Sandeep is experienced entrepreneur with focus on healthcare technology. He gets the inspiration to mentor and volunteer at WHIT from his two beautiful daughters. Currently, he is CEO of 2 healthcare startups – DevCool Inc. and HiPaaS Inc. He is also investor and board member for few other startups. He has been featured on CNBC, Fox and Bloomberg network as a Healthcare innovation leader. He has been a speaker at various Healthcare technology conferences. Sandeep’s passion is to help make technology ideas real and has himself walked the steep climb. Linkedin Profile (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-startup-venture-key-lessons-i-learned-hard-way-sandeep-deokule/)
Rachel Spilo
As Founder and CEO of Catalyst Solutions, Rachel manages the strategic vision as well as day to day operations of Catalyst, making sure that Catalyst’s standards of quality are not only met but exceeded. In the past 20 years, Catalyst has grown from a local Colorado consulting firm to a large-scale national player in the payer marketplace. Rachel personally ensures that the company and its employees adhere to the core values of Catalyst set forth years ago and that the company maintains its original integrity.
Rachel has won numerous awards including Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Small Business Administration, as well as yearly recognition from INC Magazine and Colorado Business Magazine.
A native of Southern Missouri, Rachel currently resides in Denver, Colorado working out of the Catalyst headquarters. In her spare time, she enjoys boating, adventure travel, and spending time with her husband and three boys.
Duncan Scrymgeour Lewis, MPH
After graduating from UCLA, Duncan began a career in healthcare. After working as a project manager for both HealthNet and Wellpoint, Duncan was hired by Kaiser Permanente, where he stayed for the next ten years, serving as the National Manager for Content Development and Strategic Reporting. While at Kaiser Permanente, Duncan was accepted into the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Executive MPH program, where he graduated in 2005 as the Foley & Lardner Fellow.
Duncan spent 2006 through 2010 in communications and online strategy roles at the Saban Pediatric Research Institute at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Providence Health Systems, and finally at Cedars-Sinai. While recovering from a car accident, Scrymgeour decided to change careers and pursue a long-held dream of teaching secondary education. He entered CSUN and was awarded a teaching credential in English Language Arts, Social Studies, and General Science. In 2013, Duncan became a member of the faculty at John F. Kennedy High School. Kennedy is a Title I and Title III school within the Los Angeles Unified School District. In his first year, Duncan was asked to become the Coordinator for the school’s Biomedical, Health and Fitness Academy and subsequently took a fourth teaching certification in Career Technical Education within the Health Science and Medical Technology Pathway. The Academy sought to prepare an ethnically-diverse and gender inclusive student body for matriculation to higher education and into careers in healthcare. For the Class of 2016, both the Valedictorian as well as the Salutatorian were members of the Academy and will enter UCLA on their way to becoming clinicians.
After participating in a number of Special Education integration projects, LAUSD’s new Superintendent for the Northwest Division, Vivian Ekchian designated Kennedy as the school site for a new magnet school designed around a medical theme. After working with the school’s administration designing curriculum and hiring a faculty, Duncan is now the Lead Teacher and Career Technical Education Coordinator for the Kennedy Medical Magnet for the Gifted (Highly-Gifted, and High-Ability Student), which will open in fall of 2016. The school has a maximum enrollment cap of 465 students who have been designated as gifted by LAUSD. Part of the Kennedy Medical Magnet’s mission was designed to serve the district’s underrepresented populations by preparing students for careers in medicine specifically and healthcare more generally.
Van Wong, MHA
Van Wong serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Central California Alliance for Health. Throughout her career, Van has provided guidance and leadership to numerous health organizations in process improvement, business application development and systems implementation. Prior to joining the Alliance, Van served as the Director of Business Systems Integration at San Francisco Health Plan for more than nine years. Additionally, Van held management roles at Dignity Health and L.A. Care Health Plan. Van received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Health Administration from the University of Southern California. She holds a designation of Certified Healthcare Insurance Executive (CHIE) as recognized by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Van is a strong advocate for female leadership and growth in the healthcare IT realm.