We’re building a new approach to medication management that’s based on the belief that there’s a better way.

Asraf Amanulla

Senior Software Dev. Engineer in Test

Asraf has over thirteen years of experience in the field of quality assurance and business development in the banking, finance, insurance and health care spaces.

Previously, Asraf was Lead QA for Evolent Health where he drove their utilization and care management app for approximately five years. Prior to that, Asraf was a senior software engineer at Wipro.

Asraf is interested in doing small DYI projects, traveling to new places, and enjoying time with family and friends. He has a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from India.

Shannon Barton

Pharmacist, Director of Clinical Research

Shannon has over 25 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist. She was a retail pharmacist for twelve years before going into pharmacy benefit management. She has broad experience in pharmacy benefit management both as a manager and a clinical pharmacist with roles in drug policy development, medication therapy management, project management and operational management.

Her prior experience as a retail pharmacist has given her insight into how health care decisions affect patients in real time. Improving the health of others in a fiscally responsible way is her passion. Shannon received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Outside of her pharmacist role, Shannon has been a food tour guide and a volunteer makeup artist in the Northwest. She’s an avid reader and a dog lover.

Jeffrey Basco

Pharmacy Technician Guide

Jeff was born and raised in Oceanside, California and is a Navy veteran with over 6 years of pharmacy experience as a clerk and technician in PBM and retail settings.

In addition to his pharmacy background, Jeff also has 8 years of hospital experience working in radiology.

Hobbies include surfing and home renovation when he isn't busy taking care of his 18 month old son.

Brian Beran

Regional, VP Sales

Brian Beran has 10+ years experience selling in the healthcare and benefits space. He previously held positions in wellness, centers of excellence and digital navigation, primarily focused on revenue generation in the western half of the US. Located in Southern California, Brian spends the majority of his free time with his wife and two young children at the beach, pool or park.

Nichole Blair

Pharmacy Technician Guide

Nichole has been a licensed Pharmacy Technician for 27 years with experience across a variety of sectors in the pharmacy and healthcare worlds.

Her career spans roles in outpatient/inpatient pharmacy, home infusion, education as a Program Director and most recently, as a Nursing Consultant.

In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, golfing, watching professional and collegiate sports and spending time with her family.

Bill Brinkman

Contracting Lead, Provider and Pharmaceutical Partnerships

Bill Brinkman has spent his career investing in, building and advising companies. He most recently worked on special projects for venture growth equity firms M33 Growth and General Catalyst. Previously, he was an investor at Nautic Partners, a private equity firm, where his investments included LDI, ExactCare Pharmacy, Community Medical Group and Warmelin Precision Products. Bill began his career at L.E.K. Consulting, advising companies on growth strategy and commercial due diligence.

Bill has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College.

Bill loves to spend time outdoors, whether hiking, fishing, camping or tossing a Frisbee. Some of his more memorable adventures include storm chasing with friends in Minnesota and exploring Denali National Park.

Ash Damle

Co-Founder

As a healthcare and AI entrepreneur, investor and advisor, Ash Damle has helped raise over $100 million in funding and founded multiple startups looking to change society to help people live better lives. As the founder and CEO of Lumiata, Ash drove the company’s mission of lowering the cost of healthcare delivery by predicting individual health risks with artificial intelligence. He pioneered a first-of-kind medical knowledge graph based on current scientific research and clinical practice. Ash is a technologist and data scientist deeply rooted in the application of big data to health and its intersection with design. Over the last 15 years, he has researched, built and applied AI technologies with leading institutions and organizations, including the UCLA AI and Robotics Lab, MIT’s AI Lab, the MIT Media Lab, the U.S. Navy and NASA.

Ash graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with degrees in computer science and mathematics.

Steve Dugan

Product Manager

Steve Dugan is passionate about building products that improve patient outcomes. He has spent the past seven years working in the pharmaceutical and healthcare technology spaces with various roles in sales, operations and product.

