healthcare and technology ecosystems in their own right, and we believe their deep networks will allow us to surface and win the best opportunities.
Health Assurance Acquisition Corp. is a recently incorporated blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. We have not selected any specific business combination target.
Our Operating, Investing, Advising, and Industry Experience
Our management team has extensive collective experience as investors in, advisors to, and executives and board members of healthcare and technology companies at various stages of their growth cycles, in both private and public markets. They have been long-term partners to healthcare technology businesses, successfully helping them build and execute on their strategies, invest for long-term growth, and drive value for stakeholders.
Our team’s combined experience spans vital parts of the healthcare ecosystem, including provider operations, virtual services, electronic health records and technology infrastructure. This background, coupled with their deep networks and long-standing relationships, will provide valuable access to the highest quality technology companies and will produce unique insights and opportunities for growth and value creation. They will contribute this expertise and experience, as well as the capital raised in our initial offering, to partner with the leading companies at the intersection of healthcare and technology to realize their collective goal.
Mr. Taneja has over twenty years of experience in identifying and partnering with extraordinary companies. Mr. Taneja investing thesis is rooted in a belief that technology is causing a paradigm shift in all industries, making it possible to efficiently and profitably offer highly personalized products and services to everyone in society. Mr. Taneja has brought this thesis to healthcare by co-founding four health-assurance technology companies, Livongo (NASDAQ: LVGO), Commure and two unannounced ventures. In addition, Mr. Taneja has backed category defining healthcare companies like Color, Gusto, Mindstrong and Ro. Mr. Taneja is also an investor in numerous other market-leading companies like Anduril, Gitlab, Grammarly, Samsara, Snap and Stripe.
Mr. Clark brings decades of executive-level technical leadership. Before joining General Catalyst, Mr. Clark was the CTO of Dropbox, helping develop its growth strategy and successfully taking them public. Mr. Clark was also CTO and CBO of SAP (NYSE: SAP), driving product strategy across the cloud platform. Mr. Clark spent twenty years of his career in various senior leadership roles at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), notably overseeing the design and delivery of data products such as Azure and Microsoft SQL Server. Mr. Clark now focuses on investing in enterprise SaaS and healthcare and oversees the ecosystem activity General Catalyst engages in to further its health assurance federation. Mr. Clark sits on the boards of Commure, Kernel, ThoughtSpot, Coda, and Minio.
Mr. Tullman and Dr. Schneider are the executive chairman and president, respectively, of Livongo a digital health pioneer committed to empowering people with chronic health conditions. Mr. Tullman is not only a visionary founder, but he also has extensive experience taking companies public, first at Enterprise Systems, where he was CEO, and then at Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX). Mr. Tullman is driven by the thesis that it is possible to successfully bring consumer innovations from all sectors into healthcare as he did with Livongo. Dr. Schneider has been responsible for product, data science, engineering, marketing, and clinical operations at Livongo, building those operations to a point they are now considered industry-leading. Having previously also served as the Castlight’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Schneider brings a critical lens to assessing products given her unique technology and clinical background. Both Mr. Tullman and Dr. Schneider have invaluable industry and operational experience, standing at the helm of an unprecedented health assurance success story, and bring a passion for reimagining and redesigning care experiences.
Ms. Pramoda is the CEO of Owned Outcomes, Inc., a health analytics software company helping customers engage with physicians, support patients, and win at bundled payments. Ms. Pramoda brings a unique health data perspective, having served as both CFO of Epic Systems Corporation and a board member of Allscripts. Through these experiences, Ms. Pramoda developed a deep commitment to democratizing consumer access to their own health information. Ms. Pramoda has impressive financial acumen, having also served as chairperson / board director of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, allowing her to assess the value of health assurance businesses deeply. Ms. Pramoda is currently a board member to several companies, including Health Catalyst, Inc. and GoHealth, two companies at the intersection of technology and healthcare.
Uniquely, our team has worked together for several years despite coming from different organizations, allowing the team to work in total alignment to identify exceptional opportunities. Mr. Taneja and Mr. Tullman both served on the board of Humedica, founded