Team | ThinkMD

Michael Gautsch

Michael grew up in western Wisconsin, about 8 miles east of the Mississippi River. He attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering. For the first 20 years, his professional career was spent working for large technology companies. In 2015, he switched to a mid-sized company located in Colchester, Vermont, developing software for companies in alcohol production and distribution. After three years, he reflected that his overall career had lacked meaning and he took a sabbatical. During this time he realized that he wanted to drive his energy into a just cause and discovered THINKMD. He joined the company in March 2021 and has thoroughly enjoyed working with wonderful colleagues, while helping the company advance its purpose to improve healthcare for everyone, everywhere.

Bryan Boudreau

Bryan graduated with a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida. He has over twenty years of experience in the computer science field and is passionate about improving healthcare through innovation in software solutions. Prior to ThinkMD, he was a founder of Vitalz, which provided patient medical record software to satisfy meaningful use efforts. He joined ThinkMD to help manage the engineering team and take the solution to the next level.

Tammy Sutherns

With a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism & Media Studies and a Master’s Degree in Public Health, Tammy is passionate about the intersection between communications and global health. She is a South African with over a decade of experience in communications and has spent the last five years focusing on how it can facilitate positive change in the health sector.

Anita McGahan, PhD, MBA

Anita McGahan is a Professor of Strategic Management and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society at Rotman (with a cross-appointment to the Munk School of Global Affairs). Her research is focused on industry change, sustainable competitive advantage and the establishment of new fields. An area of particular interest to her is in global health and the diffusion of knowledge across international boundaries.

Mark Heyman

Mark Heyman, JD, is a human resources and organization development consultant, with experience in both the private and public sectors. Early in his career, Mark practiced labor and employment law, serving as Deputy Legal Counsel to the VT State Employees Association and as an Assistant Clerk in the VT House of Representatives. He went on as co-owner and then owner of an HR and OD consultancy, Cope & Associates, Inc. and Cope HR, for ten years followed by ten years as HR Director and General Counsel of a global industrial PC company headquartered in VT. He is currently the owner of HR Happens. Mark received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont in 1992 and completed his law degree at Suffolk University Law School in 1995.

Dr. Nirmal Ravi

Dr. Nirmal Ravi is the director for medical and scientific affairs at eHealth Africa and Chief Innovation Officer at EHA Clinics. Trained as a primary care physician and biomedical engineer, he currently leads a portfolio that includes research, diagnostic laboratories and digital health. eHealth Africa designs and implements data-driven solutions that respond to local needs and provides underserved communities with tools to lead healthier lives. EHA Clinics is a world-class comprehensive healthcare provider in Nigeria offering primary care, advanced diagnostic tests, community health, pharmacy and digital health services to its patient population.

Kalu-Kalu Ugwuomo, Jr.

Kalu-Kalu Ugwuomo, Jr is Co-Founder of Nexus Africa, a global network of African philanthropists, forming a strategic facet of the NexGen philanthropy network, Nexus Global and is currently the Director of International Relations at Abuja based Valley Agriculture and Foods Company. With over 10 years experience in International Development and Finance, Kalu brings significant knowledge and expertise in philanthropy to business development across the African continent in a variety of different markets. Kalu is a graduate of Howard University and The United States Institute of Peace.

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Sam Scarpino, PhD

Sam is an Assistant Professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University–with appointments in Marine & Environmental Sciences, Physics, and Health Sciences (starting Sept. 2018)–and am the Chief Data Scientist at Dharma.ai. His research spans a broad range of topics in complex systems and network science, including: infectious disease dynamics, forecasting and predictive modeling, complex network analysis, disease genomics and transcriptomics, outbreak surveillance, social networks, gene network evolution, and decision making under uncertainty. Our group, the Emergent Epidemics Lab, approaches these topics by investigating questions using mathematical and computational methods from biology, statistics, physics, applied mathematics, and computer science.

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Kenneth Gordon, JD

Ken Gordon is co-chair of the firm’s Technology practice. He has more than 25 years of experience representing privately held and publicly traded companies (domestic and foreign), investment banks and venture capital firms. Mr. Gordon concentrates his practice in the areas of general corporate representation, corporate finance and acquisitions.

Prior to becoming co-chair of the Technology practice, Mr. Gordon held various other positions with the firm, most recently as National Hiring Partner. Mr. Gordon enjoys cycling and running and is an enthusiastic supporter of Boston sports teams. Mr. Gordon ran the 2014 Boston Marathon as part of a team which raised over $800,000 for the survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.

