# Harpreet Mangat

> Harpreet Mangat is a British-trained neurosurgeon turned Stanford MBA and McKinsey consultant who now serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hippocratic AI, a $3.5 billion healthcare AI company building clinically safe generative AI agents for patient engagement. His rare career arc - from brain surgery and ICU care during COVID-19, through venture capital and management consulting, to the frontier of healthcare AI - makes him one of the most credentialed operator-clinicians in the industry.

- **Role:** Chief Strategy Officer / Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hippocratic AI
- **Organizations:** Hippocratic AI, NHS, McKinsey & Company, Pear VC, Volcano Capital Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **From:** London, United Kingdom
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, BA, MA, MD/MBBS in Medicine and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Global Health training; Medical electives, University College London (UCL)
- **Known for:** Selected for UK's National Neurosurgery Training Programme in 2011 - one of only a handful of doctors nationally, Treated Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai during her ICU stay following Taliban shooting, Served as ICU doctor at Royal Free Hospital (UK's main infectious disease center) during COVID-19 - documented by Getty Images

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Selected for UK National Neurosurgery Training Programme - one of a handful of doctors nationally
- **2011-2018** — Neurosurgeon at NHS - trauma, perioperative care, brain tumors, NeuroTrauma fellowship
- **2018-2020** — Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company (pharma, data science, public sector)
- **2019-2020** — Chief of Staff to Dame Vivian Hunt, Managing Partner of McKinsey UK and Ireland
- **2020** — Left McKinsey to serve as Intensive Care Doctor at Royal Free Hospital London during COVID-19 pandemic
- **2020-2022** — MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business; Venture Fellow at Pear VC
- **2022-2023** — Venture Capitalist at Volcano Capital Management (medical devices); bootstrapped genetics infrastructure startup
- **2023** — Joined Hippocratic AI as Chief of Staff (June 2023)
- **2024** — Co-authored 'Polaris: A Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture for Healthcare' (arxiv)
- **2025** — Promoted to Chief Strategy Officer / VP of Strategy at Hippocratic AI; Series C raise of $126M at $3.5B valuation
- **2025** — Co-authored 'Real-World Evaluation of Large Language Models in Healthcare (RWE-LLM)' - evaluated 307,000+ AI calls

## Achievements

- Selected for UK's National Neurosurgery Training Programme in 2011 - one of only a handful of doctors nationally
- Treated Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai during her ICU stay following Taliban shooting
- Served as ICU doctor at Royal Free Hospital (UK's main infectious disease center) during COVID-19 - documented by Getty Images
- Co-author of 'Polaris: A Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture for Healthcare' - foundational AI safety paper
- Co-author of 'Real-World Evaluation of Large Language Models in Healthcare (RWE-LLM)' covering 307,000+ AI calls
- Helped grow Hippocratic AI from founding to $3.5 billion valuation and $439M in total funding
- MBA from Stanford GSB, Class of 2022
- Completed NeuroTrauma fellowship focused on biochemical markers of brain injury

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Hippocratic AI raises $126M Series C at $3.5B valuation led by Avenir Growth; Harpreet continues as Chief Strategy Officer
- **2025-11** — Hippocratic AI accelerates team growth and key executive hires following Series C
- **2025-03** — Co-authored 'Real-World Evaluation of Large Language Models in Healthcare (RWE-LLM)' published on medRxiv, evaluating 307,000+ AI healthcare calls
- **2024-03** — Co-authored 'Polaris: A Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture for Healthcare' on arxiv

## Links

- Website: https://hippocraticai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hmangat/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/drmangat

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