John is the Chief Executive Officer of Brightstar Innovations Group, a leading innovative strategic advising and consulting solutions partner in the areas of strategic advisors/planning, federal government policy, problem solving, government strategic growth, and executive leadership.

A retired federal SES official with over 35 years of federal appropriations, healthcare, life science, defense, veterans and regulatory experience; serving as a senior staff member on the House Appropriations Committee, NIH, OMB, VA, and Air Force.   John is an Air Force Major General as Mobilization Assistant to the Air & Space Force Surgeon General.  In 2020 was the Deputy Government-wide Incident Manger for the COVID-19 response under the HHS ASPR.  Previously a Partner in an international law firm, advised numerous corporate clients on federal government policy and operational issues related to health/life sciences, biomedical and veterans/defense.  On the Board of two biomedical companies.

Randy Parker is the founder & prior CEO at MDLIVE from 2009 - 2016 and brings more than 30 years experience starting and building successful, disruptive companies, all of which have been consumer-focused entities utilizing the latest technologies. During the past 10 years , Randy has established deep industry relationships at the highest levels with a broad range of the country’s premier health organizations, helping him to develop a vision for MDLIVE to be a leader in healthcare innovation, providing customers with convenient access to a complete integrated health network. Prior to MDLIVE, he served as CEO of several other companies, including Flexplay Technologies, Clear-Vu Products, and Entertainment Resource. Randy has a degree in Business and Public Administration from New York University.

He enjoys Cycling , Hiking & Skiing in Colorado with his wife Ellen & 4 Sons.

Unity Stoakes is on a life-long mission to achieve the impossible: to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world. By combining the power of moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, and collaborative communities, he believes anything is possible. In 2011, Unity co-founded StartUp Health with Steven Krein, his business partner of more than 20 years, to invest in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, to embark on one extraordinary crusade: to achieve health moonshots, each of which can improve the lives of at least one billion people.

Unity has been a tech entrepreneur since the mid-nineties, previously co-founding OrganizedWisdom and helping build The Privacy Council, Middleberg Interactive, and Webstakes.com/Promotions.com, which he helped take public on NASDAQ with his business partner of 20 years, Steven Krein.

Unity has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, NPR, and USA Today, and speaks to entrepreneurs, world leaders, and CEOs around the world about the future of health. He is the publisher of StartUp Health Magazine and co-host of StartUp Health NOW, a weekly web series about Health Transformers.

Unity grew up on a farm in Oxford, Iowa, went to Boston University and currently lives in Berkeley, CA, with his wife and two young kids.

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Gary Bradski is an American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Industrial Perception, a company that developed perception applications for industrial robotic application (since acquired by Google in 2012 and has worked on the OpenCV Computer Vision library, as well as published a book on that library.

Dave has more than 25 years in Environmental and Hazardous Material Response, Management and Operations. His industry leading personnel, services, and protective equipment are relied on for comprehensive emergency clean up and decontamination of spaces and fleets in the most sensitive areas. Dave is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and a US Veteran of Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

Michele Colucci is a venture capital thought leader, lawyer, investor, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has authored five patents in the technology space and founded companies in the legal, technology, retail, and entertainment spaces. Her extensive experience operating in highly regulated verticals has focused on issues from management to legal. As a venture capitalist focused on med tech, Colucci is committed to impacting the health field by investing in companies that enable doctors to make better diagnostic decisions through the application of AI and big data. She has board of directors experience with public and private firms including Global Indemnity Group, Nephrosant, Optina Diagnostics, Prime Genomics, Prenome, and Trayt. She has been a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. In 2017, Colucci was named West Coast Ambassador by the Nobel Laureate Foundation. She earned her B.A. and J.D. from Georgetown University and an M.F.A from the AFI. Colucci speaks three languages and currently resides in Silicon Valley with her four children.

Dr. Aisiku is the founder of iDoc Telehealth Solutions - a telemedicine company with a focus in critical care, neuro-critical care, and tele-stroke. He is a co-founder of TiTAN EHR, an accompanying electronic medical records solution.  Dr. Aisiku has been practicing in the field of telemedicine for over 15 years and has consulted on telemedicine development nationally and internationally.

