Keona Health

Online Nurse Advice helps nurse advice lines expand access to patients and improve productivity.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Software
  • Location Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2010
  • Employees 4
  • Website keonahealth.com

Company Summary

Team

  • Oakkar Oakkar
    President

    Oakkar has experience in clinical health informatics from UNC Chapel Hill. He is also a software developer with 9 previous years of industry experience in software development, including web, mobile and enterprise applications. He also co-founded Recopia which developed mobile and Web 2.0 applications.

  • Jason Skowronski
    Chief Technology Officer

    Jason co-founded Keona Health when he saw a way to translate techniques used at Amazon to healthcare, where the benefit is even greater. At Amazon, he was known as the “guru” for a analytical quality inspection system that saved millions annually. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He's also worked at Microsoft and IBM Research.

  • Stephen Dean
    Chief Marketing Officer

    Stephen is a MBA graduate of the Duke Fuqua School of Business. He was co-founder at Capital Consulting Services where he had successes such as leading a board towards a $5-10M engagement. He led the market repositioning at an IT consulting firm, growing the customer base by 10% and revenues by 18%. He was one of the initial hires at a packet prioritization startup that grew to nearly 150 employees before acquisition by Lucent.

  • Jimmy Kaanapu
    Chief Architect

    Jimmy was Chief Software Architect at Prudential Locations LLC, a leading real estate firm in Hawaii. At Prudential Locations, he won multiple innovator of the year awards.

Advisors

  • Glen Caplan
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Gary Hayes
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Launchbox Digital: Lee Buck, Chris Heivly, Mark McDowell
    Unconfirmed
    Friends & Family
    Unconfirmed
    Grants: NIH, NC IDEA
    Unconfirmed

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