Akshay Venkitasubramanian

Cofounder at Nirvana Health

United States

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Nirvana provides the most accurate eligibility and cost checks in healthcare, starting with mental health. Our product allows users to instantly see how much a procedure will cost, thereby boosting appointments and allowing for upfront collections. We work with provider groups of all sizes including some of the largest providers groups in the country like Lifestance Health, Headspace Health, Talkiatry among many others.

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Experience (15 roles)

5 yrs 11 mos

Current

2 roles · Oct 2019 - Present

Co-Founder / Advisor

Current

Jan 2025 - Present · 8 mos·New York City Metropolitan Area

Chief Executive Officer

Oct 2019 - Jan 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos·New York City Metropolitan Area

Benefit Verification Technology Built For The Future of Healthcare With Nirvana’s automated benefit verification APIs and technology, healthcare providers finally have a simpler, smarter, and shockingly easy way to check patient benefits with 94% accuracy without consuming their staff’s time and res...

Senior Account Manager

3 yrs 10 mos

Jul 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo·Greater New York City Area

Advisor

Jahani and Associates

Jan 2017 - Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos·Greater New York City Area

Advising healthcare entrepreneurs on IP monetization, capital raising, and market entry strategy Portfolio: - Business model advisory for Home health IoT company (part of Johnson & Johnson Labs) - Market entry strategy/ Capital raising advisory for provider technology company using AI to match pa...

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Education (6)

Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

2012 - 2012

Grade: A Application of economic and strategy tools to healthcare sector. Final paper for this class focused on anti counterfeiting strategy for pharmaceutical industry.

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

2011 - 2011

Grade: A+ System dynamics modeling tools for; Model Formulation and Evaluation, Policy Analysis, Competitive Dynamics, Organizational Dynamics, Industry & Firm Dynamics and Managerial Gaming. Final project: Developed a simulation model to predict the dynamics of US job market

North Carolina State University

2010 - 2012

Grade: 3.9 Activities and societies: Member of Alpha-Pi-Mu: Industrial Engineering Honor Society Chapter Leader for Institute of Healthcare Improvement Student Member of Institute of Industrial Engineers- North Carolina State University Chapter Student Member of Society for Health Systems Senator-Graduate Student Body at North Carolina State University- 2010-11 Operation Research: Mathematical Optimization, Stochastic Modeling, Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Queuing Theory and Decision Modeling Statistics: Experimental Statistics, Design of Experiments, Bayesian Decision Analysis Operations Management: Logistics Engineering, Production, Planning, Scheduling and Inventory control Highlighted Projects: The secret ingredient of blockbuster drug: Smart Decisions Developed a decision support model to maximize returns on a new drug under patent protection period. Tripsaver Provided logistical analysis of inter library book loan program which resulted in 2% cost savings and reduced their service time to 1 day from 3 days. Improving Adherence to Hand Hygiene: Designed and implemented a large scale hand hygiene study in an urban hospital setting and studies front line healthcare workers perceptions and behavior. This study has been accepted at story board forum at Institute for Healthcare Improvement's National Conference-2012.

Skills (21)

Project ManagementCStatisticsRProcess ImprovementLeadershipStrategyResearchData AnalysisMatlabOperations ResearchBusiness AnalysisVisual BasicAnalysisBusiness StrategyMicrosoft OfficeSQLStatistical ModelingSASBusiness IntelligenceMySQL

Publications (3)▼

Public and health-professionals’ misconceptions about the dynamics of body weight gain/loss

System Dynamics Review · Aug 1, 2014

A Study of PPP Models for Social Healthcare Insurance

Center for Public Policy Research · Dec 1, 2010

Q-Tip: Empirical Evaluation of Hand Hygiene Compliance

American Journal of Medical Quality · Nov 15, 2012

Languages (6)▼

French(Elementary proficiency)Malayalam(Limited working proficiency)Tamil(Limited working proficiency)Spanish(Limited working proficiency)Hindi(Limited working proficiency)English(Professional working proficiency)

Volunteer Experience (2)▼

Board Member

Current

End Female Genital Mutillation

Jan 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

Engagement Lead from Remedy Partners

Senior Planet

Jan 2016 - Sep 2016 · 9 mos

Honors & Awards (3)▼

Graduate Research Assistantship

Issued by Edward.P.Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering · Jan 2011

Associated with North Carolina State University

Applause Award for Excellence in Client Service and Firm Service

Issued by Deloitte Consulting · Apr 2013

Associated with Deloitte

Going Global for Greater Good Alumini

Issued by Deloitte Consulting · May 2013

Associated with Deloitte Selected in to a Deloitte's Global Leadership Program

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Akshay Venkitasubramanian is currently working as Co-Founder / Advisor at 5 yrs 11 mos.

Where did Akshay Venkitasubramanian study?▼

Akshay Venkitasubramanian studied Interinstitutional program, Health Economics and Strategy at Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business. They have 6 education entries on their profile.

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Akshay Venkitasubramanian's top skills include Project Management, C, Statistics, R, Process Improvement. They have 21 skills listed on their profile.

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Akshay Venkitasubramanian is based in United States.