Rush Bartlett

Co-Founder & CEO at Sluice AI Associate Director, Corporate Innovation and Education at Stanford University Founder & Head, Texas Biodesign with MD Anderson Cancer Center Board Member & Founder, Vynca Health Board Member, Watershed Therapeutics Rush is a 5X startup founder and corporate executive that has served in CEO, COO, and Chief Product Officer roles from a napkin sketch to $150M in revenue. He is currently the CEO of Sluice AI, a SaaS platform to help organizations scale the Biodesign process. His most recent startup Vynca Health has already helped more than 1,000,000 patients and currently employs more than 200 people. He is a prolific inventor with more than 100 pending and 33 issued patents and was selected to Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 under 40 in 2017. Previously, he was the Chief Product Officer at Lansinoh Laboratories responsible for all product management, R&D, and clinical strategy overseeing a multinational team of innovators that launched more than 20 products in a five-year span with distribution to major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and beyond in 28 countries. He has served as Stanford Biodesign’s Associate Director of Corporate Education since 2015 and the Executive in Residence at the University of Texas Innovation Center since 2020 where he founded the Texas Biodesign program in collaboration with MD Anderson. He has previously trained 7,500+ corporate innovators to implement Biodesign through custom on-site engagements across North America, Europe, and Asia. His clients have included Abbott, BD, Dexcom, Johnson and Johnson, Olympus, Smith & Nephew, Teleflex, Zimmer Biomet, and more. Most recently, he co-authored The Needs Driven Innovation Handbook: Hidden Wombat How Executives Innovate without the waste of money brains and time, which ended 2023 as #1 new release in medical technology on Amazon.