The Future of Healthcare, Now
Executive Team
Sas Ponnapalli
CEO, Co-Founder
The only 2nd time founder in telemedicine on the planet.
Virtual healthcare isn’t just a fad for Sas; it’s a passion. Sas proposed a telemedicine mobile app as his final project while in college. It wasn’t funded. Relentless, Sas went on to found PlushCare, a vertically integrated telemedicine practice valued at over $100M. After learning how to scale a singular clinic, Sas decided to bring telehealth to the masses via Beam.
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Ranga Jayawardena
COO, Co-Founder
Promoted then pivoted, four times.
Prior to Beam, Ranga built a foundation of expertise across several business areas. With his former lives as an award winning National Sales Trainer at Bristol Myers Squibb, an Enterprise Procurement Officer for healthcare data and an Ultra-High Net Worth Private Banker at J.P. Morgan, Ranga brings cross-category experience and the spirit of a hustler to Beam.
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Andrew Jayakody
VP of Customer Success
A healthcare insider turned entrepreneur.
Drew has managed clinicians on the front lines in one of the nation’s top health systems–including during the COVID-19 pandemic. After spending a decade climbing the ladder of healthcare management at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, Drew brings experience from within the walls of a hospital system to Beam. He leads the industry’s top account management team and is dedicated to helping our customers launch a thriving telemedicine line of business.
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The Potential of
Virtual Care
Despite digital healthcare offerings growing faster than the rest of the economy, only about 15 percent of healthcare happens virtually today.
A convoluted payer framework, a byzantine healthcare system, and a lack of companies that marry clinical expertise with technology are constraining the impact of telehealth.
Removing the barriers to telemedicine helps more doctors scale their clinics, expand patient access to care, improves health outcomes, and can reshape healthcare for the benefit of all—providers, patients, employers & enterprises.
There is enormous room for growth and improvement in virtual care.
