Maria Mesa

Founder & Chief Growth Officer
2019
Alternova is a software development company focused in digital health. Alternova is on a mission is to make healthcare fun. Some of our clients: Stanford, MIT, UCSF, Brain Balance Centers, Childrens National, DoD, Takeda and startups from early stages. Use cases (types of products we build for our clients):  1. Digital Therapeutics (including video games!)  2. Patient monitoring apps and platforms  3. Platforms to collect and process healthcare data (including decentralized clinical trial platforms) We are a group of human beings working in our own growth journey, healing and learning. We bring together a strong sense of purpose, tech and gaming expertise and we put it at the service of the progress of humanity.

2022

Mentor
2022
Accelerator Program designed to provide qualified autism innovators with the resources they need to scale their start-ups from idea to impact.

2022

Strategic Advisor
2022
WPSS.bio is a venture capital fund focused on finding novel solutions for brain health. Areas of interest include: psychedelic medicine, precision psychiatry, non-invasive devices, biomarkers and diagnostics, HPSC and organoid research, BCI.

2020

Contributor
2020
CardinalKit is a set of tools (template mobile app + web dashboard and infrastructure) that allows you to build your digital health experience from the ground up, from the app itself to storing collected data in the cloud and visualizing it in a dashboard. It is basically a pre-built starting point to kick off and enhance your app, medical device or research project. This allows researchers, pharma and startups to: ∙ Focus on what to do with the data (the actual product) and not on how to collect it. ∙ Have a “proven” secure and compliant environment to start with. ∙ Do it in less time and without spending hundreds of thousands to just kick off the product.

2022 - 2023

Advisor
2022 - 2023
Bridging the gap between the current standard of care provided to Autistic individuals and a truly individualized, needs-based approach to holistic wellbeing on a massive scale.

2020 - 2022

Advisor
2020 - 2022
PeerKnect is a social networking app to Build Friendships & Social Connections for Children With & Without Special Needs by Bridging the Gap Between Parents, Caretakers, & Therapists. https://www.peerknect.com/about

2019 - 2019

Associate
2019 - 2019
Looking for companies in Latin America that want to expand to US market

2017 - 2018

Strategic Risk Management Analyst
2017 - 2018
Multinational insurance company with over 50.000 employees in 10 countries and 23 billion in annual income. • Designed and stablished methodology to manage strategic risks. As a consequence, the company’s corporate strategic planning process was redesigned and 4 strategic projects were implemented with a budget of over 1 million dollars. • Coordinated a cross-functional team on a pilot project to identify new critical risks in collaboration with corporate clients’ management teams. Outcomes were the raw material to develop 3 new lines of insurance products: cyber risk, reputational risk and human resources. • Engaged in product development for the following industries: construction, energy, aerospace and asset management. • Guided strategic project leaders through the implementation of risk management initiatives. As a result, alignment between projects and company’s strategy was guaranteed. • Conducted one-on-one interactions with corporate clients to co-create specialized products according to specific needs. • Received a high performance bonus before starting master program.

2016 - 2016

Digital Solutions Trainee
2016 - 2016
NGO working to improve the finances of people living in poverty in 18 countries. • Created intellectual property policy. As a result, process of content creation was standardized. • Conducted due dilligence to identify potential strategic alliances, used to redesign sales strategies. • Supported redesign of crowdfunding platform focused on entrepreneurs with low level of education, resulting in increase by 40% of ventures registered for funding. • Translated documents from Spanish to English, helping coworkers in non-Spanish speaking countries to access general information.

2015 - 2015

Project Management/Six Sigma Intern
2015 - 2015
• Led Green Belt project to improve bidding process. The outcome was a proposal for the CEO to create a centralized bidding area which was approved and implemented successfully. • Led Green Belt project to improve 3M’s participation in leagues and trade associations. As a result, diagnosis of costs and potential benefits was delivered to the board of directors. • Engaged in Black Belt sales project to structure a new sales division aimed for medium and small corporate customers.

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