New leaders bring deep industry expertise from
former roles at Kyruus Health, Health Catalyst, Glytec, HubSpot,
and Veeva
NEWTON,
Mass., May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Manifold, an
AI-powered clinical research platform, today announced the
expansion of its leadership team with veterans of the technology
and healthcare industries. Following its $15
million Series A fundraising round, the expanded team will
accelerate Manifold's ability to automate the manual work of
clinical study and data operations alongside its customers,
including Indiana University Melvin and
Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and Winship Cancer Institute
of Emory University.
The following executives are joining Manifold to accelerate the
company's growth:
- Chris McMahon joins as
Chief People Officer, after previously leading the People function
at Kyruus Health and Turbonomic through aggressive periods of
growth and expansion. Chris will be responsible for developing and
recruiting talent, building culture, and overseeing people
operations.
- Alex Akers joins as Vice
President, Growth, having previously served as VP, Sales at Health
Catalyst as a part of their remarkable growth story, and before
that as Director, Strategy and Institutional Partnerships at Grand
Rounds. Leveraging his deep expertise in strategy and market
development, Alex will spearhead growth and expansion efforts
across key cancer research centers.
- Danielle Kowalski joins
as Vice President, Legal, bringing extensive commercial
go-to-market and compliance experience to Manifold after spending
over 11 years at HubSpot where she most recently served as VP &
Deputy General Counsel in their Legal & Compliance
function.
- Megan Ahigian joins as
Senior Director of Product and Partnerships, bringing experience
building data-rich products across Healthcare and IT Infrastructure
during periods of rapid growth. Megan previously served as VP,
Product at Glytec and VP, Product at Kyruus Health.
- Taylor Gleason joins as
Senior Director of Marketing, bringing deep knowledge of
full-funnel marketing strategy in the healthcare technology space,
following marketing roles at Kyruus Health, Press Ganey, Amwell,
Boston Children's Hospital and Cigna.
Manifold also welcomes two go-to-market veterans
to its advisory team:
- Mike Longo joins as a
go-to-market advisor, having previously served as the Vice
President, North America R&D Sales at Veeva and an integral
part of the leadership team that grew Veeva from its startup stage
to over $1 billion in revenue.
- Chris Reisig also joins
as a go-to-market advisor and brings extensive advisory experience
with early-stage technology companies, having led the sales
function at companies like Dyn, Turbonomic, Veracode and
Endeca.
"We're thrilled to welcome some of the industry's strongest
leaders to help us transform clinical study and data operations
with our AI-powered platform," said Vinay
Seth Mohta, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifold. "Our team will
be crucial to growing our partnerships and expanding our solutions
– achieving our vision of making it ten times faster and one-tenth
the cost to carry out modern studies and analytics."
The growth and diversity of healthcare data is surpassing legacy
data management and analytic tools as well as manual processes in
clinical research. With Manifold, for the first time, clinical
research teams have an advanced, AI-powered, purpose-built platform
that makes it possible to enroll and engage study participants,
harmonize and curate longitudinal data, find and analyze multimodal
datasets, and collaborate securely across organizations — all in
one easy-to-use platform.
About Manifold
Manifold is an AI-powered clinical
research platform. We streamline the manual workflows of modern
study and data management, enabling researchers to do more
high-impact research and collaborations with fewer resources.
Manifold works with research organizations across the country such
as Indiana University Melvin and Bren
Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and Winship Cancer Institute at
Emory University. Our vision is to make
it ten times faster and one-tenth the cost to conduct modern
research studies that unlock insights never-before possible. For
more information, visit us here, or follow us on LinkedIn.
Media Contact: Kayli Watson, kayli@12080group.com
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