Ian Eslick is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineer with a flair for tackling complex and large-scale problems. An MIT alumnus, he co-founded Silicon Spice, a company that pioneered carrier-grade long-distance voice over IP and sold to Broadcom for $1.2 billion. Ian's next venture was as co-founder and Head of Analytics at Compass Labs, a social media predictive analytics adtech company that raised $12 million from venture funding. His passion for healthcare and AI spurred him to develop a new scientific model for research that offered individualized therapies using crowdsourced self-experiments. Ian's PhD research resulted in his founding of Vital Labs, a company that applied a novel sensor technology and healthcare innovation to chronic disease care. His work at Vital Labs with True Ventures and angel investors impressed Cincinnati Children's Hospital and UCSF Medical Center, resulting in industry-leading outcomes in hypertension and chronic disease management.

Ian went on to become the Special Projects Manager at Amazon Web Services, where he co-invented Honeycode, a new no-code productivity computing platform. He currently serves as the SVP and Chief Architect at U.S. Bank, where he leads technology strategy for digital transformation and modernization while overseeing internal platform teams. Ian's expertise and innovation in healthcare technology and services have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Harvard Business Review, NPR, Scientific American, and Proto Magazine. He's also been a speaker at various healthcare technology events, including Mayo Transform, Stanford’s MedicineX, Health Datapalooza, Academy Health, Health 2.0, HxRefactored, O’Reilly’s HealthFoo, and the Quantified Self.