Avik Roy is Chief Strategy Officer at Strive, where his current focus is monetizing the operating business from the Semler Scientific subsidiary by expanding its mandate in early disease detection products, and also serves as a board observer for Strive's Board of Directors.
Prior to Strive, Avik was President and CEO of the National Institute for Health Care Management. Before that role, from 2016 to 2025 he served as Co-Founder and President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. Avik has an extensive career in medicine, policy, and finance. He started his career at Bain Capital and J.P. Morgan as an institutional investor focused on biotechnology and healthcare. He later became a prominent writer about healthcare, Bitcoin, and other public policy topics. He served for more than a decade as the Opinion and Policy editor at Forbes, and as a policy advisor to several presidential campaigns, including those of Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Marco Rubio.
He serves on the Boards of Advisors of the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Sats Center, and on the Boards of Directors of FREOPP and the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. He was educated at MIT and at Yale Medical School.
Avik is a cross-disciplinary leader with experience in policy, healthcare, finance and emerging technologies. He brings strategy insight into the intersection of policy and market innovation, with a focus on regulatory strategy, economic analysis and governance. He diverse background supports informed oversight and long-term value creation.
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