Health tech
entrepreneur & operator
Scaling startups develop cracks in their organizational infrastructure faster than they can patch them. These problems tend to be ambiguous, span the entire company, and have no natural owner. As Elad Gil writes in The High Growth Handbook, the solution is a trusted generalist who steps in to create systems across functions. Building in health care–among the most regulated, slowest-moving industries–adds another layer to the challenge.
I’ve spent the last several years playing exactly this role at two digital health companies. At Renew Health, a Medicare brokerage and later PBM founded with Venrock, I served as COO, operating from founding through 50 employees and $20M of financing. At Noom, a health coaching platform backed by Sequoia and Silver Lake, I served on the executive team as VP of Operations and, later, GM of the Healthcare division as the company grew revenue to more than $600M.
Now, I’m partnering with digital health founders as a fractional executive to help scale their companies and launch new products.
My background is unusually broad. Stage wise, I’ve operated at company founding, Series A/B, and Series E/F. I love rolling up my sleeves as an individual contributor, but I’ve also led a P&L with eight figures of ARR. I’ve built and managed a wide variety of business functions–People, Recruiting, Finance, Strategy, Business Operations, Clinical Operations, BD, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. As an entrepreneur, I’ve built and brought to market digital health businesses across domains including insurance brokerage, employer/payer distribution, virtual care, and revenue cycle management.
My versatility positions me particularly well to solve precisely the company-level problems that have no obvious home in a high-growth health tech company. Because I work fractionally, I can get to work immediately and on flexible terms. I also have extensive experience scoping and hiring for permanent roles once systems are built and requirements are far clearer.
If you’re a founder facing these types of challenges, I’d love to hear from you.