Dr. Aisiku is board certified in Emergency Medicine, IMcritical care, and Neurocritical care. He did his medical school training at the University of Massachusetts and his emergency medicine and critical care training at Emory University.  His neurocritical care training was at Washington University in St. Louis.  Dr. Aisiku has a diverse educational, training and practice career that includes 2 master’s degrees in business and clinical research from Emory University and a commission as Colonel in the National Guard.

He currently is the Chief of Division of Emergency Critical Care and the IM-EM/CCM fellowship at Harvard University / Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine.  

Sigi Marmorstein is a Telehealth Consultant with over 65+ Successful Telehealth Implementation projects. Her role as a Telehealth Consultant is the culmination of a 20-year career in health care spanning employers such as Davita, Kaiser Permanente, USC, Adventist Health and West Coast University.  Sigi has years of experience in the health care industry as an emergency room provider, operations manager, project management, business owner as well as academia.  Consistently throughout her diverse career she remained devoted to finding solutions to improve patient access to care using health technologies and have won several awards for such programs. Her latest venture BabyLiveAdvice is a social enterprise that was meant to support families and reduce maternal-child morbidity and mortality through education and support.

She is recognized in several publications and a recurring, invited speaker on Telehealth at key conferences.  She serves on the Nursing advisory board at HRSA, member of the AANP, CANP and the California Action Coalition and still moonlight in ER as a Nurse Practitioner.

“I started Baby out of my own experience as a mother. I was an NICU/Peds nurse when I first became a mother and a nurse practitioner with my second.  Although I was educated and receiving care at Kaiser. My boys and I had gone to harsh labor experiences, and both ended up in NICU.  I remember dealing with my pregnancies and later with motherhood with much anxiety and stress. Reading all I could read, asking a lot of questions and needing much more questions answered.  As a Nurse and a Nurse practitioner I met with mom who were less knowledgeable and had little or no access to care and I saw that they suffered like me.  I started “baby” in hope that I can solve their problems.  Through demonstration projects and pilots, I found out that my assumptions were right and that BLA can increase access to care, reduce adverse health outcomes and help women and families better cope with pregnancy and parenthood”

James Marciano is a lifelong entrepreneur. He founded three Internet companies between 1995 and 1999, including one of the first social networks on the web (TheSquare). He raised seed capital and venture capital for two of his startups, and successfully exited all three by 2001. He then semi-retired to the role of a roll-up-your-sleeves angel investor from 2000 to 2015, where he often provided the first and only capital before the company was acquired (or folded). Along the way, the investment bankers he hired to help sell his companies invariably disappointed him.Reflecting upon the poor experiences he had with M&A advisors, he set out to build the kind of firm that he wished he’d been able to retain. One that was built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, where effort, creativity, and kindness trumped "old boy" networks that accepted failed M&A processes as the norm. His new firm, Tuck Advisors, was born in September 2016 and focuses on sell-side and buy-side M&A for healthcare and education companies leveraging technology.James graduated from Harvard College with an AB in Social Psychology, and from Dartmouth with an MBA from the Tuck School of Business.

Tony L. Strickland, M.S., Ph.D., FNAN, is the founder and CEO of Nexus Clinical Solutions, and the Sports Concussion Institute (SCI). He is a board certified neuropsychologist, and a retired Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology (Behavioral Medicine) from the University of Georgia, and completed postdoctoral fellowship training in clinical neuropsychology at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Strickland also completed a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship in psychopharmacology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

Dr. Strickland established the Sports Concussion Institute (SCI) to provide state-of- the-art assessment, treatment, and prevention services to: 1) Address the comprehensive concussion care needs of athletes, military populations, and other individuals playing high velocity sports across the lifespan; and 2) Provide specialized neurobehavioral technology solutions and care to people with brain injuries, vestibular/balance disorders, as well as memory and learning disorders. He manages the largest NFL clinical evaluation and treatment programs in the nation. Dr. Strickland oversees corporate strategy, and works with the Nexus and SCI management teams to optimize key partnerships and initiatives.

Dr. Strickland has built and managed corporate brands, has extensive experience within the healthcare, informatics, as well as product development spaces, and has led multi-disciplinary teams. He has managed P&Ls, demonstrated exquisite entrepreneurial drive, and has experience in merging and integrating companies and/or business units. With the help of its Board of Directors, Scientific Advisory Committee, Staff, and Community Partners, SCI has successfully served thousands of patients with a focus on individualized treatment and state-of-the-science of neurocare including telehealth.

