Carrie Nikitin is a business founder, serial investor, and advisor in health/wellness, tech, and energy spaces. She sits on several boards of start-ups and also investment organizations. In this interview, Carrie shares with magazine publisher, Mary Kurek, how she got into business, a bit about the businesses in which she invests, and what she looks for when investing. Meet Carrie …
Connections in The Introducer Magazine on FinTech Literacy
Here are the connections we see in the 18th Edition of The Introducer Magazine on FinTech Literacy and Creativity in Finance: If you see an opportunity for connection for yourself here, you can reach us at editor@theintroducermagazine.com Linda Goetze of the current edition and Alana Stott of a previous edition in the summer of 2019 would have a good conversation …
Networking Opportunities Identified in The Introducer Edition on Health Tech
Welcome to what The Introducer does best – facilitate connection. For those who have been reading The Introducer for a while, you know that about a week after the edition goes live, we post the networking connections we see between those featured in the current edition (and we include some from previous editions where there’s a fit). So, for The …
Dr. David Armstrong – Health Tech Hero For Diabetics
David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD Professor of Surgery and Director, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC) You are about to meet an extraordinary expert on Diabetes and a master of technology aimed at helping diabetics to save limbs. Dr. Armstrong is Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California. He …
One To Watch: Tim Fitzpatrick (Health Tech)
Tim Fitzpatrick Co-Founder and CEO, IKONA Health, US Why This Focus of Impact: Tim Fitzpatrick is definitely “one to watch” in health tech over the next year. Tim co-founded IKONA Health because of his experiences as a VA patient while serving in the US Navy. After eighteen months filled with several back surgeries and hundreds of painful wound care treatments, …
Game Changer Joe Hitt (Health Tech)
Joe Hitt, CEO, GoX Labs, US Why This Focus of Impact: Joe Hitt on Health Tech starts here: Joe is the CEO of GoX Labs. Musculoskeletal injury is the top reason for discharge from the military and evacuation from the theater of operations. As a commander of a parachute unit, he has seen and experienced this first hand. As a professor …
Finding the SwitchPoints: Events that Spark Connections
Partnership and innovation go hand-in-hand. That’s why IntraHealth International’s moonshot division, SwitchPoint, works to build the kind of unexpected partnerships that can advance health and social good around the world. IntraHealth’s annual SwitchPoint conference brings together hundreds of leaders from all over the globe and from all backgrounds to share their humanitarian work and stories. As the SwitchPoint organizers, we …
This is How You End a Year: Partnerships, Money, and Disruptive Innovations…The Frontrunners League 2018
IN 2018, OUR FRONTRUNNERS LEAGUE MEMBERS CREATED AI MEDICAL CHATBOTS, FORMED PARTNERSHIPS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL BRANCH OF THE RED CROSS AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORG, AND SECURED MAJOR FUNDING FOR AWARD-WINNING INNOVATIONS. AND, THAT ISN’T ALL… https://youtu.be/MYwMRAhEJkU (Jan. 2019) Here at Mary Kurek Impact Connections, we’ve been quite busy. Along with producing The Introducer Magazine, we’ve been managing an active and successful …