Dr. Geetha Rao is CEO of Springborne Life Sciences, a company providing compliance as a service to medical device and digital health companies. She specializes in compliance strategy and rapid commercialization for connected health. She has worked at the forefront of innovation for her entire career. She is an internationally recognized expert on legal and regulatory aspects of medical technology safety and risk management and serves on multiple standards organizations for medical device interoperability and security. She was a contributor on the 2013 World Economic Forum research project on Sustainable Health Systems and has twice been a TEDMED scholar

Dr. Rao holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from MIT and a Master’s in Business from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.