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Patti Betts Learned to Sell the Experience Before She Sold the System
Before healthcare partnerships and enterprise software, Patti Betts spent nearly a decade selling weddings at the San Diego Zoo. The scenery changed. Her working idea did not: people commit when an ambitious system begins to feel personal.
Pollyanna Ma Makes Complicated Companies Easier to Understand
With a law degree, a classics education and a career spanning toys, beauty tech, insurance and workforce software, SnapCare’s chief marketing officer has made a specialty of translating complexity.
Ray Wahab Built for the Invisible Work Between an Empty Shift and a Filled One
Before Diem Health became a marketplace, Ray Wahab had already spent years on the operator's side of care. His compact public record reveals a founder trying to turn credential folders, phone calls and uncovered shifts into a cleaner piece of software.
Kerry Perez
Kerry Perez built a career by learning the next room before she was fully fluent in its language. Now AMN Healthcare's CMO is joining marketing, strategy and conversation into one operating system for growth.
Alicia Tulsee
Alicia Tulsee is the founder and CEO of Moxie Scrubs, the direct-to-consumer apparel brand for nurses she built out of the Harvard Innovation Labs, and now Moxie360, an AI workforce platform aimed at nurse burnout and retention. A daughter of Trinidadian immigrants raised in Queens, she sold costume jewelry at a flea market at 19, talked her way into marketing jobs in India, and stitched together an unconventional path that ended in an economics degree from Harvard. She is not a nurse herself; she built a brand for them because nurses cared for her dying father, and she designed Moxie 'for nurses, by nurses' by collaborating with the people who wear the clothes. She raised about $2.4M in pre-seed funding in 2022 and was named to the Forbes Next 1000.
Anne Rascón
Anne Rascón is the Executive Director of the Better Health Better Pay Collaborative (BHBP), a nonprofit that stitches together two systems that rarely talk to each other - healthcare and workforce development. She works to connect Medicaid members and Managed Care Organizations with education, training, and employment so that better jobs lead to better health. Her career spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including national workforce training programs and advisory work with the U.S. Department of Labor, large employers, and workforce boards. In 2023 she helped launch the Florida Self-Sufficiency Council with Simply Healthcare and Florida's 24 workforce development boards.
Ilana Borkenstein
Ilana Borkenstein is the co-founder and CEO of M7 Health, a New York healthtech company building nurse staffing and scheduling software designed by the people who live the night shift. A registered nurse who worked a bone marrow transplant unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering - the literal M7 floor the company is named for - she turned a Harvard Business School class project into a platform now used daily by tens of thousands of clinicians across more than 60 hospitals. M7 has raised about $17 million, including a $10 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures, on a single idea: fix nurse scheduling not as a math problem but as a human one.
Tess Michaels
Tess Michaels is the founder and CEO of Clasp (formerly Stride Funding), a Boston fintech that ties student loan repayment to employment - 'ROTC, but for healthcare.' Employers commit to clinical students before graduation and pay down their loans in exchange for years of tenure. A Wharton grad and Harvard MBA who cut her teeth at Goldman Sachs and Vista Equity, Michaels built her first company at 19. Clasp raised a $20M Series B in March 2026 and employers have committed more than $130M in loan repayment, with retention reportedly 2.5x higher than traditional hiring.
Carl Madi
Carl Madi is the co-founder and CEO of Stepful, a New York healthtech and edtech company that trains people for allied healthcare careers in weeks instead of years. After scaling operations at Uber, Airbnb, Handy, and Amino Apps and earning an MBA from Wharton, he started Stepful in 2021 with Tressia Hobeika and Edoardo Serra. The company runs AI-assisted, cohort-based programs for medical assistants, pharmacy techs, and other frontline roles, places graduates through a network of 8,000+ clinical partners, and was ranked the #1 EdTech company in the U.S. by TIME in 2025.