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Gaurang is the Founder and CEO of Violet. As a gay man, an Indian immigrant, and as someone that grew up on Medicaid, Gaurang is very passionate about equitable health care. He spent years building Oscar Health and leading their LGBT affinity group to ensure that all Oscar members received the inclusive care they deserve. In his spare time, he enjoys taking his rambunctious puppy Simba on long walks.

Scott is the head of operations at Violet. As a gay man, Scott is passionate about making the health care system more equitable and improving identity-centered care for all people. Prior to Violet, Scott spent 10 years at General Assembly where he led the consumer team, building a global education company helping to close the 21st century skills gap and improve career mobility. Outside of Violet, you can find Scott playing soccer for an LGBTQIA team in San Francisco or (shamelessly) binging reality TV.

Kay Nikiforova, M.A. is the Head of Clinical & Research at Violet and developed Violet's proprietary cultural competence benchmarking algorithm and education framework. Their research and clinical experience is focused on LGBTQ+ and TGNC identities, cultural competence, and trauma exposure, and they’re currently pursuing their PhD in Clinical Psychology. Kay is passionate about leveraging technology and advocacy to advance identity-centered health care and create a more equitable health care system.

Eliot Kristan is the Head of Engineering at Violet. A staunch ally, Eliot is passionate about leveraging technology that enables clinicians to provide every patient with equitable and impactful care rooted in meaningful relationships. He has spent the past decade developing tools and systems to help restore humanity to health care, from being an early tech lead supporting Iora Health's value-based model to now helping build Violet's platform powering inclusive and identity-centric care. He is grateful to work alongside immensely bright and passionate folks and outside of work, he enjoys recharging in nature, spending time with his daughters, and learning about biases in algorithms.