Ron Gentile

Founder

2018 - Current

Moodfit provides tools to help users reduce stress and build up the fitness of their mental health. It has been voted the #1 best overall mental health app of 2020, 2021 and 2022, and the best mood tracker of 2023. It is distributed both DTC and B2B2C. Partners include corporate, education, health systems and brands, all the way up to The American Nurses Foundation with 4.8 million members. See www.getmoodfit.com.

Advisor

2019

Bryte Labs is a sleep technology company bringing together sleep science, big data and AI to re-invent how we sleep. I work with the company founders on strategy, product and fundraising.

Venture Partner

2021 - 2022

Neva SGR is a European VC that invests globally across a wide range of sectors including fintech and deep tech, in late Seed through Series B rounds. Full stack VC - sourcing, screening, diligence, investment committee, portfolio company mentoring and support. Helped put in place best-practices diligence process. Lead or co-lead on 4 new investments.

Board Observer, Investor

2022 - 2022

Venture Scout

2018 - 2019

Helped early-stage VC firm Mighty Capital with deal sourcing, screening and diligence across a variety of sectors including consumer mobile/internet and digital health.

Chief Product Officer

2017 - 2018

Sensely is a VC-backed, digital health startup (B2B2C & B2C) that uses a mobile avatar for patient engagement. Their flagship product is Ask NHS in the UK. Responsible for product management, design, UX, data analytics and conversation design teams. Drove the company’s product strategy and roadmap. Key accomplishments: - Brought the product to #1 in the App Store's Medical category ahead of competitors like WebMD. - Created a roadmap and process for aligning projects and stakeholder across the company that utilized a lens of the key objectives of the organization. - Put in place a process for efficient product design and delivery. - Dramatically increased user ratings and overall experience and increased by 100% the onboarding customer conversion rate.

EIR, Startup Executive & Advisor

2012 - 2017

As an EIR and Startup Advisor/Operator I participated in the screening of hundreds of deals along with investors. I also worked with numerous companies (Pre-Seed through Series B) on their business plans, fundraising and all things product and strategy.

Product Executive

2005 - 2012

Operating and consulting roles at multiple mobile and web startups. * Creator of several successful mobile applications including a Top 20 Apple App Store ranking and highly trafficked web properties. * Emphasis on Product Management, Product Marketing and Business Strategy. * Built and managed successful Product Management, Product Marketing and Engineering teams.

Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Board Director

2000 - 2005

Bellamax was a VC-backed company that offered digital photo enhancement services to photo partners (B2B2C) and direct to consumer. * Creator of product concept and business plan. Instrumental in building company from scratch. * Raised Angel, VC and Strategic Capital. * Sourced, negotiated and closed blue-chip distribution deals with Sony, Adobe, Epson and others. * Overall responsibility for Product Management, Marketing, Engineering and Business Development. * Designed and managed the development of novel photo enhancement production system and e-commerce website. * Member of Board of Directors serving alongside investors.

Vice President Engineering

1998 - 1999

Pronto Imaging created technology for distributed image processing. * Responsible for product definition and roadmap. * Designed novel digital imaging technology and managed engineering team. * Integral part of business planning and fund raising.