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Andy Clark Has Spent 30 Years Turning Useful Connections Into Companies
Before becoming Remodel Health’s CMO, Andy Clark helped build SaaS companies, board software and the rooms where Indianapolis founders met. His career offers a practical lesson: remove the obstacle, connect the people, and let momentum do its work.
Joseph Kitonga Put a Healthcare Idea in a Mall Kiosk - Then Took It Nationwide
A family business exposed the gap. A $10,000 student prize funded the first attempt. Joseph Kitonga built Vitable by meeting workers face to face, then kept widening the map.
Ali Diab Is Building the Operating System Behind the Benefits Card
After a career spent making maps, messaging, mobile ads, and marketplaces easier to use, Ali Diab chose a harder interface: the machinery behind employer benefits. His playbook is patient, product-minded, and built around making complexity legible.
Cédric Kovacs-Johnson
Cédric Kovacs-Johnson is the founder and CEO of Flume Health, a New York-based software company that connects the fragmented healthcare data ecosystem so payers and employers can build and run health plans more efficiently. A chemical engineer by training, he first made his name as co-inventor of Spectrom, a full-color 3D printing technology that won the 2014 Collegiate Inventors Competition and was acquired by MakerBot. He founded Flume Health in 2017 and has raised more than $40 million in venture funding, including a $30 million Series A in 2022.
Guy Benjamin
Guy Benjamin is the CEO and co-founder of Healthee, a New York-based company that uses AI to help employees understand and use their health benefits. A former Israeli Air Force fighter pilot with a Yale MBA and a McKinsey background, he started Healthee in 2021 after struggling to navigate his own employer benefits in the US. The company has grown past 15,000 customers, counts Instacart, SiriusXM, and Celonis among its clients, and has raised $111 million in total funding, including a $50 million Series B in 2025.
Guy Ezekiel
Guy Ezekiel is the co-founder and CEO of Zorro, an AI-powered ICHRA benefits platform that helps employers replace one-size-fits-all group health plans with personalized, individual coverage. A 25-year healthcare operator turned venture investor, he spent much of his career building medical device and pharmaceutical companies before becoming a managing partner at Pitango, Israel's largest VC fund. He left investing to co-found Zorro in 2022 with Maya Perl, betting that Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements will do for health benefits what the 401(k) did for retirement. Zorro has raised $31.5 million to date, including a $20 million Series A in June 2025.
Obiaku Hill
Obiaku Ohiaeri Hill is the founder and CEO of Binkey, a Washington, DC fintech that turns FSA and HSA accounts into a checkout button. After years inside healthcare's machinery as a scientist, a McKinsey expert, and a product VP, she built an API-enabled payment service that lets merchants accept pre-tax health dollars at the point of sale and auto-files the paperwork so customers stop forfeiting the money they already set aside. Binkey raised a $3.3M seed round in December 2023 led by Wellington Access Ventures and was selected for the Mastercard Start Path program.
Alison Richards
Alison Richards is the CEO of Surest, a UnitedHealthcare company (formerly Bind) that builds a health plan with no deductibles and upfront prices people can see before they book care. A UnitedHealthcare veteran since 2012, she has turned the company's most contrarian benefits idea - let members shop for care the way they shop for everything else - into its fastest-growing employer plan.
Chris Ellis
Chris Ellis is the co-founder and CEO of Thatch, a San Francisco healthtech-meets-fintech company that lets employers hand workers tax-free dollars to buy and manage their own health benefits through ICHRA. A former cancer researcher who started at MIT and studied at Duke, Ellis lost his father to cancer at age six, an experience that shaped both his skepticism of the healthcare system and his drive to rebuild how it is paid for. Founded in 2021 with Adam Stevenson, Thatch now serves more than 1,000 companies and raised a $40M Series B led by Index Ventures in April 2025, on top of an earlier $38M Series A, with backing from a16z, General Catalyst, and Google Ventures.