Team
Partner, Executive Coach, Investor
Andrew Call, CPCC
Andrew has worked at Facebook, Uber, Houzz and Human Interest, where he’s worn a multitude of hats. But his true passion is using the immense power of executive coaching to change lives.
Andrew’s journey goes way back, but let’s start with graduating from UC Santa Cruz as a Film & Digital Media major. Andrew has always had a passion for film and filmmaking, and included Gary’s son Alex in many of his movies. But he’s also consistently been passionate about finding “healing”, which led him to a post-graduation crossroads: does he try and make it in LA or NY, or come back to Silicon Valley and find a way to impact culture and innovate in a different manner?
Andrew chose the later, and learned a tremendous amount about building strong, thriving leaders and cultures. And also what not to do if you want to lead and inspire a company.
Andrew has designed and led workshops for large teams, coached the c-suite, led and built new teams, and helped hire and onboard exceptional talent. His coaching approach comes from years of training with the world-renowned Coaches Training Institute.
Outside of work, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife Elena and two kids, learning the violin (the hardest, most fulfilling hobby ever!), working on his novel, spending time with family, volunteering with his church, swimming, and traveling. He is based in the SF Bay Area.
Andrew’s favorite movie is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, though his coaching is based on a decidedly more optimistic framework of thinking.
Partner, Advisor, Investor, Wharton Professor, Physician
Gary Kurtzman, MD
My career has been in healthcare spanning medicine, research, biotech, and investing. I’ve often been early in the opportunity cycle. Antiviral and gene therapy in the 80’s and 90’s, genomics, regenerative medicine and diagnostics in the 00’s, and digital health in the teens. I’ve operated and invested through up and down cycles. And for almost two decades in my entrepreneurship class at Wharton, I’ve connected, influenced and learned from over a thousand very smart people, many of whom have gone on to launch companies or pursue careers elsewhere in healthcare. Last year, I even tried to co-found a start-up in the mental health space. It was and is still a great idea, but we called it quits since it did not have the right elements for success. All of this provides me with pattern recognition to understand something about what succeeds and what fails at both the enterprise and personal level.
I’ve always been a very left-brain person, and keep up what is happening in science, tech, medicine and finance. But I am beginning to more actively explore the right-side and recently attempting to learn how to draw. Balance is good.