Ron Gutman
Ron is HealthTap’s Founder and CEO. He’s responsible for the company’s innovation, vision, and product. Prior to founding HealthTap, Ron was the founder and CEO of Wellsphere, a leading online consumer health 2.0 company that developed the world’s largest community of independent health writers and became one of the largest health sites on the Internet, serving more than 100 million users to date (acquired in early 2009). Prior to creating Wellsphere, as a graduate student at Stanford University, Ron 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. Ron is also an angel investor and advisor to health and technology companies, Rock Health (The first Interactive Health Incubator), and Harvard Medical School’s SMArt Initiative (“Substitutable Medical Apps, reusable technologies”). He’s a frequent speaker in health and technology conferences (such as TED and Health 2.0), writes about technology, health and Smiling in leading publications (such as Forbes and the Huffington Post), and serves as the Curator of TEDxSilicon Valley.
Recent Milestones
Investments
| Company |
Date |
Round |
Size |
Participants |
| NextDigest | 6/11 | Venture Round | $390k | 6 |
Videos
Above:
TED 2011- The Hidden Power of Smiling
Added:
6/6/11
Sources
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NextDigest Raises $390K (finsmes.com)
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