Ron Gutman

Ron Gutman is an inventor, a serial healthcare and technology entrepreneur, a philanthropist and a Stanford University adjunct professor. Gutman has built and invested in companies that have served hundreds of millions of people worldwide and saved tens of thousands of lives, and holds a series of patents pending in healthcare technology and artificial intelligence. Gutman currently leads Intrivo, a global health technology company known for its award-winning On/Go test-to-treat solutions and On/Go ForGood, a charitable foundation that supports those in most need, particularly groups who may not have sufficient access to healthcare services or well-being support, and children.

Founder and former CEO of HealthTap, Gutman was responsible for the company's innovation, vision and product. Before this, he was founder and CEO of Wellsphere, an online consumer health company that developed the world's largest community of independent health writers; it was acquired in early 2009.

As a graduate student at Stanford, Gutman organized and led a multidisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students from the schools of Engineering, Medicine, Business, Psychology and Law to conduct research in personalized health and to design ways to help people live healthier, happier lives. He is an angel investor and advisor to health and technology companies such as Rock Health (the first Interactive Health Incubator) and Harvard Medical School's SMArt Initiative ("Substitutable Medical Apps, reusable technologies"). He's the organizer of TEDxSiliconValley.