Handl Health is a first-to-market AI platform that aggregates and analyzes publicly available healthcare pricing data to help insurance brokers convert new business, retain clients and execute on savings opportunities.
For decades, benefits consultants have been starved of the data needed to objectively and effectively build affordable health plans, resulting in billions of dollars in unnecessary spend due to a lack of transparency of healthcare costs. Handl Health solves this problem by gathering newly published price transparency data and delivering it through a user-friendly, self-service platform tailored to help benefits consultants build and maintain high performing health plans for their clients.
Frustrated with working and living in a broken system, Ahmed and Ria founded Handl Health in 2022 after being awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health to research the impact of price transparency legislation on the American employer and consumer.
Their research led to the development of Handl Health's platform and the incorporation of the company.
Ahmed comes from a family of pharmacists who immigrated from the Middle East to New Zealand when he was a child. Ahmed practiced clinical pharmacy for four years before going back to business school for a post-grad diploma in health management.
He then spent 10 years in healthcare management consulting as one of the digital health leaders at Ernst & Young helping healthcare systems and payers across the US, UK and New Zealand build new digital businesses and products.
Ahmed’s global experience provides him with a unique perspective on the drivers of success in high value, cost controlled health systems.
Ria holds a degree in Analytics & Finance from Wharton. Prior to founding Handl Health, Ria was a strategy consultant for EY-Parthenon, specializing in developing data strategy for health systems and payors.
Her career took her to EY-Parthenon Berlin, where she focused on using public and proprietary data to create value and outcomes-based contracts for public payors and big pharma.
At Handl Health, Ria oversees operations and data science, leading the development of the Handl Health’s network comparison and analytics capabilities
Karthik comes from a seasoned career as a technical lead at Google Cloud and Meta, driving roadmaps for high growth products. He brings expertise in architecting big data platforms and applications.
Karthik has always been passionate about public policy, and hopes to drive change in the US healthcare system through his work as a co-founder and technical lead at Handl Health. Karthik holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
Shapari holds a Masters of Arts in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where she focused her degree on Healthcare Communications.
Shapari is an ex-agency communications and marketing professional specializing in high-growth go-to-market strategies and consumer literacy for top healthcare and pharma businesses.