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Emmy Weber Makes the Complicated Useful
After more than two decades turning technical complexity into clear choices, the former marketing chief now works across the seams of a healthcare software company - while making room for women navigating careers of their own.
Lori Taylor Has Spent 25 Years Making Complicated Healthcare Technology Easier to Buy
Her résumé runs through rebrands, demand engines and payer platforms. The more revealing thread is a career spent translating dense technology into a reason for customers to care.
Justin Steinman Makes Complicated Companies Sound Human
The ModMed CMO has spent two decades turning healthcare software, corporate transformations and one frantic Nasdaq debut into stories people can actually repeat. His method begins with plain English, shared ownership and a useful suspicion of marketing theater.
Bryon Thomas Has Spent 25 Years Making Complicated Software Easier to Want
From a five-week Citrix sprint to an AI-era role at Ensora Health, his career is a study in translating complicated technology into a reason to care.
Amit Bhardwaj’s Bet: Make Healthcare AI Feel Like Infrastructure
With 27 years across IT and operations, the Elevance Systems CEO is pursuing a practical idea: technology earns its place when it fits the workflow, secures the foundation, and helps people get on with the job.
Malachi Charbonneau
Malachi Charbonneau is the general manager and chief executive of medaptus, a Boston-based healthcare software company that automates charge capture, revenue integrity and hospitalist patient assignment. He joined medaptus in 2011 and worked his way up through implementation, customer care, and sales before taking the top job in 2021, giving him a rare, ground-level view of how hospitals actually run their revenue cycles and staff their care teams. Under his leadership medaptus, now a Volaris Group business, has expanded its Charge Pro and Assign products and partnered with large health systems such as Banner Health.
Matthew Levesque
Matthew Levesque is chief executive of IntelyCare, the Quincy, Massachusetts nurse-staffing platform that pairs per-diem shifts with roughly a million registered nursing professionals. He arrived in July 2024 after running Groups Recover Together and, before that, connectRN, and before that spending twelve years at athenahealth as it grew from a hundred-million-dollar company to a $1.3 billion one. In December 2025 he engineered IntelyCare's acquisition of CareRev, combining two of the loudest names in shift-based nurse labor into a single platform for hospitals and post-acute facilities.
Deborah Theobald
Deborah Theobald is the co-founder and CEO of b Inc. (formerly Vecna Technologies), a Burlington, Massachusetts company building telepresence robots and automation for healthcare, education, government, and tourism. An MIT-trained aerospace engineer with a master's in space robotics, she has spent more than two decades turning research-grade robotics into tools that help people connect and get care. She also founded VecnaCares, a charitable venture deploying health-record technology in low-resource settings across Africa, Haiti, and beyond. Her guiding belief: technology should serve humanity, not overshadow it.
Shabbir Dahod
Shabbir Dahod is the co-founder, President and CEO of TraceLink, the Massachusetts company that built the de-facto industry standard network for tracing pharmaceuticals from factory to patient. He started the company in 2009 out of ideas sparked at MIT, after earlier stints building multimedia and web products at Paul Allen's Asymetrix and Microsoft, and founding the serialization pioneer SupplyScape. Today he is pushing TraceLink's 291,000-entity digital network toward agentic AI and end-to-end supply chain orchestration, work that earned him a 2024 Pros to Know Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mohamed Shoura
Mohamed Shoura is the founder and CEO of PaxeraHealth, a Boston-based medical imaging AI company he launched in 2009 after spending 12 years inside Siemens and Toshiba Medical Systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Medical Imaging, has served as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and pursued a business degree at Harvard. Under his leadership PaxeraHealth has reached more than 2,500 PACS installations across 50+ countries, won Best in KLAS for Global PACS three years running, and closed a Series A round in late 2022. He also founded CarePassport, an award-winning patient engagement platform.
Adnan Iqbal
Adnan Iqbal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Luma Health, a San Mateo-based healthcare technology company that has built an AI-native Patient Success Platform used by 750+ healthcare organizations, 100 million patients, and 500,000+ providers. A second-generation Pakistani-American and serial entrepreneur, Iqbal studied environmental biology at UC Berkeley, earned an MPhil in BioScience from Cambridge University, and an MS/MBA from Stanford GSB. Before Luma, he spent five years in management at Genentech and co-founded AutoTB, a tuberculosis diagnostic startup that won both Cambridge and UC Berkeley entrepreneurship competitions. Luma Health has raised $160 million in funding and enabled $3.2 billion in healthcare revenue.
Ken Kaufman
Ken Kaufman is the CEO of Sirona Medical, a San Francisco-based cloud-native radiology platform backed by $118M in funding. A radiology IT veteran with decades of experience at IDX Systems, McKesson, and Allscripts, he co-founded PureWellness — a population health platform that grew to 15 million users and was acquired by Cerner in 2013. Now at Sirona, he is driving the company's mission to rearchitect radiology software with AI at its core, helping radiologists read faster, practice everywhere, and generate reports with unprecedented efficiency.
