a16z
ALLEYCORP | Groups
OSCAR | BRIDGEWATER
A16Z
ALLEYCORP
Centivo | Oscar
Hint Health | Athenahealth
Akamai
Catalant | Happie
Wachtell Lipton | Teneo
Cowbell Cyber | Sirius Point
Oscar
HUDSON RIVER Trading
Bain & Company
Culture with Us
Nytilus
NEOHEALTH
Tryon Medical Partners | Aledade
VillageMD | Amazon
ZS
PEGASUS
Recharge | MedBridge
HUMANA
ARCADIA
VOLTUS
BRIGHT HEALTH
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY | UNITE US
Phreesia | Myriad Genetics
CLARIFY HEALTH
BONFIRE | DELOITTE
WAYFAIR
CIRCULO HEALTH
ATHENAHEALTH
CAIN BROTHERS | NYU LANGONE HEALTH
ALEDADE | RENOWN HEALTH
MORECARE | VILLAGEMD
HITAP
WAYFAIR
CAPITAL ONE
AMAZON | VALANT
ENGENDER HEALTH
PHREESIA
ALEDADE
CLOVER | ARCADIA
AMAZON
ELEOS
TRIALSPARK | OSCAR
KOMODO HEALTH
PHILIPS HEALTHCARE
WAYFAIR
ATHENAHEALTH
Aetna | Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
ATHENAHEALTH
ALEDADE
EDX | APPLE
ATHENAHEALTH | TIGER CONNECT
PORCH
ATHENAHEALTH | POINTCLICKCARE
TALA | CATALANT
VAULT HEALTH | HAVEN HEALTHCARE
ZILLOW GROUP | UBER
ATHENAHEALTH | WAYFAIR
BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP
FLATIRON | OSCAR
HYPERSCIENCE | ZOCDOC
VENDOR | SIMPLY BUSINESS
AGILECAT
BRIDGEWATER
JPMORGANCHASE | MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION
STEWARD
ALEDADE
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
META
SETTLEMENT HEALTH | MEDICAL SERVICES, INC.
MERCURY | ANGI
LISTENFIRST MEDIA
SETTLEMENT HEALTH | MEDICAL SERVICES, INC.
BAIN & COMPANY
OSCAR
OSCAR | CLOVER
LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
The BRATTLE Group | CATALANT
O’REILLY MEDIA | SEVEN.ME
OSCAR HEALTH
STELLAR HEALTH | CLOVER
EDX
MERCER
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
SHIPPINGTREE
AGAPE CARE | MINDPATH HEALTH
VRGL | CARDLYTICS
IMPERFECT FOODS
ATHENAHEALTH | ARCADIA
VERSED | TRUEPILL
AVAILITY | GROUPON
INFOSYS
FOUNDATION MEDICINE | THE MEME DESIGN
IBM
Spatially Health
PARETOHEALTH
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO
CATALANT | VISTAPRINT
CARBON HEALTH | KAISER PERMANENTE
KOMODO HEALTH
INVITAE
Mode | Oscar Insurance
NYC DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION (DSNY)
VERAFIN | AMAZON
REDIRECT HEALTH
FIREFLY HEALTH
Oscar Health
ALLEYCORP
ELEMENTAL COGNITION | IBM WATSON
HORIZON BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD
Dandelion HEALTH
Tabula Rasa HealthCare | StationMD
FLOATING POINT | OSCAR
OSCAR | BRIDGEWATER
CLOVER | CMS
MCKINSEY & COMPANY
A16Z
KIRKOSWALD | UBS
Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD, is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she leads investments for the firm’s bio fund across therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health, with a focus on companies that are leveraging unique datasets to improve drug development and patient care delivery. She also serves on the board of BigHat Biosciences.
Prior to joining a16z, Vineeta has held many different roles in the healthcare space: as a physician taking care of patients; as an operator at tech-driven healthcare companies; and most recently as a venture investor on the GV (Google Ventures) life sciences team, focused on biotech companies with a data-driven approach. Previously, she was an early data scientist at Kyruus; a management consultant for biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device clients at McKinsey & Co; and a Director of Product Management at Flatiron Health, where she led the company’s partnership with Foundation Medicine to integrate real-world clinical and genomic data into national-scale database products to accelerate drug development and research in oncology. She has collaborated with academic researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Broad Institute, where she did graduate work in computational biology and human genetics.
Vineeta holds a B.S. in biophysics from Stanford University, and MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School / MIT. She completed her clinical residency at Stanford, and is board certified in internal medicine. Vineeta continues to see patients at Stanford as an adjunct clinical professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.
Jeffrey De Flavio, MD is co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Pearl Health. He is an Entrepreneur in Residence at AlleyCorp and the Founder of Groups: Recover Together, the national leader in value-based care for treatment of opiate addiction. Dr. De Flavio’s expertise is in value-based care, clinical redesign and building early-stage companies. He received his M.D. from the Dartmouth College of Medicine and his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Michael is co-founder and CEO of Pearl Health. Michael served as an early employee and Vice President at Oscar Health, where he built their sales and network functions. He managed the company’s largest P&L at +$2.5B before helping take the company public with its IPO.
Prior to Oscar, Michael worked for Bridgewater Associates in the company’s Research, Client Service, and Recruiting departments. While at Bridgewater, he was the Head of Research Analytics where he reported to the CEO and Ray Dalio. In 2009 he successfully sold DormAid, a college service company, which he launched and ran while he was a student at Harvard.
He is the recipient of Columbia’s Feldberg Fellowship, where he received his M.B.A. He received his A.B. from Harvard College. In 2024 he was selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar.
Scott Kupor is an investing partner focused on growth-stage companies building in the bio and healthcare industries, manages the firm’s investor relations team, and is responsible for the firm’s growth initiatives.
Scott was the first employee at Andreessen Horowitz and managed the firm’s growth from $300 million in AUM to more than $30 billion. Prior to joining the firm, Scott worked as vice president and general manager of software-as-a-service at Hewlett Packard. Before that, he held numerous executive management positions at Opsware, including senior vice president of global field operations, vice president of financial planning and vice president of corporate development. Prior to Opsware, Scott represented software companies in both financing and mergers and acquisitions transactions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Lehman Brothers.
Scott is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It, and serves on the boards of Cedar, Headway, Foursquare, Labster, Ultima, and SnapLogic. He also served as chairman of the board for the National Venture Capital Association.
Scott graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in public policy with honors and distinction. He also holds a law degree with distinction from Stanford University and is a member of the State Bar of California.
Kevin Ryan is one of the leading internet entrepreneurs and investors in New York. Alongside AlleyCorp, he co-founded MongoDB, Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, Zola, and Nomad Health, and continues to found new companies with AlleyCorp every year. Collectively, AlleyCorp companies have raised more than $2B in venture capital and employ thousands of people in New York City and beyond. On the investment side, AlleyCorp is one of the most active early stage funds in New York.
Earlier in his career, Kevin helped to grow DoubleClick, first as President and then as CEO, leading their growth from a 20-person startup to a publicly traded global leader with over 1,500 employees, through IPO in 1998 and acquisition by Google in 2007.
Kevin serves on the board of Mercy Corps, is Vice Chairman of The Partnership for New York City, is a member of the CFR Committee on Foreign Affairs, is on the Board of TECH:NYC and is Director Emeritus for Human Right Watch. He previously served on the boards of the Yale Corporation, INSEAD, the Direct Marketing Association, The Ad Council, HotJobs and the advisory board of Doctors Without Borders. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Gabriel is Chief Operating and Compliance Officer at Pearl Health. He was previously a leader on the Product team at Centivo. While there, he led market launches in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida and Michigan, in partnership with 14 regional health systems.
Prior to Centivo, Gabriel was an early employee at Oscar Health Insurance, where he served in a number of roles including Director of Product Operations, Chief of Staff, Interim Head of Marketing and in a Special Projects role on the Data Analytics team.
Gabriel received his A.B. in Philosophy from Harvard University. He wrote his honors thesis under the advisement of T.M. Scanlon, in which he argued for an alternative moral framework for justifying informed consent in clinical medicine.
Jennifer Rabiner is Chief Product Officer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl Health, Jennifer served as a product leader at Hint Health and athenahealth. Her product experience spans value-based care in both the health system and independent provider segments, as well as direct primary care. Jennifer’s experience also includes healthcare revenue cycle process optimization and system implementation at Deloitte Consulting and Triage Consulting Group, as well as pharmaceutical reimbursement strategy and operations at Millennium Pharmaceuticals.
She holds a Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley.
