“Technologies and ideas that move healthcare from art to science, for example by genomics for disease management”
“Newspaper route, requiring me to be up at 3 am every morning at the age of 11”
“Convincing my board not to go public until we were ready, and instead: pulling our S-1 IPO filing, raising $155M in private equity, and orchestrating an acquisition -- all within 45 days”
“Picis (acquired by United Health Group in 2010); Marquette Medical Systems (IPO in the 1990s and acquired by GE in 1997)”
“Fluent French, thanks to 10 years living in Paris”
“Grew up in Chicago; then Paris, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and now Boston”
“Getting forced off the road and into a canyon in Spain. A tree saved me from rolling down the hillside. Needless to say, Avis was none too happy to get the car back!”
“Training for the Olympics in sailing”
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