About Us

Our mission is to connect the world's health data to improve patient outcomes.

We believe in connecting healthcare data to eliminate the silos of healthcare information that hold back innovative medical research and improved patient care. We help data owners manage the privacy, security, compliance, and trust required to enable safe data sharing.

Datavant's vision is backed by Roivant Sciences and combines technical leadership and healthcare expertise. Datavant is located in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District.

Learn what we do in under 2 minutes here or read about the Datavant Vision here.

Meet Our Team

Travis May

Founder & CEO

Prior to Datavant, he was co-founder and CEO of LiveRamp, a marketing technology company that eliminates data siloes for the world's largest marketers. LiveRamp was acquired in 2014 by Acxiom (NASDAQ:ACXM) for $310 million. Mr. May graduated with degrees in economics and mathematics from Harvard College, where he received Phi Beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude honors. He was listed on Forbes Magazines' "30 Under 30 List" and AdAge's "40 Under 40" list.

Mark Karch

Chief Commercial Officer

Mark has spent his 30-year career at the confluence of technology, data and healthcare. Prior to joining Datavant, Mark was Vice President of technology solutions for IQVIA where he held roles of increasing responsibility. Mark joined IQVIA (IMS Health) when they acquired Appature, a life science specific SaaS marketing platform, where Mark was Executive Vice President of commercialization. Prior to Appature, Mark held a sales leadership position for the life science business for Allscripts driving technology-based solutions in the Electronic Medical Records/ePrescribing area. Early in his career, Mark was Vice President of Business Development for the Patient Marketing Group (HealthAnswers) where he successfully expanded three business lines in the life science market. Prior to the Patient Marketing Group, Mark was Vice President of Marketing for Lexant, a division of Monsanto, where he managed all marketing and sales efforts delivering population-based disease management, claims analysis and resource optimization modeling. Mark earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Pennsylvania State University and a master's degree in health management from American University in Washington, D.C.

Aneesh Kulkarni

Head of Engineering

Before Datavant, Aneesh was a data science lead at Lyft, where he built dispatch, fraud, and pricing algorithms. Previously, he was a software engineer at Microsoft. Aneesh received a Bachelors degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard, and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Aden Fine

General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer

Aden has been working on cutting-edge technology and privacy issues for over twenty years. Before joining Datavant, Aden was the General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for Everalbum, a computer vision and AI company. Prior to that, he was the General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for Edmodo, the world's largest social network for schools. Aden graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.

Grace Chiang

Commercial Counsel

Before joining Datavant, Grace was Senior Counsel at Harry’s, Inc. and practiced intellectual property law at Sidley Austin LLP in New York. Grace graduated with a J.D. from Cornell Law School and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Outside of work, Grace enjoys road biking, hiking, and international travel.

Su Huang

Head of Data Strategy

Prior to Datavant, Su held a variety of roles at Invitae, a genetic testing company, from leading market access to growing the client services function. Beyond diagnostics, she has also supported commercialization and market access strategy for new biopharma and medical device products at IMS Consulting Group and Abbott Vascular. Su received degrees in Finance and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds an MBA and MS in Education from Stanford University.

Bob Borek

Chief Operating Officer

Bob moved to Datavant from Roivant Sciences where he was Head of Business Operations. Before moving into healthcare, Bob worked at D. E. Shaw & Co. in New York and practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Bob graduated with a J.D. and M.B.A. from Yale Law School and Yale School of Management in 2013, and holds a B.A.S.H in Symbolic Systems and English Literature from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Holly May

Head of People and Operations

Prior to Datavant, Holly led business operations at Elementum, a SaaS platform for supply chain management. Previously, she supported the commercialization of dozens of medical innovations across pharma, biotech, devices, and tech-enabled medical services. Holly received a degree in History of Science from Harvard and holds a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Nick Colburn

Chief Financial Officer

Before joining Datavant, Nick was the Chief Financial Officer of Building Robotics (DBA Comfy), which was sold to Siemens in 2018. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Funding Circle U.S. and at Nexxo Financial. He has also held senior finance positions at PayPal and Providian. Nick received three degrees from Stanford University, a BS in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, an MS in Engineering Economic Systems, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business.

