Improving Healthcare
Starts with Strong Leaders
Meet the team leading our mission to help healthcare providers increase patient access, decrease wait times, and reduce healthcare delivery costs.
Mohan Giridharadas


Mohan Giridharadas is the Founder & CEO of LeanTaaS, a 350-person healthcare analytics company with offices in Silicon Valley and Charlotte. LeanTaaS embeds patented optimization algorithms based on lean principles, sophisticated data science, and simulation methodologies into its flagship iQueue suite of products. iQueue enables health systems to improve patient access and lower cost by unlocking capacity in scarce assets. One or more of the iQueue products have been deployed at over 685 hospitals and 180 leading health systems across the country. These include academic medical centers like Duke, Emory, Penn Medicine, UPMC, Stanford, UCSF, University of Utah, UCHealth in Colorado, Rush University Medical Center and many more. They also include iconic, single-mission institutions dedicated to curing cancer such as Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Finally, they include numerous standalone and networked hospitals such as Boca Raton Regional Hospital, MultiCare, Providence, New York Eye and Ear (part of the Mount Sinai system of hospitals), Banner Health, Dignity Health (now Common Spirit) and many others.
Prior to starting LeanTaaS in 2010, Mohan was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company. During his 18-year tenure at McKinsey, Mohan led the Lean Manufacturing and Lean Service Operations Practice in North America and for the Asia-Pacific Region while based out of Sydney and Singapore. He was also on the committee responsible for evaluating candidates for election to the worldwide partnership of the Firm.
Mohan holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MS in computer science from Georgia Tech and a B. Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay. He has been a member of the Continuing Studies faculty at Stanford University and the MBA faculty at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley where he taught classes on the application of lean principles to achieve excellence in service operations.
Sanjeev Agrawal


Sanjeev Agrawal serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer for LeanTaaS, the leading AI / ML analytics company in healthcare operations. LeanTaaS’s predictive analytics software powers over 180 health systems and 685 hospitals to improve access and lower costs. Sanjeev is also the co-author of the book “Better Healthcare Through Math”. Before LeanTaaS, Sanjeev was Google’s first Head of Product Marketing, and led three successful startups – CEO at Aloqa (acquired by Motorola), VP Products & Marketing at TellMe Networks (acquired by Microsoft) and Founder & CEO at Collegefeed (acquired by AfterCollege). Sanjeev graduated with BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He started his career at McKinsey & Company and Cisco Systems before joining Google. Sanjeev has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Ana Sirbu


Ana has over 15 years of experience in finance, strategy and technology investing leadership roles. Before joining LeanTaaS, Ana was the Chief Financial Officer for Nitro Software and for BlueVine. Prior to that, she was a technology investor at CapitalG and Silver Lake, with a focus on making investments in leading Enterprise SaaS and Fintech businesses. Ana began her career in investment banking on Wall Street. She has received numerous awards, including being named to the Women in FinTech Powerlist, Top 20 Female CFOs to Watch, and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. Ana received her BA in Economics from Harvard College.
Lloyd Martin


Lloyd has over 25 years of experience in finance and operations. Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Lloyd has held senior management positions at Ernst & Young, Google, Trulia, and several venture-backed startups. He holds a BA and MBA from Santa Clara University.
Rich Krueger


Rich uses technology to limit waste in the healthcare industry and help hospitals provide outstanding care to as many patients as possible. He has a proven track record of developing and commercializing new technologies and has been directly involved in software products that continue to solve major industry problems and generate over $100m per year in revenue. Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Rich was the founder and CEO of Hospital IQ, a hospital operations technology company acquired by LeanTaaS in 2023, and the founder and CEO of DynamicOps, a cloud automation software company that VMware acquired in 2012. He also held executive roles at Incipient, Conley Corporation (acquired by EMC/Dell), and Discreet Logic (acquired by Autodesk). Rich holds master’s degrees from MIT School of Engineering and MIT Sloan School of Management and received his Bachelor of Engineering from Rutgers University.
Niloy Sanyal


Niloy has over 20 years of experience in marketing and strategy. Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Niloy was Chief Marketing Officer at Omnicell and GE Digital. Niloy was also a senior advisor at TPG Capital. He holds a B.Tech from College of Engineering, India and MBA from Columbia University.
Mark Fidow


