Meet Our Team
Our team brings extensive clinical and high-tech industry expertise to deliver quality access for families and children everywhere.
Founders
Dr. Cierra Gromoff
Dr. Cierra Gromoff is a Clinical Child Psychologist who’s dedicated her career to building high-quality telehealth programs long before the pandemic. With 10+ years of experience ranging from hospitals, schools, community mental health, and both public and private sectors – Cierra is deeply familiar with the challenges and limitations of existing telehealth solutions.
Growing up Alaskan Native, access wasn’t an option for Cierra and her family. Experiencing similar barriers while working with families in Oakland, California – where some parents could not afford the gas to drive to her office – the lack of access is what fuels Cierra’s passion for solving it, and also why she specializes in early childhood mental health given early intervention creates the best opportunity for positive outcomes.
Christie Sander
Christie Sander has built, led, and scaled consumer products and diverse organizations across both startups and large corporations. During her time at Apple, Nest, and Google, Christie has led a variety of teams ranging from Supply Chain to Strategy & Operations to HR. Christie brings a wealth of business experience, and thrives when solving complex problems at the intersection of strategy, operations, and people.
Christie sustained a life-altering accident in 2021, renewing her clarity and purpose in life. As the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants whose career essentially “grew up” in Silicon Valley, Christie is passionate about breaking the continuous cycles of cultural, generational, and societal expectations.
Together, Cierra and Christie founded Kismet Health in late 2022 with a shared passion for creating multi-generational change. Between their respective clinical and high-tech backgrounds, Cierra and Christie have a unique perspective on how human-centered technology can unlock quality access for all.
The Kismet Team
Dr. Cotas-Girard is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in early childhood intervention and assessment, including neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ children. Dr. Cotas-Girard first started as an Applied Behavioral Analysis therapist, which inspired her to pursue a doctoral degree in Psychology from the Wright Institute. Now with 10+ years of experience across non-profit, private practice, the Department of Education, and large hospital settings, Dr. Cotas-Girard is a published author in peer-reviewed publications and serves on the Board for the Collaborative Assessment Association of the Bay Area. As a first generation immigrant, she is passionate about providing high-quality care to underserved communities, and is excited for Kismet to drive impactful and lasting changes for children’s wellness.
Jonathan is a serial CTO for impactful mission driven startups. Most recently, he was the founding CTO at Brightline Health, where he led the 0 to 1 build of a 50-state virtual pediatric behavioral health offering and scaled a team from 0-60, entirely virtual, during the height of COVID lockdown and the pediatric behavioral health crisis. He was previously on the founding team and CTO at AllTrails, where he took the team from 0 to 1 and stewarded a small, highly leveraged team of 8 engineers and myself supporting over 10 million members. He also spent a few years at Meta in infrastructure, Qualcomm (via acquisition) after developing one of the first US-based mobile banking systems (pre-Android and pre-iOS), and over a decade in finance (JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch) developing trading systems.
Rob is a senior software engineer and designer with over 10 years of experience working at the intersection of technology and design for companies ranging from early-stage health tech startups to Fortune 500 engineering teams, and most recently as a founding engineer at an AI audio company. He formerly ran the Designers Who Code 3000+ person meetup in San Francisco, but is currently based far away from the ocean in the San Juan Mountains town of Telluride, Colorado.
Terry is a technical leader with close to two decades of experience building tech companies from back of the napkin ideas to exit. With a deep passion for programming and engineering, he has worked with a wide variety of companies building both hardware and software solutions ranging from eye tracking systems to enterprise software used by Fortune 100 companies. Terry formerly worked as CTO of a venture studio and most recently as an early engineer at an AI audio company building state of the art Text to Speech tools for enterprise companies.
Miriam is a software engineering executive with a track record of leading both engineers and social scientists to deliver cutting-edge technology at the intersection of NLP, AI, and Psychology. Miriam studied linguistics and natural language processing at Stanford, built tools at Google to better understand language in queries and on the web, and led teams at Humu to build software that helped managers become great mentors and coaches. Miriam is passionate about building technology that puts people first and is thrilled to be working with the amazing team at Kismet to bring children the tools they need to thrive.
