Experience Matters. Especially in Health Care.
Our team has years of experience helping leading health care organizations turn their raw data into improved clinical and operational outcomes, including Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Department of Defense, the National Cancer Institute, over 200 Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals, Johns Hopkins, University of Utah, over 60 community hospitals, Ariadne Labs, Optum, Senior Whole Health, Beacon Health Options, Neighborhood Health Plan, and more.
Our Leadership
Leonard D’Avolio, Ph.D. is the co-founder & CEO of Cyft and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He led informatics for the nation’s largest genomic medicine initiative and embedded the first clinical trial within an electronic medical record system for the Dept of Veterans Affairs. He founded Ariadne Labs’ informatics team, led strategic partnerships, and developed a system that has been used to improve 70,000+ childbirths in India. His work has been funded by several government and philanthropic agencies, he is an advisor to several philanthropies and startups, and speaks and writes on the topic of using data to improve healthcare.
Bob Tavares is the Chief Strategy Officer for Cyft, responsible for the product roadmap and business development strategy. Before joining Cyft, Bob was the VP of Business Development for Emmi (now Wolters Kluwer), overseeing the Care Management and Population Health markets. While VP eBusiness for UnitedHealthcare, Bob pioneered the role of Voice of the Consumer to systematically identify and resolve member experience defects. Bob has also held senior roles at analytics firm HealthShare Technology (now WebMD) and the healthcare arm of Forrester Research.