Shahir Kassam-Adams

Head of Corporate Development

Shahir was a co-Founder of Universal Patient Key (UPK) – now a part of Datavant. He has been an operator or early investor in multiple healthcare technology-enabled startups and companies including Aileron Solutions, Social Safeguard, TGaS, Decision Resources Group (DRG), and Thomson Reuters Scientific & Healthcare. Shahir has an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and an MBA from Wharton.

Vera Mucaj

Head of Trials & Chief Scientist

Prior to joining Datavant, Vera was an Engagement Manager for McKinsey & Company in the Pharmaceutical & Medical Products and Private Equity practices where she supported clients on growth strategy, business development, and M&A due diligence efforts. Vera is a scientist by training, and holds a BA in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Biology.

Dan Scudder

General Manager, Data Ecosystem

Dan Scudder is GM of Data Ecosystem at Datavant. Previously, Dan was co-founder and CEO at Highland Math (acquired by Datavant in August 2020). Dan also spent many years at LiveRamp, with his last role being GM of Data. In his free time, Dan enjoys space travel and deep-sea diving.

Jonah Leshin

Head of Data Operations

Jonah joined Datavant from Highland Math, where he was co-founder and Chief Data Scientist, leading data analytics and data monetization. Jonah holds a Masters in Math from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a UK Fulbright Scholar, and a PhD in Math from Brown University. Outside of work, Jonah enjoys playing tennis and taking family walks.

Jason LaBonte

Chief Strategy Officer

Jason has over 15 years of experience in health information, market research, and commercial benchmarking, and has held executive leadership roles at Decision Resources Group, MedPanel, and UPK. Jason has designed and launched successful new products at every stage of his career. Jason has an AB in Molecular Biology from Princeton and a PhD in Virology from Harvard.

Jasmin Phua

Head of Health Systems & Government Solutions

Jasmin was co-founder and Chief Data Officer of Health Data Link - now a part of Datavant. She has over 20 years leading user-centered design solutions and enterprise architecture across multiple industries including within health IT for federal, state, and local governments. Most recently, Jasmin was Executive Director for a public-private medical informatics organization that served as the central data hub for research and public health reporting. She has a B.A. in Psychology with a Cognitive Science concentration from Oberlin College.

Claire Manneh

Provider Partnerships and Innovations

Claire joins Datavant with experience rooted in clinical trials, patient safety organizations, and quality improvement, creating impactful and meaningful partnerships. She served as a Fulbright Student Scholar in the Sultanate of Oman researching the role of hospital information technology. Claire has a double BA in Political Science and Public Health from UC Berkeley and an MPH from Dartmouth.

Mark Ungerer

Head of Product

Mark leads Datavant's Product team where he strives to deliver best-in-class products that enable clients to de-identify, discover and connect healthcare datasets. Prior to Datavant, he designed and launched enterprise data products that provided insights on the performance of millions of mobile apps. Mark received a BSE in Operations Research & Financial Engineering from Princeton University with a certificate in Computer Science. Outside of work Mark can be found on the tennis court, running the hills of San Francisco, or relaxing with his cat, King Solomon.

Dongting Yu

Head of Security Engineering

Dongting joins from Rescale, a multi-cloud high performance computing platform, where he led the security and compliance team. Prior to that, he completed his PhD in security from Cambridge University with a focus in network security. Outside of work, he tries to listen to a lot of classical music performances and recordings.

Lucienne Roe

Head of Quality Assurance

Lucienne has spent most of her career enthusiastically breaking software in an effort to make it better and easier for humans to use. Prior to joining Datavant, she led QA teams at Sano Intelligence, Expedia and CVS Caremark. Her experiences working in the healthcare space, especially at Sano, instilled a passion for working toward a goal that benefits many rather than few. Born in Belgium to British parents and raised in Michigan, Lucienne's accent has picked up little bits from all the places she has lived in the US and abroad, but San Francisco is truly home.

