Sumit Nagpal

Sumit Kumar Nagpal is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on disruptive digital health innovation at scale. Over the past 25 years, he has co-founded and grown five companies that have tackled progressively bolder systemic challenges in healthcare experience, cost, and access. Sumit now serves as CEO and Board Director at Cherish Health, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based company that he cofounded. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and artificial intelligence combined with medical evidence and human touch, focusing on the elderly, the frail, and those living with chronic conditions to improve their lives and proactively enable supported self-care wherever they live and as they go about their everyday lives.

Sumit began his career working with Steve Jobs at NeXT, Inc., who taught him how to abstract extremely complex problems and systems down to their essence. Trained as a software developer, Sumit also learned how to architect very large-scale systems to meet the needs of Fortune 100 clients. This was the genesis of Sumit’s “design-led innovation” approach—to imagine, develop, socialize, and scale engaging, innovative, and incredibly simple solutions that make complex processes approachable.

In 1993, Sumit launched Wellogic where he created one of the industry’s earliest longitudinal health records for hospitals. The next generation of Sumit’s work fused workflows and patient information across multiple organizations and enabled remote consultations—all before broadband and before the Internet was ubiquitous. As his vision grew, Sumit aimed at more complex new challenges—creating regional health information sharing networks by integrating patient information from laboratories, pharmacies, imaging centers, and others involved in care delivery with records from health and social care providers, all to enable safer patient care. Sumit sold this company to diagnostics supplier Alere (now a part of Abbott) to bring connected health solutions to market that integrated medical records with medical device data in community and patient home settings to proactively predict risk and intervene early to avoid the cost and higher acuity. The work also focused on chronic conditions to enable individuals to better care for themselves under the supervision of their care providers.

After Alere’s acquisition of Weblogic, Sumit started LumiraDx where he worked with his partners to further disrupt diagnostic-led care, launching a portable diagnostic device and platform that brings reference lab precision testing into ambulances, physician offices, emergency rooms, even to the work kits of visiting nurses, and to remote village clinics.

His next startup was Careful, where he focused on the vision of a hospital alternative at home. Here Sumit helped to architect care pathways, payment models, technology, health care services, logistics, and turnkey operations so that hospital-level care for a range of conditions that currently require admission to a hospital medical floor could be delivered safely in our homes, at a meaningfully lower cost, and with a better experience for patients. While incubating Carefully, Sumit joined Accenture as Managing Director and Global Lead for Digital Health Strategy and worked on care transformation at a global scale. His client, Comcast NBCUniversal, soon asked him to join as SVP and Global GM for Health innovation. Sumit spun out from Comcast to create his next high-growth startup – Cherish Health, merging Carefully into the company to focus on enabling safety, wellbeing, and care in the home.

Cherish Health’s first innovation is a low-cost, connected, wearable biosensor patch that is now being used to help mitigate COVID-19, enabling people with the virus to recover, socially distanced, where they live with 24×7 support from their care teams.