The Team Behind the actAVA AI Factory
We believe that the future of healthcare belongs to organizations that can successfully orchestrate AI—moving from single-focused use cases to intelligent systems that trust, guide, design, and learn. This used to mean you had to buy expertise from point-solution specialists. But the era of one-off AI tools has ended with actAVA. Point solutions have given way to our integrated KORA AI platform. It is time to move from vendors to value. And to shift from “tool-per-task” solutions to the only AI platform built for healthcare and life sciences.
actAVA was founded by industry veterans who understand deep agentic AI, and the healthcare and life sciences industry. We are backed by strategic investors such as Factorial Funds and guided by deep industry expertise in AI and healthcare.
Frank Wang | CTO & Co-Founder
Frank was the Principal Research Engineer at Salesforce AI Research, where he led breakthrough initiatives, including autonomous agents, deep research agents, agent orchestration, Agentforce's advanced RAG & Reasoning Engine, and several deep-research programs that transformed cutting-edge AI into market-defining products.
Kevin Riley | CEO & Co-Founder
Kevin is a veteran health-tech executive who led Salesforce's global Health & Life Sciences portfolio and served as CEO of several successful software companies in AI, care management, regulatory science, and provider services.
Weiran Yao | CAIO & Co-Founder
Weiran is an AI research leader with a CMU Ph.D. in Machine Learning and deep expertise in large-scale model training, reasoning engines, and multi-agent systems - 85+ papers, 13 U.S. patents, and a member of the program committees at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and ACL.
Deon Metelski | CPO
Deon leads the product development in creating practical tools that democratize expert AI engineering and data science, so business users can easily build and manage their own agents safely and at enterprise scale.
Steve Brown | CCO
Steve leads customer success and forward-deployed engineering, applying his expertise to deliver agentic AI infrastructure that bridges business needs with cutting-edge technology.
We’ve spent the last six months building the factory. Now, we’re ready to help you build the future.