Trishan Arul

Chief Executive Officer

2021

CEO & co-founder of AI cancer imaging software company focused on creating AI powered diagnostic tools for spanning the entire cancer care journey. Picture Health uses existing clinical imaging from radiology (CT, MRI, PET) and pathology (digitized WSI's) to provide actionable information to radiologists, pathologists, and oncologists so they can provide the best care to cancer patients.

Principal

2020

Director

2020 - 2021

SVP Finance & Administration

2017 - 2019

Enabling healthcare providers to bring precision medicine to every cancer patient, Syapse's data platform combines molecular genomic and clinical data to provide insights to healthcare systems and life sciences companies. - health-tech startup backed by Social Capital, Safeguard Scientifics, Ascension Ventures, GE Ventures, Roche Ventures, Merck GHIF, Amgen Ventures, and others

CFO

2013 - 2015

- Venture backed ad-tech startup funded by Foundry Group & Spark Capital - Successfully sold business & IP

Head of Business Operations

2011 - 2013

- Originally an Arul & Associates client - Joined founders Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Jason Goldman as they relaunched the organization which incubated Twitter - Launched Medium.com, incubated early stage startups, and invested in startups through a related investment fund

Founder

2009 - 2012

- Sports themed early childhood development classes for children aged 18 mos to 6 years. Classes are held 7 days a week at locations throughout San Francisco - Ran all aspects of small business growing it 10x along with expanding from 5 part time coaches to 4 full time employees and 10 part time coaches

Consulting CFO

2007 - 2012

- Provided full service finance and accounting for startups and small businesses on a part-time or interim basis. Services range from bookkeeping and payroll to financial reporting and Board representation. - Advised multiple startups as a part time CFO and managed staff providing accounting services to clients - Clients included Zume Life (Health tech startup focused on improving medical compliance for outpatients), Snibbe Interactive (digital multimedia installations), Boutique Air (point to point charter airline), Code for America, gdgt.com, Retrevo (e-commerce), and Typekit (subscription web fonts) - Managed successful M&A transactions for various startups - Wound down consulting practice to join The Obvious Corporation (a client) full time

Corporate Controller

2005 - 2007

- Diversified Real Estate company with over $1B in revenue and assets - Led the implementation of an SAP system along with new procedures to streamline work and introduced internal controls - Developed new consolidation procedures to manage the complexity of properly accounting and reporting on hundreds of legal entities - Provided technical oversight to convert company’s accounting to full GAAP compliance - Managed annual audit with Big 4 firm; reduced audit times by over 50%

Controller

2002 - 2005

- Institutional Investment Management firm catering to Taft-Hartley clients managing ~$20B in Equity, Fixed Income, and Real Estate Investments for pension funds. Subsidiary of New York Life Investment Management. - Principal Financial Officer with responsibility for Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting, Management Reporting, Planning, and Internal Controls; Increased scope of responsibility to include Human Resources and Information Technology.