Mike Mcsherry

McSherry is a serial tech entrepreneur, co-founding 6 successful tech companies. He's raised, returned and lost hundreds of millions of venture $'s.

McSherry currently serves as CEO of Xealth, a digital prescribing and analytics platform integrated into healthcare electronic medical records (EMRs). He and his team incubated Xealth at Providence St. Joseph Health while he was an Entrepreneur in Residence. Xealth recently spun out from Providence and raised $9m from leading VC’s and healthcare systems, including UPMC.

Prior to Xealth, McSherry was CEO of Swype: an innovative touchscreen keyboard installed on over 1 billion smartphones and tablets which he sold to Nuance for over $100 million in 2011. McSherry was also co-founder and ran product for Boost Mobile both in the US and Australia. In the US Boost is now Sprint's prepaid service with over $5 billion in annual revenues. After Boost's success, the same team co-founded Amp'd Mobile. Amp'd raised almost $400m prior to going bust. Prior to co-founding Boost, he co-founded Zivo which was the largest web development company in Australia and New Zealand with over 300 employees. McSherry moved to Australia with Microsoft, where he ran the MSN portal and e-commerce activities. He also held several product roles within Microsoft in the US.

McSherry is an active angel investor, board member and mentor to startups and non-profits. He went to William and Mary in VA and has lived 1/4 of his life overseas and has visited 45+ countries.

McSherry is married, 2 boys, dog and they’re living the busy lives of sports, travel and parenting juggling.

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