Neurodiversity Advocate, Loving “Spreadsheet Mom”, Speaker, Clinical Science Executive Compelled by her own journey with her Autistic child, Sarah combined her personal and professional when she founded BeMe in 2020.
Sarah has spent 20 years working across Life Sciences, Software, and Technology. Most recently, she was Chief Strategy Officer at Axiom Real-Time Metrics, a high-growth, leading-edge eClinical company.
She is a passionate advocate for the Autistic community and is driven to see a barrier free world for all. She holds a BSc (Human Biology) from Western University, Canada and earned her MBA at ESMT European School of Management & Technology in Berlin, Germany.
Sarah is an executive member of Women in BIO, The Fourth Floor and Parenthood Ventures. She is immensely proud of the value that the BeMe platform is brining to families and their care teams, as well as the team which has built it and is brining it to the world. “At BeMe, we ARE the families we serve.”
“Autistic individuals deserve society’s full efforts in terms of furthering inclusion at all levels, and they deserve to live gratifying, empowered lives. To do otherwise is a tragedy, as are the missed opportunities for contribution of unique and gifted individuals. Inclusion is a human right.”
As CTO of BeMe AI, Mark leverages technical and neurodiversity insights to evolve the BeMe Platform.
Prior, he was CTO for auticon, the autistic consulting company, where he created and led new technology practices. Before that he served as CTO/CISO for Daffinity Technologies, where he led a team developing an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) and hired a team of 12 to found a Receivables Marketplace Platform called APiO.
Mark’s code and the code he has reviewed runs on more than a quarter million nodes within eBay, PayPal, and many other companies. His most significant accomplishment, starting the grass roots program to take PayPal from 99.2% reliability to 99.99%, continues to pay dividends today.
He has also served companies like Lego Foundation, Dell and IBM; various nonprofits like Perthes Kids Foundation, Echoing Hope Ranch, and United States Space Foundation; governments like the State of Texas General Land Office and U.S. State Department; and most importantly individuals at those places and more. Mark has tried his hand at founding companies (5 of 6 successful), product management, inventing (1 patent), sales, and unfortunately, Dad jokes.
Mark is married with two adult children. He loves to trail run and snowboard. In his spare time, he is writing a book about a new way of thinking about product and technical quality.
Ian has over 30 years of executive experience and specializes in scaling and managing technology businesses. He started his career at SST, where he led the company’s growth from start-up to over $25M in revenue. Since then, he has held a number of other C-level positions at $10M+ software businesses.
Ian is pleased to be an investor in BeMe as well as its CFO, where he will works with the executive team on financing and strategy.
Bassem has worked in clinical practice, academia, and industry. In additional to having practiced Medicine, he holds an MSc degree in Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Oxford, UK, an MSc degree in Experimental Medicine at McGill University, Canada, and a PhD degree in health technology assessment at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Bassem has spent 28 years in diverse roles in hospital/healthcare, clinical research, pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, and education. He is a WHO consultant, CEO and Founder of MD Pharma Consulting Group, ECFMG and LMCC Licensing Exams Program Director at Edge Plus Inc., health economist, pharmacovigilance consultant, clinical research instructor, and a mentor.
His areas of research include internal medicine, medical oncology, epidemiology, pharmacovigilance, health technology assessment, decision analysis, and benefit-risk assessment. My skills include bridging the gap between academia and industry, efficient resource allocation, time management, and task prioritization.
Bassem’s hardworking and persevering nature and compassionate demeanor make Bassem a sincere and passionate advocate for BeMe and Autistic individuals.
