Kalyani Velagapudi, PhD

Founder, President & CEO

• Doctorate in Health Economics with specialization in hospital cost optimization

• Served as a Board member of University of Washington Information School (2014-2018)

• 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

• 25+ years of experience in healthcare, software, technology, and telecom industry leaders like Virginia Mason, Microsoft, Fujitsu, and AT&T

• Drove Microsoft MSIT overall business alignment for the Office of the CIO

• Passionate about improving quality and efficiency of patient care while reducing costs

Bala G. Nair, PhD

Co-founder, Chief Solution Architect

• Doctorate in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering

• 20+ yrs of expertise in Perioperative Informatics, Clinical Decision Support, and Medical Devices from The Cleveland Clinic and University of Washington Medcal Center (UWMC)

• Served as Assistant Director of Clinical Engineering R&D at The Cleveland Clinic

• Served as Associate Professor in the Dept of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UWMC

• Served as Director, Center for Perioperative & Pain Initiatives in Quality Safety Outcome at UWMC

• 50+ publications in peer reviewed journals, holds 7 patents

Suresh Velagapudi, BE, MBA

Co-founder, COO

• MBA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• BE, BITS, Pilani

• 18 yrs of Engineering leadership experience at Microsoft in Exchange Server, Windows, Office, Mobile Search, Tablet PC, and Windows Live Platform

• Principal Group Program Manager for Microsoft Concept Development Team

• Managed Software Development of Telecommunications Applications for Tandem Computers

Dr. Irving Ye, MD, MBA

• MD and MBA, Vanderbilt

• BA in Economics, Yale University

• Fellow in Management of Perioperative Services – Stanford Healthcare

• Regional CMO and VP of Physician Operations at NorthStar Anesthesia

• Motivated by Perioperative care optimization, OR efficiency and IT innovation in hospitals

Richard Fade

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• ​Ignition Partners 

• Senior executive at Microsoft

  • SVP of OEM Division

  • VP Desktop Applications (MS Office)

  • VP of Far East Region

•  Co Founder of the University of Washington Autism Center 

Paul Suzman

• 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

• Founding board member of WTIA (Washington Technology Industry Alliance)

• Served on the boards of several local companies including The Learning Garden (acquired by Bright Horizons) and Torrefazione Italia Coffee (acquired by Starbucks)

• Former board member of The Pacific Science Center.  

• Founding board member and is on the executive committee of VillageReach (Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel: honorary chairs) 

• Serves on the advisory board of University of Washington’s Autism Center