Zak Holdsworth

CEO & Co-Founder, Hint Health

Zak Holdsworth is a health tech entrepreneur and Hint Health co-founder. Hint Health is the leading tech company focused on the growth and success of the Direct Primary Care movement, a provider-led movement that is driving transformative improvements in cost, quality, and outcomes while improving patient and provider satisfaction.

Zak completed his MBA at Stanford University and has an Electrical Engineering undergraduate degree from Canterbury University in New Zealand. Zak loves kite surfing and adventure sports.

Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C. 

Executive Performance Strategist & Healer, Watson World Wide, LLC

Jennifer Watson, MPT, I.M.T.,C. is an integrative-wellness and leadership strategist, former D-I All-American track athlete, and TEDx/NBC speaker. As CEO of Watson World Wide, she draws on 25 + years in physical therapy, energetics, and transformational coaching to help executives shift from chaos to sustainable, high-performance “flow.” Jennifer also founded Run Your Race Global, a nonprofit accelerating purpose-driven leaders worldwide. She holds degrees in kinesiology and physical therapy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Beth Holmes 

Head of Hint Connect, Hint Health

Beth Holmes is the Head of Hint Connect at Hint Health. She has been working in healthcare for over 15 years, committed to improving the healthcare system through payment innovation. She earned her Masters in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2012. For several years she worked at regional and national insurers, leading teams that innovated in risk-based contracting and provider performance management and reporting, before joining Hint Health in 2019. Beth leads Hint Connect, a national network of over 600 independent DPC clinics that has brought innovative, person-centric primary care to thousands of people. Her mission is to bring Direct Primary Care to more employers and large purchasers. 

Dr. Brad Brown

Owner, Strive Direct Health

Medical Director, Hint Health

Brad Brown, DO is a family and emergency-medicine physician, serial entrepreneur, and former Division I basketball standout at Utah State University. While still a resident at St. Anthony North in Denver, he launched Strive Direct Health in Erie, Colorado, quickly expanding the DPC clinic into a multi-physician practice. He and his wife Dani later teamed with his brother to create AeroDPC, an all-in-one practice-management platform purpose-built for DPC clinics, which served as the backbone for what is now Hint Clinical today. In addition to operating a thriving DPC practice, he serves as Medical Director for Hint Health.

Alex George

Head of Marketing, Hint Health

Alex is the Head of Marketing at Hint Health, as well as the founder of Mountains Wave Marketing, a boutique marketing agency that supports the growth of DPC. Throughout his career, Alex has had the privilege of honing his skills as a storyteller, brand strategist, growth marketer, and customer advocate, with a focus on the end-user experience. In addition to helping orchestrate Hint Summit at RosettaFest, he’ll be sharing key growth strategies for DPC clinics in his session on Day 1 as well as at Growth Bootcamp.

Rushika Fernandopulle, MD

Family Physician, Founder, Instructor, 

Massachusetts General Hospital

Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, serves as the CEO of Liza Health, a startup building a new AI-enabled platform for Primary Care. He co-founded and led Iora Health, an early innovator in Primary Care redesign that Amazon acquired in 2023. Before that, he served as the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement and managed clinical initiatives at the Advisory Board Company as Managing Director.

Rushika teaches at Harvard Medical School and participates in the Schweitzer, Ashoka, Aspen, and Salzburg Global Fellowships; sits on the boards of the Asian American Foundation, Families USA, and Premera Blue Cross; and contributes to the Lancet Commission for Person Centered Care. 

Dani Brown

Head of Partnerships, Hint Health

Dani Brown is a passionate advocate for Direct Primary Care and a dynamic force in healthcare innovation. After earning her MBA from the University of Utah, she stepped into the software development world, focusing on project management while raising a young family and supporting her husband through medical school. Dani gained firsthand experience in DPC by launching a clinic from the ground up and co-founding the DPC-focused EMR startup AeroDPC. That journey led to the acquisition of AeroDPC by Hint Health, where she now serves as the Partnerships Lead, cultivating meaningful collaborations that enhance the tools and resources available to DPC clinicians nationwide. 

Alexa Torres

Founder, Care Identity

Alexa is an accomplished creative director, brand specialist, and the founder of Care Identity. Since 2009 she has created 190+ brands. In 2016 her focus shifted to healthcare–and she’s never looked back. Together with the Care Identity team, she has translated the visions of over 80 health entrepreneurs into magnetic brands that communicate their value, captivates the attention of ideal patients, and drives action.

