Our Dedicated Team
We understand healthcare. We understand technology.
Together we strive towards the same goal: to accelerate medical advancements.
Our team brings decades of research, epidemiology, and operational experience from organizations like ConcertAI, Oracle, PatientsLikeMe, CureForward, Salesforce, IQVIA, the National Institute of Health, N-of-One, Apple, Optum, and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. As a team, we have 200+ peer reviewed publications.
Executive Management Team
Dr. Femida Gwadry-Sridhar
Dr. Gwadry-Sridhar is the founder and chief executive officer of Pulse Infoframe. Dr. Gwadry-Sridhar is a pharmacist, epidemiologist and methodologist with over 25 years of experience in clinical trials, health analytics, clinical disease outcomes, and registries.
Roger Witteveen
Roger has over 25 years of experience in finance and technology building and leading high performing global teams and projects. He held senior executive positions at BlackBerry with global responsibility for finance operations leading projects to structure global operations work.
Executive Technical Team
Marc Mason
Marc, a research and development leader, brings 30 years of experience in data operations, analytics, epidemiology, biostatistics, engineering and clinical computational platforms. Marc has held academic faculty clinical and research positions, and leadership positions with government health institutions and private life science organizations.
Michael Barrow
Mike brings over 35 years of technology executive experience. Previously, Mike was the CTO for QuantiaMD, VP of Engineering at Soliloquy Learning, and co-founder of the Mesa Group, a software product development company, which was acquired by Microsoft. Subsequently he served as a Software Development Manager for Microsoft Exchange.
Paul Ferraiolo
Paul brings over 30 years’ experience. Previously, Paul was a senior member of the technology team at Concerto Health and was the chief architect of the Oracle Cancer Research Cloud initiative.
Board of Advisors
Jim Cavan
Jim, a health start-up entrepreneur, has served in a variety of executive leadership roles for healthcare institutions and organizations for more than twenty years. Starting his healthcare career in the field of emergency medicine, he served in Fire Department EMS, hospital Advanced Life Support and medical aviation-based settings.
Carlos Rodarte
Carlos is a systems thinker and business innovator committed to enabling individuals to discover how their behaviors, biology, and environment impact health outcomes. He’s on a mission to align revenue generation to societal good.
Dr. Barbara Handelin
Dr. Handelin is the co-founder and CEO of Audacity Therapeutics. She has a 30+ year career as a pioneering medical geneticist, and serves the research management needs of rare disease patient organizations.
Eric Schultz
Eric has been at the forefront of disruptive innovation in technology for nearly 40 years building several startups and in executive roles in leading companies including Lotus, Microsoft and Qualcomm. For the past 15 years, Eric has focused exclusively in healthcare using real world data and machine learning to advance patient lives. He advises a select group of health-related companies and serves as advisor to the Carnegie Mellon UPMC Center for Machine Learning and Health.
Jay Pieper
Jay is a principal in Atria Global Health Advisory Services. His primary work has been advising on Governance, System Development and Strategy for organizations ranging from single entities to National healthcare systems.
Dr. Elia Stupka
Dr. Stupka is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Life Sciences business unit at Health Catalyst and a technical advisor at Pulse Infoframe. He is a visionary leader in digital health with a passion for innovation in health and life sciences and 20 years of experience across industry, academic and clinical settings.
Patient Advisory Board
Jean Campbell
Jean is a Principal at JF Campbell Consultants, a company whose mission to offer the non-profit health community and the for profit pharmaceutical and biotech industries, a wide range of services to enhance their mission and vision to better serve their constituents. With 17 years of experience working within the rare disease community to increase their visibility on the national and international healthcare scene coupled with advising the for-profit sector on the best way to interact with this community, JF Campbell Consultants has the knowledge, expertise and understanding to make significant connections that will improve the quality of life for this underserved population.
Mark Dant
Mark is the Board Chair of the DC based EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases, a science-based advocacy organization dedicated to accelerating biotech innovations for rare disease treatments through science-driven public policy. Mark is also the founder and Executive Director of the Ryan Foundation. Mark’s family’s journey has been documented on CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, Biography Magazine, Readers Digest in 13 languages around the world, Golf Digest, and numerous news outlets globally.
