Bio

Heather Leigh Flannery is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Equideum Health, a spin-off from ConsenSys AG effective March 2nd, 2020 focusing at the intersection of federated AI, advanced privacy technology, and blockchain / web3. ConsenSys Health rebranded to Equideum Health on January 18th, 2022. Equideum Health is a Microsoft and ConsenSys partner and a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company. Heather is a member of the Board of Directors of the Equideum Foundation, Vice Chair of the IEEE SA Open P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain and AI convergence in healthcare and life sciences), served as FY19 and FY20 Co-Chair and FY21 Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, Chairs the Healthcare Interest Group at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Business Angels Forum (WBAF) USA Country Office. Ms. Flannery is an active consultant, advisor, and keynote speaker. Prior to ConsenSys, she founded and led Obesity Prevention, Policy, and Management, Inc. (''Obesity PPM''), an innovative provider of disease management, population health, research administration, and information technology managed services for health systems in the Americas, and an early adopter of both blockchain technology and predictive analytics. Ms. Flannery has driven business model innovation via technology early adoption throughout her 28-year career as an entrepreneur, technologist, and strategist. She has consulted in the public sector in context of international development, bringing a global health perspective to her work. Focusing in the health sector since 2006, Ms. Flannery is a broad, lateral thinker who applies complex adaptive systems thinking to make progress against macroscopic challenges. Due to her personal life experience, Ms. Flannery is intrinsically motivated to impact population health and economic prosperity. She builds mission-driven organizations aligned by shared values: making measurable societal contributions, creating economically sustainable interventions, and prioritizing diversity and inclusion.