LYFEBULB - Key Persons

Aaron Horowitz - CEO, Founder

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CEO
Co - Founder

Aaron is a maker; from sculptures to business, he is fascinated with the process of taking an idea from concept to reality. He is passionate about creating interfaces that drive a shift towards ubiquitous computing. He is currently Co-founder and CEO of Sproutel, the creator of Jerry the Bear - a platform for pediatric health and wellness education. Aaron has shared his expertise in robotics and social entrepreneurship through speaking at numerous conferences including TED@IBM, Hardware Innovation Workshop, Big Ideas Fest, MakerCon, TEDxUnisinos, CUSP, and Stanford MedX. Aaron has also been recognized as one of 50 honored makers by the White House in 2014. He holds a degree in Mechatronics and User Interaction Design from Northwestern University. When unplugged Aaron is likely either carving stone or surfing.

Ake Lernmark

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Member of the Advisory Board
Professor, Immunology & Diabetes

Alex Berrios

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Transplantlyfe Community Manager

Alex Menys - CEO, Founder

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Associate Professor
CEO
Founder

Alex Menys is the CEO and founder of Motilent and Associate Professor at UCL. He completed his PhD in medical imaging analysis at UCL specifically in the assessment of gastrointestinal physiology with MRI. Motilent was founded to support researchers do higher quality research in a complex area but has grown rapidly with CE and FDA-cleared products used across the EU and US. Alex has placed high-quality research at the center of the business, and the world, to build trust with many of the top centers internationally, including Cleveland, Mayo, KU Leuven, UCL, AMC, Cincinnati, Mt Sinai and many more. Data from these sites is used as the primary tool to push the company forward.

Alexandra Muskat

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Legal & Compliance Consultant

Alexandra Muskat was first diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes at 19 years old. As an attorney and social media manager, she spent the last few years learning more about Diabetes and endeavoring to educate the community at large by sharing her story on social media.

Aline Peach

Aline Peach was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at two years old. Marketing expert, she decided five years ago to focus her work on Diabetes. She started sharing her life experiences on her blog and now she has a informative website named Clube do Diabetes and works as a CEO at a start up, designing a digital platform to manage Diabetes.

Alisha Hiebert

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Staff Member

Allison Rosen

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Cancer, Mental Health

Allison Rosen, is a Houston, Texas native, and colorectal cancer survivor. She dedicates her life to use her voice and platform to educate, advocate, and continuously learn how best to represent the collective adolescent and young adult community and the colorectal cancer community. Allison is a Project Director at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, focusing on colorectal prevention. She has a combined 15 years of experience in the oncology space, focusing on designing, implementing, and evaluating public health programs and initiatives, to address cancer awareness and disparities among the medically underserved. She serves as a patient, research and policy advocate working with Fight Colorectal Cancer, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network, Colorectal Cancer Alliance, Colon Cancer Coalition, SWOG Cancer Research Network, and volunteers and serves on numerous committees at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Through her own experience at beating Stage 2 colorectal cancer, she works to bridge the gap between the healthcare system and the communities that it serves. Allison loves to travel, nature, music, dancing, and will never say no to an adventure.

Alon Magal - CEO, Founder

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CEO
Co - Founder

Alon underwent a kidney transplant in 2016 and immediately started searching for a solution to improve the lives of kidney transplant recipients worldwide. Together with his team, Alon won a grant from the Israel Innovation Authority. In 2019, he was part of The Hive's start-up Accelerator, and later on participated in the Google for Startups Bootcamp as well as the Yeshiva University Innovation Lab. Alon graduated with a degree in Practical Civil Engineering from the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Israel. He led many projects in the real estate field before he co-founded HeroKi in 2019. Today, Alon is leading HeroKi as the CEO with a mission to deliver the Kidney Shield to every kidney recipient in the world.

Amin Zayani

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CEO & Founder / Med Angel BV

Amin lives with T1D since 2006, he is a solar energy engineer by training and a hardware expert by trade. After a frustrating accident in 2013, when his insulin was frozen in the domestic refrigerator, he became discovered a massive flaw in the way medications are stored and handled at home, and decided to found MedAngel to solve this problem. He is currently leading a team of engineers, pharmacists and designers to revolutionise the interaction patient-medication, and bring peace of mind to everyone.

Amy Tenderich - Founder

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Editor - in - Chief
Founder
Founder and Editor - in - Chief of DiabetesMine

Amy is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of DiabetesMine, a leading online information destination for people with Diabetes and one of the top international health blogs. In January 2015, DiabetesMine became part of San Francisco-based Healthline Networks, where Amy now also serves as Editorial Director, Diabetes & Patient Advocacy. Amy is a journalist / blogger and patient advocate who started DiabetesMine.com after her diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes in 2003. The site has won numerous awards and was recently named the No. 1 Diabetes influencer by ShareCare.com and the American Diabetes Association. Previously, Amy helped conceptualize and launch DiabeticConnect.com, the fastest-growing and most successful social networking site for people with Diabetes, with over 790,000 registered members.

