Bilal Farooqui
Vice President of Product Management at RVO Health
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.
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
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
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