' look for change, be the change"
Stefanie Mazlish
- CEO, TSL: The Solution Lab
Stefanie Mazlish is Co-founder and CEO of The Solution Lab, a nonprofit which develops creative solutions for healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies facing strategic and operational challenges. The Solution Lab forms interdisciplinary teams of students and recent graduates with advanced degrees (PhD/MD/JD/MPH/MBA) to volunteer on management consulting projects in order to gain practical training as well as educational and networking opportunities. The Solution Lab also provides programming for educational workshops and initiatives, with a focus on creative thinking and entrepreneurship.
Stefanie has professional background in payer side healthcare, allied health higher education, and management consulting. Stefanie earned an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business with specialization in Strategy and Finance, and a BA from The University of Chicago.
Steffany Benton
- DNP, APRN, HealthTech Arkansas
Steffany Benton is an ANCC certified Family Nurse Practitioner working clinical and non-clinical nursing roles. As a clinician, Steffany specializes in holistic health care, chronic/acute illness prevention, health promotion, disease management, and nutritional consulting. She also has expertise in healthcare innovation, serving as the clinical director for HealthTech Arkansas. She holds a Doctorate in Nursing Practice and has more than eleven years of experience in the nursing field working in acute/primary care settings, project management, and quality improvement.
Steffany is a wellness advocate dedicated to helping her patients make educated, personal, and unique decisions about their health. She has been working as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) specializing in rural primary healthcare for six years. Her APRN experience also includes interdisciplinary teamwork, project management, quality improvement development, and clinical research. She has advanced skills in informatics and technology with a focus on interoperability. Prior to this, she worked as a Registered Nurse (RN) in critical care, Project Management, and a Quality Improvement Project Manager.
Steffany is also an advocate for APRN practice, serving on the Board of Directors for the Arkansas Nurse Practitioner Association as a Member-at-Large. She is also the committee chair and editor for the organization's quarterly publication. Steffany is actively involved in other professional organizations, including the Arkansas Nures Association, Arkansas Center for Nursing, American Association for Nurse Practitioners, and the American Nurses Association. I addition to this, she actively promotes the future of APRN practice and competent patient care by mentoring and precepting APRN students.
Outside of nursing, she is a no-nonsense life-lover and health guru who loves helping smart, successful, innovative others find balance in their business, family, and personal health. She helps manage her family's agricultural business and promotes the progress of future farmers with an emphasis on environmental conservation.
Steve Gallucci
- CFO, National Brain Tumor Society
C-suite executive with 25 years leading teams, developing and executing strategic plans. Experience working with Boards, investors, and staff at all levels. Always questioning the assumptions that limit analysis and growth. MBA, CPA, with experience at organizations from start-up to $5B multinationals.
Suresh Kannan
President & Chief Architect, digiBlitz Inc
Suresh Kannan is the Inventor of the karma Capsule Network, a distributed, trustless AI network for "Internet of Things" and Blockchain. He is also the creator and Chief Architect of digiBlitz Platform for digital Asset Creation & Management, Apart from working on his creations, he dedicates himself to various other inventions, mathematical/scientific modeling, business consulting, social, economic and political causes. His engagements span commercial, business, non-profit and social organizations. His unique approach to life, career and business transformations "Karma Yoga" helps his beneficiaries on a tremendous scale. His methodology of the PTP framework is successfully applied for over 21 years for both individuals and businesses.
He engages with the world through * Strategic Technology Business Consulting, Full Cycle Project Implementation of digital Assets/Blockchain Projects, Transformational Project Implementation for IoT Monetization * Center of Excellence through the creation of mathematical Modeling & computational algorithm-driven business models, Workshops/Seminars/Career Coaching, etc. His specialization includes but not limited to the following,
> Artificial Neural Networks
> Monetization of "Internet of Things"
> Monetization of "Blockchain"
> Distributed Computing, Distributed Ledger.
> Quantum Computing.
> State Machine Computing
> Blockchain / DAG Technology Architecture
> Industrial Revolution 4.0
> Machine World & Robotics
> Enterprise Digital Twin
> Artificial Intelligence & the changes that it's going to bring to the society
> The relationship between Robots & Machines etc.
