The Inceptary

Algis Leveckis is CEO at GlobalBridgesHealth LLC. Al is an entrepreneur and advisor to global firms, helping organizations to integrate business, market and product strategies in new and changing markets. A pragmatic innovator, he advises startups on growth and product market value, and established firms on how to gain value from relationships with startups.

He has also co-founded startups and established European healthcare firms in the US with lighthouse clients and paths to scaling. On the non-profit side, Al is one of the original members of the San Francisco Technology Council, and serves on the Steering Committee.

Previously as a Partner in boutique management consulting firms, Al worked globally with clients in multiple industries to clarify and focus their strategy, and then execute effectively – centered on technology-enabled business transformation.

Transplanted from Boston, Al has lived in the Bay Area for 20 years. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Tej Anand is an award-winning business-technology strategist, innovator, educator and practitioner who was a senior healthcare business-technology executive at Medco Health Solutions and CareCentrix. In both these companies, Tej conceived ideas and led teams in the execution of innovative business models and business processes that lowered healthcare costs and improved clinical outcomes. His work has led to several patents. As an electrical engineer and computer scientist who specialized in artificial intelligence (AI) research in the late 1980’s, Tej pioneered commercial data mining, now known as data science. His work at NCR/Teradata, A. C. Nielsen and Philips Research Laboratories led to several patents and profitable revenue producing products. Tej also worked as a CIO and a management consultant at Golden Books, NetCreations, and The Concours Group.

Tej earned his doctorate in adult learning and organizational leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University and his passion is to find solutions at the nexus of business, operations, data and technology with a central focus on people. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas in Austin and a Visiting Lecturer at Columbia University, School for Professional Studies.

Kami is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Community Tech Network, devoted to unite organizations and volunteers to transform lives through digital literacy. With over 15 years of experience working in the public sector, Kami has developed a passion for helping people gain access and better utilize technology, after witnessing firsthand how the digital divide and low literacy levels were aiding the cycle of poverty.

She has worked for the City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, managing 27 public access computing centers, teaching computer classes and establishing their volunteer trainer program. As the Training and Outreach Manager for TechSoup Global, Kami greatly expanded her knowledge and understanding of the nonprofit technology field, having conducted over 200 interviews with librarians and producing over 100 webinars. She is a founding member of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) and speaks nationally about digital inclusion.

Anne Hinton’s career spans more than 40 years including 10 years as the Executive Director of the San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services which serves older adults and younger adults with disabilities. In this capacity she had responsibility for the Departments 4 divisions: In Home Supportive Services, Protective Services, Office on Aging/Veterans Services and Office of Long Term Care. Her prior positions include the following: Director of Home Care, Care Management and Fiduciary Services Department for the Institute on Aging, Director of Aging Services for San Francisco Catholic Charities and Director of South San Francisco Senior Services.

In the past she has served on the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging Board of Directors and the California Association of Area Agencies on Aging Board. Anne was also an attendee of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging and the first recipient of the Justice in Aging 2016 Paul Nathanson Distinguished Advocate Award and the Community Living Campaign 2015 Norma Satten Community Service Innovation Award.

Currently Anne is a co-chair of the San Francisco Technology Council, a member of the Northern California, Northern Nevada Alzheimer’s Board of Directors as well as the Boards of Self Help for the Elderly, Institute on Aging and San Francisco Village. She also serves as a Livable Communities Advisor for AARP California, where she is Chair of the Autonomous Vehicle Workgroup.

Ron Davidson has spent his career bridging the gap between technology and senior living. His career began as a nursing home administrator. After seeing daily a need for impactful change, he pivoted his career into working with healthcare technology startups. He has raised capital and partnered with Apple, Lyft, Google, and many others to bring technology into healthcare. He now serves as an advisor to multiple healthcare startups and leads an investment arm of a large healthcare organization.

He has an MBA from the University of West Georgia, and he earned his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Alabama.

Anil is CEO of SherTech Information Services Inc., an IT Solutions, Consulting and Digital Marketing service provider. Has successfully led and built 400+ technology member teams (onsite and offshore). His experience includes solution implementation in multiple industries, such as Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Pharma, Retail, Media, Aerospace & Defense (A&D) and Supply-Chain management. He is an expert in technology roadmap, cloud adoption, digital transformation and using technology to design & build process-workflow automation solutions for operational optimization and cost savings.

Anil has managed multi-year greenfield platform build and implementations at AIG, Athene, CareCentrix, Colgate, GE-AE, Dow Jones, Dept of Health NYC, amongst others. Further He has worked with startups and mid-size companies to build products from an Idea-concept to market launch. Having an eye for details, he drives the use of Cloud and reliable open source products to provide higher ROI for technology investments.

