Félix Manuel Chinea, Doximity

Dr. Félix Manuel Chinea is a Puerto Rican military brat raised in the South and is currently growing roots in Durham, North Carolina. He is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine with experience in health disparities and health equity research.

He is currently the Head of Health Equity & Inclusion Strategy at Doximity where he applies an equity-centered, inclusion lens to impact people, practices, and products.

Michael Esquivel, Fenwick + West

Michael is a nationally recognized corporate and securities lawyer for emerging and high-growth companies. He provides strategic counseling primarily in the healthtech, consumer, enterprise, fintech and cloud & internet industries.

Michael's passion for working with cutting-edge companies that are transforming industries and improving lives stems from his experience as general counsel of a venture-backed healthtech company. That inside view enables him to deeply understand entrepreneurs and anticipate their business and legal needs over a company’s entire lifecycle.

Michael is particularly active in healthtech and was named one of nine “behind-the scenes players who can make or break a digital-health startup” by Business Insider. A regular contributor to Fenwick's Life Sciences Legal Insights blog, Michael frequently writes about the latest issues and trends affecting the ever-evolving healthtech industry and shares additional insights X and LinkedIn. Michael is also the co-host of Closing Time, a new podcast that provides an inside look at the world of healthcare startups and venture capital. In addition to his active practice, Michael is passionate about helping the future leading startup attorneys and the next generation of entrepreneurs, teaching Venture Capital at Stanford’s Law School for the last six years.

Tsahia Hobson, Tsahia + Company, LLC

Tsahia is a healthcare enthusiast leading solutions that transform the healthcare ecosystem through advisory services for digital health startups and other organizations through her company, Tsahia & Co., LLC. She currently works with MD Anderson Cancer Center as an Innovation Strategist, driving new models of care in oncology, virtual care strategies, and workplace transformation. Her career in healthcare has spanned 15 years across complex clinical specialties and top hospitals. She is passionate about increasing venture capital funding for Black and Brown founders in digital health and was honored to participate in the first Black Venture Institute cohort. Tsahia holds a Master of Health Administration (MHA) in Healthcare Policy and Management from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from City College of New York.

Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Abner Mason is the founder and CEO of SameSky Health, a cultural experience company that forms meaningful relationships to bring people to health. He has spent decades working to reduce barriers to care faced by underserved people nationally and internationally, from the federal to the local level. He currently sits on the board of Manifest MedEx, serves as the Co-Vice Chair on the board for California Black Health Network, and is a member of United States of Care’s Founders Council, the American Medical Association’s External Equity and Innovation Advisory Group, the HIMSS’ Social Determinants of Health Committee and the Medicaid Innovation Collaborative’s advisory board. Abner is the founder of HealthTech 4 Medicaid.

Solome Tibebu, Behavioral Health Tech

Solome Tibebu is founder and CEO of Behavioral Health Tech, the largest community dedicated to advancing access to mental health and substance use services through technology, health equity and innovation. Previously, Tibebu was founding director of The Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health, a philanthropic fund seeded by Pivotal Ventures. Through The Upswing Fund, Tibebu and her team funded over 100 community based-organizations and nonprofits nationwide focused on supporting the mental health of LGBTQ+ teens and adolescents of color. Today, she is co-chair of Pivotal Ventures’ council designing the next youth mental health fund. Tibebu has been a mental health advocate since she started the “Anxiety In Teens” blog at age 16. She is an Aspen Health fellow, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute senior fellow, and a venture partner for GreyMatter Capital.

Megan Zweig, Rock Health

As Chief Operating Officer, Megan leads Rock Health’s corporate membership program, research, and operations teams. Through thought partnership, the power of community, and market-leading research, her teams support enterprise clients advancing their digital health strategies via the startup innovation ecosystem. Prior to joining Rock Health, Megan worked at The Advisory Board Company, where she led the Physician Executive Council, a best practice research membership supporting Chief Medical Officers at over 1,300 hospitals and health systems nationwide. Megan received an MBA from Berkeley Haas, where she graduated valedictorian of her executive MBA class in January 2020. Megan graduated cum laude from Duke University, earning a B.A. in Public Policy Studies with a focus on health policy.