Sarah Rowe

Head of Marketing

Prior to joining Datavant, Sarah led business operations and strategic finance at Remedy Partners, a healthcare startup enabling providers and payers to transition to value-based payments. She graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Economics and Geoscience. Outside of work, you can find Sarah hiking, running, or planning her next trip to a cold and remote place.

Elenee Argentinis

Head of Marketing

Elenne has had a lifelong fascination with life sciences, healthcare, health tech and all things wellness. She has history working across product strategy and go to market functions and is passionate about transformational technologies and teams who really believe in their potential. Elenee loves talking with anyone about books, movies and great recipes, and she relishes celebrating team success.

Jacob Plummer

Head of Customer Success

Jake was CEO of Health Data Link - now a part of Datavant. He has been involved in the health sector for over fifteen years and began his healthcare career as a hospital executive at University of Chicago Medical Center. He has led strategy, corporate business development, sales, and go-to-market activities for companies in the Electronic Medical Record, Population Health, and Telemedicine sectors, both within and outside the United States. Jake has a MPP in Health Policy and an MBA, both from the University of Chicago.

Emilee Harvey

Customer Success Lead

Emilee brings over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry to Datavant. A seasoned industry leader, she has partnered with executive teams to lead strategy development in a variety of areas with a special focus in how analytics can be leveraged to power hospitals and health systems. After beginning her career as a laboratory scientist studying infectious disease at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, she moved on to consult with some of the largest, most innovate hospitals, health systems, and physician groups across the United States. Emilee has a bachelor's in biology and English from Kenyon College, an MPH from George Washington University's Milken Institute. She is passionate about leveraging data and analytics to improve healthcare outcomes for everyone.

Varun Mangamoori

Head of Life Sciences Solutions

Varun leads Life Science Solutions at Datavant. He is passionate about transforming healthcare and joins Datavant after an extensive stint at McKinsey & Company where he advised leading biopharma organizations on data-enabled transformations and led the creation of a number of analytical tools and assets. Varun received an integrated Bachelor's & Master's in Engineering Design from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Varun enjoys exploring the outdoors, playing tennis, cooking and watching any sport he can find.

Serena Gupta

Product

Serena is a member of the Product team. Before joining, she worked to build tools to support an internal care team and earned her B.S. in Math and Computer Science from Berkeley. She likes listening to audiobooks and climbing.

Meg Hahn

Product Manager

Meg is a member of the Datavant Product team. Prior to joining, she led a global product team delivering analytics for enterprise brands in digital marketing and customer service to drive customer loyalty and lifetime value. Meg also has a background in eHealth infrastructure delivery and clinical outcomes research. Meg is an avid traveler, snowboarder, gardener and Muay Thai boxer. She also bakes delicious pies.

Chris Chan

Product Manager

Prior to joining Datavant, Chris was building precision agriculture and enterprise mobile data products at Granular and App Annie, respectively. Chris began his career in private equity and technology investment banking. He received a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley. Outside of work, you can find Chris rock climbing, working on cars, or with his nose buried in a book.

Salma Ratanjee

Product

Prior to joining Datavant, Salma was the Lead Solutions Architect for platform and TV partners at LiveRamp. Before entering the data connectivity space, Salma worked in technology at Levi Strauss & Co. and as an e-commerce consultant for major retailers. She received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley with a minor in City & Regional Planning. Outside of work, Salma enjoys creating tactile art, perusing local bookstores, and seasonal outdoor activities.

Gracie Chien

Product Designer

Prior to joining Datavant, Gracie led user research and design initiatives for clinical trial operations at Medidata. Gracie received her BA from National Taiwan University and MS from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. When she’s not working, she likes to spend her time exploring the city and trying new restaurants, one bite at a time.

Hiliary Critchley

People

Hiliary Critchley joins Datavant with 15 years of experience developing partnerships with health plans and systems in IT, enterprise SaaS and digital health. She is a frequent guest speaker on health and wellness data, software, and innovation. Hiliary received her B.A. from Dartmouth College and holds certifications in Business Analysis, Strategic Decision & Risk Management from Stanford University. In her free time, Hiliary loves to explore the bay area through hiking, wine tasting and live music.

