Avinash Jayaraman Chief Growth Officer and Co-Founder, Sonara

Avinash Jayaraman, M.D., is a co-founder and chief growth officer at Sonara, a healthtech company providing telehealth options for methadone patients. Avi and his co-founder (Michael Giles, M.D.) started Sonara while they were in medical training. Michael wanted to use simple technology to increase access to methadone, a segment of opioid addiction treatment that had been neglected. Since earning his M.D., Avi has been building Sonara full-time. In his pre-Sonara life, Avi was a prolific researcher across many disciplines including plastic surgery, transplant surgery, psychiatry and genetics. He has been published numerous times and gave over 50 poster and podium presentations at research conferences. Before medical school, he spent time as a project manager at Epic, a transplant surgery researcher at Northwestern, an MCAT tutor with BluePrint prep and also served as a nationally renowned high school debate coach. Avi holds an M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a B.A. in mathematics from Northwestern University.

Dexter Braff President, The Braff Group

Dexter W. Braff is president of The Braff Group, a healthcare M&A advisory firm. With 30 years of experience representing healthcare service companies, Dexter is recognized as an industry expert in healthcare M&A. He has written and contributed to feature articles that have appeared in numerous healthcare industry publications and has written a chapter in the "Handbook of Business Valuation" published by John Wiley & Sons. He is interviewed on various topics regarding healthcare M&A by news outlets including Bloomberg News, CNBC, USA Today, The Huffington Post and The Palm Beach Times. Dexter has presented seminars, webinars, moderated discussion panels and has been the keynote speaker on various issues regarding healthcare M&A and finance at conferences across the country including Healthcare Innovation & Investment Conference, Autism Investor Summit, Art of the Deal, the Remington Think Tank, Health Care Capital Investors Conference and more. He was recently inducted into The Home Care and Hospice Financial Managers Association Hall of Fame as "deal-maker extraordinaire." Dexter holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. from the University of Oregon, a B.A. from Cornell University and received the Vincent W. Lanfear Award for academic achievement.

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