Tapping into the Mind/Body Connection

As General Manager of Healthcare, Bhathena leads a team focused on developing Noom’s healthcare channel and condition expansion. Bhathena joins Noom from CVS Health, where he served as Chief Digital Officer and oversaw customer experience, customer engagement and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining CVS Health, Bhathena held the role of Chief Digital Officer at Aetna and spent many years founding and leading venture-backed software companies, including co-founding WebLine Communications, which was acquired by Cisco Systems, and founding Relicore, which was acquired by Symantec.

Amanda Rees is CEO and Co-Founder of Bold. She started the company with a mission to close the gap between healthspan and lifespan, by building products and experiences that can improve the way we age. Before Bold, Amanda worked in energy and environmental justice, managing the renewable energy portfolio at The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation. Prior to that, she was a Dalai Lama Fellow, and she has conducted research at Stanford, Princeton and UCLA. Amanda has a BSE in chemical & biological engineering from Princeton University. She has been a fitness instructor for over a decade, teaching dance, yoga, indoor cycling, and community tai chi for fall prevention.  

After 15 years in the financial services industry, at some of the most storied organizations (AIG and AIA), and in some of the most senior roles, Joel saw firsthand how the financial services world needed to change for the next generation. And with fintech being the next big thing in tech--but being entirely tech led, rather than financial services led and tech enabled--he left his big corporate gig, moved his family across the world to the SF Bay Area, and founded Paceline, the first-ever fitness rewards platform that adds financial benefit to your physical activity. Paceline was born from a very personal place. Joel’s corporate career was moving at break-neck pace; his family was growing (three kids in less than three years) and, like for so many people, his health and wellness fell by the wayside. When Joel finally got back to exercising, it was so clear: your health is your most valuable asset and the foundation for how everything else functions. So, why aren’t we rewarding people for pursuing their wellbeing and for living a healthier, better, and longer life?At Paceline our goal is to bring fitness and financial rewards together into one seamless ecosystem that works for you. There are already plenty of corporate wellness programs where large companies incentivize their employees to stay active and healthy, but those financial rewards ultimately stay with the company. We’ve made it our mission to finally align the worlds of fitness and financial services so that we can all see the direct benefit of this ecosystem. The more we move, the healthier we become, the more rewards we see directly in our pocket. Simple as that.

Dr. Jasik is a board-certified Clinical Informatics physician with experience in both the clinical management of diabetes along with creating digital health solutions for health behavior change.  At Omada Health she supports the clinical and research teams to create and test the next generation of diabetes and obesity programming via digital therapeutics.  Prior to joining Omada she worked at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where she directed the implementation of the Epic electronic health record, integrated digital health programming into clinical practice, and conducted clinical trials on health technology.  She completed her undergraduate degree in public policy at Princeton University, MD at the University of Chicago, and her research training at UCSF.  Dr. Jasik continues to practice primary care at UCSF where she is an Associate Professor of Medicine.