About Us

We strive to make every healthcare decision high quality, cost-effective, and convenient.

Our Values

Run towards hard problems

We are motivated by the toughest challenges. We seek out hard problems that have the most impact and solve them to help those who need it most.

Put your team first

We are a family. We are all happier and healthier when we take care of each other and put each other’s needs ahead of our own.

Do what you say

We are honest with each other. We are accountable to each other.

Stay hungry, keep improving

We are humble. We will make mistakes, learn from those mistakes, and be better because of those mistakes.

Practice habits of excellence

We measure our success by the process it took to get there. We will always do our very best and we are proud of the outcome because of it.

Build with empathy

We are building the best healthcare experience for our users. When faced with a difficult decision, we do what’s best for people’s lives.

Our story

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Struggle to find reliable doctor data

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New brand and data product

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Top tier accuracy at scale

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Directory, network, cost & quality

2015

Nate & Nate meet in graduate school while both trying to help family members find care they need. After watching their parents and grandparents go through months of tests, unhelpful referrals, and thousands of dollars spent, they decide to try to help.

2016

HealthWiz is launched to provide patients with the most seamless way to navigate healthcare across checking symptoms, researching conditions, finding doctors, and estimating costs of care.

2017

HealthWiz goes through Y Combinator. While helping clients find doctors, the team discovers the doctor-data-problem first-hand, constantly calling wrong phone numbers, old addresses, out-of-network doctors, and physicians who no longer practice.

2018

Ribbon Health is launched to address the doctor-data problem with the most accurate and comprehensive information on doctors, insurance plans, and costs for healthcare enterprises. By the end of the year, Ribbon data accuracy surpasses best-in-class industry standards at scale.

2019

Ribbon launches comprehensive network product, enabling providers to drive in-network comprehensive referral management, health plans to better monitor and design networks for adequacy, and digital health solutions to allow consumers to find an in-network doctor anywhere in the United States.

2020

Ribbon adds a cost & quality product, as well as a comprehensive suite of distribution micro-services, to enable a seamless and comprehensive way to enable high-quality, cost-effective, and convenient care decisions via any healthcare enterprise

Our Team

Aaron Friedlander

Data Science
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Aaron Friedlander

Data Science

Aaron is a senior machine learning engineer at Ribbon. He started as a software developer at Verisk Analytics before moving on to data science and analytics at Unified and Aetna. Outside of Ribbon you can find Aaron searching for a good pick-up basketball game.

Alex Fenstermacher

People
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Alex Fenstermacher

People

Alex is a talent lead at Ribbon. Previously, he led the recruiting efforts for the product team at Big Health and doubled the size of their team in his time there. Outside of Ribbon, you can find him making beats on his button-pusher instruments.

Alex Pasechnik

Engineering
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Alex Pasechnik

Engineering

Alex builds data pipelines for Ribbon. He was previously a technical co-founder for multiple start-ups. Most recently, he built data engineering and analytics for Holler to track billions of daily events and advertising campaigns. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Alex at various startup meetups and bars throughout NYC networking.

Akash Shah

Customer & Product Deployment
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Akash Shah

Customer & Product Deployment

Akash is a Deployment Manager for Ribbon. Before joining Ribbon, Akash was in a product role at GenomOncology managing their API and building bioinformatics pipelines. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Akash watching basketball, going on adventures, and trying to find the best diner in whatever city he is in.

Andre Newland

Engineering
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Andre Newland

Engineering

Andre is a senior software engineer at Ribbon. He’s been passionate about programming since childhood and received a CS degree from Tufts School of Engineering. Prior to joining Ribbon, Andre’s work was primarily focused around big data tech stacks, building out infrastructure to satisfy business needs. Outside of Ribbon you can find him learning languages, reading seemingly random topics and biking around NYC.

