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Brad Kreick
Brad Kreick is the CEO of AccessHope, a commercial venture spun out of City of Hope that connects local oncologists with subspecialist cancer experts at NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. After three decades moving between payers, providers and private equity - Oxford Health Plans, Apria Healthcare, SolutionHealth - he took the helm to turn a nonprofit cancer benefit into a national business, closing a $33 million Series B in 2024 and scaling AccessHope past 10 million covered members.
Fawad Butt
Fawad Butt is the co-founder and CEO of Penguin AI, a Palo Alto-based healthcare AI platform company that raised $29.7M in Series A funding in September 2025. A former Chief Data Officer at Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealthcare, and Optum, Butt spent years on the buyer side spending hundreds of millions on generic tech before deciding to build the solution healthcare actually needed. Penguin AI targets the $1 trillion annual administrative burden in US healthcare with purpose-built agentic AI, small language models, and digital workers that compress prior authorization reviews from 30 minutes to under two, positioning itself as 'the Epic of the healthcare back office.'