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Operators by Trade —with National-ScaleResults

The leadership team brings ten prior healthcare exits, including five NASDAQ IPOs and five M&A transactions

Advisors from the White House Council of Economic Advisers, CMS and the FDA, Baylor Scott & White, Northwell Health, the American Nurses Association, and Dell Technologies

Why we exist

Patients love care at home. Healthcare innovation is abundant, but it rarely reaches them there

YCare is building the essential infrastructure that enables major health systems and payers to bring proven precision-medicine technologies, AI-enabled workflows, and hospital-grade clinical capabilities into patients’ homes — at scale

Operators

Allan Gobbs

Allan Gobbs

CEO & Chair

Healthcare tech executive and investor with 9 exits, including 5 NASDAQ IPOs and 4 M&As. Co-Founder & Managing Partner of ATEM Capital. Previously executed $20B+ in M&A/IPO transactions at Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort.

Vadim Cherdak, PhD

Vadim Cherdak, PhD

Founder, Chief Strategy Officer & CTO

Built and sold a 200-nurse home-health agency in 2010. A 30+ year technology executive with a PhD in Mathematics and Mathematical Economics, he previously held senior technology roles at Motorola, Bell Labs, and Citigroup.

Luis Andrade, MBA

Luis Andrade, MBA

COO

Former Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company (25+ years). Led operations for a $15 billion national healthcare initiative in Colombia. Former member of the Wharton Executive Board.

Clara Johary, BSRCP, CCRP, MBA, HCM

Clara Johary, BSRCP, CCRP, MBA, HCM

Chief Clinical Officer

30+ year cardiopulmonary clinician and home-health leader. Former national VP in specialty pharmacy and biotech; built at-home transplant and heart-failure programs, led UF Health’s clinical trials, and brings premium home-care operator experience.

Sergio Villarreal

Sergio Villarreal

VP of Sales

30+ year technology sales and services executive. Former Motorola VP of Sales and Services, where he led a $160M business and drove growth across the Americas.

Operator-deep, clinically credentialed, enterprise-tech native, policy-fluent.

Directors & Advisors

Every advisor here answers a question institutions ask before they partner — health-system integration, clinical workforce, enterprise technology, and federal policy.

Tomas J. Philipson, PhD

Tomas J. Philipson, PhD

Advisory Board

Former senior economic advisor to the FDA Commissioner and the CMS Administrator; former Acting Chair, White House Council of Economic Advisers. UChicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Joel Allison, FACHE

Joel Allison, FACHE

Advisory Board

Former CEO of Baylor Scott & White Health and THA Legends Award honoree. Led the Baylor–Scott & White merger, creating Texas’s largest not-for-profit health system; 11-time Modern Healthcare 100 Most Influential People honoree.

Marla Weston, PhD, RN, FAAN

Marla Weston, PhD, RN, FAAN

Advisory Board

Former CEO of the American Nurses Association Enterprise. Led national nursing workforce strategy at the VA, with expertise in care models and technology adoption. Modern Healthcare 100 Most Influential People honoree.

Rachael-Linn Spooner, MBA, FACHE

Rachael-Linn Spooner, MBA, FACHE

Advisory Board

Former Northwell Health Vice President across clinical transformation, digital solutions, and virtual health strategy. Led enterprise technology deployment and care-model transformation across the Northeast’s largest nonprofit health system.

Elena Maley

Elena Maley

Board Director

Managing Partner at ATEM Capital, with 20+ years of experience in healthcare investing, M&A, governance, and regulation. Previously a Partner in a $750 million investment partnership with Domain Associates focused on U.S. life sciences.

Steve Lazer

Steve Lazer

Board Director

Former Global Healthcare CTO, Dell Technologies. Anchors enterprise technology strategy.

How we build

Five principles that guide every decision

What we will not compromise on. What we expect of every partnership, every hire, every acquisition

01

Scientific Rigor & Outcomes

Every clinical, technology, and operating decision grounded in evidence, including the real-world evidence we generate from the home setting

02

Passion for Patients

We exist for the patients the system has underserved — Medicare, Medicaid, and high-need populations. We hire for capability and conviction

03

Compliance as Foundation

Home health runs on long compliance cycles. EVV, billing rigor, and regulatory transparency are built in — how we earn trust with payers and CMS

04

AI-Native Operations

Care coordination, clinical workflows, patient engagement, and quality measurement are built with AI at the core, with vetted digital-health tools in one platform

05

Partnership First

We partner with health systems, payers, and providers rather than competing with them. YCare is built for institutions serving patients beyond their walls