Steve graduated from University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Science degree in exercise science.

Steve loves traveling and trying new foods. He is an avid skier, having competed in downhill ski races for 10 years. He also enjoys playing tennis and weight training.

Kent Elmer

Chief Financial Officer

Kent Elmer is a CPA with over 25 years of broad-based experience ranging from Big 4 public accounting to CFO level positions at a variety of companies.Kent began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. After gaining a strong foundation, he made the transition to the private sector. His public company experience includes various positions including Controller and CFO of a NASDAQ software company (IQ Software Corporation).He has also been the CFO of a number of early and growth stage technology ventures in both software and hardware (Carecentric Solutions, Inc., Digital Furnace, Inc., R.F. Solutions, Inc.).In addition, Kent spent time on the West Coast with Broadcom Corporation assisting in the acquisition and integration of over 10 early stage companies in atwelve-month period. Every private sector company that Kent has worked for has successfully navigated its way through the acquisition process.Since 2003 through TechCXO, Kent has provided CFO and related services to dozens of early and growth stage technology companies across the country.

Feda Elshaer

Product Owner, Clinical Informatics

Feda brings years of experience in pharmacy analytics and a passion for improving healthcare quality through product innovations centered around value-based care.

She has designed, programmed, tested, and deployed over 100 evidence-based clinical algorithms and multiple stratification programs to capture and effectively intervene on high-risk members.

She helps WithMe achieve better clinical outcomes, higher medication adherence rates, and better member engagement with pharmacy benefits. Feda received her Bachelor of Science in Health Systems Management from George Mason University. She enjoys traveling to explore different cultures and cuisines, shooting pool, hiking, or reading in her spare time.

Ganzorig Erdenebat

Full Stack Engineer

Ganzorig Erdenebat is a software engineer from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia currently working as full-stack software engineer at WithMe Health. He is passionate about working on highly scalable enterprise architecture and its infrastructure. In his free time he enjoys mountain biking and road trips. He is also a huge fan of open-source technology and likes to read about cyber-security.

Preston Ewing

Customer Success Implementation Manager

Preston is a military veteran with a strong business acumen. His passion for helping others led him to serve in the U.S. Army as a combat medic, and after his service he channeled that passion into pharmacy benefit management and business development. Formerly, he served as an Account Manager and Pharmacy Coordinator for some of the largest pharmaceutical distribution and benefit management organizations.

During his time as an Account Manager, he gained extensive experience in business development, strategy, change management and operations. Afterwards, he joined the largest drug distributor organization as a Pharmacy Coordinator, where he acted as a point of contact for multiple pharmacies and established various processes. When he is not working, you can find Preston spending time with his family or playing a round of golf.

Chandhu Gandra

Quality Assurance Manager

Chandhu Gandra has 15+ years of experience in Finance, CRM and Product Oriented domains. Prior to Joining WithMe Health, Chandhu was with WellsFargo, Autodesk and Salesforce as a QA Manger and Lead. He has brought industry best practices in automating and testing applications to every organization he’s worked with and is experienced in release management and product promotions.

Chandhu played a big role in process improvements in SDLC and has spent more than ten years in Finance / Asset management SaaS software, mobile, and web products.

Chandhu has a Master Degree in Management Information Systems and Computer Applications from Hyderabad, India. He loves watching sports, spending time with his family, and visiting his hometown.

Owais Javed

Director of Product Management

Owais brings over a decade of experience helping healthcare and fintech companies find meaning and hidden insights from their data. He has built complete business intelligence solutions allowing enterprises to make data driven decisions. He is a big advocate of enabling self service analytics so users can find answers to their data questions at the speed of thought.

Owais is passionate about innovating with technology to improve lives. After some time in fintech, he found his way into healthcare and is now driven to make a positive impact in this space.

Owais graduated with a Masters in Information Systems from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

In his free time, Owais enjoys playing basketball, traveling to new places, and going on adventures with his wife and daughter.