Laurence Woollard
Laurence is the founder and director of On The Pulse: an independent, strategic consultancy providing specialist insight to UK and global healthcare providers and multi-agencies on the development and rollout of patient activation campaigns in haemophilia and rare diseases. Laurence has extensive patient advocacy experience, having advised on and implemented a broad scope of community awareness, research and educational initiatives for commercial partners and third-sector organisations.
Dr. Stacey J. Feuer
Dr. Feuer has a passion for working with individuals living with chronic medical illness as a clinical health psychologist, healthcare consultant, and speaker. Through her work, she helps patients live healthier, more resilient lives while coping with medical difficulties. She has experience with a wide range of medical diagnoses, and specializes in individuals living with the unique challenges of rare, ultra-rare, and/or genetic diseases. Dr. Feuer believes that health is more than just the sum of our physical ailments, and aims to help clients develop and increase an overall sense of well-being in their daily lives.
Business Development, Clinical & Marketing Team
Kathleen Coolidge
Kathleen worked in the biotech industry for the last 20 years managing relationships within the rare disease patient community while working at Sanofi Genzyme. Prior to that, she worked as a licensed clinical social worker in pediatrics at Tufts Medical Center. Her deep commitment to patients, rare diseases, and supporting the patient community while also trying to bring innovation and new technology remains a priority. Working in Patient Advocacy at Pulse is a perfect match supporting those two priorities.
Deepti Jain
Deepti brings over a decade of sales and operations experience. She recently worked at Wolters Kluwer Health, an industry-leading clinical decision support solution provider. She is currently doing her MBA from Babson College with a concentration in business analytics and entrepreneurship. Her strengths in developing processes and focusing on solution selling help her achieve win-win outcomes for all stakeholders.
Marilou Walach
Marilou began her career over 25 years ago as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in a diverse hospital setting. She has gained a certification in genetics and is a certified Quality Auditor. Prior to joining Pulse, Marilou has worked in healthcare, academics, pharma and NHP industries. She has experience with FDA, Health Canada, and other regulatory bodies.
Nickey Revard
Nickey is a seasoned professional with 15 years of experience within the Salesforce.com ecosystem, making an impact in the non-profit and healthcare sectors. Holding certifications as a Salesforce Administrator, Salesforce Business Analyst, Salesforce Associate, and Professional Scrum Master, she blends strong planning and execution discipline, coupled with a flexible and adaptive approach. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Epidemiology at Columbia University and actively contributes to the community as a Board Member of the Columbia Club of Atlanta, while also dedicating time to volunteering for organizations that support elders and children.
Dylan McCarthy
Dylan has 5 years of experience maintaining quality systems. Prior to joining Pulse, he worked in quality manufacturing for the pharma and natural health product industries where he was responsible for regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement. He has hosted audits from regulatory bodies such as Health Canada and the CFIA. Dylan holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Windsor.
Joshua Henderson
Joshua’s expertise is in building relationships and fostering collaboration across diverse groups of stakeholders, with a specific focus on supporting underrepresented populations and advancing the development of treatments for underserved diseases.
Daniel Lewi
Dan’s varied background in rare disease advocacy began when he and his wife founded the Cure & Action for Tay-Sachs (CATS) Foundation in the UK, after their daughter Amélie was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs. Dan has over ten years of experience in medtech and advocacy, and he has also served as Chairman of the European Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Charity Consortium since 2012. Dan is fully aware of the patient voice, and he consistently puts patients and their needs at the forefront of clinical discussion.
Denise G. Redkar-Brown
Denise began her career as a Medical Technologist working in a hospital laboratory environment. She made the transition to the pharmaceutical industry, and after more than 25 years she has held positions in basic and clinical research with successful submissions to the FDA for multiple drugs and biologics, as well as creating and facilitating training for Barnett International for the past 21 years.
Dr. Muhammad Rakibuz-Zaman
Dr. Rakibuz-Zaman is a medical graduate (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and epidemiologist (MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Western Ontario) with over 20 years of progressive experience working in clinical research, longitudinal cohort studies, public health and bio-specimen research (laboratory setting).
