Pallav Sharda
MBBS, MA, MBA
I specialize in working at the intersection of medicine, technology and business. I love crafting 0→1 products and learning new things.
Fund
Tau Ventures
Sep 2019 – Present. Limited Partner. Tau Ventures is an
Corporate
October 2020 – June 2021. X.company. Owned product discovery and Go-to-Market for a stealth healthcare operations project.
May 2018 – September 2020. GTM Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences. Google Cloud.
- Built cloud go-to-market strategy and solutions plays for provider and payer markets
- Led CXO briefings; drove adoption across 40+ accounts including $100M+ deals
Omnicell, Inc.
Feb 2013 – Jan 2014. Director, Interoperability & Partnerships. NASDAQ:OMCL.
• Built key Health IT partnerships and integrations, including Epic and Cerner
UnitedHealth Group
Feb 2011 – Feb 2013. Director, HIE Product Management at OptumInsight.
- Owned $60M+ revenue Health Information Exchange (HIE) product suite
- Led a 15-person product team and partnered with 60 engineers (dotted-line)
- Shipped 12+ products; led outbound enablement (messaging, training, deployments)
Kaiser Permanente
Aug 2009 – Feb 2011. Director, Advanced Analytics.
- Led a 9-person analytics/program team delivering 20+ enterprise data initiatives
- Worked with regional physician executives for Population Health tools research and design
- Partnered with KP Garfield Innovation Center to evaluate and pilot health tech concepts
Northwestern Univ.
Jan 2008 – Aug 2011. Faculty (Part-time), M.S. Medical Informatics Graduate Program. An 11-course program that focuses on the principles of information creating and managing enterprise-wide health care information systems. Offered by the School of Continuing Studies in partnership with the Feinberg School of Medicine. I taught the core course on ‘Decision Support Systems in Healthcare‘.
GE Healthcare IT
Jan 2003 – Aug 2009. Various Product and Engineering Management roles.
- Led a 7-person PM team across Lab, Pharmacy, Periop, Inpatient, and Perinatal. Responsible for specifications, system verification and validation, shipping database’s content, Medical Device Connectivity Platform
- Led nationwide implementations for Inpatient GE Centricity EHR product line
- Partnered with GE Global Research Center on new concepts and led IP efforts
Startup
📍 Carrum Health
July 2021 – present. Chief Product Officer at Carrum Health, a series B company serving employers ($96M raised).
- Scaled org 6 → 130+ across Technology and Patient Care Operations
- Own Automation & Applied AI to drive operational efficiency and execution velocity
- Expanded platform beyond surgery, into oncology and addiction treatment workflows
LeanTaas, Inc.
Dec 2017 – Apr 2018. Product Strategy & Discovery Consultant to product team at LeanTaas (AI-driven hospital ops optimization. $250M+ raised)
Commure, Inc.
Aug 2017 – Dec 2017. Product Strategy & Discovery Consultant to founding team at Commure (AI platform for health systems. $1.0B+ raised)
Dovetail Care, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Dec 2017. Founder.
- Backed by Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) and Heuristic Capital
- Built 0 to1 healthcare secure messaging SaaS, sensors-based hardware product
SelfCareCatalysts, Inc.
2014 – 2022. Advisor to founding executive team at Self Care Catalysts. The company was acquired by Alira Health in 2022.
Atomiton, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jun 2015. Advisor to founding team at Atomiton.
BIOInformative, Inc.
Nov 2013 – Oct 2014. Advisor to founding executive team. BIOInformative, Inc. ceased operations in 2015.
iActiveIT Ltd.
Dec 2011 – Jan 2015. Board Member. Advised executive team on healthcare applications of their A.I. technology. The company ceased US operations in 2015.
Kellogg School of Management.
Northwestern University, Illinois.
Columbia University, New York.
Delhi University, India.
Highlights
- Invited Speaker, American Heart Association Annual Conference, 2025: ‘Reducing Healthcare Costs with AI’
- Invited Speaker, Stanford University BIOMEDIN 206, 2024: ‘Informatics in Industry’
- Invited Speaker, SJSU.edu and FAU.de, 2021: Digital Health Panel
- Guest Lecturer, SJSU.edu, 2020: ‘Healthcare’s Digital Transformation with Cloud’
- Moderator, Google Launchpad Space, SF, 2017: ‘AI in Healthcare’ panel discussion
- Invited Speaker, Personalized Medicine World Congress, 2013, Mountain View, CA
- Co-Founder, Panaceon, 2011–2012: remote monitoring platform for movement disorders
- Informatics Consultant, NIH SBIR Phase I Grant, 2010: ‘Voice-based primary care medical data input system’
- Keynote Speaker, Predictive Analytics Conference at Kaiser Permanente, 2010
- Co-Founder, Varna Research, 2007: clinical trials outsourcing; $15K awarded at UChicago Venture Challenge
- Intellectual Property Lead, GE Healthcare Enterprise Solutions, 2007–2009
- Primary inventor, US8348839B2 (granted 2013; international) and US20080255875 (later abandoned)
Papers
- Author, Before Disrupting Healthcare: What Innovators Need to Know. A foundational book for anyone working or investing in health information technologies. June 2016. Available in iBooks, Kindle, Paperback, Audiobook formats.
- Author, India@Kellogg, 2008: ‘Retail Healthcare Service Model: Is it Applicable in India?’ (India Business Conference; pp. 76–77)
- Co-Author, unpublished whitepaper, 2008: ‘Synchronizing Patient, Provider and Payer Relationships’ (with Dipak C. Jain, Dean, Kellogg School of Management)
- Author, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2006: ‘Customizing clinical narratives for the EMR interface using cognitive methods’ (PMID:16125455)
- Author, AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2003: ‘Specifying design criteria for EMR interface using cognitive framework’ (PMID:14728242)
- Co-author, AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2003: ‘Comparing speed, accuracy, and completeness of physician data entry using electronic vs paper methods’ (PMID:14728317)
Affiliations
- Limited Partner, Tau Ventures, 2019 – present
- Advisory Board, SelfCareCatalysts, Inc., 2015–2022 (acquired by Alira Health in 2022)
- Mentor, UCSF Healthcare Lean Launchpad Program, 2015
- Mentor, Kellogg Venture Community, 2010-2014
- President, Kellogg Healthcare & Biotechnology Club, 2008–2009
- Executive Committee Member, Indian Medical Informatics Association, 2007–2009