About Us
We are a team of hardworking professionals combining our backgrounds in digital marketing, technology, healthcare and finance to give consumers on demand access to better healthcare products and virtual care.
Justin is an experienced venture investor, and the founder and president of JLS Ventures. He co-founded and currently serves on the board of Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB:QUBT), a technology leader for quantum-ready applications and software tools. He previously worked for a global healthcare consulting firm where he gained experience in operations design and effectiveness, efficiency improvements, and supply chain optimization. He began his career at Gain Capital Group, focused on foreign currency trading.
Justin holds a B.S. in International Business from Elizabethtown College and a B.A. in International Management from the ICN École de Management in Nancy, France.
Alexander previously served as Chief Business Officer for Covis Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company, where he oversaw strategy, business development, M&A, licensing, and Life Cycle Management. At Covis, Mr. Mironov’s contributions directly led to revenues increasing over 10x during his tenure. Earlier, Alexander held similar positions with increased responsibility with public and private equity funded growth oriented companies such as Alvogen, EKR Therapeutics, Esprit Pharma and Valera Pharmaceuticals. Alexander began his career with Pfizer. Alexander holds a BS in Biochemistry from Rutgers University.
Stefan previously served as Chief Technology Officer of Runaway Products, a DRTV driven marketing firm with a core focus on building and optimizing systems to scale marketing campaigns for maximum efficiency and profitability. Stefan co-founded NT1, a digital marketing, web development, and design company that built, scaled, and managed a variety of DTC brands. He previously served as a commodities trader at CQR Capital and held Series 3, 63, and 55 licenses.
Brad previously served as president at Circadian Funding, a business loan broker for small and medium sized businesses, where he drove the company’s growth to more than $100 million in total funding. Prior to Circadian Funding, he served as COO at Utility Partners of America, a leading provider of project and operational management services for U.S. utilities. After joining the company, he played an instrumental role in laying the foundation and strategy for future growth, including the build-out of a comprehensive call center and forming key industry partnerships.
Brad holds a B.S. in Finance from Stockton University and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.
Jessica previously managed the strategic planning processes for a multitude of health systems, resulting in recruitment by Northwest Community Healthcare to run business development efforts internally. Jessica then joined Truven Healthcare (now IBM Watson Health) where she oversaw the Healthcare Marketing and Planning business lines. Jessica later joined Evariant, where she led Solutions Engineering and Product marketing functions. Jessica’s focus on solution packaging and positioning actively contributed to Evariant’s acquisition by Healthgrades.
Following Evariant’s acquisition, Jessica joined Healthgrades as EVP, Chief Marketing Officer. In this latest role - defined by three company transactions in less than three years - she assimilated messaging and product portfolios from multiple prior acquisitions to amplify the Healthgrades brand, drove the end-to-identity creation of Mercury Healthcare in tandem with the divestiture of the Healthgrades B2C division, and optimized sales execution with a focus on market fit that was integral in the acquisition of Mercury Healthcare by WebMD.
Jessica graduated Magna Cum Laude from Middlebury College with a BA in Neuroscience and minor in Economics.
Marc previously served as SVP and Chief Financial Officer for Blink Fitness, a national health and wellness brand, where he oversaw Finance, Accounting, Financial Operations, Procurement, Legal, and Member Services. Prior to this, Marc held several senior financial and operating positions with ANN, Inc, the then public company parent of Ann Taylor, LOFT, and Lou & Grey. Earlier in his career, Marc held finance and strategy positions of increasing responsibility across both publicly traded and high growth private equity owned companies.
Marc holds a BBA, Finance (Honors) from Baruch College.
Nick previously served as the head media buyer at Cheviot Capital and as a digital marketing specialist at Internet Brands, where he was responsible for brands including Lawyers.com and Carsdirect.com with more than $100 million in paid media budgets. He is a certified Facebook and Google marketing professional.
Nick holds a B.A. in Entrepreneurship from Loyola Marymount University.
He has extensive experience building web-based and standalone platforms, primarily in the fields of Health Care and Life Sciences. Dennis joins LifeMD from Doctor Evidence where he worked as Senior Architect and Senior Vice President of Technology with various teams to create innovative solutions bringing analytics and insights powered by AI to the field of Evidence-based medicine. He also held leadership positions at Parexel/Perceptive Informatics (now Calyx) where amongst others he developed a web-based fully configurable Electronic Data Capture platform for managing clinical trials that enjoyed wide adoption in the industry. He was also instrumental in introducing and implementing clinical data standards to connect said platform with other technologies used in clinical trials. Prior to focusing on technology, Dennis studied Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences at Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands). His hobbies include road biking, travel/adventure with his family and playing the piano.
