Gary Fingerhut is a healthcare and life sciences go-to-market leader who has spent more than three decades building, selling, and scaling technology for highly regulated industries. He is Vice President at Vericence, an AI-native engineering partner that helps enterprises plan, design, build, verify, and run software and AI systems, with quality, trust, reliability, and compliance engineered into every stage. Gary is focused on new business development and is accelerating the growth of the company’s established Healthcare practice, with an emphasis on agentic AI, enterprise modernization, and AI assurance. Before joining Vericence, Gary was Executive Vice President of Pre-Built Agentic Industry Solutions at Kore.ai, where he led Healthcare & Life Sciences strategy across payer, provider, and life sciences organizations. He was responsible for product, marketing, and sales for the healthcare practice, from setting industry-specific product vision and roadmaps to leading direct and partner sales with health plans, pharmacy and dental benefit organizations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and providers, including several of the largest healthcare organizations in the world. Before that, Gary served as Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the commercialization arm of the Cleveland Clinic. Under his leadership, Global Corporate Venturing ranked the organization fourth in the world for healthcare corporate venturing. His team, guided by some of the nation’s leading venture capitalists, executed more than 500 licenses and created 73 spin-off companies that raised over $1 billion in equity investment and created more than 1,100 jobs. He also grew the Medical Innovation Summit by more than 55%, to over 1,700 senior executives, investors, and clinicians, and expanded the Global Healthcare Innovations Alliance to corporate partners worldwide. Earlier, Gary was a co-founder of Axentis, a governance, risk, and compliance software-as-a-service company later acquired by Wolters Kluwer. Joining in 1999 with backing from a board that included JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Sierra Ventures, and Key Venture Partners, he built the company’s software development, professional services, and operations as Vice President and CTO, then led sales and corporate development as Senior Vice President. Gary’s career also includes serving as CIO of Complient Corporation, founding and leading the consulting firm Business Technologies, Inc. as President and CEO through a period of high growth before selling it to Axentis, and serving as Executive Vice President of Information Systems at LTI. He has served on the boards of Enforcer eCoaching, i360, iComet Technologies, ImageIQ, Talis Clinical, Infuseon Therapeutics, HealthXL, BioOhio, and BioEnterprise. Gary is based in the Cleveland, Ohio area.