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Andrew Hayek and the business of belonging
From an Olympic torch in a Las Vegas ballroom to the companies he builds with longtime colleagues, Andrew Hayek’s career turns on a practical question: how do you get people to work together?
Eric Rock
Eric Rock is the co-founder and CEO of Percipio Health, a Dallas-based company using AI and an ordinary smartphone - no medical devices - to collect whole-person health signals for scalable population health monitoring. A serial healthcare and technology entrepreneur, Rock previously founded ProHost (acquired by OpenTable), MEDHOST (a pioneering touchscreen emergency-department EMR), and Vivify Health, which grew into one of the largest remote patient monitoring platforms before Optum acquired it. Percipio launched in 2025 with $20M in Series A funding and a mission to bring proactive, low-cost care to entire populations.
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.
Rahul Rajkumar
Rahul Rajkumar is the founder and CEO of Accompany Health, a Bethesda, Maryland company delivering home-based, technology-enabled primary, behavioral, and social care to low-income Americans with complex needs, especially dual-eligible Medicare-Medicaid patients. A Yale-trained physician and lawyer who holds an MD and a JD, he spent 15 years redesigning how the U.S. pays for and delivers care, from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to chief medical officer roles at CareFirst and Blue Cross North Carolina and COO of Optum Care Solutions. Accompany Health launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding led by Venrock, ARCH Venture Partners, and IVP.
Faiz Ahmad
Faiz Ahmad is the Chief Executive Officer of Paula's Choice Skincare, the Unilever-owned, Seattle-based science-driven beauty brand. He spent two decades building direct-to-consumer machines at Apple, Delta Air Lines, Optum and YETI before stepping in to steer Paula's Choice through a sports-meets-skincare era anchored by the FIFA World Cup 2026 sponsorship.