At-Home Diagnostics

David Stein is co-founder and chief executive officer of Ash Wellness, an end-to-end remote diagnostics platform enabling remote, personalized care through diagnostics. Prior to founding Ash, he worked in business and product development; business analysis; and technology integration for companies in the pharmaceutical, consulting, and workforce development industries. Mr. Stein earned his BBA in Finance from The George Washington University School of Business and is currently an MBA candidate at Johnson Cornell Tech. Ash Wellness was a Cornell Tech Startup Award 2020 winner.

Since 2017, Li Jiang has served as chief executive officer of VitaScan, a personal nutrition company that develops lab-quality point-of-care tests that analyze key nutrition markers from a drop of blood. VitaScan then combines this data with personalized advice to enable people to make informed health decisions. VitaScan’s first product, IronScan, provides early identification of iron deficiency, a health condition that affects one-third of women and children in the United States and over 2 billion people worldwide. Dr. Jiang received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and his B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mia Muschek is an MBA candidate at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management. Prior to pursuing her MBA, Ms. Muschek graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film and Television Production. She worked in the television industry for multiple networks, including Netflix and TNT, as well as with independent film companies before starting her own production company focused on pre-production budgeting and funding. Following this, Ms. Muschek shifted her focus from film to the financial education sector and worked at WealthFit, an online financial literacy education company with a mission to make financial literacy attainable and actionable for all.

Param Kulkarni is co-founder and chief executive officer of AwareHealth, an innovative community-based digital health platform that connects like-minded people to work on their mental health together as guided by licensed clinicians. He shepherded the company from inception to product-market fit, leading product, GTM, sales, and tech. As an expert in the digital health space, with a specialization in AI and behavioral health, Dr. Kulkarni has successfully built several digital health companies from the ground up. Previously, he built health tech products that spun out to startups in cancer tech and sleep tech, was responsible for planning and implementing digital strategy at one of the largest behavioral health providers in New York, and led a team of AI experts at a medical technology company. Dr. Kulkarni holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston and completed a postdoctoral position at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.