Sumit Kumar Nagpal

Sumit Kumar Nagpal is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on disruptive digital health innovation at scale. Over the past 25 years, he has co-founded and grown five companies that have tackled progressively bolder systemic challenges in healthcare experience, cost, and access. Sumit now serves as CEO and Board Director at Cherish Health, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based company that he cofounded. Cherish Health develops advanced sensors and artificial intelligence combined with medical evidence and human touch, focusing on the elderly, the frail, and those living with chronic conditions to improve their lives and proactively enable supported self-care wherever they live and as they go about their everyday lives.

Sumit began his career working with Steve Jobs at NeXT, Inc., who taught him how to abstract extremely complex problems and systems down to their essence. Trained as a software developer, Sumit also learned how to architect very large-scale systems to meet the needs of Fortune 100 clients. This was the genesis of Sumit’s “design-led innovation” approach—to imagine, develop, socialize, and scale engaging, innovative, and incredibly simple solutions that make complex processes approachable.

In 1993, Sumit launched Wellogic where he created one of the industry’s earliest longitudinal health records for hospitals. The next generation of Sumit’s work fused workflows and patient information across multiple organizations and enabled remote consultations—all before broadband and before the Internet was ubiquitous. As his vision grew, Sumit aimed at more complex new challenges—creating regional health information sharing networks by integrating patient information from laboratories, pharmacies, imaging centers, and others involved in care delivery with records from health and social care providers, all to enable safer patient care.