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Charles MaCormack, PhD

Charles MacCormack is currently the Senior Fellow for NGO Futures at Interaction, the national association of over 200 U.S. Humanitarian and Development organizations. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Millennium Development Goal Health Alliance. Throughout 2016 he served as an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. He served as Executive-in-Residence at Middlebury College from 2012 to 2016, and works with a number of international think tanks. Each of these activities advances knowledge, teaching and practice of the role of corporations, foundations, NGOs, universities, philanthropists and media in global health and development.

From 1993 through 2011, Professor MacCormack was president of Save the Children, the world’s leading independent nonprofit organization serving children in need. With programs in the United States and more than 50 countries, an annual budget of over $550 million and more than 6,000 staff worldwide., Save the Children works to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need through programs in health care and nutrition, education and economic opportunity. Save the Children also provides child-oriented humanitarian assistance during natural disasters, war and conflict. He currently serves on the Board of Save the Children International, which programs more than $2.1billion in over 120 countries.

Pete Mooney, MBA

Pete retired as a Deloitte senior principal in 2017 after a successful thirty-five year career with the firm. He is a strategy consultant by background and has led a number of the firm’s most significant client relationships and cross-functional areas of practice globally.

Pete has worked almost exclusively in life sciences and health care for the last fifteen years, segueing into the industry though his work restructuring European process manufacturers in the mid-1990s. He was most recently Deloitte’s Global Managing Director for Life Sciences & Healthcare, growing the business over 35% to USD 2.5 billion in revenue during his tenure.

He has lived and worked outside of the U.S. for over 20 years, leading the firm’s European Manufacturing & Life Sciences industry practice and as CEO of the Netherlands consulting business, among other roles and client service. Pete has developed relationships with a broad range of senior executives and expertise in diverse developing markets such as Argentina, Brazil, China, and India, as well as Europe and America.

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John Rosenblum

30 years Medical Software experience. Founder/CEO at Green Mountain Logic (acquired by PhaseForward ’07, Oracle ’10), VP LabPas Business Unit at Phase Forward, Senior Director of Strategy at Oracle Health Sciences. Currently John is CEO of Rosenblum Strategic and working with medical software startups.

John Canning

John founded the Physician’s Computing Company (PCC) at the age of 19 in 1982. After over 30 years, PCC is a nationally respected provider of pediatric management software with over 200 practices and offices across the country. John has donated his time to build the THINKMD platform with expertise in JavaScript, HTML 5, SQL and Perl.

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Bobby Jefferson

Bobby Jefferson currently serves as the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DAI Global Health. Bobby is a leader in the field of information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) and is working to expand DAI’s range of digital health services. Bobby has led a staff of health IT project managers, software engineers, and programmers to support countrywide health information systems for emerging markets. He has developed and deployed large-scale management information systems for use in international clinical trials and associated clinical data management.

Bobby most recently served as Vice President and Director of the Center for Development Informatics at Palladium (formerly Futures Group), where he built a practice focused on ICT for global health programs and adjacent sectors such as agriculture, supply chains, and education. Before joining Futures Group in 2006, he led a group at CTIS, Inc., that developed and implemented systems for managing large-scale clinical trials and associated data management. Prior to that, at SETA, Inc., he provided IT support to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Russia, Georgia, and other eastern European countries.

Bobby is a member of the Drug Information Association and the Global Health Council, and serves on the board of the Prostate Cancer Network. He sits on various industry panels in the mobile health and digital development spaces, and serves as a competition judge and mentor with tech innovation hubs at Yale University, Duke University, and elsewhere.

Meredith Shields

Meredith is the Managing Director for the Sorenson Impact Foundation (SIF), which invests in innovative companies that are creating and scaling ideas to enhance social good around the world. Meredith manages the foundation’s impact investing portfolios and field building initiatives. She engages with social entrepreneurs and fund managers around the world who are working across the agriculture, technology, education, healthcare and retail sectors to develop solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues in a sustainable way. Prior to joining the Sorenson Impact Foundation, the majority of Meredith’s career was in investment banking and strategy consulting. She has also previously consulted to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in both Rwanda and the U.S. as well as the Beyond Capital Fund, an early-stage impact investment fund, in Zurich, Switzerland. Meredith holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

Robert Gilman, MD

Dr. Robert Gilman is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also holds a joint appointment in molecular microbiology and immunology. His research focuses on disease control and has led to the development of microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility (MODS), a rapid tuberculosis diagnostic technique. He is currently engaged in ongoing infectious disease research based at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru. Dr. Gilman earned his M.D. from SUNY Downstate Medical College. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1991.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Gilman worked with the U.S. Public Health Service and served as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland Hospital. He was also the chief of infectious disease at Wyman Park Hospital.

