The New York offices of Kaia Health, a digital musculoskeletal care platform, has expanded its executive leadership team with five new additions.
The new additions have digital health and technology experience and include the following: Justin Yang, M.D. as chief medical officer, U.S. commercial; Gemma Wenstrom as chief operations officer; Cynthia “CJ” Mark as chief revenue officer; Manu Diwakar as chief financial officer; and Sanid Khilnani as vice president of product.
Dr. Yang’s expertise is in chronic disease prevention. He is a dual-board-certified physician and an assistant professor of medicine at Boston, Massachusetts-based Boston University. Dr. Yang has trained extensively at Boston, Massachusetts-based Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. According to the press release, in his new role Dr. Yang will focus on “building clinical care pathways and partnership strategies, articulating clinical outcomes data, and working on clinical trials.”
Wenstrom, a graduate of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard University, joins Kaia Health from Chicago, Illinois-based Veradigm, a division of Allscripts. At Veradigm, Wenstrom was head of growth operations where, per her LinkedIn profile, she “built and scaled all commercial operational functions.” Wenstrom will use that experience at Kaia Health where she will help to scale its operations and processes.
Mark is a digital healthcare executive with extensive experience driving growth and securing substantial deals. Most recently, she served as chief commercial officer at San Francisco, California-based Vida Health, a virtual care company. Prior to Vida Health, Mark spent nearly eight years in executive roles at Purchase, New York-based Teladoc Health, a telemedicine and virtual healthcare company. In her new role at Kaia Health, according to the press release, Mark will “drive strategy that is focused on bringing truly transformational solutions to the marketplace while maximizing growth and the company’s revenue goals.”
Diwakar, a graduate of Boston, Massachusetts-based Harvard Business School, is an experienced chief financial officer and chief operations officer. After graduating from business school, he joined Santa Monica, California-based Riot Games as an early employee. As business unit chief financial officer, Diwakar helped Riot Games grow revenue to over $1 billion per year. At Kaia Health, he will use his financial background to support the company’s financial goals.
After receiving his Master of Science degree in computer science from Raleigh, North Carolina-based North Carolina State University, Khilnani spent nearly eight years with Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corporation where he worked on Outlook and Skype. He has spent the past four years as vice president of product management at Palo Alto, California-based Airtime, a social networking application.
