Leadership
Kalyani Velagapudi, PhD
Founder, President & CEO
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Doctorate in Health Economics with specialization in hospital cost optimization
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Served as a Board member of University of Washington Information School (2014-2018)
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Founder of Winigent, a successful consulting firm specializing in Advanced Analytics and Data Science. Winigent serves many large enterprises including the University of Washington Medical Center, Microsoft, and the State of Washington among others
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25+ years of experience in healthcare, software, technology, and telecom industry leaders like Virginia Mason, Microsoft, Fujitsu, and AT&T
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Drove Microsoft MSIT overall business alignment for the Office of the CIO
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Passionate about improving quality and efficiency of patient care while reducing costs
Bala G. Nair, PhD
Co-founder, Chief Solution Architect
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Doctorate in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
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20+ yrs of expertise in Perioperative Informatics, Clinical Decision Support, and Medical Devices from The Cleveland Clinic and University of Washington Medcal Center (UWMC)
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Served as Assistant Director of Clinical Engineering R&D at The Cleveland Clinic
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Served as Associate Professor in the Dept of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UWMC
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Served as Director, Center for Perioperative & Pain Initiatives in Quality Safety Outcome at UWMC
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50+ publications in peer reviewed journals, holds 7 patents
Suresh Velagapudi, BE, MBA
Co-founder, COO
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MBA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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BE, BITS, Pilani
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18 yrs of Engineering leadership experience at Microsoft in Exchange Server, Windows, Office, Mobile Search, Tablet PC, and Windows Live Platform
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Principal Group Program Manager for Microsoft Concept Development Team
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Managed Software Development of Telecommunications Applications for Tandem Computers
Medical Advisors
Dr. Irving Ye, MD, MBA
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MD and MBA, Vanderbilt
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BA in Economics, Yale University
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Fellow in Management of Perioperative Services – Stanford Healthcare
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Regional CMO and VP of Physician Operations at NorthStar Anesthesia
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Motivated by Perioperative care optimization, OR efficiency and IT innovation in hospitals
Business Advisors
Richard Fade
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Senior executive at Microsoft
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SVP of OEM Division
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VP Desktop Applications (MS Office)
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VP of Far East Region
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Co Founder of the University of Washington Autism Center
Paul Suzman
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Founder of OfficeLease, a real estate firm which pioneered commercial tenant and buyer representation whose clients included Cray, Bright Horizons, Amazon, Deloitte & Touche, Zymogenetics, and Phenopath
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Founding board member of WTIA (Washington Technology Industry Alliance)
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Served on the boards of several local companies including The Learning Garden (acquired by Bright Horizons) and Torrefazione Italia Coffee (acquired by Starbucks)
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Former board member of The Pacific Science Center.
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Founding board member and is on the executive committee of VillageReach (Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel: honorary chairs)
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Serves on the advisory board of University of Washington’s Autism Center