Mentors & Speakers

Emily Chang

IdeaCodes

Emily is an award-winning web and interaction designer, technology strategist and co-founder of Ideacodes, a design and web consultancy specializing in the design and user experience of web applications, smart devices, digital products and networked communities, with clients as diverse as IDEO, MIT, gdgt, Klout, SOMA Magazine, Stanford University, and MTV.

Jae Chung

GoBalto

Jae is the Founder & CEO of goBalto. He previously co-founded Celltrion, (IPO on KOSDAQ and the 2nd largest biotech supplier in the world) and was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. In 2010, he was awarded the Bio-IT World Judges Prize for Technology Innovation. Jae has his MBA from New York University and holds a CPA.

Patrick Chung

NEA

Patrick has been an investor with NEA since 2004 and is co-head of NEA’s Consumer investing practice and seed-stage program. He is a director of 23andMe, eeGeo, Euclid, Loopt, GoodGuide, Lytro, and Pixelberry. Patrick received a Master of Science degree from Oxford University and earned an A.B., JD, and MBA from Harvard.

Geoff Clapp

Geoff serves as a mentor and adviser to numerous startups in software technology and healthcare IT. An entrepreneur and engineer, Geoff was previously founder and CTO of Health Hero Network (acquired by Robert Bosch Healthcare) and a senior engineer at Apple.

Bill Evans

Genentech

Bill is the the head of the Physician and Patient Technology Group at Genentech. His career started at Goldman Sachs before making a jump into the startup world where he helped build epinions.com and shopping.com. Bill holds a degree in Economics from Harvard and hacks old cars, software, and just about anything he can get his hands on.

Nick Ganju

ZocDoc

Nick is the CTO and co-founder of ZocDoc. He has extensive experience in product development, database management and site architecture. Prior to ZocDoc, Ganju worked as the CTO of cfX, describe, where he oversaw the design and implementation of financial software used by several Fortune 100 Wall Street firms.

Amanda Goltz

Pacific Business Group on Health

Amanda Goltz is the Senior Manager of New Initiatives in Pacific Business Group on Health health group, where she manages large employers representing 3M members and $12B in annual spend. She also develops consumer engagement tools to help patients select high-quality, cost-effective care and runs transparency initiatives for health plans, providers and employers.

Scott Gottlieb, MD

American Enterprise Institute

Scott is a practicing physician and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was formerly the FDA Deputy Commissioner and is a noted authority on pathways to successful development of new medical products. His focus is providing insights into the economic, regulatory and technological forces driving the transformation of healthcare.

Abhas Gupta, MD

Mohr Davidow

Abhas is an Associate at Mohr Davidow Ventures, focusing on the digital health/health IT space. Previously, he worked at ClearView Healthcare Partners, where his work ranged from M&A due diligence to pharma research/commercialization strategy. Abhas holds an M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a B.S. in Computational Biology from Brown University.

Jeff Hammerbacher

Cloudera

Jeff is the co-founder of Cloudera, director at Sage BioNetworks, and visiting professor of Data Science at UC Berkeley.  Previously, he conceived, built, and led the Data Team at Facebook and was responsible for driving many of the applications of statistics & machine learning at Facebook. Before Facebook, Jeff was a quantitative analyst on Wall Street.

Francine Hardaway, Ph.D.

Stealthmode Partners

Francine is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and partner in Stealthmode Partners, an accelerator for growth companies. She has coached and counseled medical device companies, hospital systems, provider networks and providers. Having run a small medical practice, she was a co-founder of Arizona Health IT Association. Today, she co-writes US Health Crisis.

Darren Hite

Aberdare Ventures

Darren is a Principal at Aberdare Ventures and leads their investment focus in healthcare technology convergence. He is a director of goBalto, and invested in JIFF, Sonitus & Omada Health. Prior experience includes roles at Robertson Stephens and Medtronic. He holds a Stanford MBA, AB from Princeton and attended Georgetown Medical School.

Charles Huang

Blue Goji

Charles is the co-founder of RedOctane and currently serves as the EVP of Business Development. RedOctane launched the world’s first online video game rental service in 1999, and later published Guitar Hero, the first release in a series of critically acclaimed hits from the fastest growing videogame franchise ever.

