Mentors

XLerateHealth’ s 300+ mentors represent a broad network of experts across payers, hospital systems, clinicians, investors, serial entrepreneurs, and academia who guide our startups in developing smart, sustainable business models.

Experts are identified for their deep knowledge in lean startup techniques and domain expertise in key areas of healthcare commercialization, including the regulatory approval process, reimbursement strategy, intellectual property, HIPAA compliance, life science and med tech, digital health and telemedicine, healthcare operations, and sales/channel strategy.

Are you interested in becoming an XLerateHealth Mentor? Apply now!

Adam Wilson

Chief of Staff, UnitedHealthcare Operations

Al Lewis

CEO of Quizzify & Co-founder, Validation Institute

Alan Ezrin, PhD

CEO & Co-founder NXDevelopment Corp

Albert Di Rienzo, PhD

Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, One Health Group

Alex Frommeyer

Founder & CEO, Beam Dental

Ali Choucair, MD

Neuro-Oncologist, Norton Neuroscience Institute

Alice Shade, MHA

Health Center Advisor, Healthstat

Alicia Kelley, MBA, CAN

COO, Signature Advantage ISNP

Alli Truttman, MA, CPT

President & CEO, Wicked Sheets

Alyssa Kerns, MBA, MSN

Reimbursement Specialist, Humana

Aman Bhandari, PhD

VP, Data Science, Data Strategy & Solutions, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Amber Nigam

CEO & Co-Founder, Basys.ai

Amy Baxter, MD

CEO & Chief Medical Officer, Pain Care Labs

Andrew Renda, MD, MPH

Assoc. VP Population Health, Humana

Andrew Sykes

CEO & Founder, Habits At Work

Avik Ray, MD, MS

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham & Women's Hospital

Ayoosh Pareek

Orthopedic Surgeon, Hospital for Special Surgery

Baldassare Pipitone, DO

Managing Member, FortesMed Consulting

Ben Murcek, DO, FAOCO

ENT/Physician, Northern Ohio Medical Specialists

Bill Dawson

Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Renew Recovery

Bill Massey, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Vikor Scientific

Bill Santulli, MHA

COO, Advocate Aurora Health

Bob Saunders

General Partner, OCA Ventures

Brian Brohman

CEO & Co-founder, NX Prenatal

Brian Doheny, FACHE

Payer and Provider Senior Executive

Brian Holzer, MD, MBA

CEO, Lacuna Health

Brian Laden, PhD

President & COO, Appello Pharmaceuticals

Brian Norris, RN-BC, MBA

Executive VP, Population Health, Our Health

Brian Raney, MS

Founder, Awesome Inc

Bruce Gingles

Vice President, Cook Medical

Carla Dearing

Partner, Velo Group

Carlos Rodarte

Founder & Managing Director, Volar Health

Carol McCall, FSA, MAAA

Chief Health Analytics Officer, ClosedLoop.ai

Cedric Francois, MD, PhD

Co-founder & CEO, Apellis Pharmaceuticals

Charles Beckman, MBA

VP, National Network Operations, Humana

Charles Christ, PhD

President, C2 Consulting

Chiara Bell, JD

CEO & Founder, Careticker

Chris Hogg, MBA

Data Scientist & Serial Startup C-level Executive

Christopher Rand, PhD

Managing Director, Tri-Star Health Partners

Craig Russell

Healthcare Executive, Serial Entrepreneur, Growth Officer

Cristian Liu, MBA

Head of Strategy & Partnership Solutions, Health Business Development, Google

Dallas Carroll, CPA, MBA

Healthcare Consultant

David Bjork

Founder & CEO, Commonwealth Health Advisors

David Burianek, MBA

President, nFuzion Health

David Dlugo

Senior Engineer, US WorldMeds

David Edelman

CEO & Co-founder, Diabetes Daily

David Kennedy

VP Product Management, Lifelines Neuro

David Kil

Chief Data Scientist, CivitasLearning

David Phelps

President & CEO, CreoSalus

David W. Nagle, Jr.

