Formerly founder and CEO of Wellsphere, Ron became Chief Products and Innovation Officer at HealthCentral with the acquisition of Wellsphere in January 2009. A life-long entrepreneur, Ron has always had a strong passion to make people better off. After starting and growing several businesses in the wine and gourmet-food industries, he studied at Stanford University to learn more about technology, high impact entrepreneurship and health.
As a graduate student at Stanford, he was a leader of the Business Association of Stanford’s Engineering Students, and connected with great people throughout the University. He organized a multidisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty from the schools of Medicine, Engineering, Business, Law and Psychology to explore ways to make people healthier and happier. Initially focused on personalized medicine and its potential to significantly improve people’s lives, the group later expanded its research to health information and healthy living. The group spent months conducting extensive research, mostly from the living room of Ron’s home on University Avenue in Palo Alto and formulated a model that uses technology, information, and the power of communities to help millions of people improve their health and well-being. Thus Wellsphere was started, bearing a strong mission to help millions of people improve their health and well being by creating cutting edge web and mobile technologies.
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