Suresh Kannan is the Inventor of the karma Capsule Network, a distributed, trustless AI network for "Internet of Things" and Blockchain. He is also the creator and Chief Architect of digiBlitz Platform for digital Asset Creation & Management, Apart from working on his creations, he dedicates himself to various other inventions, mathematical/scientific modeling, business consulting, social, economic and political causes. His engagements span commercial, business, non-profit and social organizations. His unique approach to life, career and business transformations "Karma Yoga" helps his beneficiaries on a tremendous scale. His methodology of the PTP framework is successfully applied for over 21 years for both individuals and businesses.
He engages with the world through * Strategic Technology Business Consulting, Full Cycle Project Implementation of digital Assets/Blockchain Projects, Transformational Project Implementation for IoT Monetization * Center of Excellence through the creation of mathematical Modeling & computational algorithm-driven business models, Workshops/Seminars/Career Coaching, etc. His specialization includes but not limited to the following,
> Artificial Neural Networks
> Monetization of "Internet of Things"
> Monetization of "Blockchain"
> Distributed Computing, Distributed Ledger.
> Quantum Computing.
> State Machine Computing
> Blockchain / DAG Technology Architecture
> Industrial Revolution 4.0
> Machine World & Robotics
> Enterprise Digital Twin
> Artificial Intelligence & the changes that it's going to bring to the society
> The relationship between Robots & Machines etc.
Susan Katz Sliski
- Principal, SKS HealthCare Consulting
A Well of Wisdom, Ready to:
• RETHINK current & envision future state
• REDESIGN care models &
• REBUILD Healthcare Business & Services
Leading REDESIGN initiatives within healthcare organizations to improve patient and provider experiences, drive organizational effectiveness, and decrease costs.
My decades of healthcare executive and clinical leadership empowers me to be an informed engine of change. I am passionate about leveraging clinical intelligence and technology to transform healthcare.
• Superior thought leadership, Out of the box thinker!
• Strong problem solving skills, interpersonal and team leadership skills
• Experience influencing solution strategy and business planning
Tien Wong
- CEO, Opus8
Tien Wong is the CEO of Opus8 Inc., a private investment and strategic advisory firm based in Washington, DC. He also serves as the Chairman and CEO of Tech 2000 Inc, a company dedicated to technology training and mobile virtual education, and the Chairman of Lore Systems, a firm that provides enterprise network engineering and cloud computing systems to government and small/medium sized businesses. Tien has three decades of experience in business and entrepreneurship, starting as a co-founder and the CEO of Cyber Rep, one of the three largest private contact center companies in North America and eventually acquired by Xerox Corp. He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the DC area in 2001. Tien received his Bachelor’s in Government from Dartmouth College.
Toby Kilroy
- Growth Manager, ThriveCash
Deeply passionate about data analysis and storytelling. Skilled at taking complex data and delivering concise business insights.
Travis Whitfill
- Partner, Bios Partners; Research Scientist, Yale University
Travis Whitfill is a serial biotech entrepreneur and investor. He has co-founded several biotech and healthcare startups companies, including Azitra Inc., which is a mid-clinical stage medical dermatology company.
Travis is also a venture capitalist and is a Partner at Bios Partners, which is a life science-focused venture capital firm in Texas with $180 million assets under management. He sits on the board of four portfolio companies, including Incysus Therapeutics, Azitra Inc., Immusoft Corporation (observer), and 410 Medical, Inc. (observer).
He has approximately 50 publications and book chapters. Travis' contributions as an entrepreneur have also been recognized in Forbes as a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee in 2018. He also holds a faculty appointment at Yale in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. He is an academic researcher and sites on the board of several international research networks, including the International Pediatric Simulation Society (IPSS) and the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education (INSPIRE). Travis received degrees from Yale University (MPH) and Dallas Baptist University (BS in biology and math) and is currently working on his PhD in health policy at University College London.