Lynn Metz

Lynn is a data-driven health researcher with a passion for expanding healthcare access. Prior to working at THINKMD, she worked at an oncology private practice and was responsible for expanding clinical trial programs to clinics in rural Michigan. Lynn also worked with the University of Michigan and the National Cancer Institute (INCAN) of Guatemala researching health care access barriers. She has several years of experience conducting research and data analysis using tools such as R and SAS. Lynn earned her BA from the University of Michigan and her MPH from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health with a focus on global health epidemiology. In her free time, she can be found hiking with her dog Goose, running, reading, or tending to her many house plants.

Parker Cornbrooks

Parker graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont, where he gained an appreciation for systems modeling. His primary interests lie in sustainable development. Whether it is working in energy efficiency, food systems and nutrient cycling, or global health, he has a passion for providing equitable access to services through simple and practical solutions to these complex issues. Parker was drawn to ThinkMD as a mission-driven organization that is committed to improving health access without compromising data ethics. He joined the company as a software engineer, where he helps standardize the platform and constantly search for new ways to provide value to health workers.

Kathy Coughlin

Kathy is a Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in medical devices and health care quality improvement. She has held leadership roles with responsibilities including Clinical Operations, Project Management, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, Software Quality, and Clinical Data Management. She holds degrees in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Vermont.

Kim Brearley

Kim is a finance professional with over 15 years of experience working in international development, business and finance. She lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa for over 7 years in the international development field working with entrepreneurs to build the capacity of small and medium sized businesses before using her knowledge to build a private equity fund focused on the financial services industry in East and Southern Africa. She holds an MSc in Development Economics from the London School of Economics, a post-graduate diploma in International Project Management from Humber College and a BA from the University of British Columbia.

Ezra Mount-Finette

A graduate of the University of Vermont with a BS in International Political Economy and System Studies, Ezra’s professional interests focus on the intersection of Ecological Economics, Community Development, Complex Systems and Sustainable Science. Ezra is the manager and developer of DATASINC, THINKMD’s data visualization and analytics offering. He strives to take a stakeholder and systems approach to using data in order to build resilient, healthy communities. His personal interests include fishing in the summer and skiing in the winter. Ezra is currently located and working from Burlington, Vermont.

Becky Castle

As a fundraising executive and consultant with 20 years of experience, she has helped organizations around the world to design programs, develop and implement fundraising plans and create strategic partnerships.

Becky’s experience spans numerous arenas in global health and international development, including conflict resolution, malaria prevention and education, maternal health, child survival, sustainable agriculture, and vaccines. She has worked with the senior executives of a wide range of clients —Episcopal Relief and Development, icddr,b, International Food Policy and Research Institute, International Vaccine Institute, and mothers2mothers — managing donor relationships, developing compelling materials for use in cultivation and solicitation, and identifying creative vehicles for awareness raising and donor engagement.

Prior to THINKNMD, Becky served in executive roles in Development Vision, EARTH University Foundation and The Carter Center. In these varied positions, she developed and executed fundraising strategies for all types of donors, led teams, developed boards and organized policy conferences with heads of states, CEOs and policy makers. Over the years her work has led to significant increases by major individual donors and first-time and recurring grants from USAID, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other donors.

In a volunteer capacity, Becky currently serves on the Advisory Boards of the Middlebury College Center for Social Entrepreneurship and NetsforLife®. From 2000-2002 she was President of the National Middlebury College Alumni Association, which has 25,000 members globally. Becky received an M.B.A. in Finance from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College in Vermont.

Nick Donowitz

Nick is an entrepreneur with fifteen years of international business experience in clean technology and life sciences. He’s held leadership roles in privately held and venture-backed technology companies, with responsibility spanning corporate strategy, development, marketing, and product development. Nick began his career in international and economic development and has lived and worked in the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Nick earned a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College.

