Our Mission
zakipoint Health helps customers understand their wasted healthcare costs and what to do about it. It is time for #TruthInHealthcare.
Our Core Beliefs
Employers deserve visibility into their enormous healthcare spend.
There are innovative solutions that can redesign how healthcare is delivered.
Data speaks truth. Our healthcare system has been made complex; it is time to unpack it.
Our Team
Ramesh Kumar
CEO and Co-Founder
Ramesh Kumar brings deep entrepreneurial, technology, data science and healthcare expertise. Ramesh has led the efforts at zakipoint Health to form partnerships with some of the leading healthcare technology and services companies including a spin-out from Partners Healthcare. Prior to zakipoint health, Ramesh co-founded ActiveMedia Technology, a mobile marketing and CRM platform provider that was used by leading customers including Vodafone, Orange, Airtel, Reliance, and Tata.
Bijay Ghimire
CTO
Bijay brings strong technology innovation and healthcare data management experience, having spent the last 15 years in a number of healthcare data analytics companies. Bijay founded ITEG that was sold to D2Hawkeye, where he was member of the technology leadership team from its early days. D2Hawkeye was subsequently acquired by Verisk Health. Bijay has extensive experience in building innovative healthcare data analytics products and also managing offshore teams.
Dave Kerrigan
Director of Business Development
Dave Kerrigan is a seasoned executive in the healthcare field. He is the Founder, Principal and Managing Director at Sante Nasc. He also works with the TiE ScaleUp team as an advisor. Dave has previously worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Optum and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Dave has a strong background in healthcare, having worked in numerous areas of healthcare delivery including payer, provider, brokerage, informatics, pharmacy, and state government. Dave spearheads our business development strategies with his vast expertise and experience.
Dipali Dey
Marketing Manager
Dipali is responsible for executing marketing activities across offline and digital channels. She is involved in market research, creating marketing campaigns, UX testing and assisting the product and sales team. Dipali has previously worked in an online travel agency for two years and a media company in Dubai in marketing and advertising respectively. Dipali has a degree in BSBA (Marketing) from American University of Sharjah and has recently received her degree in MS Advertising from Boston University’s College of Communication.
Anjushree Bhattarai
Account Manager
Anju’s main responsibilities at ZPH lie in carrier and client relationship management by coordinating deliverables on various projects and presenting them to the client. Anju has previously worked for RBC Bank and KFC in Canada and has work experience from the UK as well. Anju has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration from Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom.
Dr. J Singh
Technology Consultant
Dr. J Singh advises on the big data technology initiatives at zakipoint Health. Dr. Singh is an adjunct professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute teaching classes on big data base technologies. Dr. Singh has been a CTO at various technology companies, architecting scalable cloud based platforms, and launching them. Prior to that he was an executive at Fidelity working on new technology disruptions and launching these for the group. Dr. Singh has presented at a number of conferences and seminars.
Yilin Xie
Graphic Designer
Yilin is responsible for designing the website and marketing collateral such as brochure, flyer, business cards etc. at zakipoint Health. She has previously freelanced at J. Walter Thompson Worldwide in New York City and interned at The Fantastical in Boston. Yilin has recently received her degree in MS Advertising from Boston University’s College of Communication.
Dr. Shiban Warikoo
Clinical Consultant
Dr. Warikoo is Chief Clinical advisor to zakipoint Health. Dr. Warikoo has over 43 years of clinical experience in the US healthcare system as a practicing urologist. Dr. Warikoo is on the board of Conemaugh Hospital system and chairs the performance improvement committee. Dr. Warikoo has published scientific papers in clinical journals and is member of various professional societies like American Medical Association. Dr. Warikoo is a strong proponent of patient advocacy initiatives.
Dr. Satish Tadikonda
Business Development Consultant
With over 25 years of industry experience, Satish’s expertise spans drug and medical device development, and software systems development. Prior to Virtify, Inc., Satish was the founder of Tribiosys, Inc. and Enmed, Inc. Satish is also a member of the Board of Directors at numerous companies. He is an Executive Partner at Blue Cloud Ventures, a fund focused on investing in fast growing SaaS, PaaS and enterprise application and infrastructure software companies.
Our Advisors
Dr. Stephen Kutner
President of Market Innovations
Dr. Kutner is an advisor to zakipoint Health and has 25 years of management consulting and industry experience. Dr. Kutner focuses on the application of econometrics, decision science, and behavioral economics. Dr. Kutner is a leading expert in areas of reducing risk of uncertainty associated with assessing the commercial viability of innovative ideas by leveraging rigorous analytic, optimization, and predictive techniques.
Tom Craig
CEO of Shockwave International
Tom Craig co-founded and was a Partner at Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm, until May 2012. Craig is currently the CEO of Shockwave International. Craig has broad international and industry experience. He has worked in over 70 countries on six continents and has led over 400 projects over the past 33 years for Fortune 500 companies and their international equivalents, startups, and at the highest levels of government.
Marc Backon
Healthcare Industry Advisor
Marc Backon is zakipoint Health’s healthcare advisor. Backon is an experienced healthcare executive. Backon has spent his career leading key functional areas of large, national health plans, blue plans and consumer-driven health insurance companies. His background crosses virtually all aspects of the business, focusing on strategy, business segment and health care reform, sales & account management, product development, network strategy, PR communications and marketing.
Heather Ritchie
Product Advisor
Heather’s expertise is in defining product strategies and customer experiences for healthcare technology solutions. She has over a decade of healthcare experience across payer, provider, pharmaceutical, government, and technology company engagements, including product strategy roles at Anthem and WebMD Health Services. Heather has a degree in BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University and MS in Healthcare Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Armen Meguerditchian
Operations Consultant
Armen Meguerditchian is an experienced business leader, with expertise in market penetration, business and team development. Armen is a master at leveraging technology solutions for revenue generation and profitable goal attainment. He has held numerous consulting engagements both as an independent consultant working with software startups, as well as a senior strategist working with large e-commerce projects as part of IBM Global Services’ Customer Relationship Management strategy group.
Kevin Gorman
Founder of Putnam Associates
Over more than 25 years, Kevin built Putnam Associates into a highly respected industry leader with 50+ consulting professionals and multi-million dollar revenues. Kevin has created and led the development of profitable, longstanding partnerships with a global clientele of major biopharmaceutical and other life science industry players. Kevin is the author of The First Twenty Years Are the Hardest: Two Decades in Healthcare Strategy. He has an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.
Nikhil Bhojwani
Co-founder of Recon Strategy
Nikhil Bhojwani is a Managing Partner at Recon Strategy. It is a consulting firm that focuses on helping healthcare service players identify and take advantage of opportunities arising from healthcare reform, new technologies, and disruptive business combinations and operating models. His clients include some of the top hospitals and health insurance firms in the U.S. as well as healthcare startups. He co-authors the influential Healthcare Recon blog.
Dr. Aniket Kaloti
Medical Advisor
Dr. Aniket Kaloti has a wide range of experience in projects in health informatics, drug development, medical devices and diagnostics. He brings a unique combination of clinical, technological and business insights into his healthcare projects. Dr. Kaloti earned his his PhD in Neuroscience at Northwestern University. He was a Post-doctoral Associate in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Science and Biological Engineering at MIT.