Siva Namasivayam
“We’re transforming prior authorization into a strategic asset that aligns physicians and health plans on evidence-based care paths for the patient's entire care journey to improve quality outcomes.”
In his third entrepreneurial healthcare venture, Siva Namasivayam is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere Health. Siva has more than 20 years of experience utilizing technology and data to improve healthcare processes. Siva’s key to success in healthcare entrepreneurship has been his ability to identify unsolved, expensive business problems and develop innovative solutions.
Prior to co-founding Cohere, Siva was a co-founding partner of SCIO Health Analytics in 2007 and he grew the company from $0M in revenue to $90M and then successfully sold to EXL in 2018 for over $240M. Siva built SCIO, one of the first health analytics companies, from the ground up and employed over 1,200 individuals. The company appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in the United States for seven consecutive years (from 2012-2018).
Siva holds a master’s in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.