Advisory Board

Paul Humphries,Ex-Group President & Chief Innovation Officer, Flex

Paul Humphries recently was the Group President and Chief Innovation Officer at Flex, a $26bn manufacturing and supply chain solutions company. In his capacity, Mr. Humphries had global P&L responsibility for the company’s $11bn Reliability Solutions Group, comprising the Automotive, Health Solutions and Industrial business units. Additionally he led the Corporate Innovation group responsible for developing and deploying next generation technologies across the entire business Prior to that, Mr. Humphries held senior leadership positions at AlliedSignal, Honeywell and Borg-Warner Corporation. Mr. Humphries has served on the board of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and Superior Industries International, Inc. and since retiring has accepted additional advisory and board roles. He holds a bachelor’s degree (Hons) in applied social studies from Coventry University and postgraduate certification in human resource management from West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education.

Uday Bellary,Strategy & Business Development Executive

Uday advises on corporate strategy and business development at Albeado. An accomplished global executive, Uday brings more than 30 years of finance, accounting, investor relations and operations background with significant experience in debt and equity financing. As CFO of Metro OptiX, he managed the company’s spin-off from LM Ericsson of Sweden and raised in excess of $100 million from major venture capital companies. Additionally, Uday took MMC Networks through its IPO as the company’s chief financial officer. The company was eventually acquired by AMCC for $4 billion. Uday has also held key accounting and finance and operations roles with a number of other companies, including Intel Corporation and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Uday is a CPA and a Chartered Accountant and also holds DMA (MBA) from Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Bombay, India. Uday also serves as Audit Committee Chairman of public and private companies in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Paul Beaupre, MD, MBA, CEO, St. John’s Medical Center

Dr. Paul Beaupre, MD, MBA, is the Chief Executive Officer of St. John’s Medical Center. Dr. Beaupre earlier served as the CEO of Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose, California). In the Silicon Valley medical community, he is considered a pioneer for his commitment to using technologies and strategic models to improve patient outcome and care quality along with making the hospital services more efficient. He introduced the “journey to excellence,” a commitment to improving patient-care quality and enhancing the patient’s experience.

Dr. Andrew Nguyen, PhD, UCSF Professor of Health informatics & Entrepreneur

Andrew got his PhD in Biological and Medical Informatics from University of California, San Francisco, after getting his BS in EE and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego. He is currently a Professor at the University of San Francisco where he teaches Health Care Data Analytics and Clinical Decision Support. Andrew is also the co-founder and CTO of klaraHealth, a digital health startup that is solving the data usability problem by making it easy for anyone to work with healthcare data, with an initial focus in behavioral health and therapy management. Andrew’s other interests include integration and analysis of physiological sensor data to quickly and accurately detect changes in a patient’s clinical state.

Dr. Erfan Ibrahim, PhD Ex-Director at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, DOE

Dr. Erfan Ibrahim brings 28 years of professional experience after his PhD in Nuclear Engineering. NREL is a Department of Energy Lab focused on all aspects of renewable energy, environment, energy efficiency, and computational science and biological sciences. Dr. Ibrahim has worked in diverse areas including Telecom Network Management, Wireless communications, Smart Grid, and currently focuses on Cybersecurity. He is frequently solicited to speak on Cybersecurity topics at public conferences, workshops and panel discussions. His past roles include Chief Scientist & Strategic Innovations Director, Penn State University, Principal Consultant, Energy sector practice, Scitor Corporation and Technical Executive at EPRI, Palo Alto. Dr. Ibrahim graduated with Honors in Physics (Suma cum laude) from Syracuse University in NY, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin, and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.