Vikram Bakhru
COO, ConsejoSano
Physician, senior health care executive, and serial entrepreneur. Currently serving as Chief Operating Officer for ConsejoSano (www.consejosano.com), a venture-backed health technology platform for underserved populations in the US. Prior to current role, worked as Chief Operating Officer for First Opinion, a venture-backed telemedicine company, and as Chief Medical Officer for A&K Global Health, a private equity portfolio company in the international medical travel industry. Previous experience in hospital operations/supply chain at top 100 community hospital system (Main Line Health System) and top 10 academic medical center (New York Presbyterian Hospital).
Extensive digital health, health services, technology, telemedicine, and venture-funded business experience. Deep domain expertise in building and contracting with hospital networks as well as recruiting, training and managing physicians for clinical and non-clinical roles in over 14 countries globally.
Serial social entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience leading a self-sustainable non-profit dedicated to improving maternal/pediatric health in the developing world with 97% of annual revenue generated from business operations (FIMRC, www.fimrc.org).
Recognitions include the American Medical Association Foundation Excellence in Leadership Award, The George Washington University Award, the Kaiser Family Foundation Grant, the Becker’s Hospital Review: Rising Stars in Healthcare Award, and the Wharton Forty Under Forty for 2017.
Specialties: Operations, Telemedicine, Hospital Management, General Management, Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Corporate Development, Change Management & Turn-Around, Product Strategy & Development, Partnerships, Growth & Marketing, Start-ups & Emerging Businesses, Raising Capital, Investor Relations, Social Entrepreneurship, Global Health, Medical Tourism/Travel, Pediatric Health, Health Policy, Clinical Medicine, General & Cardiac Surgery, Non-profit Management.
Physician, senior health care executive, and serial entrepreneur. Currently serving as Chief Operating Officer for ConsejoSano (www.consejosano.com), a venture-backed health technology platform for underserved populations in the US. Prior to current role, worked as Chief Operating Officer for First Opinion, a venture-backed telemedicine company, and as Chief Medical Officer for A&K Global Health, a private equity portfolio company in the international medical travel industry. Previous experience in hospital operations/supply chain at top 100 community hospital system (Main Line Health System) and top 10 academic medical center (New York Presbyterian Hospital).
Extensive digital health, health services, technology, telemedicine, and venture-funded business experience. Deep domain expertise in building and contracting with hospital networks as well as recruiting, training and managing physicians for clinical and non-clinical roles in over 14 countries globally.
Serial social entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience leading a self-sustainable non-profit dedicated to improving maternal/pediatric health in the developing world with 97% of annual revenue generated from business operations (FIMRC, www.fimrc.org).
Recognitions include the American Medical Association Foundation Excellence in Leadership Award, The George Washington University Award, the Kaiser Family Foundation Grant, the Becker’s Hospital Review: Rising Stars in Healthcare Award, and the Wharton Forty Under Forty for 2017.
Specialties: Operations, Telemedicine, Hospital Management, General Management, Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Corporate Development, Change Management & Turn-Around, Product Strategy & Development, Partnerships, Growth & Marketing, Start-ups & Emerging Businesses, Raising Capital, Investor Relations, Social Entrepreneurship, Global Health, Medical Tourism/Travel, Pediatric Health, Health Policy, Clinical Medicine, General & Cardiac Surgery, Non-profit Management.
Vince Kohli
Global Impact Capitalist Maker, Design Innovation
Vince Kohli is a Silicon Valley Venture Capital Investor, 6X Tech Entrepreneur, Serial Business Builder, Tech Visionary, Inventor, Public Speaker, Author for 19 plus years. Vince is High Impact Super Angel Investor based in Silicon Valley, Global Venture Mentor Maker, Enterprise Blockchain Product Design Development Expert, Enterprise Software Cloud Innovator, Social Enterprise Innovation for Purposeful Community, Tech Startup Hyperscale Advisor, Corporate Startup Scaleup Venture Mentor, Capital Markets, Investor Relations with Multibillions Dollar Funds, High Frequency Trader at Wall Street, Product Strategist, Visionary Design Thinker, Expertise in Innovative Scalable Business Models, Open Systems, Scaling Technology for Social Innovation, Non-profits focused on Social Good, Data Storytelling, and Pilanthropreneurologist.
