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Shrenik Jain
Shrenik Jain is the founder and CEO of Marigold Health, a Boston-based company that pairs certified peer specialists with 24/7 text-based support groups, supported by natural language processing that surfaces needs inside conversations. A Johns Hopkins graduate and former EMT, he raised an $11M Series A in June 2024 led by Rock Health and Innospark Ventures, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Healthcare.
Irad Eichler
Irad Eichler is the founder and CEO of Circles, an app that puts people through the same life challenge - divorce, grief, infertility, caregiving - into small, professionally guided peer support groups they can join from a phone. A serial social entrepreneur who earlier built Shekulo Tov, Israel's largest organization for people with psychiatric disabilities, he was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum. The idea for Circles came from watching his mother, in her final months with cancer, light up most not with him but with a friend who had walked the same road.
Dr. Alicia Garcia-Cisneros
Dr. Alicia Garcia-Cisneros is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Executive, and Certified Caritas Coach serving as Chief Nurse Executive at Valley State Prison within California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS). Born to Hispanic migrant agricultural workers, she climbed from Certified Nursing Assistant to the highest levels of nursing leadership over two decades, championing caring science, peer support programs, and staff wellness inside California's correctional health system.