Built by people who spent their careers at the frontiers of each.
Founders
Our founders bring rare, firsthand experience across insurance, clinical care, behavioral science, and technology. They didn't study the problem. They lived inside it.
CEO
Founder of multiple startups, including pioneering the concept of earned benefits — using clinical interventions to unlock financial and behavioral change. Ken was previously the Chief Scientific Officer of UnitedHealth Group while leading research and development.
CTO
Expert in the intersection of machine-learning (ML) and behavioral health who has developed affective reasoning models that use emotional intelligence to spark change and strengthen resilience. Sara is a former ML Engineer at Apple and an award-winning mobile game designer.
Architect of multiple award-winning insurance products that turn uncertainty into opportunity and make bold bets safer to make. Mike was formerly Executive Vice President of UnitedHealth Group and served as head of underwriting for UnitedHealthcare.
CMO
Catalyst for system-level change who draws on frontline experience as a pediatrician to drive innovation at scale. Formerly serving as Chief Physician Executive and board trustee for Intermountain Health, Mark's work has spanned building complex-care programs to leading one of the nation's largest health IT modernizations.
Board of Directors
Our board of directors has built companies, run systems, and deployed capital at the highest levels of healthcare. They bring the long view.
CEO
Founder of multiple startups, including pioneering the concept of earned benefits — using clinical interventions to unlock financial and behavioral change. Ken was previously the Chief Scientific Officer of UnitedHealth Group while leading research and development.
Rushika is a practicing physician and co-founder and CEO of Iora Health, which was acquired by One Medical and eventually Amazon. Prior to redesigning primary care with Iora, he served as the first Executive Director of Harvard's Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement.
Amy is a managing partner at Polaris Partners and founder of the Polaris Innovation Fund, which invests in healthcare and early stage biotech start-ups. Additionally, she serves as chair of the Board of Directors of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and is a member of the Board of Directors of Elevance Health, among other board positions. Previously, Amy served as president of Pfizer Nutrition and Pfizer Consumer Healthcare.
Dave is the co-founder of the private equity fund Jory Capital, serves as a member of the Temasek Americas Advisory Panel, and is a public company director for Boston Scientific and Privia Health. He was previously the CEO and board member of UnitedHealth Group and a Partner of Arthur Andersen.
Executive Vice President and CFO of Intermountain Healthcare, Bert has extensive experience in healthcare finance and operations. He has played a key role in transforming healthcare delivery and financial management.
Scientific Advisory Board
Our scientific advisors challenge our thinking, shape how we engage with research and the medical community, and help us stay ahead of what's changing in health.
Hematologist/oncologist and palliative medicine physician who co-leads an organization focused on dramatically accelerating timelines for understanding what clinical interventions work for whom and when. Her areas of research and expertise include cancer data, real world evidence, clinical trials, healthcare policy and regulation, health services research, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), clinical informatics, and patient-centered care. Amy was professor of medicine at Duke, principal deputy commissioner of the FDA and chief medical officer at Verily and Flatiron Health.
Researcher focused on using computational methods (AI, data science, informatics) to address problems relevant to medicine with a focus on understanding drug actions at molecular, cellular, organism and population levels. Russ helps lead an FDA-supported Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation and is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University.
Behavioral scientist and digital health innovator focused on developing scalable tools for chronic disease prevention and management. Gary's research has influenced national obesity treatment guidelines and informed new models for improving population health. He is Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, co-founder of multiple digital health ventures, and advisor to leading organizations on the science of health behavior change.
Physician and sociologist who conducts research in the areas of social networks and biosocial science. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab. He is the co-author of the book Connected, a foundational work on social networks and their influence on our everyday lives, and the New York Times bestseller, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society. Nick's portrait is based on a photo courtesy of Big Think.
Clinician who develops and applies computational techniques to address disease at multiple scales: from whole healthcare systems as "living laboratories" to the functional genomics of neurodevelopment. Zak is Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.
Lore is built by researchers, clinicians, engineers, operators, and specialists who bring genuine expertise to the work.
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