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Harvard Business School

Cornell University

Cardozo High School

Partner at Flare Capital Partners (Product & Innovation executive turned VC)

Greater Boston

Flare Capital Partners is a leading healthcare technology and services venture capital firm based in Boston, MA. Flare Capital Partners has invested in Aetion, Aspen RxHealth, Axuall, BeMe Health, Bright Health (IPO), Cayaba Care, Circulation (acquired by LogistiCare), ClearDATA, Cohere Health, Curisium (acquired by R1), Eden Health, Elektra Health, HealthReveal, HealthVerity, higi, Iora Health (acquired by One Medical), Lumify Care, Marigold Health, Oshi Health, Oui Health, Somatus, Suki, Tausight, Valence Health (acquired by Evolent Health), VisitPay, Votitve, and Welltok. Flare Scholar Ventures (FSV) investments include EarlyBird Educations, Lumify Care, Piction Health, Revea, UnifiHealth, and Vincere Health.

Co-led/led and/or supported Flare investments in Cayaba Care, EarlyBird Educations, Lumify Care, Somatus, Oshi Health, and Vincere Health. Supported various Strategic LP (including leading health plans and health systems) management initiatives.
            

    
    

    
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Flare Capital Partners

Partner

knownwell

Board Member

RightMove Health

Inbound Health

Oshi Health

Board Observer

Vincere Health

Nex Cubed

Investor Advisory Board Member

Cayaba Care

EarlyBird Education

Principal

- Acquired by BD]

Scanwell Health empowers health care consumers and companies through at-home medical testing with instant results. Scanwell pairs proven diagnostics with patented computer vision technology to put testing into the hands of people, enabling quick detection of acute illnesses and convenient monitoring of chronic diseases. The company is the first and only to receive FDA 510(k) clearance for an over-the-counter diagnostic smartphone application.

It is backed by Y Combinator (Summer 2018 class), Founders Fund, DCM, Mayfield, Version One, and others. Served as a co-founder of Scanwell Health's predecessor, XcelDx.
            

    
    

    
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Scanwell Health

Advisor

CareAllies, a Cigna Company, is a population health management (PHM) and provider services company that delivers tech-enabled management services to help provider organizations thrive under value-based and risk-sharing contracts. In addition to its core provider management services (MSO) business line, CareAllies also provides home-based care delivery services (e.g., health risk assessment, chronic condition management, transition-of-care services, home-based palliative care) and health plan services to health payer clients and risk-bearing providers. CareAllies currently operates in 20+ states.

Part of Founding Team and helped launch CareAllies in 2016. Built and lead Product, Innovation & Partnership team that is responsible for developing new products/solutions, enhancing existing capabilities, and providing ongoing product management across CareAllies.

Example accomplishments (not exhaustive):
-  Led the creation of the Product team and implemented a phase-gate product development approach to ensure rigor, value creation, and scalability of new products.
-  Architected multi-year product development roadmap for portfolio of business lines including MSO, home-based care delivery, and health plan service business lines.
-  Achieved operational and financial turnaround of multiple products/solutions (e.g., turnkey Medicare ACO solution) by evolving business/pricing models and revamping technology ecosystem (i.e., phased out homegrown technologies and replaced by best-in-class PHM vendor solutions).
-  Spearheaded various product/solution capability enhancement efforts (e.g., virtual health enablement, SDoH, Practice Management, Collaborative Care) and led identification of new technology solution partners to improve existing operations and financial results at the business line level.
-  Identified and sourced an anchor population health analytics (PHA) and population health management (PHM) vendor partner. Led a cross-functional team to evaluate 20+ PHA vendors.
            

    
    

    
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CareAllies

Senior Vice President of Product, Innovation & Partnership

Vice President, Innovation

Supported the launch of CareAllies, which will deliver the systems, capabilities and management services that providers need to be successful under a variety of value-based and risk-sharing models across the value-based reimbursement spectrum. CareAllies will offer services to help ease providers’ administrative burden across payers and can even help providers launch and manage their own health plans.

Led a team that supports various internal strategic initiatives for the newly formed Strategic Operations organization at Cigna. Established new business case evaluation process to support Cigna's Annual Commercial Enterprise Portfolio Funding Process.
            

    
    

    
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Cigna

Director, Strategic Operations

Founded two startups (digital health & EdTech).

Ola Health App (2014 - 2017) is a "Mobile-First Private Healthcare Community Software-as-a-Service" (SaaS) platform (<a href="http://biz.olahealthapp.com/">http://biz.olahealthapp.com/</a>). It helps healthcare entities build their 'own' mobile patient communities and patient support groups in minutes. Used by provider practices (e.g. endocrinology, cosmetic/plastic surgery) and non-profit patient advocacy groups. The technology product is currently being used by other apps in the Education and Social Media sectors.

InstantVisors (2013 - 2014) is a "For-Profit Social Enterprise" Ed-Tech startup that strives to disrupt the one-on-one admissions consulting industry by offering a marketplace that connects applicants directly with non-professional advisers with institution specific insights. Technology and proprietary student matching algorithm are no longer in operations.

Incubated two additional startups (2013 - 2015).

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Served as an independent consultant (2014 - 2015) for a number of organizations. Clients included: Leading academic medical center, Fortune 500 Medical Device manufacturer, in vitro diagnostics company, and various venture-backed digital health startups.

Projects included: Investment target due-diligence, growth strategy, product strategy/development, business case development, space characterization, organization assessment, and fundraising strategy.
            

    
    

    
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Various

Entrepreneur/Founder + Independent Digital Health / Tech-Enabled Services Consultant

Led innovation projects with substantial revenue potential. Spearheaded primary and secondary research. Led team to carry out Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI) survey to identify user (clinician) needs and leverage Adaptive-Choice Based Conjoint Analysis to inform relative importance of product attributes/features. Led new product pricing analysis. Built Bass Diffusion model to estimate uptake of product and inform business case development. Left BD to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Retained as a part-time consultant to guide additional innovation projects in 1Q 2014.
            

    
    

    
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Strategic Innovation

Rejoined McKinsey at the Boston Office in summer of 2011 after completing MBA program at Harvard Business School. Managed and led consultants to serve healthcare clients on various sales and marketing, and merger management engagements. Affiliated with North America Marketing and Sales Practice, and specialized in B2B sales and pricing.

McKinsey & Company

Management Consultant

Evaluated private and public equity investment opportunities in clean-tech, automobile, medical device, and industrial sectors throughout Asia Pacific with emphasis on China. Assisted a portfolio company in the clean-tech sector on a turnaround project.

GE Capital

MBA Summer Private Equity Intern (GE Equity)

XcelDx is a mobile medical diagnostics startup founded by three HBS alumni. XcelDx provides a technology platform, which allows patients to carry out point-of-care urine and blood testings at home.

Core technology currently used by Petnostics (<a href="http://www.petnostics.com">www.petnostics.com</a>) and Scanwell, which is a YC, Founders Fund, and DCM funded startup.

XcelDx

Co-Founder

Based in McKinsey's Greater China Office. Focused primarily on growth strategy, corporate & business development, sales & marketing, pricing, and M&A due-diligence in healthcare and Tech sectors.

Business Analyst

Conducted research in the field of regenerative and tissue engineering at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

National Institutes of Health

Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP) Intern

Developed a highly sensitive, liposome based biosensor to detect bacillus aspergillus (an analog of anthrax). Completed honor thesis at the Bioanalytical Microsystems and Biosensors Laboratory.

Ian Chiang