PAVmed Digital Health Subsidiary Veris Health Appoints Sunny Webb as Chief Technology Officer
PAVmed Inc., a highly differentiated, multi-product, commercial-stage medical technology company, and its digital health subsidiary Veris Health announced the appointment of Silicon Valley technology executive Sunny Webb as Veris’ Chief Technology Officer and PAVmed’s VP, Data & Analytics.
“I am very pleased to welcome Sunny Webb to the PAVmed and Veris team,” said Lishan Aklog M.D., PAVmed’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Veris’ Executive Chairman. “Ms. Webb is a Silicon Valley veteran and Stanford Graduate School of Business alum who brings nearly two decades of experience successfully leading technology teams and launching dozens of enterprise-level software and hardware products. In her technology career she has collaborated with industry leaders such as Apple, Phillips Healthcare and Facebook to solve some of their most complex technology challenges. Ms. Webb has deep expertise in data science, analytics, machine learning, and advanced sensors—technologies central to the Veris device and platform. We are fortunate to have such a highly accomplished technology executive join the Veris program at this critical juncture, as the software development process with Loka is moving full-steam ahead, and as we leverage our important relationship with Microsoft.”
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“I am thrilled to join this remarkable team and look forward to utilizing my skills and experience to advance Veris’ mission to create an integrated digital healthcare platform for millions of cancer patients and their oncologists,” said Ms. Webb. “We have the far-reaching opportunity to improve cancer care by offering physiologic and clinical data-driven management tools and data analytics – including machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies – to patients, health care providers, payors, biotech companies, and other key stakeholders.”
Ms. Webb most recently served as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Hummingbird Search Partners, a boutique private equity firm focused on healthcare technology. Prior to that, she spent a decade at leading global professional services firm Accenture and its dedicated research and development arm, Accenture Labs. As Accenture’s Apple global product lead, she established the product strategy and vision and built the team and technology that enabled clients in complex technology stacks. As Senior Principal, Engineering and Product Lead at Accenture Labs, she led a team of more than 75 engineers to build and launch over 50 new enterprise products incorporating advanced sensors, machine learning, analytics, robotics, VR and other evolving technologies. She also oversaw $25 million to invest into innovation and product with nearly a dozen major clients, including Philips Healthcare, Facebook, Disney, The National Park Service, P&G and Shell, among others. Earlier in her career at Accenture she served as a data scientist, integrating data from hundreds of systems for contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense. Ms. Webb also previously served as Executive Director of The Accelerator at the University of Southern Mississippi, a technology incubator with contracts from Boeing, Rawlings and others, and founded SWD, a company which built full-stack analytics and web solutions for dozens of clients.
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Ms. Webb is an inventor with more than thirty patents in machine learning, analytics, three-dimensional rendering and other areas. She earned her undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems at Pennsylvania State University and her Masters from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she completed the Masters of Science in Management Program as a Sloan Fellow and served as Class President and Academic Chair. Ms. Webb has also served on the Computer Engineering Industry Board of California Polytechnic State University and as an Executive Sponsor of Girls Who Code.
Veris, a majority-owned subsidiary of PAVmed, acquired Oncodisc Inc., a digital health company with groundbreaking tools to improve personalized cancer care in May 2021. Veris is developing a remote cancer care platform that integrates an intelligent implantable vascular access port with physiologic sensing, software with symptom reporting and telehealth functions, and advanced data analytics. Veris’ groundbreaking vascular access port contains biologic sensors capable of generating continuous data on key physiologic parameters known to predict adverse outcomes in cancer patients undergoing treatment. Wireless communication to the patient’s smartphone and its cloud-based digital healthcare platform seek to deliver actionable real-time data to patients and physicians efficiently and effectively. Veris is targeting FDA 510(k) clearance of the intelligent implantable vascular access port and launch of the remote digital healthcare platform for H2-2022.
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