Team

Halle Tecco

CEO

Halle is responsible for building partnerships and overseeing Rock Health’s strategic direction. She previously worked for Intel and Apple, and founded Yoga Bear, an organization bringing yoga to cancer patients. Halle earned a BS at Case Western Reserve University and an MBA at Harvard Business School.  She was named one of CNN’s 12 entrepreneurs reinventing healthcare.

Leslie Ziegler

Chief Evangelist

Leslie oversees Rock Health’s marketing, research, and content. As a designer and patient advocate, she helps startups with branding and communication. Prior to Rock Health, Leslie worked as one of the first employees at a VC-backed start up, and spent over eight years in advertising at McCann Erickson and DDB, with clients ranging from (RED) and Starbucks to Intel and Microsoft.

Sarah Pollet

COO

Sarah is Rock Health’s operational lead. She oversees daily business operations and directs the Rock Health incubator. Sarah previously worked at Sutter Health managing hospital quality and safety initiatives, and she was also the second employee at a VC-backed medical technology start up in Palo Alto. Sarah earned her BA from Stanford University and MPH from Columbia University.

Nate Gross

Medical Director

Nate is a developer & designer, and serves as Rock Health’s Medical Director.  Passionate about breaking down barriers to entrepreneurship and communication in health care, Nate loves working with great people and ideas at the intersection of medicine, policy and technology. He is a graduate of the Emory University School of Medicine and Harvard Business School

Clare Wylie

Event Director

Clare produces events for Rock Health and the greater digital health community. She graduated with honors from Santa Clara University double majoring in Public Health and Psychology. Her past work includes studying health systems while living in Copenhagen and working at The Center for Applied Ethics and Advocacy in Health Care.

Amy Puliafito

Special Ops

Amy manages special projects at Rock Health. Previously, she worked for the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health Center for Communication Programs in Kampala, Uganda, and was in charge of fundraising at a non-profit that led international training trips for physicians in Mongolia and China. She has a BA in sociology from Northwestern.

Michael Esquivel

Legal Counsel

Michael serves as legal counsel for Rock Health and its startups. He’s the premier digital health lawyer, and is a partner at Fenwick & West where he works with startups including Facebook and Dropbox. Michael holds a BA from Stanford University and JD from Columbia University School of Law.

Zach Malchano

Entrepreneur in Residence

Zach’s background includes engineering, anthropology, healthcare, business, and product development. He has a degree in engineering from MIT, a masters from Harvard, and was a biodesign innovation fellow at Stanford.

Christina Chang

Research Fellow

Christina works directly with early health entrepreneurs and supports our industry research capabilities. Her background is in strategy and management consulting, with a focus on the health market. Christina holds a B.S. in Economics from Duke University and is currently completing her MBA at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Clay Kramer

Entrepreneur in Residence

Clay is an Entrepreneur in Residence, working directly with entrepreneurs and health startups. From pitch to product, Clay has proven effective, whether it’s landing half a billion dollars for clients or wining pitch competitions for companies he’s co-founded. Clay has over a decade of startup, finance, and healthcare experience. He has an MBA from Wharton.

Erica Chain

Event Coordinator, Chicago

Erica is responsible for our event planning efforts in Chicago. A young adult survivor, she is passionate about innovation in healthcare delivery. Previously, Erica worked with Embrace Global and Wokai in China. She has a background in banking, both in advisory services and international business development.

Michael Abbott

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Michael is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He was formerly the Vice President of Engineering at Twitter, led software and services development for Palm’s webOS platform, was general manager of .NET Online Services at Microsoft, and co-founded Passenger Inc. and Composite Software. He has extensive experience in building technically challenging web apps and services.

Linda Avey

Curious

Linda co-founded personal genetics company 23andMe, named TIME magazine’s Invention of the Year and the World Economic Forum’s Tech Pioneer in 2008. Her career, spanning 25+ years in the biotech/pharma industry, highlighted the need for dramatically innovative strategies in disease research and prevention.

Ron Gutman

HealthTap

Ron is the Founder & CEO of HealthTap, and formerly founder and CEO of Wellsphere (acquired by HealthCentral).  Ron is the Curator of TEDx Silicon Valley, an advisor to early and late stage technology and health companies, and an angel investor focusing on early stage technology startups. He has his MBA from Stanford GSB.

Daniel Kraft, MD

FutureMed

Daniel is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist with over 20 years of clinical, research and innovation experience. Daniel is Executive Director for FutureMed & chairs the Medicine track for Singularity University. Daniel has multiple inventions, including the MarrowMiner, and is founder of RegenMed Systems and IntelliMedicine.

Michael Matly, MD

Mayo Clinic

Michael is a serial entrepreneur and currently leads Business Development and New Ventures at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. Michael has led the creation of internally incubated ventures and external partnerships with Fortune 50 companies and cutting-edge start-ups. He has an MD from Mayo Clinic and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Frank Moss

MIT Media Lab

Frank heads the New Media Medicine group at the MIT Media Lab and is co-founder of Bluefin Labs. He was Director of the MIT Media Lab from 2006- 2011, CEO and chairman of Tivoli Systems, and co-founded several other companies including Stellar Computer, Bowstreet, and Infinity Pharmaceuticals. Moss holds a PhD from MIT in Aeronautics & Astronautics.

Eric Ries

Lean Startup

Eric is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a Engineering TechFellow award.

Jeff Tangney

Doximity

is the founder and CEO of Doximity. He previously was the Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Epocrates, a recent IPO and the most successful professional medical mobile app of all time.  He was the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year N CA in 2006 and is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.