Caroline Kirkwood

Customer & Product Deployment
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Caroline Kirkwood

Customer & Product Deployment

Caroline is a Deployment Manager for Ribbon. Before joining Ribbon, Caroline was a product manager at Jornaya where she built data products that helped marketers better understand consumer’s online shopping journeys. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Caroline listening to true crime podcasts or trying out a new chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Christie Helvey

Enterprise Sales
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Christie Helvey

Enterprise Sales

Christie leads Enterprise Sales at Ribbon. Previously, she was on the Business Development Team at Quartet Health, where she was responsible for developing partnerships with health plans, and began her career in the Medical Device industry. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Christie searching for her next favorite restaurant in NYC or on the tennis court.

Christina Ragone

Marketing
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Christina Ragone

Marketing

Christina is a marketing associate at Ribbon. Previously, she supported the marketing and communications initiatives at an urban planning and design non-profit. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Christina exploring a new bookstore or enjoying a picnic in the park.

Dana Klein

People
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Dana Klein

People

Dana is a Talent Acquisition Lead at Ribbon and is focused on hiring for our technical teams. Before joining Ribbon, Dana was a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at VTS where she helped the company scale by building out new product and engineering teams. She also helped lead their DEI and employment branding efforts. Outside of Ribbon you can find Dana trying out the latest makeup trends or heading to her next Orangetheory Fitness class.

Elizabeth Karson

Strategy & Operations
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Elizabeth Karson

Strategy & Operations

Elizabeth leads strategy and operations at Ribbon. Previously, she worked in business operations at Knotel overseeing strategic planning and market expansion, and began her career in M&A at Skadden Arps. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Elizabeth curating new Spotify playlists and bookmarking her favorite food and restaurant publications.

Emily Zhou

Customer & Product Deployment
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Emily Zhou

Customer & Product Deployment

Emily leads product deployment & customer success. She previously led customer, product, & operations initiatives at Palantir and began her career in investment banking at Evercore. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Emily nerding over camping equipment, dreaming about space travel, and feeding friends at home.

Evan Kline

Customer & Product Deployment
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Evan Kline

Customer & Product Deployment

Evan is a deployment engineer at Ribbon. Evan spent 6+ years as an engineer with a focus on full-stack web development. Most recently, Evan led Solutions Architecture at SevenRooms to help drive enterprise customer acquisition and success. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Evan running through NYC or enjoying copious amounts of pasta at Emilio’s Ballato.

Harsha Patel

Product
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Harsha Patel

Product

Harsha leads Provider Performance products at Ribbon. Previously, he was Head of Product for Practicing Wisely and advised payers and providers as part of Oliver Wyman’s Healthcare practice. Outside of Ribbon, Harsha is a frequent doodler and amateur watercolorist.

Jennifer Bae

Product
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Jennifer Bae

Product

Jennifer is an associate product manager at Ribbon. Previously, she explored various investing roles as an undergrad at Stanford before shifting her focus to data at an early-stage social listening platform for CPG brands. Outside of Ribbon, you will likely find Jennifer managing her husky’s social calendar or satisfying her sweet tooth at trending local dessert shops.

Josh Bronstein

Engineering
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Josh Bronstein

Engineering

Josh leads software engineering for Ribbon. After working in product, Josh got his MS in Computer Science from University of Chicago. Most recently, he built infrastructure for Uptake to track billions of dollars of industrial machinery. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Josh running the West Side Highway to train for his next marathon.

June Kang

Engineering
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June Kang

Engineering

June is a software engineer at Ribbon. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a major in Computer Science and minor in Data Science. She has previously worked in software engineering across various startups. Outside of Ribbon, you can find June grabbing drinks with her friends in the city and baking sweets at home.

Krishma Bawa

People
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Krishma Bawa

People

Krishma is on the Talent team at Ribbon. She started her recruiting career at Flatiron Health hiring in technical roles and later moved into a product operations role to simplify oncology practice management workflows. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Krishma hiking with her dogs and on a quest to bake the perfect chocolate chip cookie.

Matt Weinert-Stein

Strategic Partnerships
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Matt Weinert-Stein

Strategic Partnerships

Matt is a Strategic Partnerships Manager at Ribbon. Previously he led the account management team at Genoa Telepsychiatry, and has also held positions in Quality and Patient Outcomes at Mass General Brigham. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Matt at any live concert or looking for the next big snack trend.