Prior to joining LifeMD, Maria was a Director in the accounting and advisory practice of Eventus Advisory Group, a Boutique CFO solutions firm focused on structuring financial and accounting processes. Maria served as the Chief Financial Officer of a privately held international hospitality services conglomerate where she oversaw finance, accounting, procurement, and operations. She also held the position of Vice President and Controller for Kaplan North America, a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, a NYSE-listed company, with operations in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia
Maria's career started in public accounting at Ernst & Young where she ascended to Manager. She then moved to KPMG where her ascension continued to Senior Manager in the audit and advisory practice. Maria speaks three languages including English, Spanish, and Portuguese. She is a Certified Public Accountant and earned her B.S. in Accounting from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College.
Eric was previously a partner at Holland & Knight, a top ranked national law firm where he served as a member of the firm's Intellectual Property group and grew its New York IP Group from inception. Eric specializes in patent, trade secret, trademark, false advertising, anti-competitive, counterfeiting, and regulatory cases across a broad range of technical disciplines. Prior to Holland & Knight, Eric was a senior patent litigation associate at Goodwin Procter, where he was responsible for running day-to-day strategy and management of billion-dollar IP cases, as well as negotiating settlement and licensing agreements on behalf of life science companies.
Eric received his Doctor of Law, specializing in intellectual property, from the New York University School of Law. He received his B.A. and M.A. in biology, molecular concentration, from the University of Pennsylvania. He regularly speaks and publishes about intellectual property law.
Previously, Mr. Josephs spent sixteen years at the United States Department of Justice, where he was first a civil litigator and then a criminal prosecutor of consumer-related fraud. At the Justice Department, Mr. Josephs brought high-profile criminal prosecutions of, and civil enforcement cases against, entities and individuals engaged in health care and financial fraud, including pharmaceutical companies, dietary supplement sellers, and telemarketers. Mr. Josephs’ work at the Justice Department led to record-breaking judgments and awards, and his civil litigation work included a series of complex civil commercial cases that reached the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Josephs received a number of awards during his government service, including the Attorney General’s Award, the highest award offered by the Justice Department. He also served as an instructor in civil and criminal litigation topics at the renowned Justice Department training center.
Immediately following his tenure at the Department of Justice, Mr. Josephs was a partner at the former Edwards Wildman Palmer, where he focused on health care law and white-collar criminal defense. Mr. Josephs also was an associate at a large Washington D.C. litigation firm, and, prior to law school, he served as a legislative assistant to former United States Senator Wyche Fowler, Jr.
Mr. Josephs received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is currently an instructor in White Collar Crime at Boston University Law School.
Mr. Josephs has been in private practice in Boston since leaving the Government, performing advertising, marketing, and health care regulatory compliance, criminal defense, and civil litigation. He also has taught at Boston University School of Law and in National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) programs, after previously serving as an instructor at the Justice Department’s National Advocacy Center and the George Washington University National Law Center while serving in the Government. Mr. Josephs graduated from the University of Michigan and the Northwestern University School of Law.
James previously served as General Manager of Sales and Customer Retention at DISH Network where he built a successful team of sales professionals focused on increasing customer retention. He was part of a team that built DISH's retention department from the ground up leading them to a best in class JD Power award in customer service.
James holds a B.S. in Business and Technology from Middle Tennessee State University.
Tameca was previously an Enterprise HR Leader at TD Bank, top 10 bank, where she served as a Senior HR Business Partner in Canada and US for Corporate Control Function supporting executives across Legal, Anti-Money Laundering, Global Security Investigations, Fraud Risk Management, Audit, Compliance, and Digital IT Shared Services. Prior to TD, Tameca was a HR Manager at GE Power, where she oversaw and managed organizational transformation within Power Services engineering.
Tameca received her Dual Masters of HR Management and Development, from Webster University. She received her Business Administration Degree, concentration in Accounting, from University of South Carolina, Upstate. Tameca continues to give back to her community and mentors HR Talent across the country.