Megan McLaughlin

Meg is a global health practitioner with over 10 years of community-based research and project implementation in the field, specifically focused on human rights, humanitarian response, and access to healthcare for women and children. She’s worked on internationally-focused projects, as well as field projects in East and West Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the Caribbean. Meg serves as Adjunct Professor at Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA). She earned a BA Anthropology from the University of Florida and a Master of Public Health from the University of South Florida. In 2018, she received an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from IIHA.

Barry Heath

Barry Heath was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He was an intern at the University of Vermont Medical Center (University of Vermont College of Medicine) and Junior and Senior Resident and Fellow In Pediatric Intensive Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP), the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), and the College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM). He served as Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Inpatient and Critical Care Pediatrics and the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital. He received Presidential Citations from the American Academy of Pediatrics for his work in the Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and from the College of Critical Care Medicine for his work in the Committee on Ethics. He is now Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Dr Heath and his wife Dr. Laurent are “staff” for their houseful of adopted and rescue Greyhounds.

Barry Finette

Barry is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and an Attending and Teaching physician in the Pediatric Inpatient and Critical Care Division at the Vermont’s Children’s Hospital at the University of Vermont Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Global Health and Humanitarian Opportunity Program at the University of Vermont. He has over 25 years of experience as a Pediatrician in the areas of emergency, critical and acute care medicine, with an additional 30 years of experience as a basic, clinical and translational research scientist. He has participated in a numerous research, medical global health and humanitarian projects, as well as capacity building and disaster relief missions in Uganda, Ethiopia, Peru, Jamaica, Bhutan, South Africa, Ecuador, Philippines, Congo, Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Bangladesh and Burkina Faso.

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Sophie Foreman

Sophie graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BS in Physics in 2015. After discovering her affinity for software development, she went on to complete her MSc in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology while working full time as a software engineer. While pursuing her graduate degree she became fascinated with the field of user experience and the impact of creating intuitive software. She joined THINKMD in order to apply that mindset to the healthcare sector. In her free time she enjoys cooking and baking, various fiber arts, video games, and trying out any other new hobbies that come her way.

Chris Powell

Chris has over 35 years of healthcare experience, joining THINKMD as CEO in 2021.

He started his career with IBM as a field sales professional, before moving to IDX Systems Corporation, a healthcare technology company. IDX was acquired by GE Healthcare in 2006 and Chris worked as Senior Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare Americas Commercial Healthcare IT business, including the United States, Canada and Central and South America. Chris left GE in 2011 and went on to become CEO at Precyse. Under Chris’ leadership and growth, Precyse experienced significant growth in revenue and service offerings and was acquired by Pamplona Partners in 2016 to form nThrive, a healthcare revenue cycle and service company.

In 2017 Chris and a group of local investors acquired a local toxicology lab to formulate a healthcare company specifically designed to drive population health in the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Pain Management market. Chris led Aspenti as CEO, building a team that made significant strides in servicing the substance use patients in the New England area.

Chris brings his expertise to the THINKMD team, leading the company into its next phase of growth.

Debra Stenner

Debra Stenner is a current member of the Board of Trustees for Porter Medical Center, an affiliate of the University of Vermont Medical Center, and recent past president of the of the Board of Trustees of Howard Center, Vermont’s largest Designated Agency. She began her career in basic science research before moving into healthcare information technology (HCIT). Her expertise includes market analysis, creative product conceptualization, strategic positioning, and motivational leadership to build high-performing teams and to maintain strong client relationships.

Lynn Kanyuuru

Dr. Lynn Kanyuuru is a medical doctor and public health specialist with over 15 years of experience working in health programs at global and regional levels. She excels at designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, scaling up and managing reproductive health; maternal, neonatal and child health; HIV/AIDS; water, sanitation and hygiene; community health and product & process innovations research and health development programs. Her experience is in the public and private sectors and the armed forces.

Michael Friedman

Capt Michael Friedman is a dual-board certified physician in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine with a very diverse 30 years of US and global work experience, 25 as a US Public Health Service medical officer. He has lived and worked in four continents, with a focus on innovative capacity building, public health policy advocacy, and community-oriented interventions and programs.

Ned Murphy

Ned studied Physics at Yale University and graduated with a BS but has since forgotten most of the things he learned. Instead he has learned a few things about software engineering starting with a stint at Microsoft working on Windows accessibility tools before changing to build web APIs and front ends for a food ordering startup in Boston called LevelUp, which was eventually acquired by Grubhub. Now he is excited to be working with the engineering team at THINKMD to make a global impact in healthcare technologies.