David Gold

Security Engineering

Prior to joining the Datavant engineering team, David received an A.B. in Chemical and Physical Biology with a secondary in Computer Science from Harvard College. As an undergraduate he conducted research on cellular processes implicated in disease. Outside of work he can be found baking flaky pastry and throwing pottery.

Victor Cai

Engineering

Victor is a member of the Engineering Team. When he’s not organizing the world’s health data, Victor enjoys watching 30 Rock, playing badminton, and reminding friends that there’s always room for dessert. Victor did his undergrad at Cornell, where he studied math.

Alex Coda

Engineering

Alex is a member of the engineering team at Datavant. Prior to joining, he has had internships at a neuroscience lab, CERN, and the movie company Legendary. Alex received degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Northeastern University, and holds an MS in Intelligent Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. In his spare time, Alex likes cooking, hiking, rock climbing, and traveling.

Anjali Suresh

Engineering

Anjali joined Datavant’s engineering team after graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in EECS and a B.A. in Classical Civilizations. Her educational background has primarily made her uniquely qualified to share the fun fact that the invention of the computer was based on Aristotelian principles of logic, but in her defense, it’s a very fun fact.

Tommy Giardina

Engineer

Before Datavant, Tommy worked for a number of nascent organizations, helping build and iterate upon their MVPs. He enjoys working closely with users to be better understand how they use his software. In his spare time, he organizes game nights and cooks copious amounts of curry.

James O'Brien

Engineering

James is a senior software engineer with a history of growing successful new ventures. He was an early contributor to the London-multi-asset-exchange (LMAX); where he wrote the original trade matching engine. Since moving to the US in 2010 James has contributed to the success of both Google and LiveRamp. He holds a first-class masters degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College.

Dan Girellini

Engineering

Dan is a member of Datavant’s engineering team. He enjoys hiking, sailing, reading, and participating in various aspects of the Bay Area’s unique culture. With whatever time is left over he likes building software systems drawing from his experience in a diverse field of industries including telecommunications, video codec research, embedded media products, and healthcare.

Ryan Ma

Engineering

Ryan is a member of the engineering team at Datavant. Prior to joining, he worked to build scalable calculation pipelines and a platform for improving cancer patient outcomes. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Molecular & Cell Biology from UC Berkeley. Outside of work, he can be found playing board games, brewing coffee, or exploring the great outdoors.

Leon Ho

Engineering

Leon is a member of the engineering team at Datavant. Prior to joining, he worked to develop optical transceivers and test infrastructure around these modules. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. On the weekends, Leon enjoys playing basketball, trying new recipes, and playing board games.

Matt Vail

Engineering

Matt joined Datavant as a software engineer with 10 years of experience designing and building products and technology for high growth startups. Matt's training is originally in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience; he is particularly interested in artificial intelligence and distributed systems and how we can use both to build a better healthcare system. Matt is an avid climber, alpinist, and traveller.

Chris Mullins

Engineering

Prior to starting at Datavant, Chris started a company with fellow Datavanters Ben and Porter. Before that, he led the Infrastructure team at LiveRamp. Outside of work, you can probably find him with a soldering iron or fiddling with a 3D printer.

Porter Westling

Engineering

Functional programming enthusiast and former Quidditch World Champion, Porter worked at LiveRamp for 7 years helping to solve big data problems at scale. He spent a year as a startup cofounder working on a cloud scripting service called CloudWright before joining Datavant's team as an engineer. When he's not coding, he can be found playing board games or playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Benjamin Podgursky

Engineering

Before Datavant, Ben co-founded a low-code infrastructure startup, CloudWright, and before that, was an engineer at LiveRamp for eight years, helping LiveRamp scale its data infrastructure from 50 to 3,000 servers, and then migrate that infrastructure into the cloud. Outside of work, Ben's spare time certainly goes somewhere, but he honestly doesn't have many exciting hobbies to show for it.