Dr. Anthony most recently served as the regional medical director for SwiftMD, which provides personalized telemedicine services to individuals, groups, and employers. Dr. Puopolo founded Integrative Wellness Medical Group where he specialized in wellness coaching, pharmacological management, and psychotherapy. He previously served as a physician at Sharp Rees Stealy Medical Group. Dr. Anthony earlier served in several positions at 121 General Hospital in South Korea, including chief of inpatient psychiatric ward, medical director of its alcohol treatment center, and family practice staff physician. As an Army Major, he served as the chief psychiatrist and officer-in-charge at the U.S. Army’s Camp Casey Troop Medical Clinic in South Korea, which provided mental health services to the 2nd Infantry Division.
Dr. Anthony earned his B.A. in Biology from Tufts University, M.A. in Biology from Boston University, and Doctor of Medicine from the Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Tripler Army Medical Center. Dr. Puopolo completed an intensive wellness fellowship at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Puopolo is a member of the American Board of Family Medicine and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA).
Justin is an experienced venture investor, and the founder and president of JLS Ventures. He co-founded and currently serves on the board of Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB:QUBT), a technology leader for quantum-ready applications and software tools. He previously worked for a global healthcare consulting firm where he gained experience in operations design and effectiveness, efficiency improvements, and supply chain optimization. He began his career at Gain Capital Group, focused on foreign currency trading.
Justin holds a B.S. in International Business from Elizabethtown College and a B.A. in International Management from the ICN École de Management in Nancy, France.
Stefan previously served as Chief Technology Officer of Runaway Products, a DRTV driven marketing firm with a core focus on building and optimizing systems to scale marketing campaigns for maximum efficiency and profitability. Stefan co-founded NT1, a digital marketing, web development, and design company that built, scaled, and managed a variety of DTC brands. He previously served as a commodities trader at CQR Capital and held Series 3, 63, and 55 licenses.
Before joining Blackstone, Naveen was a Managing Director at 40 North Industries LLC, a private investment firm where he focused on special situations equity and debt investments, both public and private. Prior to 40 North, he was a Principal at a family office in New York. From 2003 to 2008, Naveen was a Co-Founder and Partner of Eagle Lake Capital LLC, a private investment partnership focused on fundamental, value investing across the capital structure. He started his career as a member of the Restructuring Group at Rothschild.
Naveen received a BA in Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University. He has served as a director of various public and private companies, currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of Blue Yonder, EquipmentShare, RG Barry, and CRG Financial. From 2010-2019, Naveen served as Chairman of the Board of Cotton Holdings, a leading global infrastructure support services company. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and taught Applied Security Analysis I & II for eight years.
Bertrand’s undergraduate business and managerial economics studies were completed at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium's largest French-speaking university.
Roberto holds bachelor's degrees in business administration and an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona.
Jindal’s agenda included top-to-bottom reformation and privatization of the state-run charity hospital and the state’s healthcare payer systems. Fiscally, Jindal reduced the state budget by 26%, reduced the state employee headcount by 30,000, and implemented the largest income tax reduction in state history. With a bipartisan consensus, Jindal implemented statewide school choice programs and moved the state from the bottom five in ethics laws to the top five, according to independent analysts.
Jindal’s dramatic rework of Louisiana’s policy structure paid measurable dividends in the form of eight credit upgrades, $60 billion in private capital investment and a ranking in the top ten in the nation for job creation and the highest ever per-capita income ranking in state history.
Despite being the nation’s youngest governor when he was elected, Jindal had been well-prepared to become the state’s CEO, with stints as the head of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, as President of the University of Louisiana System, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare – all before his thirtieth birthday.
Jindal also served as a U.S. Congressman. In the private sector, Jindal advised senior management of Fortune 500 firms as an associate at McKinsey & Co. In recent years, Jindal has served as a consultant to Morgan Stanley and on the boards of WellCare, Granicus, Cotton Holdings, and Brown University. He is currently an Operating Adviser for Ares Management and serves on the boards of Hornbeck Offshore Services and US Heart and Vascular.
He serves as Chairman of the Center for a Healthy America, as a member of eHealth’s Public Policy Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Smarter, Cleaner, Faster Infrastructure Task Force. Jindal writes op-eds for the Wall Street Journal.
Jindal graduated with an ScB from Brown University with honors in Biology and Public Policy, and received an M.Litt. in Politics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Dr. LaRovere is also the Co-Founder and Vice-President of the Virtue Foundation, an NGO with Special Consultative Status to the United Nations that seeks to provide both short-term impactful and long-term sustainable development solutions to communities across the globe. She is also an advisor and Delta V board member of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and a Healthcare Operating Partner with iSelect Fund, a venture firm investing at the intersection of nutrition and healthcare. Dr. LaRovere holds a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Genetics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, a Doctorate in Medicine from Columbia University, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