Michael Judice

Director, DevOps & Security

With over 20+ years of technical experience, Mike Judice is a security and software engineer who previously helped build the platforms and processes of Remedy Partners (now part of Signify Health). He has deep knowledge in Cloud computing rooted in his long history with physical infrastructure. Before healthcare, Mike had 15+ years working in the technical areas of finance.

His deep passion for cloud computing helps him drive the organization's toughest technical problems to excellence at all levels.

Mike eats security for breakfast, networking for lunch, DevOps for dinner, HITRUST audits for desert and sleeps soundly while dreaming of improved SDLC workflows.

When Mike isn’t writing lambdas, he loves to spend time with his family, fishing, and bbq just about everything.

Lisa Krajewski

VP of Customer Success

Lisa Krajewski, a healthcare professional with expertise in operations, account management and product development, is passionate about providing best-in-class service to customers.

Prior to joining the WithMe Health team, Lisa held leadership roles in pharmacy consulting, PBM management and manufacturer relations. She led the development, implementation and customer support of products and services for large employer groups and health systems in her leadership positions at APS, EnvisionRx and Keenan & Associates.‍

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts in management from St. Mary’s College and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in healthcare from Florida Institute of Technology.

In her free time, Lisa can be found outdoors running or hiking. She is an avid runner who participates in marathons and ultra events.

Jake Kramer

Director of Product Management

Jake Kramer’s role combines his passions for research, analytics and problem-solving to create transformative healthcare experiences.

Previously, Jake was a Director of Product and Design at Willis Towers Watson, working on employee and retiree benefits experiences. Before that, he was a product manager at Extend Health, the largest Medicare health insurance exchange.

Jake is an amateur CrossFit athlete, a decent cook and an apprentice potter. He also has a black belt and too many things on his reading list. His long-term obsession is to build an app that lets you talk to dogs.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Summer Kramer

Director of Clinical Research

Dr. Summer Kramer has been a clinical pharmacist for over 10 years. From complex care coordination to medication cost-reduction strategies, her experience has focused on a holistic and collaborative healthcare model to deliver optimal patient outcomes. Summer has experience in pharmacy benefit and medical drug management for both startup and established health plans, healthcare contracts and drug policy review, drug pipeline management and complex care program development.

Her previous roles have included Medical Director, Clinical Liaison, Manager of Specialty Pharmacy Operations, and most recently Clinical Pharmacist Specialist focusing on high-cost novel therapeutics. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of New Mexico.

Summer spends most of her free time doing yoga, cooking healthy meals, enjoying the outdoors with her family and ever so slowly restoring her 100+-year-old historic craftsman home.

Derek Lowe

Pharmacy Technician Guide

Derek has over 14 years experience as a pharmacy technician both in retail and outpatient pharmacy settings.

He is passionate about helping people's path to better health. Located in the Bay Area, Derek spends most of his free time walking along the beach fishing for striped bass, cooking or riding motorcycles.

In addition, his all time favorite hobby is working on his classic cars and adding modifications.

Anil Marella

Sr. Principal Data Engineer

Anil Marella is an IT Professional specializing in Analytics and Machine learning.

Prior to joining WithMe Health, for over 4 years, he worked as a Software Engineer - Application Developer at Oracle where he built multiple integration frameworks between Oracle apps. He was also a Machine Learning Engineer at 7-Eleven for 2 years, where he extensively worked on inventory replenishment, deals/coupons personalization and product recommendation systems leveraging modern machine learning techniques on large scale data.

Anil received his Masters in Business Analytics from The University of Texas at Dallas. In his free time, Anil enjoys traveling, hiking, playing Chess and digital art.

Nick Morrell

UI Lead

Nick is passionate about building great software and especially all things related to Javascript. Nick first became interested in healthcare software while studying for his Master’s in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. Since then, he has worked almost exclusively on healthcare-related applications and thoroughly enjoys building software that helps both patients and care providers.

