Team

Clinicians and builders who chose this problem.

Physicians, engineers, clinical informaticists, product and design leaders, and clinical operators. Doing this right takes every one of those skills, and the heart to see it through.

Leadership

David Lefkovits
David LefkovitsCo-founder and CEO

David Lefkovits has built and sold companies in software, manufacturing and financial services. Married to an internist for more than 20 years, he has seen up close how the system wears down the physicians who hold it together. He started Wellpro so clinicians can get back to the reason they chose medicine: keeping people healthy, not feeding a billing system.

Chaitanya Gharpure
Chaitanya GharpureCo-founder and CTO

Chaitanya Gharpure spent 16 years at Google, most recently leading an engineering team on Google Assistant, and was co-founder and CTO of Sully.ai, an AI company in health care. A triathlete, he knows firsthand what daily habits and steady feedback do for health. He builds Wellpro to help people everywhere live healthier, happier and more fulfilling lives.

Paul Edge
Paul EdgeCo-founder and Chief Product Officer

Paul Edge has spent more than 30 years building health care technology from the ground up, with certifications in health care IT and electronic health records (CPHIT, CPEHR). For 20 of those years, he wanted to build a different kind of EHR. At Wellpro, he finally is: one designed to solve for health, not for billing.

Alex Butler, MD
Alex Butler, MDChief Medical Officer

Alex Butler is a practicing pediatrician with an MD and a master’s in clinical informatics from Columbia. He knows first-hand how much of his day goes to the EHR instead of his patients. That pain drove him to Wellpro, where he builds a platform that surfaces what providers need, when they need it, so they can focus on what matters most.

Elizabeth Skafish
Elizabeth SkafishVP of Customer Success

Elizabeth Skafish is a health care operations leader and licensed social worker with deep experience building and scaling technology-enabled care delivery models. She has led clinical operations and transformation at Ascension and across high-growth digital and virtual care startups. At Wellpro, she helps practices turn their care models into workflows and operations that work better for patients and providers.

Ankit Yadav
Ankit YadavVP of Engineering

Ankit Yadav is a multi-time startup founder who has spent more than a decade building FHIR-based health care software. He leads Wellpro’s engineering teams and made AI central to how we test and release, so what reaches a practice is secure and ready for real clinical use.

Advisors

Jacob Reider, MD
Jacob Reider, MDMedical Advisor

Jacob Reider is a family physician who has spent more than 30 years working at the intersection of health and technology. He previously served as Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Allscripts. He advises Wellpro on making technology useful to clinicians and the people they serve.

Kristin Oja, DNP, FNP-C
Kristin Oja, DNP, FNP-CClinical Advisor

Kristin Oja is a nurse practitioner and the founder and CEO of STAT Modern Health, one of the first practices in the country to bring functional medicine and movement under one roof. She has grown it to eight locations, a team of more than 65 and over 10,000 patients. She runs the kind of practice Wellpro is built for, and helps shape the product from the front lines of care.

John Fryer
John FryerStrategic Advisor

John Fryer is Chief Growth and Corporate Development Officer at Lumeris, where he leads partnerships and the commercialization of its AI-enabled primary care platform. He has helped scale value-based care to millions of patients and more than $10 billion in medical spend, and was named to Modern Healthcare’s 2025 40 Under 40. He advises Wellpro on how care built around outcomes grows and gets paid for.

David Lightburn
David LightburnBusiness Advisor

David Lightburn co-founded Atlanta Tech Village, one of the largest startup hubs in the country, whose startups have raised more than $3 billion. He is President of Atlanta Ventures and was an early investor in Calendly. He advises Wellpro on building a company that practices can count on for the long term.

How we work

Like it matters. Because it does.

We build software that touches real clinical decisions for real people. That shapes who we are and how we work together.

Owners, literally.

Everyone building Wellpro, our team and our advisors, has an equity stake in what we're building. Owners don't wait to be told. They see what needs to happen and make it happen.

Humble and curious.

We will be wrong about things. Our partners will show us what we missed. We answer with curiosity, not defensiveness, and we change course when the evidence says to.

Fast, never careless.

Anyone on the team, at any level, can stop a release if something doesn't feel right. No permission needed. Speed without quality isn't speed. It's risk.

Debate, then commit.

We argue openly and decide clearly. Once a decision is made, we execute it fully, together.

Fluent in AI.

We work at the frontier of health care, and we work that way too. AI is part of how every one of us builds, tests and supports what we make.

One enemy.

Our competition is a broken system. Inside Wellpro, credit is shared and problems are owned together.

Talk to the people building it.

If your practice is built on whole-person, outcome-driven care, we’d like to meet you.

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