AliveCor Welcomes New CEO

AliveCor, developer of FDA-cleared consumer electrocardiogram technology, announced the appointment of Priya Abani as CEO. Abani comes to the company with decades of experience creating scale in digital platform technologies. Most recently, Abani was the General Manager for Devices and Enablement at Amazon where she was responsible for growing the Alexa Voice Service by leading product, engineering, technical enablement and developer experience teams.
 
Simultaneously, AliveCor announced that Vinod Khosla has been elected chairman of its board of directors. Khosla founded Khosla Ventures in 2004 and was formerly a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins and founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures was recently named the top VC investor in healthcare.
 
“AliveCor is a perfect expression of the successful application of AI technologies in healthcare. Our new CEO brings a wealth of directly applicable expertise in development, enablement, and commercialization of these technologies,” said Khosla.
 
“I am honored to join AliveCor at this pivotal time where healthcare and AI are converging to give people more information and control of their cardiac care,” said Abani. “AliveCor team has not only built a trusted and globally known consumer business via their personal ECG devices, but they have also struck a chord with physicians and medical professionals by building a secure and powerful technology platform that is poised well for expansion and growth.”
 
Ira Bahr, who previously served as interim chief executive, will become COO and report to Abani.
 
These appointments will be effective Monday, July 29.