Lauren became the interim CEO of ilumivu after having served on the company’s Board of Directors since 2022 representing the Pisgah Fund. For the Pisgah Fund, Lauren serves as the Fund Manager, where she is primarily dedicated to identifying, investing in and supporting the growth of healthcare-focused companies in Western North Carolina. In addition to Ilumivu, Lauren serves on the board of Configo Health and is a board observer at Rx ReDefined, GoCheck Kids, and Wesper. She is also involved in healthcare IT/services investments for Hatteras Venture Partners and the WakeMed Innovation Venture Fund. Prior to joining Hatteras, Lauren spent six years in investment banking with Morgan Stanley in New York, where she served as a Vice President advising clients on mergers and acquisitions as well as public and private capital markets transactions. Lauren previously managed the Eastern Europe and Central Asia practice of DHInfrastructure, an economic and finance consulting firm specializing in advising the World Bank and other international financial institutions on infrastructure development.

Lauren holds a bachelor’s degree from Smith College and an MBA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Kat started ilumivu in 2009 with Mark to support families struggling with autism and look beyond behavioral interventions to discover what other tools could be helpful. Her work with wearable sensors and mobile tacking led to the development of the ilumivu platform to increase the wellbeing of children with autism. Specializing in parent-implemented approaches, there was a desire to empower parents to take the lead in their child’s development and make evidence-based interventions available to those with fewer resources. Her behavioral interventions are still used in Argentina and Poland.

Today, ilumivu has grown into the leading solution for ambulatory data capture and insight in the clinical research market under Kat’s leadership. To date, over 70 health systems and research universities have completed hundreds of different studies using the ilumivu platform. Kat continues to work individually with adults and leads soul-tending retreats and wilderness rites of passage in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Mark started ilumivu with Kat in 2009 with an equal passion to support families with children with autism and to create innovative technology to make their lives better. He went on to develop online platforms for researchers running clinical trials on autism intervention (the Early Start Denver Model at the M.I.N.D Institute), clinical psychologists providing online support to training programs for parents of children with complex needs (The Adult-Child Wellbeing Project, UK), and ultimately a platform to facilitate a multisite collaborative research projects.

Mark worked as an engineer and executive at Bell Labs Research, AT&T and Lucent Technologies for 15 years where he developed portions of the original Unix operating system kernel before starting ilumivu. He has also worked in two early-stage networking and internet security start-ups, one of which was acquired by Intel for $180M. Mark has worked in biomedical engineering where he developed algorithms for implantable devices and continues to collaborate with colleagues at MIT.

Mark has a B.S and M.S in computer science, 11 issued patents, and has studied music at Berklee College of Music. As an avid musician, Mark lives on top of a mountain where he creates both new algorithms and beautiful music.

Kate Rahimzadeh, RN is known for her strategic healthcare leadership that produces results. Kate is passionate about healthcare technology and uses creativity, especially in wearable technology, to improve patient engagement and outcomes. Kate has led healthcare teams in operations, investigative services, marketing, and clinical research. She was VP of Special Investigation Services, focusing on healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse and also has expertise in regulatory affairs, clinical trials, medical devices, and grant writing.

Currently Kate leads Cardiogram, a cardiac and migraine health monitoring tool that uses wearables with its app. The app has over 10 million downloads and is compatible with Apple iOS and Android smartphones, as well as Apple Watch, WearOS by Google, Fitbit, Garmin, and Samsung wearables.

Kate writes all the marketing content and has a talent for condensing difficult clinical concepts into easily understandable explanations. Her marketing efforts have increased Cardiogram's subscription base and user engagement numbers are exceptional. Kate leads with transparency and integrity. She fosters professionalism, accountability, compassion and creativity and helps team members discover their strengths. Her team is responsible, loyal, and extraordinarily productive. Every project she manages proves her commitment to creating healthcare technology solutions that empower users to take responsible actions to forward their own health.