Registered Patent Attorney, Stites & Harbison PLLC

David Willbrand, JD

Chair, Early Stage & Emerging Company Practice, Thompson Hine

Dean Katsiyiannis, MBA

President & CEO Hamilton Jones, Global Business Connections

Debbie Barber, CRNA, DNP

Owner, Triple Crown Anesthesia

Debra Chanda

Strategic Advisor, Launch120

Divya Patil

Engineering Tech Development Specialist, University of Michigan Center For Entrepreneurship

Ed Ikeguchi, MD

Board Certified, Urologist & CEO, AiCure

Elisa Maldonado-Holmertz

Member Board of Directors, FDA Medical Device Industry Coalition & Director Regulatory & Quality, Entvantage Diagnostics

Elizabeth Rounsavall

Partner, Rounsavall Investments

Emily Alva

Corporate Board Member, Amneal

Eugene Bajorinas

VP Operations, Novian Health

Eugene Krentsel, PhD

CSO & VP Of Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, XLerateHealth

Evan McClure, MD, MBA

Principal, ZRG Partners

Eve Phillips

Group Product Manager, Google

Galen Powers

CEO, AdaptivEndo

Grace Simrall

Chief Of Civic Innovation & Technology, Louisville Metro Government

Greg Langdon

Angel Investor & Startup Advisor

Greg Matthews

Founder & Principal, HealthQuant

Gregory Murdock

Partner & Angel Investor, Saunders Murdock

Henry Kuehn, MBA

Advisor & Medical Device Professional

Holly Symonds Clark, PhD

Deputy Director, Office of Technology Transfer, University of Louisville

J Pegues

Managing Director, Huron

Jacalyn Scribner, MBA, PMP

Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Momentivate Health Innovation Labs

Jack Lord, MD

Chairman, Dexcom

Jackie Willmot, RN, MSN, MBA

CEO & Co-founder, XLerateHealth

Jacqueline L. Wood, RN

Strategic Healthcare Operations Executive, PwC

Jake Miller, MBA

Founder & CEO Toggle Health

Jan Bruce

CEO & Co-founder, MeQuilibrium

Jay Yarlagadda, MD, MBA

General Partner, ATOMS VC

Jerrod Helms

Head of Sales, Ginger

Jin Lee, PhD

Digital Health Advisor, Neuropsychologist, Investor

Jitin Asnaani, MBA

Head of Partnerships, PatientPing

Joe Steier, MBA, EdD

President & CEO, Signature HealthCARE

Joel Coleman, MBA, BSME

Serial Entrepreneur

John Laughlin

Director of Partnerships, Near The Box

Jorge Serrano

Growth Manager, EnjAnalytics

Julia Aebersold, PhD

Micro/Nano Technology Center Cleanroom Manager, University Of Louisville

Kapil Parakh, MD, MPH, PhD

Chair, Innovation Advisory Group, American College of Cardiology, Medical Lead, Google Fit

Karen Handmaker

Principal, 4sight Health

Kathy Weaver, RN

Sr. Director, Clinical Systems, WellCare Health Plans

Kelly Rakowski, MHA

Group President & COO, Strategic Talent Solutions

Kerry Byler, MBA

CFO, Private Equity, Venture Capital

Kevin McCurren

Commercialization Program Director, Michigan State University, Innovation Center

Kim Spalding

Vice President & CFO, Venture First

Kristi Slack Leisinger, MBA

CEO, Copperleaf Consulting

Kyle Meetze, MBA

COO, Safi Biosolutions

Larry Blandford, PharmD

EVP of Customer Solutions at Precision Medicine Group

Leatrice Ford, RN, BSN, CCS

CEO, ConsultCare Partners

Lee Phillips

Co-founder & Board Director, Digital Health Institute for Transformation

Lindsey Anna, MPH

Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor, USAID, Bureau For Food Security

Lisa Bajorinas, MBA

Startup Advisor

Lynn Cooper

President & CEO, BFW

Mandy Wilson Decker, JD

Member, IP Attorney, Stites & Harbison PLLC

Marianne Hutti, PhD, ARNP

Nurse Practitioner Professor, UofL Grad School Of Nursing

Mark Arizmendi, MBA

Managing Partner, Northwestern Capital Partners

Mark Crane

VP Business Development, Venture First

Mark Gehring

EVP & CTO, ImageMover

Marty Bonick, MHA, FACHE

CEO, Ardent Health Services

Mary Auge

Director, Business Development, XLerateHealth

Mary Tapolsky, PhD

Assistant Director, External Programs, Forcht Center for Entrepreneurship

Melea East, BBA, JD

Owner, Oriane Solutions

Mert Iseri

CEO & Co-founder, Swipesense

Michael Fannon

President & Founder, BioIT Solutions

Michael Fisher

Managing Director, Kirchner Group & former Sr Managing Director, GE Capital & GE "Healthymagination Fund"

