Bio

Founder & CEO of Virta Health. Virta is an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Our innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science and digital tools combined with our clinical expertise are shifting the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal. (Peer-reviewed, published clinical trial results: https://www.virtahealth.com/research) Completed recently: Rowed across the Pacific Ocean, 2750 miles unsupported from California to Hawaii with my amazing wife Meredith. Broke a world record: www.FatChanceRow.org - LIKES: Creating positive disruptive change in business and personal performance through new technologies and hard work. - DOES: Advise, mentor, invest, start and build high growth companies doing the above. Especially companies focused on healthy living i.e. anything advancing human health and performance. - PAST: Trulia(co-founded), Microsoft, McKinsey&Company, Nokia, Matchem(co-founded), software development until 2000 - EDUCATION: Stanford MBA, Helsinki University of Technology Masters in Engineering from Dept of Technical Physics. Most recently studying Computer Science (on hold right now).