Barbra Marden

Originally from Uganda, Barbra Marden lived in Italy for several years before coming to United States in 2001. She attended college at Northeastern University (Boston Massachusetts), where she obtained an Associate Degree in Management Information Systems (MIS). She later transferred to Vermont in 2003 to attend the University of Vermont (UVM) where she graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a concentration in MIS. She pursued her Masters of Public Administration (MPA) at the University of Vermont which she completed in May 2018.

The MPA program has fostered her desire to further participate in her community. Currently, she is fully engaged in the Shelburne community and school system. She volunteered in the Shelburne Community School to work directly with children in grades 1-4 while teaching the Hands-on Nature Program. She also participates in the mentoring program. Barbra is a member of the Town of Shelburne Social Services Committee and serves as the Membership Chair and on the Board of her congregation.

Barbra is a parent and currently serves as a Shelburne representative on the Champlain Valley School District Board (CVSD).

Ayotunde Aladejana

Ayotunde is an accomplished Business Development Professional with extensive experience in driving commercial and strategic partnerships opportunities for Corporate Organizations and Technology Startups. He currently leads Partnerships in Africa at Founders Factory Africa, a Venture Development Company headquartered in Johannesburg, where he creates value for portfolio companies by building strategic business relationships that lead to growth.

Prior to joining Founders Factory Africa, he was Senior Health Financing Specialist at Sterling Bank, Plc., using finance to improve access to quality and affordable healthcare for Nigerians.

He holds a MSc. in Business Analysis and Consulting from the University of Strathclyde, a BSc in Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, and holds certificates in Impact Investing from the Said Business School, Financing for Universal Health Coverage from the World Health Organization, and in Project Management from the Project Management Institute.

Cherian Philip

Cherian is a partner with engageCFO, a fractional finance and operational firm with locations in VT and CA.

Cherian is a financial, operational, and business leader with 18+ years of extensive experience in the healthcare and technology sectors. His experience spans supporting small and medium sized private equity/venture capital backed companies to large public organizations, both with domestic and international operations. His experience includes building high performing teams, developing strategic roadmaps, identifying, and mitigating risk, driving growth organically and inorganically, managing business turnaround/restructuring, strengthening payer relations/ payer credentialing, and implementing processes that support growth. Cherian resides in South Burlington, VT with his wife, 3 daughters and a puppy.

Alexander Carlsson

Alexander Carlsson is THINKMD’s first dedicated tester. His previous experience as an emergency dispatcher gives him a keen sense of the importance of potentially life saving software systems. Trained in the Context-Driven School of testing, he is always thinking about the needs of the people who use the products that he tests. In his free time, he reads philosophy and economics extensively, investigates cold case files, travels on his motorcycle, and hikes in the mountains near his home in southern Spain.

Eric Musyoki

Eric Musyoki is a health and wellness advocate who has spent his career life managing business operations, Sales & Marketing and, people. He has particular exposure in heading factories in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, distribution and the end-to-end supply chain management of Pharmaceuticals mostly in the East African region. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Daystar University in Kenya majoring in Accounting and Marketing. He is currently undertaking an MBA in Healthcare Management from Strathmore University, Kenya, with particular interest in Impact Investing in Healthcare.

Matthew Mollerus

Matthew Molleurs is a data scientist specializing in global health modeling and analytics. Prior to coming to THINKMD, he worked for organizations ranging from NGOs in the democracy and governance space in central and west Africa to a global health supply chain start up monitoring vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic. He earned his BA in History and Literature from Harvard University. In his free time, he enjoys climbing and mountain biking in the mountains near his home in Boulder, Colorado.

Megan Johnson

Megan Johnson has over a decade of experience empowering health care professionals to improve population health and health care systems by delivering accessible, dependable, and meaningful data.

Prior to joining THINKMD, she worked for Vermont’s accountable care organization. As a senior member of the analytics team, Megan supported the statewide initiative to transform the care delivery system from fee-for-service to value-based care. Megan earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Genetics, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Public Health from the University of Vermont and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Norwich University.

Megan is passionate about reshaping the way health care is delivered and hopes that every individual has access to the quality care they need. She is excited to support THINKMD’s partners with all of their data needs.