Nolan Pokpongkiat

Engineering

Nolan is a software engineer at Datavant, with a background in computer science from UC Berkeley. Previously, he's worked as an EMT providing emergency transport between healthcare facilities and has also been involved in population-scale epidemiology research. He's passionate about increasing healthcare accessibility for underserved populations. In his free time, he's attempting to increase his guitar repertoire (currently only 3 songs), read more philosophy, and learn to cook dishes from his childhood.

Aaron Sproul

Engineering

Before Datavant, Aaron worked as an infrastructure operations engineer at LiveRamp for nine years. Helped engineering teams to migrate petabytes from a physical datacenter to a cloud. Then, empowered those teams to run their own infrastructure in the cloud.

Walter Paiva

Engineering

Walter is a member of the engineering team at Datavant. Before joining, Walter received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a secondary field in History from Harvard College. During college, he interned at an immigration technology startup and studied abroad in Kanazawa, Japan. He enjoys writing, language learning, and running in the beautiful outdoors.

Matt Owen

Engineering

Matt joins Datavant as a software engineer after completing a degree B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley. Previously he interned at Datavant. At Berkeley he was very involved with undergraduate computer science education serving as a tutor, TA, and instructor. His interests outside of work include skateboarding, snowboarding, photography, cooking and eating.

Joe D'Angelo

Engineering (DevOps)

Joe is a DevOps engineer that loves the outdoors, surfing and keyboards.

Joyce Lee

Marketing

Prior to joining Datavant, Joyce served as a consultant to biopharma and medical device manufacturers for 4 years at Decision Resources Group, with a focus on market access strategy. She received her B.S. in Biology and B.A. in Economics from Villanova University. In her spare time, Joyce enjoys hiking, watching documentaries, and curating the Instagram account for her cat Noe.

Joyce Pan

Marketing

Prior to Datavant, Joyce served as a healthcare and life sciences management consultant for 3 years, providing strategic insights and analysis for MedTech, biopharma, and PE clients. Previously, she supported immunology research efforts at the Yale School of Medicine and the Koch Institute at MIT, where she co-authored a book chapter on the potential of nanomedicine to reshape treatment of multiple sclerosis. She graduated with a B.A. in Neuroscience and WGSS from Dartmouth College.

Bobby Samuels

Head of Product Success

Bobby is Head of Special Projects at Datavant. Prior to joining Datavant, Bobby worked in Business Operations at Bolt and led Technical Partnerships at LiveRamp. Bobby received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB in Economics from Harvard, where he also received a Secondary in Statistics.

Claire Cravero

Academic and Non-Profit Partnerships

Claire joins Datavant after 8 years of working in digital solutions for global public health with Zenysis Technologies and Dimagi Inc. She began her career in public health as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Senegal and completed a Fulbright Research grant in Malaysia. Claire received undergraduate training at Johns Hopkins University and Sciences Po Paris and received an MPH in epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

Alexandra Muir

Product Success Lead

Prior to joining Datavant, Alex worked as a project assistant in USC neuroimaging department, focusing on using big-data to understand how complex diseases affected the brain. She has a BS from Brigham Young University in Psychology. Outside of work, Alex enjoys being outdoors, spending time with family and friends, and watching a good documentary.

Farees Patel

Data Operations

Farees loves to find data-driven solutions for challenging business problems. Prior to joining Datavant, Farees was a Senior Data Scientist at Highland Math (HM), where he built data infrastructures and technological integrations for HM’s Data Monetization-as-a-Service platform. He leveraged machine learning for smarter audience development, and pricing strategies to help clients maximize the value of their data assets. Prior to that, he was working for Excellus BlueCross BlueShield to build various ML-driven products to help customers understand the risk of medication non-compliance across various NY counties. Farees received a degree in Information Management with a specialization in Data Science from Syracuse University.

Cody Sedler

Data Partnerships

Cody joins Datavant to work on Data Partnerships. Prior to joining Datavant, he led partnerships at Highland Math as the Director of Business Development. Cody holds an undergraduate degree from Northeastern University studying Business Administration.

