Leadership
Built by people who believe technology should serve humanity.
Founding team
Operators who have each built and scaled the pieces this company needs.
Brian Meshkin
Founding CEO
Healthcare entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, and tri-sector leader — a career spanning community advocacy, public policy, diagnostics, and AI, built on the belief that durable solutions come from communities, government, and enterprise working together.
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Harvey Castro, MD
Founding Chief AI Officer
Emergency physician and author of ChatGPT and Healthcare; AI advisor to the country of Singapore. Sets the clinical guardrails for how HumAInity assesses, converses, and knows when to escalate.
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Ed Breazeale, MD
Founding Chief Medical Officer
Founder of HealthStar (now Care Bridge), the #1 Inc. 500 company in long-term support services technology. Brings the operating experience of scaling a workforce-extension model in Medicaid.
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Brooks Wood
Founding Chief Technology Officer
CEO of Helpp.AI; former CTO of Wave Therapeutics and Beacon Communications. Owns the platform — the conversational engine, workflow configuration, and the oversight tooling supervisors use.
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Andy Johnson, Ph.D.
Scientific Co-Founder, Head of CTRI
Former head of the USC Institute for Prevention Research and founder of the CGU School of Global & Community Health. Leads the certification pathway that holds HumAInity to the CHW and CMHW standard.
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Advisors and collaborators guiding the science, curriculum, and clinical standard behind the tool.
Alex Auslander, Ph.D., MPH
Advisor, CHW Curriculum
Associate Professor of Public Health at West Coast University. Helps train the tool on the CHW and CMHW curriculum, and as a coach for the workers it extends.
David Baron, DO, MS Ed
Advisor, Clinical Tone & Extension
Chief Academic Officer at Western University of Health Sciences and former Deputy Director of NIMH. Guides how the tool carries psychiatric and psychological nuance without overstepping into clinical judgment.
Eusebio Alvaro, Ph.D.
Advisor, Behavioral Science
Behavioral and organizational scientist at CGU, expert in message processing and resistance to persuasion. Shapes how HumAInity earns trust and moves people toward care without manipulation.
Anita Monteiro, RN, MS, MBA
Advisor, CMS Quality
Former Division Director of Quality and Safety at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Keeps the program aligned to CMS quality measures and the realities of Medicaid procurement.
David Gruen, MD, FACR
Advisor, AI Best Practice
Former Chief Medical Officer of IBM Watson Health and Chair of Radiology at Griffin Hospital. Pressure-tests the model against the lessons of healthcare AI that scaled ahead of its evidence.