About Us
Mila Health is an innovative healthcare company from Swan AI Studios.
Mila Health’s mission is to empower every individual to a better health outcome with personalized and trusted guidance. Our leadership combines deep clinical and technology delivery experience. Mila has been conceived and built by our clinical team, who are luminaries in behavioral science, outpatient, and inpatient practice. The team also has decades of experience in delivering consumer facing machine learning and software businesses which have scaled to millions of customers.
Team
Shailu Verma
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder
Shailu Verma is an accomplished healthcare and machine learning product leader and entrepreneur. He is the Chief Product Officer of Swan AI Studios. Prior to that, he was the Chief Product Officer of United Health Group’s Strategy and Innovation group—where he led mylevel2.com and launched several ML/AI services to reduce payer and provider burden. Shailu led product at Amazon Web Service computer vision, databases, and storage services, where he launched over 30+ services reaching millions of customers. Shailu was also the cofounder of Lanworth, a pioneer in using data and machine learning for financial risk management, which he scaled from inception to it acquisition by Thomson Reuters.
Jeff Kreamer, MD
Clinical Advisor, Co-founder
Dr. Jeff Kreamer is an experienced physician, health executive, entrepreneur, and Accountable Care Organization expert. He is a Partner at Swan AI Studios and the founder and Chairman of Best Practices Inpatient Care, Ltd, the largest private group in the largest ACO in the United States. His history of innovation includes multiple patents spanning many disease lines, and he is the founder of one of the first hospitalist programs in the United States.
Vasant Manohar, PhD
Chief Technology and Product Officer
Dr. Manohar is a seasoned technologist with deep expertise in artificial intelligence, hyper-scale cloud engineering, large-scale distributed data infrastructure, and health care product development. He served as Chief Data Officer for UnitedHealth Group and Chief Technology Officer at Optum Labs where he spearheaded machine learning platforms that have generated substantial business value. Prior to that Dr Manohar was at Amazon, where he led machine learning and computer vision products in the Amazon Rekognition portfolio. He also serves as a partner at Swan AI Studios.
Bharat Welingkar
Distinguished Fellow
Bharat Welingkar is an experienced consumer and health tech executive, entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor to early-stage companies. He is a partner at Swan AI Studios. Prior to Swan, Bharat led engineering efforts in Johnson and Johnson healthtech Studio, built Tradeshift platform offerings and helped Yahoo launch live streaming business with LiveNation. He also founded and successfully exited Nubo9 to Yahoo.
Eran Halperin
Chief AI Officer
Dr. Eran Halperin is a leader in machine learning for medicine and genomics, with decades of experience developing models widely adopted by both the research community and industry. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCLA and has held prominent leadership and advisory roles across academia and industry, including Senior Vice President of AI/ML at Optum AI, as well as with startups such as Navigenics, Genia Technologies, Ultima Genomics, and DNA Nexus. With over 170 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Halperin has received numerous honors, including the Krill Prize, Rothschild Fellowship, and election as a Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology.
Deepak Rao
President, Sales & Field Operations
Deepak Rao’s 35+ year career has been spent equally between large enterprise software companies and startups. He led large sales teams at Oracle and Microsoft as well as incubated new businesses at both. Most recently, he founded and ran a healthcare startup called DAMSR that leveraged sensors to observe patient flow to optimize throughput while improving patient satisfaction. Prior to that he was the COO at SOLOMO Technology that pioneered location based services for indoor and outdoor public spaces. His early career was spent as a software engineer at Consilium which was the pioneer for Manufacturing Execution Systems.
Roy Perlis, MD, MSc
Chief Physician
Dr. Perlis is a psychiatrist, Professor of Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a Clinical Partner at Swan AI Studios. Dr. Perlis has Co-founded multiple bioinformatics and biotechnology companies, including the first CRO to successfully deploy telehealth for remote monitoring in CNS clinical trials.
