HEATHER LEIGH FLANNERY, Founder & CEO, Equideum Health

Heather Leigh Flannery is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Equideum Health, a spin-off from ConsenSys AG effective March 2nd, 2020. ConsenSys Health rebranded to Equideum Health on January 18th, 2022. Equideum Health is a ConsenSys partner and a ConsenSys Mesh portfolio company. Heather is Vice Chair of the IEEE SA Open P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in healthcare and life sciences), has served as FY19 and FY20 Co-Chair and FY21 Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, chairs the Healthcare Interest Group at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), and is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers Blockchain for Science. Ms. Flannery is an active consultant, advisor, and keynote speaker.

Prior to ConsenSys, she founded and led Obesity Prevention, Policy, and Management, Inc. ("Obesity PPM"), an innovative provider of disease management, population health, research administration, and information technology managed services for health systems in the Americas, and an early adopter of blockchain technology.

Ms. Flannery has driven business model innovation via technology early adoption throughout her 28-year career as an entrepreneur, technologist, and strategist. She has consulted in the public sector in context of international development, bringing a global health perspective to her work. Focusing in the health sector since 2006, Ms. Flannery is a broad, lateral thinker who applies complex adaptive systems thinking to make progress against macroscopic challenges.

Due to her personal life experience, Ms. Flannery is intrinsically motivated to impact population health and economic prosperity. She builds mission-driven organizations aligned by shared values: making measurable societal contributions, creating economically sustainable interventions, and prioritizing diversity and inclusion