We Believe That Healthcare Should Be Preemptive

Why we started Preemptive

Let’s be honest: the healthcare system wasn’t designed to keep people healthy. It waits until you’re sick, then charges you for the fallout. It’s fragmented, rushed, and too often profits from illness instead of prevention. We believe that’s backwards.

We started Preemptive to flip the model — using cutting-edge technology and real human care to keep people well, not just patched up after things go wrong.

Our mission is simple:

To power the shift to preemptive health—and make it the most exceptional customer experience in all of healthcare.

Leadership

  • Jamien McCullum

    CEO, Co-Founder
    Seasoned digital health executive with a track record of successful exits including first HIPAA-secured SMS platform for physician groups

  • Matt Whitehill, PhD

    CTO, Co-Founder
    Univ. of Washington Computer Science PhD, on-device deep learning expert with focus on healthcare

  • Jorge Sanchez, MD

    Medical Director
    Former Medical Director Carbon Health, CMO Alertive Healthcare, Adjunct prof. Yale School of Medicine

  • Leon Gatys, PhD

    Co-Founder
    Founding member of Apple’s Health AI Team. Machine learning computational neuroscience PhD, invented Neural Style Transfer

  • David Maron, MD

    Medical Advisor
    Director of Preventative Cardiology at Stanford

  • Nirav Shah, MD

    Medical Advisor
    CEO and Founder of Alertive Health, acquired by Carbon Health; Board certified in neurology and stroke medicine

  • Kate McLean, MD

    Medical Advisor
    Board certified OBGYN, CMO Evvy, Clinical Dir. Ro, CMO Quilted Health

  • Meredith Mathews, MD

    Medical Advisor
    Chief Medical Officer Blue Shield of California (retired)

  • Benjamin Horne, MD

    Medical Advisor
    Director of Cardiovascular and Genetic Epidemiology Intermountain Health, adjunct prof. Stanford Univ. Medicine

  • George Ribaroff, MD

    Board Member
    Healthcare venture capital investor and former physician w/NHS

  • Jing MacKenzie, MD

    Medical Advisor
    Permanente Group Director, previously Aetna, Phillips Healthcare

  • Oren Etzioni, PhD

    Advisor
    Former CEO of Paul Allen Institute for AI in Seattle. Madrona Venture Group partner; Technical Director at AI2 Incubator

  • Shwetak Patel, PhD

    ML Advisor
    Head of A.I. health @ Google, on-device deep learning expert (McCarthur Genius Award), Principal Investigator Ubiquitous Comp Lab

  • Subbu Venkatraman, PhD

    ML Advisor
    Head of digital health research Samsung, CTO, Eko Health, Fitbit, Qualcomm

  • Anthony Watson

    Advisor
    20-year FDA regulatory affairs executive focused on software as medical device. Pear Therapeutics