Long before Justin Fulcher became known for advising the Pentagon on technology adoption, he was a 21 year old entrepreneur trying to solve a basic problem: getting doctors to patients who had no reliable way to reach them in the first place.
That problem led to RingMD, a telemedicine platform Fulcher co-founded in 2013. The company launched into a region where mobile phones were everywhere but hospitals and clinics were often scarce or difficult to reach. Fulcher built the platform to work despite unreliable bandwidth and inconsistent infrastructure, conditions that would have derailed a less patient founder working on a shorter timeline.
A Founder’s Perspective on Access
“Healthcare is one of those things that affects everybody,” Fulcher told Charleston Digital Corridor in 2020. “Without the basic, fundamental healthcare access, it handicaps many parts of the world.” That sentiment guided RingMD’s expansion into multiple countries across Asia, where the company connected patients with physicians remotely at a time when telemedicine was still a novel concept for many health systems and regulators alike.
By 2017, Fulcher’s work had earned him a spot on Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30 list in the Healthcare and Science category, recognition that reflected how far the company had come from its early days as a small team testing an unproven model.
Life After Daily Operations
Justin Fulcher eventually stepped back from managing RingMD day to day, though he remains affiliated with the company as a board member and minority shareholder. Justin Fulcher holds no operational role there now, but the lessons from building a healthcare company across borders with different regulatory systems continued to shape his later work advising government agencies on modernization efforts far removed from his original industry and audience.
That later work took him to the Department of Defense in early 2025, where he joined as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense focused on acquisition reform. The move surprised few who had followed his earlier career closely, since Fulcher had spent years proving that patient, methodical system design could succeed even where infrastructure and regulation worked against it. Read this article for additional information.
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