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Nicholas Barbara Is Building for the Other 167 Hours
A product operator and a speech therapist built Expressable around a stubborn idea: progress depends on what happens between appointments. Nicholas Barbara's job has been turning that insight into a company that can travel.
Veera Anantha
Veera Anantha is the co-founder and CEO of Constant Therapy Health, a Boston-based digital therapeutics company whose AI-powered app helps people living with stroke, traumatic brain injury, aphasia and other neurological conditions rebuild speech, language and cognitive skills. A trained engineer and physicist with a PhD from Northwestern and a degree from IIT Bombay, he spent years building products at startups acquired by Apple and Motorola before turning to brain rehabilitation. Under his leadership the platform has delivered well over 100 million therapy exercises, creating what is described as the largest real-world brain rehabilitation dataset, and he champions AI that is accountable and explainable enough for healthcare.
Christina Sanders
Christina Sanders, M.A., BCBA is the Chief Executive Officer of Opya (rebranded as Spectrum Pride), a California-based autism early intervention therapy provider delivering ABA, speech, occupational, and feeding therapy to young children. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a Master's from Ball State University, she rose from VP of ABA Clinical Operations to CEO, overseeing a company that has raised $34.7M in venture funding, earned BHCOE 3-year accreditation, and expanded across Northern and Southern California to serve over 110 employees and thousands of families.