Marcos Martinez
Marcos Martinez is the CTO and Co-Founder of Fligoo, a San Francisco-based AI company building intelligent recommendation and predictive analytics solutions for financial institutions. Born in Córdoba, Argentina, he co-founded Fligoo in 2012 after earlier stints in software development. Under his technical leadership, Fligoo evolved from a social-graph gift recommendation engine into a WealthTech platform serving major institutions including Mastercard, Broadridge Financial Solutions, and Wells Fargo. Fligoo was named to the WealthTech100 in 2024 and has raised over $17M in funding, including a Series A round in 2020.
Matt Krueger
Matt Krueger is the Chief Executive Officer of Caresyntax, an AI-powered surgical intelligence platform used in 4,200+ operating rooms worldwide and supporting over 3 million surgical procedures annually. A decade-long veteran of the company, Krueger rose through roles including SVP & GM for the Americas & ANZ, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Customer Officer, and President before being elevated to CEO in July 2025. With 18+ years in medical devices and healthcare technology - including stints at Hill-Rom and TRUMPF - he has been a primary architect of Caresyntax's expansion and its consistent 50%+ organic revenue growth trajectory.
Chelsea Stoner
Chelsea Stoner is a General Partner at Battery Ventures who hunts down vertically focused software companies and healthcare-IT operators across North America. She joined Battery in 2006 and has helped scale Avalara, Glassdoor, Guidewire, Marketo, RealPage and WebPT, among others. Recognized on Forbes Midas Hot Prospects and GrowthCap's Top 25 Healthcare Investors.
Mat Malone
Mat Malone is the Chief Executive Officer of DataCare, a San Jose-based healthcare software company specializing in workers' compensation and medical management platforms. With over two decades at the company - rising from early engineering roles to Director of Engineering, Vice President of Engineering, and ultimately CEO - Malone has guided DataCare through large-scale platform modernization and the integration of advanced automation and AI capabilities into its flagship Ahshay! software suite. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz and brings deep technical fluency to a leadership role that sits at the intersection of complex regulatory compliance, clinical workflow optimization, and enterprise software development.
Jim Kim
Jim Kim is the Founder and General Partner of Builders VC, a San Francisco-based venture firm deploying capital into the unglamorous corners of the economy - agriculture, industrial technology, healthcare IT, and real estate - where pen and paper still govern billion-dollar decisions. A product of MIT and Columbia Business School, Kim has logged stints at GE Capital (where he built the company's venture arm), Khosla Ventures, and Formation 8 before launching Builders with a thesis that the most interesting returns live in sectors most investors won't touch. Three funds and $368M+ later, his portfolio spans synthetic biology (Bolt Threads), precision cattle data (Performance Livestock Analytics), construction tech (Fieldwire), and de-extinction biotech (Colossal). He practices kung fu, tends a Cabernet vineyard, and has been waiting his whole career for the U.S. soccer team to win a World Cup.
Jonathan Root
Jonathan Root is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in Menlo Park, California, where he has invested in early-stage companies since 1997. A board-certified neurologist who spent nine years in clinical medicine - including as a Director of the Neurology-Neurosurgery ICU at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center - Root brings a rare clinician's lens to venture investing. He focuses on medical devices, biotech, and healthcare IT, with a portfolio that spans Omada Health, Carlsmed, Cleave Biosciences, and Inari Medical (acquired by Stryker in 2025). His guiding principle: 'The greatest idea in the world will not be successful if it's not practical.'
Matt Garratt
Matt Garratt is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in Menlo Park, California, where he focuses on enterprise SaaS and AI investments. A former first employee at Salesforce Ventures — where he built one of tech's most successful corporate venture arms with 100+ investments and $2B+ in returns, including Zoom, Snowflake, Twilio, and MuleSoft — Garratt brings a rare combination of engineering rigor (materials science from Purdue), policy experience (UN clean energy work), and two decades of venture investing to back the next generation of AI-native companies.
J. Seth Strattan
J. Seth Strattan, PhD is a General Partner at Two Bear Capital, a Whitefish, Montana-based venture capital firm investing at the crossroads of life sciences and technology. With a PhD in Structural Biology and a BA in Philosophy from Stanford University, Strattan spent years at Stanford building and leading the engineering and data science teams behind landmark genomics consortia - ENCODE, the Human Cell Atlas, and the International Human Epigenomics Consortium - before pivoting to back the founders tackling biology's hardest problems. He is based in Silicon Valley, leads Two Bear Capital's Menlo Park office, and splits his remaining time between Montana and a family farm in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky.
Steve Krausz
Steve Krausz is a General Partner (now Senior Advisor) at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), one of Silicon Valley's longest-running early-stage venture capital firms. With over 35 years of investing experience, he has led or co-led board-level involvement in landmark exits including Check Point Software, Box, Guidewire Software, Imperva, and Trusteer (acquired by IBM). A Stanford-trained electrical engineer and Arjay Miller Scholar MBA, Krausz joined USVP in 1985 and has built deep domain expertise in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and data analytics. He currently serves on the boards of Cato Networks, Human Interest, Quantifind, Badge, Informed.iq, and Zefr, and is a strategic advisor to the B612 Foundation, which tracks near-Earth asteroids.