George Kassabgi

Keas

George is a philosopher, poet and entrepreneur. He’s Founder and CEO of Keas, a health & wellness startup leveraging “The Power of Play”, prior to that was CEO of Bit9, a leader in endpoint security. GK is an angel investor, has been an active advisor to numerous startups and is part of Northeastern’s Health Science mentoring program.

Sharon Knight

Avik Venutres

Sharon is formally the President of One Medical Group and prior to that, spent six years in operations and finance at Electronic Arts in the US and UK. She is now sharing her experience with others via Avik Ventures where she is an advisor to and investor in numerous startups. Sharon has an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management and holds a BA from Smith College.

Pete Koomen

Optimizely

Pete is the co-founder and President of Optimizely, a bay-area startup focused on making A/B Testing websites dramatically easier.  Previously, Pete worked for Google where he was Product Manager for Google App Engine and grew the platform to more than 150,000 developers in its first year.

Glenn Laffel

Clinical Solutions

Glenn founded Clinical Solutions and sold it after its nurse triage algorithms became a world-wide gold standard. He was a Senior VP at Practice Fusion, an EHR backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Previously, he was an attending physician in Brigham & Women’s heart transplanation program. His PhD is in Health Policy & Management from MIT.

Ping Li

Accel Partners

Ping has been with Accel Partners since 2004, where he focuses primarily on software and digital media investments. He currently is a Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Lookout, Mu Dynamics, Nimbula, Raptr, ScaleXtreme, and YuMe. Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Dave Morin

Path

Dave is the founder of Path, the simple and private way to share life with close friends and family. As an early member of the Facebook team, Dave played a variety of product, marketing, and management roles in expanding its ecosystem to over 600 million people worldwide. He was also the co-inventor of Facebook Connect, used by 2.5 million websites and applications.

Daniel Palestrant, MD

Sermo

Daniel is Founder and CEO of Sermo. As a medical student, Daniel designed CIBUR (CIGNA Internet Based Universal Resource), one of the first commercial Web-based healthcare resources. He has an MD from Duke and trained in General Surgery at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital.

Charmaine Pattinson

Clinton Foundation

Charmaine is a Director at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and leads their global initiative in Human Resources for Health. Prior to joining CHAI, Charmaine was a Marketing Manager at Genentech and Investment Banking Associate at RBC Capital Markets. Charmaine received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Eric Rose, MD

Microsoft

Eric is a practicing family physician and applied clinical informaticist. He is also Director of Clinical Products at Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group. Previously, he was Medical Director for McKesson Physician Practice Solutions (PPS) and a Physician Consultant for IDX Systems in the Carecast division (now GE Healthcare Centricity Enterprise).

Evan Schoenberg, MD

Adium

Evan is the lead developer of Adium, the premiere instant messaging client for Mac. He is the founder of Regular Rate & Rhythm Software, known for medical apps such as MediMath and consumer apps such as Rowmote Pro. He is also closely involved with open source projects Growl and Pidgin. He is a resident ophthalmologist at Tulane Medical Center.

Jeffrey Schox

Schox Patent Group

Jeff is a Registered Patent Attorney and founding member of Schox Patent Group, a boutique firm devoted to building patent portfolios for startups that attracted investments from Bessemer, Flagship, Founders Fund, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, and Union Square. Jeffrey is also a consulting professor of patent law at Stanford and the University of Michigan.

Michelle Snyder

InterWest Partners

Michelle is an advisor to early stage companies and the HCIT team at InterWest Partners. She was a former SVP at Epocrates who built the company’s clinician network and freemium model. Prior to Epocrates, Michelle worked in various strategic consulting and health policy development roles at The Wilkerson Group, Lewin Group and Georgetown Center for Health Policy Studies.

Sonny Vu

Misfit Wearables

Sonny is the co-founder of Misfit Wearables, makers of wearable sensors, and the co-founder of AgaMatrix, which made the world’s first hardware medical device that works with the iPhone, and has sold over 1 billion glucose biosensors. He studied math (BS) at UIUC and linguistics (PhD) under Noam Chomsky at MIT.

John Wilbanks

John is the former VP for Science of Creative Commons, and a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium, member of MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, founded the biotech semantic database company Incellico, assistant director at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law, and legislative aide in the US House of Representatives.

Roni Zeiger, MD

Google

Roni is Chief Health Strategist at Google and practicing physician. Roni earned his MD at Stanford and completed his internal medicine residency at UCSF. He has served as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, and also received a masters degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford.