Tushar Parlikar

Co-Founder and CEO @ Porter Health; formerly Head of Product at Butterfly Network; ex-Verily Life Sciences; ex-Google; MIT

Greater Boston

About

Tushar Parlikar is a highly experienced executive and engineer with a strong background in developing innovative medical and consumer technologies. As CEO and Co-Founder of Porter Health Inc., he has demonstrated leadership in building AI-based healthcare solutions and securing funding. His previous roles include VP of Product Management at Butterfly Network, where he successfully led product teams and strategic initiatives, and Product Lead at Verily Life Sciences, where he oversaw the development of multiple consumer and medical devices. With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT and extensive experience in patent strategy and product development, Tushar brings a unique blend of extremely deep technical expertise and strong business acumen. Experienced Consumer and Medical Device / Healthcare Software Product leader with a demonstrated history of working in the healthcare and tech industries. Product management professional with strong technical skills in a broad range of areas: New Ventures, Medical Devices, Consumer Hardware, Business Development, and Intellectual Property. I have built high-functioning technical and product management teams focused on people, product, and engineering.

Experience

  • Co-Founder and CEO at Porter Health Inc.
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Building @ Porter Health

  • Advisor & Fractional CTO at Eleni Health
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Advisor / fractional CTO for a Women's health company

  • Butterfly Network, Inc. ()
    • Head of Product / VP of Product
      Apr 2021 - Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Led product management, product design and product research teams responsible for hardware (chip, MEMS, lens, transducer, device, accessories), software (firmware, imaging, mobile, cloud) and clinical (deep learning, imaging), health systems/enterprise and e-commerce/direct-to-consumer products.

    • Senior Director of Product Management
      Sep 2020 - Apr 2021 · 8 mos

      Product lead for core hardware (chip, MEMS, device), software (firmware, imaging) and clinical product

  • Verily Life Sciences (5 yrs 6 mos)
    • Consumer and Medical Device Product Lead
      Jun 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Lead product management and engineering teams for a portfolio of consumer and medical devices, and software/testing platform including: - Verily Healthy@Work/Healthy@School - Verily Study Watch, FDA-cleared for ECG in January 2019 with subsequent 510(k) for arrhythmia detection in January 2020, developed from concept to launch. The watch was placed into clinical studies beginning 2017 including subjects enrolled in the NIMH-funded Aurora Study on post-traumatic stress. - LTE-enabled data transfer hub for transferring data from watch and sleep sensor. - Blood draw and automated drug delivery devices (co-inventor of automated drug delivery device). - Finger blood pressure monitor (co-inventor of pressure measurement device). - Heart Failure device. - Lumi by Pampers, a connected care system for infants, in partnership with P&G’s StartUp Pampers division.

    • Senior Product Manager
      Jun 2017 - May 2019 · 2 yrs

    • Product Manager
      Nov 2015 - May 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Google (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Senior Patent Agent
      Apr 2015 - Nov 2015 · 8 mos

    • Senior Patent Agent
      Jun 2014 - Apr 2015 · 11 mos

    • Patent Agent
      Sep 2011 - May 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Patent licensing - Patent strategy