Kipum Lee – PhD; President, UH Ventures.

Kip leads the UH Ventures platform, the innovation and commercialization arm of University Hospitals. His main focus is in the following areas:driving revenue growth and margin improvement by building business opportunities aligned with system enterprise strategy; deploying early-stage capital into promising technologies and solutions; providing strategic leadership in defining and advancing enterprise strategy; and strengthening UH’s culture of innovation through institution-building programs, hands-on leadership, and human-centered design.

​Steven Levy

​Steven is a Partner at Unorthodox Ventures where he focuses on investing in venture stage MedTech companies. Before joining Unorthodox Ventures, Steven worked for the prior 23 years as an investment banker, having held senior roles at Lehman Brothers, Stifel Financial and Cowen & Co. Steven has executed over 100 transactions with aggregate deal value in excess of $30 billion. Steven headed the M&A efforts for the Financial Sponsors practice at Lehman Brothers, covered Financial sponsors and headed the Consumer M&A efforts at Cowen and covered Financial Sponsors, led execution on technology and consumer M&A transactions and headed up the firm’s investment banking efforts in Israel at Stifel.

​Steven received his B.A. from Binghamton University and graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bryan Spielman is a Managing Partner at Northwell Health Equity Partners. He is a seasoned C-suite executive with a track record of driving multi-billion-dollar value creation across the healthcare and technology sectors. Most recently, as Chief Growth Officer at Advarra, he spearheaded the company’s $5 billion sale to Blackstone and CPPIB. Prior to that, at Medidata, he helped scale the company from a $400 million to over $2.3 billion market valuation. Bryan spent 12 years in investment banking at Centerview Partners, UBS, and Bear Stearns, advising on over $50 billion in transactions. He holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Host/Moderator:

Maria Putilina, MD, MS, is a medical advisor and innovator, boasting over a decade of driving transformative change within the healthcare industry. Her expertise spans Business Administration, Medicine, and Science, which she honed in healthcare consulting, helping companies build and execute innovation strategies.