Ollin Langle-Chimal

Ollin D. Langle-Chimal is a data scientist at THINKMD and a PhD candidate in Complex Systems and Data Science at the University of Vermont. He earned a BSc in Physics (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and a MSc in Data Science (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México). He is interested in the use of data science, machine learning and mathematical modeling in decision-making processes to create preventive tools and reduce inequalities that affect the most vulnerable populations. This interest has also led Ollin to work previously as a data scientist for the Mexican Ministry of Social Development, the Inter-American Development Bank and The World Bank.

Eamon Penney

Eamon Penney has spent the past 10 years coordinating health interventions in complex humanitarian settings. These projects have been both operational, for organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, as well as academic, as with his research with Columbia University where he earned his MPH. He has spent extensive time in South Sudan, Rwanda, Myanmar, and the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most recently, Eamon was part of Partners In Health’s US team where his work initially focused on supporting local health departments to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and later focused on behavioral health system strengthening and CHW workforce development. Eamon grew up as a Vermont local and currently resides in Somerville, MA.

Hans Elde

Hans began his professional journey in the field of security and law enforcement, after graduating from Western Washington University. Although dedicated and successful in his early career, he found his true calling in the world of software engineering, a path that allowed him to combine his analytical acumen with a passion for technology. After further studies enabled a career shift, Hans joined THINKMD, drawn by their mission and commitment to improving global health access through practical technological solutions. As a part of the engineering team at THINKMD, Hans now helps to build robust systems that have a positive impact on people around the world.

Maeghan Orton

Maeghan Orton has a mind of business, a passion for people and a mission to bring innovative technologies to bear on grass-roots challenges. As a business student at the University of Waterloo, she lived in Uganda and worked with women living with HIV to create a micro-credit & health program. With these women, she first experienced the strength in unity of a community working together for change. Maeghan later received an MSc in international Health from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and became enthralled with appropriate technology in global health. She has fifteen years of experience in the digital health & international development sectors, specializing in maternal and child health. She has provided transformative product management expertise as part of her work with Google Health AI to shepherd the launch of the Open Health Stack, coordinated and authored the first-ever guidance for digital health investments as part of the WHO’s Digital Health and Innovations team, and led Medic’s flagship Africa Regional Office, where she helped to deploy digital health tools to CHWs in 13 countries in Africa. Maeghan always travels with rock climbing shoes and a small coffee maker, evidence of her two major addictions. She manages THINKMD’s product portfolio from a base in Seattle.

Our Team

Alexander Carlsson

Barbra Marden

Barry Finette

Barry Heath

Becky Castle

Bryan Boudreau

Eamon Penney

Hans Elde

Kathy Coughlin

Megan Johnson

Megan McLaughlin

Michael Gautsch

Ned Murphy

Nick Donowitz

Ollin Langle-Chimal

Sophie Foreman

Parker Cornbrooks

Tammy Sutherns

Our Advisors

Charles MaCormack, PhD

Cherian Philip

Chris Powell

Ezra Mount-Finette

John Canning

John Rosenblum

Kalu-Kalu Ugwuomo, Jr.

Kenneth Gordon, JD

Mark Heyman

Meredith Shields

Dr. Nirmal Ravi

Pete Mooney, MBA

Robert Gilman, MD

Sam Scarpino, PhD

Our Board

Anita McGahan, PhD, MBA

Barry Finette

Barry Heath

Bobby Jefferson

Chris Powell

Debra Stenner

Lynn Kanyuuru

Michael Friedman

Michael Gautsch

Bryan Boudreau

Tammy Sutherns

Anita McGahan, PhD, MBA

Mark Heyman

Dr. Nirmal Ravi

Kalu-Kalu Ugwuomo, Jr.

Sam Scarpino, PhD

Kenneth Gordon, JD

Charles MaCormack, PhD

Pete Mooney, MBA

John Rosenblum

John Canning

Bobby Jefferson

Meredith Shields

Robert Gilman, MD

Lynn Metz

Parker Cornbrooks

Kathy Coughlin

Kim Brearley

Ezra Mount-Finette

Becky Castle

Nick Donowitz

Megan McLaughlin

Barry Heath

Barry Finette

Sophie Foreman

Chris Powell

Debra Stenner

Lynn Kanyuuru

Michael Friedman

Ned Murphy

Barbra Marden

Ayotunde Aladejana

Cherian Philip

Alexander Carlsson

Eric Musyoki