We are also the first to take our high precision, medical grade gait analysis and our unique Fall Risk analysis system outside of the research institutes and the universities and making them available and affordable to the Senior Centers around the world. We believe this will be a major contribution to the wellness, health, and independence of the seniors and the general public.
Team
Dr.Hamid Najafi
CEO and co-founder
Dr. Hamid Najafi is a seasoned technology executive with more than 30 years of experience in developing advanced technologies in wireless, telecommunications, and sensors. He has been an entrepreneur for almost his entire professional life and has been involved, at an early stage, in many emerging technologies and products, including cellular phones, GPS, and motion sensors. Keeping with this trait, he has developed with his team, a new Remote Therapeutic Monitoring of people’s MSK health at Rover Health.
He received a Ph.D. EE from Stanford University in 1983 and has 17 patents in wireless and related technologies, including in Digital Health.
Dr. Stuart Katzman
Chief Clinician
Dr. Stuart Katzman has been a physical therapist for 34 years; entirely in out-patient orthopedic rehabilitation. , As an avid runner, Dr. Katzman has taken a particular interest in the treatment and prevention of lower quadrant injuries, working with subjects across the lifespan. Whether the youth athlete or the octogenarian pickleball player, or anyone in between, he has come to value and respect the variability of each individual’s mechanics, load tolerances and potential. Dr. Katzman attributes his clinical success to the optimization of lower quadrant mechanics; achieved by identification of inefficiencies followed by the neuro-motor and cognitive training to correct and eliminate them. Dr. Katzman is currently practicing at Evergreen Physical Therapy; a private practice he has operated in San Jose, CA, for the past 30 years.
Dr. Katzman received his baccalaureate in Physical Therapy from California State University Fresno and a post-professional clinical Doctorate, with an emphasis in manual therapy, from Evidence in Motion in 2013.
Nima Nasr
Senior Software Developer
Full Stack Developer with experience developing applications and solutions using a range of technologies and programming languages
Advisory Board
Hamid Farzaneh
Co-Founder, Chairman & Board Member, Rover Health
Hamid Farzaneh is a veteran Silicon Valley CEO passionate about building innovative high tech companies. He is a charismatic and high energy leader who believes in the business philosophy of “differentiate or die”. He focuses on empowering teams of outstanding people and driving for time-to-market and complete customer satisfaction.
Hamid co-founded Alea Labs, Inc. in 2015 to develop and market products aiming at making the archaic HVAC industry smart, user-friendly and energy frugal. Prior to Alea, he co-founded Rover Health in 2012 to create manufacturing-ready platforms that enabled entrepreneurs to bring innovative “Wearables” products to market in record time. Prior to Rover Health, Hamid was CEO of Optilux, of Varioptic and of DisplayLink, COO at Atheer, Motion Sense & Genesis Microchip, and EVP at Silicon Optix.
Hamid holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées of Lyon, France and an MBA from Golden Gate university of San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Leslie Torburn, DPT
Physical Therapist, 30 years motion analysis
Advisor, Rover Health
Dr. Leslie Torburn has been a physical therapist for over 30 years. She has worked in motion analysis laboratories for most of her career, beginning as a research physical therapist working closely with Dr. Jacquelin Perry at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. She has numerous publications in the areas of gait and movement analysis.
She is currently on staff at the Motion Analysis Laboratory of a major children’s hospital in northern California. Dr. Torburn received her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Southern California and her Doctor of Physical Therapy from Temple University.
Dr. Jaime Tenedorio
Medical Device Commercialization, CEO, Scanadu
Advisor & Board Member, Rover Health
Dr. Jaime Tenedorio has been an executive and co-founder at a number of start-ups in the health and medical arenas and been a key participant in many mergers, acquisitions and fund raising activities for a broad variety of companies. He has served as a CTO, COO and VP level executive at a number of Silicon Valley companies where he was responsible for defining and implementing technology strategy, product direction and development of products for the Wireless Communications, Medical and Consumer Electronics markets.
Jaime is currently the CEO of Scanadu which makes medical technology devices for consumers, combining a broad array of technologies and sensors with intelligent algorithms to create FDA cleared products.
Jaime earned his Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. He serves on the boards of two Silicon Valley companies in the technology and medical arenas.
Michael Minkevich
Advisor & Board Member, Rover Health
Michael Minkevich is a seasoned international technology executive with diverse background that covers multiple functional areas and industry verticals, including Telecommunication, Automotive, Energy & Utilities, Digital Media and Travel & Hospitality. Throughout his 20+ year career, Michael held various executive positions focused on product engineering at the global IT/software services companies.
Michael is an angel investor and a board advisor to a number of early stage technology startups related to IoT, AI and machine learning, next generation networks, edge computing, cybersecurity and digital health.
Michael has in-depth knowledge of all aspects of system engineering and product development lifecycle as well as the contemporary technology landscape in the context of multiple industry verticals. He is also helping enterprise customers and smaller startups with development and implementation of their outsourcing strategies. Michael holds a Master of Computer Science degree from Novosibirsk State Technical University and also completed business studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business and MIT Sloan.