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Daniel Shearer Bet His Career on Creativity - Then Took It Beyond Advertising
After two decades inside Canadian advertising, Daniel Shearer crossed to the client side with a stubborn idea intact: creativity is an operating system, not a department.
Brian Serfass Is Making Marketing Feel Less Like Noise
The Teladoc Health chief marketing officer has spent three decades moving between finance, product and consumer experience. His latest argument is simple: earn attention through relevance, test what works and make the useful choice easier to remember.
Michelle Davey
Michelle Davey is the co-founder and CEO of Wheel, an Austin-based virtual care platform she started in 2018 with Griffin Mulcahey. Wheel powers back-end telehealth infrastructure for retailers, payers, pharma companies, and digital health brands, and connects them to a nationwide network of clinicians. Before Wheel, Davey ran talent at a telehealth company and had earlier stints in recruiting and operations at Google, Favor, and Medtronic. She has raised more than $216 million for Wheel across four rounds, including a $150 million Series C in 2022.
Brian Miller
Brian Miller is the CEO of Sovato, the Santa Barbara company building the first platform to let health systems deploy and scale remote robotic surgery. An electrical engineer turned roboticist with a PhD from Northwestern in haptics, he spent his first job at Computer Motion writing software for the AESOP and ZEUS robots and watched the 2001 Operation Lindbergh, the first transatlantic remote surgery. Twenty-three years at Intuitive Surgical followed, where he rose from control-systems analyst to Chief Digital Officer and Head of Digital and AI Strategy. In April 2026 he returned to the frontier he started on, taking Sovato from early market development toward its first patient programs in 2027.
Linda Finkel
Linda Finkel is a healthcare technology executive who runs OutcomesAI, a Boston-based company pairing AI voice agents with licensed nurses to expand nursing capacity through its Glia engine. Before OutcomesAI she spent over a decade building AVIA into the country's leading digital transformation partner for health systems, first as president from 2014 and then as CEO from 2020. A Stanford BA and Harvard MBA, she earlier ran large international services companies including Bowne Business Solutions and Donnelley Business Services, and pivoted to healthcare after watching her father's 91-day ICU stay reveal both the heroism and the gaps in modern care. She has been named one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in Healthcare.
Sheri Rudberg
Sheri Rudberg is the co-founder and CEO of WovenX Health, a Chicago-based digital health company that pairs specialty-trained virtual care teams with an AI-native platform to fix the brutal wait times patients face for gastroenterology and other specialty care. A lawyer and operator by training - Georgetown Law, a Northwestern MBA, and years running a $100M business at Hillrom - she started the company (originally Telebelly Health) after watching her own family struggle to get specialist appointments. WovenX partners with brick-and-mortar practices and health systems rather than competing with them, aiming to turn months-long backlogs into care delivered in minutes.
Soheil Saadat
Soheil Saadat is the founder and CEO of GenieMD, a global virtual care platform that bundles telehealth, remote patient monitoring, remote therapeutic monitoring and chronic care management into one modular, AI-assisted system. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer with a Ph.D., he is a four-time founder whose previous companies were acquired by Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies and Microsoft before he turned his attention from enterprise software to healthcare. His pitch is blunt: most virtual care wastes everyone's time, and a smarter system can let a doctor resolve a visit in under two minutes. GenieMD won Frost & Sullivan's 2024 Company of the Year award for virtual chronic disease management.
Chris Altchek
Chris Altchek is the founder and CEO of Cadence, a New York health-tech company that runs remote patient monitoring and virtual care for chronic conditions on behalf of large U.S. health systems. He built the company after selling his first venture, the millennial media brand Mic, which he co-founded at 23 with high-school friend Jake Horowitz. A Harvard social studies graduate and former Goldman Sachs analyst who also worked in the Bloomberg administration and the White House, Altchek pivoted from media to medicine through an entrepreneur-in-residence stint at Thrive Capital. Cadence reached a reported $1 billion valuation in 2021 after a $100 million Series B led by Coatue, and now monitors tens of thousands of patients across more than 20 states.