Mark brings decades of experience leading engineering and product teams. His journey has taken him from programming airline and fintech systems to leading large and highly impactful global teams with Visa, PayPal, and most recently, Change Healthcare. At Change Healthcare, he led global engineering and product organizations supporting payments, communications, and revenue cycle management services. Mark was raised in New Zealand and studied at Auckland Technical Institute (Auckland University of Technology) before migrating to the US.
Dr. Hugh Cassidy


Hugh has built practical mathematical solutions for enterprises, including staffing optimization for table games at Las Vegas casinos, an award winning staffing tool for large health systems, and a patented machine learning approach to data deduplication. Hugh has also worked on numerous M&A and venture capital deals with a focus on enterprise AI.
He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Connecticut, an MBA from Cornell University, and a BS in Computer Science from University College Dublin.
Ashley Walsh, MHA


Ashley is the Senior Vice President of Client Services at LeanTaaS, the leading AI/ML analytics company in healthcare operations. Ashley leads a nationwide team responsible for product sales and customer implementations for iQueue for Operating Rooms and iQueue for Inpatient Flow. Ashley was especially instrumental in the development and advancement of the iQueue for Operating Rooms product. She is a frequent thought leader and speaker at perioperative events.
Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Ashley was in perioperative administration within UCHealth for eight years. She obtained her BS in Health Science, with an emphasis in biology and finance, from Truman State University and her MS in Health Administration from Maryville State University and Washington University.
Zetong Li


Zetong Li is Vice President, Product Management – Operating Rooms. He has worked with many leading healthcare organizations to analyze and improve operating room efficiency with predictive analytics and machine learning; and filed several patents along the way. Zetong has a wealth of experience in data science, decision analysis, machine learning, and recommendation systems. He holds an MS in Engineering Management from Stanford University and a BS in Logistics Engineering from Tianjin University in China.
Ashley Joseph


Ashley comes to LeanTaaS with over 20 years of service operations experience. She was integral to the early creation and building of the service operations practice at McKinsey & Company, where she served clients in the financial services, insurance, retail, energy, and healthcare industries. For over a decade, she owned and operated a chain of service-based franchises. Ashley has a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Obehi Ukpebor


Obehi leads product management for iQueue for Infusion Centers, delivering data science driven capacity optimization for over 600 cancer infusion centers across the US. He co-created and led a Customer Success function of 40+ people, and has worked closely with over 250 infusion centers to improve operational efficiency using predictive analytics and lean principles. Obehi brings 9+ years of experience in healthcare operations, lean manufacturing, customer success, and product development. Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Obehi was a software engineer at Oracle. He holds a master’s degree from MIT in Manufacturing Engineering.
Jason Harber


Jason brings over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology, data and analytics, and product management. Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Jason was the Chief Operating Officer & Chief Strategy Officer at Hospital IQ, where he was the driving force behind their product strategy and had responsibility for many operating functions across the business. Jason was also the VP of Product Management for TeleTracking Technologies, where he developed product strategy and led strategic launches for the company’s product portfolio.
Tim Vasil


Tim has two decades of experience in technical and product leadership roles at healthcare and software companies. Prior to joining LeanTaaS, Tim was Co-founder, CTO, and EVP of Technology & Implementation at Hospital IQ. He created a collaborative, remote-first culture starting in 2013.
His prior experience also includes Avalere (acquired by Iron Mountain), DynamicOps (acquired by VMware), BEZ (acquired by CompuWare), Google, Astrum (acquired by EMC), and BabyZone (acquired by Disney). He is an inventor of several utility and design patents. Tim holds an MBA and MS in computer science from MIT and an AB in computer science from Harvard.
Kris Franco


Kris joins LeanTaaS as their Head of People with over 25 years of Human Resources experience as a Generalist, Business Partner, and People Leader. She was most recently at Affogato HR Consulting. Prior to that, she was at 23andMe where she was responsible for building and managing their Human Resources organization while fostering the company culture during a period of tremendous growth. Kris holds a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication from San Jose State University and SPHR, PHRca and SHRM-SCP certifications.
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