Ricky Mann

Customer Success

Ricky Mann joins Datavant with experience in customer engagement, business development and implementations across the healthcare ecosystem. Ricky has led and been a part of scaling multiple technology-enabled startups and companies including Syapse, Palantir and The Advisory Board Company. Ricky has a BA in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley and a MPA in Health Policy and Management from New York University.

Chris Sinclair

Customer Success

Chris joins Datavant with 12 years of client engagement and implementation experience in healthcare IT businesses. Most recently, Chris worked at Shyft Analytics (a Medidata Company) focused on commercial pharma data management & analytics. Prior to SHYFT, Chris led an implementation team at McKesson's Connected Care & Analytics business (now Change Healthcare) enabling health system & provider networks to exchange clinical data. Chris graduated in 2008 from Quinnipiac University with a B.S. in Health Sciences and is currently enrolled in Northeastern's MBA program in Healthcare & Entrepreneurship.

Justin Rapp

Sales, Platforms

Justin Rapp joins Datavant after spending more than 5 years at App Annie where he was responsible for scaling the global Customer Success, Value Consulting, and Customer Support departments before serving as Chief of Staff to the CEO. Justin is a proud graduate of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology holding degrees from both The Wharton School and School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Alejandro Zamorano

Sales, Life Sciences

Alejandro has 10 years’ experience in business development finance, marketing, and fundraising in the life sciences. Alejandro has been an operator and business development lead in multiple healthcare technology-enabled startups and companies including PainQx, Life Science Nation and Abpro Labs. Alejandro has an MS in Finance from Bentley University, and degree in Economics and Finance at Bentley University.

Tim O'Grady

Sales, Life Sciences

I have over 20 years of experience in the healthcare and life science industry with a specific focus on offering innovative technology, data, and analytic solutions to commercial pharmaceutical manufacturers. Prior to joining Datavant, I was the President, Business Unit Head of Life Sciences for Point of Care Network. In that capacity, I led the commercial sales team and assumed responsibility for business development and commercial growth of the organization. Prior to that position, I served in roles as a senior member of the business development team for hyper-growth organizations, including Sermo and Crossix, where I focused on digital technology and innovative analytic solutions for both HCP and Consumer markets. I Graduated with a BS from Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD.

Amish Puri

Account Executive: Life Sciences Vertical

Amish has spent over 14 years in healthcare, most recently, leading Business Development for Cardinal Health Sonexus Patient Access and Support driving consultative selling and designing patient hub programs for rare and specialty therapies and led the largest hub services win in company history. Prior to Cardinal Health, Amish spent 7 years developing and leading the Pre-Commercial segment at IQVIA as a subject matter expert in syndicated and patient level data where he supported over 100 companies with first launches across all areas of commercialization with a focus on data strategy, launch excellence, and commercial operations. Before joining IQVIA, Amish spent several years in the Account Management function in pharmaceutical advertising supporting Managed Care teams across several Top 25 pharma companies with strategy, messaging, and tactics to drive health economics messaging, support field based market access teams, and achieve contracting wins. Amish holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Matt Smalley

Account Executive: Data Platforms

Matt brings 24 years of healthcare and life sciences experience across a vast array of technology and information solutions. Prior to joining Datavant, Matt spent 8 years with IQVIA as Dir. Enterprise Technology Solutions working with large pharma, emerging biotech, medical device, and partners driving commercial growth with integrated solutions. Prior to IQVIA, Matt held various technology and information business development leadership roles at Appature (acquired by IMS Health/IQVIA acquired), Health Market Science, and Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle). Matt started his healthcare industry career at Express Scripts as a Sales IT Liaison consulting on technical and data implementation solutions with health plans/payors. Matt graduated from St. John's University, Collegeville, MN with a B.A. Marketing.

Devin Gilliam

Business Development, Clinical Trials

Before joining Datavant, Devin worked in business development at Syapse, where he led go-to-market strategy for life sciences products and real world data offerings. Devin received a BA in Neuroscience from Pomona College.