Matt is the Chief Technology Officer of Pearl Health. He is a technology industry veteran, with 16 years of startup experience and 7 years at Fortune 1000 public companies. Before joining Pearl, Matt was a Senior Director at Akamai Technologies, where he led global engineering teams for multiple solutions and product lines.
Prior to Akamai, Matt was a founder at SOASTA, which was acquired by Akamai in 2017.
Matt received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.
Steven Duque is Chief Growth Officer at Pearl Health. He was previously Vice President of Marketing at Catalant Technologies, where he partnered with cross-functional company leaders to design and execute Catalant’s go-to-market strategy and messaging, build brand awareness through thought leadership and category creation, and enable sales teams and product-led growth to efficiently generate more than 40% year-over-year revenue growth during his tenure. Prior to Catalant, Steven served as Vice President of Product and Marketing at Happie, in addition to serving in various marketing, sales, and evangelism leadership roles at Intuit and Bullhorn, among others.
Steven received his A.B. in Philosophy (primary concentration) and Sociology (secondary field) from Harvard University.
Jonathan E. Goldin serves as Pearl’s General Counsel. He came to Pearl from a global consulting firm, where he was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of its financial advisory business. Before working in-house, Jonathan practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He focused on representing corporations, directors and officers in litigation relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities law issues, regulatory inquiries and other complex civil matters. Jonathan began his legal career as a law clerk, first in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Jonathan is active in professional organizations, such as the New York City Bar Association and the Association of Corporate Counsel. His public service has included membership on the New York City Water Board (and its Joint Audit Committee with the New York City Water Finance Authority), the Commercial Division Advisory Council of the New York Court System, the New York Chief Judge’s Committee on Non-Lawyers and the Justice Gap and the Pro Bono Advisory Committee of the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.
Jonathan holds an A.B. from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
David is the Chief Financial Officer at Pearl. He is an insurance industry veteran with 27+ years of experience at public and private insurance companies. Most recently, he was CFO at Cowbell Cyber, a privately-held managing general agent selling cyber insurance to small- and medium-sized enterprises in the U.S. and the U.K. Prior to that he was CFO at SiriusPoint, a Bermuda domiciled (re)insurer with operations in the U.S. and Europe listed on the NYSE.
David also spent 20+ years at American International Group in a variety of roles, including CFO, International General Insurance, Treasurer, Head of Capital Management, and CFO, Asia Pacific based in Tokyo. He also worked on mergers & acquisitions and started as a Political Risk Underwriter.
He holds a MBA in Analytical Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a MAIA in Russian Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, and a BA in International Relations from Boston University.
Dr. Weaver is the Chief Clinical Officer at Pearl. Prior to joining our team, Dr. Weaver was Senior Partner and Value-Based Care Leader at Chartis, a comprehensive healthcare advisory firm, where he helped providers, payers, health systems, and technology companies solve complex care problems and lead new product innovations. Before Chartis, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Oscar Health, where he led market expansion and value-based care model innovation with national organizations. He is an experienced board member, currently serving on the Board of Directors of Ruby Health, a technology focused value based care enablement platform for home health and post acute care organizations.
Dr. Weaver received his MD from the University of Iowa, after attending the United States Air Force Academy. He is a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist, and served as a physician in various clinical and leadership roles in Air Force and Department of Defense health centers. He received his MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Berg is Pearl’s Executive Vice President of Clinical Strategy. Cameron received his BA from Pomona College, his MD with honors from The George Washington University School of Medicine, and then completed specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Stanford. He worked as an emergency physician while developing an interest in population health, and cultivated a passion for disambiguating complicated workflows.
Cameron suffered major injuries in 2020, when he was hit by a car while bicycling to work; the resulting traumatic brain injury prevented him from returning to clinical work, and his personal experiences with healthcare reinforced his commitment to physician/patient-centered care.
Patrick Mauro is a data scientist enabling Pearl Health’s mission by creating a quantitative framework around the complex problem of efficiently delivering high-quality healthcare.
Patrick learned the craft of statistical analysis and distributed computing while working as a high-frequency trader at Hudson River Trading, where he led a team trading US and European equities. Thereafter, Patrick has consulted in a variety of industries, from entertainment to food rescue to biomedical engineering. He is passionate about performing sophisticated analyses of complex data sets in order to deliver actionable business insights and architect advanced computing systems. When not combing over data, Patrick also works as a mountain guide, where he delves into a far less quantitative but far more tangible world of risk analysis.
Patrick holds a S.M. in Electrical Engineering and an A.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College.
Ciara is the Chief of Staff at Pearl Health. She previously worked as a Consultant at Bain & Company in London, where she advised businesses on M&A due diligence, strategy, separation and integration, cost reduction, and marketing. While at Bain, Ciara also led / worked on a number of pro-bono strategy projects with social enterprises and charities across Kenya, India, and the UK.
Following this, Ciara worked as an Investment Associate for an Irish impact investing fund, VentureWave, and she co-founded a climate-tech start-up.
Ciara has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Management Science and Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin.
Anna is a Senior Senior Executive Assistant at Pearl Health, providing administrative support for our executive team, events and field marketing. Anna’s passion for understanding, connecting with and helping people was shaped by various roles in both hospitality and healthcare, most recently at Culture with Us.
She is a proud native New Yorker and received her B.S. in Psychology at the College of Staten Island. Outside of supporting others, Anna enjoys traveling anywhere the sun shines and cooking for those she loves.
Abdullah is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, he worked at Nytilus, a robotics platform startup, where he helped architect and implement an end-to-end cloud platform for industrial robots and IoT devices. He worked on key product features such as real-time telemetry, alerting, and streaming video. Prior to that, he helped scale international student recruitment operations at ISRC, an educational startup, by building the tools used by recruiters to streamline their workflow, improve student retention, and accommodate student growth.
Abdullah received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Sujai is a Manager of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, he co-founded NeoHealth, a startup focused on developing pharmacy management software for healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa. NeoHealth has won numerous grants and awards including 3rd place at the Michigan Business Challenge and 1st place at the China Business Challenge. Sujai also started a student organization called MedLaunch which designs assistive technology for individuals with disabilities. MedLaunch has expanded to two colleges and created 10+ technologies to assist various community partners.
Sujai is passionate about combining his experience in entrepreneurship, marketing, and design in order to address inefficiencies in the healthcare system. He received his degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan.
Sybil is a Director of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, she headed up population health operations within a large multi-specialty clinic in Charlotte, NC, where her efforts were focused on building out high-risk care management programming to support the group’s varied value-based arrangements, including Advanced Medical Home, Medicare Advantage and MSSP. Prior to this, Sybil served as a field operations leader with Aledade where she led a team of transformation experts who empowered primary care providers and systems to adopt new tools, technology and operational changes in the ACO’s risk-arrangements, primarily MSSP.
Sybil lives in western NC with her partner, 4 kids, and 2 fur babies. In her free time she enjoys yoga, gardening, and sewing.
Nick comes to Pearl with over 20 years of software development experience, including both early-stage startups and large enterprises. Most recently, Nick worked on scaling Tier 1 backend services at AWS and Amazon logistics. Prior to Amazon, Nick built data pipelines at VillageMD and developed proprietary data synchronization software for which he is named on two patents held by VillageMD.
Personally, Nick is passionate about emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, music, and investing. He has written three independent software patents, enjoys 3D printing, strumming guitars, and revving V-Twins and V8s. Nick earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sophie is a Senior Growth Solutions Manager at Pearl. Prior to Pearl, she worked in healthcare consulting at ZS Associates. At ZS, she specialized in sales operations and strategy for pharmaceutical clients – leading projects ranging from product development for sales reporting tools to customer segmentation for new launches. She received her BA in Math and French from Cornell University.
Outside work, you can find her rotating through different fitness hobbies (currently on Pilates, perennially playing tennis), trying new restaurants in NYC, and playing the New York Times puzzles.
Kevin Born is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Kevin spent ten years in the hospitality industry at Pegasus, building a cloud based app that helped independent hotels interface with various hotel booking channels. He was responsible for implementing the application’s core services as well as managing the cloud infrastructure and the support team.
Kevin has his B.S in Computer Science from Clemson University.
Jen Bowen is a Brand Design Manager at Pearl Health. She comes to Pearl with over 13 years of progressive experience as a graphic designer and art director in a variety of industries from B2B SaaS to nonprofit arts. She has successfully implemented multiple rebrands, expanded and elevated existing brand systems, streamlined creative processes, and consistently designed elevated communications to support marketing efforts. She enjoys creative strategy and big-picture storytelling as much as digging into the details of typography and layout.
