Meet Vibrent’s
leadership team

Praduman Jain

Chief Executive Officer

Praduman Jain, known to colleagues as “PJ,” is CEO and Founder of Vibrent Health and the Principal Investigator of the Participant Technology Systems Center of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program. Under Jain’s leadership, the NIH awarded Vibrent $75 million in 2017 and an additional award in 2020, with initial first-year funding of $39 million, to build and manage a national platform for health research for one million people across the U.S. over the program’s expected span of 10 or more years. In 2020, Vibrent received more than $4 million in funds from NIH to build next-generation technology for COVID-19 screening, testing and contact tracing. Jain is also the Chair of the Security Board of the Committee on Access, Privacy & Security for the NIH All of Us Research Program; a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health; an invited external expert for eMERGE & Beyond, The Future of Electronic Medical Records and Genomics program of the Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute; and an external advisory board member for iTHRIVE – a Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Award. Prior to founding Vibrent, Jain held various senior leadership roles at Sprint, Nextel, AOL, Time Warner, and VTech and launched emerging products and services with revenues of more than $2 billion. He earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering, holds several patents and has authored several research publications.

Dave Klein

Chief Product Officer

Dave focuses on products that sit at the intersection of technology, science and health. He leads a diverse set of functions including product management, data analytics, user experience design, user research, science communications and digital health programs. He is also a Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative/All of Us Research Program, focusing on product innovation and product management. Prior to coming to Vibrent Health, Dave led the development of products that improve the lives of individuals and families at large companies such as Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Sprint, Time Warner Cable and innovative technology startups. He has a track record of being a thought leader and product innovator including bringing the first ever mobile video chat to market through a major US carrier (Sprint HTC Evo smartphone) and leading the first global consumer voice-over-IP product. Dave passionately believes in the power of technology to help people take control of their own health.

Neeta Jain

Chief Technology Officer

Since joining the company in 2012, Neeta has spearheaded research and development efforts and helped Vibrent achieve critical certifications like FISMA, ISO 13485, ISO 9001 and SSAE 16. In addition, she has contributed to the company’s rapid domestic and international expansion, helping to grow Vibrent’s workforce by five times its original size in her first five years as CTO. She is also a Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative/All of Us Research Program. Jain’s work was foundational in the creation of the Vibrent Research Platform, Vibrent’s premiere Software as a Service platform used by researchers, medical device companies, body sensor companies, payers and government customers for diagnostics, wellness, home care, disease management, mobile surveys, self-management, medication adherence and surveillance for all of Vibrent’s customizable health programs. Using the VRP, mobile platforms and intelligent applications, Vibrent helps transform perceived obstacles into achievable goals to drive innovation in health care. The VRP, which enables longitudinal data collection, engagement and insights, was selected by the National Institutes of Health as the participant-facing technology platform for the Precision Medicine Initiative/All of Us Research Program. The program, unprecedented in scope, aims to engage one million people across the U.S. over 10 or more years to accelerate discoveries and advance precision medicine. Vibrent is helping translate participants’ behavioral, lifestyle, environmental and genomics data into actionable insights for individuals and populations. Prior to joining Vibrent, Neeta architected large and mission-critical systems at the Internal Revenue Service and Honeywell, applying her expertise in dot.net, Java and Web development. Her passion for precision medicine combined with her desire to make a difference in public health led her to Vibrent. Neeta is a member of Mindshare, an organization of C-suite executives from high tech emerging growth companies supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. An advocate for STEM education, Neeta helped launch a nonprofit called FIDA to help underprivileged children attend college in India and is passionate about advancing women in the technology field.

Jason Cao

Chief Architect

Jason graduated from university of Maryland with a master degree in computer science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence. With many publications and patents under his name, Jason is well-versed in many of the latest IT technologies and considers himself a life-long student of technology more than anything else. Before joining Vibrent Health, for more than 15 years, he has designed, architected and implemented various software applications and systems ranging from state-of-art bio defense system for fortune 100 company to gaming application for startups with less than 10 employees. After joining Vibrent Health as the chief architect, Jason architected and designed the latest Vibrent’s Software as a Service (SaaS) Learning Health System which powers numerous fully customized health programs that study health contexts and disseminate advocacy, behavior, and clinical programs including the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI)

Vaishali Gandhi

Vice President HR, Finance and Operations

Leading 3 verticals - HR, Finance and Operations at the Pune office, Vaishali has an experience of more than 26 years in the field of management. Prior to joining Vibrent, Vaishali has played a key role in planning and developing systems at health care centers and hospitals for financial and resource management. With her vast experience of people management, she is a team player and achieves time bound objectives with ease. Her ability to motivate others; coupled with the ease to communicate comfortably at all levels, ensures a good working environment. She effectively manages the ever-changing team dynamics at Vibrent. She has contributed to the company’s expansion, helping to grow Vibrent’s workforce by creating a culture of engagement and recognition for our team and providing strategic planning and guidance for effective hiring and retaining the best available talent. Effective coordination with vendors, contractors and stake holders has led to good strategic financial planning at Vibrent.

Anand Rathi

Director, Product

Anand has more than 14 years of experience in product development, customer delivery management, project management and business analysis. He has extensive expertise in building SaaS based Enterprise products for B2C and B2B markets. He has also worked with some of largest class 3 medical devices clients such as Medtronic, Roche and Cyberonics and managed end-to-end delivery of web and mobile application solutions (both native and hybrid). He has also successfully lead software verification teams in delivering high quality class 3 medical devices solutions and has in-depth understanding of DFMEA, a methodology that helps to recognize and evaluate potential systems, products or process failures. At present, Anand leads Product teams at Vibrent India and is an expert at market research, competitor analysis, product roadmapping and strategy and has an eye for insights and usage analytics. He is hands-on with running scrum ceremonies, identifying process optimization and ensuring regulatory and security compliance. Over the years, he has instituted several Agile and Project Management tools, processes and SOPs at Vibrent and is a certified Product Owner and a Scrum Master. Early in his career, Anand worked as a Product Developer working with BMC Software on Identity and Access Management solution for integrated client/server information systems distributed across heterogeneous platforms. Anand holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from University of Pune (India) and a Master of Business Administration from University of Exeter (UK) and his goal is to help augment health research in India by providing cutting edge digital health solutions.

Vishal Karnik

Vice President, Engineering

Vishal, with a master’s degree in computer science from Pune university, has more than 15 years of expertise in medical devices integration developing software solutions in the health industry. He is passionate about using sensors of all types from physiological personal health technology to environmental and passive sensing as a means to infer and improve the quality of life for everyone through solutions. He has led critical medical device integration projects for medical OEMs with FDA class-III grade medical devices. These integrations are done over technologies like USB, classic Bluetooth, BLE and WIFI. Holds distinction of working for technological and scientific advancements at organizations like ContinuaHealth Alliance. Vishal has led efforts in Vibrent to achieve critical certifications like ISO 13485-2016 and ISO 9001-2015. Vishal manages product development teams to create and drive Vibrent’s product roadmaps through a fast, agile and reliable delivery process. Vishal has also contributed to the company’s rapid expansion, helping to grow Vibrent’s workforce many folds since his association with Vibrent.