Audacious Inquiry CEO and leadership

Danny Krifcher is Ai’s Chief Financial Officer and is leading our growth efforts. He is an experienced builder and leader of growth companies including Aledade, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer, leading efforts to expand commercial payer partnerships and other value-based care arrangements; and, Avalere Health, where he was EVP overseeing the company’s Data Analytics Practice, Sales Organization, and Business Intelligence Unit, as well as all corporate functions including Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Technology and Legal. For more than a decade, Danny was an executive at America Online, where he founded and led the first internet incubator, AOL Greenhouse, and also served as EVP/COO of the AOL Dial-Up business. A Pittsburgh native, Danny graduated from the Wharton School and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Samit Desai is the Chief Medical Information Officer of Ascension. Samit attended The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Husband, father, #technologist, #maker and bird brain (@Eagles and @Orioles fan) - Developer Advocate at @A_INQ

Over 22 years of business and technology experience including 11+ years in executive leadership positions with the proven ability to build and run modern cloud-based, scalable, high-performant web and mobile applications in both enterprise SaaS and consumer domains. Experienced in building and leading world-class engineering teams distributed across the globe, at startups and established enterprises, functioning in 24x7 work environments.♦ Proven experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms supporting over 16M active users♦ Developed and rolled out SCRUM-based Agile processes and metrics to small, medium and large-sized teams♦ Architected and migrated legacy applications to SaaS and AWS Cloud at multiple organizations, achieving over 60% reduction in operating costs♦ Independently handled complex due-diligence efforts across a variety of contexts including M&A, fund-raising and pre-sales ♦ Deep understanding of technology and system architecture with a solid foundation and current hands-on experience in Java, Unix, Android and various relational and graph databases♦ Developed functional knowledge across a wide range of business domains including Corporate eLearning, EdTech, Talent Management, HR, Finance, Automotive, Healthcare and Franchising