Joanna Brownstein brings over 20 years of leadership in healthcare and digital health, guiding companies to successfully navigate the complex landscape of product adoption and market growth. With deep expertise in product management, customer success, and operations, Joanna has played pivotal roles at innovative companies like Kyruus, Medically Home, and Navya Network. She is passionate about helping digital health startups—both in the U.S. and globally—break through adoption barriers and scale their solutions in new markets.

In addition to her consulting work, Joanna is the founder of Succeed Studio, a boutique executive coaching practice, that empowers entrepreneurs and senior leaders to elevate their impact. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Addgene, advises startups, and mentors future healthcare innovators through MIT Sloan's Healthcare Lab course.

Dan has a background that spans computer science and marketing, he brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic thinking to solve complex problems in healthcare. His experience founding three successful companies and co-founding a healthcare startup with a 9-figure valuation has equipped Dan with the skills and insights needed to drive meaningful change in the industry.

Some of Dan's notable achievements include:

• Co-founding a healthcare startup with 300,000 physicians users doing 100,000,000 drug transactions per year
• Hacking an insulin pump to create an automated closed-loop pancreas used by over 40,000 people
• Founding Health Universe to build a dedicated space for Health AI collaboration and deployment
• Guest Lecturer at Northeastern University

Shwen is currently an independent consultant focused on Digital Health, Corporate Innovation and Generative AI. He is the founder of #GenAI4Pharma (a global series of events), an Executive in Residence (EIR) for Springboard Enterprises and is an advisor to a pharma-focused digital health accelerator, PharmStars. He is also an advisor and investor in numerous startups.

Prior to this, Shwen was the VP/Head of Global Digital Strategy at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), where where he was accountable to the Executive Leadership Team and the Board of Directors for leading digital innovation across the enterprise (R&D, Clinical, Commercial, Manufacturing & Supply Chain and Enabling Functions) and chairing the Digital Advisory Board, as well as for establishing the enterprise strategy for digital medicines and digital therapeutics.

Prior to BMS, he was the Co-Founder and Global Head of Open Innovation for the Novartis BIOME — a global network of digital innovation hubs, where he helped to launch multiple hubs internationally.

Shwen studied behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern University and completed his doctoral research in neuroscience at Cambridge University. He also received a "Chief Digital Officer" Executive Education certificate from the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

Bob is a senior financial executive with 35 years of global strategic and operating experience across multiple disciplines within the life sciences industry, including cytokines, proteins, peptides, cellometry, precision medicine, digital patient data and sequencing, delivery systems, drug discovery, medical products and pharmaceuticals. Bob has served as CFO for PeproTech, Inc. (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific), New England Peptides, Nexcelom Biosciences ( now part of Perkin Elmer), Backpack Health (now, part of Konica Minolta Precision Medicine), Cutis Pharma (now, Azurity Pharmaceuticals), Arsenal Medical, 480 Biomedical (now, Lyra Therapeutics), Claritas Genomic (a Boston Children's Hospital spinout), BioNevia Pharmaceuticals, Consortium of Rheumatoid Researchers of North America, (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific), PatientsLikeMe (now, part of United Health Group) and Biosphere Medical (now, part of Merit Medical). Bob founded Oxus Medical (Oximetry in Cardiac Resynchronization) and Tesa Medical (Orthopedics). Bob earned his MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Veronica is enjoying her latest professional endeavor of teaching our next generation of leaders. Teaching is a natural next step, after a 30+ year career with varied experience in startups, early stage and multi-national companies around the globe. Veronica has focused primarily in the consumer electronics and medical devices sectors, and co-founded JamHub Corporation, the inventors of BandLab music collaboration platform and JamHub silent rehearsal studios.