Jocelyn Hsu

Head of Community, Hint Health

Jocelyn Hsu is the Head of Community at Hint Health. She joined the team earlier this year after building customer communities at companies like Udemy and Picsart. She's excited to collaborate with the community to advance the direct care movement and change how we do healthcare in the US. In her spare time, she explores new bakeries, walks her corgi, and leads The Community Community.

Ryne Bessmer

President, Strada Healthcare

Ryne Bessmer serves as President of Strada Healthcare, which he joined at its founding in 2016. Under his leadership, Strada has grown to provide direct primary care, onsite/near-site clinics, virtual care, and occupational health. He oversees Strada’s growth & sales, as well as its partnerships with benefits advisors, third-party administrators, and corporate health plans. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife, Julie, and their two children, Joel and Penelope.

Sabina Singh, MD

President & Chief Medical Officer, Anovia Health, SC

Sabina Singh, MD, President & Chief Medical Officer of Anovia Health, SC is a board certified Family Practice physician who has served with Bellin Health in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Kaiser Permanente in Washington, DC, and Raleigh Family Medicine. She has been the President of the Bellin Medical Group, President of the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians, and served on the Bellin Hospital board of directors. Sabina has been an advocate for innovation in medical care and has been a past participant in several Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) programs. Dr. Singh has undergraduate and medical degrees from the  niversity of Wisconsin-Madison and completed residency at the Wake Forest Bowman Grey School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC.

Kenneth Qiu, MD

Founder, EuDoc Direct Primary Care

Dr. Kenneth Qiu (pronounced Q like the Bond character) is a board certified family physician and the founder of EuDoc Direct Primary Care in Virginia. Dr. Qiu is dedicated to improving the health of individuals and their communities by providing quality, accessible, and responsive primary care. He is passionate about healthcare innovation and aims to contribute to building a functional healthcare system. He graduated magna cum laude and as a Monroe Scholar from the College of William and Mary. He received his medical degree from VCU School of Medicine (formerly Medical College of Virginia), where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and completed his family medicine residency at Riverside Regional Medical Center.

Travis Simmons, MD

Family Physician, DirectMed DPC

Dr. Travis Simmons is a Board Certified Family Physician with additional training in Functional Medicine and Integrative Medicine. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology from Texas A&M University (whoop!) and met his wife, Sarah. Dr. Simmons attended medical school in San Antonio at the UT Health Science Center. As a primary care doctor, his passion is helping people find the path to physical and mental health and wellness that works for each unique person. He pursued additional education in integrative medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and in functional medicine at the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is currently in the process of becoming certified through the North American Menopause Society as a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP). 

Mehul Agarwal 

Founder & CEO, Health Compiler

Mehul Agarwal is a healthtech innovator and entrepreneur with deep expertise in GTM strategy, healthcare analytics, and workflows. His journey spans founding multiple data-centric ventures, leading strategic initiatives in global tech firms, and now driving Health Compiler to help direct care practices and patients by automating insights, optimizing plan design, and making data actionable at the point of care.

Travis Bockenstedt

President & CXO, Company: Pinnacle Advanced Primary Care

Travis J. Bockenstedt is the President and Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of Pinnacle Advanced Primary Care, where he leads the company’s strategic growth while ensuring exceptional experiences for patients and clients. A passionate healthcare disruptor, Travis has spent the past six years focused on reforming the U.S. healthcare system, with a mission to restore primary care and family medicine as its foundation.

Vasanth Kainkaryam, MD

Founder & Physician, 4 Elements Direct Primary Care & Wellness Space

Dr. Vasanth “Dr. V” Kainkaryam, MD, MS, CPE is a triple-board-certified internist, pediatrician, and obesity-medicine specialist who founded 4 Elements Direct Primary Care & Wellness Space in South Windsor & Rocky Hill, Connecticut, in 2019. Cornell-, Northwestern-, and Rochester-trained, he delivers relationship-centered care that blends allopathic, lifestyle, precision, and functional medicine around his 4E philosophy—Engage, Educate, Empower, Encourage.

Steven Waldren, MD

Chief Medical Informatics Officer, American Academy of Family Physicians

Steven Waldren, MD, MS is a board-certified family physician and nationally recognized health-information-technology leader. As Vice President & Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the American Academy of Family Physicians, he has spearheaded initiatives that boosted electronic-health-record adoption among AAFP members from 10 % to more than 70 %, empowering practices to deliver higher-quality, data-driven care.