
He used store pickup, then went inside anyway to talk with the team. From Walgreens to Thrive Physical Therapy Partners, Brad Ulrich’s career offers a close look at the distance between running an organization and knowing its people.

The former Walgreens executive returned to entrepreneurship with a simple Philadelphia thesis: access matters, but the experience begins before anyone reaches an exam room.
Oron Afek is co-founder and CEO of Vim, a New York-based healthcare technology company that plugs into electronic health record systems to close the gap between insurers and clinicians at the point of care. An Israeli entrepreneur with a background in the IDF's special forces and a summa cum laude degree in law and business from IDC Herzliya, he founded Vim in 2015 with Sequoia Israel as founding investor and has since raised over $100 million from investors including Optum Ventures, Anthem, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Frist Cressey Ventures.