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Ronald Gaboury and the Thirty-Year Bet on the Hospital Room
He arrived at Yorktel with a calculator, stayed for three decades, and helped turn video conferencing into hospital infrastructure. Ronald Gaboury’s career is a study in patient reinvention - and in knowing when a useful side project deserves a company of its own.
Waleed Asif Learned to Fix What Others Threw Away
Before NexHealth became a billion-dollar company, its technical co-founder paid bills by repairing discarded computers. That instinct - open the box, question the design, make the old machinery useful - became a blueprint for taking on healthcare's locked data systems.
Andrew Speight Turned a Rebrand Into a Career in the C-Suite
He arrived at RXNT as a senior graphic designer and, in the same year, became its chief marketing officer. His career makes a tidy case for the executive value of noticing what everyone else skims past.
Mary Williams Left Legal AI for a Software Mission Close to Home
After marketing law, creators, performance and AI, the Minnesota operator chose Valant for a reason that arrived through her own family. Her career is a study in making complicated products legible - and then building the team to sell them.
Mike Etzinger Has Spent 18 Years Making Serious Software Sound Human
From Microsoft and OpenText to a long run through RL Solutions and RLDatix, the Toronto executive has built a career around a deceptively hard brief: make complex software useful, credible and human.
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.
Vince Koehler’s Long Game: Make Marketing Answer to Sales
From early digital agency work to healthcare software, Vince Koehler has kept returning to one stubborn idea: useful marketing earns attention, proves its value, and helps sales close the loop.
Tanner Thompson Is Making the Humble Staff Schedule Tell the Truth
At Covr, the Utah founder is turning whiteboards, payroll fragments and last-minute staffing calls into an operating system for long-term care - one small decision, one visible number and one reclaimed hour at a time.
Heidi Morin Put a Number on What the Hospital Floor Already Knew
A nurse director was asked to trim her workforce. Her own calculator found the unit was 9.6 full-time nurses short - and gave Heidi Morin the blueprint for a company built between the bedside and the budget office.
Colton Calandrella Is Building Software That Knows When to Get Out of the Way
Before Barti, he taught math, timed airport lines, and built software inside Bain. Now Colton Calandrella is applying the same systems instinct to the invisible work behind independent eye care.
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.
Shayan Khorassani
Shayan Khorassani is the Field CEO at Huma, the London-based AI health infrastructure company powering regulated digital health applications for pharma, providers, and governments across 70+ countries. A licensed architect turned health technology operator, he moved from designing physical structures at Tom Wiscombe Architecture and SCI-Arc to translating Huma's platform into deployments for global health systems.
Nick Shelly
Nick Shelly is the co-founder and CEO of Apero Health, a Y Combinator-backed (S19) medical-billing and revenue-cycle company in San Francisco that helps healthcare practices get paid faster and gives patients clearer bills. Before software, he was a computer scientist with an unusually wide runway: a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, a Stanford CS researcher in computer networking, and an engineer at Apple, Nicira, and Forward Networks. He turned that systems-and-networks training toward one of the least glamorous, most broken corners of American life - the medical bill - and built Apero with co-founder Jacinda Shelly to fix the plumbing behind it.
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.
Adam Farren
Adam Farren is the CEO of Canvas Medical, a San Francisco-based programmable EMR platform accelerating everyday medicine through AI-powered clinical workflows. With nearly two decades of experience scaling venture-backed companies across healthcare, fintech, media, and education, Farren rose from teacher and high school basketball coach to one of healthcare tech's most active growth operators. He spent eight combined years as Chief Growth Officer at Elation Health and Osmind before joining Canvas as President and COO in April 2023, then ascending to CEO in September 2024. Under his leadership, Canvas launched Hyperscribe - an open-source AI clinical copilot - and the Backplane platform for AI agent deployment, betting that the agentic future of medicine runs on open, programmable infrastructure.
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.