The health care practitioners that comprise SCI MSO– work conjointly to provide outstanding, comprehensive neurobehavioral health care for everyone ranging from school-age children to senior citizens in the prime of their lives. Also, Nexus and SCI have developed unique Mass and Single Tort, TBI, and PTSD solutions.

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An exceptional leader and manager, Ms. Szykier has led Ambitna to successfully create strategic partnerships with leaders in the field of healthcare, blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, predictive analytics and academia to position Ambitna as an innovator in those fields.

Ms. Szykier has worked to ensure that the technologies and processes in place by Ambitna maintain the highest ethical standards and best practices. Her visionary and dynamic leadership is positioning Ambitna as a true partner to improve health access and diminish health disparities. She has created an ever-learning environment in the work culture of Ambitna thus the creation of several innovative solutions for health.  

Ms. Szykier is the founding member and managing partner of Aegis Health Analytics, a boutique consulting firm in the areas of healthcare, predictive analytics and business development based in Washington, DC. She is a board member of UbiVault and advisor to EdLogics and Global Action Platform. She is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Ms. Szykier has presented in numerous conferences at the national and global level in the areas of healthcare and predictive analytics. She has received several prestigious awards including an award by the Clinton Global Initiative on her work to mitigate health disparities while decreasing infant mortality.

She is an avid swimmer, tennis player, skier and hiker. She is the proud parent to three young adults.

An entrepreneur from a very young age, Kirsty is driven by projects she is passionate about. She has accrued more than twenty years of experience, having co-founded and managed companies in such diverse sectors as information technology, information security, industrial manufacturing, and consumer product industries. In addition, she has cemented her strong reputation over the last decade with her business development and marketing consulting group Xpand, which has advised MasterCard Worldwide, Disney, The Coca-Cola Company, and Sony Electronics, among other powerful brands and corporations.

Now, Kirsty is embarking upon her most ambitious venture yet: RxGenesys. Alongside Jeffrey Gibson, M.D., and Rainer Barany, her longtime business partner, Kirsty seeks to develop a science based consumer and therapeutic product company; an organization devoted to the development of regenerative solutions and anti-aging products, using its exclusive and patented microRNA and iPS (induced pluriopotent stem cell) technology.

Armed with Dr. Jeffrey Gibson’s technical knowledge and Kirsty’s intimate understanding of female desire, RxGenesys is poised to offer women the skin they have always dreamt of having. The RxGenesys solutions will finally give headlines like “50 is the new 30” a real, graspable meaning for women the world over, regardless of economic status. Tested at Princeton Consumer Research, these patented solutions will forever alter the way that women view their own aging.

Prior to joining Kintsugi, Dr. Tom was the Chief Innovation Officer at Vituity where he launched patient satisfaction initiatives and developed risk management and CMS programs. He also developed breakthrough initiatives in Rapid Medical Evaluation® (RME) and emergency psychiatry across U.S. health systems.. In these roles, he oversees the development and implementation of healthcare service solutions.

Prior to being appointed CIO, Dr. Tom served as Chief Medical Officer, launching patient satisfaction initiatives and developing risk management and CMS programs. He also led two of Vituity’s breakthrough initiatives, including Rapid Medical Evaluation® (RME) and emergency psychiatry. Additionally, he oversaw the development of Vituity’s palliative care program, provided executive oversight for Vituity’s administrative fellowship, and created the practice’s Clinical Education Department and CME programs.

Dr. Tom joined Vituity in 1993. He currently works as a staff physician in the emergency department at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif. Before joining Vituity, he was a faculty member at Stanford University's Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Tom has participated in numerous medical organizations, including the International Medical Corps (Bosnia) and Emergency International, where he served as long-term project coordinator for the China Project.

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Patrick Wayte is Senior Vice President of the AHA’s Center for Health Technology and Innovation. In this role he leads integrated digital health initiatives across the health continuum – with a focus on secondary prevention, healthcare transition, chronic care, and the use and application of the AHA’s science to digital platforms and technologies.

Prior to the American Heart Association and his role in healthcare, Patrick held positions in integrated marketing, strategy and new product development in the telecommunications and automotive industries with a focus on developing new lines of business through acquisition-partnerships-innovation.

Patrick holds a degree in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.