About us
Mindsite is a medical informatics solution designed to address the problems faced by patients searching for information on mental health.
There's an unusually large degree of information asymmetry in the mental healthcare market. Internal medicine physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, alternative healthcare providers, and other professionals disagree over best practices for treatment. Patients find themselves in a highly confusing environment at a time when clarity is most needed.
Mindsite is designed to drive objective self awareness about mental health and deliver personalized, actionable information regarding best practices for treatment approaches. With Mindsite, people will be empowered to make more educated and informed decisions about their mind.
Mindsite will officially launch in early 2008. For news and updates about our release and on mental health industry issues, read our blog.
Team
David Eraker — Founder and CEO. Mr. Eraker is the founder and former CEO of Redfin, an online residential real estate brokerage backed by Madrona, Vulcan Capital, BEV Capital, and Draper Fischer Jurveston. Prior to founding Redfin, Mr. Eraker worked for Coolearth Software, a supply chain management software developer focused on process manufacturers. He also worked at Elixis, a developer of Web-based medical records eventually acquired by GE Medical Systems. Mr. Eraker holds a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Washington. In his spare time, Mr. Eraker serves on the Board of Directors for the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra.
Sam Kinney — Chairman. Mr. Kinney specializes in early stage venture investing where he can have substantial side-by-side involvement with the management team during the crucial first 18 months of company development. In this capacity, he has made investments in Woburn-MA based Kiva Systems, Madison-WI based Next Testing, and Salt Lake City based 3-Form Material Solutions. An accomplished entrepreneur, Mr. Kinney was co-founder, Executive VP, and director of Pittsburgh based FreeMarkets, which grew from inception to $180 million in revenue in six years. At FreeMarkets, he touched nearly every aspect of the business and led their record-setting 1999 IPO as acting CFO. Mr. Kinney has been a consultant with McKinsey & Co., Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and a finance manager for an aerospace manufacturer now part of Goodrich Aerospace. Mr. Kinney holds an undergraduate degree and MBA from Dartmouth.
Ronald C. Kessler, PhD — Advisor. Dr. Kessler is a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. He is the principal investigator of the National Comorbidity Survey, the first nationally representative survey of the prevalence and correlates of psychiatric disorders in the United States. He also co-directs the World Health Organization's (WHO) World Mental Health surveys, a series of nationally representative epidemiological surveys carried out in 28 countries with a combined sample size of over 200,000 respondents. Dr. Kessler received his MA and PhD in sociology from New York University. He was on the faculty at the University of Michigan for 17 years before taking his current position at Harvard in 1996. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as of the MacArthur Foundation networks in successful midlife development and development and psychopathology. He is the recipient of Research Scientist and MERIT Awards from the National Institute of Mental Health and is the author of over 500 scientific publications concerned with the epidemiology of mental disorders.
Byron McCann — Advisor. Mr. McCann is managing director of Ascent Partners Group, a technology company advisory firm, venture partner at Prism Capital, and CEO of Just Cause, an online consumer philanthropy media and networking platform. He serves on the board of WSA (formerly the Washington Software Alliance), the board of Northwest Entrepreneur Network, and Broadway Bound. Mr. McCann has held executive positions with Ernst and Young, Pacific Communications (acquired by TCI), genSoft (acquired by Computer Associates), MediaLink, and Corum Group. Mr. McCann has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Stephen Eraker, MD — Advisor. Dr. Stephen Eraker has been involved in academic medicine, research, and clinical practice for over 30 years. He has held a number of hospital appointments and is currently practicing in Bend, Oregon. Dr. Eraker is the author of numerous scientific publications on medical decision making, including Bayesian approaches. Dr. Eraker holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, an M.D. from Oregon Health Sciences University, and an M.P.H from Harvard School of Public Health.