Vince speaks regularly on topics related to AI, Global Resilience, VC Outlook, HyperAutomation, Innovation, Enterprise Blockchain, and Entrepreneurship. Vince is a StartUp Business Design Advisor / Mentor at Google, Stanford, SingularityU, Launch, IBM, StartX, AngelHack, Google4StartUps, 500 StartUps, Innovation Catalyst at UCSF, Corporate StartUp innovation at Honda Innovation, Samsung Tech Impact, Corporate Ventures with HP, Samsung NEXT Ventures, and Top Silicon Valley accelerators YC, Alchemist, and 500. Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venture Lab - IE Business School, Plug and Play, Silicon Valley. Vince is very active StartUp Judge at NASA, Google, IBM, Stanford, StartX, DraperU, Founder Institute, Founders Space, California State University, UC Berkeley, and MIT.
Vince Kohli is a Silicon Valley Venture Capital Investor, 6X Tech Entrepreneur, Serial Business Builder, Tech Visionary, Inventor, Public Speaker, Author for 19 plus years. Vince is High Impact Super Angel Investor based in Silicon Valley, Global Venture Mentor Maker, Enterprise Blockchain Product Design Development Expert, Enterprise Software Cloud Innovator, Social Enterprise Innovation for Purposeful Community, Tech Startup Hyperscale Advisor, Corporate Startup Scaleup Venture Mentor, Capital Markets, Investor Relations with Multibillions Dollar Funds, High Frequency Trader at Wall Street, Product Strategist, Visionary Design Thinker, Expertise in Innovative Scalable Business Models, Open Systems, Scaling Technology for Social Innovation, Non-profits focused on Social Good, Data Storytelling, and Pilanthropreneurologist.
Vince speaks regularly on topics related to AI, Global Resilience, VC Outlook, HyperAutomation, Innovation, Enterprise Blockchain, and Entrepreneurship. Vince is a StartUp Business Design Advisor / Mentor at Google, Stanford, SingularityU, Launch, IBM, StartX, AngelHack, Google4StartUps, 500 StartUps, Innovation Catalyst at UCSF, Corporate StartUp innovation at Honda Innovation, Samsung Tech Impact, Corporate Ventures with HP, Samsung NEXT Ventures, and Top Silicon Valley accelerators YC, Alchemist, and 500. Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venture Lab - IE Business School, Plug and Play, Silicon Valley. Vince is very active StartUp Judge at NASA, Google, IBM, Stanford, StartX, DraperU, Founder Institute, Founders Space, California State University, UC Berkeley, and MIT.
Vishal Gupta
CTO, Unisys
Humble Business and Technology executive Leader with deep experience in creating and growing Software products and businesses fueled by creating a world class team and motivating them to obsess about customer success.
Deep expertise and passion in Internet of Things, Cyber Security, AI and Machine Learning, Hybrid Cloud, Globalization, and enabling companies to move from products to platforms and building award winning products and platforms that create significant and growing recurring software revenues and leading large scale organization transformation.
Specialties include public sector, retail, healthcare, and banking Vertical Solutions for Internet of Everything, cyber Security, hybrid Cloud, and Centers of Excellence, and creating innovative and secure products. Global GM defining, developing, and taking to market technologies like biometrics, AI and Neural Networks, Video, Mobility, and hybrid and multi Cloud to transform customer experience. Expertise in creating compelling and shared vision, creating a differentiated strategy, and aligning a global team to execute on that strategy. Functional expertise in Strategy, Products, Sales, Product Management, Cyber Security, Secure Communications, Machine Learning, and Enterprise Security.
Humble Business and Technology executive Leader with deep experience in creating and growing Software products and businesses fueled by creating a world class team and motivating them to obsess about customer success.
Deep expertise and passion in Internet of Things, Cyber Security, AI and Machine Learning, Hybrid Cloud, Globalization, and enabling companies to move from products to platforms and building award winning products and platforms that create significant and growing recurring software revenues and leading large scale organization transformation.
