Jim Karkanias

Jim Karkanias is a seasoned executive spanning a range of companies, from start-ups to multibillion dollar global corporations. His expertise spans corporate strategy, R&D, software development, resource management, business development and technical infrastructure in the pharmaceutical, life sciences and IT industries. Karkanias led teams in pioneering software developments including creation of a distributed system designed for remote collection of data from physicians prior to distributed system environments and widespread use of the internet as a business tool. Karkanias served at Microsoft® as senior executive in the Health Solutions Group, senior director of applied research and technology, and partner director of information services program management, and at Merck as an executive director. More recently, Karkanias started the ML and Data Science teams at Biohub, leading the technology platforms as CTO. He is currently the CEO of StatOS, a company aimed at applying novel AI and ML approaches to help create next generation healthcare solutions, and currently serves as a board member for OmniTier and Canary Medical. Karkanias holds 76 patents

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