Angie Zavoral Conley - CEO, Founder

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CEO
Founder
Abilitech 's President and Chief Executive Officer

Angie Zavoral Conley has served as Abilitech's President and Chief Executive Officer since founding the company in late 2016. Under Angie's leadership, Abilitech Medical has won numerous awards, including both the Tekne Award for innovation from Minnesota High Tech Association and the Grand Prize and Top Woman-led Business at the Minnesota Cup - the largest state-led business competition. Abilitech has also been recognized as a Top 10 Medical Device Startup by MedTech Outlook; a Top 20 Medical Device Startup You Need to Know by MassDevice magazine; and a Top Promising Life Science Company by Rice University. In her role as President and CEO of Abilitech, Angie has raised over ten million dollars in equity funding and nearly two million dollars in non-dilutive funding. Angie Conley's broad work experience in the medical device industry directly translates to her role as CEO of Abilitech Medical. Prior to founding Abilitech, Angie held leadership roles in several different medical device companies, including working with exoskeletons at Magic Arms; peripheral and neurovascular atherectomy devices at ev3/Covidien; heart valves, instruments, telemonitoring equipment, external and implantable pacemakers and defibrillators at Medtronic. She is an alumna of the prestigious Springboard Enterprise and Texas Medical Center accelerator programs. Angie Conley is named as an inventor on two patents.

Anna Sjöberg - CEO, Founder

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CEO
Founder
CEO and Founder of AnnaPS Scandinavia

Anna Sjӧberg is the CEO and founder of AnnaPS Scandinavia. As a Type 1 Diabetic since 1998, Ms. Sjӧberg wears an insulin pump and began to design underwear with pockets so that she would be able to wear the pump at night, when she was exercising, or when she wanted to use clothes without pockets such as dresses. AnnaPS released its first products in 2011. She has a master's degree in engineering and previously had a career as a production manager within numerous Swedish engineering industries, mostly within the Sandvik concern.

Anthony Sun

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Member of the Advisory Board

Asaf Kraus - CEO, Founder

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CEO
Co - Founder
Dieta 's Co - Founder and CEO
Dieta Health

Asaf Kraus, Dieta's Co-Founder and CEO, is an IBS patient and an experienced data scientist. The combination of his professional experience as a data scientist and his personal struggle with digestive disease drives his passion for Dieta Health's mission to improve digestive health using data and AI. With eight years of professional experience as a data scientist, Asaf used data to uncover valuable insights for innovative technology companies such as Uber, Accenture, and Trulia. He was afflicted with severe IBS in 2017, which changed the course of his life. While spending months consulting various GI clinicians and experimenting with dozens of complicated treatment options, Asaf observed the lack of data and personalization in modern gastroenterology. And during that journey, he began to envision an AI-driven future of gastroenterology care, which Dieta Health is now building.

Asher Kornbluth

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Member of the Advisory Board
Professor, Gastroenterology

Camillo Ricordi

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Member of the Advisory Board
Professor, University of Miami Director

Catherine Siroka

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Cancer, Mental Health

Cecilia McGough

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Mental Health

Connie Shearer

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Mental Health

Daniel Newman

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Chronic Illness, Diabetes, Mental Health, Transplantation

Dave Acosta

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EDC Solutions T1

David H. Koch

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Member of the Advisory Board
Professor

David J. Cohen

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Member of the Advisory Board
Professor of Nephrology ( in Medicine ) and the Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation

Dr. Ali Arjomand - Founder

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Co - Founder
Allay Health
Nutrition Scientist

Dr. Ali Arjomand is a nutrition scientist, entrepreneur, and mission-driven business executive delivering impact through translational science. Ali is the founder of Modulla Health, an IBD-focused nutrition clinic, where he develops and delivers personalized nutritional interventions to IBD patients. These science-based nutritional interventions have transformed the disease course of Modulla's clients, as they did to Ali's own disease. As a Crohn's disease patient for 20 years, Ali received the best-in-class medical care, including steroids, biologic therapy, and two GI surgeries. None of this achieved sustained results, and, after failing his medications again in 2016, Ali decided to take complete ownership of his disease. He applied his science training in nutrition to successfully achieve remarkable, medication-free, long-lasting success. Ali is publishing these findings in gastroenterology peer-reviewed journals. Before these personal transformations, Ali's career path included scientific, strategic, and executive leadership roles at innovative, vision-driven organizations, including working directly with Bill Gates on global health, nutrition, agriculture, and infectious disease challenges. Prior to that, Ali founded Accium BioSciences, a first-of-its-kind research laboratory that commercialized innovations he developed in graduate school. Ali designed and conducted over 50 Phase 1 clinical studies for FDA review in partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and led an NIH-funded clinical study in glioblastoma patients. Ali received his PhD in Nutrition and his BS in Genetics, both from the University of California, Davis. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and twin daughters.