Ron Gutman is a well-known investor, inventor, adjunct professor at Stanford University, writer, and serial healthcare and technology entrepreneur. He is also the Health App founder and CEO, Co-founder and Co-COE at Intrivo, and the founder and CEO of WellSphere.
Education
Ron Gutman attended Stanford University, where he led a faculty and graduate students’ multidisciplinary group. He led them to research personalized health and how to promote health engagement among patients. Its success resulted in the creation of a well-being and health program called BeWell@Standford that has operated to date. Ron Gutman explains that this group included students and faculty members from different Stanford University departments.
Career
Ron Gutman founded WellSphere in 2006. This was an online consumer health organization that served over 100 million people thanks to its active health writers’ community. It was, however, acquired in early 2009. In 2018, he founded Healthapp and became the CEO until 2018. Ron Gutman explains that this healthcare technology platform has a network of over 100,000 experts in over 147 health specialties. It makes it easier for people to access trusted medical care and information.
The business expert explains that it also supports other healthcare providers, insurance companies, and major employers across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. He also oversaw the development of a non-profit organization called Healthapp for Good that gave people online free doctor virtual consultations. In 2019, Ron Gutman founded another non-profit community called Live Long and Flourish Club. It was for people seeking to research, discover, and scientifically validate effective medical solutions to promote longer, healthier lives.
In May 2020, he founded FestiHealth, an interactive platform that presents live wellness activities and knowledgeable and inspiring speakers. It also has a virtual presentation for health-tech solutions (Forbes).
After the war broke out in Ukraine, healthcare and business expert Ron Gutman wanted to do something to help. With his position at Intrivo, a health technology company dedicated to bringing health solutions to patients, he was able to ship COVID-19 tests to the country. Ron Gutman also went to the country to meet the doctors, staff, and hospital executives. This allowed him to provide them with software and computers to monitor outbreaks and train them on how to distribute and use the tests.