The Healthtech Podcast

Phillip Alvelda is a scientist, an engineer, a serial entrepreneur, and an educator. Previously at DARPA, the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense that maintains the technological superiority of the U.S. military and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed sensors that have flown throughout the solar system. Phillip has founded new infrastructure, telecommunications, and media companies, including the DARPA-funded MicroDisplay; MobiTV; TaDa Innovations; and the non-profit Westminster Institute for K-12 Science Education Reform. He is now the founder of Brainworks, which builds trustworthy intelligent machines, and applies them to solve complex global challenges. The company leverages the latest pioneering discoveries in neuroscience to build more complete, whole-brain AI systems that society can trust with life-or-death decisions. Alvelda holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cornell University, and Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has authored or contributed to more than 50 technical publications and holds numerous patents and a Technical Emmy award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. www.brainworks.ai | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipalvelda/

This week, James is joined by Dr Alex Young - founder of Virti and cofounder of HS. James and Alex look back at episode 1 and reflect on how they met, their journey cofounding HS., bootstrapping an accelerator, what they learned and what they're doing now. It features many tips for entrepreneurs on topics like starting a business, starting a podcast, finding a cofounder, focus, difficult decisions... and so much more. Get in touch www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined by Lloyd Price: Tech Entrepreneur, Corporate Executive and Board Advisor with 20+ years experience building Digital Businesses in 6 industries - Healthcare, Retail, Travel, Finance, Advertising and Dating. He's performed Senior Management, C-Level & Co-Founder roles @ Zesty, Badoo, Kelkoo, Yahoo! UK and Yahoo! Europe. Lloyd co-founded Zesty from an idea in July 2012 into an award winning UK Digital Health company backed by a group of international VC funds including Mangrove Capital, LBO France, TA Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures. Lloyd’s operational experience covers all stages of the Business Growth Cycle from Early Stage StartUps (Zesty) and High Growth ScaleUps (Badoo/Kelkoo) to Nasdaq listed companies (Yahoo!) and Private Equity owned Corporate Divestitures (Kelkoo). His 7+ years Board Member and Board Advisor experience includes Zesty Ltd, the Deepbridge Capital Life Sciences investment fund, TenX Health Venture Capital fund, UK Digital Healthcare Council and Coadec, the Coalition for a Digital Economy. Get in touch with Lloyd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloydgprice/ | https://twitter.com/lloydgprice Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week's Sunday session is a look into what James is building at somX. If you want to join the early access list, head over to www.somx.co.uk and be the first to hear the updates. Also mentioned this week - The London Business School Healthtech Challenge, a pitching competition with a £10,000 prize, which James is judging on Tuesday. Head to https://www.londonhealthtechchallenge.org/ to learn more and sign up to watch 👍🏼 Get in touch: www.somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | js@somx.co.uk

James' guest this week is Dr. Ashish Patel, Principal at Optum Ventures, who, on their website describe him as the physician, technologist & financier triple threat! Ash is serious about revolutionizing health care, and has a wealth of experience building, commercializing and financing disruptive health care technology companies. Before Optum Ventures, Ash served as a lead life sciences investor and head of research for Mercia Technologies, one of the most active investors in the UK. He led transactions into a variety of health care businesses, sat on multiple boards, and also led Mercia’s internal corporate strategy team. Prior to this, he served as Clinical Technology Director as part of the team that launched Babylon Health, a leading European AI-enabled healthcare business. He started his career as an anaesthetics and intensive care doctor in the UK where he was involved in academic research work and clinical practice. He holds a M.A. and medical degree from the University of Oxford, and is a member of the CFA Institute, London. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ashish-patel-md-2952a644/ | https://www.optumventures.com/ Get in touch with James: js@somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week's Sunday session is on the latest grants, accelerators and programmes to get funding! Mentioned this week: DigitalHealth.London Accelerator: https://digitalhealth.london/accelerator/apply/ NHSx Remote Monitoring call: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/33d1e59d-83d9-4e86-b243-a9cb0baef548 UKRI Healthy Ageing: https://www.ukri.org/innovation/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund/healthy-ageing/ EUREKA Healthy Ageing call: https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/597/overview js@somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk 

This week James is joined by Paul Tunnah, founder of pharmaphorum, which combines industry leading publications with a specialist strategy and creative consultancy. Paul is an experienced pharmaceutical industry thought leader and adviser, with a specialist focus on cross-stakeholder communication, digital / social media engagement and collaborative innovation.  James and Paul cover all things healthcare and communication and there's a lot of lessons for entrepreneurs looking to communicate what they do in this space! https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultunnah/ | https://pharmaphorum.com/ Get in touch: js@som.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

For this week's session, I'm giving you my take on the brand new AI checklist which has been issued here in the UK for health and care organisations by NHSx. It's an incredibly succinct document outlining a bunch of simple questions for organisations to ask AI companies if they want to procure them. Loads to learn for startups, investors and healthcare organisations both in the UK and abroad. There's also some info on somX... www.somx.co.uk Grab the AI guidance here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/media/documents/A_Buyers_Checklist_for_AI_in_Health_and_Care.pdf Get in touch! www.jamessomauroo.com | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo | js@somx.co.uk

Can you actually be a doctor and run successful, scaling medical device startup at the same time? This week I'm joined by Krishan Ramdoo, founder and CEO of TympaHealth Technologies - a team of doctors and technology experts united by a vision of helping the world to hear. They've built 'the world’s first all-in-one hearing health assessment system' and they're doing incredible partnerships all over the healthtech space. www.tympahealth.com | www.linkedin.com/in/krishan-ramdoo-10086979 | krishan@tympahealth.com www.jamessomauroo.com | js@somx.co.uk | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo

Hit this amazing milestone this week! Thanks to everyone that listens around the world 🌍🎙🙏🏼  Special thanks to those of you that have been in touch - love hearing from you if you're finding it valuable - especially with the tough things going on around COVID-19.  Do you want to be on the show? If you've got a good story to tell and you want to inspire people, make sure you email or DM me. Founders are ideal, no matter what stage you're at 👍🏼 Also mentioned this week - Sleepio and Daylight are now free! -  https://www.bighealth.com/ Have a listen to Peter Hames, founder of Big Health on Episode 20: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-20-the-story-of-sleepio-and-scaling-into-the-usa/id1438968893?i=1000436563711 Get in touch with me: js@somx.co.uk | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo/ | www.jamessomauroo.com