Outside of engineering, you’ll find Nick spending time with his wife and 3 boys, usually outside. He enjoys hiking, reading, weightlifting, and trying to build things with wood.

Joe Murad

President & CEO

Joe Murad was a founding team member and Chief Operating Officer of Extend Health, Inc. until its sale to Willis Towers Watson (WTW), where he then served as the managing director and head of individual benefits delivery and administration. Prior to joining WithMe, he served as president and CEO of PokitDok Inc., a platform-as-a-service that enables healthcare organizations to quickly bring modern commerce experiences to market, through its acquisition by Change Healthcare. Earlier in his career, he helped grow eHealth (EHTH) from inception as the director of business development.

Joe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California.

Liz Myers

VP of Pricing & Underwriting

Liz Myers, an actuary, has worked in the healthcare consulting field for more than 20 years with a variety of clients including employers, carriers, brokers and providers.

Her primary focus includes data analytics, pricing, contracting, underwriting and benchmarking. Basically, anything impacting employer and employee spend. She's a long-time proponent of transparency and passionate about finding opportunities to reduce cost.

Liz holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Actuarial Science from Georgia State University.

Liz is a former collegiate swimmer and currently swims with a master’s group in Atlanta. She also enjoys running and biking along with CrossFit. Many weekends she can be found on the volleyball court or at the pool cheering on her two daughters.

Smita Nair

Chief Product Officer

Smita Nair brings 14+ years product experience and a driving obsession to reduce waste and improve patient quality of life. Previously, she led the product management team at Evolent Health, building their value-based platform from the ground up, and leading her team through an IPO and numerous mergers and acquisitions.

She received her Bachelor in Computer Science Engineering from Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology and an MBA from Goa Institute of Management. After graduation, she explored the world of security and compliance during a short stint at the World Bank before beginning her healthcare journey at Lumenos (a startup in consumer-driven healthcare).

In her spare time, Smita enjoys sharing her love of classical dance with her two daughters. As a big believer of organic and clean eating, she enjoys improvising in the kitchen, creating healthy versions of chef-inspired meals.

Ganesh Narayanan

Senior DevSecOps

Ganesh Narayanan is an IT professional with more than two decades of experience in software development, production support, building infrastructure to support highly available, scalable and resilient architectures and implementation of DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines. He is passionate about learning new emerging technologies.

Prior to joining WithMe Health, Ganesh was in the IT division at Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Comcast and Charles Schwab.

He received a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India.

In his free time, Ganesh enjoys listening to Carnatic classical music, spending time with his family and his puppy.

Nick Palefsky

Director of Operations

Nick Palefsky has led operations, sales and marketing as an entrepreneur and at scale in high-growth consumer technology companies.

Previously, Nick led operations for the sales organization at Tesla and at Apple. He started his career as an entrepreneur by turning a passion for cars into a successful e-commerce business.

Nick received a Bachelor of Arts in economics and history from the University of Southern California and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Nick enjoys being active with his wife, which helps them keep up with their endlessly energetic labradoodle. Nick is an avid endurance athlete having completed five marathons and a century ride, with plans for an Ironman once he perfects his swim stroke.

Theresa Phan

Front-end Engineer

Theresa is passionate about building applications that improve the patient and care provider experience. Previously, she worked on utilization management software at Evolent Health.

She received a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Linguistics from the University of Maryland. Her undergraduate research spans various fields, including addiction science and computational linguistics. Her work has been presented at the American Psychological Association Convention and the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.

Outside of tech, she is interested in art, philosophy, and public transit. In her free time she enjoys roller skating, painting and drawing, and listening to indie music.

Chris Price

Co-Founder & Chairman

Chris Price has led or played a significant role as an investor, executive or advisor on transactions representing over $4.5 billion in aggregate value during his more than 15-year career. At ADVI Health, he was a senior vice president advising clients in the life sciences, health care services and digital health sectors on go-to-market, growth acceleration and capital raising strategy. Before that, he was a senior vice president for strategy and product at EnvisionRx, a pharmacy benefit manager with more than $4 billion in annual revenue. He founded and was managing partner at Broad Creek Partners, a tech-enabled healthcare services investment and advisory firm.

