LARK - Key Persons
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- VP of Clinical Operations
Allison Braly is the VP of Clinical Operations at Lark.
Before joining Lark, Allison was the VP of Diagnostic Strategy at PathAI, where she was responsible for the identification and implementation of new strategic initiatives that enhanced PathAI's technology-enabled anatomic pathology lab. Prior to PathAI, Allison was the VP of Clinical Services at Amwell, where she led the day-to-day provider operations of the Amwell Medical Group. At Amwell, Allison led her division through the height of the COVID-19 crisis, contributing to the company's successful IPO. Allison has spent her entire career in the healthcare space, spanning digital health, medtech, and biotech, and in a variety of roles that include operations, strategy, BD, product marketing, and product development. Allison has her MBA from Duke University, and her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University.
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- Investment Partner, PFM Health Sciences ( Board Observer )
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- General Partner, Pegasus Tech Ventures
With a passion for making healthcare work better for everyone, Anita has dedicated over 29 years helping organizations bring data, insights and innovation to key stakeholders to improve care. Prior to joining Lark, she led Payer & Provider Strategy at IBM Watson Health after their 2016 acquisition of Truven Health where she was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations. Earlier in her career, she also worked at Medecision, Aetna and Watson Wyatt. Anita earned a Master of Health Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from The Pennsylvania State University.
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- Vice President, Data & Business Insights
Chad has experience leading teams that use data to solve complex problems. Prior to joining Lark, Chad led R&D of biosensing wearables at a med-tech startup. As an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College, he led translational research in surgical guidance that secured funding from the NIH. He completed post-doctoral training in the Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy at the Erasmus Medical Center, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Chad has degrees in Chemical Engineering, with a B.S. from West Virginia University and both a M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife and daughter. If he wasn't working in digital health, he would probably be a basketball coach.
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- Healthcare Technology General Counsel
- Senior Vice President of General Counsel
Christian is an experienced healthcare technology General Counsel with experience in start-up and high-growth environments, establishing and leading in-house legal and privacy teams, and advising executive leadership. Before joining Lark, Christian was the General Counsel and SVP, Legal and Business Affairs at Rally Health, Inc., a leading digital healthcare company, where he led all aspects of Rally Health's legal, privacy, compliance, and business affairs functions. Prior to joining Rally Health in 2015, Christian had a nearly ten-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, Office of General Counsel, where he led the Agency's litigation and investigations divisions. Christian lives in Vienna, VA with his wife and three children.
Danielle Russella is a 25+ year healthcare veteran with deep domain experience in commercial and government markets, client portfolio growth, business transformation, and creating high-performing client facing teams. She's built several companies from the ground up with a focus on global sales and enterprise distribution, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and all facets of go-to-market. Danielle led several companies through extraordinary growth, was a founding Board Director of the National Telehealth Provider Network, and had extensive roles in several companies that went public, including Amwell's IPO in 2020 (NYSE:AMWL).
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- Executive Leader, Investor, Advisor and Board Member
Ms. Edwards is an innovative pioneer in Digital Health and Telecommunications, stemming from her unique assignments in her early career at Stanford Research Center, continuing through rapid promotions as she successfully commercialized as a senior executive at Bell Canada - Enterprises to VP Sales at NorTel Networks to ATT to CEO at Middlewire, a venture-backed startup.
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- Vice President of Account Management
With over 15 years of experience in healthcare and employee well-being at companies like Welltok and Cigna, Hallie is an expert at understanding the needs of clients and their customers, and finding solutions that support their business objectives. Hallie has a track record of managing and developing teams of Program and Account Managers, ensuring delivery of client commitments, operational excellence and a consultative approach. Hallie has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley.
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- Cardiopulmonary Specialist, Exercise Physiologist & Performance Coach at NYU Medical Center
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- People Operations Leader
- Vice President of People Operations
Iveta is an experienced People Operations leader with a track record of building high-performing teams and creating innovative HR programs. Before joining Lark, she helped build Google's People Operations function as the company grew from 10,000 to 100,000 employees, working on compensation, performance management, manager development, diversity & inclusion, and internal communications efforts. Iveta earned her MBA from the University of California at Irvine, and her BS in Human Development from Cornell University. She lives in Ann Arbor MI with her husband and two children.
