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Dean Sawyer

Co-founder and Advisor

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Cognify

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About

Repeated experience building and scaling digital health companies from the earliest stages through late-stage growth with more than $220 million in combined revenue and multiple exits, including an IPO. Served as partner, EIR, and advisor to numerous venture capital firms, venture studios, incubators, and accelerators, helping create, fund, and advise more than two dozen healthcare technology startups, including founding and serving as CEO of three startups in partnership with three separate venture studios. Specialize in commercializing breakthrough healthcare technologies — including RPM, AI, digital therapeutics, EHRs, virtual-first medical practices, and medical devices across health system and payer channels (B2B2C), including closing numerous value-based care agreements. Proven fundraiser with an extensive investor network, having raised tens of millions of dollars across more than a dozen funding rounds.

Experience

Co-founder and AdvisorCognify
Sep 2025
Co-founder and CEOrheumission
Apr 2023 to Mar 2025
Interim CEOChatOwl, Inc.
Apr 2022 to Mar 2023
CEOFreespira
Jan 2020 to Dec 2021
Chief Commercial OfficerAptus Health
Aug 2007 to Aug 2012
Senior Vice President of SalesAllscripts
Aug 2000 to Aug 2006

Education

Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
MBA Concentration in Marketing
Singularity University
Exponential Medicine Executive Program 2011
University of the Pacific
BS Marketing