CEO. Board director. Scientist.
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Board Member · Global CEO · AI, Data & Technology
Akhila Satish is an accomplished CEO and independent board director with over a decade of experience in corporate governance, strategic leadership, and scaling high-growth companies. Her expertise spans critical phases of business development, including ideation, technology commercialization, market entry, capital raising, and sustainable revenue growth. Her most recent board tenures have contributed to companies achieving 10× growth in ARR and 5× expansion in workforce. Throughout her career, she has played a pivotal role in advising companies through capital raises exceeding $25 million, with aggregate valuations of $100M+.
Leveraging a unique blend of early-stage investment acumen, extensive operational experience, and a strong biotechnology and scientific engineering background — reflected in her peer-reviewed publications and her graduate training at Stanford GSB — Akhila provides invaluable strategic guidance to boards, CEOs, and founders.
Board of Directors (2022–Present) · Board Advisor (2019–2022)
Contributor, Data for Common Purpose Initiative
Board of Directors (2020–2022) · Board Advisor (2015–2020)
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Horstick EJ, Linsley JW, Dowling JJ, Hauser MA, McDonald KK, Ashley-Koch A, Saint-Amant L, Satish A, Cui WW, Zhou W, Sprague SM, Stamm DS, Powell CM, Speer MC, Franzini-Armstrong C, Hirata H, Kuwada JY. Stac3 is a component of the excitation–contraction coupling machinery and mutated in Native American myopathy. Nat Commun. 2013;4:1952. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2952. PMID: 23736855.
Dhanoa BS, Cogliati T, Satish AG, Bruford EA, Friedman JS. Update on the Kelch-like (KLHL) gene family. Hum Genomics. 2013 May 15;7(1):13. doi: 10.1186/1479-7364-7-13. PMID: 23676014.
Friedman JS, Ruzycki PA, Satish AG, et al. The adRP Gene KLHL7 and Its Potential Role in Ubiquitination and Photoreceptor Degeneration. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2011;52(14):5400. ARVO 2011 Annual Meeting Abstract.
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Akhila is a frequent speaker on scientific literacy, metacognition, the confluence of human and artificial intelligence, AI governance and data privacy, individual decision-making, and board readiness for AI-era regulation.
Sample talks: Health 2.0 Conference interview · What We Love · MyCyberDoctor at Health 2.0
For keynotes, panels, and board briefings, contact via LinkedIn.
Spends free time with her family traveling and solving jigsaw puzzles. Avid rock climber and reader of non-fiction.
I am a CEO, board director, and scientist.
I speak publicly about scientific literacy, metacognition, and the confluence of human and artificial intelligence.
I have reviewed hundreds of resumes and personal websites, and I wanted something unexpected and memorable. So I created this site as an interactive library, where every book on these shelves represents my work — companies I have built or advised, papers published, articles written.