Specialties include public sector, retail, healthcare, and banking Vertical Solutions for Internet of Everything, cyber Security, hybrid Cloud, and Centers of Excellence, and creating innovative and secure products. Global GM defining, developing, and taking to market technologies like biometrics, AI and Neural Networks, Video, Mobility, and hybrid and multi Cloud to transform customer experience. Expertise in creating compelling and shared vision, creating a differentiated strategy, and aligning a global team to execute on that strategy. Functional expertise in Strategy, Products, Sales, Product Management, Cyber Security, Secure Communications, Machine Learning, and Enterprise Security.
Zachary Lai
Founder & CEO, Shake
Zachary Lai is a high level marketing professional with over 25 years of experience. An entrepreneur with successful businesses in branding and advertising, media, fashion and F&B in the past.
Currently, Zac is the founder glomp!, a unique e-marketplace platform, h.@ctiv8, a powerful mobile marketing solutions company and Shake, a contact exchange platform.
Zachary Lai is a high level marketing professional with over 25 years of experience. An entrepreneur with successful businesses in branding and advertising, media, fashion and F&B in the past.
Currently, Zac is the founder glomp!, a unique e-marketplace platform, h.@ctiv8, a powerful mobile marketing solutions company and Shake, a contact exchange platform.
Zohar Loshitzer
Principal, OCVP
Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor, visionary and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of proven executive, management, directorship and investment experiences in several private and public companies. Currently a principal at OCV, an investment fund based in Los Angeles. Committed executive who fits in well with a team that is focused and goal oriented, served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Presbia Holdings, as the President and Director of Presbia PLC (NASDAQ: LENS), and CEO of Vantage Surgical System Inc. as principal at Orchard Capital, a Privet equity firm, providing support to Orchard Capital’s portfolio companies in management and operational efficiency, as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Telecom Services, Inc., a provider of telecommunications services and solutions to emerging markets, as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy of j2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM), as the Chief Information Officer at j2 Global., as the founder and President of MTP Consulting, Inc., a business consulting firm, as the founder and President of Imali, Inc., a business consulting firm, as the Managing Director at Orchard Telecom, a provider of telecommunications consulting services and products to emerging markets, as a consultant and Board member to MAI Systems Corporation (AMEX: NOW), a provider of information technology solutions to the Hospitality Industries, as the co-founded and Managing Director at Life Alert Emergency Response, Inc., a provider of Emergency Response and security services for the elderly, as director at Ocata Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OCAT), a biotechnology company specializes in the development and commercialization of cell therapies and as director at Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc. (OTCMKTS: ESWW). He has volunteered as pro-Bono director at Los Angeles Charter High School CHAMPS. Mr. Loshitzer holds a degree in Electronics Engineering.
Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor, visionary and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of proven executive, management, directorship and investment experiences in several private and public companies. Currently a principal at OCV, an investment fund based in Los Angeles. Committed executive who fits in well with a team that is focused and goal oriented, served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Presbia Holdings, as the President and Director of Presbia PLC (NASDAQ: LENS), and CEO of Vantage Surgical System Inc. as principal at Orchard Capital, a Privet equity firm, providing support to Orchard Capital’s portfolio companies in management and operational efficiency, as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Telecom Services, Inc., a provider of telecommunications services and solutions to emerging markets, as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy of j2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM), as the Chief Information Officer at j2 Global., as the founder and President of MTP Consulting, Inc., a business consulting firm, as the founder and President of Imali, Inc., a business consulting firm, as the Managing Director at Orchard Telecom, a provider of telecommunications consulting services and products to emerging markets, as a consultant and Board member to MAI Systems Corporation (AMEX: NOW), a provider of information technology solutions to the Hospitality Industries, as the co-founded and Managing Director at Life Alert Emergency Response, Inc., a provider of Emergency Response and security services for the elderly, as director at Ocata Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OCAT), a biotechnology company specializes in the development and commercialization of cell therapies and as director at Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc. (OTCMKTS: ESWW). He has volunteered as pro-Bono director at Los Angeles Charter High School CHAMPS. Mr. Loshitzer holds a degree in Electronics Engineering.
