Team

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.

Mallory has been working in sales, guest relations and hospitality, for over 10 years, aiding a wide range of clientele. After earning her Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from Cal State University, Northridge, she joined HeartCloud to help with customer success and onboarding.

Her role involves helping patients setup digital health devices and use these with their HeartCloud accounts, conducting sales outreach, and working with key stakeholders on device solutions.

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. He recently earned an MBA at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business. 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 investor, for which the company and its co-founders will always be deeply grateful.

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

Dr. Kamdar is an anesthesiologist at Ronald Reagan Medical Center and UCLA Santa Monica Orthopedic Hospital and a specialist in perioperative care (pre and post-surgical care) with a background in business and healthcare administration.

At UCLA, his clinical practice in anesthesiology focus on thoracic and endocrine anesthesia specifically for pheochromocytoma, carcinoid, and paragangliomas. He also devotes considerable time as an attending physician in the Anesthesia Preoperative and Planning Clinic (PEPC) where he developed the clinic’s telemedicine and remote patient monitoring program. His leadership positions include Director of the UCLA Health Perioperative Medicine Fellowship, Director of Quality for the Department of Anesthesiology, and the Clinical Director for the UCLA BioDesign program.

As a member of HeartCloud’s Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Kamdar draws upon his day-to-day medical practice to advise the company on a number of matters. He was instrumental to the design and functionality of HeartCloud for Health Practices, especially concerning its patient events features and ways to visualize METs and heart rate zones data based on the data collected by an Apple Watch during a workout session.

As a physician directly responsible for determining whether a particular patient is ready for a particular surgical procedure, Dr. Kamdar has guided the company’s founders and developers in building software to serve a rapidly growing trend of “prehabilitation” (“prehab” for short). As he explained in a recent article, "We intuitively know the fitter a patient is when they arrive for surgery, the better the odds are of a successful recovery."^[1] This allows doctors to remotely monitor and quantity a patient’s daily activity and workout metrics and then use that highly individualized information to make more reliable, data-driven assessments of a patient’s risk leading up to a surgical procedure. As someone with an eye towards the future application of technology to medicine, Dr. Kamdar provides the company with unique insights and innovative expertise.

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 to 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.

Ed is a seasoned healthcare executive with more than thirty years of diversified senior management experience, including significant tenures at Universal Health Services, Tenet Healthcare and HCA. Ed most recently serves as President and CEO of Healthcare Partners Investments, a multispecialty healthcare company serving patients in Oklahoma City and surrounding markets. Ed has been intimately involved in the operations and financial management of the surgery centers, physician practice management and retail pharmacies, along with community hospitals and academic medical centers. He has experience in health-related valuations and complex equity healthcare finance structures. Ed earned his undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Science from Duquesne University. Ed sits on several boards, including American Precious Metals Exchange Inc. (APMEX) and Allied Arts. He is also a member of several organizations including the American College of Healthcare Executives and the United States Navy League.

David A. Mueller is the managing director of Roaring Fork Capital. He brings more than 25 years of experience within capital markets, energy transactions, commercial real estate development and 1031 transactions. He has developed, financed, and closed more than $700 million in transactions with upwards of $350 million within the 1031 sector. His past projects include the Benham Companies, Corken Industries, Big Star Trucking and Crude, Newport Companies, Trustmark Title, and others. David has extensive experience as a principal investor and business advisor to numerous projects throughout Oklahoma and Texas.