Our Advisors

Guided by World-Class Advisors in AI and Healthcare

actAVA is advised by visionary leaders from Stanford, Salesforce, and the broader healthcare and AI ecosystem — bringing decades of research, operating, and board-level expertise to our mission.

Dr. Ash Zenooz, MD

Dr. Ash Zenooz, MD

CEO, Board Member, Physician

Del Mar, California, United States

Dr. Ash Zenooz is a board-certified radiologist and healthcare executive whose career bridges clinical medicine, government, and enterprise technology, most recently as CEO of Commure. She previously served as Chief Medical Officer of Salesforce, where she scaled the company's healthcare cloud, and as CMO for the VA's electronic health record modernization — one of the largest data modernization projects in U.S. history. Her work focuses on building scalable, interoperable platforms that move healthcare beyond siloed point solutions to an orchestrated, patient-centric care model.

Bryan Rotella, JD

Bryan Rotella, JD

AI Governance Attorney

United States

Bryan Rotella is the founder of LeadAI Legal™, a division of national law firm Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer (QPWB), and GenCo Legal®, a subscription general counsel platform serving healthcare and health-tech companies. A former medical malpractice trial lawyer and former General Counsel to a billion-dollar national healthcare organization, he has made more than 300 national media appearances on the intersection of law, healthcare policy, and technology, and advises Congressional leaders on AI policy. He serves as actAVA's Strategic AI Governance and Risk Advisor and sits on the board of the Texas Association of ACOs (TXAACOs).

Dr. Caiming Xiong, PhD

Dr. Caiming Xiong, PhD

Co-founder, Recursive Superintelligence

San Francisco Bay Area

Dr. Caiming Xiong is the Co-Founder of Recursive Superintelligence, a frontier AI research laboratory that has raised more than $650 million from investors including Google Ventures, Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD. Previously, as SVP of AI Research at Salesforce, he led the team behind Agentforce and the xLAM Large Action Model framework, transforming foundational deep learning research into the intelligence layer of the world's leading CRM. He is widely recognized for bridging frontier AI research with production-grade enterprise software across LLMs, multimodal systems, and autonomous agentic workflows.

David Bjork

David Bjork

CEO & Managing Partner, CWH Advisors

Concord, Massachusetts, United States

David Bjork is the CEO and Managing Partner of CWH Advisors, a management consulting firm he founded in 2014 to support growth-stage healthcare technology and services companies, particularly those delivering care outside traditional clinical settings. He previously co-founded Telcare (acquired by Philips) and Perfect Health (merged with ConcertoCare), and held senior leadership roles at Liberty Medical and ActiveHealth Management. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Healthcare Summit at Jackson Hole, an invitation-only annual retreat for senior industry leaders.

Dr. Fei-Fei Li, PhD

Dr. Fei-Fei Li, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, World Labs

Stanford, California, United States

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the Co-Founder and CEO of World Labs and the inaugural Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she co-directs the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI). Widely known as the "Godmother of AI," she created ImageNet — the dataset credited with sparking the deep learning revolution — and previously served as VP and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Hank Capps, MD

Dr. Hank Capps, MD

EVP & CIDO, Wellstar Health System

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Dr. Hank Capps, MD, FAAFP, is Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer of Wellstar Health System, a $7.5 billion enterprise and Georgia's largest not-for-profit health system, and Co-Founder and President of Catalyst by Wellstar — the nation's largest early-stage, multi-sector corporate healthcare venture fund at $100 million. A board-certified family physician with more than 20 years of experience, he previously spent 18+ years at Novant Health, where he led a system-wide Epic rollout and pioneered the first FAA-approved drone-delivery program for medical supplies in partnership with Zipline. Under his leadership, Wellstar has earned the HIMSS Stage 7 designation and multiple "Most Wired" honors.

Julie Klapstein

Julie Klapstein

Founding CEO, Availity; Partner Advisor, a16z

Port Angeles, Washington, United States

Julie Klapstein is the founding CEO of Availity, where she spent 11 years modernizing the exchange of healthcare data between payers and providers. She now serves as a Partner Advisor to Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). She holds board seats at Omada Health (OMDA), Claritev (CTEV), Aptarro, Unislink, and HCIM. She has served on seven public company boards, including Oak Street Health (acquired by CVS), NextGen, and Amedisys. With more than 35 years in health information technology, she is a recipient of the 2021 Healthcare Leaders Innovators Award.

Kyrsten Musich

Kyrsten Musich

GM, Customer Transformation & HLS GTM, Salesforce

New York, New York, United States

Kyrsten Musich is General Manager of Customer Transformation and Healthcare and Life Sciences Go-to-Market at Salesforce, where she leads agentic AI–driven transformations across pharma, med tech, and provider organizations. She co-led the launch of Salesforce's Life Science Cloud — the company's first agentic cloud — helping grow the Healthcare and Life Sciences business to more than $4.47 billion. A graduate of Emory University with an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business, she previously held executive roles at Red Hat and Ellucian.

Nicole Bradberry

Nicole Bradberry

Founder & CEO, FLAACOs; Managing Partner, Sunflower Health Advisors

United States

Nicole Bradberry is the Founder and CEO of the Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs) and Founder and Managing Partner of Sunflower Health Advisors, a strategic consulting firm supporting healthcare entrepreneurs in value-based care. A 4x CEO, investor, and operating partner, she previously co-founded MIND 24-7 and Cura Health Management following 16 years in senior leadership at Cigna and UnitedHealthcare. She is a recognized national voice on Accountable Care Organizations and population health. She has been honored as an "Outstanding Midmarket IT Leader of the Year" and one of the Business Journal's "Women of Influence."

Robby Peters

Robby Peters

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, SemperVirens Venture Capital

Lafayette, California, United States

Robby Peters is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SemperVirens Venture Capital, an ecosystem-driven venture firm with roughly $300 million in assets under management that backs B2B companies shaping the future of health, wealth, and work. He leads the firm's investments across digital health, workforce technology, and fintech. He runs the SemperVirens Accelerator, which connects early-stage founders with a network of 200+ senior corporate executives from strategic partners, including ADP Ventures, Paychex, MetLife, and The Cigna Group. He previously co-founded PeopleTech Partners and was a Benefits Consultant at Sequoia.

Dr. Silvio Savarese, PhD

Dr. Silvio Savarese, PhD

EVP & Chief Scientist, Salesforce

Stanford, California, United States

Dr. Silvio Savarese is Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at Salesforce and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. He leads the research organization behind Salesforce's agentic AI platform Agentforce, the xLAM (Large Action Model) framework, Einstein GPT, and CodeGen. He was named to Time's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024 and serves on the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

Tom Patterson

Tom Patterson

SVP, Corporate Development & Strategy, BetterUp

United States

Tom Patterson is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at BetterUp, where he leads growth, partnerships, and M&A for the company's Human Transformation Platform. A three-time founder, he previously built and scaled venture-backed companies that were acquired by LinkedIn, Nextag, and Even Financial. He serves on the board of Dale Carnegie & Associates and advises CEOs, boards, and investors on AI transformation, market creation, and enterprise growth.

Dr. Yongsheng Wu, PhD

Dr. Yongsheng Wu, PhD

Co-Founder & CTO (Stealth)

San Francisco Bay Area

Dr. Yongsheng Wu is the Co-Founder and CTO of a stealth-stage AI infrastructure startup and one of Silicon Valley's leading experts in big data and machine learning platforms. Over more than two decades, he has held senior engineering leadership roles at Circle, Pinterest, Twitter, and Salesforce, and most recently served as VP of Engineering at Granica.ai, focused on cloud data efficiency for generative AI. He is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences, including QCon and the Engineering Leadership Community (ELC) Annual Summit.

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