Team

David Mueller is the founder and managing director of Roaring Fork Capital, based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Founder and Managing Director, he brings more than 25 years of corporate, finance, advisory, transaction, and entrepreneurial experience within capital markets, energy transactions, commercial real estate development, and healthtech software. He and his team have participating in financing over $700 million in across a diverse series of projects and transactions spanning real estate, energy, energy transportation, and more. Some of his past projects includes M&A Advisory Services for The Benham Companies, Corken Industries, Big Star Trucking and Crude, Newport Companies, and Trustmark Title.

His interest in healthcare technology led him to invest in HeartCloud, and several of his own physicians are customers of the platform.

Dr. Torrington is an addiction medicine specialist with a practice in west Los Angeles, California.

He is a board certified by the American Academy of Family Medicine and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, a member of the Committee on Treatment of Opioid Dependence of the California Society of Addiction Medicine, and is a certified Medical Review Officer. Dr. Torrington maintains a private practice focusing on the longitudinal disease management of addiction and pain.

Dr Torrington’s clinical focus is the treatment of stimulant use disorders, alcohol use disorders, opiate use disorders, and pain. As a participant in the development and implementation of significant research studies, he has served as Principal Investigator, co-investigator, and study physician for numerous clinical trials. For over fifteen years, Dr Torrington has been involved in the clinical use, clinical research, and education of physicians regarding various formulations of buprenorphine.

Carter Smyth is the Chief Executive Officer of HeartCloud, Inc. and serves on the company's board of directors.

He was previously the Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Valley Software Group and has held executive technology positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America, and other startups.

Alex co-founded HeartCloud in response to an ongoing cardiovascular condition that his mother was experiencing. At first, it was just an idea to provide her cardiologist with potentially some useful data from her Apple Watch. The idea then broadened once Dr. Cook, Alex's former boss, left UCLA and went into private medical practice.

Alex spent years developing the platform's web, iOS, and web apps based on a unique combination of skills in software development, legal and regulatory compliance, and information security. Before then, Alex worked for the UCLA Information Security Office from 2008 to 2016 (where he oversaw penetration and vulnerability testing across campus) and then at UCLA Health from 2016 to 2018 (where he developed secure medical records software for physicians).

Information security, data privacy, and compliance are core to Alex's software development work. His experience includes (a) developing customized, enterprise-grade software focused on ensuring the security, privacy, and integrity of electronic healthcare and security records (b) developing or expanding upon open-source software to provide customized information security solutions to detect anomalous patterns in log, netflow, and system-level events, and (c) in conducting both vulnerability and penetration testing against internal applications and networks. He has consulted for private sector clients, including law firms, international distribution companies, and financial services firms, on various systems hardening, audit, and data protection roles, particularly when it comes to automated monitoring tools and precluding unique attack vectors.

Alex earned his undergraduate degree, Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude, from UCLA in 2011 and the UC Irvine School of Law in 2017.

Jonathan is a senior developer within HeartCloud's technologies team, primarily focused on delivering physician feature requests across HeartCloud's web applications.

He received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 2013 and his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Irvine in 2017.

After passing the Colorado state bar examination, but before leaving California for Colorado to begin his legal career in early 2018, Jon helped write the code for early versions of HeartCloud.io. From 2018 to late 2022, he was variously a prosecutor, a state Public Defender, and a private criminal defense attorney.

In early 2023, Jon returned to HeartCloud after quitting legal practice in Colorado.

Jay is an analyst who helps practice customers improve revenue cycle management through outpatient claims billing.

After earning his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science in India, Nish entered the distribution world to pursue a career combining technology, innovation, and operations. Currently, Nish is the Chief Information Officer for LK Packaging, where he oversees all information security, applications, data analytics and core business systems. In his 15 years in the manufacturing and distribution industry, spanning the entire value chain, Nish brings an array of operational and managerial skills to advise HeartCloud, Inc.

Nish Gupta was also HeartCloud's first angel investor. He currently serves as the company's interim Chief Financial Officer.

Nish earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Southern California in 2019.

Dr. Parikh is a UCLA interventional and advanced heart failure cardiologist who practices at Ronald Reagan Medical Center and in Torrance, California.

Dr. Parikh’s clinical expertise involves the invasive evaluation and treatment of coronary artery disease, heart failure, and structural heart disease. Specifically, he performs coronary angiography, complex percutaneous coronary intervention, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, and implantation of heart failure monitoring devices such as CardioMEMS. He has a particular interest in leveraging digital healthcare technologies (e.g. CardioMEMS) to remotely monitor patients and improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Parikh is also a productive clinical researcher, having received several prestigious grants including a current one from the American Heart Association that evaluates the mechanisms of coronary artery disease in patients who receive a heart transplant. His complete peer-reviewed bibliography can be found here

As a member of HeartCloud’s Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Parikh draws upon his day-to-day cardiology practice to advise the company on several fronts. His primary focus is guiding HeartCloud’s research efforts, but he is also instrumental in determining what data is clinically meaningful and how to present it in a manner that is both impactful and useful for practicing physicians. He also aids in shaping HeartCloud’s workout functionality and the audience-specific data shown to consumers and optionally their physician. His insights have proved invaluable in furthering a major purpose of HeartCloud’s technologies--to provide a clinical context to an individual’s workout performance.

Dr. Iteld is the co-founder of Louisiana Heart Center, a cardiology practice with multiple locations around New Orleans, Louisiana.

He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology.