Fawad served as the Chief Data Officer at Kaiser Permanente, United Healthcare, and Optum, leading the industry’s largest team of data and analytics experts and managing a multi-hundred-million dollar P&L. At Optum, he was responsible for overseeing the end-to-end data and analytics capabilities, platforms, products, tools and services across the enterprise. Under his leadership, his team modernized key data and analytics capabilities to support the ever-evolving analytical needs across the UHG and Optum businesses.

Fawad fostered a culture of innovation across the analytics ecosystem, encouraged experimentation with new methods and technologies, and invested in talent and tools to deliver a robust digital foundation for the enterprise, enabling best-in-class care and cost outcomes for the $60M UHG members.

Prior to UHG, Fawad served as the Chief Data Governance & Chief Data Officer at Kaiser Permanente. At Kaiser, Fawad helped define the industry’s most robust Data Governance Model, led an enterprise wide Data Privacy & Security initiative, and built the foundational data and analytics capabilities which allowed Kaiser to be market leading in digital care delivery for years to follow.

Prior to starting Penguin Ai. Fawad was an Executive-in-Residence at Canvas Ventures, a venture capital firm with $3B under management. During his time at Canvas, he worked closely with the Managing Partners to evaluate healthcare investments and help the firm drive a data analytics, AI and machine learning thesis. He was involved with the following portfolio companies as a board observer and technical leader: Particle Health, Vida Health and PineCove Health.

Kishore is a hands-on leader with deep interest in leveraging Data and AI to identify, communicate and solve business problems and Applied AI. He built AI capabilities into multiple products across Risk and Quality, Care Management, Utilization Management and OptumRx teams at UnitedHealth Group (UHG), which resulted in a total annual savings/ incremental revenue of $250M. As a Data and AI leader, he has consulted for Elevance Health/Anthem leveraging Gen AI within operations and workflow.

Prior to UHG, Kishore worked in the Risk Management team at American Express and the Transportation Analytics team at Amazon post his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Kishore has filed 10 patents at the intersection of AI, Healthcare and Operations and has written 5 books on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Srinivas is a Data Engineering Executive with over 17 years of experience in architecting, designing and developing data warehousing, big data, cloud and analytics solutions. He served for over 10 years in various roles at UnitedHealth Group (UHG), and spent time at the Royal Bank of Scotland and Dell.

A well-regarded technical manager who can attract, manage and build out large engineering teams with his people-centric approach, he specializes in building and delivering A-class cutting-edge solutions.

Vamsi is a transformational tech leader who has a long history building and launching intelligent applications that solve impactful customer pain points. As Associate Director of AI Products & Platforms at UnitedHealth Group (UHG), he has led teams who have created AI-powered products to help departments achieve widespread digital transformation. He has stood up and led numerous engineering and development teams at Black Knight Financial Services and ADP.

Mark Caron is Chief Strategy Officer at Penguin Ai with over 40 years of business and technology leadership, including 35+ years in healthcare across delivery systems and insurers. He previously served as Executive Consultant to EY-Parthenon, Advisor to healthcare IT companies and PE firms, EVP & CIO at Capital BlueCross, and CEO of its subsidiary Geneia.

Earlier in his career, Mark held C-level leadership roles at OptumHealth, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin and Massachusetts, Catholic Health Initiatives, and Healthsource. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO), and in 2013 was named an Elite 8 honoree by Insurance & Technology, recognizing top IT executives in the insurance industry.

Peter Longo began his career at McKesson, where he played a pivotal role in building and scaling sales teams during the company's major expansion into hospitals. Known for his ability to create high-performing sales organizations, Peter's success at McKesson led to his next venture at Sunquest, where he was SVP of Sales and Marketing. At Sunquest, he helped grow the company into a leader in hospital lab, radiology, and pharmacy software, with the business successfully being acquired by Vista Equity Partners.

Terry has over 25 years of experience in healthcare, specializing in partnerships and go-to-market strategy across payers, providers, and digital health. He is Head of Partnerships at Penguin Ai, where he leads alliances with hyperscalers, cloud data platforms, systems integrators, and ISVs to expand adoption of AI-powered solutions for payers and providers.

Terry previously held leadership roles at Pager Health, ŌURA, Salesforce, and Cisco, where he built partner ecosystems, launched new healthcare solutions, and drove significant growth in payer and provider markets.