When not at her desk, Jen can be found backpacking and skiing the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
Kara Briggs is a Director of Enterprise Partnerships at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, she worked at Humana in various roles, including physician contracting, provider engagement supporting value-based partnerships and most recently as the product owner for Humana’s population health reporting platform, providing actionable data for value-based providers to impact overall cost of care and patient outcomes.
Kara earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from The Ohio State University.
Brendan Brown is a Staff Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, he spent seven years at the climate-tech startup Arcadia, building wind, solar and energy data products to further renewable energy adoption.
Brendan graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Government, and served in the Peace Corps as a Community Health Volunteer in rural Paraguay.
Des serves as a Senior Associate of Network Development at Pearl Health. Prior to working at Pearl, he contributed to the Sales team at Voltus, where he facilitated connections between commercial and industrial energy users and demand response programs, aiding in grid stability and the prevention of blackouts.
Des holds a Master of Public Health degree and is deeply passionate about fitness, health promotion, and education. During his free time, Des treasures moments with his family and his beloved pets, whether he’s spending quality time with them, working out, or simply listening to music.
Juan Casiano is a Software Engineer II at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Juan worked at Bright Health, developing and supporting data infrastructure and pipelines containing PHI in over one million clients. Prior to Bright Health, Juan spent eight years serving in the United States Marine Corps before being honorably discharged.
Matt Castelli is a Senior Director of Enterprise Partnerships at Pearl Health. He previously led regional growth at Unite Us, building coordinated care networks of healthcare and social care providers to drive value-based care outcomes through SDoH.
Driven by a duty to care, Matt is a former Nominee for Congress, a former CIA Officer, and served as NSC Director in the White House under multiple Presidents. Matt also led business development with In-Q-Tel where he developed a passion for driving public sector mission through private sector innovation.
Matt has an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he studied Healthcare Strategy, MA from Georgetown University, and BA from Siena College.
Manuel Chacon is Director of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl Health, Manuel has led efforts in Customer Success to drive digital adoption in healthcare. At Phreesia, he was one of the Customer Success leaders, focused on provider adoption and growth while simultaneously helping support projects around process improvements, integration of new products, clinical efficiencies (Quality measures, ACO relations), and large partnerships. Before that at Counsyl (later acquired by Myriad), he built out a team that supported prenatal and cancer genetic testing workflows. This team had a focus on driving operational efficiencies for partners to reduce administrative burden, boost reimbursement, and better identify patients for testing.
Manuel earned a B.S degree in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior from UC Davis. In his free time, you’ll find him around San Francisco with his wife and golden retriever exploring parks, restaurants, and coffee shops.
Chris Chambers is VP of Growth Solutions at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, Chris was on the Solutions team at Clarify Health, where he led the largest complex provider deals and helped secure Series D financing led by SoftBank and BlackRock.
Prior to Clarify, Chris founded High Line Health, a data visualization and analytics company providing value based care insights to payers and providers. High Line was acquired by an Apax Partners portfolio company in 2017, while he earned his MBA part time. Prior to High Line, Chris was a consultant with Navigant Guidehouse.
Chris holds an M.B.A. from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.
Justin is the Senior Director, Controller, at Pearl Health. Justin was previously the Director of Finance & Business Intelligence at Bonfire, a marketplace and fundraising platform that allows individuals and nonprofits to raise funds for their respective causes and communities. He was responsible for building and managing the accounting, finance and data teams and functions from the ground up.
Prior to Bonfire, he worked as a management consultant at HealthScape Advisors, supporting clients on product strategy, business model transformation and adoption of value-based care models. Justin began his career at Deloitte, where he earned his CPA license.
Justin received his B.S. in Accounting from The Ohio State University.
Yuxin Chen is a Principal Data Scientist at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, she held various data science positions. At Wayfair, she built end-to-end machine learning solutions for operations, storefronts, and sales enablement teams. Additionally, she developed measurement and data science frameworks, along with playbooks, to ensure scientific rigor and facilitate the wider adoption of data science practices. Prior to Wayfair, Yuxin worked as a data scientist at AAA on risk modeling and as a research scientist at Vanguard. At Vanguard, she leveraged NLP and recommender systems to improve the efficiency of financial advisors and employed inverse optimization to understand risk tolerance based on portfolio data.
Yuxin holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University, where she built physics-based models to study critical transitions in climate systems, such as Arctic sea ice loss and desertification in drylands. Yuxin holds a BSc in Mathematics from Dalhousie University in Canada, where her interests in applied science were sparked.
Gillian Christie has focused her career on promoting health at the intersection of business and technology. She is currently at Pearl Health, focused on strengthening primary health through value-based models. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Gillian was previously with Circulo Health, an early-stage start-up focused on value-based primary care. She has also worked at Walmart Health on their healthcare strategy and partnerships. Gillian has advised several leading institutions, such as Intermountain Healthcare, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Bloomberg-Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Before that, she worked at the Vitality Institute (part of the South African insurer, Discovery) in New York City.
Gillian received a Doctor of Public Health from Harvard, a Master’s (MPhil) from the University of Cambridge, and a MA (Hons) from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Gillian was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.
Lana Cohen is Vice President of Product at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Lana spent over seven years at athenahealth as a Product Leader in the Platform division working on integration strategies and patient engagement solutions.
She is passionate about enabling physicians with the right information and tools at the right time and place to achieve better outcomes — and in empowering patients to be active agents in their care. At athena, she led the rollout of “login with athenahealth” credential for patients across the athena network and numerous patient and clinician-facing app integrations, including Apple Health and several Payor integrations. Prior to her MBA, she led Product for an early-stage fintech company.
She holds a Masters in Business Administration, with a Healthcare certificate, from the MIT Sloan School of Management and B.A. in English from Clark University.
Garrett is the Senior Director of Finance and Strategy at Pearl Health. Garrett previously worked in healthcare investment banking as a Vice President at Cain Brothers, where he advised health systems and physician groups through a variety of M&A transactions and strategic initiatives. Prior to investment banking, Garrett was a Manager of ambulatory care business operations at NYU Langone Health, where he focused on the expansion and development of the system’s single and multispecialty physician group network.
Garrett earned a BS from Skidmore College where he studied business and economics.
Kindle Craig is the Vice President, Enterprise Partnerships for the Central Region. Prior to joining Pearl, Kindle worked in growth and operational roles in Value Based Care – leading a health system ACO to achieve shared savings and expanding Aledade’s footprint in the western United States. For the past 15 years, Kindle has worked in healthcare, leading population health, strategy, and development for both large and rural health systems. Prior to her time in healthcare, she worked in marketing communications for consumer brands, where she led the launch of numerous products and helped to reenvision and rebuild the Apple brand, and for technology companies such as NeXT Software.
Ben is a Senior Manager of Performance Operations at Pearl Health. Before joining our team, he helped stand up provider network functions at MoreCare, a Medicare Advantage start-up. Prior to MoreCare, he was on the Population Health Operations team in VillageMD’s MSSP ACO and he helped connect patients to key health resources through his time at Lawndale Christian Health Center, an FQHC.
Ben holds a BA in English from North Park University and an MTS from Duke Divinity School, where he was also a Fellow in the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative. He wrote his Master’s thesis on the role of public-private partnerships in faith-based community health centers to deliver more effective and equitable care to underserved communities.
Katherine Dai is a Senior Associate of ACO Operations at Pearl Health. She joins us from HITAP, the advisory unit of the Thai Ministry of Public Health. During her time there, she generated context-conscious evidence to build awareness for value-based care and guide policies toward achieving more health for the resources invested. Prior to that, she supported the COVID-19 efforts of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services to mobilize stakeholders around investing in pandemic preparedness.
Katherine has held operational roles at various startups during her time at Yale University, where she earned bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Biology. She also received her MSc in Modeling for Global Health from the University of Oxford.
Will Daniel is a Senior Manager of Data Analytics at Pearl Health. Prior to his role at Pearl, Will held positions at Wayfair, first as a product manager and later as an analytics manager. In these roles, he focused on building and scaling forecasting models utilized in pricing and product recommendations engines. Before pursuing his MBA/MSDS, Will gained experience in Customer Success, where he specialized in developing custom software solutions for clients at Eze Software, a FinTech company.
Will holds an M.B.A. from the UVA Darden School of Business, a Master’s in Data Science from UVA, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Colgate University.
