Data Design Diabetes
Innovation Challenge Judges
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Jon Brilliant
CFO, WELLDOCJon is the CFO of WellDoc®, a company blazing an mHealth path to enhanced patient outcomes through its pioneering FDA cleared solutions and world-class partnerships. Jon has been a venture capitalist with his own fund (Atelier), a large European fund (Syntek Capital) and a London-based individual (former owner of Harrods). Jon has evaluated hundreds of business plans from start-ups to $100M+ in revenue, invested $100M+, raised billions of dollars in the public and private markets and even helped restructure the debt of a sovereign country. In between, Jon has had operating roles in the healthcare industry (Wright Medical), automobile industry (JM Family) and retail industry (Harrods). Jon holds degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and Duke University. Jon is the proud father of a type 1 diabetic child.
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Aneesh Chopra
Former U.S. Chief Technology OfficerChopra was appointed by President Obama as the nation's first United States Chief Technology Officer. As an Assistant to the President, he designed the National Wireless Initiative and executed an "open innovation" strategy across the agencies built on private sector collaboration - opening data to transform health, energy and education markets, convening tech leaders to develop consensus standards, and sponsoring prizes, challenges and competitions to tap into entrepreneurial problem solvers.
Chopra previously served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology and has returned as a Senior Advisor with the Advisory Board Company, a global research, consulting, and technology firm helping hospital executives to better serve patients, where he previously served as Managing Director responsible for two research programs and helped launch its first business intelligence service. Chopra earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard University in 1997 and his bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.
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Larry Irving
President and CEO, THE Irving GroupLarry Irving is president and CEO of the Irving Information Group, a telecommunication and information technology strategic planning and consulting business based in Washington, D.C. Prior to founding the Irving Information Group, Mr. Irving served for almost seven years as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), where he was a principal advisor to the President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on domestic and international telecommunications and information technology issues. Mr. Irving is widely credited with coining the term the digital divide and sparking global interest in the growing problem it represents. He was the principal author of the landmark Federal survey, Falling Through the Net, which tracked access to telecommunications and information technologies, across racial, economic, and geographic lines.
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Ilene J. Klein
Chief Medical Advisor, Qualcomm Life
Director of Global Employee Health Services, Qualcomm IncDr. Ilene Klein serves as the Chief Medical Advisor of Qualcomm Life and as Qualcomm, Inc.’s Director of Global Employee Health Services. Ilene opened Qualcomm’s first on-site employee health center in 2007. Prior to coming to San Diego, Ilene was in private practice at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital where she served as its first Chief of Primary Care. As a former health care administrator, Ilene helped to create a city-wide network of pediatric primary care medical homes in underserved communities for New York City’s Bureau of Child Health. Ilene is a board certified Family Physician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She also holds degrees in Music Therapy from New York University.
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Lesa Mitchell
Vice President, Advancing Innovation, Kauffman FoundationLesa Mitchell is vice president of the Kauffman Foundation’s initiatives focused on advancing innovation. In this capacity, Mitchell’s responsibility is to identify programmatic or policy levers that can accelerate invention and innovation. Under Mitchell’s leadership, the Foundation is defining and codifying alternative commercialization pathways, and identifying new models to foster innovation. Mitchell was instrumental in the founding of the Kauffman Innovation Network/ iBridge Network, the Translational Medicine Alliance, the National Academies-based University–Industry Partnership, and leader in the replication of innovator-based mentor programs across the United States. Prior to joining Kauffman, Mitchell spent twenty years of her career in global executive roles at Aventis, Quintiles, and Marion Laboratories and founded an electronic clinical trials consulting business in support of global pharmaceutical clients.
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Sue Siegel
General Partner, MDV-Mohr Davidow VenturesMs. Siegel is a general partner at MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures and has spent more than two decades commercializing key enabling technologies in biomedical research and health care. Prior to joining MDV, Ms. Siegel was president and director of Affymetrix, Inc., a company that helped propel the expansion of the genomics field and the opportunity for personalized medicine. Formerly, Ms. Siegel was at Amersham International (now GE) where she held senior executive roles, including president of Hoefer-Pharmacia Biotech. She was also involved in commercializing key biomedical technologies at E. I. DuPont & Co., Eastman Kodak Co. and Bio-Rad Laboratories. Additionally, Ms. Siegel serves on the boards of Cellpoint Diagnostics, Pacific Biosciences and Raindance Technologies. Ms. Siegel received her B.S. in biology from the University of Puerto Rico and holds an M.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Boston University Medical School.
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Dennis Urbaniak
VP U.S. DIABETES, SANOFI USDennis Urbaniak, VP U.S. Diabetes at Sanofi US, is a commercial operations executive with demonstrated leadership in driving innovative, customer centric approaches that result in tangible business results. Previous to his current position, Mr. Urbaniak was Vice President Innovation and New Customer Channels (INNCC). In this position, Mr. Urbaniak was responsible for exploring, testing and developing new business approaches and technologies to more effectively reach and understand our customers and deliver value. He worked cross-functionally with the Business Units, Marketing and a range of other departments to implement commercial innovations that reflect the evolving needs of our customer base.
www.sanofi.us