Morning Panel: Entrepreneurship
Back to 2020 Healthcare Club Symposium: "On the Cutting Edge: Innovation in Healthcare"
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Anaiza Morales
Founder and President
AMCS Startup Strategy Specialists
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaiza-morales-82bb323/
Anaiza Morales (BS '00, MEng '01, MBA '02) is the Founder and President of AMCS Startup Strategy Specialists, a company that provides consulting services with a special expertise in business plan development, startup financial modeling and analysis, marketing strategy, and operations strategy for startup ventures to angel investment groups, private angel investors, and private equity firms. She is a specialist in startup strategy with 21 years of experience as a founding entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. She also has implementation experience as an Interim COO and founder specializing in operations and marketing strategy in medical services, pharmaceuticals, business services, finance, beauty, food products and film production industries. Anaiza is on the Advisory Board to Cornell's Red Bear Angel Investment Group and is a Founding Member of the Cornell Association for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (Cornell AHE) group launched this Fall, and invites all participants to join their LinkedIn Group to learn more about getting involved.
Jamey Edwards
CEO and Co-Founder
Cloudbreak Health
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameyedwards/
Jamey Edwards (BS '96, MBA '03) is on a mission to fix healthcare. As a serial entrepreneur, Jamey has founded or co-founded companies in the hospital management, physician outsourcing and telemedicine space. He is currently the CEO of Cloudbreak Health, a leading unified telemedicine company currently performing over 100,000 encounters per month in over 1,500 healthcare venues nationwide. Jamey is a member of the Global Army of Healthcare Transformers of StartUp Health and is focused on two main moonshots of increasing access to care and driving the cost of care to zero. Prior to Cloudbreak, Jamey was the CEO of Emergent Medical Associates, growing the company into the leading multi-specialty group (ER, Hospitalist, Anesthesia) in the southwest US & was honored as a 4x INC. 5000 & 2x Modern Healthcare Hottest company.
Jamey is a proud member of the #PinkSocks Tribe of healthcare innovators that can be found on Twitter and beyond working to disrupt healthcare from the ground up and drive positive change for patients and providers.
John Hui
CEO and Founder
Twiage
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhhui/
John Hui (MBA '15) is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with more than 17 years of healthcare industry experience covering industry sectors, such as digital health, physician practice management, clinical diagnostics, radiology imaging, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Hui is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Twiage, an award-winning healthcare IT startup that provides a novel communication technology enabling hospitals and ambulances to accelerate life-saving emergency care. He also co-founded Rendr Care Physicians, a large multi-specialty physician group serving a patient population of more than 90,000 in NYC. Previously, he co-founded and has run Reliant Diagnostics, a radiology practice management company that provides portable ultrasound services to physician practices in NYC. In addition to Hui’s entrepreneurial ventures, he is an active angel investor and Founder Member of Red Bear Angels, a Cornell alumnus run angel investor group. He also serves as an Advisor for other startup companies in the healthcare space, such as Cornell Tech Runway company, Biotia.
Andrea Ippolito
CEO and Founder
SimpliFed
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreakippolito/
Andrea Ippolito (BS '06, MEng '07) is the CEO and Founder of SimpliFed, the first independent telehealth platform exclusively focused on infant feeding and nutrition. She currently serves as a Lecturer in the Engineering Management Program at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, Andrea served as the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Innovators Network designing and overseeing the creation of a $10.5M program that provides the tools and resources to VA employees to develop innovations that improve the experience of our Veterans. A former Presidential Innovation Fellow, Ms. Ippolito is the Co-Founder of an innovative application that improves access to care called Smart Scheduling (acquired by athenahealth in 2016), and previously served as the Co-Director of MIT Hacking Medicine, and as an Innovation Specialist at the Brigham Innovation Hub and Product Innovation Manager at athenahealth.