Pawan Kohli

Pawan Kohli is a healthcare technology executive with more than two decades of experience guiding healthcare organizations as they navigate the complex intersections of technology, strategy and patient care. Pawan’s career spans both the private and public healthcare sectors, and he is dedicated to leveraging technology to make healthcare more human, accessible, and efficient.

With many pressing challenges in healthcare delivery and management, Pawan’s keen understanding of the sector’s challenges and opportunities enables him to harness and build on technology’s potential. As a visionary leader with a passion for innovation, Pawan’s strengths lie not just in understanding healthcare’s technological landscape but in foreseeing its evolution.

A testament to Pawan’s strategic acumen, forward planning, and ability to lead high-performing teams is his hands-on experience steering early-stage startups through accelerated growth phases as a Strategic Advisor and Fractional CTO. Pawan offers new ventures strategic guidance to propel startups to the forefront of innovation, while also leveraging his robust professional network to foster partnerships and customer relationships.

Pawan’s tenure as Head of Technology at Olive AI further underscores his commitment to revolutionizing healthcare with industry leading Automation and Artificial Intelligence. Under his leadership, Olive AI experienced hyper-growth as a SaaS solution that automated healthcare processes, while also setting new standards for enterprise architecture, tech stack development, and the seamless delivery of technology solutions to improve operations for both health systems and payers.

Pawan is currently advising early-stage startups (Pre-seed, Seed and Series A) with the following:

Building Strategic Partnerships

• Leverage a substantial network of engineers, visionaries, founders, and executives to advance strategic partnerships

• Support founders with identifying pilot customers that would most benefit from a startup’s capabilities

• Support founding teams with fundraising

Mentoring Founding Teams

• Attract and educate CEOs and founding team members for new ventures

• Guide early stage, zero-to-one, startups from initial concept through development and launch

• Advise on goal setting, strategic initiatives, business objectives, and growth plans

Technical Roadmaps

• Conduct technical reviews

• GenAI models and partnership

• Data governance and best practices

• Identify opportunities to increase efficiency of resource usage

• M&A efforts

Business Development and Go-to-Market Strategies

• Delivering advice on pipeline management analyze sales performance, reporting and forecasting

• Support founding teams with communicating their value proposition and competitive advantage

• Helping founding teams create pitch decks to secure venture funding

Startup Business Operations

• HR/Legal/Finance/IT software guidance

• Give guidance on project management, implementation, and operations

Business Validation

• Assess a venture’s overall performance and potential in the market