As the technical cofounder, Jeff is continuing to discover how to apply technology to bring humanity and connection to people with chronic conditions. Prior to Lark, Jeff co-founded and sold a social networking startup in Japan, co-founded Sanergy, the waterless sanitation startup at MIT that now has 250 employees, architected the backend tools to improve Kiva's microfinance platform, and Product Managed Yahoo.com's homepage. Jeff has a BS from UC Santa Barbara and MBA from MIT Sloan. When possible, Jeff spends at least one whole day each weekend meditating.
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- Distinguished Professor
- Senior Clinical Advisor
Jonathan Fielding is a Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and of Pediatrics in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Fielding is an expert in public health preparedness and communications. He served as Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health and for 16 years as Public Health Director and Health Officer for Los Angeles County. In this capacity, he was responsible for the county's public health response to numerous infectious disease threats. He served as a founding member of the U.S. Clinical Preventive Services Task Force and, for 17 years, as Chair of the U.S. Task Force on Community Preventive Services.
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- Dietitian, Founder of Nutrition Ammunition
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Leadership Team
Julia Hu is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Lark. Founded on the personal experience of having grown up with an undiagnosed chronic condition, Julia is passionate about bringing compassionate care to those struggling with or at risk of chronic disease. Hu was named one of the "Top 10 Women in Tech" by Forbes and was a winner of Inc. Magazine's "30 under 30". Prior to founding Lark in 2011, Julia ran global startup incubator, the Clean Tech Open, built a sustainable construction startup, and was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford's StartX incubator. She is on the board of the Council for Diabetes Prevention and a Singularity University faculty member. Hu received her Master's and Bachelor's degrees at Stanford University and half of an MBA from MIT Sloan before founding Lark. Julia loves to stay fit with hip hop.
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- Vice President, Engineering
- Vice President of Engineering at Lark Health
Magnus Hedemark is Vice President of Engineering at Lark Health. He is an experienced software engineering leader who is passionate about developing great teams, leaders and helping people fall in love with their careers again. He joined Lark with more than 30 years of experience in infrastructure operations, software engineering and has a talent for reinvigorating organizations. Magnus's experience spans many industries, but it was during his time as Senior Director, Hybrid Cloud Engineering at Gap Inc. when he decided to refocus his career back to impacting health care outcomes. While Magnus enjoyed his team and tenure at Gap, his desire to join a mission-driven team was getting too hard to ignore. Prior to Lark, he was a senior leader in Optum's Health Care Cloud program. Magnus is a champion of Neurodiversity. He is proudly and openly Autistic and ADHD.
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- Vice President of Strategic Operations
Melissa's career of more than 25 years has been dedicated to driving scale and growth for leading companies at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Prior to joining Lark, she advised early stage healthcare technology companies, served as Chief Operating Officer of VisiQuate (a healthcare revenue cycle analytics and workflow company), and co-founded BRIIA.io (an accelerator program for AI startups). Earlier, Melissa spent more than a decade in business development, operations, client management, and engineering leadership positions at MedeAnalytics (the largest pure play healthcare analytics firm) while they scaled from small start-up to over 500 employees and were acquired by a private equity firm.Melissa earned her Executive MBA from Saint Mary's College of California and her BA from Loyola University Maryland. Outside of Lark, Melissa loves spending time with her family, travel, and occasionally a good (bad) pun.
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- Vice President of Finance
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- Pharma Executive, Partner, Bluestar Bioadvisors
Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, has 20 years of clinical and research experience and is Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Joslin Diabetes Center. His research focuses on improving primary care health care delivery to enhance diabetes outcomes and patients' experiences.
Dr. Gabbay served as faculty chair of Pennsylvania's statewide Chronic Care Model-focused Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) initiative (Chronic Care Initiative) involving more than 150 primary care practices with support from 17 payers.
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- Partner, Castle Peak Partners ( Board Observer )
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- Chairman, Lark Co - Founder & Former President, Marvell Technology Group
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- Co - Founder & Partner, King River Capital