We are engineers and clinicians, entrepreneurs and operators, with a shared passion to solve difficult problems.

Meet the Management Team, Board of Directors and Investors

  • Ling Shao

    Ling Shao

    Founder & CEO
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  • Joseph Adu

    Joseph Adu

    Chief Technology Officer
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  • Liz Hevenstone

    Liz Hevenstone

    Chief Commercial Officer
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  • Carl Byers

    Carl Byers

    Managing Partner, F-Prime

  • Navid Farzad

    Navid Farzad

    Managing Partner, Frist Cressey

  • Jennifer Kuhn

    Jennifer Kuhn

    Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Versant Health

  • Alyssa Reisner

    Alyssa Reisner

    Lead Director & Principal, CVS Health

  • Ben Ersing

    Ben Ersing

    Principal, Cobalt Ventures

OUR FOUNDER & CEO

Ling Shao’s Story

Ling’s own journey to help her boys diagnosed with autism get the care they needed led her to found SpectrumAi to modernize and democratize access to high-quality ABA therapy for kids on the spectrum around the world.

SPECTRUMAI’S CORPORATE VALUES

INTEGRITY

CURIOSITY

ACCOUNTABILITY

DIVERSITY

SPECTRUMAI HAS BEEN FEATURED IN

CAREERS

Work with SpectrumAi

We’re always looking for talented people to join our team and the mission to improve access to high-quality therapy and services across engineering, operations and customer-facing roles.

  • “Data collection and documentation is fundamental to creating value-based contracting for the ABA industry, and can help ensure that patients get the correct level of support they need. Our investment can help support SpectrumAi’s use of disruptive technology and value-based care to address ABA’s significant data void.”

    Vijay Patel
    Managing Partner, CVS Health Ventures

  • "SpectrumAi has built a compelling product to enable higher quality care thruogh better workflows and data science. We are excited to expand our investment in this large and growing area of need."

    Carl Byers
    Partner, F-Prime Capital

  • "Autism advocates and parents of autistic children have made enormous strides to get all 50 states to mandate coverage of ABA therapy. But when we took a closer look at the industry, there have been a very limited number of investments that focus on quality in the space. The emphasis on quality is the key to better outcomes for families and a chance for autistic children to grow into their full potential."

    Former U.S. Senator, Bill Frist, M.D.
    Co-founder, Frist Cressey

  • "The SpectrumAi team has created rapid momentum with both enterprise ABA providers as well as large and regional health insurance companies as the industry strives to move to measurement and value-based care. SpectrumAi's life-changing platform will help payors, providers, and most importantly, the patients and their families receive better care."

    Navid Farzad
    Managing Partner, Frist Cressey

  • "As the investment and innovation arm of the autism community, Autism Impact Fund believes strongly in SpectrumAi's model, which will lead to improved outcomes through disruptive technology and vallue based care."

    Chris Male
    Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Autism Impact Fund

  • "Families, employers and health plans are all frustrated about the quality differential in ABA treatments. We are all willing to pay but would like to get high-quality care in the process. Quality measures do not currently exist in the industry and there is a significant need to evolve towards a pay for quality or pay for value methodology."

    Kent Marquedt
    Individual Investor and Advisor, SpectrumAi
    Former CFO, Premera Blue Cross

  • "We believe SpectrumAi's framework of building-data backed quality initiatives through payor and provider collaboration is a winning formula to deliver change in healthcare."

    David Eichler
    Managing Partner, Cobalt Ventures

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