Prateek (Teek) Dwivedi is TechCXO’s Partner in Toronto and leads the firm’s business development efforts for all of Canada. Teek is an accomplished strategy, technology, operations, product design/development, and transformation/commercialization executive who supports clients as a Chief Product Officer and Chief Operating Officer. His domain expertise includes healthcare, hospitals, digital health, and medical devices.
During his distinguished career, Teek’s accomplishments include:
Chief Development Officer, COO | Neurolign Technologies, Inc. – This company supported neurological diagnosis, treatment, and recovery for clinicians, researchers, and consumers. Key customers and partners included NASA (incl ISS), Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, MIT, and IndyCar. Teek was responsible for research, engineering, quality development, regulatory issues, and product and service delivery. He implemented the company’s consumer recovery and enhancement strategy for brain health, including software and hardware design and development, production, logistics, and support — all within 12 months. He extended the hardware and software platform to transform 510K regulated devices for mass clinical consumption. He helped orchestrate the company’s successful exit.
President & CEO | Ehave Inc. – For this publicly-traded software company specializing in health informatics for mental health and medical cannabis, digital assessment, and therapeutic video games for ADD/ADHD, Teek led the transformation of the company to a SaaS/Cloud Informatics platform and model. He established a product strategy and launched three new products in two years: two informatics platforms and a new mobile digital therapeutic video game – all providing pharmaceutical trial-grade clinical context and outcome data. More than 40,000 patients were on the informatics platform. The company also completed a trial for children with ADD/ADHD with 50 subjects with Hospital for Sick Children and initiated a trial for children with ADHD, Autism, and CHD with 250 subjects with Child-Bright Network. After Teek led the significant strengthening of the balance sheet to prepare the company, a successful sale was completed.
Lead, Digital Health Cluster | MaRS Discovery District – For this entity, which is North America’s largest innovation hub charged with commercializing technology and science research, Teek developed a product consumerization and hub of connectivity for high potential founders to mentors, hospitals, product innovators, funders and other founders. He created an advisory service model for entrepreneurs/engineers/physicians on start-up value creation from the idea stage to the discovery, validation, creation, and scaling stages. Focused on the creation and leverage of product innovation support through the creation/validation iterative cycle. The hub validated models on 35 different startups.
Lead, Cancer Informatics | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre at University Health Network – For this Top 5 global cancer research center, Teek rebuilt the IT infrastructure, joining existing and future clinical & research IT systems together to create a comprehensive research database and enable data exchange. He also established a unique co-design methodology for clinician and researcher buy-in to assure adoption, with 36 clinicians, 70 interviews, and 48 in-clinic/in-lab shadowing sessions across 5 disease sites and 14 clinics.
Vice President and Chief Information Officer | Mount Sinai Hospital – Teek championed the development of new IT strategy for infrastructure, application, team, and vendor management, including the first operating and capital dashboards tied to Hospital strategy and development activities. He and his teams delivered 8 major enterprise software projects and renegotiated outsourcing contracts to significant operating and capital savings.
Teek began his career in 1996 in Sports & Entertainment and Telecom Software Companies, including: AudienceView Ticketing as VP Operations (acquired by Rubicon), Cascada Mobile as VP Product (acquired by Grapple Mobile), Casero as VP Product & Cofounder (acquired by Radial Point), Solect Technology Group as Dir Product Marketing (acquired by Amdocs – key transformation activities post acquisition), Uptime Software as Dir Consulting Services (acquired by Idera) and Cyantic Systems as Software Engineer.
He is a former president and current Board Member of D.D. Foundation which promotes greater equity in two primary areas: health and education for vulnerable children and families in India.
He received his MASc and BASc in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.