Bilal Farooqui
Vice President of Product Management at RVO Health
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President of Product Management
2023 - Current
Lead cross-functional product, engineering, design, & data science team building an AI platform to transform direct-to-consumer healthcare shopping & how consumers make purchasing decisions. RVO Health is the largest health & wellbeing platform in the US through consumer destinations such as Healthgrades and Healthline, helping nearly 100 million people a month seek information, find a doctor, save money, and take action around their health & wellbeing. Our portfolio of industry-leading websites, products and services touches every part of the health and wellness journey. RVOH is a joint venture between United Health Group and Red Ventures.
RVO Health develops, operates and manages various health care focused brands and companies.
Angel Investor
2016
30+ startups across sectors, mostly seed stage YC cos with a few later stage (A,B) AI startups
Vice President Of Product Management
2021 - 2023
Head of Product, Rally - www.rallyhealth.com VP Product, Optum -- through Rally Health acquisition
Private foundation dedicated to improving health and health care.
VP Product
2016 - 2023
Building the future of healthcare experiences using machine learning; Head of Product, Consumer Platform (Rally's Digital Health Plan offering, core Rally web & mobile app, myUHC and UHC mobile app, ML-powered consumer support chat, and enterprise design system) previously, Head of Product, Virtual Care & Fintech; Creator of Rally Pay, Rally’s flagship consumer healthcare payments platform processing 100s of millions of dollars in consumer payments; inventor of mechanism to use ERAs for consumer payment reconciliation on existing payer rails Also run Special Projects (most recently spun up Rally's Covid-19 response including symptom checker, test center locator, and real-time vaccine finder); continuous deploy repo in which merge to master commits code to production in real time, super hard to do in healthcare usually Rally has been acquired by Optum/UnitedHealth Group
Rally Health is a consumer-centric digital health company.
Co-Founder & Head of Product
2013 - 2016
Revenue optimization platform for large healthcare provider systems; CrystalMD's CrystalSite was one of the first products that allowed doctors and hospitals to collect consumer payments in Bitcoin
Co-Founder & Head of Product
2006 - 2011
Y Combinator funded social network for music discovery. First ever audio player embeddable in Facebook. Led small product & engineering team in San Francisco that scaled platform from 0 to 2 million active users over a few months using FreeBSD, NFS replication, mySQL replication, and memcache. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ijigg-top440