Michael Capuzzi

Sales, Life Sciences

Michael Capuzzi joins Datavant with 20+ years of experience in customer engagement, business development and sales management across the healthcare ecosystem. He has worked with established companies as well as startups with a focus on Commercial Pharma. Michael came to Datavant from Veeva Systems, where he spent 4+ years marketing data and technology products to both large Pharma companies and emerging biotechs. Michael has a BBA in Accounting from Loyola University of Maryland.

Carissa Folgers

Head of Commercial Operations

Carissa moved to Datavant from Myovant Sciences where she held roles across Operations, Marketing and Alliance Management. Previously, she worked on the Business Operations team at Roivant Sciences and held various roles at Goldman Sachs in New York. Carissa has a B.A. in Mathematics and a B.S in Management from Binghamton University, where she graduated summa cum laude. Outside of work, Carissa enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time outdoors.

Oliver Peloso

Account Executive: Life Sciences

Oliver Peloso joined Datavant from Medidata Solutions where he built partnerships with Pharmaceutical and Biotech organizations to support their clinical technology operations. He spent the 3.5 years prior to Datavant in business development and sales, working with established and emerging life science sponsors. He received his B.S. from the University of Delaware. Outside of work, he can be found skiing, SCUBA diving or golfing.

Ed Pompili

Product Success

Prior to joining Datavant, Ed spent four years leading client implementations at Castlight Health. He received a B.A. in History from Boston College. Outside of work, Ed enjoys playing soccer, following Bay Area sports teams, and eating cheeseburgers.

Emma Hardt

Product Success

Prior to joining Datavant, Emma worked in onboarding and implementation for Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc, focusing on improving clinical documentation and workflows within EHR's. She has a BA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Community Health, and has lived in Chicago, IL since graduating. In her free time she enjoys cooking for friends and family, gardening, dancing, improving her ski technique, and spending time with her golden retriever, Jerry.

Larine Hamied

Product Success

Prior to Datavant, Larine worked in client implementations at Uber Health and in people operations at Tia, a women's healthcare startup. She received a B.S. in Global Health and International Affairs from Georgetown University. Outside of work she enjoys traveling, picnics with friends, and board games.

Charlotte Bourg

Product Success

Prior to joining Datavant, Charlotte worked in technical services at Epic in the Madison, Wisconsin area. She received a BA with majors in Biology and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, running, and reading.

Christine Horne

Product Success

Prior to joining Datavant, Christine worked in Product for Triage Consulting Group, leading the SQL development of Triage's internal applications. She received her B.A. from Claremont Mckenna College. In her free time, Christine can be found skiing or playing soccer, trying to replicate whatever she saw on The Great British Baking Show, and playing with her dogs.

Sara Rogovin

Product Success

Prior to joining Datavant, Sara worked for nearly seven years in technical services at Epic in their Wisconsin and UK offices. She focused primarily on interoperability and patient experience products and was the success lead for patient experience for the Dutch region. She received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech. Outside of work you can find her listening to pop culture podcasts, running, or attempting to become a better knitter.

Chanel Pipp

Accounting Lead

Chanel escaped Vietnam by boat with her younger brother when she was eight. She lived in three different refugee camps in Thailand for a year and a half before coming to San Jose, CA. Chanel lives in San Ramon with her husband and two boys. She loves doing outdoor activities, especially running. She is always up for fun adventures and loves to help others.

Weyland Lau

Lead Revenue Accountant

Weyland is the Lead Revenue Accountant at Datavant. Before joining Datavant, Weyland occupied the Revenue Manager role at Heap, Inc. overseeing the Order to Cash process from contract review, Invoice/billing, collections, Revenue Recognition and Sales Tax. Prior to that, Weyland has worked at various startups in Accounting/Finance roles from Revenue, AR and FP&A. With a BS in Business Economics - Accounting, he roots every fall for Florida Gator Football team and every Spring for the Arizona wildcat basketball team. He also enjoys working on his garden, playing basketball and collecting collectibles.

Eric Chin

Security Analyst & IT Administrator

Eric is the Security Analyst and IT Administrator at Datavant. Prior to Datavant, Eric has served a variety of roles, ranging from Marketing Design to Data Center Operations. He received his B.S. from UC Davis in Design and Psychology, with a biology emphasis. Outside of work, Eric is often taking photographs, traveling, or building something in his shop.

