This morning decentralized clinical trial company Medable named Dr. MaryAnne Rizk as its new chief strategy officer. A trained engineer, Rizk has previously worked at Oracle, Medidata, Merck and IQVIA. 

Her main role at the Palo Alto, Calif.-startup will be expanding the company’s global strategic partnerships. 

“We’re excited to pursue a series of distinct and complementary partnerships across a network of service, technology, data and sites that further strengthen Medable impact to serve patients,” Rizk said in a statement. “The progress Medable has experienced to date has been remarkable, and we believe that thoughtful and strategic partnerships will empower more ways to advance clinical research. I’m thrilled to join Michelle and the Medable team, who are leading the way with true vision and innovation that can help move the industry forward faster.”

Just five months after closing a $43 million Series B funding round, remote care management platform Current Health is announcing two new hires. The first is Mark Kaufman who will be joining the company as its next chief technology officer. Shardul Mehta will serve as the company’s senior vice president of product. 

Before coming to Current Health, Kaufman led the engineering team at Amazon EMR’s data plane. He also held roles at NuoDB, HP, Iron Mountain and Exagrid systems. 

Mehta will be joining the team to oversee the product strategy and innovation initiatives. He previously worked at Amwell as vice president of Product Management. 

“It’s a critical moment for the healthcare industry as well as our organization as we work to rapidly expand the number of patients who can receive high-quality healthcare from the comfort of their home,” Chris McCann, CEO and co-Founder of Current Health, said in a statement. “I’m thrilled to have Mark and Shardul, and their expertise, at such an important time to ensure we can safely and reliably deliver the best possible patient experience in the home and support the demand we’re seeing for large-scale deployments of care-at-home programs.”

Home diagnostic company binx health has added two new board members: Elizabeth Mora and Naomi Kelman. Mora, who will serve as the chair of binx’s Audit Committee, previously served as the chief administration officer and chief financial officer of Draper Laboratory. Her resume also includes a stint as Harvard University’s chief financial officer and a senior manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. 

Kelman recently served as the president and CEO of Willow Innovations. She has also held positions at Novartis AG, Johnson & Johnson and Clairol. 

"As accomplished, visionary leaders, with a unique passion for healthcare innovation and care access, we are thrilled to welcome Beth and Naomi to our Board of Directors," Jeff Luber, CEO of binx health, said in a statement. "As the 'front door' of healthcare rapidly moves to decentralized locations and into the home, Beth's and Naomi's diverse backgrounds and wealth of expertise at the nexus of technology, healthcare, laboratory services, and consumer health, are ideally suited to advance our 'everywhere care' mission."

Mandana Varahrami will join CipherHealth as the company’s next chief product officer. She comes from her role as chief product officer at RapidDeploy. She previously held roles at Babylon Health and Optum Insights. 

"Mandana's rich and varied experience in healthcare technology, as well as her ability to drive cutting-edge innovation, make her the ideal person to lead our product team into the future,"  CipherHealth CEO Jake Pyles, said in a statement. "Having just recently announced our next-generation patient engagement platform, this is the perfect time for Mandana to bring her field-tested leadership and strategy expertise to bear and help us accelerate growth and chart the future of patient engagement."

Medication tracking company Kit Check named Vijay Venkatesh as its next chief technology officer. Venkatesh previously served as CTO for MakeSpace, Emissary, Amplify and Pearson Education. 

“We are excited to welcome Vijay to our team as an experienced technology leader with an impressive track record in building and scaling high-velocity technology teams,” Kevin MacDonald, co-founder & CEO of Kit Check, said in a statement. “Vijay will use his technical acumen and product and business strategy experience to enhance Kit Check’s products and its ability to reach more hospitals around the country.”