About us

Mohan Balachandran is a passionate problem solver, with close to 25 years of experience in all aspects of building, growing and sustaining a business. An entrepreneur at heart, he has dedicated the past decade of his life to the technological challenges facing the health care industry. He most recently co-founded Datica (formerly Catalyze) to address the two biggest hurdles to innovation in health care−namely, cloud regulatory compliance, and data interoperability. Before founding Datica, he launched Share.md, a physician communication company, and mthSense, a Summer 2012 YCombinator mobile advertising company.

Before this entrepreneurial streak, Mohan was an early employee at Net.Orange (acquired by Nant Health), developing partnerships with a roster of high profile clients, such as US Oncology, Ascension Health, and Kaiser Permanente. Mohan began his U.S. career in the supply chain and master data management fields at i2 Technologies (acquired by JDA). During his tenure at i2, he successfully grew the company’s client base to include a number of Fortune 100 companies, ultimately achieving the role of Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Consumer Products vertical.

He has a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and two master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

He also has roles at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Health Care Innovation at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.

Adam Leko was most recently the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Datica Inc. where he led the technical vision and execution towards that vision. He also led all efforts during multiple successful HITRUST certification audits. which successfully extended compliance to the Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Softlayer cloud infrastructures. He’s given talks on security and compliance at the 2017 HITRUST Annual Conference and AWS re:Invent 2017. He also loves figuring out how to torture and break what he’s built so he can understand the limitations of his designs. At Datica, he designed and implemented the Docker-based orchestration system and secure overlay network that powers Stratum, a HIPAA-compliant Platform-as-a-Service.

Prior to Datica, he worked for Red Lambda, building security-focused software on top of a bespoke distributed computing platform. As part of very small development team he had the privilege of working on a wide variety of problems, including a high-speed packet analysis engine, a novel implementation of a well-known consensus algorithm, a distributed file system, a distributed full-text analysis mechanism, a streaming query engine, and an innovative unsupervised classification (machine learning) algorithm. The unique approaches taken to solve these problems resulted in several patents, including US8738572, US8959075, US9262511, and US9390147.

In between these ventures he’s also spent time in the underbelly of the healthcare industry working on Electronic Health Records software and an Electronic Benefits Investigation service. These experiences have given him a healthy respect of the innate complexity present in the healthcare industry, along with valuable experience in developing and releasing commercial software outside of the context of a startup.

A minimalist by nature, he loves tackling difficult technical problems using Einstein’s maxim of simplicity (usually paraphrased as “as simple as possible, but no simpler”).

Abhijit Bhattacharya has 15+ years of experience in technology strategy, management and delivery. He is passionate about building products and services that use data to drive enterprise value and spent a large part of his career focused on business intelligence, data warehousing and management across multiple industries including Healthcare, Retail and Semiconductor technology.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (now Chennai) in India, and a Masters in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. He has help various leadership and technical roles in companies such as JDA, Hyperion, Oracle, and McKinsey & Company. He is co-founder of two companies - Rapidi2i and Workforce Alpha.

His favorite quote is by W. Edward Deming - “In god we trust – all others must bring data.”