Leor Paley

Recruiting Coordination

Prior to joining Datavant, Leor worked with children with behavioral, socio-emotional, and academic challenges. A passion for understanding the ways in which language creates our reality led Leor to pursue a B.A. in Communication Studies from San Francisco State University. Outside of work, you can find Leor enjoying games such as basketball, Magic the Gathering, and Settlers of Catan.

Quinn Johns

Business Operations

Prior to Datavant, Quinn was an analyst at Roivant Sciences covering business development in Greater China. He focused on identifying and evaluating promising drug candidates within the therapeutic areas of oncology, nephrology, and infectious disease for acquisition and clinical development. Quinn holds a B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Abby Bertelson

Business Operations

Prior to Datavant, Abby worked in Strategy & Business Operations at Zillow within the Premier Agent business. Abby holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University. Outside of work, Abby enjoys traveling, cooking new dishes, and horseback riding.

Annie Powers

Talent Development

Most recently, Annie worked on the People Programs Team at Stripe. Previously, Annie supported expert witnesses across antitrust, false advertising, and intellectual property litigation cases at Analysis Group, an economic, financial, and strategy consulting firm. Annie received a degree in Economics from Middlebury College and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Outside of work, she enjoys attending dance classes, planning themed parties, and playing with her 18-pound poodle rescue.

Alicia Loewenthal

Talent Acquisition Manager

Alicia joins Datavant with over five years’ experience leading Talent and Recruiting functions in Bay Area SaaS startups. Alicia has an MA in Sustainable Communities from Northern Arizona University, a BA in English Literature from Mt. Holyoke College, and she gained over a decade of experiential knowledge working with and across diverse global communities in the educational non-profit sector. She is always learning - often from co-workers, friends, books, nature, and job applicants. Alicia’s lifelong passion is building diverse, impactful, and empowered teams.

Marlene Chuc

Executive Assistant

Marlene is an Executive Assistant to the CEO and supports other members of our executive team. Prior to joining Datavant, Marlene worked at Wework and AppDynamics where she supported multiple executives and championed better team culture. She spends her free time cooking, spending time with friends and family and enjoys working on creative projects.

Kathryn Khalvati

Recruiting Coordinator

Kathryn is passionate about connecting incredible talent to mission-driven companies. Prior to joining Datavant, she worked as a research assistant at the Clinical & Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, where she studied how training in the regulation of food craving influences eating behavior and underlying brain activity. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Kathryn is a certified yoga instructor who loves doing backbends, hiking with her dog, and baking in her free time.

Advisory Board

Joseph Austin Founder, Universal Patient Key
Donald Berwick President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Niall Brennan President and Executive Director, Health Care Cost Institute Former Chief Data Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Daniel Burch Chief Medical Officer, PPD Biotech
Andrew von Eschenbach President, Samaritan Health Initiatives and former Commissioner of the FDA
Emiko Higashi Founder and Managing Director, Tomon Capital Partners LLC Member of the Board of Directors, Takeda Pharmaceutical
Auren Hoffman CEO, SafeGraph
Sachin Jain President and CEO, CareMore Health System Former Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer, Merck
Abel Kho Director, Center for Health Information Partnerships Associate Professor of Medicine & Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University
Min Li SVP and Head of Neurosciences R&D, GSK Former Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Lo Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Principal Investigator, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Bernie Lo Chair of Committee on Sharing of Clinical Trial Data, IOM
Peter Neupert Lead Independent Director & Board Member, LabCorp and Former Corporate VP, Microsoft
Sam Nussbaum Former CMO, Anthem
Atul Pande Former SVP, Head of Neurosciences R&D, GSK Chief Medical Advisor of PureTech Health
Frank Rockhold Professor of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI)
Charles Safran Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
David Shulkin Former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Bryan Spielman Former EVP, Medidata
Michael Stebbins Former Assistant Director for Biotechnology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Richard Thomas Former President Tech & Solutions / CIO, Quintiles
Lila Tretikov Former Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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