Anil holds a MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India.

Mary Lu’s vast experience in health care spans the life cycle from birth through end-of- life care. She is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with a Masters in Pediatric Oncology and is a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

As part of her nursing training, she worked at Saint Christopher’s Hospice in London— the pioneering palliative care program. She then started her career at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where she became Unit Leader of Pediatrics, specializing in pediatric cancer and cardiac disease. Later, Mary Lu worked as a Nurse Practitioner at the Respiratory Center for Children at Morristown Medical Center and then as adjunct professor at Seton Hall College of Nursing where she guided students through their clinical experiences.

Her experience also includes consulting for the Illinois Cancer Council, leading Northwestern University Health Service’s corporate wellness program, working with high-risk mothers for the Division of Youth and Family Services, and leading numerous bereavement groups.

These wide-ranging experiences helped shape Mary Lu’s understanding of the immense importance of the relationship and connection between the caregiver and patient and her philosophy of providing unconditionally compassionate care with respect and empathy for every patient and their family members at every stage of life.

Scott has 15+ years of experience in healthcare life science consulting with clients such as GE Healthcare, GE Ventures, Amgen, Genentech, Pfizer, Novartis, J&J, Cepheid, Medtronic, Stryker, Haemonetics, United Health, and, HCA, as well as an AI startup focused on wearables medical diagnostics.

Scott specializes in market access, new market entry, capital raising, strategy, and innovation. He is Partner at Thalamus Labs, a boutique consulting firm focused on applying new technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, and IIoT for value creation in mid-market manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer-oriented organization. Scott also serves on the Advisory Boards for startups ranging from a mobile/remote wearables medical diagnostics to emerging companies focused Alzheimer’s Disease and oncology.

In a degree in Politics, Economics, Rhetoric, & Law from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Kellogg, Scott has completed the following Executive Education courses:

Strategies for Protecting and Monetizing Intellectual Property: An executive education course from the Harvard Business School. This course explored the interface between law and business and provided a comprehensive foundation required to transform an intellectual asset into a commercially viable product to generate significant financial returns.

Biotech Value Creation Strategies: A graduate management certificate from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Course covered value-based strategies in the complex biotech environment, including building value through capital, joint ventures, alliances, mergers and acquisitions, as well as sustaining value through regulatory and network strategies.

BioImmersion: An executive education course covering basic biological concepts that are the starting point for biotechnology and then expands upon these concepts to include the resulting R&D techniques and biotech products.

Shohreh is passionate about patient empowerment so that patients actively engage in their own care and harness their experiential knowledge of the illness for better outcomes. She believes that when patients are engaged, either individually or collectively in groups, clinical outcomes improve. She has a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University in adult and organizational learning and degrees in Computer Science.

Her research interests are at the intersection of health, illness and technology. Her dissertation research was on learning of patients with chronic condition and the management of their illness within the healthcare system. Previously, she contributed breakthrough research in medical imaging, in particular digital mammography.

Shohreh is the Director of Center on Patient Engagement and Learning at LearnLong Institute and is an educator who promotes technology literacy by teaching college computer science courses.

Phillip is the CEO of VTeaming, an experiential learning platform for vertical talent development. He and his team have developed real-time conversation analytics to accelerate dispositional learning and coaching in immersive simulations.

Phillip’s passion is coaching leaders to adapt to change, particularly in tech-intensive environments: software development, clinical care, financial services etc; where productivity, value creation and successful outcomes are highly dependent on teaming behaviours and social learning.

He has thirty years’ experience as a consultant and coach to private and public sector leaders on improving productivity, mobilizing mission critical projects, and retaining talent. He has worked on large-scale projects with global giants like BHP-Billiton and RioTinto, as well as tech startups and nonprofits. His public sector work includes hospital clinicians, allied health, energy and water utilities, local government and the US Army. With a strong background in somatic practices, he has coached Olympians and presented his work at conferences in North America, Australasia and Europe. He has served on the board of the International Coaching Federation (Australasia) at state and national levels.

Mehrdad is one of the CoFounders of CoreCare, a healthcare technology company that is automating the revenue cycle process for healthcare providers. CoreCare is a Y Combinator S20 alumnus. Prior to starting CoreCare, Mehrdad worked in financial technology where he developed data management, process automation and payments technology for the largest financial institutions in the world, including: Bank of America, Barclays Bank and JP Morgan Chase.