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Ashish Mandavia Is Fixing the Six-Second Moment Before Care Begins
A physician left the ward, learned the machinery of growth, and found his company in healthcare's overlooked doorway. Now Sohar Health is turning insurance verification from a waiting game into infrastructure.
Jeffrey Morelli
Jeffrey Morelli is the co-founder and CEO of Silna Health, a New York company building an AI-powered Care Readiness Platform that automates prior authorizations, benefit checks, eligibility verification, and insurance monitoring for specialty healthcare providers. The son of a career nurse, he was the first sales hire at income-verification startup Truework and earlier worked at autism-care company Nightingale before starting Silna in August 2023 with Pavel Asparouhov and Sagar Jajoo. Silna has raised $27 million from Accel and Bain Capital Ventures and has helped more than 50,000 patients get cleared for care. In 2025 Morelli was named among the Healthcare Technology Report's Top Healthcare Technology CEOs.
Kelvin Chan
Kelvin Chan is a co-founder of Nirvana, a New York healthtech company that uses machine learning and data science to turn insurance verification and cost estimation into something providers and patients can trust. He leads product and serves as president. A Columbia-trained neuroscientist who spent years building enterprise data software at Enigma, Chan started Nirvana in 2019 after a frustrating personal experience trying to find out whether his insurance would cover a therapist. The company has raised $24.2M in Series A funding led by Northzone and now powers eligibility checks across digital health platforms and provider offices nationwide.
Paul Szemerenyi
Paul Szemerenyi is the CEO of Jones, an AI-powered insurance verification platform for the construction and real estate industries, appointed in January 2026 after co-founder Omri Stern moved to the board. He has more than 20 years running go-to-market at high-growth SaaS companies including Allbound (CEO), Bizzabo (CRO), Fuze, Appboy/Braze, AppSense and 1E, and before that served as an officer on nuclear submarines in the Royal Navy.
Elan Amir
Elan Amir is the CEO of MeasureOne, a San Francisco-based consumer-permissioned data platform that enables businesses to verify income, employment, education, and insurance data with consumer consent. A UC Berkeley PhD in Computer Science, Amir brings decades of deep technical and operational experience - from co-founding a broadcast media company acquired by Inktomi, to serving as CTO at early mobile web pioneer OmniSky, to leading Bivio Networks as CEO for nine years through a cybersecurity pivot. He joined MeasureOne as COO in 2018 and became CEO in 2019, guiding the company to raise $7.1M and forge major partnerships with Experian, BeSmartee, and GDSLink.