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Ben Texter
From an electric-car startup to Blue State Digital to a decade building Digital Health Strategies, Ben Texter has made a career of turning complicated systems into clearer human journeys.
Bruno Lempernesse
Bruno Lempernesse is the CEO of MDClone, an Israeli-founded healthcare data platform that lets organizations explore and share sensitive patient data using synthetic data that preserves privacy. A 25-year veteran of healthcare technology, data science, and life sciences, he joined MDClone as President of North America in September 2024 and stepped up to Chief Executive Officer in 2025. Before MDClone he was CEO of Carevive, a cancer-care and real-world-studies company acquired by Health Catalyst in 2024, and earlier spent two decades at Cegedim building its data and research business, plus leadership roles at SHYFT Analytics and Acorn AI (a Medidata company). He is an early pioneer of longitudinal patient data drawn from electronic medical records across Europe and the United States.
Shubh Sinha
Shubh Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Integral Privacy Technologies, a San Francisco company that certifies, transforms, and activates privacy-regulated data (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA) for healthcare and other regulated industries. Integral compresses compliance workflows that once took months into hours. Before Integral, Sinha led regulated-data product work at LiveRamp. He is a Purdue-trained computer engineer, an angel investor, and a Forbes Technology Council member. In July 2026 the company raised its Series A, bringing total funding to about $25M.
Trip Hofer
Trip Hofer is the CEO of Redox, the healthcare data interoperability company that moved more than 15 billion healthcare transactions across 12,000-plus organizations and 90-plus EHR systems in a single year. A near-25-year veteran of healthcare who started at Booz Allen and the Washington, D.C. mayor's office, he ran the largest mental-health provider in the United States as CEO of Optum Behavioral Solutions and sold virtual-care company AbleTo to Optum in 2020 before taking Redox's helm in November 2023. He is also a Venture Partner at .406 Ventures.
Andrew Kress
Andrew Kress is the co-founder and CEO of HealthVerity, the Philadelphia company that built one of the largest real-world healthcare data ecosystems and the technology to link, govern and exchange it without exposing patient identities. An English major from Yale who spent his career inside the plumbing of healthcare data - running SDI Health, then leading Healthcare Value Solutions at IMS Health - he started HealthVerity in 2014 to make fragmented, privacy-bound health data usable. The company raised $100M in Series D funding in 2021 led by Durable Capital Partners. Kress also serves on the boards of Philadelphia cultural institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Dilpreet Sahota
Dilpreet Sahota is the co-founder and CEO of Trek Health, a San Mateo-based, AI-powered platform that turns the federal price-transparency data dump into a weapon healthcare providers can use to benchmark and negotiate their payer contracts. Founded in January 2022, Trek Health landed its first paying customer two months later, crossed 100 customers by late 2024, and raised an $11M Series A led by Madrona in 2025. A Stanford and UC Berkeley graduate who cut his teeth at Health IQ and Big Health, Sahota built Trek to attack a quietly brutal problem: identical medical services can be reimbursed at rates that vary 300-500%, and the smaller players almost never know it.
Dan Riskin
Dan Riskin is a physician-entrepreneur, trauma surgeon, and healthcare AI executive who founded Verantos in 2015 to generate high-validity real-world evidence from messy clinical data. A serial innovator who began coding at age 5 and sold software at 12, Riskin holds an MD from Boston University and an MBA from MIT, is board-certified in four specialties, and serves as Clinical Professor of Surgery at Stanford. His prior company Health Fidelity was acquired for more than $150 million. Today, Verantos powers regulatory and reimbursement decisions for major pharmaceutical companies by turning fragmented EHR data into research-grade evidence at scale.
Rich Waller
Rich Waller is President and CEO of WellStack, a Madison, Wisconsin-based healthcare data platform that helps provider and payer organizations build a unified data ecosystem for AI, analytics, and population health management. A 20-year veteran of healthcare technology, Waller co-founded VisiQuate - a healthcare revenue cycle analytics company - before joining WellStack to lead its expansion into enterprise healthcare data infrastructure. He is known for his client-centered philosophy and belief that growth strategy is a team sport.
Todd Gottula
Todd Gottula is CEO and Co-Founder of Clarify Health, a San Francisco-based healthcare analytics platform that maps over 300 million patient journeys and delivers 18 billion-plus AI-predicted precision insights. A Caltech-trained chemical engineer who spent over a decade as EVP and CTO at Advent Software (acquired by SS&C Technologies for $2.7B), Gottula co-founded Clarify in 2015 to bring the data intelligence of banking and consumer industries into healthcare. The company has raised over $401M in total funding, including a $150M Series D in 2022, and earned the #1 KLAS ranking in Data Analytics Platforms for Payers.