Team

Chintan believes that health systems should promote not only physical wellbeing, but also human flourishing. In addition to leading Leapfrog to Value, he is a Director at the Global Development Incubator where he has built a portfolio of initiatives focused on improving the value of health systems.

Prior to founding Leapfrog to Value, he was a consultant in McKinsey & Co’s health systems practice, where he led value-based care reforms for payers, providers, and state governments in the United States; and advised on public sector delivery transformations in Africa. He also co-wrote a report for WHO/PAHO on financing primary care in Latin America. Chintan is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and majored in political science at Duke University. He was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at Princeton University and a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica. When he isn’t geeking out on health systems, he plays Capoeira Angola.

Balkrishna believes that compassionate design, delivery and culture can go a long way in creating healthier and sustainable communities. Before L2V, he worked at Roche Pharma India, where he led their value-based healthcare effort and designed access solutions for cancer and rare diseases. Prior to that he was a consultant for life-sciences industry and developed pricing, market access and country entry strategies for many global pharma, medical devices, and hospital organizations. Being a physician and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he is passionate about looking at public health issues through a management lens. When not at work he enjoys helping his clients resolve their issues using hypnosis.

Sameera is a passionate doctor and holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business. Prior to L2V, she worked as a healthcare practitioner and in advocacy efforts related to oral cancer and tobacco cessation. Her expertise includes building and scaling telehealth and clinician decision-support solutions. Sameera is also co-founder of the NGO Hamara Footpath that serves the holistic needs of children living on the street in Mumbai. She is motivated to solve for inequity in both healthcare and education. When not working on health system change, she enjoys spending her time reading. Amitav Ghosh and Murakami are among her favorite authors.

Joanne is a firm believer that every person should have an equal opportunity to build a better future for themselves and their families. This passion motivates Joanne’s work as Senior Manager at GDI, where she helps design, build, and launch social impact startups to change traditional practices of global development. In the digital health space, Joanne helped set up the Global Digital Health Index, working extensively with stakeholders at the global and national levels. She is also the co-author of the “State of Digital Health 2019.”

Whitney works at the intersection of innovation and global health. As a senior advisor to the Global Development Incubator’s health portfolio, Whitney is collaborating with donors and investors to unleash private capital to achieve the health SDGs. With 17 years’ experience in the development sector, Whitney was the founding Director of CARE’s Scale X Design Accelerator, a first-of-its-kind NGO program supporting promising pilots to achieve scale. She supported the launch of CARE’s first Innovation Department, including CARE’s external consulting practice, impact investment fund, and domestic innovation hub. She has a degree in Nutrition Science from the University of Georgia and a Master’s in Public Health from Emory University.

Andrew is the Founder and CEO of the Global Development Incubator. He shapes new opportunities for GDI to drive the global development sector forward and provides strategic guidance to select incubated initiatives. Andrew has played many roles within GDI initiatives, including Interim CEO of Convergence and of Emerging Public Leaders, and currently serves on the Boards of Aceli Africa, citiesRISE, the Institute for Transformative Technologies, and the Refugee Investment Network.

Prior to founding GDI, Andrew was a Global Operating Partner at Dalberg Global Advisors. During that time, he helped design and launch ANDE and served as the founding chairman of mothers2mothers. Andrew holds a joint MBA/MPP from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Economics from Princeton University. When he isn’t urging nonprofits toward their “endgames,” Andrew can be found pruning cedar groves in his backyard.

Caroline is a multi-faceted international communications professional with more than fifteen years of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors in corporate, commercial, and technical functions, as well as prior agency experience working with corporate and government clients. She has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in Washington DC, and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

In her role with a major pharmaceutical company leading communications for the region of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Caroline was inspired by her partnership with internal and external stakeholders to help build a meaningful policy that expands access to medicines and improves health outcomes in emerging markets.  She brings that experience to her current work with L2V. In her free time, Caroline loves exploring hiking trails in the mountains and woods of her current home of Switzerland, as well as biking, cooking, and yoga.

Elizabeth enjoys seeing creative ideas and organizations come to life. She is the Director of Finance for both Global Development Incubator and Leapfrog to Value. In addition to leading finance and general operations across GDI, she also supports GDI’s 20+ initiatives, in building the systems and policies required to scale. Before joining GDI, she served as Senior Director of Finance and Accounting at NASTAD and as Vice President of Finance and Administration at Education for Employment.