Paul Meyer, Co-Founder, Chairman and President
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Paul T. Sheils

Paul Sheils is Managing Partner of Silverado Health Partners, LLC, a digital health management consulting firm whose clients include GE Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth Group/Ingenix, and several private companies developing disruptive digital health technologies. Mr. Sheils has served as chief executive officer for multiple companies focused on health and information technology, including Aetna Health Information Solutions, Inc., InterCure, Inc., an innovative medical information and technology start-up, Mayo Health Ventures, the venture capital division of The Mayo Foundation, and Medscape, Inc., one of the nation’s leading eHealth companies. Mr. Sheils led Medscape’s successful IPO in 1999 and sale in 2000 for over $860 million to MedicaLogic, Inc., a leading supplier of electronic medical records. Mr. Sheils then served as co-Chairman of the combined public company, MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc. Before his business career, Mr. Sheils was a corporate attorney, serving as General Counsel of Dow Jones Information Services. He holds a BA from Williams College and a JD from Fordham Law School. He serves on the Board of Directors of Healthline Networks, Inc., a health-focused information and search engine company.


Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure, successor to the company she ran from 1982 to 2004 and sold to CNET Networks in 2004. She left CNET and revived the name this January (2007). Separately, she is an active investor in many IT start-ups, and has participated in the sale of companies to Microsoft, Google, Symantec and Yahoo!, along with several IPOs. Along with early-stage companies, she likes early-stage markets, including Russia, India and Brazil. Her past investments included Medscape (where she sat on the board) and Medstory (sold to Microsoft earlier this year). She is also an investor in Ovusoft, an online fertility site, and an advisor to 23andMe, a not-yet-launched company that has something to do with sequencing genomes. And she is a research subject: She will have her genome sequenced and published along with her entire medical history, as part of George Church's Personal Genome Project. Dyson has a long history of getting there early: She entered college at 16 and lived in Morocco for two months when she was 17 (with her boyfriend who was in the Peace Corps). She worked on Wall Street as analyst covering Federal Express from 1977 to 1980. She visited Microsoft in 1982 and wrote in her newsletter Release 1.0: "If the company really wants to be successful, it needs to be a little more ruthless." She first went to Russia and then Eastern Europe in 1989, the year she started using e-mail actively. She wrote a cover article for WIRED on the challenging future of intellectual property in 1994. And she invested in Voxiva in 2003 and again in 2006, using proceeds from the sale of some of her Google pre-IPO stock.


Dr. Anand Narasimhan, Co-Founder

Dr. Anand Narasimhan is a co-founder of Voxiva, and was its Chief Technology Officer until the end of 2009. Prior to that he was the founding Chief Technology Officer of j2 Global Communications, one of the world's largest unified messaging service provider (EFAX, JFAX, Nasdaq: JCOM). Previously he was with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York . He has advised many global organizations on various aspects of technology, markets and strategy and has numerous patents and publications in the fields of wireless communications and various applications of information technology. He is actively involved with the Grameen Foundation, which is focused on improving access to microfinance solutions to end poverty. He is also the founder of the Simha Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of educational programs in underserved communities.


Ed Scott

Ed Scott is an experienced and successful business executive. Before his career in the high-technology industry, Mr. Scott served as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Transportation during the administration of President Carter. During his government career, Mr. Scott served under seven Attorneys General (Republicans and Democrats) and three secretaries of Transportation. He then co-founded BEA Systems, Inc. now the 12th largest software company in the World. Since leaving the business sector, he is fully focused on a number of economic development and HIV/Aids undertakings and is an active supporter of many philanthropic initiatives including orphanages and child development centers in Central America, Compassion International, a faith-based children's development group operating globally in 23 countries, and the Center for Global Development (CGD) which he founded in 2001 as the only organization fully dedicated to the development and advocacy of informed analysis concerning the policies of the World's richest countries toward the World's poor countries. Along with Bill Gates and George Soros, he is co-founder of DATA, an advocacy organization dedicated to building public and political awareness about development problems in Africa, most notably the HIV/Aids pandemic. He also founded "Friends of the Global Fight," a Washington, D.C.-based group dedicated to informing the U.S. public and body politic about the work of the Global Fund. Mr. Scott earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in political science from Michigan State University. He also has a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University (U.K.). Mr. Scott serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for International Economics (IIE), a long-standing leader in international economic policy analysis. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Florida Institute of Technology, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy and the King Center for the Performing Arts. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Indian River Brewing Company and is a member of the Board of StubHub, Inc. He also owns and operates the Kiwi Tennis Club in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida.


Andras Forgacs

Andras Forgacs is Managing Director of Richmond Management, a venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled services and mobile technologies with applications in the US and across major emerging markets. Prior to Richmond, Andras was a consultant in the New York office of McKinsey & Company, advising academic medical centers, biotech/pharmaceutical firms, global financial institutions and private equity/venture capital funds. Previously, Andras helped found the client-facing E-commerce Group of Citigroup, developing award-winning products to support Citi’s corporate and investment banking clients. Andras began his career with Citigroup as an investment banker in the Financial Strategy Group advising the bank’s largest corporate clients on a range of financial and capital structure issues. Andras holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Harvard University. Andras also served as a Corporate Leader with the Council on Foreign Relations.


Carl F. Muñana

Carl F. Muñana is an international investment banker whose current focus is in the area of innovative social investment strategies. Much of his career was spent as a Managing Director at JP Morgan & Co. where his responsibilities included the Mexican business, being Senior Commitments Officer for global investment banking and heading the Latin America risk portfolio. In recent years he has led a number of development finance initiatives in the emerging markets including private development funds, mortgage finance systems and microfinance. He also serves on several international corporate and not-for-profit boards. He is President of Ashoka in Spain and international advisor to the MicroVest Fund. He holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Kellogg.


Michael Van Vleck

Mr. Van Vleck has extensive worldwide transactional and general management experience with a broad multi-functional background, including finance, strategic planning, marketing/communications and management. Mr. Van Vleck was the former Chief Executive Officer of Phyto-Riker Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Before that, Mr. Van Vleck directed the investment program of a private equity healthcare fund focused on product manufacturing and service provision companies located in Africa, Latin America and Asia. He also founded and built two fiber optic telecommunications companies, Global Fiber Group and Cogent Communications serving in the roles of President and Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, respectively. Mr. Van Vleck also founded and ran his own consulting company for seven years where he represented large U.S. energy, telecommunications and healthcare companies including ATT, Primus, Deutsche Telecom, Unocal, Cogentrix in matters relating to business development, marketing and finance. He began his career in the investment business with the New York LBO firm of Acadia Partners, where he sought enhanced equity returns by investing in operating companies in various industries. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. in International Studies and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and earned his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.

Justin Sims, Chief Executive Officer
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Dr. Pamela Johnson, Co-Founder and Chief Health Officer
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