Fawad Butt
Fawad Butt
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Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder
Palo Alto, California, United States
Solving healthcare’s $1T a year admin problem.
Fawad is the CEO and co-founder of Penguin Ai, a company dedicated to optimizing the healthcare back office using generative AI for payers and providers.
Fawad has worked at the largest U.S. healthcare organizations as a C level executive with P&L responsibility. He understands the nuances of the US healthcare system and has built products, platforms, and businesses delivering better health and cost outcomes across the industry.
Fawad has built core data and analytics capabilities at 5 Fortune 500 companies and at 2 of the largest healthcare organizations in the world. He led P&L responsibility for a $400m+ data business at Optum, providing products and services to the largest healthcare entities across the US.
As an early CDO - before the role became ubiquitous - he helped lead the data trend, and is recognized across the industry as an innovator in the data management, data ops, and analytics enablement technologies.
He previously served as the Chief Data Officer at Kaiser Permanente, United Healthcare, and Optum. He currently serves as an Operating Partner/EIR at Canvas Ventures and sits on the boards of Vida Health, Particle Health, and PinePark Health.