AI for Healthcare That Actually Works
How it started
Machinify was started 8 years ago with the vision of transforming healthcare administration at a time when the US has been plagued with wasting around $500B of health spend due to admin complexity, fraud & abuse, and pricing failures.
Our goal at Machinify is to enable all health plans to succeed during this era of healthcare and technological transformation. By using AI-powered software and flexible services, health plans can bring medical cost savings at scale, dramatically reduce administrative costs, and remove provider abrasion.
—Prasanna Ganesan, Founder & CEO
Leadership
Prasanna Ganesan
Prasanna founded Machinify in early 2016. He received his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford and then co-founded VUDU in 2005 (acq. by Walmart 2010). His pioneering work as CTO resulted in over 30 patents and him receiving the 2013 Home Entertainment Visionary award. Prasanna received the President of India Gold Medal for his academic accomplishments and also holds the distinction of being the #1 ranked student entering the Indian Institute of Technology.
Tony Miranz
Tony leads business development and market strategy at Machinify. Previously, Tony was COO at Poynt, a leading Silicon Valley Fintech company, cofounder and CEO at Vudu, acquired by Walmart, VP of Sales and Operations at the pioneering mobile internet startup Phone.com (Nasdaq: PHCM). Tony received a BS and MS in EE from the University of Illinois and Illinois Institute of Technology, respectively. Tony holds 25 technology patents, granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Edward Lichty
After leading corporate development at TiVo for many years, Edward joined Prasanna and Tony at VUDU, where he served as VP of business development, COO. Edward led the sale of VUDU to Walmart in 2010 and then ran the company as an independent subsidiary. Most recently he led strategy and partnerships at Medium, helping to take the company from early beta to one of the most important publishing platforms on the Internet.
Tim Wetherill
Tim trained as a General/trauma surgeon at the University of Kansas. He worked as a general surgeon in both private practice and the VA before transitioning to BCBS Montana and HCSC where he led major transformations around utilization management, payment integrity and pharmacy. He was also Chair of the Medical Policy Committee and the creator of the Vendor Clinical Validation Committee.
Vijay Bharadwaj
Vijay oversees the development of new products to make better decisions using healthcare data. He brings a 15-year track record of successfully applying Data Science and AI/ML methodologies to various business problems. Most recently, Vijay led the development and improvement of the AI algorithms that power Netflix’s best-in-class content recommendation system and the optimal allocation of their multi-billion dollar marketing budget.
Yvonne Chang Hobby
Yvonne serves as Machinify's Chief Customer Officer, bringing over 25+ years of experience across healthcare, both at payers and vendors. She held multiple senior leadership positions at UnitedHealth Group - both at UnitedHealthcare and Optum. Before joining UnitedHealth, Yvonne was a Vice President at Cotiviti, a leader in payment integrity solutions, starting when it was iHealth Technologies. Yvonne's career began at Accenture, where she spent a decade in their Health and Life Sciences practice.
Vikas Aligh
Vikas leads sales at Machinify. He is a highly accomplished sales leader with a 20-year track record of building high performing teams across both start-ups and large publicly traded companies. Prior to Machinify Vikas was the VP of Enterprise Sales at Automation Anywhere, a leader in enterprise automation software. Vikas has previously held multiple sales leadership positions including companies like TCS, CoForge, Sutherland and Citi Global Services, where he developed a sharp focus on value driven enterprise sales.
David Levinger
As, Chief Information Officer, David leads the DevOps organization, including IT, IS, Security and Compliance. He brings a strong expertise in cloud transformations, big data and distributed computing, and 20+ years of experience running Operations teams within startups and public companies. He designed and managed secure and scalable infrastructures at Epiphany (acq), Guidewire Software (IPO) and Paxata (acq). David received his BS in Cloud and Systems Administration.
Victoria Bubien
Victoria leads Machinify’s People strategy including Recruiting, Talent Management, Compensation, Culture and more. She brings 15+ years of experience in strategic people roles, with a focus on early tech start-ups going through rapid growth. Before joining Machinify she built and scaled the People & Talent function at Augmedix and Crunchbase. Victoria holds a Masters Degree in Psychology from Universidad de Buenos Aires.