Meet the team turning expertise into better outcomes
Stacie Ruth
Kirstie Hines
Ravi Kupparaj
Karen Krygier
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Community & Marketing Officer
Lead Technology Advisor
Chief Product & Operations Officer
Advisory Board
Mike Gemmati
Munhee Kim
Diana Martinez
Munhee Kim
Diana Gelston
Jaydeo Kinikar
Health Tech Market intelligence Designed by People Who Do the Work
Diana Martinez
Michael Gemmati
Munhee Kim
Jaydeo Kinikar
Diana Gelston
Independent ≠ Isolated
We keep seeing the same story.
Talented advisors rebuilding context from scratch, carrying pressure alone, leaving value uncaptured.
So we built Ascend.
Ascend began with a simple observation.
The people trusted to guide the hardest decisions in health tech were doing extraordinary work, without the systems behind them that large firms take for granted. Advisors were rebuilding context from scratch and sacrificing time that should have been spent thinking, not chasing information.
We're changing that. Because your expertise deserves room to grow.