Chris received a Bachelor of Science with Financial Applications degree from Southern Methodist University. He served as a mentor for the SMU Cox School of Business Associate Board and a sponsor of its MBA Venture Fund.

Helen Sherman

Executive Vice President & Chief Pharmacy Officer

Dr. Helen Sherman is committed to advancing the best use of medications through using solid scientific evidence as the foundation for healthcare decisions.

She has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a practicing pharmacist, clinician, pharmacy consultant and healthcare services leader. She has represented billions of dollars in pharmaceutical purchasing decisions for Fortune 50 companies, international employers, federal and state government-funded programs, health plan associations, health care systems, a U.S. intelligence agency, and privately held and publicly traded health plans and employers.

Helen holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Oregon State University, a Doctor of Pharmacy from Purdue University, a Residency Certificate at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon and a Fellowship Certificate at State University of New York at Buffalo.

Helen is magnetized to outdoor adventures and competitions. She has run many half and full marathons, is a precision marathon pacer and coach, biked several centuries, and swam a 4-mile open water competition. For health and relaxation, Helen swims, runs, bikes, snow and water skis, paddle boards, hikes, and climbs rock terrain.

Max Shore

Strategy and Operations Manager

Max joins WithMe Health from Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Analytics practice, where he advised clients across industries including healthcare, consumer goods, non-profit, media, and the public sector. He is particularly interested in exploring how market incentives and great products can drive social progress.

Max graduated from Vanderbilt University with degrees in Cognitive Neuroscience and Economics. In his free time, he likes to get outside as much as possible, usually running, skiing, hiking, or eating sandwiches somewhere with a nice view.

Tanvir Sidhu

Principal Software Engineer

Tanvir is a passionate software engineer with 10+ years of experience in building scalable and high performance applications in Healthcare, Education, and Transportation and Logistics industries. He is always striving to learn new things and take on new challenges.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from McMaster University.

Outside of work, he spends his time with his wife and daughter and being active outdoors. He enjoys playing soccer, tennis and online video games.

Tom Smith

General Counsel & Head of Compliance

Tom Smith began his legal career at a leading international law firm, where he led numerous capital markets and M&A transactions for public and private healthcare, biotech and technology companies. Since moving in-house, Tom has served as the general counsel of four VC-backed, technology-enabled healthcare companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his career as a design and operations engineer in the satellite manufacturing industry before becoming an attorney.

Tom has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Science degree from Stanford University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

While Tom has three Ironman triathlons under his belt, he now stays fit by riding his Peloton bike during the week and chasing his two children around the Bay Area on the weekends.

Dhruv Soni

Data Engineer

Dhruv Dhaval Soni is a Software Engineer from Kenya. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science and minor in mathematics from San Jose State University. Dhruv began his career during his last year of college at a data analytic startup, where he architected and built a data visualization framework in python. Soon after, he joined Pure Storage, where he architected and implemented a new backend python multi-threaded framework to help identify issues in the product.

Dhruv is an avid fan of soccer and Formula One, including go-karting. When not working, he enjoys volunteering his time creating religious content for the youth in his community. He further enjoys the great outdoors. To date, he has climbed three mountains: Kilimanjaro, Stok Kangri (part of the Himalayan Range), and Mount Kenya.

Joette Sweeney

Quality Systems Manager

Joette Sweeney has more than 10 years of experience in healthcare consulting and PBM operations including pharmacy audits, financial analysis, and managing PBM plan setup and claim adjudication testing.

She has a Bachelor of Science degree in information systems management from the University of California Santa Cruz.

In her free time Joette enjoys spending time in Lake Tahoe and at Disneyland, as well as listening to Radiolab podcasts.

