Meet the Team

Jay is a serial tech venture builder who has founded many startups over decades, and is an advocate of innovation from the grassroots.

He is also a co-founder of LAUNCHGARAGE, one of the leading startup accelerators and ecosystem builders in the Philippines, and the founder of agile development firm PROUDCLOUD, deploying agile product development teams to startups, scaleups, and tech enabled enterprises.

Co-founding MEDIFI in 2014 and running it as CEO until 2024, Jay is considered to be one of the pioneer innovators and thought leaders in the Philippine digital health ecosystem. Jay also holds roles as advisor, co-founder, and mentor to many tech startups, and is considered to be one of the pioneers and shapers of the Philippine tech startup ecosystem.

In 2002, he founded Wi-Fi hotspot network Airborne Access, which was acquired by PLDT in 2008.

Warangkana is a business development and digital strategy professional with over two decades of experience across multinational corporations, startups, and international projects in Thailand and the Philippines.

She handles Business Development at BETTERCLINIC, the ambient AI scribe for Southeast Asian clinicians. She works directly with doctors and nurses to drive adoption, feeds clinical insights back into the product, and runs clinician engagement programs across the region.

Earlier in her career, she ran procurement operations for the Thai market at P&G, where her automation initiatives helped reach a 93% automation rate. As Business Development Manager for Thailand at EdTech startup QUIPPER, she launched and localized its offerings for Thai schools and teachers. She has also held roles at McGraw Hill Financial, Sutherland, and Sykes Asia.

Most recently, as Executive Director of a Phuket-based industry association, she led strategy, partnerships, wellness tourism programs, and international events.

A native Thai speaker based in Manila, Warangkana has worked across both markets for most of her career, including a decade teaching Thai language and culture. She is Google certified in Digital Marketing, E-commerce, and AI.

Princess is a product and go-to-market builder who works on early-stage technology ventures at the intersection of AI, healthtech, and social impact. She does her best work on 0-to-1 problems.

She is Founder's Associate at BETTERCLINIC, the ambient AI scribe for Southeast Asian clinicians. Working directly with the CEO, she helps scale the product across product, operations, partnerships, and go-to-market.

Princess is also the founder of BUDDYBETES, a social startup that makes diabetes care simpler for Filipinos. Its AI-powered companion app has been featured on GMA 24 Oras and The Business Manual.

Before that, she was Founding Product Designer at Australian AI compliance startup HAAST, where she shaped the product's user experience from its earliest version. She has also worked on applied AI projects at Thinking Machines Data Science and BPI, including fine-tuning language models and building geospatial market analysis presented to C-suite stakeholders.

A Computer Science graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman and a DOST Merit Scholar, Princess co-founded the UP Data Science Society and the UP Innovation Leaders' Hub. She has trained in social entrepreneurship at NUS Enterprise and HEC Montréal.

Yusniar is an executive leader and institution builder with over 20 years of experience across education technology, business operations, governance, and international relations in Indonesia and the Philippines.

She leads Business Development for Indonesia at BETTERCLINIC, the ambient AI scribe for Southeast Asian clinicians. She is taking BetterClinic into the region's largest healthcare market through partnerships with clinicians, healthcare institutions, and ecosystem stakeholders.

Yusniar spent 12 years at EdTech company QUIPPER, where she was part of its expansion from the Philippines into Indonesia. As Head of Jakarta Office and President Director of PT Edukasi Digital Indonesia, she set up the company's Indonesian entity and its early operations. She later scaled the customer team from 6 to over 200 people in two months and grew the user base from under 10,000 to over 200,000 in four months. Most recently, as Country Head of People, Compliance and Accounting, she oversaw a remote-first organization of more than 500 employees.

Earlier in her career, she worked at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Manila, where she started education partnerships between Indonesian and Philippine universities. She also held roles at Anglo American and S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Yusniar is the Founder and Executive Director of the Bunda Jasmurni Munir Foundation (YBJM), which is building a coastal education and community campus in Kendari, and she runs leadership consultancy PT Karya Kita Sukses. Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, and English, she holds an MBA from Philippine Christian University and is completing her PhD in Development Administration.

Dr. Jan Dipasupil is a physician-entrepreneur and one of the leading advocates for digital medicine in the Philippines. He specializes in lifestyle and obesity medicine.

He is Chief Medical Adviser to BETTERCLINIC, the ambient AI scribe for Southeast Asian clinicians. He guides BetterClinic's clinical accuracy, physician workflows, and adoption across the Philippine medical community.

Dr. Jan is Vice President and a Founding Director of the PHILIPPINE DIGITAL MEDICINE SOCIETY, which brings clinicians, technologists, and policymakers together to advance AI and digital health in Philippine clinical practice. He is also CEO of JAN MEDICAL GROUP, a physician-led metabolic health and body composition practice with branches in BGC and Quezon City, and a Lifestyle Medicine Consultant at The Medical City.

He has been building healthtech since medical school. In 2013, he founded HUMOUNO, a mobile medical records platform with built-in diagnostic support, designed with PhilHealth integration in mind. It tackled the same documentation burden BetterClinic addresses today.

Dr. Jan is a Diplomate of the Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine, and holds a specialist certification in obesity medicine. He earned his MD from the University of Santo Tomas and an MBA in Health from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, and completed Harvard Medical School's Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine. He is also President of the International HALE Building Council, which brings physicians and architects together to design spaces that support health.

Dr. Theresia del Rosario is a digital health general physician who sees a high volume of patients in Metro Manila's outpatient and HMO clinics every week, the setting where the documentation burden on Filipino doctors is heaviest.

She is a Clinical Adviser to BETTERCLINIC, the ambient AI scribe for Southeast Asian clinicians. She tests and validates BetterClinic's clinical notes, prescriptions, and medical certificates against the realities of day-to-day general practice, so the product is built around how Filipino doctors actually see patients.

Dr. Theresia practices as a General Physician with MediCard Philippines, Maxicare, and The Clinic by MBCI, and is a Resident Physician at Allied Care Experts (ACE) Medical Center – Mandaluyong.

She earned her Doctor of Medicine from the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, and her BS in Health Science from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Dr. Patricia Abello is a general physician working in occupational health and preventive care. These settings run on high patient volumes and repetitive documentation: fit-to-work clearances, medical certificates, and annual physical exams.

She is a Digital Health Clinical Advisor to BETTERCLINIC, the ambient AI scribe for Southeast Asian clinicians. She helps validate BetterClinic's clinical notes and medical documents against real-world practice, and gives clinician feedback on how the product fits into the daily workflow of Filipino doctors.

Dr. Patricia is an Occupational Health Physician at Jollibee Worldwide Services and a General Physician at Shinagawa Diagnostic and Preventive Care and at Sacred Heart Diagnostic Medical Center.

She earned her Doctor of Medicine from the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, and her BS in Psychology, cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas.