Healthcare

Derek is known for driving transformational change within highly regulated spaces including healthcare and life sciences in both startup and enterprise settings. Most recently, he led the delivery and operationalization of clinically validated AI models at population scale as well as the adoption of Generative AI-based infrastructure within a Fortune 20 payer, driving $500M in operational gain. Derek is also a recognized thought leader in bringing Zero Trust, Cloud Native patterns, and applying Generative AI to the healthcare sector.

Chris is an expert in taking startup ideas from zero to one and in turning around underperforming corporate innovation teams. He has built product portfolios and SaaS platforms generating $750M ARR across disparate industries and technologies including AI/ML in Health Care, NLP, IoT and virtualization at scale. He invented and built SAP’s Consumer & Life Science and Healthcare IoT, VoC NLP platforms from concept to market launch and the first millions in sales. The teams he led received multiple industry awards. Chris mentors CEOs and CTOs at Stanford Graduate Business School, Alchemist Accelerator & invests as an angel with The Band of Angels. He can help with streamlining your product, market, fundraising, engineering and GTM.

Dr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-founder of telehealth startup Nurx, angel investor, startup advisor, and a former family physician. He founded Nurx to make prescription birth control more accessible. The company has since grown into a full-service telehealth startup in the prescription medicine delivery space and is backed by some of the world's most prestigious VCs such as Union Square Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Y Combinator, to name a few. Nurx has been featured on Y Combinator's list of 100 most valuable startups several years in a row. Eddie has made appearances on ABC, CBS, and NBC, and has been featured in Scientific American, New York Times, S&P Global, USA Today, and Forbes, among others. An active angel investor, he is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and aspiring founders looking to build great startups that help shape the future.