Jeff is a software engineer at Pearl Health. He previously worked at Capital One as a software engineer where he worked on various data platforms to support critical enterprise initiatives. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ryan comes to Pearl Health with over 15 years of technical leadership experience. Prior to Pearl, Ryan managed multiple teams at Amazon, including the Alexa Healthcare team responsible for enabling Alexa to conduct Telehealth visits, and a non-healthcare team responsible for building a grocery warehouse management system from the ground up. Before Amazon, Ryan worked at Vulcan, a tech-for-good organization started by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. At Vulcan, Ryan’s team launched an infectious disease surveillance system for refugee camps in Africa, and supported an initiative to identify illegal timber at ports of entry. Before Vulcan, Ryan provided tech leadership for Valant, a healthcare tech startup that created a highly configurable electronic medical record system for Medicaid funded hospitals and organizations focused on mental health. Ryan also worked as a Sr. Software Architect and engineering leader at StudyManager, a startup which created a first of class clinical trial management system that was widely used by universities and research organizations around the world. Ryan studied Health Informatics at UC Davis, and distributed system and application development at the University of Washington.
Michael is a Director of Enterprise Partnerships and has devoted his career to serving Primary Care Physicians in leveraging technology to innovate. Prior to joining Pearl, he directed the National Physician Development team at Engooden Health, which used artificial intelligence technology to launch and scale Chronic Care Management programs to help risk patients make the lifestyle changes needed to be successful in Value Based Care arrangements. Prior to that role, Michael spent half a decade helping physicians streamline clinical workflows, improve visibility to patient data at the point of care and make sound administrative, clinical and financial decisions through reporting and analytics with EHR organizations Greenway Health and NextGen Healthcare.
Michael enjoys presenting at conferences on topics such as Value Based Care and Population Health; but when he’s not presenting, you will likely catch him rooting for his favorite Pittsburgh-based sports teams.
Wes is Director, Financial and Contracting Operations at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl Health, he was Associate Director of Contract Operations at Phreesia, where he built and led a new team focused on enhancing efficiency and accuracy in the Order-to-Cash cycle. Prior to Phreesia, Wes was the Revenue Accounting Manager at Expel, where he managed the full Order-to-Cash accounting function.
He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Accounting & Computer Information Systems and Business Management from Virginia Tech, and has an active CPA license in Florida.
Brittany is a Manager of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Prior to working at Pearl, Brittany spent two years working in network development at Aledade, focusing on primary care ACO development and expansion in the Mid-Atlantic region. She is passionate in promoting health equity for all, eliminating health disparities among marginalized groups, and introducing physicians to value-based care.
Brittany received her Bachelor’s of Science in Public Health Science from the University of Maryland, where she studied life sciences and public health. She is currently pursuing her Master’s of Science in Health Informatics Administration. She resides in Maryland and is a huge fan of the Washington Commanders. After work, you can find her in the gym working out, in the kitchen cooking, or searching for her next travel destination.
Kelly is the Director of Product Management at Pearl Health. She was previously at Clover Health, where she managed the Strategic Technologies Portfolio of programs for the organization. While at Clover, she led several system implementations and focused on optimizations of the technology ecosystem.
Prior to Clover, Kelly held a number of roles at Arcadia.io, from implementation and account management, to sales engineer. She spent the early part of her career in healthcare consulting, gaining exposure to care delivery systems, safety net hospitals, and government application programs. These experiences ignited her passion for public health and health policy, and her interest in helping physicians better serve patients.
Kelly holds a Master of Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University.
Sam is a Director of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, she led customer success at Eleos, a behavioral health startup leveraging AI and large language models to reduce administrative burden for clinicians and improve care delivery.
With over a decade of experience in healthcare technology and SaaS, Sam has helped clients achieve stronger outcomes, adopt technology more effectively, and build long-term value from their partnerships. She’s passionate about combining strategy, operations, and human connection to ensure clients feel supported, heard, and empowered—always striving to elevate the customer experience and drive meaningful outcomes.
Outside of work, Sam enjoys traveling and exploring local food spots with her partner and son.
Russell Fowles is VP of Technical Operations & Security at Pearl Health. Russell comes to Pearl with expertise in building and scaling security-focused Technical Operations teams from the ground up at high growth companies. He has over a decade of experience in his field and is passionate about securing technical infrastructure in a way that does not impede innovation.
Prior to Pearl, Russell was Head of Technical Operations at TrialSpark. As the first Technical Operations team member, he laid the foundation for long term growth through the deployment of scalable systems, automation, and workflows. Before joining TrialSpark, Russell was an early employee at Oscar, where he served as the first Director of Information Technology. Other previous experience includes Spotify and adMarketplace where he worked in similar roles.
Although they’ve seen better days, Russell is a die-hard fan of the University of South Carolina football team. A native South Carolinian, Russell moved to New York City a little over a decade ago. He currently resides in Park Slope with his wife and two sons and can usually be found chasing the older one on his scooter in Prospect Park.
Julie is a Director of Customer Success at Pearl Health. She previously worked in customer success at Komodo Health, where she helped grow the team and create organization-wide best practices that deliver consistent white glove support to medical and clinical development teams, as well as patient advocacy organizations. Julie also worked at Zitter Health Insights doing IDN research and has supported patients directly as a home health aide.
She earned a Master’s in Health Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Biology from Cornell University. Julie lives on a vegetable farm in upstate New York, where she enjoys reading and going for hikes in The Gunks with her border collie.
Colin is a Director of Enterprise Partnerships at Pearl Health. Before joining our team, Colin held various leadership positions at Philips Healthcare, including Global Head of Business Development & Commercial Strategy for Remote Patient Monitoring and North American Market Leader for Diagnostic Cardiology Solutions. He also worked as a Senior Consultant in PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Systems Strategy & Operations practice.
Colin is dedicated to supporting underserved populations and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at Fenway Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides care to 40,000+ LGBTQIA+, HIV+, and BIPOC patients in the Boston area.
Colin holds a Bachelors in Microbiology from Brandeis University, a Master of Healthcare Administration from Columbia University, and executive certificates from MIT Sloan and the Wharton School at UPenn.
Tyler is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Previously he worked as a software engineer at Wayfair for 5 years, where he helped build data pipelines and APIs to help optimize the supply chain network and increase web traffic.
Tyler holds a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.
Evan is a Senior Customer Success Manager at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, Evan worked at Cardiologs to help expand the Customer Success team and partner with the IDTF industry in the US. At athenahealth, Evan had a varied background, starting first in the call center supporting all products, focusing on the Clinicals product with a move to the Transition Services team, supporting special projects for the Clinical Content team, and then rounding out his experience with the Clinicals Product team, tackling the integration of external data to the patient chart.
Outside of work, Evan likes to cook, read, and find the most annoying toys he can for his nephews.
April is a seasoned health care executive and brings with her extensive experience in Network and Clinical Operations. Prior to joining Pearl Health, April was the Chief Network and Operations Officer for New England responsible for Network Contracting and Value Based Care for both Commercial and Medicare segments.
In her prior role, as Vice President of Population Health and Clinical Operations at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, April was responsible for HPHC’s population health transformation, as well as care and utilization management operations. She also previously worked at Aetna as Executive Director of Joint Venture Business Development, and was responsible for Aetna’s provider joint venture strategy and Joint Venture execution with Texas Health Resources.
Prior to that, she had a long tenure at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in various roles, including Network Contracting, Value Based Care and Health and Medical Management.
April received her Bachelor of Science degree at Northeastern University and her MBA at F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
Vishwa is a Senior Product Manager at Pearl Health. He previously worked at athenahealth where he enabled the providers to easily integrate their mission critical devices with athenahealth’s EHR by partnering with manufacturers. While at athenahealth, he was also responsible for a developer productivity tool that greatly cut down the time for code deployment.
He received his MBA and MS in Information Systems from Boston University and Bachelors in Telecommunications Engineering from Bangalore Institute of Technology, India.
Alysha is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. She has been a developer at multiple fintech companies, primarily focusing on backend development. Most recently, Alysha was a software engineer at Aledade, where she focused on integrating new medical data feeds and enhancing the stability and latency of existing data pipelines.
Ben Holt is a Staff Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, he worked for edX as technical lead for their ecommerce service, which processes tens of millions of dollars a year. Ben guided ongoing development with an emphasis on high reliability, well-managed risk, and creating a more maintainable replacement. Previously, Ben spent 15 years at Apple working on a variety of products including the iTunes Store and Apple TV. His roles included enterprise content management, low-level foundations, analytics, and platform release engineering. He is named on two patents held by Apple. Ben earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Angie is Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships at Pearl Health. She is a seasoned growth leader with more than 25 years of experience in healthcare, having worked at many notable companies in the hospital, payer and provider sector, as well as the digital health and technology sector. Before joining Pearl Health, Angie was the Chief Growth Officer at Imaware and served as VP of Business Development at Genome Medical. She also led enterprise sales at TigerConnect and was a senior sales executive at Athenahealth. Angie is a native Californian and enjoys mentoring young minds through coaching sports.
