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Giovanni Colella
Co-Founder & CEO
OODA Health
Giovanni is the CEO and co-founder of OODA Health. He also co-founded Castlight Health in 2008 with Todd Park and Bryan Roberts and served as CEO of the company until 2017. Before co-founding Castlight, Gio was founder, president, and CEO of RelayHealth (acquired by McKesson in 2006), a pioneering healthcare company that provides secure digital communications to connect doctors with their patients.
Gio has also served in senior roles at Sapient and SAI, and was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Before beginning his business career, Gio practiced medicine in Manhattan and is a board certified psychiatrist. He did his fellowship in public health at Columbia University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.