Meet The Team
Clay Williams
Founder & CEO
Clay Williams has a PhD in computer science, with a focus on computational immunology. He previously was a senior leader at IBM Watson Research. Prior to that, he was on the Clinical Information Services staff at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He oversees our technical strategy and serves as CEO.
Maria Ebling
CTO
Maria is the Chief Technology Officer for Medaptive Health. Prior to joining Medaptive, Maria was a Director at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Maria has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Michael Rogan
Co-Founder & Head of Patient Engagement
Michael leads our strategy to deliver technology that helps organizations use behavioral health approaches to maximize the engagement of users with their health. Michael has a PhD in behavioral neuroscience, as well as an MSW, and has led research at NYU and Columbia University Medical Center.
Jeremy Block
Co-Founder & Head of Research & Regulatory
Jeremy oversees our efforts to create new approaches to ensure patients and research participants are fully and properly informed regarding their care. Jeremy has a PhD and an MPP, both from Duke University. Prior to Medaptive, Jeremy was a professor and chair of the IRB at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and also served in the Bush, Obama, and Bloomberg administrations.
Eric Kroll
Co-Founder & Head of BD/Marketing
Eric runs our marketing and business development efforts. Prior, he worked at Amex and helped multiple startups including Stubhub, PayPal, and 2 others acquired by F500s. He’s a VC venture partner and on the board of a rare disease nonprofit. Eric was cum laude at Brown University and has a Stanford MBA.
Manisha Bhandar
Senior Software Engineer
Manisha is a Senior Software Engineer at Medaptive Health. Prior to joining Medaptive, Manisha was a Senior Architect at IBM and worked extensively on software architecture, design and development as well as systems performance and platform optimization. She has demonstrated project management as well as quality management competencies while leading development teams in many successful client engagements.