Garrett Mears is a Senior Technology Advisor at OBH and has worked with the organisation since 2019. He supports clinical and analytical teams to design, build and deploy technology that enables better population health management and more joined-up care. He provided the technical leadership behind OBH’s first segmentation dataset for NHSE and continues to strengthen the team’s technical approach, delivery capability and data foundations.
Garrett brings nearly 25 years of experience as a software engineer, CTO and technology leader with experience in both the UK and US. He has served as CTO for multiple startups in the healthcare and life sciences industry. He has also completed more than 100 technical due diligence assessments for venture capital and private equity investors. He serves as a Non-Executive Director at ADVANCE® AI and is a Technology Advisor for the Manchester Prize.
Garrett holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Computer Science from N.C. State University.
Nasrin Hafezparast
Co-Founder and CTO Dr Nasrin Hafezparast is co-founder and CTO at OBH. She is dual trained in both Computer Science and Medicine, both at University College London. As a fully qualified medical doctor, she has experience working as a doctor in A&E, General Practice and Hospital Medicine in London. Nasrin has an entrepreneurial background and skill set. She is a Teaching Fellow and co-leads the healthcare pathway in the MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL, and is an Advisory Board member of Reform, the independent think-tank. She was selected by Management Today as one of ’35 women under 35′, and selected as one of ‘Twenty women in data & tech’ by The Female Lead and Women in Tech. She spoke at TEDxTehran on ‘Breaking through the disease barrier’. In addition, her interest in technology led her to co-found a website design and development agency in 2004 where she explored the online tech space and continues to manage a successful online B2B venture today. Nasrin brings an invaluable combination of technology and healthcare experience to OBH’s technical and process work on outcomes measurement. She has an extensive understanding and background in clinical and health datasets, and patient-reported data. Harvard Business School Value-Based Healthcare Delivery alumnus.
