The age of 'precision' healthcare, where an individual's personal metrics are used to target therapy and design preventive recourse, is still in its infancy, but Linda helped push it forward. In 2006 she co-founded 23andMe, the leading personal genetics company. Simply by providing a saliva sample, individuals can learn about themselves through the lens of their DNA. There are now over 1 million people enrolled, making it the world’s largest genetic database with online ties to its participants, 80% of whom contribute to the company’s research mission. 23andMe was chosen as Invention of the Year in 2008 by TIME magazine.

Linda’s current start-up is We Are Curious, Inc., which she co-founded in 2011 with Heather Anne Halpert and Mitsu Hadeishi. Curious is an online platform where diverse data from sensors, wearables, trackers, apps, social media, biometrics, and other sources of personal data can be gathered, explored, and shared. The proliferation of these devices and the accumulation of personal data can be overwhelming; Curious provides analytics, a social graph, and an infrastructure for people to get the most out of that data.

Prior to her start-up experience, Linda spent over two decades working in the pharma/biotech and biomedical research field, directly interfacing with scientists who sequenced the human genome to protein biochemists mapping the proteome. Those experiences motivated her to create new and disruptive research strategies.

Poonacha Machaiah has over 20 years of global experience as a successful serial entrepreneur and business leader in Fortune 100 companies. Poonacha is among the new breed of emerging social entrepreneurs who are using approaches from the commercial world and employing technology to tackle social and environmental problems. Today he is levering his vast global experience and technology domain expertise to bring to communities transformative educational solutions and ubiquitous access to the masses via mobility.

Poonacha has co-founded "Jiyo" a wellbeing platform along with internationally renowned physician and author Deepak Chopra M.D. He is founder the founder and CEO of ‘ABOVE – A Bunch of Versatile Entrepreneurs’. ABOVE is a company that has delivered industry-leading solutions in the Education, Mobility, Media and Entertainment segments.

Poonacha is also the co-founder of the social enterprise ‘WeightLess Project’, a global movement to address the challenges that plague our communities i.e. lifestyle disorders related to obesity/overweight and hunger/malnutrition. He founded Qyuki along with internationally acclaimed film director Shekhar Kapur and Oscar award winning music composer AR Rahman. He is on the advisory board of Chopra Foundation and International mentor at XMedia Lab.

He holds an MBA from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the B.M.S. College of Engineering in Bangalore, India.