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Adnan Iqbal
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Adnan Iqbal is the co-founder & CEO of Luma Health, the market-leading platform solving the biggest challenge in healthcare – getting a patient in front of the right provider and to the best health outcome quickly.
Luma Health currently serves 100M+ unique patients, 200,000+ healthcare providers, and 950+ health systems and clinics across the US, Canada, the UK, and the Caribbean. The company has raised $160M+ in capital from leading technology investors including FTV Capital, US Venture Partners, Texas Medical Center, InHealth Ventures, and the Stanford-StartX Fund.
Adnan holds a BS in Environmental Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and graduate degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge.
See Adnan’s interview in This Week Health: End the Wait: How AI Is Finally Fixing Patient Access.
Aditya Bansod
President & Co-Founder
Aditya Bansod is co-founder and president of Luma Health, where he has led product innovation since 2015. With a background spanning software development, product management, and product marketing at Microsoft, Adobe, and multiple venture-backed startups, Aditya brings a technologist's perspective to some of healthcare's toughest problems.
Bansod leads Luma's strategic direction for an AI-native platform that removes bottlenecks and completes healthcare workflows end to end, for better patient outcomes and improved staff experience. With a decade of experience working closely with health systems, he has developed a vision for operational AI that solves health system challenges end to end. Luma’s platform moves beyond surface-level insights to AI that actually drives outcomes, reduces administrative burden, and ensures patients get the care they need.
See Aditya’s article in The AI Journal: Headless AI Could Finally Transform Healthcare Operations.
Tashfeen Ekram, MD
Chief Medical Officer & Co-Founder
Dr. Ekram co-founded Luma Health in 2015 after seeing patients in his radiology fellowship wait weeks for care. He is a board-certified, practicing radiologist with a specialty in chest imaging, and he brings that clinical view to every product decision at Luma.
Tashfeen earned his MD at the University of Michigan Medical School and completed his fellowship at Stanford. He graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley and was a Fulbright Scholar in Jordan. Today he provides clinical guidance on Luma’s product development and writes on how physicians can drive patient access.
Michael Chou
SVP, Product
Michael leads product, design, and product marketing at Luma Health. He was an early investor in Luma and a longtime advisor before joining the team in 2026.
He has built enterprise software for more than two decades, with a focus in industry vertical solutions. At Salesforce, he led the fastest-growing product in the company's history. He also served as Chief Product Officer at BuildOps, VP of Product at Okta, and SVP of Product at Convex. Michael holds an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and four patents.
Alison Thebado
VP, Client Success
Alison leads Client Success at Luma Health, where she helps health systems get lasting results from their partnership with Luma. She joined in 2025 with more than 10 years of experience leading customer success in healthcare technology. She is a nurse by training.
Before Luma, Alison led client success at NeuroFlow and held roles at Happify Health and Validic. She is a hands-on, people-first leader who builds teams around the outcomes clients care about.
Angie Azevedo
Principal Product Manager
Angie Shin Azevedo is a principal product manager at Luma Health, where she works on the AI platform and conversational agents behind Navigator. Her product work has spanned document intelligence, workflow automation, fax transformation, and patient outreach.
Angie joined Luma in 2016 as its founding customer success manager and later became its first product hire. She went on to work on media foundations and AI content ranking at Reddit before returning to Luma in 2024. That experience across customer success and product development informs her approach to building AI for real healthcare workflows. Angie holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Development from UC San Diego.
Listen to Angie on the Healthcare Uprising podcast episode, Hassle-Free Healthcare.
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From Faxes to Flow: How Operational AI is Transforming Patient Access in Healthcare
Healthcare Doesn’t Break in the Exam Room, with Aditya Bansod, Co-Founder and President at Luma Health
How UAMS Is Scaling AI Across the Enterprise with Luma Health
Turning AI Hype into Healthcare Execution: Podcast with Aditya Bansod, CTO & Co-Founder, Luma Health
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