Noam is a Senior Data Scientist at Pearl. Before joining Pearl, he spent his early years working on marketing campaign optimization at what is now Porch, a home services software company. Following his tenure at Porch, Noam played a pivotal role in driving pricing and go-to-market initiatives that aimed to bring scale and analytical rigor to the merchant contract pipelines in the consumer financing space at Progressive Leasing. He hopes to build on these experiences to help Pearl extend its capabilities.
Noam, born in Arizona, now resides in Saint Petersburg, Florida where he lives in fear of his loving cat. Outside of work, he follows college sports, plays pickleball and does other stereotypical Florida activities. He is a proud alumnus of the University of South Florida where he received his Bachelors in Statistics.
Colin Kemble is Vice President of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Colin spent over five years at athenahealth, where he built and led the Customer Success Strategy and Analytics function. Most recently, he built and scaled the Customer Success function at Collective Medical, which was acquired by PointClickCare.
He is passionate about enabling independent physician practices with the right tools and workflows to remain financially viable in a shifting reimbursement landscape. He also deeply values improving patient outcomes through the transition to proactive care delivery models and regular care collaboration. At athenahealth, he developed the standard framework used to articulate their customer practices’ financial and clinical performance, along with identifying specific opportunities to drive further improvement. At Collective Medical, his function fostered robust care collaboration, helping health systems, payers, and community-based providers bend utilization and cost curves.
He holds a BS in Finance and History from Endicott College.
Madison Klein is Head of Marketing at Pearl Health. Before joining the Pearl team, Madison was Senior Product Marketing Manager at Tala, where he launched products that increased financial access in Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India. Prior to Tala, Madison was an early employee at Catalant Technologies and served in leadership roles on both the sales and product marketing teams.
Madison received an A.B. in English Literature and Government from Harvard University, where he also pursued post-baccalaureate Pre-Medical Studies.
Brad is an IT Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, he worked for several healthcare startups, including Vault Health and Haven Healthcare, where he helped grow their IT departments from the ground up.
Brad holds a BS in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and a MS in Cyber Security from Southern New Hampshire University. Outside of the office, you can find him spending time with his wife and daughter, reading and exploring the New England area.
Yana Lane is a Director of Growth Operations at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, she led strategy and operations teams at Zillow Group, driving strategic initiatives to enhance product adoption, improve client engagement, and scale enablement strategies that supported revenue growth. Prior to Zillow, Yana held leadership roles at Uber, managing integrations, market expansions, and process improvements that delivered notable operational and revenue gains. Yana is currently earning her M.S. in Learning and Organizational Change at Northwestern University. She graduated cum laude from Cornell University with a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management.
Morgan is a Principal Product Manager at Pearl Health. He is a healthcare boomerang – after starting his career as a software developer, he moved to Product at athenahealth on the Clinical Interoperability team. Morgan then moved to ecommerce at Wayfair, where he led the Search team and developed expertise creating data-driven scalable ML solutions. After a leadership stint at JuniperMarket, Morgan is excited to be back in healthcare, using cutting edge technology to ensure better care for both patients and their providers.
Outside the office, he can generally be found hiking, at a bakery, or playing with his two dogs. Morgan holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
Alex is a Growth Strategy and Operations Manager at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, he was an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). At BCG he was focused in the healthcare practice advising transformation, large-scale organizational design, and cross-functional strategy projects.
Prior to BCG, Alex worked for Trinity Life Sciences, a life-sciences and healthcare consulting firm. While at Trinity, he was an Associate Consultant driving commercial strategy and business development work for global pharmaceutical clients. Alex holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College and his B.E. from Dartmouth College.
Alana Levy is a Principal Product Manager at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Alana spent six years at Flatiron Health, working in Product Operations, Program Management, and Sales. She was responsible for developing and launching oncology software products that helped deliver quality care to cancer patients, and closed several of Flatiron’s largest software deals with community oncology practices around the country.
Alana was previously on the founding team of Crediyo, a healthcare technology startup that aimed to simplify the financial experience for patients and improve payment outcomes for providers. Prior to Crediyo, Alana served as a Sales Consultant at Oscar Health.
Alana holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, an MPH from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA from Cornell University. A former Division I track and field athlete, she now runs competitively for Brooklyn Track Club’s Performance Team and is hoping to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Team Trials in the marathon.
Jason is a Senior Network Development Associate at Pearl. Prior to joining our team, he worked in operations at Nestle and built out teams across different technology startups as a talent acquisition professional.
Born and raised in Michigan, he has spent time on both coasts and currently resides in the Bay Area. He enjoys spending time outdoors, hiking, fitness, cooking, and trying new cuisines.
Leo is a Software Engineering Manager at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Leo was an Engineering Manager at Vendr, where he managed and led a team of engineers improving lead generation and pricing insights, and helped scale the Engineering organization.
Prior to Vendr, Leo was an Engineering Lead at Simply Business, where he managed and led a team of engineers integrating new insurance products.
Leo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Pat is a Senior Product Designer at Pearl Health with a focus on simplifying complex subject matter into seamless user experiences. Prior to joining the team, he led product design for AgileCat, where he helped early stage startups define their product experience and build design systems. With a background as a brand designer, Pat brings a focus on customer experience and stakeholder engagement to the team.
When he’s not in Figma, you can find Pat riding his bike, cooking something new, or spending time with his family.
Molly is a Senior Manager, Executive Office at Pearl Health. Aside from leading the day-to-day operations of the executive office, she provides leverage for recruiting, events and team operations. Prior to joining Pearl Health, Molly’s career has been focused in wealth / investment management and luxury hospitality, eventually merging the two in a unique role encompassing her passions for project management, administrative support, event planning, and fostering a healthy work environment.
Molly received her B.A. in Communication Studies from University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Yelena Mishkin is a Senior Software Engineer. Prior to joining Pearl she worked at Chase Bank, McGraw Hill Education, and Lone Wolf Inc, where she specialized in different aspects of backend engineering and successfully led various application tech stack migration projects. With a keen eye for detail and strong analytical skills, Yelena thrives on understanding the intricacies of businesses. Beyond her professional pursuits, she finds joy in hiking, reading, gardening, and treasured moments with her family.
Michael Monsegur is Vice President of Preferred Networks at Pearl Health. Prior to joining, Michael served as the National Senior Director of the Medicare ACO Programs at Steward Health Care Network where he ran the largest MSSP in the country. His value-based care experience stems from achieving improved quality outcomes at lower costs for over 160,000 Medicare FFS patients annually. Prior to MSSP, he led Steward’s other CMS and ACO care models, most notably GPDC, NGACO and BPCIA. Prior to Steward, he worked at a boutique healthcare management consulting firm.
Michael holds an M.B.A. in Healthcare Administration and a B.A. in Economics from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Nick is a Staff Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Nick was Staff Software Engineer at Aledade where he led a team building robust systems to ingest and manage large medical data feeds. Nick has worked in various data and engineering roles within the healthcare industry for over a decade in an effort to help improve the timeliness and accessibility of healthcare data.
Nick holds a Bachelors in Computer and Information Science from the University of Maryland.
Beau received his medical degree from Duke School of Medicine and trained in general surgery and critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds a patent in medical AI and machine learning software and has worked extensively in the field of clinical decision support technologies.
In his free time he enjoys golfing, kiteboarding, and racing amateur motocross.
Catherine is a Director of People & Recruiting at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, Catherine managed a team of Technical Recruiters at Meta focused on hiring the best talent in the industry, as well as making consistent improvements to the recruitment process at scale. Before Meta, Catherine worked at Angi, formerly known as Angie’s List, when the company was going through a time of significant change adapting to the new technology needs and expectations from their customers. At Angi Catherine redefined the recruitment process for technical roles to reduce bias, increase efficiency and improve candidate experience. Prior to applying her strengths to the Talent Acquisition space, Catherine also has experience within program management and education.
Catherine has a Masters in Education from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in English & Communications from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Judy is a Clinical Performance Operations Manager at Pearl Health. She is a licensed and board certified nurse practitioner, specializing in pediatrics and women’s health. Prior to joining Pearl, she worked as a primary care provider at a community health clinic in East Harlem. She is passionate about improving patient outcomes while simultaneously alleviating provider burden.
She received her Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley (go bears!) before relocating to NYC for graduate school at Columbia University. Outside of work, she enjoys doing pottery, traveling, trying new restaurants, and spending time with her family.
Charlie is a Senior Associate on the People & Recruiting team at Pearl Health. Before Pearl, Charlie grew his career in Talent at two dynamic startups Mercury and Handy (now Angi), focusing on full-cycle recruitment, program management, HR operations, and onboarding. Outside of the Talent space, Charlie completed two years of service with Teach for America and a year-long rotation in business development.
