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Danish Munir

Founding Partner @ GreyMatter Capital | Mental Health Investor & Builder

New York City Metropolitan Area

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering

    (2005 - 2009)

  • BBA-MIS

    IBA (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi University)

    (2004 - 2005)

  • High School/A levels

    Karachi Grammar School

    (2002 - 2004)

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner

    2021

    GreyMatter is a new venture firm dedicated to unlocking breakthrough progress in mental health and wellbeing. We believe that this next generation of founders will finally tackle the stigma and lack of access in mental health, and scale evidence based treatments for mental illness. We also believe that society must evolve to invest in resilience, social & emotional learning, earlier detection and diagnosis of mental health. At GreyMatter, our goal is to support entrepreneurs who are taking on these challenges head first, and looking to build the most ambitious companies in mental health. Our role is to support these entrepreneurs, through our network, community and capital. Board Seats: Manatee, TownHome Health Other investments: Healthie, Nema Health, Vanna, Flourish Health, Ours, Oye, Yuvo Health, Talkiatry, PeopleHood, Sanmai, Valera Health, Applied Cognition, SoulSide, FamilyWell, Era, Pelago, Blackbird Health, Coral Care, Anna Autism Care

Private

2016

  • Venture Investor

    2016

    Early & emerging growth stage investments include: + ACV Auctions - dealer auto auction marketplace + AssuranceSD - self directed care for seniors + Baselane - financial hub for independent landlords + Bravecare - Pediatric primary & urgent care + Glacier - AI based technology to end waste + Headway - in-person therapy marketplace + Healthie - digital infrastructure for digital health + Henry the Dentist - modern, mobile dental + Kintsugi - predicting depression through biomarkers + LoansIntel - software & services for credit analysis + Manatee - pediatric behavioral health + Maven Clinic - women's & family health + Melio - payments for SMB + PairTree - tech enabled, modern adoption services + Ride Health - modernized non-emergency medical transportation + Redesign Health - transforming consumer health + Rivian - electric vehicles for B2B and B2C + Sage - modern operating system for senior care + Thrasio - SMB e-commerce acquisition & growth + Troy - health plan powered by pharmacy & tech + Yuvo - value based care & population health for FHQCs

2019 - 2020

  • CIO, Optum Behavioral Care

    2019 - 2020

    Part of the core founding team of a de novo business focused on transforming behavioral health care delivery that worked with dozens of emerging mental health startups to create better experiences for our members, enabling them to find the right, evidence-based care at the right time. Responsible for: - Leading the integration of Genoa Telepsychiatry into Optum Behavioral Health - Developed the foundational operational and technology strategies for a combined OBC & Genoa business - Driving organizational alignment within the various Optum behavioral health businesses - Attracted engineering talent to work in a startup-like environment inside a large enterprise - Continued to drive growth at Genoa Telepsychiatry through technology innovation and acceleration of customer adoption targeting 80% YoY growth

  • CIO (exited to Optum)

    2016 - 2020

    A subsidiary of Genoa Healthcare at the time, Genoa Telepsychiatry continued to serve Community Mental Health Centers, by providing a comprehensive, integrated telepsychiatry solution. Our business involved not only finding and placing the best psychiatrists and nurse practitioners who were the right fit for the patients at these centers, but also developing the technology, workflows and processes to make remote care successful. Responsible for: - Operating an innovative telepsychiatry business, backed by Advent to deliver consistent growth and achieve fiscal targets set by the board - Driving the business to 25X growth over 4 years - Leading the integration of startup 1DocWay into Genoa Healthcare to establish one of the fastest growing business divisions for the company - Scaling the Product & Engineering teams, building out on-shore and off-shore teams in New York, Mexico, India and Nigeria - Shipping multiple products and services including a Telemedicine platform, a psychiatry marketplace, and various Line of Business (LoB) applications - Leading the marketing strategy for Genoa Telepsychiatry and built the core digital marketing infrastructure and capabilities a brand revamp

2011 - 2015

  • CTO & Co-Founder (Backed by Rock Health; exited to Genoa Healthcare)

    2011 - 2015

    CTO & Co-Founder at one of the first Telepsychiatry companies to scale. We help clinics that treat behavioral health patients but don't have enough provider capacity by finding them the right providers and equipping them with a purpose built telepsychiatry platform to facilitate remote care delivery. Bootstrapped the business at a time when telemedicine and mental health were both novel and quite early. Developed a care model, serving medicaid patients who did not have access to smartphones, devices or data at the time to access care via telemedicine rooms and kiosks at local clinics. Responsible for: - Setting the product and technology vision for the 1DocWay telepsychiatry platform - Leading the engineering and development of the telepsychiatry portal - Delivering internal tools that facilitate and accelerate the acquisition of clinics and physicians - Delivering Direct-to-consumer telepsychiatry solutions to Payors through developing business partnerships, designing product solutions and leading engineering efforts - Building team and organizational culture and pushing the bar for organizational excellence

2009 - 2011

  • Program Manager - Business Analytics and Optimization - Windows Live Safety Platform

    2009 - 2011

2008 - 2008

  • Capital Markets Summer Analyst

    2008 - 2008

Wharton Entreprenurial Programs

2007 - 2008

  • Senior Developer

    2007 - 2008

Linguistics Data Consortium

2006 - 2007

  • Software Engineer

    2006 - 2007

    Programming activities directed towards the extraction, organization, and analysis of foreign languages from various sources.

  • Summer Analyst, Equity Research,

    2007 - 2007

    Financial modeling, valuation, industry and firm analysis, equity research.