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 Technology Officer
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Doctorate in 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 Medical 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
VP of Data Science
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MS in Data Science - UC Berkeley
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BS: Bioengineering & Informatics at the University of Washington
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Previously worked in the Microsoft Office 365 Amplify Intelligence Team
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Built and grew scalable ML platform for customer service - used in both consumer & commercial applications
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Designed & developed organization-wide KPI pipeline
Medical Advisors
Howard A Schwid, MD
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BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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MD, Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Previously Professor of Anesthesiology - University of Washington and UC-Irvine
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Founder, Anesoft Corporation
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Physician lead for multiple electronic medical record implementations at major hospital systems
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Authored 50+ articles on computerized clinical decision support and perioperative technology
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Motivated by perioperative care and revenue 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