Julia’s career spans over 25 years serving as an award-winning Early Childhood Educator, Technology Specialist, Pharmaceutical Sales & Training Professional and Business Consultant to start ups in the MedTech and Digital Health industry. She has established a large and influential network of trusted industry colleagues who together provide solutions to increase access to high quality medical and digital health technologies within hospitals and clinics. Julia’s personal and professional goal is to align with passionate Founders that share her mission – providing innovative, safe, effective solutions that will impact and improve healthcare, as well as the lives of children and families for generations to come.
Kristina boasts a wealth of experience as a marketing consultant and trusted advisor, with 10+ years experience leading B2B awareness, retention marketing, and communications strategies in the healthcare and tech space. Previously, Kristina was the head of Americas Marketing at Proximie, a digital health technology platform, and played pivotal roles in marketing at esteemed academic medical institutions including Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NYP Hospital, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center, and UAB Medicine, among others. Kristina has a Masters in Communication Management and is based in New York City.
Advisory & Support Team
Chethan trained in landscape architecture, pediatrics, and clinical informatics; and builds anastomoses across these fields to design healthier environments and systems. His journey into medicine started at a young age due to a chronic urological issue that led to a childhood full of doctor’s visits, challenging social situations, multiple surgeries, and still continues to impact his daily life. As a result, Chethan was motivated to become a pediatrician and improve the system for patients, particularly to ensure that children and adolescents are invited to participate in their care. Chethan is a clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine, and Director of Clinical Informatics at Sharecare, where he works on designing and implementing innovations ranging from patient portals, EHR transformation, virtual clinical trials, AI-driven digital biomarkers, and health information policy initiatives all through a lens of health equity and patient centeredness.
Dr. Devika Bhushan is a pediatrician and public health leader with expertise in health innovation, stress and resilience, trauma-informed systems, and gender and health equity. Dr. Bhushan serves on Stanford’s adjunct faculty, as Chief Medical Officer at Daybreak Health, bringing personalized mental health support to youth in schools, as a senior strategic advisor on equity and resilience, and on the national Board for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She is an award-winning mental health spokesperson, first disclosing her own mental health journey publicly while serving as Acting Surgeon General for California. Dr. Bhushan trained at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins. She is a parent, an immigrant, and a first-generation Indian-American.
Karen is an experienced healthcare executive with a track record of driving innovation and transformation. She is the Founder & President of Benevolence Health. With deep expertise in change management, Karen has guided numerous (adult and pediatric) organizations through complex transformations, helping them to enhance their strategic positioning, operational efficiency, and patient outcomes while aligning to new payment models. She holds multiple professional certifications in health IT and clinical informatics, serves as an adjunct faculty member at Jefferson University, and has been on the Board of Directors for NAACOs. Her thought leadership on the intersection of operations, technology and value-based care has been featured in industry publications and conferences.
Ryan is the current Vice President of Government and Investor Relations at Life365, Microsoft’s exclusive Remote Patient Monitoring healthcare partner. Prior to Life365, Ryan served as the CEO of two startups, CSurgeries and The Physician's Edge. Ryan also held positions at ATD, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and The Advisory Board Company, where he led product development as well as sales and marketing teams. Over the years, Ryan has helped to advise several startups with fundraising, go-to market strategies, and operations. As an advisor to Kismet, Ryan is excited to help develop meaningful solutions for providers in the pediatric behavioral health space.
Taylor is one of our earliest believers and advisors in the Kismet mission and team. She has 20 years experience across Google, YouTube, and Instagram where she led first-of-kind opportunities to drive innovation and business growth across partnerships and products. Notably, Taylor was a founding member of the YouTube Kids team. Currently, Taylor is the General Manager at an early-stage startup, and she earned her MBA at Berkeley Haas. Taylor is a big believer in self-care and addressing issues, health and otherwise, at the root cause.
When he was a kid, YC dreamed of becoming a LEGO master builder. Now, he brings that inventiveness and exploratory spirit to building and launching world-class products and experiences. YC leads a multi-million dollar portfolio in digital health and emerging technologies at IDEO, a globally acclaimed design and innovation firm. He advises executive leaders to define realistic product strategy, navigate the creative process, and enable the right conditions for digital transformation. YC is also an adjunct professor at Stanford Design School. He co-teaches "Design for Healthy Behaviors,” a graduate-level course where students apply design thinking alongside patient-volunteers with chronic conditions to improve their long term health. In his free time, he loves running community events and absurdly long distances.