Team
Meet the team behind Invaryant
A little bit about us
We’re engineers, patients, mathematicians, health nuts, doctors, programmers, and creatives coming together to do something about a broken healthcare industry. We’re champions for personalized care plans, consumer-driven healthcare, freedom over our providers, and total ownership of our health.
Our Passion Projects:
Maternal Health
Our team’s efforts focus on improving women’s access to health tools, nutrition, better healthcare, education, and social services.
Healthy Generations
Being and raising the world’s healthiest generations starts with a lifelong health record, full family histories, and new genomics data.
Medical Errors
To end preventable medical errors, we’re equipping patients and doctors with the right health data when and where they need it.
Ramon Dempers
Founder & CEO
Nancy Hamlet
Marketing Consultant
Dr. Steve Eisenberg
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Eisenberg trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and completed his fellowship in cardiology at Emory University Hospital. He has since served as the Chief of Cardiology at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, founded The Atlanta Heart and Vascular Research Group, served as a clinical trial principal investigator, and opened his private practice, Complete Cardiology. Dr. Eisenberg currently serves on the Heart and Vascular Institute Board of Trustees and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Shawn Tolan
Chief Growth Officer
Shawn has spent 25 years in healthcare technology, holding leadership positions with Medex, B.Braun and Smiths Medical. His passion has always been to improve the care and safety of patients. Shawn entered executive search in 2009, with the goal of partnering with early-stage, promising companies whose healthcare-technology solutions have a positive and meaningful impact on patients’ lives.
Shawn received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, NC, where he met his wife Shari, a devoted educator. They have a son and a daughter and 3 beautiful grandsons. Shawn and his entire family have been residents of Cherokee County, GA since 1994.
Sarah McGaughey
Quality Director
Josiah Williams
Software Tester
Pursuing a Software Development degree at Georgia Gwinnett College, Josiah is the newest edition to the Invaryant team. As a member of the Quality team, he helps test the Invaryant software. He enjoys hiking with friends and family and is an avid gamer during his downtime.
Bethany Talmadge
Project Director Clinical Operations
Sam Gibson
Technical Design Manager
Sam is a skilled technical designer and writer who graduated from Southern Polytechnic State University and gained experience at Honeywell. She wears many hats, managing the functional design and documentation of the software and maintaining the Invaryant website with her creative flourish. In her occasional free moment, Sam enjoys crafting, baking, and spending time outside with her partner in crime (i.e., husband).
Advisory Board
Dr. Steve Eisenberg
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Eisenberg trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and completed his fellowship in cardiology at Emory University Hospital. He has since served as the Chief of Cardiology at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, founded The Atlanta Heart and Vascular Research Group, served as a clinical trial principal investigator, and opened his private practice, Complete Cardiology. Dr. Eisenberg currently serves on the Heart and Vascular Institute Board of Trustees and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Kelly Wilburn
Pediatrician
Dr. Kelly Wilburn is a board certified pediatrician who has practiced in the Atlanta area since 2004. She received her undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Georgia, and then completed medical school and a residency in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Wilburn is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the Academy’s Subcommittee on Adoption and Foster Care. Her special interests include adoption medicine and international health, adolescent medicine, and preventative health care.
Linnette Sells
E.R. Physician
Dr. Sells has been practicing medicine in Atlanta since 1992, while also serving as an Olympic and Paralympic physician. Dr. Sells is board certified in Family Medicine and Sports Medicine, and is presently working as a team physician with Georgia Institute of Technology. She has served in the USAF as Chief of the Emergency Department at MacDill AFB and Homestead AFB during Desert Storm, has taught at several medical schools, and enjoys being a preceptor for students and residents in her practice.
Ophir Frieder
Chief Scientific Officer
Ophir Frieder is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a Member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was awarded the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Research in Information Science Award for medical informatics and the IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for scalable information systems. Heavily involved with industrial efforts, he is a member of the biostatistics, bioinformatics and biomathematics faculty in the Georgetown University Medical Center and the computer science faculty at Georgetown University.
Chris Kellogg
Advisor
Chris Kellogg is Sr. Partner of Wallingford Partners LLC (WP), the successor firm to a company he founded in 1985, Wallingford Capital Corp. WP/WCC has completed the sale of 136 businesses in 34 states with sales aggregating to just under $1B. Mr. Kellogg serves on the boards of Elwyn, the nation’s oldest and largest 501c3 serving for those with Autism, Down Syndrome, or behavioral challenges, and Trend Health Partners LLC, a payment recovery specialist working on behalf of payors and providers within the healthcare reimbursement space.
Until its sale, Mr. Kellogg served as Board Member for StarCore Nuclear LLC, a start-up seeking to commercialize a revolutionary PBMR (pebble bed modular reactor) technology. Mr. Kellogg simultaneously received his BA/Arch. Design and his BS/Arch. Eng’g from Iowa State University in 1972. He lives near Rehoboth, DE with his wife of 49 years, Marsha. Together they’ve enjoyed extended ocean and Caribbean sailing aboard their sailboat, Watercolors. They are pickleball and bicycling enthusiasts and have two daughters and six grandchildren.
Dr. Averel Snyder
Medical Advisor
Dr. Snyder is a cardiothoracic surgeon who is board certified in general surgery, critical care medicine, and cardiothoracic surgery. He practiced heart surgery for over 25 years and has an AMA certification in age management, an ISSA certification in fitness and nutrition, and several medical coding certifications (CRC, CDEO and CPC). In addition to his medical achievements, Snyder is also CMO and co-founder to the company streamlining Medicare Annual Wellness Visits—Vatica Health.
want to become part of the team?
We’re a team of innovators with a single focus: transform healthcare in the style of Uber, Netflix®, and AirBnB® to help people live healthier, happier lives. Our defining characteristic is our passion; we believe in what we’re doing because what we’re doing is going to create positive change in the world. We’re always looking for creative and collaborative colleagues to share our passion for creating a healthier world for future generations. Leave us your resume and contact information in the form below, and let us know why your passion is driving you to join our team.