Harry DiFrancesco
Harry DiFrancesco is the CEO and co-founder of Carda Health, a New York-based virtual care company rebuilding heart and lung rehabilitation for the home. A philosopher turned coder turned operator, he taught with Teach For America, helped found a school, did business operations at Stripe, and started Carda in 2020 after caring for a parent who could not access prescribed recovery care. He blends human clinicians with AI to remove friction from care delivery, and runs ultramarathons and climbs mountains in his spare time.
Meena Mallipeddi
Meena Mallipeddi is the co-founder and CEO of AmplifyMD, an EHR-integrated, multi-specialty virtual care platform and national physician network that helps hospitals close specialist coverage gaps. Raised in a family of doctors and trained as a Stanford honors grad, Cambridge Gates Scholar, and a 15-year technology and healthcare equity investor, she left the markets to build the company alongside her husband and co-founder, Anand Nathan. Since founding in 2019, AmplifyMD has grown to 300+ programs across 150+ clinical sites, a network of nearly 300 physicians, and 15+ specialties, raising $43M total including a $20M Series B in 2025 led by Forerunner Ventures.
Sam Holliday
Sam Holliday is the co-founder and CEO of Oshi Health, the first nationwide virtual GI center of excellence, built on value-based, whole-person care. A digital health operator since 2013, he scaled companies across diabetes management, patient acquisition and population health before launching Oshi in 2019. In October 2024 the company raised a $60M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, reaching all 50 states and more than 40 million in-network members.
Owen Tripp
Owen Tripp is the co-founder and CEO of Included Health, the San Francisco company formed in 2021 when Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand merged. A serial founder with prior turns at Reputation.com, eBay and Accenture, he's known for an opinionated, plain-spoken leadership style and a thesis that better outcomes come from blending clinical expertise, software and human navigation.
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, the virtual-first chronic care company he started in 2011 after dropping out of Harvard's MD/MBA program. He took Omada public on the Nasdaq in June 2025 under the ticker OMDA, capping a fourteen-year build that began in a Chinatown coworking space and grew to roughly 850 employees.
Kurt Knight
Kurt Knight is the CEO of Foodsmart, the largest digital food-as-medicine platform in the United States, appointed in March 2025 after 13 years at Amwell where he rose to COO and helped scale virtual care nationally. With an MBA from Harvard, an MPH from Columbia, and field experience everywhere from UNICEF to the Gates Foundation to the Boston Consulting Group, Knight brings an unusually wide lens to the intersection of food, nutrition, and healthcare delivery.
Sean Mehra
Sean Mehra is the co-founder and CEO of HealthTap, a Sunnyvale-based virtual-first primary and urgent care platform serving millions of Americans across all 50 states. A Yale biomedical engineering graduate and Stanford MBA, Mehra pivoted from aspiring physician to serial tech entrepreneur—building games companies with hundreds of thousands of simultaneous players before co-founding HealthTap during his first year at Stanford business school. Under his leadership as CEO (appointed June 2021), HealthTap has grown to serve over 350 million consumers, partnered with Samsung Health to embed virtual care in millions of Android devices, and launched Dr.A.I., an LLM-powered pre-visit interview system. Mehra also co-founded what is now Yale's TSAI City entrepreneurship incubator.
Julia Hu
Julia Hu is the co-founder and CEO of Lark Health, an AI-powered virtual care platform managing over 30 million contracted lives. Born in Los Angeles to first-generation Chinese immigrants and raised largely by her father, Hu spent her childhood navigating an undiagnosed chronic condition that would ultimately reshape how she saw healthcare. She dropped out of MIT Sloan mid-MBA to build what is now one of the largest CDC-recognized diabetes prevention program providers in the country, having raised over $257 million and earned recognition from Forbes, Inc., and the UCSF Health Awards Hall of Fame.