Introducing the NHCT advisor board

Aditya Ahluwalia
NHCT - NanoHealthCare Token
6 min readAug 8, 2018
NHCT advisor board

We are pleased to announce that seven senior advisors have joined the NHCT board to help us build the Total Health Ecosystem that we envision.

Adam Powell — Advisor, Healthcare Systems

Adam C. Powell, Ph.D., is the President of Payer+Provider Syndicate, a management advisory and operational consulting firm focused on the managed care and healthcare delivery industries. A healthcare economist, Dr. Powell’s specialty is using quantitative techniques to examine issues concerning technology, operations, and firm decision making. His healthcare insights have been featured in over 200 articles.

Dr. Powell publishes research articles on healthcare quality as it applies to mHealth and high-cost interventions. He manages the outcomes and research alliance between HealthHelp and Humana. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Mental Health and on the Scientific Advisory Board of PsyberGuide.

Dr. Powell holds a Doctorate and Master’s degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Health Care Management and Economics. He also holds Bachelor’s degrees in Management Science and Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Powell is a member of the adjunct faculty of Northeastern University, where he teaches Health Informatics Graduate Program. He additionally serves as the Visiting Faculty of the Indian School of Business, where he teaches a post-graduate course on Health IT.

Outside of his consulting and academic work, Dr. Powell provides thought leadership through both expert networks and the media. He regularly consults as a member of the Healthcare Council of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) and on several other expert networks. Dr. Powell has been featured in over one hundred articles from outlets including JAMA, CNN, Forbes, Fox, Inc., NBC News and Reuters.

George Han — Advisor, Investor Connects and Fundraising

George Han, an ICO advisor to over 6 ICOs and having raised a total of USD 40M funds, joins us as an advisor of strategy planning, development and fundraising strategy.

George Han, a financial professional, having worked with hundreds of startup founders and spent the last 6 years managing the incubator at Singapore Management University, involving the validation and development of startups.

During his tenure at SMU, he facilitated the creation of over 90 tech startups and advised over 600 of them in their business plans.

According to George, the key to a successful startup lies in the implementation capability of the founders and their willingness to get their hands dirty to execute strategies.

Presently he serves as advisor to numerous companies in their Initial Coin Offers (ICO), notable among them is Morpheus Labs a blockchain innovation company which has successfully raised USD 10M.

His other ICO companies are in the space of crypto exchange, AI and WIFI technology. George understands the prowess of blockchain and its impact on the various industries and its explosive potential in the years ahead. He also advises his companies on whitepaper development, marketing and investment.

Presently he is setting up his second fund which carries the mandate to invest in budding startups with a blockchain focus. He works with a number of family offices and funds in seeking businesses with strong management team and scalability potential for investment purposes.

George graduated from one of the top global university — National University of Singapore with majors in Economics and Political Science and has a MBA in Investment from Hull Business School

Stephen Sammut — Advisor, Healthcare Management

Stephen has founded, managed or financed over 40 companies in life sciences and IT globally and will be joining the NHCT board of Advisors.

A lecturer at Wharton for 22 years, Stephen has created eight courses — including Private Equity in Emerging Markets — that he has taught to over 9000 students.

Stephen’s primary areas of research coincide with his venture activities: healthcare and biotech capacity building in the emerging markets; private equity and venture capital approaches to economic development; and the role of the private sector in addressing needs in global health.

Presently, he is the visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business and Strathmore University Business School in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also a member of the Advisory Panel at the Abraaj Capital Africa Health Fund.

Stephen serves as a Venture Partner at Burrill International Group. At Burrill & Company, he focused on special projects in Latin America, the Middle East, Japan and emerging markets. Stephen also focuses on Asia Pacific venture activity, with a special mention on global health venturing.

Stephen has consulted with the IFC and World Bank on private equity, technology transfer and venture capital program assessment.

He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Villanova University in biological sciences and philosophy and a MBA from the Wharton School.

Jason Hung

Jason is a serial entrepreneur and inventor in mobile, blockchain ecosystem, digital marketing, AI and ERP related business. He is the co-founder of Treascovery, Chidopi and TimeBox. He helps more than 30 ICO projects as advisor.

He has more than 20 years proven track record on managing RD, IT, sales, consulting service with 9 technology related patents which are used in more than 2000 Apps. He was former PeopleSoft and JDE solution head in Greater China. He is an expert of ICOBench and International Blockchain Consulting Announcement Group.

Consistently ranked as one of the best advisors on ICObench, Dr. Jason Hung is highly regarded in the blockchain community. He is an inventor, serial entrepreneur, ICO expert and all-round talented guy.

Sydney Ifergan

Sydney has 20+ years commercial experience and has spent the last 10 years working in the online marketing arena. He was the CMO for a large FX brokerage.

Sydney, who holds a degree in computer science, consults various brokerages globally on their online marketing and the utilization of technology to improve their results. Sydney is among the top 20 ICO experts on ICObench and has previously worked with numerous ICO projects including trade.io, DIW token, Lydian, Xinfin.io and more.

Siddalingesh Zalaki (Siddu)

Siddu is a certified Bitcoin professional and a Blockchain enthusiast. With over 10 years of success in building multiple products in Banking, Financial services and Insurance sector he takes care of strategy and product at NHCT.

Rika Khurdayan — Advisor, US legal counsel

Rika Khurdayan provides legal advice and guidance to NHCT team in connection with the sale tokens in the US under Regulation D and Regulation S of the Securities and Exchange Act.

Rika’s practice involves blockchain, virtual currencies, ICOs and STOs, including tokenization of assets.

Rika provides strategic, transactional and regulatory advice to a wide range, to both established and emerging participants in the FinTech space, and regularly represents token issuers, cryptocurrency exchanges, traditional and crypto investment funds, as well as family offices and managers wishing to cross-over to the blockchain sector.

Rika has extensive experience helping clients structure, negotiate and execute their most complex business transactions, with a particular focus on blockchain and FinTech, from traditional venture financing to regulatory-compliant ICOs and STOs.

Over the years, Rika advised a variety of clients, including emerging companies, private equity and venture capital funds, private companies and family offices, in their development, acquisition, investment and disposition strategies. Rika helped these clients navigate the multiple regulatory regimes, tax laws and legal systems as they move people, financial assets and business interests across international borders.

Rika was named to Super Lawyers’ New York Metro Area “Rising Star” in 2018 in Technology Transactions sector. She has been involved in many conferences worldwide as panel speaker or presenter on the regulatory aspects of blockchain technology and regulation of cryptocurrencies.

Well-versed in global blockchain trends and jurisdictional differences, and passionate about renewable energy, IoT and shared economy projects.

We will be announcing more Advisors soon.

About NHCT (NanoHealthCare Token)

NanoHealthCare Token (NHCT) is a blockchain powered ecosystem of “Total Health”. NHCT aims to personalize health care for an individual and make the existing health care systems more efficient and effective. It connects users, payers and providers on one platform using a 3 tier token data protocol to run the economy between these participants.

NHCT is brought to you by NanoHealth, an organization providing proactive and continuous care for managing chronic conditions. It has pioneered an integrated care coordination model with the right blend of human touch and technology to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at scale. Nano health has touched over 75,000 lives up till now across corporates, communities, and households bringing a deep impact on their health and quality of life.

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Aditya Ahluwalia
NHCT - NanoHealthCare Token

Marketing @ NanoHealthCare Token, a blockchain powered ecosystem of Total Health.