Our team.
Kelly Traver, MD CEO and Founder
Kelly Traver, MD is the founder of Healthiest You, a company which delivers unique, brain-based online health Programs. These highly personalized Programs interact with individuals according to the way the brain naturally operates. This interaction takes advantage of each individual’s unique underlying motivators to
maximize efficacy and allow each person to become more engaged and empowered in their health. Through Healthiest You, Dr. Traver also works with corporations and health care organizations to help develop optimal health care programs for their employees.
Chih-Po Wen, PhD Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Wen spent most of his career building products in early stage startups. He has more than 20 years of R&D experience with a proven track record on distributed computing and data-driven architecture. Before joining Healthiest You, Mr. Wen held technical and management positions in several technology companies, including Senior Systems Architect at Turn Inc., a contextual ad network with automatic targeting,
Architect at BDNA Corporation, an IT infrastructure company, Senior Engineering Manager at E.piphany, a CRM/data warehouse company and Technical Lead at Informix Inc (now part of IBM), a high-performance database company. Mr. Wen earned his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was also granted 2 U.S. patents on information technology.
Kevin Li Vice President, Product
Kevin has spent the past 12 years successfully developing and launching new products and services for such companies as eHarmony, EarthLink and Symantec. While at eHarmony, he helped launch a new subscription service and lead the team to iterate the product and marketing message to increase
conversion from less than 1% to 15%. He also helped build and launch a new community, user generated site growing monthly Unique Visitors from 285,000 to 1,600,000 in 8 months from launch. Most recently, he founded and launched MemoriesGrow.com.
Our advisors.
Steve Bodhaine
Mr. Bodhaine is Partner and co-Founder of Health EcoSystems, a research and database insights firm devoted to delivering a 360° portrait of the “patient as consumer” in key therapeutic areas. He has consulted with clients and conducted primary research for the past 20 years to develop consumer health and wellness strategy and tactics.
Mr. Bodhaine served as Group President and Director of the Global Health Practice for The Futures Company/Yankelovich, a research- based marketing consultancy, prior to launching Health EcoSystems. He worked closely with food, pharmaceutical, CPG, and insurance companies in the areas of product development, branding, communications and preventive health and wellness.
John R. Ellis
Mr. Ellis has over 30 years of experience in start-ups and research, in entrepreneurial, managerial and technical roles. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Ellis has built two successful businesses applying advanced technology to online marketing. In 2004, he co- founded Turn.com, an ad network providing high performance for advertisers via advanced automated targeting and optimization. In 1996, he co-founded Post Communications, the first email marketing company based on relationship marketing; Post was acquired in 2000 for $380 million. In both start-ups, Mr. Ellis led the definition and implementation of the products, building and leading the product and engineering teams.
William Leckonby
Over the past 25 years, Bill has lead 5 software companies, 4 of which were eventually acquired. From 2004 until 2010, he was CEO of GestureTek, propelling them to the world leadership position in gesture control software. An engineering graduate from Yale, with an MBA from Drexel, he started his technology career in data processing with IBM, then progressed through sales and marketing management, and into general management in various high technology companies. Bill is providing CEO consulting assistance to Healthiest You.
Sue Wuthrich
Ms. Wuthrich has over 20 years experience managing employee benefits in the high tech industry. As Google’s Director of Global Employee Benefits, she managed the strategic direction of a wide variety of benefit programs globally, including creating innovative medical plans designed specifically to focus on healthy behaviors as well as cost containment. Prior to Google, Ms. Wuthrich held leadership positions at Agilent Technologies, Loudcloud, Silicon Graphics and Apple Computer.
Debra Engel
Ms. Engel is currently a director and adviser to a number of organizations in Silicon Valley. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Entrepreneur’s Foundation, the Institute for the Future, the Valley Medical Foundation, the National Academy of Human Resources Foundation and the Board of Trustees for Facing History and Ourselves. Ms. Engel is on the advisory boards for nGenera and the Jacksonhole Group. She is also a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum and an emeritus member of the California Strategic Human Resource Partnership.
Ms. Engel was a member of the founding management team of 3Com, where she served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Services from 1983 until 1998. Ms. Engel holds a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Relations from Iowa State University. Recent honors include induction into the National Academy of Human Resources and into the Silicon Valley Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame.
Jean M. Halloran
Jean Halloran is senior vice president of Human Resources for Agilent Technologies. She has served as Agilent's senior vice president, Human Resources since August 1999. Halloran's responsibilities include directing Agilent's global policies and programs for leadership and talent development, compensation, benefits, staffing and workforce planning, human resources systems, education and organization development.
Halloran received her bachelor's degree in art history from Princeton University and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. In addition, she performed research in developmental psychology at Oxford University, in England. Halloran has also been a director of several schools and non-profit organizations, including Concord Academy, the Human Resources Policy Institute, Jobs for the Future, RAFT (Resource Area for Teachers) and Hoffman Institute.
Bob Johansen
Mr. Johansen has worked for more than 30 years as a forecaster, exploring the human side of new technologies. He has a deep interest in the future of religion and its impact on business, society and individuals. He has rich experience in presenting Institute for the Future’s (IFTF) foresight and served as IFTF’s President and CEO from 1996 to 2004.
He has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses and is the author of six books, including Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization with novelist Rob Swigart, a guide for organizations undergoing technological change and reengineering and GlobalWork with Mary O'Hara-Devereaux, a guide to managing global, cross-cultural teams.
Ellen Marram
Ms. Marram is currently the President of the Barnegat Group, LLC, a business advisory firm. Ms. Marram’s career and knowledge has covered private equity (Managing Director of North Castle Partners, LLC) to consumer packaged goods. She previously served as President and CEO of Tropicana Beverage Group as well as Executive Vice President of The Seagram Company Ltd.. Before joining Seagram, she served as President and CEO of Nabisco Biscuit Company and Senior Vice President of the Nabisco Foods Group. Other Directorships: The New York Times Company; Eli Lilly and Company.
Bradley Perkins, MD
Bradley A. Perkins currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Vanguard Health Systems. Prior to Vanguard, Mr. Perkins worked as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at the CDC, where he worked closely with CDC's Director to lead the first large-scale modernization of the CDC's strategic direction since 1977. Mr. Perkins has a long list of other accomplishments at the CDC, including successful U.S. and worldwide efforts to control bacterial meningitis and other epidemic prone infections diseases; founding/leading many of CDC's emergency response efforts over the last decade (including the CDC's 2001 anthrax bioterrorism response); and leading the CDC's efforts to broaden the U.S. health and health care reform debate across government, civil organizations and businesses.
Mr. Perkins holds a Bachelor of Arts in Microbiology and Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was an Intern and Resident Physician in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and served as Chief Medical Resident at the Houston Veteran Administration Medical Center. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, he also holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University.