Meet the Judges

Final Round Judges

Lalit Chordia, PhD
CEO
Thar Process, Inc.

Christopher A. Gessner, MBA, MHA
President
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital

Diane Hupp, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Vice President, Operations & Patient Care Services
Chief Nursing Officer
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Christine Kretz, MBA
Research Industry Leader
IBM Research

Joseph Marks, PhD
Executive Director, Center for Machine Learning and Health
Carnegie Mellon University

George V. Mazariegos, MD, FACS
Division Chief, Pediatric Transplantation
Jamie Lee Curtis Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
Hillman Center for Pedatric Transplantation
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Tami Minnier, MSN, RN, FACHE
Chief Quality Officer
UPMC

Guru Ramanathan, PhD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
GNC

Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA
Chief Innovation Officer
UPMC
Executive Vice President
UPMC Enterprises

Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP
Chief Medical Information Officer
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Visiting Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Thomas Tull
Founder and CEO
Tulco

Semi-Final Round Judges

Gaurav Arora, MD
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Associate Vice Chair of Pediatrics
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Tomer Borenstein, MS
Co-Founder and CTO
BlastPoint

Alexi Charalambides, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Lifeware Labs

Eshan Chordia
CEO
Nootry

Priyansh Chordia
COO
Nootry

Dave Conover
Chief Technologist
ANSYS, Inc.

Michael Corcoran, MBA
Corporate Environmental Manager
PPG

Michael Degnan
Head of Technology Innovation
PNC Bank

Joy Gero, PsyD
Manager, Patient Relations
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Matthew Miller, MBA
Senior Venture Partner
Healthcare, JumpStart

Don Morrison
Chairman of Deal Flow
BlueTree Allied Angels

Audrey Russo, MPA
President and CEO
Pittsburgh Technology Council, Fortyx80

Luke Sossi
Regional Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences Cloud Business
Microsoft

Jessica Trybus, MET
Founder and Chief Games Officer
Simcoach Games

Andrew Urbach, MD
Medical Director, Patient Experience and Development
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Alethea Wieland
Founder and President
Clinical Research Strategies

Courtney Williamson, PhD
CEO and Founder
AbiliLife

David Wolfson, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Children's Community Pediatrics
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Nigel Wright, MBA
Product Manager
Bombardier Transportation

JJ Xu, MBA
Founder and CEO
TalkMeUp

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