Ranju Das
Executive Chairman, Founder
Ranju stands out as a distinguished figure in healthcare and AI/ML industries. His illustrious career includes serving as CEO of Swan AI Studios, where he is driving significant advancements in AI technology. As CEO at OptumLabs, he led strategic initiatives that resulted in noteworthy operational efficiencies and cost reductions. His tenure as GM of Amazon AI Services was marked by remarkable growth and scaling of the company’s AI services. At Barnes and Noble, he was the Engineering Leader responsible for the successful development and launch of the Nook Tablet series, significantly impacting the market. Ranju also co-founded and led sCubes, Inc., demonstrating his entrepreneurial flair. His visionary leadership and strategic insight have been pivotal in fostering innovation and business growth across multiple industries.
Christopher Shirley
Board Advisor
Christopher Shirley is a results-driven C-suite executive with a strong track record of accelerating both organic and inorganic growth. He has led high-performing, cross-functional teams to drive significant value across the Healthcare, SaaS, and Insurtech industries. As COO of RevenueWell, he played a key role in expanding the company’s total addressable market, achieving record-breaking bookings and EBITDA growth. His leadership at MDLIVE contributed to its successful acquisition by Cigna, while at Health IQ, he managed rapid revenue growth and financial restructuring. With executive experience at OnTrak, Sentient Science, and GE, Christopher has led large-scale integrations, secured substantial capital, and optimized operations. As an advisor and board member, he continues to influence the future of Health Tech and SaaS innovation.
Kunal Joshi, MD, MBA
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Joshi is an experienced physician and health tech leader in the hospital medicine setting with a primary focus on treating and managing high acuity conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure, sepsis – just to name a few. His passions include using AI/ML to help achieve health equity and improve patient outcomes with the help of digital tools, remote monitoring and other innovative methods that focus on healthcare – not sickcare. His affiliations include Overlake Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente. He is a recent graduate from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
Bhanu Gupta, MD, MSc
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Gupta, an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist, is known and valued for his expertise in managing complex heart failure conditions, including artificial heart technologies (LVAD) and heart transplant. A distinguished leader, educator, and researcher, he is passionate about leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance patient care, streamline healthcare systems integration, and reduce health care disparities for patients. Previously, he served as Associate Professor and founding Program Director of the ACGME-accredited Transplant Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Kansas Health System. He also held faculty positions as Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and Jacksonville, FL, where he also trained for LVAD and Transplant Cardiology. Currently, Dr. Gupta is the Northwest System Director for Heart Failure at a premier Seattle healthcare system, driving integration and excellence in heart failure care.
Seth Feuerstein, MD
Dr. Feuerstein is a physician, serial healthcare founder and CEO, insurance executive and Board Member at Talk Space. He is a Clinical Partner at Swan AI Studios and Founder of Oui Therapeutics, Cobalt Therapeutics and Vita Health. Dr. Feuerstein focus on new care and reimbursement models in digital health has led to profitable and successful private and public exits.
Prince Shah, MD, FACP, FACG
Dr. Shah is a practicing gastroenterologist, entrepreneur, and clinical Partner at Swan AI Studios. Prior to Swan AI Studios, he served as Chief of Medicine at St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy. Dr. Shah has the unique distinction of having his oral presentation videos selected twice for Digestive Disease Week, the premier gastrointestinal meeting in the U.S.
Tanzeem Choudhury, PhD
Dr. Choudhury is an internationally acclaimed pioneer in mobile and wearable sensing, digital health, and machine learning. She is an Advisor to Swan AI Studios, Endowed Professor at Cornell Tech and Co-founder and CEO of Health Rhythms, a behavioral health monitoring platform. Dr. Choudhury is a recipient of MIT Technology Review TR35 award and two ACM Ubiquitous Computing 10-yr Impact Awards.
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Mila’s intelligent automation boosts provider efficiency and scales care delivery, enabling providers to focus on high-value care. By reducing administrative burdens, optimizing workflows, and improving patient adherence, Mila drives revenue growth and ensures the highest quality of care—all while lowering costs and improving outcomes.
