Vikram Bhaskaran
Co-Founder & CEO
Former: Pinterest (Led teams spanning Product, GTM, Creators, Marketing, Sales)
We are living through a time when science itself is under siege. Experts are doubted, data is distorted, and public health has been relentlessly attacked. The result is a dangerous vacuum where misinformation thrives louder than truth, and where the voices of those who dedicate their lives to medicine are drowned out by noise.
At Roon, we believe this moment demands something different. A place where physicians can connect without fear of trolls or bad actors. A network where expertise isn’t just protected, but amplified. A space that restores confidence in the power of medicine—by bringing doctors together, across specialties, to share knowledge and illuminate what’s possible when science and humanity meet.
Roon is that space. A physicians-only knowledge network, built for today’s challenges. It’s a digital doctor’s lounge where the wisdom of one becomes the resource of many. It’s where the best minds in medicine can exchange perspectives, spark breakthroughs, and reclaim the authority of expertise in a world that desperately needs it. The stakes are too high for silence. Public trust in medicine will not be rebuilt by chance—it will be rebuilt by doctors, together, showing what science looks like when it is open, collaborative, and uncompromisingly human.
We’re a team of entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, clinical experts & operational leaders with experience spanning a variety of disciplines, all working together to build a best-in-class medical product to serve the world
Vikram Bhaskaran
Co-Founder & CEO
Former: Pinterest (Led teams spanning Product, GTM, Creators, Marketing, Sales)
Arun Ranganathan
Co-Founder & CTO
Former: Pinterest Head of Partner Engineering
Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna
Co-Founder & President
Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Joshua Lang
Chief Medical Officer
Cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard
Former: Writer New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic

Alexa Tovsen
Strategy & Partnerships
Physician Assistant at Planned Parenthood and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard MPH

Patrick Porché
Engineering
Former: Carbon Health

Koonal Bharadwaj
Engineering
Former: Rad AI

Ames Clark
Product Manager
Former: Rosé Mansion, Real Mental Health

Kelvin De Los Angeles
Engineering
Former: Complex Networks

Hannah Scott
Design
Former: Pinterest, Apple & Google

Jennifer John
Product Manager
Former: Penn Medical Communication Research Institute, NIH, Stanford Health Literacy Lab, Coursera

Kristen Sunstrum
Strategy & Partnerships
Former: Dialogue, Harvard MPH, McGill University

Robert Wachter, MD
Chair of Medicine, UCSF

Vin Gupta, MD, MPA
Former CMO, Amazon Pharmacy

Julia E. Iyasere, MD
SVP Health Justice and Equity, New York-Presbyterian; Executive Director, Dalio Center for Health Justice

Ben Rein, PhD
Neuroscientist

Jay Desai
CEO, Bamboo Health

Nina Vasan, MD, MBA
Psychiatry, Stanford; Author

Eric Winer, MD
Medical Oncologist, Yale Medicine

Shikha Jain, MD
Breast Oncologist, University of Illinois Cancer Center

David Shulkin, MD
Former Secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs

Ben Silbermann
Co-founder, Pinterest

Evan Sharp
Co-founder, Pinterest

Scott Belsky
Partner at A24, former Chief Product Officer at Adobe

Steven Ramkumar
Former Head of Emerging Products, Pinterest

Tim Kendall
CEO, Moment; former President, Pinterest

Lindsay Norman
Former Head of Product Design, Pinterest

Taryn Fixel
Liminal Ventures

Ariela Safira
CEO, Zeera

Leslie Schrock
Author

John Egan
Head of Engineering at Anthropic; former Head of Growth Engineering, Pinterest