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James K. Min
James K. Min is the founder and CEO of Cleerly, a Denver-based digital health company using AI to analyze coronary CT scans and detect atherosclerosis long before a heart attack strikes. A board-certified cardiologist who spent two decades in academic medicine, Min left a professorship at Weill Cornell and the directorship of the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging to build a company that could deliver personalized, plaque-based heart evaluation at scale. He has authored more than 500 peer-reviewed papers, led landmark cardiac imaging trials, and raised hundreds of millions to push a shift from population-based cardiology toward individualized care.
Shiv Rao
Shiv Rao is the CEO and co-founder of Abridge, the AI platform transforming clinical conversations into structured medical documentation. A practicing cardiologist at UPMC and history-major-turned-physician, Rao founded Abridge in 2018 out of personal frustration with nightly dictation sessions. The company, now valued at $5.3 billion after raising $300M in Series E in 2025, deploys across 150+ U.S. health systems including Mayo Clinic, Duke Health, and Johns Hopkins, supports 28 languages and 55 medical specialties, and is used by over 50,000 clinicians. Rao is equal parts cardiologist, technologist, and artist — a former DJ, skateboarder, and avant-garde music producer whose unconventional path runs straight through the operating room.