Gaurav Suri

Leading M&A, strategic partnerships, and corporate development initiatives at Hippocratic AI, the leading safety-focused AI company for healthcare. Focused on driving inorganic growth and strategic alliances to accelerate the company's mission to dramatically improve healthcare accessibility through generative AI.

Bend Health is a venture-funded digital-health provider delivering virtual behavioral-healthcare for children and families. • Served as interim CFO and CBO, strengthening financial discipline, operating performance, and efficiency during a key growth phase. • Built national payer and provider partnerships (health systems and clinic networks) and revenue models to support expansion and financing readiness.

Appointed by the Board to lead transition and ensure continuity for partners, policyholders, and employees following a decade of growth and innovation. Oversaw strategic and operational continuity in wind-down planning, investor communications, and cross-functional transition across multiple business lines.

Health IQ was a data-driven insurance and financial-wellness platform that used lifestyle and clinical data to create differentiated products for consumers and partners. • Built and scaled insurer and reinsurer partnerships that introduced data-driven underwriting and marketing models adopted across life and Medicare markets. • Raised more than $100 million in equity and debt financing and scaled revenue from inception to $120 million. • Led commercialization, regulatory strategy, deal structuring, and go-to-market execution across multiple insurance verticals.

Delivered strategic insights and partnership recommendations to senior Google executives on competitive positioning across commerce and digital media. Structured complex business development scenarios to enhance alliances and drive growth.

Led business development and go-to-market strategy for Google’s early commerce and fashion initiatives. Negotiated strategic partnerships with top-tier brands, celebrities, designers, and digital platforms to expand reach and category adoption.

Like.com was a visual search and e-commerce platform leveraging computer vision and machine learning for product discovery. Spearheaded strategic partnerships and structured commercial agreements leading to Google’s acquisition in 2010.

NexTag was one of the first major comparison-shopping and performance-marketing platforms. Gaurav built and scaled the Financial Services vertical, developing partnerships with leading banks, lenders, and media companies that drove significant revenue growth. • Led strategy and execution for NexTag’s entry into financial services, creating new revenue lines across mortgage, insurance, and credit products. • Negotiated data, media, and distribution partnerships with Fortune 500 financial institutions and online publishers. • Helped position NexTag for eventual $1B sale through sustained revenue diversification and partner expansion.

Directed AOL’s product and business teams building a federated industry-wide identity and payments system. Defined and deployed product infrastructure and a cross-promotional platform for Time Warner’s web properties.

Negotiated and structured partnerships for an interactive video platform acquired by Philips Digital Networks. Named to Red Herring’s Top 50 Private Companies (1999).

Conceptualized and commercialized early online offerings for cable, media and entertainment company.

Led partnerships for the company’s most profitable business line (personal finance) at the leading consumer online service.