Katie Crosby
Katie is a certified genetic counselor with over 10 years of experience in clinical care and research for rare diseases. She began her career in the Rare Disease Institute at Children’s National Hospital where she supported patients through diagnosis and long-term care as well as managed multiple clinical trials, natural history studies, and patient registries. Prior to joining Pulse, Katie worked in the pharmaceutical industry planning a clinical trial for an ultra-rare disease.
Alaa Ibrahim
Alaa has completed a Master of Management of Applied Science in Global Health Systems at Western University. She is a pharmacist by profession and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than six years. Prior to beginning at Pulse, she was a project coordinator for the Wastewater Initiative surveillance at Western University.
Nina Liu
Nina is a dynamic and engaging leader passionate about delivering products to market that will have a direct impact on the care quality for patients. She is experienced in product management, product marketing and business operations in a variety of fast-paced healthcare technology companies.
Ryan Sheedy
Ryan graduated from Clark University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Marketing and a Master of Business Administration. He has had prior marketing experience for creative agencies and consulting companies and was also a teaching assistant during his final year of undergrad.
Dr. Leah Young
Dr. Young has over 20 years experience in oncology research in the areas of pathology, DNA damage responses, medical genetics, epigenetics, and precision medicine, and over 8 years experience in oncology clinical trials. Leah’s therapeutic areas of expertise include lung cancer, HNPCC, skin cancer, lymphoma, and pediatric oncology (leukemia, solid, CNS).
Software & Analytics Team
Beth Locke
Beth is a Graduate of Computer Science, Bioinformatics at the University of Western Ontario. During graduate work, she was a University Instructor in software engineering, computer organization and architecture, and algorithms.
Logan Sovereign
Logan graduated from the Computer Programmer Analyst program at Fanshawe College. He has full stack industry experience developing websites and desktop applications. Logan is also a firefighter with his local volunteer fire department.
Ahmed Mohamed
Ahmed is a recent graduate from Western University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor Philosophy. He has 2+ years of Software Engineering experience working in Fintech, Banking and E-commerce. Ahmed’s experience is primarily in Back-End engineering working on internal tools and Platform development. His skills range from gathering requirements, system architecture, implementation, and documentation.
Angel Cronin
Angel is a biostatistician with nearly two decades of experience designing, analyzing, and synthesizing results from clinical research studies. Throughout her career, she has worked in both academic and non-academic environments and collaborated on numerous peer-reviewed publications. She received her master’s degree in biostatistics from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Amy Garrett
Amy is a creative product manager with over 8 years of experience connecting user problems to software solutions. She received her master’s degree in Epidemiology from The Ohio State University. After her studies, she began her career at IQVIA Biotech, where she developed reusable specifications and code used to generate CDISC data sets. She has also worked on the pharma side, at Merck/MSD, where she used her expertise in clinical data standards to review regulatory submissions. Amy also contributes to the clinical data standard community and is a regular presenter at industry events.
Yunus Amer
Yunus is a Software Engineer with nearly 5 years of experience developing software for the medical industry. He graduated from Western University with a Specialization in Computer Science. Yunus has also enjoyed leading teams as a project manager, and he possesses strong technical skills across the entire software development life cycle. His expertise ranges from the early stages of requirements gathering, system architecture, and UX/UI design to product launch and post-release support/maintenance.
Erica Kim
Erica graduated with an advanced diploma in Computer Programming Analyst at Fanshawe College along with a Bachelor of Arts. She worked as a database analyst for 5 years in the financial field before she developed a strong passion for software engineering.
Thien Tran
Thien is a software developer and recently graduated with an advanced diploma in the Computer Programmer Analysis program at Fanshawe College. He has been working in the software development field for more than 5 years. In addition, he has hands-on experience in designing and developing website projects.
Siva Kavali
Siva is Graduated in Computer Science and Engineering at JNTUH University(India) and Diploma in Mobile Application Development from Lambton College (Toronto). He is a QA Engineer with over 10+ years of experience in Software application Testing and Methodologies. Experienced in writing Testcases, Automating software web applications and manage/supervise QA teams in IT industry. He lives in London (Ontario) with his Wife (Priyanka) and daughter (Prisha) and enjoys Traveling, hiking, and spending time with family.