Our Team

Praxis Curae Technologies was founded by a team of highly experienced healthcare professionals and technologists who together bring a wealth of experience as both prime and subcontractors in executing software and systems solutions efforts within large, regional as well as national healthcare networks. Our staff and advisors possess nearly five decades of combined experience in healthcare and technology.

  • Andrin Foster

    CEO

    Mr. Foster has over 10 years in technology innovation with expertise in medical technology and financial services. Most recently, he served as Co-Founder and CTO of String Technology, a venture backed startup developing consumer payments solutions.

    Prior to String he provided strategic technical consulting for early stage Silicon Valley startups across a wide range of industries including agriculture, education, AI, healthcare, and social media, including Mal-ID, Retain.ai, and Nucleos. Mr. Foster began his career in medical technology, working as a Software Developer at athenahealth, and InterSystems. He studied Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he served as a team member of MIT Hacking Medicine and received his Bachelors in English and Economics from Case Western Reserve University.

  • Wale Olaleye, PhD

    COO

    Dr. Olaleye has over 10 years of healthcare related experience working in various capacities as a Pharmacist, Researcher, and Consultant. He is currently a Consultant at Deloitte, where he leads sales and support implementation of large scale digital transformation programs for healthcare organizations. He is also a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator (PI) at the Institute for Health Systems at Brandeis University and has led the implemented healthcare improvement programs at various renowned health systems including the Cleveland VA, Cleveland Clinic, and Massachusetts General Brigham Health System.

    Previously, Dr. Olaeye has worked in various health management capacities at Beacon Health Options, Steward Health Care, and Care New England. He received his Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from the The Heller School at Brandeis University and a Masters of Business Administration in Healthcare Management at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

  • Mafo Yakubu, MPH

    Public Health

    Mrs. Yakubu is a Public Health Epidemiologist at Ontario Health. She has over 10 years of experience in Public Health and extensive experience in healthcare data management. She currently leads the Clinical and Quality Standards team at Ontario Health and was previously a Lead within the Evidence Synthesis team. Her primary research focuses on Cancer Epidemmiology and she is well published in High impact Journals.

    Mrs. Yakubu previously worked with a number of international development agencies including Family Health International 360 (FHI360) and Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) where she led monitoring and evaluation of various Global Fund and USAID funded projects. Mrs. Yakubu is currently a Dr.PH candidate at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins University. She received her Masters of Public Health Degree from Yale University and her Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Bluffton University in Ohio.

  • Gareth Kafka, PhD

    Data Science & Integrity

    Dr. Kafka has over 5 years of experience in technology with expertise in Data Science, Software Security, and Networking Technology. He is currently a Senior Systems Developer at InterSystems.

    Dr. Kafka previously served as a Senior Software Engineer at Akamai and a Data Scientist at Vectra AI. Dr. Kafka is trained in Data Science through the Data Insight Fellowship. Additionally, in his role as a Technical Advisor to Insight Data Science, Dr. Kafka has helped train incoming Data Insight Fellows in Data Science. He received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University and his Bachelors in Physics from Case Western Reserve University.

  • Laura Varisco, PhD

    Design

    Dr. Varisco is an Interaction and Experience Design Researcher with over 15 years of experience. She is currently an Experience Designer and Researcher for multiple organizations, including MIT Design Lab's Innovation by Design as well as a Lecturer at Politecnico Di Milano and Domus Academy.

    Dr. Varisco previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Design Lead at Samsung Electronics, and Design Researcher at multiple institutions including the MIT Design Lab, and Interaction and Experience Lab at Politecnico di Milano. She received her PhD with honors in Design, as well as her Masters and Bachelors in Communication Design, at Politecnico di Milano.

  • Marlon Monroy

    Cloud Architecture

    Mr. Monroy has over 12 years of technical experience with over 5 years in financial technology. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Bequest Finance. His experience in Cloud Development, Backend API Development, and Frontend Development of both Web and Mobile applications has granted him a unique systems view of challenges including Authentication, Authorization, and Encryption.

    Mr. Monroy has been central to the development of multiple high profile consumer financial applications including at Visa, E-Trade, Solid, and String. In addition to his work as an individual contributing engineer, he has led multiple teams in the development of sophisticated, performant, and highly available cloud based solutions. Mr. Monroy studied Computer Science at Foothill College in California.