Meet Our Team

Dr. Prem Sahasranam, who goes by Dr. Sahas, is a Board-Certified Endocrinologist and Founder of My Diabetes Health, with over 20 years of experience caring for individuals with diabetes. He is also a faculty member at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA.

Healthcare Executive Partner with TechCXO. CEO at ICNet with successful exit of healthcare tech platform to Baxter. Grew company to serve over 1,200 hospitals. Hospital Board Member for past 12 years

Neel Patel is CEO and Founder of OM Pacific Capital, a Multi-Family Office. He started the firm in 2015. They manage a significant amount of capital for 30 families including his own family, across all asset classes including Equities, Fixed Income, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Real Estate, Crypto, Venture Capital and Private Credit.  Neel started to invest directly in venture backed companies starting in 2015 through their Venture Capital Arm of his firm. They invest at seed and Series A. 

Sectors include: Technology, i.e. saas companies, artificial Intelligence, Healthcare/Health-tech, Real Estate Tech and Fin-tech. Some of the companies they have invested in are: Snowflake (went IPO), Guardant Health (went IPO), Coinbase (went IPO), Whiterabbit.ai (still private), and Zoom (went IPO) to name a few.

Neel spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch in their ultra high net worth group and Institutional division. 

Mr. Woodward is a partner and co-founder of Woodward Diversified Capital, a family wealth management and private equity investment firm, founded in March 2020. Prior to co-founding WDC, Mr. Woodward worked from March of 2005 thru March of 2020 at Bank of America and Wells Fargo where he spent the final years as a SVP-Private Wealth Advisor. Mr. Woodward has served on the board of numerous companies and non-profits in the past, including Genelux Corporation (GNLX) where he served during its which he helped IPO. In addition to My Diabetes Tutor, Mr. Woodward currently serves on the boards of Aeromics, a Thousand Oaks, CA, based clinical trial stage stroke therapeutics company, and Fundare Resources, a Denver, CO based oil and gas company. Mr. Woodward and his wife, Staci, have owned The Bakersfield Swim Academy since 2012. Mr. Woodward is a former competitive swimmer for Team USA. Mr. Woodward holds a B.A. in social sciences with an emphasis in History from The University of Southern California.

Ms. Sharon Chandran began her career in the oil industry in 1999 working for a group of
companies her father founded in 1981. She held managerial positions in Treasury, Marketing,
Operations, Shipping, and Oil Trading. Her father listed the family business on the Singapore
stock exchange (SGX) as ChemOil Energy in 2006 and she served as an Executive Director
when the company went IPO. After 11 years with the group, she orchestrated the sale of her
family’s stake in the public company and subsequently founded Footprints Investments to
manage her family assets. The Chandran family currently have significant ownership and
involvement in Portfolio Management, Food and Beverage, Real Estate, Manufacturing,
Shipping, the Arts, Hospitality, Education, Impact Investing, and Foundations. She serves as
the Chairwoman, CEO, President, Trustee, Director, Chief Financial Officer, Investment
Direction Advisor, Manager, and Committee Member of at least 23 separate companies and
entities.
Ms. Chandran has been a lecturer, speaker, or panellist at internationally top-ranked universities
such as Stanford University and UC Berkeley, and at multiple global conferences such as the
Milken Institute’s Annual Global Conference. There, she was invited to speak on philanthropy
and impact investments, entrepreneurship, family offices, succession, business, and crisis
management. She was also interviewed on the air in episode of Business Rockstars. One of
her most popular achievements for discussion has been her championship of the successful
triple bottom line social enterprise “Macaroons for a Cause” that built schools in the conflict
areas of the Philippines in close partnership with the Apl.de.Ap Foundation and the Red Ribbon
bakery restaurant chain.
Ms. Chandran has served on the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle steering committee for
several years. She was also a member of the Young Patrons Committee of the National Gallery
of Singapore, and was twice awarded the Patron of the Arts Award given by the Singapore
National Arts Council. She served as a guiding mentor at the Institute of Innovation &
Entrepreneurship of Singapore Management University and was invited to the Singapore’s
National Kidney Foundation’s Patient Advocacy & Volunteers Committee.
Ms. Chandran studied at UC Berkeley, Oxford University, and at Insead.