Abigail Crenshaw is Chief of Staff and Head of Operations at Penguin Ai, where she drives execution across teams, strengthens operations, and supports scaling the company’s impact in healthcare AI. She most recently led Technology Strategy for the CIO at SCAN Health Plan and previously led Healthcare Commercial Strategy at Afiniti. Earlier in her career, Abigail held roles at Kaiser Permanente’s Transformation Office and Accenture’s Digital Strategy Practice, building expertise in healthcare delivery and strategic consulting.

Cecilia is an Operator, Investor, and Advisor with extensive experience spanning multiple sectors, including technology, healthcare, consumer and luxury. She currently serves as a Director at SAES Getters SPA, Alto Partners SGR, and GBH.

In addition, Cecilia is an advisor to high-growth companies such as Arsenale, a multi-brand company that develops and manages luxury hospitality assets both in hotels and train cruising sectors, and Kujten, a sustainable cashmere apparel brand.

Cecilia holds a degree in Business & Finance from Cass Business School, a Master’s in Management from London Business School, an MBA from INSEAD, and an Executive Program in Women’s Entrepreneurship from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Cecilia has been named among Aspen Institute’s Friends, a David Rockefeller Fellow, a Young Leader ExCo Committee Member, and a Forbes 30 Under 30.
Her professional journey began at McKinsey & Co., where she consulted for leading organizations across diverse industries globally. She later expanded her expertise in finance, working in Private Equity with L Catterton and in Hedge Funds at Attestor Capital, before transitioning into the luxury sector with Christian Dior. Cecilia’s entrepreneurial spirit flourished during her eight years at Afiniti, a U.S.-based unicorn specializing in big data analytics and artificial intelligence. There, she created and led regional operating companies, managing multiple countries and industry verticals, ultimately becoming co-Head for the U.S. and later Global Head of Healthcare & Head of International.

Before transitioning to her current full-time role as an investor and advisor, Cecilia served as Chief Innovation Officer at Zhero, a global player focused on energy transition.

Thomas Michael Awe is an angel investor and advisor specializing in high-technology startups that leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance their go-to-market strategies. With a distinguished career spanning entrepreneurial ventures and executive leadership at Fortune 500 companies, Thomas has consistently delivered exceptional results across diverse technology domains, including big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, unified communications as a service, software, storage, networking, managed services, and computer systems.

Thomas has held key leadership roles at Sumo Logic, Cognitive Scale, Alpine Data, Avaya, and Sun Microsystems, which acquired his software startup, Redcape Software. Beyond his corporate achievements, he co-founded and chaired eHealth Path, a subscription-based online program focused on teaching healthy cooking skills.

An alumnus of the University of Saint Thomas and the Stanford University Executive Institute, Thomas combines his deep technical expertise with a passion for innovation to support the next generation of transformative startups.

Missy is a seasoned healthcare operator with 35+ years in the healthcare and digital health industry. She has worked at large technology companies (Amazon, Google, Box), startups, foundations, the U.S. government, and venture capital. She was one of the earliest Venture Chairs at Redesign Health, a venture studio that has launched and funded over 70+ healthcare startups.

Prior to venture work at Redesign, she led healthcare teams at Amazon working across Amazon Care, Amazon Pharmacy, AWS Healthcare & Life Sciences and the Alexa Health & Wellness team.

Prior to Amazon, Missy served as Vice President and Managing Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at Box, a publicly traded cloud collaboration company. In that role, she led the company’s first healthcare corporate acquisition and launched the industries division in preparation for the company's IPO.

Before Box, Missy was Vice President at Morgenthaler Ventures (now Canvas Ventures), a venture capital firm with $3B under management. At Morgenthaler, she helped lead Series A and B digital health investments, including: Practice Fusion, Doximity, HealthLoop, Viewics and Vida Health.

Before venture capital, Missy served as one of the founding executives of Google Health, where she spearheaded Google’s first entry into the healthcare industry. While at Google, she held various positions in product management, marketing and business development.

Prior to Google, Missy worked for the government in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under President George W. Bush. In D.C., Missy helped start the inaugural Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) where she worked on legislation that led to the HITECH Act.

Earlier in her career, she worked in Product Marketing at CareScience, a digital health startup that went public and developed the first Health Information Exchange (HIE), led policy and communications at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a healthcare policy think tank, and worked at Aetna in provider marketing during two corporate mergers.

Missy has served as a board member to several digital health companies. Her active boards include: Uplift (a behavioral health company), Overalls (a human and AI-based employer concierge benefit), Syntax (a Value-based Care workflow company), Wavely (a smart phone-based diagnostic that diagnoses ear infections), Steadywell (a palliative care company) and SideBy Care (a GI care management company). Missy has a M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from UCLA.