Michael Rivers
Vice President and Lifecycle Leader, Digital Pathology – Roche Tissue Diagnostics; President, Digital Pathology Association
Santa Clara, United States
Michael joined Roche Tissue Diagnostics in 2006 and has been Lifecycle Leader for Digital Pathology since October 2015. In this role he leads the Digital Pathology team in Santa Clara, California to develop and commercialise the Digital Pathology portfolio of products and technology for Roche. Michael also currently serves as President of the Digital Pathology Association and has been a member of the DPA Board of Directors since 2015.
Pawan P Singh
Vice President
Pawan P. Singh, Vice President, Product & Operations, Imaging Solutions, Leica Biosystems (LBS), is a visionary leader who is passionate about driving impactful innovations in healthcare to help patients and clinicians.
Based in San Diego, California, Pawan joined LBS in January 2014 and has over 20 years of leadership experience in Healthcare Technology sector.
Before joining LBS, Pawan led the Anatomic Pathology business line at Sunquest Information Systems for 4 years. Prior to that, Pawan was with GE Healthcare for 11 years where he held positions of increasing responsibility in Global Product Development / Product Management of Radiology systems.
Pawan holds bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University, India and MBA in Marketing from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.
Dr. Andrew H Beck
Co Founder & CEO, PathAI
Andy earned his MD from Brown Medical School and completed residency and fellowship training in Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology from Stanford University. He completed a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, where he developed one of the first machine-learning based systems for cancer pathology. He's been certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology. Prior to co-founding PathAI, he was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has published over 110 papers in the fields of cancer biology, cancer pathology, and biomedical informatics.
Abhi Gholap
Board Member, TiE Silicon Valley
Abhi is an alumnus of COE Pune, IIT Mumbai and Stanford University Graduate school of Business. He was the co-founder of BioImagene acquired by Roche Pathology in 2010 and now founder of OptraSCAN, a new age Digital Pathology company.
With 20+ years of experience in product and people management, Abhi excels in Lifescience industry. Abhi has several research publications and 17 patents to his credits. Having worked for Fortune 500 to Startups, Abhi takes active role in designing and implementing business strategies, plans and procedures. Abhi has over 10 years of experience in technology solutions with artificial intelligence core.