Michael Marvin, MD, FACS

CMO & Co-founder, Pronia Medical Systems

Michael O’Neil

Partner, Radial Theory

Michael Russman, CPA, MBA

SVP Consumer & Business Banking, US Bank

Mike Easley

Chief Information Officer, American SeniorCommunities

Ming Fang

Vice President, Redmile Group

Mohamed Gahnoog

SVP, Business Solutions, Bank Of America

Myong Lee

Co-founder & COO, Clever Care Health Plan

Natalie Thurston, RN, MBA, CPHQ

Payer Reimbursement Specialist

Nathan Sundheimer

Program Manager, Health & Lead, US Healthcare Partnerships, Plug and Play Tech Center

Nick Hamilton-Cotter

Development & Strategic Alliances, Medical Technology & Practice Patterns Institute

Nick Sarantis, MS, ATC

System Director of Digital Health, Baptist Health

Niki Kennedy, MD

Section Chief, Medical Informatics Officer, Henry Ford Health System

Pascal Deschatelets, PhD

COO & Co-founder, Apellis Pharmaceuticals

Paul Moses

Director, Business Development, Purdue Research Foundation

Paul Puopolo

EVP of Innovation, DFW

Pradeep Padmanabhan, MD

Pediatric Emergeny Medicine

Pranita Dharmadhikari

CEO, Innocelf, LLC

R. Edwin Spitzmiller, DO

Medical Director, NICU; Chair Dept of Pediatrics; Associate Chief Medical Officer

Ramsey Baghdadi

Co-Founder, Prevision Policy, Editor, The RPM Report

Raymond Vennare

Chairman & CEO, Cvergenx

Richard Heller, MD, MBA

VP Clinical Services & Ntl Dir of Pediatric Radiology, Radiology Partners

Richard Marchase, PHD

Managing Director, Kirchner Group & former VP for Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Rodney Samaan, MD, MPH

Founder, ProgressiveMD

Ruth Voor

Co-founder & Board Member, Vivorte

Sandeep Pulim, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Bluestream Health

Sanjay Jain, MD

Board Certified Gastrotenterologist,Southend Gastroenterology Associates Hepatologist

Sean O’Leary, MBA

Founder & CEO, Edj Analytics

Sebastian Alvim

Co-founder & COO, MyNurse

Sharmila Makhija, MD, MBA

Professor & Chair, Dept OB/GYN & Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Health System

Sophia Brown

Founder, SIS Informatics

Stephen C. Hanson, MPH

Partner, CEO Advisory Network

Stephen Carrithers, PhD

VP of R&D, Co-founder, Sequela & Lagrange Scientific

Stephen Hall, JD

Member & Life Science Patent Attorney, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP

Steve Clareen

VP & GM Value Brands, Envista

Steve Huey, MBA

CEO & Founder, TYP64

Stuart Williams, PhD

Director, Bioficial Organs Program, University Of Louisville

Sukhwant Khanuja, PhD

CEO, Blipcare

Suzanne Bergmeister, MBA, MSEE

EIR & Assoc Dir Forcht Center for Entrepreneurship

Ted Smith, PhD

Assoc Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Envirome Institute

Ted Steinbock, MD

Partner & Investor, Ridley Capital Group

Tendai Charasika, MBA

CEO, SuperFanU

Terry Wright

Registered Patent Attorney, Stites & Harbison PLLC

Thane Kreiner, PhD

Bio Tech Executive

Timothy Peck

Executive Portfolio Director of Health

Tom Granatir

Senior VP, Health Policy & Strategic Partnerships, American Board Of Medical Specialties

Tony Schy

Chair & CEO Advisor, Vistage Worldwide

Troy Koch, PharmD, MBA

Director, Account Medical Lead, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Vaughn Keller, EdD, MFT

President, Keller & Associates

Viji Evers, MBA

VP, Cloud Migration & App Modernization, Humana

Vik Chadha

Founder & CEO, Scalable Ventures

Ward Sparacio

CEO, Sweet River Trading Company

Wei Wu, JD

Patent and Trademark Attorney, Grable Martin Fulton PLLP

Wil Yu

COO, CHHP

Yuri Malina

Co-founder & VP Of Product, SwipeSense