Our Leadership Team
Invest in a team that has already built New Technologies that are Category Leaders.
Executive Team
Joan 'Z' Ziegler
Founder • CEO
Inventor of tap-to-pay dynamic authentication (tokenization) backed by a portfolio of 50+ monetized patents licensed to Visa, Mastercard, American Express & Discover; still in use today
Sri Muthu
Chief Technical Officer
Built Zelle for Wells Fargo and saw it through to acquisition by EWS. Went back to Yale School of Management earning MBA in Healthcare Leadership. Founded Healthcare Venture
Alison Derbenwick Miller
Chief Research Officer
20+ years at Oracle as strategist at the highest levels; 2 health research patents; Advisor to Stanford Deep Research Center; ACM Board member
Steve DeAngeles MD
Chief Medical Officer
30-year internal medicine Northwestern & Naples Community Hospital; Medical Director of Transformational Medicine; concierge medicine pioneer & other medtech innovations, multiple exits
Shannon McElyea
VP Business Dev. & Strategy
Extensive experience creating and executing partnership ecosystems and marketing strategies. Significantly contributed to multiple successful exits (multiple IPSs and acquisitions).
Frank Pierri
SVP Sales
25 years in driving adoption of novel solutions in healthcare. Expert in analytics, business solutions and customer focused sales. Focus on digital transformation.
Daniel Ziegler
VP Growth & Operations
Drove Visa & Mastercard certification at PrivaSys and FDA-certified product commercialization at Go Smile; brings 25+ years of regulated-industry launch experience to Elev8Data as VP of Growth & Operations.