Name Ron Gutman | Education Stanford University | |
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Ron gutman the hidden power of smiling
Ron Gutman is a speaker, writer, advisor, serial entrepreneur and angel investor.
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- Ron gutman the hidden power of smiling
- Ron gutman remind yourself to be positive
- Life and education
- Career
- Events public speaking
- TED
- References
A graduate of Stanford University, Gutman is the CEO and Founder of the Interactive Health company HealthTap. HealthTap received Series A funding in 2011 from The Mayfield Fund, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Ron gutman remind yourself to be positive
Life and education
Gutman is a serial entrepreneur who studied at Stanford University as a graduate student. While at Stanford, Gutman led a multidisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students to conduct research into personalized health and ways to increase health engagement among people and patients. The research group included faculty and students from departments across Stanford, resulting in the creation of a health and well-being engagement program at the university, BeWell@Stanford.
Career
In addition to serving as the CEO of HealthTap, Gutman is also an angel investor and advisor to health and technology companies, including Rock Health (an Interactive Health incubator), Stanford Medicine X, Harvard Medical School's SMArt Initiative ("Substitutable Medical Apps, reusable technologies") and Massive Health.
In 2006, Gutman founded Wellsphere, an online consumer health company, where he served as CEO. Wellsphere, an active community of health writers, served more than 100 million people. The site was acquired in early 2009.
Events & public speaking
A recognized thought leader in health and innovation, Gutman frequently speaks at technology and health conferences (such as TED, SXSW and Health 2.0). His writing on health, technology and smiling has been published in national publications including Forbes and the Huffington Post
TED
Gutman is an active leader in the TED community. In 2011, he gave a popular TED Talk on smiling, which has been translated into 46 languages. In 2012, he published a TED Book, Smile: The Astonishing Power of a Simple Act. He also serves as the Curator of TEDx Silicon Valley.
