Advisory Board
Sunil Budhrani, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Sunil Budhrani is an emergency medicine physician and CEO of Innovation Health, a first-of-its-kind payer-provider partnership between CVS-Aetna and one of the largest health systems in the Washington, DC.
Katherine Reuther, PhD, MBA
Katherine Reuther is the Executive Director of Penn Health-Tech, advising and educating student and faculty teams and start-ups and a Practice Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Past Speakers
Steven Weiner, JD
Steven Weiner has been the Senior Director for Innovation and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania since 2020. Before taking on this role, Steven spent 9 years at SRI International as Chief Patent Officer and Deputy General Counsel.
Craig Kenesky, PhD
Craig Kenesky is an associate at Wilson and Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm that specializes in business, securities, and intellectual property law. Craig manages patent strategy that an early stage life science company needs to prepare for seed stage investment negotiations.
Courtney Braggs
Courtney is the co-founder of Fabric Health, a company that brings trusted, last-mile health care engagement by meeting busy families where they are, in the time they have to laundromats in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Jack Chow
Former U.S. Ambassador Jack C. Chow served in pioneering roles in public service and global health diplomacy. He was the first Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Rebecca Schechter
Rebecca joined Optum in 2018 and is the CEO for Optum Behavioral Health. Prior to Optum, Rebecca served as executive vice president, Commercial Insurance and president of Liberty Mutual Benefits where she led a multi-billion dollar division focused on voluntary benefits.
Jeff Hoffman
Jeff Hoffman is an award-winning global entrepreneur (participating in startups such as Booking.com, uBid.com, and more), worldwide motivational speaker, bestselling author, Hollywood film producer, a producer of a Grammy winning jazz album, and executive producer of an Emmy Award winning television show.
Mark Joinnides
Mark is head of business and corporate development at Vaxxinity, a startup spun-out of the UBI Group, where he’s worked since 2017. and previously spent 7 years in biopharmaceutical consulting at Simon-Kucher and CBPartners.
Robin Sitver
Robin Sitver is a seasoned strategic planning and corporate development executive. She is currently VP, Corporate Development at Alume Biosciences, CEO/ Founder of SitverStrategy, and a board member at Tempo Therapeutics.
Gary Phillips
Gary Phillips, MD is OrphoMed’s President & CEO since 2018 and was was Head of Global Healthcare at the World Economic Forum among many more high profile positions.