Team & Leadership

The team behind AugMend.

Built by people who have worked inside the problem — in clinical care, product development, AI research, and healthcare operations.

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Team

Founders, leadership and team.

Sacha Moreau
Sacha Moreau
Co-Founder
MIT

Product development, design, and environmental psychology.

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Thomas J. Schneider
Thomas J. Schneider
Co-Founder, CEO & General Counsel
DPhil, Oxford · Harvard Law. DLaws, Deakin

Business restructuring and healthcare operations.

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Aleksy Dojnow
Aleksy Dojnow
Co-Founder, CPO
MIT

Product development spanning VR, AI, and 3D systems.

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Alexandra Therond
Alexandra Therond
Co-Founder
PhD & PsyD, Université du Québec à Montréal

Clinical and experimental psychology with specialization in VR and digital health.

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Mark Ruchman, MD
Mark Ruchman, MD
VP Medical Affairs
Yale Medical School

Clinical validation and provider engagement.

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Raysha Hutchins
Raysha Hutchins
Director of Engineering
MPH, Harvard · MBA & MS, Illinois State

Data science, predictive modeling, and analytics engineering.

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Randy Maldonado, LCSW
Randy Maldonado, LCSW
Senior Therapist
MSW, Fordham University

Trauma-informed clinical care and bilingual therapy.

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Hyunseok Hwang
Hyunseok Hwang
Senior Developer
Stanford

Human-computer interaction and product engineering.

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Chanapa "Gift" Kerdlapee
Chanapa "Gift" Kerdlapee
Senior Technical Artist
BFA, SCAD

Immersive 3D environments and VR art direction.

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Lucas De Paula Mari
Lucas De Paula Mari
Senior DevOps
UNESP

Platform engineering and cloud infrastructure.

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Advisory Boards

Medical Advisory Board

Clinical researchers, physicians, and scientists advising on protocol design, evidence standards, and clinical safety.

Michael Kritzer-Cheren, MD
Michael Kritzer-Cheren, MD
Neuropsychiatry, neuromodulation

Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Clinical expertise in neuropsychiatry and neuromodulation informing AugMend's clinical domain architecture.

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Min Lang, MD, PhD
Min Lang, MD, PhD
Neurosciences, XR, AI

Physician-researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Expertise spanning neurosciences, extended reality, and AI applications in clinical settings.

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Soo Jeong Youn, PhD
Soo Jeong Youn, PhD
Implementation science

Clinical psychologist and implementation scientist specializing in large-scale deployment of clinical innovations in real-world healthcare settings.

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Hilary Weingarden, PhD
Hilary Weingarden, PhD
Digital mental health

Assistant Director of the MGH Center for Digital Mental Health. Researches smartphone-based assessment and treatment for mental illness; serves on the APA Mental Health Tech Advisory Committee.

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Jeffrey Gold, PhD
Jeffrey Gold, PhD
Pediatric pain, VR therapeutics

Chief of Ambulatory Operations and Access at Keck Medicine of USC. Pioneer in pediatric pain research and VR therapeutics with decades of clinical and industry experience.

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Christopher Robinson, MD, PhD
Christopher Robinson, MD, PhD
Pain medicine, AI

Physician-scientist and Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Fellowship in interventional pain medicine from Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard). Expertise in regenerative medicine and outcome prediction.

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Mahnaz Maddah, PhD
Mahnaz Maddah, PhD
ML, clinical data modeling

Director of Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. HealthTech Innovation Mentor at MIT. Leads translational research in clinical AI/ML.

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Francesco Onorati, PhD
Francesco Onorati, PhD
Digital biomarkers, wearable AI

Director of Statistics at Takeda. Formerly at Empatica, contributing to the Embrace seizure-detection wearable. Research in digital biomarkers and machine learning for neurological monitoring.

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Risa Weisberg, PhD
Risa Weisberg, PhD
Anxiety, primary care, digital behavioral health

Clinical psychologist and health services researcher. Expert in implementing behavioral health interventions in primary care settings. Advises on clinical deployment and population reach.

Advisory Boards

Business Strategy Advisory Board

Operators, investors, and policy leaders advising on commercial growth, revenue cycle, and organizational strategy.

Christine Palermo, MD, MBA
Christine Palermo, MD, MBA
Revenue cycle management

Physician (MD, MBA, FACP, CPC) specializing in revenue cycle management and clinical documentation. Advises on AugMend's billing documentation and reimbursement strategy.

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Jessica Jackson, PhD
Jessica Jackson, PhD
Digital mental health policy, health equity

Vice President of Alliance Development at Mental Health America. Founder & CEO of Therapy Is For Everyone. Chairs the APA Mental Health Technology Advisory Committee. Advises on federal digital health policy and health equity.

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Roger Ferguson Jr., PhD, JD
Roger Ferguson Jr., PhD, JD
Institutional governance

Former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve and former CEO of TIAA. Board member at Alphabet and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Genevieve Paquette, MBA
Genevieve Paquette, MBA
Healthcare AI, digital health commercialization

Co-Founder & CEO of Vincer and MIT Startup Mentor. Former Chief Business Officer at Level Ex (founding team; acquired by Brainlab). Previously Senior Director of Global Marketing at WebMD. MBA from MIT Sloan.

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Jeff Herrmann
Jeff Herrmann
Technology investing

Angel investor with Launchpad Venture Group, the largest angel investing group in the Northeast. Focus on early-stage investments in health tech and life sciences.

Jorge Cortell
Jorge Cortell
Biomed/MedTech VC

Former Senior Advisor for Health Care and Life Sciences at Harvard Innovation Labs. Serial entrepreneur (7 startups, 5 exits). Currently Executive Director at Technology Exchange and Collaboration Hub, Tokyo.

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Michael Madon
Michael Madon
Cybersecurity, financial intelligence

CEO & Co-Founder of Pretaa. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Treasury Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal.

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Leslie Hoyt, MSW
Leslie Hoyt, MSW
Healthcare operations, life sciences

Healthcare Operations Consultant at iSpecimen. Former COO at Naveris. Experience spanning healthcare startups including Olaris and ZappRx. MSW from Boston University.

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Nancy Santiago
Nancy Santiago
Healthcare administration, strategy

Healthcare administrator with extensive experience in health system strategy and clinical operations. Advises on enterprise deployment, health system partnerships, and administrative integration.

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