Ed Meyercord
Ed Meyercord is President, CEO, and Director of Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR), a publicly traded enterprise networking company with 2,700 employees and over $1.1 billion in annual revenue. He took the helm in April 2015 after serving as Chairman of the board since 2011, steering Extreme from a hardware-centric also-ran into a cloud-managed, AI-native networking platform. Under his watch the company now powers the wireless networks at Old Trafford, the Burj Khalifa, Taylor Swift concert tours, and Samsung's global operations, while its SaaS ARR has grown dramatically. Before Extreme, Meyercord ran Talk America (a publicly traded telco), Cavalier Telephone, and Critical Alert Systems, after starting his career as an investment banking VP at Salomon Brothers. He is also known for bringing improv comedy principles into corporate leadership and for his advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities through SKIT Programs.
Kedar Relangi
Kedar Relangi is the CEO and co-founder of Wilco Source, a Santa Clara-based Salesforce consulting firm specializing in healthcare and life sciences. Founded in 2014 alongside Sundar Ramasamy, Wilco Source became a go-to partner for pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms, payers, and health providers seeking enterprise-wide Salesforce implementations. In November 2022, CitiusTech acquired Wilco Source in a strategic move to combine healthcare domain depth with specialized Salesforce delivery capabilities. With a background spanning computer science degrees from Osmania University and RWTH Aachen, and over 17 years in IT and healthcare technology, Relangi built Wilco Source into a ~440-person organization with roughly $55M in annual revenue before the acquisition.
Ken Kopilevich
Ken Kopilevich is the Co-Founder and CEO of NEKLO LLC, a bootstrapped custom software development firm he built from a small startup in 2008-2009 into a 200-person global operation with $15.9M in annual revenue and a 5.0 Clutch rating. Working from Novato, California, he oversees a company that spans FinTech, eCommerce, and Healthcare software, with development centers in Eastern Europe. A dual-degree engineer with an MS from UC Berkeley and an MS from Riga Polytechnic University, Ken spent years at companies like AiBUY and Connected Life before channeling that experience into NEKLO, which has completed 450+ projects and retains 85% of its clients year over year.
Rakesh Vartak
Rakesh Vartak is the CEO of WAI Technologies, a Santa Clara-based AI-powered software and Microsoft solutions company with 250+ employees and offices in the US and India. With over 30 years in IT and ITES, he leads a company building next-generation developer platforms - including AI Pundit (spec-driven AI development) and Raaghu (open-source React design system) - that promise to deliver digital transformation 3x faster for enterprises across healthcare, finance, and logistics.
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.
Soni Lampert
Soni Lampert is the CEO of KLH Consulting, a full-service managed IT and cybersecurity firm based in Santa Rosa, California that has served businesses across Sonoma County and beyond for over 38 years. She co-acquired the firm alongside her husband Hub Lampert in 2005 and has since led it to become a regional IT powerhouse specializing in managed services, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and ERP implementation - including the wine-industry-specific Vintegrate platform built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. A published contributor to the Press Democrat and the North Bay Business Journal, Lampert bridges the gap between technology and industry, most notably in the intersection of IT and winemaking operations.
Steve Stevens
Steve Stevens (full name: John 'Steve' Stevens) is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Jopari Solutions, Inc., a Concord, California-based healthcare IT company he built from the ground up in 2003. Over more than two decades, Stevens transformed Jopari into a dominant force in electronic medical claims, attachments, and payment processing for Property & Casualty, Workers' Compensation, and Group Health markets - connecting 1.5 million healthcare providers with over 5,000 insurance payers and facilitating more than $1 billion in annual payments. In April 2026, Jopari was acquired by Office Ally, capping a career in which Stevens has raised over $100 million in private capital and helped pioneer digital healthcare claims workflows.
Reshma Khilnani
Reshma Khilnani is the Co-Founder and CEO of Medplum, an open-source, FHIR-native healthcare developer platform that gives builders the infrastructure to create custom EHRs, patient portals, and clinical apps without starting from scratch. A three-time founder with exits to Box and Ro, she previously built MedXT (YC W13) and Droplet Health before returning to Y Combinator as a Visiting Group Partner and then launching Medplum in the S22 batch. An MIT computer science graduate with deep expertise in healthcare regulation and payments infrastructure, she is one of the most technically fluent CEOs in digital health.
Sher Baig
Sher Baig is the Founder and CEO of CyberSalus (Cyber Salus Inc.), a global MedTech cybersecurity company protecting medical devices and clinical ecosystems across 150+ hospitals worldwide. With 17+ years of healthcare experience - including a decade building GE Healthcare's global Medical Device Cybersecurity commercial organization from the ground up - Baig launched CyberSalus around 2022, scaling it to manage over 2-3 million medical device endpoints. He also serves as an Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Singapore on medical device cybersecurity policy, and is a recognized speaker at HIMSS, Arab Health, and Hospital Management Asia conferences.