Jotthe Kannappan

Board Observer

2024 - Current

Senior Associate

2023

Investment professional for a healthcare fund investing in early stage companies focused on accelerating the future of minimally invasive care through diagnostics, therapeutics, digital, and platforms.

Associate, Intuitive Ventures

2020 - 2023

Summer 2020: Summer Associate, Intuitive Ventures Sept'20 - May'21: MBA Associate, Intuitive Ventures

Board Observer

2022

Associate Systems Engineer

2017 - 2019

Contributing to designing and debugging biological and electromechanical systems for a new kind of diagnostic.

Product Marketing Associate

2016 - 2017

Working on the product team at Click Diagnostics to improve usability, develop go to market strategy, and establish pipeline for a new kind of diagnostic.

Mayfield Fellow

2015 - 2015

Highly selective 9 month work-study program focusing on entrepreneurial leadership in Silicon Valley.

Product Management Intern

2015 - 2015

Conducted phase 0 design work for a novel medical mobile application (Need finding, clinical observation, patient interviews, paper prototypes, project planning, and contracting with design and development partners in a commercial setting) Learned about medical device clinical trial processes, FDA approval, Mobile Medical Device Application regulation, and marketing of medical technologies.

Residential Computer Consultant

2014 - 2015

Work as a community leader, student advisor, and technical assistant in a freshman dormitory

Research Assistant- Quake Laboratory

2013 - 2015

Worked on a research project involving texture sensing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Developed skills with microfluidic chip fabrication, care of C. elegans and microbiological manipulation. Also worked on a novel DNA synthesis mechanism based on the air-water interface of droplets with abnormal composition.

Research Assistant

2014 - 2014

Worked as a member of a lab and International Genetically Engineering Machine team that produced the molecular foundation for the next generation biological UAV. Specifically worked on bacterial production of cellulose acetate and isolation of material waterproofing proteins from Polistes dominula. Also contributed to the development of the iGEM team website. More information have be found at http://2014.igem.org/Team:StanfordBrownSpelman

Product Fulfillment and Manufacturing Intern

2012 - 2012

Worked in the inventory and production offices during early start-up phases. Helped create a smaller testing kit that proved for easier shipping and handling and patient use. Worked other administrative roles and helped where hands were necessary.