Charlie has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Dickinson College.
Khrisendat is a Manager of Software Engineering at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, he served as the technical lead of the data warehousing and analytics team at ListenFirst. There he helped to design and build the data warehouse and external analytics APIs.
Khrisendat holds a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from CCNY.
Nellie Ponarul is a Senior Manager of Data Science at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Nellie worked at Ankura Consulting where she performed data analytics on large healthcare claims and financial datasets for class action lawsuits. She also worked as a research assistant in the Onnela Lab at Harvard where she worked with smartphone data for biomedical research and oversaw collaboration with clinical research teams.
Nellie holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles and a MS in Health Data Science from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
John is Senior Director of Growth Delivery at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, John worked as a Senior Manager at Bain & Company in Boston, Copenhagen and New York. At Bain, John advised clients primarily in healthcare; he led teams on projects across a number of topics, including due diligence, strategy, and commercial excellence.
John has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Operations Research from Columbia University. Outside of work, you can find John at the ballet or opera, playing with his cat, Charlie, or exploring the great outdoors with his partner, Chris.
Lauren Prial is Head of Performance Operations at Pearl Health.
Prior to joining Pearl, Lauren was at Oscar Health where she held a number of strategy and operations leadership roles, including building Oscar’s Payment Integrity program from the ground-up. Most recently, Lauren led strategy, special projects, and business operations for Oscar’s Member Programs (Virtual Care, Population Health, Pharmacy, and Behavioral Health). She is passionate about tackling high-impact problems, building new things, and developing people.
Outside of work, Lauren loves to cook, cycle, and spend time with her husband and their energetic dog, Benji.
Lauren received her B.A. in English with a minor in History from the University of Virginia.
Li Qiu is Head Actuary at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl Health, Li led the Medicare Advantage (MA) Actuarial team at Oscar Health as its founding team lead, helping to stand up the capabilities of the MA actuarial team such as bid development, valuation, forecasting and strategic initiatives. Prior to Oscar, Li was an early employee at Clover Health, where he developed the internal SQL/Python based MA pricing model and came to own many aspects of MA pricing. He began his career with Cigna, and graduated from the Actuarial Executive Development Program.
Li holds a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with honors, summa cum laude from Hamilton College.
Radhey Raval is a Senior Customer Success Manager at Pearl Health. She previously served as a Quality Improvement Consultant for the Clinically Integrated Network at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where she focused on achieving practice transformation under both commercial and Medicaid value-based arrangements in the ambulatory care setting. Prior to Lurie Children’s, Radhey served as a Healthcare Consultant at Blue Cottage Consulting specializing in strategy, operations and facility planning.
Radhey holds an MHA from University of Illinois Chicago and a B.S. in Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience from The University of Michigan.
Jared is Director of Brand Design at Pearl Health and holds a B.S. in Communications from Fitchburg State University. With over 15 years of experience in brand management, he is a seasoned brand strategist who has spearheaded effective corporate rebrands and enhanced digital marketing initiatives.
His passion extends beyond just design; he’s a dedicated mentor, guiding brand designers and marketers in their careers with insights and expertise. He focuses on communicating meaningful core values, conducting insightful interviews, and building engaging experiences that shape compelling brand narratives.
Jared collaborates with cross-functional teams to bring messaging to life, utilizing interactive experiences and personalized reports to connect with audiences. His goal is to inspire and inform, making a positive difference for target audiences and stakeholders.
Sonali Rosete is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Sonali worked with an early stage digital health company, building data pipelines to personalize and scale a digital health coaching mobile and web app.
Sonali holds a BS in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech and an MA in Biostatistics from University of California, Berkeley.
Auroop is a Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, Auroop was a Director at Oscar Health, where he provided P/L oversight for 250k lives across the east coast, representing ~$1.6B in revenue. In this role, Auroop owned and supported end to end book management, partnering with sales, clinical, actuarial and product leadership to drive profitability and growth.
Prior to Oscar, Auroop was a Vice President at COPE Health Solutions, a boutique, value-based care consulting firm. In this role, Auroop provided strategic advisory and implementation support to providers and payers in advancing their capabilities of managing the health and risk of a patient population.
Auroop also launched an international medical tourism facility and provider network based out of Tijuana, Mexico, with the providers spanning across Latin America. He is also a co-founder/strategic advisor to a number of companies across various industries.
Auroop holds a Masters in Health Systems Management Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Biomedical Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science, from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Justus comes to Pearl as an expert in practice transformation, value-based contracting, and primary care operations. Throughout his career he’s worked with over 300 independent physicians, helping them deploy technology, streamline workflows, & achieve success in value based contracts.
Previous to Pearl Justus was a market operations lead for Stellar Health, managing operations & supporting product development across both payer & provider relationships. His previous experience also includes Clover Health, where he was a leader in the launch of the Clover Assistant platform, and Cigna-Healthspring / CareAllies in Nashville, TN.
Depending on the season, outside of work you’ll find Justus either hiking in the Adirondacks or skiing on the West coast.
Phillip is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl, with over ten years of experience in developing software for education, healthcare and government.
Prior to joining Pearl, he served at edX as a technical lead for their e-commerce platform, which processes tens of millions of dollars a year, and Booz Allen Hamilton, where he was a technical lead on projects for the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics and the Army’s community recreation programs.
Phillip has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. His hobbies include cooking, reading and swimming.
Minesh Sivaperumal is an actuary at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, he spent six years with Mercer in their healthcare consulting segment. During his time there, Minesh advised technology clients on all things related to health and benefits, with a primary focus on healthcare financials. He was also involved in community resource groups, mentoring, recruiting, and total rewards benchmarking surveys. Prior to Mercer, he began his career with Willis Towers Watson as an actuarial analyst.
Minesh holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics with honors, from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. In his spare time, he enjoys soccer, rock climbing and walking with his wife and dog.
Ashley Southerland serves as Pearl’s Deputy General Counsel. She came to Pearl after serving as VP, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer at an early-stage, technology-enabled healthcare provider that delivered services to Medicare patients in rural America and beyond. Immediately prior, Ashley was the Senior Assistant General Counsel for Digital Technology & Innovation at the American Medical Association (AMA). Before transitioning in-house, Ashley was Counsel at Crowell & Moring LLP, where she advised a range of organizations, from hospital systems and health plans to healthcare consortiums, start-ups, and large tech companies. Ashley began her legal career as a law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, and then at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Ashley provides legal, strategic, regulatory, and policy counseling on a range of digital health and technology issues, including interoperability, telehealth, FDA safety (software as a medical device), health IT reimbursement, and other emerging technologies in healthcare (AI, 3-D printing, and blockchain). She also has extensive experience counseling commercial, non-profit, governmental, and early-stage start-up clients in complex commercial contracting, litigation, enterprise regulatory compliance, healthcare policy, and equity-in-tech matters.
Ashley received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, and her A.B. (with distinction) from Duke University. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two sons.
Aaron Spindler is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, he worked at a third-party fulfillment startup and a federal government agency, with a focus on streamlining processes and eliminating bottlenecks with the use of technology.
Aaron holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
Megan is a Senior Network Development Associate at Pearl Health. Prior to working at Pearl, Megan focused on network development, account management and sales outreach for both Mindpath Health and Agape Care. She also spent time with Capgemini, assisting with software customization and implementation.
Megan received her Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from Anderson University, where she concentrated in Business Marketing and was a Track and Field NCAA athlete. She resides in South Carolina, ,just a two hour drive from both the beach and mountains. Outside the office, you can find Megan exercising, spending time with friends, and planning her next travel destination.
John Terry is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, he worked in high impact engineering roles at startups in fintech, advertising and education. He was an early member of VRGL, where he focused on integrations and authentication workflows.
John holds a BA from Georgia State University.
Matt is a Manager of Software Engineering at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, he was the engineering manager of the merchandising team at Imperfect Foods. While there, he helped design and build the data pipelines, tooling, APIs, and automation supporting the entire farm-to-website lifecycle and serving the internal merchandising team at Imperfect Foods.
Matt holds a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from IUPUI.
Bobby is a Senior Director in Product Management at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Bobby served as product and operations leader at Arcadia.io and Athenahealth. He has over 15 years of experience in healthcare data integration, value-based care and population health.
Bobby’s academic background includes a Master’s degree in Health Informatics from Northeastern University, and Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bridgewater State University.
Moses is the Senior Director of Product Design at Pearl Health. He joined our team to continue his mission of leveraging design to influence and shape the healthcare industry — towards one where every patient receives the care and experience they deserve.
