EQUIDEUM - Key Persons

Alex Cahana

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Founding Partner, BT Block Health Group

Andreas Freund

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Strategy and Technical Advisor, Envision Blockchain Solutions

Anna Beer

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Product Manager, AI Portfolio

Bill Watson

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VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

FHIRBlocks co-founder Charles (Buddy) Miller has served in senior executive roles in the telecommunications industry for over 30 years. From 2000 to 2014, he was Vice Chairman of Level 3 Communications with responsibilities including corporate strategy, M&A, business development, marketing, and information services. Before Level 3, Buddy was president of BellSouth International, where he previously led corporate strategy and development. Buddy received A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard in 1974 and 1977. Before his telecommunications career, he practiced corporate law at Ropes & Gray in Boston and King & Spalding in Atlanta, where he and his wife Pinney Allen resided from 1979-2019. Their charitable interests focus upon educational opportunity, particularly, Breakthrough Collaborative. Pinney chaired the board of Breakthrough Atlanta for several years, and Buddy served as Board Chair of the national collaborative for fiscal years 2017-19. In 2019 they moved into their new home in Pebble Beach, CA.

Dan Sanders

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Chief Commercialization Officer, Chief Security Officer

David Metcalf

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General Partner and Managing Director of Global Blockchain Ventures

David Metcalf is a General Partner and Managing Director of Global Blockchain Ventures and the Director of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL) at the University of Central Florida's Institute for Simulation and Training. Dr. Metcalf has more than twenty years of experience in designing and researching web-based and mobile technologies converging to enable learning and healthcare. His approaches have saved companies millions of dollars while guiding business transformations for learning organizations. Dr. Metcalf's focus areas include learning business strategy, performance measurement, operational excellence, outsourcing, blended learning, and mobile learning. His current research topics include simulation, mobilization, mobile patient records and medical decision support systems, visualization systems, scalability models, secure mobile data communications, gaming, innovation management, and operational excellence. He is the co-editor/author of Voice Technology in Healthcare (2020) and Blockchain in Healthcare (2019) as part of the HIMSS Emerging Technology Series, Blockchain Enabled Applications (2018), Connected Health (2017), HIMSS mHealth Innovation (2014), and the HIMSS best-seller mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems (2012).

Debbie Bucci - Chief Data Officer

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Chief Data Officer

Doug Bulleit

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Vice President, Consumer Lines of Business

Farinaz Koushanfar

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Professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Gerard Gingco

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Vice President, Production Engineering and Technology Commercialization

Gisele Waters

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Founder of Engineering Hearts™, Human Centered Design Researcher for Symbiotica LLC, Adjunct Faculty Applied Research at Nova Southeastern University

Heather Leigh Flannery - Founder

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Founder
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health

Heather Leigh Flannery is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health, a spin-off from ConsenSys AG effective March 2nd, 2020. She chairs the IEEE SA Open P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in healthcare and life sciences), served as FY19 and '20 Co-Chair and FY21 Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, Chairs the Healthcare Interest Group at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), and is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers Blockchain for Science. She is also Co-Founder and Board Chair of Blockchain in Healthcare Global ("BiHG"), a 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO. Ms. Flannery has served as Industry Faculty for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US HHS ONC). She is an active consultant, advisor, and keynote speaker.

Ian McFarland

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CTO at Fruit Street

Jack Neil

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CEO and Founder of Hank AI, Chief Technology Officer and Pediatric Anesthesiologist for Medstream Anesthesia

Jason Gomberg

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Principal & Consulting Actuary, Milliman

Jim Kyung-Soo Liew

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Associate Professor in Finance at the John Hopkins University - Carey Business School, Co - Founder of SoKat

Jim St.Clair

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Special Advisor - Vici Initiative

Joe Bormel

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Chief Medical Informatics Officer

John Burger

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Director of Engineering, Finance & Manufacturing, Astra

Joseph Lubin - Founder

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Co - Founder
Founder

Joseph Lubin is a co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of ConsenSys, a full-stack, global blockchain company. Lubin has established himself as a guiding force in the fast-growing blockchain industry and a powerful advocate of decentralized technology. Born and raised in Toronto, Lubin graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked in the Princeton Robotics Lab at Tomandandy Music, developing an autonomous music composition tool, and designing autonomous mobile robots at private research firm, Vision Applications Inc. As a software engineer and consultant, Lubin worked with eMagine on the Identrus cryptographic payments and trade finance network project and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund. He held positions as Director of the New York office of Blacksmith Software Consulting and VP of Technology in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. Through these posts, Lubin focused on the intersection of cryptography, engineering, and finance. Inspired by Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin white paper and the potential of distributed systems to "shatter the silos of power and re-balance the information asymmetries that disadvantage so many," Lubin delved into the incipient blockchain community. He was a primary figure in the creation and launch of Ethereum alongside fellow Torontonian Vitalik Buterin in 2014. Eventually, he moved to build an ecosystem around the nascent technology, in part by launching ConsenSys.

Joyce Hunter

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CEO of Vulcan Enterprises, Executive Director at ICIT ( Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology ), President of Data Science Camp

Julien Oleg Willard

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Partner & Global Leader for Life Sciences Technology and Data Strategy, IBM

Karen Blackistone

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General Counsel for Hangar

Karen Blackistone, JD is General Counsel for Hangar, a venture capital and private equity firm that builds companies that impact the public at scale by working with stakeholders throughout the public sector market to identify areas where technology can help deliver improved services and outcomes for citizens. As an attorney, strategic advisor, and investor, Karen approaches challenges by offering intellectually critical insights with an eye for legal risk and business opportunity. A seasoned lawyer at the intersection of technology, business, and public policy, she has advised emerging technology companies in highly regulated sectors on a wide range of issues from organizational structure and operational risks to strategic planning for high-stakes engagement with policy-makers.

Kelley Kendle

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Chief Executive Officer UserWise, Inc

Kevin Li

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Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Lee Phillips

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Chief Marketing Officer ( Acting )

Lisa K. Fitzpatrick

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CEO and Founder, Grapevine Health

CEO and Founder, Grapevine Health | Clinical Professor, The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences | Professorial Lecturer, The George Washington Milken Institute of Public Health