Chief Technology Officer - Healthcare Startup

About Company :

Navya exists to use technology solutions to empower patients and provide them with hope and clarity when they are faced with the challenge of making complex medical decisions

Navya exists to use technology solutions to empower patients and provide them with hope and clarity when they are faced with the challenge of making complex medical decisions

Gitika and one of her closest kin's experiences led to the creation of Navya. In 2007, Gitika learned that one of her closest family members was confronted by a cancer diagnosis. Thereafter, Gitika's family quickly rounded up opinions from several oncologists in the world. They used email, phone, in-person meetings, favors from friends and family and even extended family and coworkers. They sat through hours of Internet research and finally settled on medical evidence and results of randomized clinical trials published Pubmed/MEDLINE. They asked several questions of their oncologists and tried to learn the language, the - medical speak,- to better able to communicate with them. They sat through nights of discussions to make a decision on Treatment 1 versus Treatment 2, and then Treatment 1(a) versus Treatment 1(b) versus Treatment 1(c), etc. There were multiple complex decision points throughout the period of care and every decision point was equally important to the outcome.

Gitika's relative showed them how important it was for the patient to be involved in his or her care. For instance, he made the decision to choose a protocol of care at a location foreign to him simply because his conversations over a conference call with the experts at three cancer centers revealed that that protocol might be percentage points better for a patient in his age group than the protocol practiced at his home base. Patient Preference matters, as the outcome ultimately revealed, and this soon became an important factor to consider when creating Navya.

This was not an easy process, even if it sounds so now. It was nerve wrecking, frightening, and confusing. The only approach to get through this ordeal was to try and get the best information, the best treatment option, the best recommendation by the best doctors, and leave the rest on God or fate. This is where Navya was born. Navya was born to do whatever is in our hands; being confronted with a complex diagnoses is not in our hands, undergoing the best treatment is. Navya seeks to deliver Clarity in Complexity by providing the patients and their family the best information for the best treatment decision for the patient. This is the crux of Navya

About Team:

Gitika Srivastava ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/gitika ):- Gitika graduated in computer science from Harvard University and has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has over fourteen years of experience as an entrepreneur and investor in early stage high tech and health care companies. Gitika was the CEO of Skyris Networks, which was acquired by Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Timberline Venture Partners. She holds patents in distributed networking, databases, and search technologies, and decision making. Gitika is a pre-career tutor for undergraduates at Harvard and an advisor to many start-up companies and young entrepreneurs. She is also a Partner at KAHM Capital - an early stage venture capital firm, investing globally in high tech and health care

Dr. Naresh Ramarajan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-naresh-ramarajan-93b22941):-

Naresh graduated from Harvard University and the Stanford School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles and is currently a Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care. Naresh has several peer reviewed publications and book chapters in global health and protocols for medical decision making. He helped design the curriculum as faculty at India's premier pre-hospital institute, EMRI (also known for #108) Hyderabad, India. Naresh was the recipient of the Rockerfeller Memorial Fellowship and is a certified dive master.

Navya is blessed to have the support of a large group of advisors and investors spanning medicine, academia, business, and industry. Navya's advisors are oncologists from expert academic institutions in India such as Tata Memorial Centre, and the United States such as Massachusetts General Hospital. Navya's investors have years of experience building companies serving large populations of people. Navya's team of analysts is committed to building information technology decision engines to provide expert treatment decisions to patients. Navya's team of customer service analysts are available on phone and email from 7am-11pm seven days a week and help each patient/caregiver navigate the complexity of decision making.

Products : Tech Based Healthcare company

URL: http://www.navyanetwork.com/

Inception : 2007

Location : Banglore

Headcount of Company : Overall Strength 15

- Rich techstack in MySQL, NoSQL, PHP, Java, object oriented and modular archtectures, nw mobile and UX technologies

- Experience in complete project management, and software product management. Recruiting and managing multiple teams of varying talents, in geographically dispersed locations.

- Ultimately, we are looking for a person who can deliver products on-time.

- Will be part of the senior management team to establish organization technical vision and lead all aspects of the establishment of technology center and play an integral role in realizing the organizations strategic vision

- This is a hands-on role where you'll be directly managing Developers in your team. We're looking for a leader of tomorrow who can win the technical respect of the team with their own accomplishments, work in an agile, fast-changing environment, and lead us to building great products

- Should ensure timely and on-budget completion of various technology pertinent requirements of the organization

- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms for delivery of organizations services

- Collaborate with R&D, Technology to identify evolving technology trends/ changes that may support or impede the success of organization

- Collaborate with Helpdesk, Technology to identify major customer concerns and suggest incremental improvements in the established technological systems

- Provide inputs to procurement and contracts team in the selection of outsourced vendors

- Ensure maintenance of the running applications and introduction of new applications/ IT infrastructure as per the market dynamics

- Provide requisite support to Customer Service, Technology to ensure resolution of technical problems in a timely and cost-effective manner

- Ensure resolution of hardware and system downtime related problems with