Misha Nasrollahzadeh

Strategic Partnerships
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Misha Nasrollahzadeh

Strategic Partnerships

Misha leads business development efforts at Ribbon. She previously was in product at Castlight Health and started her career at Palantir working with their health clients. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Misha hosting a dinner party or discovering new grocery stores.

Nate Fox

Co-Founder, CTO
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Nate Fox

Co-Founder, CTO

Nate Fox is Ribbon’s cofounder and chief technology officer. He got his start in engineering at MIT before going to Microsoft and eventually Unified as a lead special projects engineer. When he’s not busy coding at Ribbon, you can find him cycling through upstate New York and filing for patents on educational toys.

Nate Maslak

Co-Founder, CEO
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Nate Maslak

Co-Founder, CEO

Nate Maslak is Ribbon’s cofounder and CEO. After years of healthcare consulting at McKinsey, he built and ran the Identity Graph predictive analytics product and business at Datalogix to help drive an acquisition by Oracle. When Nate is not at Ribbon, you can find him trying to eat his way through every borough of NYC.

Sahil Sud

Product
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Sahil Sud

Product

Sahil leads product for Ribbon. Before joining Ribbon Health, Sahil led various special projects at Palantir Technologies, including building and deploying large-scale provider data products for national health insurers. When Sahil isn’t with the Ribbon team, you can find him front-row catching the latest jazz show in New York.

Sameer Lal

Data Science
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Sameer Lal

Data Science

Sameer is a senior data scientist at Ribbon. He got his MS in Computer Science with a concentration in Machine Learning from Columbia University. Most recently, he built machine learning models for real time bidding and direct mail marketing. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Sameer watching basketball or enjoying a new pizza spot in the city.

Selma Chang

Marketing
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Selma Chang

Marketing

Selma is a product marketing manager at Ribbon. Previously, she led the customer marketing efforts for the healthcare & life sciences industry at Salesforce. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Selma at home making fresh pasta or planning her next backpacking trip.

Stephanie Diaz

Marketing
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Stephanie Diaz

Marketing

Stephanie is a content marketing manager at Ribbon. Previously, Stephanie led content marketing strategy at Healthify and started her career at ConwayStrategic, working with reproductive health organizations to change policy and public opinion. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Stephanie binge-watching true crime shows or planning her next hiking trip.

Stephanie Grant

People
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Stephanie Grant

People

Stephanie is a Coordinator at Ribbon. Prior to joining the Ribbon team, she was the people ops coordinator at SecurityScorecard. As part of the People team she worked to provide the best candidate experience as well as managed people operations and keeping employees happy! Outside of Ribbon, you can find Steph exploring new restaurants and keeping up with the latest in pop culture.

Stephanie St. Thomas

Marketing
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Stephanie St. Thomas

Marketing

Stephanie leads marketing for Ribbon. She has spent the last 10+ years developing marketing programs for health care startups, most recently with Verato and Evolent Health. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Stephanie working through her podcast queue on a long run around Brooklyn.

Sunna Jo

Data Science
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Sunna Jo

Data Science

Sunna is a data scientist at Ribbon. She attended medical school and completed her pediatric residency training in New York City and has been practicing in New Jersey. She has also been involved in scientific and clinical research for over 10 years and completed a data science intensive program. Outside of Ribbon, you can find Sunna exercising and dabbling in various coffee brewing methods.

Taylor Safrit

Engineering
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Taylor Safrit

Engineering

Taylor is a software engineer at Ribbon. He completed Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Planetary Science at MIT and has held a variety of computer-science-focused positions, most recently for battery startup Form Energy. Taylor’s principal personal pursuit is the cello, which he has studied since the fourth grade.

Victoria Chen

Engineering
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Victoria Chen

Engineering

Victoria is a software engineer on the API team at Ribbon. Previously, she worked at Wealthfront on their customer onboarding flow and frontend infrastructure. Outside of Ribbon, you can find her hunting for the best deals on tech goodies and attempting to integrate them into her Google Home.

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We are passionate about simplifying healthcare decisions. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team of all cultures, races, genders, orientations, backgrounds, and unique perspectives. We are determined to build the best team possible. If you are too, join us.

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