Advisors

Dr. Vaughn Keller
Prior to joining Cogito Health, Vaughn was the Director of the Health Behavior Laboratory at the University of Miami-Humana Health Services Research Center. He was also the Director of Clinical Behavior Change at Humana. Before coming to Humana Vaughn was the Associate Director of the Institute for Physician-Patient Communication. He has authored many articles which have appeared in peer reviewed journals and is the creator of the Star Model of Health Behavior Change.

Carl Marci, M.D.
Carl is the Director of Social Neuroscience at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, a staff psychiatrist, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is CEO and Chief Scientist at Innerscope Research. Carl received his M.A. in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and then completed his M.D. with honors at Harvard Medical School. He has won numerous awards for his research including the Livingston Award, the Kaplan Fellowship for Research, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award.

C. Lawrence Meador
Larry specializes in advanced information technologies and sensors to improve organizational effectiveness, cycle time, agility and security. He has held senior appointments in a number of organizations in the National Security Community. Meador’s graduate degrees in engineering and management are from MIT and he has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, MIT, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. He has lectured at Oxford University’s Center for Management Studies and the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne. He is a recipient of numerous awards within the US National Security Community.

Ken Morse
Ken is a serial entrepreneur, having played a key role in launching several high-tech start-ups, including 3Com Corporation, Aspen Technology, an expert systems company, and a biotech firm. Ken’s batting average is 0.833: five of his start-ups went public or were successfully merged; one was a complete disaster. As head of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center for many years, Ken was responsible for inspiring, training, and coaching new generations of entrepreneurs from all parts of MIT. Ken has been profiled and quoted in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, and Red Herring.

Wes Davis is a growth oriented leader that has led companies to #1 market position by implementing new strategies, changing culture and upgrading infrastructure to support rapid growth. Experienced in raising financing, building and mentoring strong management teams (over 20 managers became GM’s) and managing senior OEM relationships.

Dave Diamond ran the Boston office of Redleaf Group, an early stage Venture Capital firm with interests in internet, telecom, software, healthcare and security, and a large software development team with the DoD, bringing dozens of defense systems (visualization, EW/RSTA, C4I) to market introduction.

Dick Falcone has executive leadership experience having run multi-hundred and multi-billion dollar organizations. Also, have held senior leadership roles across virtually all business disciplines including Sales/Marketing, Finance, Strategic Planning, Operations/Customer Service, Product Management. IT. Worked principally in Telecom with some Software experience and recently explored Bio-Tech/Nano field.

Michael S. Foster, a graduate chemical engineer with an MBA in international finance retired from Rohm and Haas Company (acquired by Dow Chemical April 2009) as a Corporate Vice President and President of their $600 Million Circuit Board Technologies Electronic Materials Business in 2001. Subsequent to retirement, Mr. Foster has taught business and M&A strategy at Babson College and Bentley University; has been a mentor at MIT’s prestigious Venture Mentoring Service and serves on the board of several companies.

Alain Hanover has served as CEO for over 15 years at InCert and Viewlogic, as well as being an early stage investor or advisor in over 20 private companies. He also co-founded CommonAngels, Boston’s leading Angel Investor group. Most recently, he served as Managing Partner of Main Street Partners, a seed-stage, venture capital firm, where he helped launch five start-ups: IPVision, SemiDAQ, Bitpipe, ShieldIP and Saoirse.

Pam McNamara is a senior executive in healthcare information technology and medical technology businesses. She was most recently President of Cambridge Consultants, Inc., a leader in technology innovation, product design and development in medical technologies, wireless, consumer products, defense and security.