# Ray Bradford

> Ray Bradford is the founder and former CEO of Spruce Health, previously a Kleiner Perkins partner and leader of database product management at Amazon Web Services. A Westminster graduate and Stanford MBA, he worked on data products and an internal venture-investing tool before founding Spruce in 2013.

- **Role:** Founder at Spruce Health
- **Organizations:** Spruce Health, Amazon Web Services, Kleiner Perkins, Stanford University Board of Fellows, Twitter, Linden Lab
- **Education:** B.S. in Economics; also studied finance, Westminster College (now Westminster University), Salt Lake City, MBA; Arjay Miller Scholar; completed computer science coursework, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 coverage., Arjay Miller Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business., Helped develop AWS data products including Amazon Redshift and DynamoDB.

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Graduated from Westminster; served as student body president.
- **2008** — Interned at Linden Lab.
- **2009** — Completed Stanford MBA; interned at Twitter.
- **2009-2011** — Led database product management at Amazon Web Services.
- **2011-2013** — Partner at Kleiner Perkins; worked on cloud, big data and mobile investments.
- **2013** — Founded Spruce.
- **2014** — Spruce launched publicly in September with an eleven-person team.
- **2015** — Spruce announced $15 million financing; funding reached $17 million at that time. Received a Westminster alumni award.
- **2016** — Introduced Care Messenger on web, iOS and Android.
- **2018** — Spruce concentrated its effort on Care Messenger.

## Achievements

- Recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 coverage.
- Arjay Miller Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Helped develop AWS data products including Amazon Redshift and DynamoDB.
- Named inventor on database patent applications.
- Helped turn Kleiner Perkins internal software project Dragnet into a product.
- Founded Spruce in 2013.
- Westminster alumni award recipient in 2015.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Spruce’s company announcement identifies David Craig as CEO; Cowboy Ventures lists Bradford as founder. This corrects older biographies that still call Bradford CEO.

## Links

- Website: https://sprucehealth.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raybradford
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ray_bradford

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