Nichole Twarozek

Pharmacy Technician Guide

Originating from just outside of Rochester, NY, Nichole has fine-tuned her customer service skills as a senior pharmacy technician across several East coast locations.

Best known for her positivity and cheerful attitude, Nichole enjoys connecting with members on a personal level to ensure their health needs are met from beginning to end. Nichole earned her bachelor’s in Biological Sciences at SUNY Brockport in pursuit of her dream to help others.
In her free time, she enjoys traveling to music festivals, baking confections, and taking hikes all over Northern GA with her Pitbull Ollie.

Nirav Vira

VP of Engineering

Nirav has two decades of diverse experience in Healthcare, Finance and Manufacturing domains. Prior to joining WithMe Health, Nirav was at Verana Health as their head of platform, where he accelerated the GTM for RWE/CTA product, building the largest specialty data platform & pipeline for Analytics and AI for Ophthalmology & Neurology. He has worked with McKesson / Change Healthcare on a variety of projects including Patient & Provider portal, workflow app for Orders & Results, & Big data platform for Population Health & Risk Management analytics products. He has spent over ten years in Finance / Asset management SaaS software, mobile & web products.

Nirav holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Mumbai, India. He loves hiking, snowboarding during his free time. He coaches at the volunteer run CYO basketball organization for elementary & middle school kids & is always up for a pickup game.

Quin-Tram Vo

Pharmacist Guide

Quynh-Tram is an experienced managed care pharmacist with a demonstrated history of working in the retail, health insurance, and pharmacy benefits management industry.

Previously, she has cared for patients and ensured cost-effective therapies while working for CVS Health, OptumRx, and Centene.

She completed her Doctor of Pharmacy at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
Quynh-Tram enjoys traveling, exploring new places to eat, and relaxing on the beach with her husband and almost 2-year old daughter.

Dickon Waterfield

Chief Commercial Officer

Dickon Waterfield was previously the Chief Commercial Officer at Big Health, a digital therapeutics company focused on mental health. Responsible for the initial go-to-market strategy, Dickon grew the business from 0–2.5M covered lives and launched a strategic partnership with CVS. Prior to Big Health, Dickon worked as an early-stage investor and healthcare strategy consultant at Monitor Group, where he advised pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers on their commercialization strategies across the U.S. and Europe. Dickon graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a First Class Degree. When Dickon's at home and not chasing after his two young boys, he's trying to sneak off for a quick run or if he's really lucky, an afternoon kitesurfing or surfing.

Amelia Willoughby

Customer Care Guide

From the Appalachian region of Maryland, Amelia has a small town spirit and love for the mountains. With a pinch of wanderlust and a desire to help people, she has worked as a legal advocate with asylum seekers; a teacher at an all-boys middle school; a medical case manager for adults with intellectual disabilities; and a hospice caregiver, all over the country and the world. For the past few years she has worked in the patient care sphere of pharmacy, specializing in fertility medication scheduling and adherence. Grounded in her desire to improve health outcomes for members, she hopes to help shape this new healthcare space through radical hospitality and empathy.

Amelia received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of San Francisco in Creative Writing, and enjoys creating and supporting art in the Bay Area. In her free time she can be found volunteering at ESL classes, scrolling through travel itineraries and blogs, and hiking in the Sierra Foothills.

Bryan Young

Director, Product Design

Bryan is passionate about bringing best-in-class design to healthcare, and has led creative efforts at multiple innovative companies in the healthcare space.

First, as an early member of the product team at Oscar in New York, he led design for their initial launch in parallel with the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act. Next, he served as Creative Lead for their marketing efforts as they expanded into California and Texas.

Next, Bryan moved to LA to lead design at Renew Health, an innovator in retirement, Medicare, and medication management. Before he discovered healthcare, Bryan worked at Google on an internal creative team supporting top brand clients like Coke, Oreo, and Nike.

Outside of work, Bryan loves working on his tan at the beach, singing Sondheim, and scuba diving. He is also a doting father to his cat, Figaro.