Leadership

Executive leadership.

Clinical executives and health IT leaders from clinical AI, enterprise interoperability and health system operations.

Vivek Krishnan

Vivek Krishnan

Founder & CEO

Vivek is a healthcare technology executive with two decades of experience at the intersection of clinical care, data and artificial intelligence. As former CTO of Alcidion (ASX:ALC), he led the technology strategy of a listed clinical software company, and he serves on the Advisory Board of HeraMED (ASX:HMD). His published research on early sepsis prediction reflects a long-held focus on using data and machine learning to identify patient risk before it becomes harm. He founded AgiliMed to build an AI-native platform that gives every health system, not only the largest, the ability to turn patient data into timely, coordinated care.

Mandy Khaira MD MPH

Mandy Khaira MD MPH

Chief Medical and Transformation Officer

Mandy is a physician executive with more than 25 years of experience leading large-scale healthcare transformation across health systems, payers, physician organisations, home health and healthcare technology companies, in the U.S. and internationally. At Navvis she served as Chief Medical Officer, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer and Chief Learning Officer, architecting enterprise value-based care models across major health systems, national Blue plans and physician organisations. She also led population health initiatives at BAYADA Home Health Care and Main Line Health, and the programmes she has led serve more than 4 million patient lives. She is an Adjunct Professor of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University and sits on the Editorial Board of Population Health Management.

Rishi Desai

Rishi Desai

Chief Growth Officer

Rishi is an enterprise go-to-market and growth leader who specialises in taking deep technology to market. At AgiliMed he leads growth: building partnerships with health systems and scaling international distribution of the IASORA platform.

Advisory Board

Experienced healthcare leaders who guide our growth across global markets.

David Nash, MD, MBA

David Nash, MD, MBA

Advisory Board Member

Founding Dean Emeritus of the Jefferson College of Population Health and a national leader in population health, healthcare quality and value-based care. Repeatedly named among Modern Healthcare’s Most Powerful People in Healthcare, he has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 25 books.

Osama Elhassan, PhD

Osama Elhassan, PhD

Advisory Board Member

Head of eHealth at the Dubai Health Authority and Chair of ZIMAM, recognised as a HIMSS 2025 Changemaker in Health. He brings deep expertise in digital health strategy, health data standards and the secure use of health data across the Gulf region.

Arvind Saran

Arvind Saran

Advisor · Partnerships and Sales

Arvind advises AgiliMed on its international commercialisation, focusing on Australia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and India. He has deep experience taking healthcare technologies to market globally. Most recently, he was VP International Sales at Hippocratic AI. Before that, he was Chief Strategic & Partnerships Officer at Harrison.ai (Annalise.ai), where he led market entry and built partnerships with health systems across ANZ, Southeast Asia, Japan, India, the Middle East, the UK and Europe. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade as an investment banker in Dubai, covering the Middle East and Asia.

Operating partner · United States

One team, built for global scale.

In the United States we operate with NÜVA Ventures, an internationally recognised healthcare transformation and commercialisation firm. Its partners work as part of the AgiliMed team: physician executives, former health system C-suite leaders, population health pioneers and proven operators, with us from market entry through to global expansion.

Tom Whalen, MD, MA, MMM, CPE

Operating Partner · Clinical Leadership

Health system transformation, physician leadership, clinical excellence and executive coaching. Former EVP and Chief Medical Officer of Lehigh Valley Health Network.

Robert Richman, CPA, CMA, MBA

Operating Partner · Healthcare Finance

Healthcare finance, value-based contracting and enterprise economics. Former Chief Financial Officer of Esse Health.

Annette Albertson, MBA, BSN, RN

Operating Partner · Population Health

Clinical operations, population health operations and care management. Designed population health programmes supporting more than 1.2 million lives.

Lauren Drinkard, MPH, MLA

Operating Partner · AI & Product

Artificial intelligence, data science, product innovation and digital transformation. Former Head of AI and Head of Product.

Dori Thompson, MD

Operating Partner · Value-Based Primary Care

Primary care transformation, value-based care and clinical operations. Led three ChenMed value-based care centres serving high-risk Medicare patients.

Pedigree

Where the team comes from.

IASORA tackles three gaps in health system software: fragmented records, manual operational work and passive alerting.

Clinical software at scale

Decades of engineering leadership in ASX-listed healthcare software and multi-region hospital deployments.

Health system and VBC governance

Led clinical strategy, value-based care contracts and care delivery across major U.S. health networks.

Deep tech commercialisation

Taking regulated healthcare infrastructure to market globally.

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