Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Y Combinator

Harvard Business School Online

University of San Francisco

Earlham College

COO & Co-Founder at Brave Care

San Francisco, California, United States

As COO + Founder of Brave Care, I am responsible for operationalizing the strategic vision for the company across all product lines, services, processes, clinics and employees. Raised pre-seed, seed, series A, and series B rounds of funding. Y Combinator Alum.

Executive strategic and operational oversight of the people operations (HR), general business operations, compliance (HIPAA and medical), IT, clinic operations, care operations, learning and development, clinic implementation, and marketing departments.

Key Accomplishments:
-  Established DEIB Council + Initiatives
-  Grew from 0 to 100s of employees where 80% of staff were women and 81% of managers were women
-  Expanded Brave Care clinic scope of services
-  Increased Brave Care's clinic footprint from single-city to nation wide, launching coast-to-coast clinics
-  Developed system of operational excellence for Brave Care including (annual planning, OKRs, strategic meetings)

Brave Care

COO & Co-Founder

MedTruly provides integrated primary and preventive care for patients with chronic conditions. Their Internal Medicine providers and medical assistants work with patients to prevent hospitalization and re-admissions.

MedTruly, Inc.

Advisor

Pancea is a health tech company based in San Francisco that provides employers and employees with data-driven wellness and chronic MSK pain relief programs. Pancea's team includes doctors and Certified Corrective Exercise and Orthopedic Specialists that care about improving employees' health and wellbeing. The data-driven programs have proven to be effective in decreasing 50% chronic pain symptoms within just 8 sessions, and improving employees mental health. The team is driven to make corporate wellbeing easily accessible, affordable, and fun!

Pancea

Nalukai is a free 10-day intensive tech, entrepreneurship, and design boarding program for Hawaiʻi high school students.

Nalukai Foundation

Advisor and Mentor

In addition to being a founder, and having over 10 years of startup, manager, and leadership experience, I’m also a certified coach and advisor. I have a variety of coaching and speciality certifications, along with 1000s of hours of coaching, advising, and consulting work.

I've worked directly with founders, executives, leadership teams, startups and companies to achieve increased leadership, improve operational excellence, audit strategic plans, and so much more.

Key Areas of Focus:
-  Leadership
-  Imposter Syndrome
-  Burnout
-  Strategic Planning
-  Leadership Teams
-  Operational Execution of Strategic Vision
-  Strategy Calendar
-  Resilience
-  OKRs
-  Product

Maryam Taheri LLC

Executive & Founder Coach, Advisor & Consultant

Our first product is an injury-detecting sock to help people with diabetes and neuropathy avoid foot ulcers and amputations. Our socks monitor temperature continuously to detect inflammation. Furthermore, we community around preventive health and help individuals catch potential injuries earlier.

Winner of: TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield, AARP Innovation Award, and CES Best of Innovation Award

Role and Responsibilities:

KOLS: Work with key opinion leaders to build relationships, partnerships.

Health Education:  Created and distributed high-quality health education materials in the form of print and online materials detailing prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and symptomatic care.

Patient and Customer Management: Counsel patient population on diabetes, neuropathy, and foot health and help navigate the public health system. Work with customers to get feedback, address issues, and help manage all aspects of support.

Community Management: Built diabetes related community with exponential growth.

Clinical Trial Recruitment and Management: Work to recruit patients, manage logistics, and work on data collection.

Health Insurance Coverage: Work on full-strategy to get coverage of product with insurance.

Event Marketing and Logistics : Developed and executed marketing strategy, planning and logistics for conferences including AADE, WOW, and CES. Presented at conferences, worked with key stakeholders and provided health education.

Siren Care

Clinical Operations

Kinsights was a digital platform that helped connect parents and caregivers of children with rare, genetic and complex medical conditions to support communities, resources, clinics, and speciality health professionals. The platform seamlessly incorporated health information and resources with support communities, a pediatric PHR, and more. Our platform helped make it easier for parents and caregivers on their diagnostic journey, as well as, helping those already diagnosed make informed healthcare decisions.

Kinsights was acquired by <a href="http://Care.com">Care.com</a> in January 2016.

Duties and Responsibilities at Kinsights
-  Created and managed over 100 support communities for parents and caregivers of children with complex medical conditions, rare and genetic diseases.
-  For each specific support community, I 1) conducted all marketing programs including paid and unpaid channels to recruit members, 2) developed all written education pieces, 3) recruited health professionals and clinics to provide information and resources to group members. 4) developed nonprofit and hospital partnerships related to condition and condition symptoms.
-  Developed overall marketing and program strategy for Kinsights including brand, content, social media marketing.
- Headed up all digital community management including support.
-  Use of paid advertising including: Adwords, StumbleUpon, Adroll, Outbrain, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads.
- Played an integral role in the development and execution of product features. based on user testing, surveys, and analysis of site dynamics.
- Directed all inbound and outbound marketing including content, SEO, paid marketing, and more for health-focused parenting community

Kinsights

Director of Product and Strategy

- Successfully oversaw the entire content, social and marketing schedule for an online design community and platform for design and color inspiration.
-   Managed all of the social channels including Twitter, Facebook, and the content on the blog.
-  Responsibilities included forming partnerships with companies for newsletter trades, guest blogging, and more.
-   Worked to build business partnerships for the COLOURlovers brand.

COLOURlovers

Head of Content & Marketing

- Joined the company as a editorial and social media manager and later promoted to Growth Marketing Manager for digital platform and community for the selling and purchasing of design resources.
-  Managed a team of writers to achieve the goals of Creative Market
-  Successfully aided in implementing Creative Market to the point of acquisition by AutoDesk.
-  Fostered and expanded partnerships with a variety of other companies in the design sector
-  Built the entire social media, marketing, and content strategy for the company
-  Manage blog content using Keyword Analysis, SEO, and other audience increasing tactics.
-  Push content to all social channels and edit or tweak content based on it's performance.
-  Oversee readership growth to the blog by over 500%.

Notable achievements:
-  Acquired over 200 new vendors for the creative market platform
-   Grew the readership for the creative market blog over 600%
-  Increased inbound links and traffic to the creative market site
-  50% month over month growth in page views and user acquisition

Creative Market – The World's Marketplace for Design

Growth Lead

- Refer.ly is an online platform for referring products via blog posts. The company was later rebranded to Mattermark.
-   Cultivated and maintained online presence on social media platforms, utilizing the use of Hootsuite and Buffer as social media management tools and analytics.
-  Conducted SEO and analytics research to craft content for Referly.
-  Oversaw and produced content for all areas of Referly; trending topics discovered based on market research, Facebook and Twitter mentions.

Referly

Social Media & Editorial

- A lifestyle brand, focused on product development and features and how to get them to appeal to a broad audience.
-  Coordinated the online marketing efforts and social media strategy for myBotto along with helping with the branding for the company.
-  Created content to show customers how to use the product,

mybotto

Social Media + Editorial Manager

Worked in Robert Rosenberg's Ion Channel Lab

Researcher

Student Activities and Programs Director

During my time at the Marin Women's Commission my main projects involved planning the Marin County Teen Girl Summit, an event dedicated to helping teen girls better understand themselves. I helped with everything from branding the event to organizing speakers to finalizing the event location.