John Zicker

John Zicker is VP of Data Science at Kinsa. John’s work on advanced data science spans four decades and has seen him applying his expertise to fields as diverse as cybersecurity, life sciences drug discovery, particle beam experiments, and business intelligence. John is a 5-time entrepreneur and 3-time CEO.  John holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis as well as a Master’s of Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Some highlights of John’s previous work experience includes positions held as CEO at Sana Security, CrossLoop and Ampilion, CTO at Sagent Technology, engineer at Nasa, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Kinsa is a public health company on a mission to stop the spread of infectious illness. By turning the most common medical device in the home – the thermometer – into an app-enabled communication system, Kinsa guides the ill to care and services to get better faster, and aggregates real-time population health insights at the first sign or symptom of illness, long before an individual enters into the healthcare system. Kinsa’s unique and proprietary illness insights are used by public health departments to detect and contain new outbreaks, by retail, manufacturing and healthcare enterprises to forecast demand and optimize messaging, and by schools, families and individuals to predict, prepare for and prevent outbreaks.