Proteus Digital Health

Andrew Thompson

Co-Founder

Andrew Thompson is Co-Founder and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Proteus Digital Health. His vision for Digital Medicines is focused on expanding global access to care, dramatically increasing the value delivered by drugs, and creating a more sustainable model for innovation in pharmaceuticals that leverages the power of silicon, software and mobile devices. Thompson is a World Economic Forum Advisor, and a member of the selection committee for the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers. He also serves on the California Governor’s Health IT Security Advisory Board.

Passionate about bringing digital innovation to education, he is Co-Founder and Board Member of Summit Schools, a leading Charter School organization with an acclaimed track record and unique digital platform, featured in the Davis Guggenheim movie “Waiting for Superman”. He works in digital humanities innovation as a Member of the Stanford University Libraries Board and with Cambridge University. He is a Co-Founder of Parker Library Online – a leading destination for digital medieval studies.

Thompson has been active as a venture capital investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for 30 years, completing several Fortune 100 M&A transactions and IPOs, and is a named author on 51 issued patents. He holds master’s degrees in Engineering (Cambridge), Education (Stanford) and Business (Stanford GSB).

George Savage, M.D.

Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer

George Savage is Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Proteus Digital Health, and formerly the company’s vice president of research and development. He sees Digital Medicine as an invaluable collaboration platform for patient and physician, integrating information about a patient’s response to therapy directly into everyday healthcare.

George is focused on developing the clinical and economic evidence needed to secure global regulatory approvals and spur widespread adoption of Proteus’s ingestible sensor platform. He serves on the board of the California Life Sciences Association, the Boston University College of Engineering advisory council, and in 2016 was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

George holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, an M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He completed postgraduate training in surgery at the University of Massachusetts and is licensed to practice medicine in California. George has a successful 27-year track record of starting and developing technology-based healthcare companies in Silicon Valley.

Mark Zdeblick, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Mark Zdeblick is Co-Founder and former Chief Technologist of Proteus Digital Health, and led the group innovating on our technology. Previously, Mark served as the Chief Technology Officer for the optical switch group at K2 Optronics and served as founder and Chief Technology Officer of Redwood Microsystems.

Mark holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a B.A. in Architecture, both from the University of Illinois, and an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.