Prior to Pearl Health, Moses spent more than fifteen years working with different startups, honing his abilities in design and shaping his leadership acumen. From early stage ones like Truepill and Handshake, to larger ones like LinkedIn — Moses is drawn to both problems and the people that deliver true impact and user outcomes.
Hristos is a Senior Platform Engineer. Prior to joining Pearl, he worked with Availity doing build and release engineering and at Groupon doing release and production tools.
Hristos was born and raised in the prairies outside of Chicago and has always been interested in technology and computers. He has been doing systems and software engineering since early 2008 and thoroughly enjoys working with unix-like systems in particular. He enjoys working with a number of languages, including Python, but has soft spots in his heart for Golang and Lua. His shell of choice is fish and his editor is Emacs.
In his free time Hristos is an open source contributor, musician, cyclist, voice actor, and rookie gardener.
Ben is a Senior Product Designer at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, he worked as a designer at Infosys/Wongdoody. There he worked on a variety of internal and client-facing UX/UI projects including those within the domains of telecommunications, finance, and healthcare. His primary aim is to be a staunch user advocate with the goal of creating innovative and research-backed solutions.
Ben holds a BA in Anthropology and Hispanic Studies from Bowdoin College. Outside of the office, you can find him cooking or exploring the urban fabric and marveling at 20th-century architecture.
Suzanne Velez is the Director of User Experience Research at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Suzanne spent four years at Foundation Medicine as an Experience Design leader; while there, she spearheaded deep qualitative investigations aimed at uncovering insights and strategic opportunities to align and better support people with late-stage cancer, their healthcare providers, and their clinical care teams. These research insights informed the design of products and services meant to equip oncologists with targeted genomic insights, enable better treatment decisions, simplify workflows, and improve overall cancer care.
Suzanne brings over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of social science and design, with a particular passion for mission-driven initiatives that can affect systemic change and have a meaningful impact on people’s health, well-being, satisfaction, and overall quality of life. Her work experience extends into the evidence-based design of healthcare environments, the strategic planning of educational facilities to support 21st-century learning, and the design of accessible consumer products that consider people’s differing abilities and life stages.
She holds an M.S. in Applied Research from Cornell University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.
Samuel is Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. He was previously a data engineer at IBM Canada, where he helped to build data pipelines to integrate customer and product usage data to provide a 360 view of the customers. Prior to IBM Canada, Samuel worked as data engineer at Toronto Star, and Scotiabank. These data engineering experiences in different industries have given Samuel exposure to different types of data, as well as different data stacks, from Hadoop to data warehouse on cloud, and DevOps tools like Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins.
Samuel received both his Bachelors of Applied Science and Masters of Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Laura is a Senior Associate of Growth Solutions at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, Laura worked as a member of the Market Development Team at ParetoHealth, the country’s largest group benefits captive manager. In this role, she identified and established partnerships with consultants in various regions to enable employers to take control of their healthcare spend while delivering the highest quality care. During her time there, she gained a unique perspective into the healthcare industry, including cost management, risk financing, and the importance of primary care physicians.
Laura received her Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communications at Elon University, where she studied public relations and business administration. She currently resides in Philadelphia and enjoys exploring new restaurants throughout the city.
Allison Wiggins is a Senior Data Scientist at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Allison was a Senior Associate Strategy Specialist at J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management where she performed macroeconomic research and data analysis to drive investment insights for clients and the firm’s leadership team. Allison also works as a data analytics consultant for Gotham FC, where she helps the team make data-driven tactical and financial decisions.
Allison holds a BA in Statistics with a focus in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Harvard College.
Robert Worley is Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Robert was Senior Product Marketing Manager at Catalant Technologies, partnering with sales and product teams to connect enterprise leaders with elite independent consultants on demand. Prior to Catalant, Robert was a product marketer at Vistaprint, working to help small business owners market themselves online. Robert received an A.B. in Economics with a secondary field in Government from Harvard University, where he was also a sports multimedia editor for The Harvard Crimson.
Danny Wudka is a Senior Manager of Data Science at Pearl Health with over a decade of experience in healthcare analytics in building clinical products, improving decisions, and optimizing operations. Prior to joining Pearl, he helped scale and improve care delivery at Carbon Health.
Danny holds a BS in Neuroscience from University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters in Information and Data Science from University of California, Berkeley.
Zane is a Senior Manager of Customer Success Operations at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, she was Customer Success Operations Manager at Komodo Health, where she supported a CS team of 85, managed renewal analytics and workstreams, and served as co-chair for the women’s affinity group. She has also worked for New York Genome Center, Remedy Partners and Roivant Sciences.
Zane holds an A.B. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, where she was president of the Strategy and Operations Club. Outside of work, you can find her training and teaching on the flying trapeze in New York City.
Jillian is a Senior Data Analyst at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Jillian was responsible for supporting and scaling data analytics and reporting for Invitae’s biopharma partnerships. Prior to Invitae, Jillian was at GSK in the Technology Future Leaders Program, and had a variety of rotations spanning R&D data science collaborations, digital marketing, and commercial operations.
Jillian received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. Outside of the office, you’ll find her hiking the Bay Area trails or training for her next marathon.
Jason comes to Pearl after spending more than a decade helping startups responsibly scale both cloud infrastructure and engineering teams. Most recently at Mode Analytics, Jason accelerated product development and improved site reliability by spearheading the modernization of their cloud platform and building distributed, self-service DevOps tooling and culture.
Jason enjoys getting as far away from computers as possible. He is part of a farming project that grows free food for the community, does outreach work with his local unsheltered neighbors, and enjoys live music of all kinds. One may also catch him escaping into the wilderness in his campervan.
Tal Zaken is a Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Tal worked for the NYC Department of Sanitation, where he developed citywide composting programs, managed data for an emergency food delivery program and oversaw reporting of NYC’s annual recycling statistics.
Tal holds a BA in English Literature from Brandeis University.
Steven is a senior software engineer at Pearl Health. He previously worked at Verafin and Amazon. As part of the targeting platform team at Amazon, he designed and implemented an anomaly detection system for customer segments which led to an improvement in catching data pipeline issues. As part of the security development team at Verafin, he led the re-architecture of a critical internal application from a monolithic to a microservice based design.
Steven holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Masters of Computer Science from the University of Toronto, with a thesis focused on Human Computer Interaction.
Dr. David Berg is President and Co-Founder of Redirect Health, a national healthcare innovation company and key Pearl Health Anchor Partner. Prior to co-founding Redirect Health, Dr. Berg established and maintained successful healthcare clinics both in Canada and the United States.
At Redirect Health, Dr. Berg leverages decades of healthcare leadership experience to make healthcare simple and affordable for businesses across the country. Dr. Berg is the author of The Business Owner’s Guide to Ending the Fight with Healthcare, a how-to guide that helps business owners leverage healthcare as a competitive advantage. In 2018, the Phoenix Business Journal honored Dr. Berg with the “Healthcare Heroes Innovator Award” for creating a transformative healthcare member experience that eliminates barriers for people to get affordable healthcare. Dr. Berg was also the finalist for three best-in-class awards at the 2018 World Health Care Congress in Washington DC.
Dr. Berg holds degrees in Physics and Biology from the University of Toronto as well as a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College.
Fay Rotenberg Bush is the CEO of Firefly Health. She brings dynamic experience as a Healthcare CEO, Venture Investor, Founder, and Developer with a background in distributed systems to her role on Pearl’s Advisory Board.
Prior to Firefly, Fay worked with Premji Invest to initiate their U.S. healthcare growth equity investments, including Devoted Health and Grand Rounds. Fay co-founded and served as CEO of Mymo, a healthcare technology company that bridges the gap between excess physician capacity and patient demand. Before co-founding Mymo, Fay was a Partner at LG’s venture fund where she invested in health and enterprise software companies and spearheaded the firm’s activity as a Limited partner in early-stage venture funds. She also led the first product spin-off of AetherWorks, a software-defined storage solution for healthcare and finance companies. She began her career as an Analyst and Associate for Venture funds in MA, CA, and DC.
Fay attended Georgetown University and Phillips Academy Andover. She’s actively involved as an Advisor or Board Member of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Cornell Tech, Phillips Academy Andover, Masschallenge, Girls Who Code, and the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
Chelsea Cooper is an Advisor at Pearl Health. She also currently serves as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Oscar Health, where she has held leadership roles in partnerships, strategy, and operations, and led a Care Delivery organization of 400+ people across Concierge, Complex Case Management, Telemedicine, Oscar Clinic, and Population Health & Strategy teams. Prior to joining Oscar Health, Chelsea served in general management and operations leadership at technology companies Hired, Uber, and Samasource, and developed deep investment banking experience at Amber Capital and Goldman Sachs. Chelsea received a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University and an MBA from London Business School.
