Meet the Team

Leadership

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Kevin Eklund

Chief Executive Officer

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Tim Steenbergh

Co-Founder | PhD

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Jason Runyan

Co-Founder | DPhil

Advisory Board

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Doug Daugherty

Co-Founder | PsyD, HSPP

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Lorne Oke

Co-Founder | EdD

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Rick Nelson

Advisory Board | MS, MBA

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Mark Klopp

Advisory Board | MBA

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Jeff Smith

Advisory Board | MIM

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Kevin Pereau

Advisory Board

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James J. Rossiter

Advisory Board

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Michael Dugan, M.D.

Advisory Board | Senior Medical Advisor, M.D.

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Marcus van Raalte

Advisory Board | Senior Technical Advisor

Operations

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David Stein

Clinical Trial Solutions

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Benjamin Pettus

Customer Success

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Amalesh Debnath

Principal Software Architect

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Ferdous Mohammed Shahriar

Principal Software Architect

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Ishtiaque Ahmed

Senior Software Engineer

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Md Fahad Hasan

Software Engineer

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Tanvir Hossain

Associate Software Engineer

Sashoto Seeam

Principal Designer

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Kevin Eklund

Chief Executive Officer

Kevin guides LifeData’s strategic direction and operations. Founding technology, real estate, and health/fitness businesses, he is experienced in business operations, strategic planning, and growing businesses from the ground up.

Tim Steenbergh

Co-Founder | PhD

With a background in clinical psychology, Tim helps ensure the design of the LifeData system is optimal for in-the-moment assessment and intervention.

Jason Runyan

Co-Founder | DPhil

Jason’s role involves helping design, create and test the LifeData System. His background is in neurobiochemistry and philosophical neuroscience, completing his graduate studies at the University of Texas, and the University of Oxford. He is an Associate Professor at Indiana Wesleyan University and also conducts research using mobile ecological momentary assessment/intervention.

Doug Daugherty

Co-Founder | PsyD, HSPP

Doug is a co-founder of LifeData, and has a background as a clinical psychologist. He is the Dean for the Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University.

Lorne Oke

Co-Founder | EdD

Lorne is a co-founder of LifeData, and consults the team in technology and business operations. Possessing an extensive background in information technology, he has served as both the Executive Director of the Center for Learning and Innovation and the associate vice president of the Talent Ladder at Indiana Wesleyan University.

Rick Nelson

Advisory Board | MS, MBA

Rick’s provides technical direction and oversight for LifeData, with his experience in founding several technology-based businesses, and expertise in database design and complex application development.

Mark Klopp

Advisory Board | MBA

Mark is an independent consultant, board member, advisor and investor. He is currently an EIR with Tech Futures Group and a board member and business advisor for several private ventures. Mark is a former Board Member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

Jeff Smith

Advisory Board | MIM

Experienced software and technology business development, strategic alliances, corporate development and venture investment executive. Additional operating and board experience in several entrepreneurial ventures, quick service restaurant franchise development, nonprofit environmental boards and adventure travel.

Kevin Pereau

Advisory Board

Kevin Pereau is a leading digital health expert and author of the The Digital Health Revolution. His first health technology company was a consumer health scoring firm who’s mission was to provide longitudinal context around how what we do and how we feel affects who we are. Pereau founded one of the most influential boutique consulting firms in healthcare. He serves on the advisory boards of LifeData and HealthSaaS, and speaks at healthcare conferences where he also moderates panel discussions. He has consulted to variety of digital health companies ranging from population health & tele-health solutions, marketplace and consumer transparency tools to predictive analytics engines.

James J. Rossiter

Advisory Board

Jim Rossiter has been involved in helping solve Healthcare payer, provider and supplier information management issues for over 25 years. He has broad experience in sales, marketing, product management and development, management consulting and general management. Mr. Rossiter has been an innovator with technology companies in the areas of Interoperability, digital hospitals, medical terminology management, clinical research management software and electronic health records.

Marcus van Raalte

Advisory Board | Senior Technical Advisor

Marcus provides technical direction of data, application and environment architecture for LifeData. Marcus has over 30 years of systems and database development experience. Marcus is head of Enterprise Data and Applications at Shorenstein Realty in San Francisco where he leads the transformation of the effective and secure use of its data and the internet for its applications. As a partner of Applied Insights, LLC. he developed a Portfolio Management and Trading system.

David Stein

Clinical Trial Solutions

David Stein has 25 years of eClinical leadership and entrepreneurial experience ranging from successful start-ups and M&A to managing clinical technology product portfolios for large corporations. He has specialized in bringing new products, technologies and software to the eClinical market. He was also co-founder at President of Provenda Biometrics, an early ePRO company, which he and the partners sold to Phase Forward (now part of Oracle). Before that, he led Data Management and Biostatistics for a CRO. David has authored a number of articles, as well as some book chapters and is often invited to speak at conferences and events.

Benjamin Pettus

Customer Success

Benjamin ensures customers have a successful on-boarding process and provides technical support.

Amalesh Debnanth

Principal Software Architect

Amalesh has proved himself as a top notch back end engineer. He is known for jump-starting product development, and resolving challenging technical issues. Amalesh is our lead web and database architect. His calm, focused spirit guides the development process through complex initiatives to success.

Ferdous Mohammed Shahriar

Principal Software Architect

Shahriar has over 11 years of experience in software development. He previously held positions with Trippert Labs, Playdom and Walt Disney where he was involved in the development of mobile applications. Shahriar is the lead developer for our iOS and Android application development team and lead developer for all iOS applications.

Ishtiaque Ahmed

Senior Software Engineer

Ishtiaque is an experienced software developer whose professional journey began back in 2007. He is the Lead Developer for our web application development team. Past experience as a Full Stack Developer provides insights on all aspects of software development. This enables him to engage other departments involved in the development processes as well. Over the years Ishtiaque has worked on software solutions for various industries including game development, content marketing, and healthcare (Radiology) services.

Md Fahad Hasan

Software Engineer

Fahad has been working with Android since 2013 and C++ VOIP technology since 2015. He is proficient in designing and streamlining applications in a modular way using maximum functionalities. He also specializes in making applications faster and more user-friendly.

Tanvir Hossain

Associate Software Engineer

Tanvir has been working with the Android & Web platform since 2017. He is proficient in assigning applications in a portable way and specializes in making applications smoothly and more user-friendly. He also creates web platform content As well as, he is learning new things every day and improving his skills persistently.

Sashoto Seeam

Principal Designer

After nearly a decade of designing, Sashoto is an experienced product designer and UX researcher with products being used by millions of people. He is passionate about crafting data-informed designs that provide a beautiful, accessible, and intuitive user experience. He has led multiple complex design projects in fields ranging from on-demand service platforms to eCommerce, healthcare, social media, financial services, and SaaS.