E419 Gary Velasquez, Chief Executive Officer at Cogitativo

Today's guest is Gary Velasquez, Chief Executive Officer at Cogitativo in Berkeley, CA. Spanish for meditative and contemplating, Cogitativo was founded in 2015 with the purpose of thinking deeply about the issues affecting the healthcare system. It is their mission to improve the healthcare system by helping their clients make sense of complex data so they can answer their most challenging questions.

Using a challenge-based learning approach, Cogitativo's data scientists connect their client’s disparate, noisy data and then develop customized solutions that allow clients to look deeply into their business. Just as an MRI is able to see what is happening inside the human body, their ‘data science as a service’ model quickly visualizes their client’s business enabling them to solve their most intractable problems.

In the episode, Gary will discuss:

The interesting work he does with Cogitativo,

The journey of building the company from the ground up,

Current make-up of the team,

Upcoming projects and milestones they are working towards, and

What the future holds for Cogitativo