Brenton leads AlleyCorp’s healthcare investments and incubations. Prior to AlleyCorp, Brenton was an executive at Flatiron Health. He worked previously at J.P. Morgan and Blue Cross & Blue Shield. He is a practicing physician, board certified in Internal Medicine. Brenton completed his residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, earning his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School.
Dr. David Ferrucci is the award-winning AI researcher who started and led the IBM Watson team from its inception in 2006 to its celebrated success in 2011 when Watson defeated the greatest Jeopardy players of all time. From 2011 through 2012, Dr. Ferrucci pioneered Watson’s applications in health which helped lay the technical foundation for a new Healthcare Division at IBM. In 2013, Dr. Ferrucci joined Bridgewater Associates to explore applications of AI in markets and management.
Dr. Ferrucci’s more than 25 years in AI and his passion to see computers fluently think, learn, and communicate inspired him to found Elemental Cognition in 2015. Elemental Cognition is an AI company focused on deep natural language understanding and explores methods of learning that result in explicable models of intelligence.
Dr. Ferrucci has 50+ patents and published papers in the areas of AI, Automated Reasoning, NLP, Intelligent Systems Architectures, Automatic Text Generation, and Automatic Question-Answering.
Bill Georges was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. In his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Bill was responsible for developing and overseeing the Company’s corporate strategy, expanding its business development and leading the Strategic Initiatives Group, which develops and implements key business programs. He also led the Company’s Enterprise Project Management Office and Business Process Improvement functions, and managed the Company’s venture fund investments. Prior to his nearly 15 years at Horizon Blue Cross, Bill was Vice President and Senior Analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities, where as a sell-side analyst, he covered the managed care industry. Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in Economics from Brown University, a Juris Doctor degree from Villanova University and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nick is an advisor to Pearl Health. Nick currently serves as SVP of Strategic Initiatives at Covera Health, a pioneer in advanced clinical analytics focused on using AI to provide diagnostic quality insights to radiologists at the point of care.
Prior to Covera Health, Nick was Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Oscar Health, where he also served as Vice President of Network Strategy and various leadership roles across the Sales team. Before Oscar Health, Nick was a Senior Manager at Monitor Deloitte, and worked at Freedman Consulting, a public policy consulting firm.
Nick holds a Masters in Arts in Law Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University; he received his A.B. from Harvard University.
Brian has 25+ years of leadership experience within healthcare organizations (payers and technology-based solution providers) ranging from startups to large, publicly traded companies. He is a C-suite executive (CEO, COO, CSO, CGO), board member, and advisor who is passionate about transforming the healthcare system to improve access to care, healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes. Brian is a disruptor, innovator, and problem-solver with a compelling record of leading, transforming, and growing healthcare technology companies.
Brian acts as an advisor to prominent, national VC/PE funds, in evaluating investment opportunities and coaching the leadership teams of their investment portfolio companies on matters ranging from go-to-market strategies, pricing models, product design, workflows, growth, sales, execution, and measurement against established performance indicators.
Before creating his own advisory firm to support the growth of early-stage healthcare companies, Brian led Tabula Rasa HealthCare’s Office of Strategic Growth—an office he created in 2014 for the initial purpose of establishing a footprint in the payer market (including health insurers, self-funded employers, and risk-bearing provider organizations) as a runway for Tabula Rasa’s IPO. Within six months of joining the Company, Brian secured its first payer pilot, followed shortly thereafter by its first payer commercial contract ($62MM). The Company’s IPO followed in 2016 (NASDAQ: TRHC). During his tenure with Tabula Rasa, Brian continued to expand the Company’s payer market through the design, testing, validation, and deployment of new products, services, and financial models (including chronic disease programs and the deployment of value-based contracting solutions). Brian also worked to lay foundations for the Company across new markets, including pharma/life sciences, life insurance, consumer, and international.
Brian presently serves as the Chair of the Board of Advisors of StationMD, a telehealth company serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (where he was previously the first independent director on the corporate board). He also serves as a member on the Board of Advisors to Pearl Health, a leader in assisting primary care practices understand and accept “intelligent” financial risk arrangements.
Brian is a member of the Board of Directors of CP Unlimited (Formerly Cerebral Palsy
Association of New York State), a leading provider of residential and day programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. CP Unlimited has close to 2,000 employees supporting more than 700 persons in residences and many hundreds more through its day programs.
Brian spent his earlier professional years leading the successful startup and exit of an oncology-focused medication decision support technology company. He has also held strategy-related management positions with two large Blue Cross organizations and, before that, as a senior administration official in government.
As an expert in healthcare strategy, growth, and policy, the Jefferson School of Population Health elected Brian as a Senior Fellow. He also served as the longest tenured Chair of the New Jersey Association of Health Plans. Over his career, government leaders, from governors to members of Congress, have appointed Brian to serve on federal and state healthcare access and reform commissions.
Brian earned a JD from Rutgers University School of Law and a BA in Economics from Vassar College.
Brian and his wife, Donna, live in South Carolina with their two rescue dogs, Lucca and Finley.
John is co-founder and Managing Director at Floating Point, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the intersection of technology and complex, highly-regulated industries.
Prior to launching Floating Point, John was Chief Risk Officer and a member of the founding team at Oscar Health. As one of the two longest-serving C-level executives of the firm, he helped lead Oscar from inception to nearly 500,000 members and over two billion dollars in annual revenue.
John began his career as a quantitative researcher at Bridgewater Associates, where he was one of fewer than 20 investment professionals responsible for developing the firm’s core macroeconomic trading models. John holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Cole Morris is a health tech entrepreneur building life-changing devices at Clear, where he is a co-founder, COO and CFO.
He was previously Vice President of Data at Oscar Health Insurance. There, he led a team of more than 30 data scientists spanning medical economics, product analytics, payment integrity, clinical data science, and business and network analytics. Prior to leading Oscar’s data efforts, he was Director of Care Routing at Oscar, focused on bending the cost curve by better matching Oscar members to high value doctors.
Before venturing into healthcare, Cole was an Investment Team Lead at Bridgewater Associates, where he led a team of Investment Associates providing analytics to some of Bridgewater’s largest clients and wrote investment algorithms in the Research department.
Cole graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, summa cum laude and phi beta kappa.
Ankit Patel is co-founder and President of Pearl Health. He was previously the Vice President of Provider Alignment at Clover Health, building programs and software to engage providers to achieve better health outcomes at lower costs. Prior to joining Clover, he was a Senior Advisor at the CMS Innovation Center, where he worked on various value-based payment models including the Pioneer ACO program and the Maryland All-Payer Waiver. He began his career as a health care attorney for an academic medical center.
He received his B.A. in International Studies at the University of South Carolina – Columbia and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Since 2005, Margit Pearson has been managing over $5 billion in investments as well as charitable giving for a few individuals. She has invested directly in over a dozen companies in the healthcare and biotech industry in their early stages: seed, Series A, B and C rounds.
She has been CEO/President of both NYSE and startup companies after living and working in Latin America, Scandinavia, Europe and Australia for Mckinsey and Company.
Margit graduated from Harvard Business School in 1975.
Jay Rughani is a partner on the Bio + Health investing team, where he focuses on software, data, and marketplace companies across healthcare and life sciences.
Prior to a16z, Jay worked at Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche). There, he helped to build some of the company’s first data & analytics software products used by biopharmaceutical companies to study real-world cancer care. He went on to develop numerous commercial partnerships with large biopharma companies, smaller biotechs, and other research organizations.
Previously, Jay advised large healthcare and technology organizations on corporate growth initiatives at Deloitte and supported various go-to-market, product, and fundraising efforts at DealerMatch (acquired by Cox Enterprises).
Jay received a B.A. in Mathematics & Economics at Emory University and grew up in Clearwater, FL, and London, UK.
Lauren is the Chief Operating Officer of Kirkoswald Asset Management, a global macro hedge fund with a focus on emerging markets. She leads Kirkoswald’s strategic business initiatives to ensure that best in class practices are implemented for the global team. As part of this role, she has oversight of the marketing strategy, human capital, compliance, public relations, information technology and cybersecurity. Previously, Lauren was an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank where she spent 12 years in a variety of roles within the Equities division in both NYC and London.
Lauren earned her MBA from Columbia Business School in 2015 as a Feldberg Fellow and she graduated from Princeton University in 2007 with a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
She enjoys volunteering for all three of her alma maters in a variety of capacities: fundraising, interviewing prospective students, organizing career and social gatherings, mentoring students and recent graduates, and fostering engagement across generations and geographies. Lauren also serves on the Board of Inspiring Girls USA, an organization that connects girls with women role models to introduce them to the full variety of careers and options in life.
