About Us
While caring for their mother, brothers Raghu and Jay Sugavanam got a clear view of the challenges families and clinicians navigate every day. Even with committed care teams, limited visibility and disconnected information made it difficult to identify emerging issues before they became serious events. They created Spectator Health to help close those gaps through more connected, proactive care.
Built from firsthand experience with fragmented senior care.
Drawing on decades of healthcare technology and data architecture expertise, they built Spectator Health to help providers identify risks earlier, improve coordination across care teams, and close gaps before problems escalate. Today, Spectator Health combines AI-enabled clinical intelligence with a simple mission: helping seniors receive safer, more connected care — while supporting the people responsible for delivering it.
We’re reimagining senior care.
We believe technology should strengthen the connection between seniors, families, and care teams — not create more complexity around them.
Our vision is a senior care system where risks are identified earlier, communication happens more seamlessly, and caregivers have the visibility they need to intervene before small issues become serious events.
By combining the most advanced clinical intelligence with proactive coordination, Spectator Health helps care teams spend less time navigating fragmented systems — and more time focused on people.
The People Behind Spectator Health
We're healthcare leaders, clinicians, technologists, and data architects bringing more than 100 years of combined experience to the future of connected care. We’re united by a belief that every senior can have quality care if every care team has the tools and insight they need to deliver it.
Peter Longo CEO
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Peter brings rare depth at the intersection of healthcare technology, artificial intelligence, and revenue growth. Most recently, as Chief Revenue Officer at Penguin AI, he helped scale solutions that automate complex administrative and clinical workflows for payers, providers, and risk-bearing organizations. Before that, he spent his career building and scaling some of healthcare's most consequential businesses — from McKesson, where he supported the acquisition of more than 50 companies and helped drive expansion into the hospital market, to Sunquest, where he led sales growth that reached 72 percent market share and contributed to the company's acquisition by Vista Equity Partners. At Blue Spark Technologies, he advanced remote patient monitoring solutions in clinical trial settings.
Peter came to Spectator Health because he believes the senior care market is at an inflection point — and that the right platform, in the right hands, can close care gaps for millions of people.
Raghu Sugavanam Co-Founder and Chairman
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Raghu Sugavanam co-founded Interpreta in 2014 and served as President and later CEO until sale of company to Centene. He is the principal founder of Spectator Health (2018) and currently serves as CEO. Prior to founding Interpreta, Raghu was a founder, Chief Technology Officer and Principal Architect at Anvita, a clinical analytics company acquired by Humana in 2011. Prior to Anvita, he was a founder and President at Mercantile Software Systems, a high-performance database marketing system company acquired by Harte-Hanks in 1997. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Jay Sugi Co-Founder and CFO
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Jay initiated his career in start-ups when he created one of the first Apple Reseller and systems integrator companies in St. Louis focused on the corporate and education markets. He expanded his company, ASAP, to become the Apple Education reseller for a four-state area, leading a successful acquisition. He later built a successful video streaming business and global technology distribution business, each having successful exits.
Ajit Venkataraman COO & Co-Founder
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Ajit has held leadership positions with Spectator Health, Biosynthetic Technologies, CHS, Simbol Materials Inc., and DuPont. He has been responsible for leading a $2B global supply chain, a $400M Asia business spread over fourteen countries, and led ventures to build greenfield start-ups in the US and Asia. Ajit has a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering. Ajit has held board positions with DuPont Huajia China, DuPont Indonesia Coatings, Fort Madison Chamber of Commerce and Shanghai Jiading Industrial Zone.
Keith Glassford PhD, CTO
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Keith is a seasoned scientist and healthcare executive with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and over 25 years of experience driving solutions in science, engineering, and clinical informatics. He currently oversees the development efforts as Chief Technology Officer for Spectator Health.
Previously, Keith held pivotal roles including Vice President positions at Interpreta/Centene and Anvita Health/Humana, where he streamlined operations, services and facilitated analytics, co-founding eTherapyFinder, an online platform connecting therapists with patients nationwide, and serving as Vice President at CliniComp, Intl. and Accelrys, where he led initiatives in electronic medical records and computational material science.
David Munguia SVP Engineering
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H. David Munguia is a seasoned software engineering leader based in San Diego, California, with over 20 years of experience in technology and software engineering. Currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Spectator Health, he has a robust background in all aspects of software development, from design and technical specifications to deployment and team leadership. David’s expertise spans multiple industries, including healthcare analytics, where he has played a pivotal role in large-scale projects and innovative solutions. His experience includes key roles at Anvita Health, Humana, Transcend Insights, and other technology-focused companies. David is known for his collaborative approach, adeptness at managing multi-disciplinary teams, and commitment to delivering business value through technology.
Samira Purmul Clinical Product Specialist
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Samira Purmul is a nursing professional based in San Diego, California. She initially started her career as a mental health worker and transitioned to leading nursing departments in long-term care facilities after finishing her nursing degree. Over the past 7 years, Samira has worked in a variety of healthcare settings, including hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities. She is always committed to providing the best possible care to her patients and is known for her compassionate bedside manner. Fast forward now, Samira is using this knowledge at Spectator Health as a Nurse Product Specialist. She is a dedicated advocate for health and wellness and is committed to making a positive impact on the lives of those around her.
Katie Broyles Director of Sales
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Katie brings more than 20 years of healthcare experience, including 15 years dedicated to the senior healthcare industry. As Sales Director at Spectator Health, she partners with senior living providers and healthcare organizations to build strategic relationships and support innovative technology solutions that improve care coordination and resident outcomes. San Diego–based, Katie has spent her healthcare career serving organizations throughout Southern California and is passionate about advancing senior care through collaboration and innovation.
Brad Herrick Chief Marketing Officer
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Brad Herrick has spent the last three decades guiding healthcare and health tech companies in all stages of growth. During his career Brad has helped the top healthcare systems in the nation, leading healthcare technology companies, and biotech start-ups to realize their revenue and growth goals via sales and marketing strategies that build sales overnight and brand over time. Brad has held leadership positions at Mercy, SSM, Allsup, and PierianDx, establishing powerful brands while driving digital transformation and growth. Brad also founded a healthcare marketing consulting company, Vive, focused on growth strategies for innovative healthcare start-ups.
Board of Advisors
Richard V. Riggs, MD Senior Advisor
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Dr. Riggs served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Cedars-Sinai Health System from 2019 to 2025, where he led the reengineering of the Office of the CMO across quality, patient safety, clinical efficiency, and physician wellness. He previously served as Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer beginning in 2015, established Cedars-Sinai's ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics Fellowship, and chaired the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation from 1997 to 2020. As Chief Medical Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff, he also helped launch the California Rehabilitation Institute. Dr. Riggs currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for HealthLeap AI, advises several other AI ventures, and is an Executive in Residence at the Scottsdale Institute.
Benjamin Yu, MD, PhD Senior Advisor
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Prior to joining the Spectator Health Advisory Board, Dr. Yu served as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Spectator Health and as VP of Medical Informatics and Genomics at Interpreta, where he led clinical development of desktop, mobile, and API-based solutions managing population health at scale for millions of lives.
A physician-scientist by training, Dr. Yu completed his work in Immunology, Molecular Oncology, and Dermatology at Washington University School of Medicine. He is a former faculty member and attending physician at UCSD, where he served as a principal investigator with funding from the Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and others. Dr. Yu is board-certified in Dermatology and continues to practice medicine in San Diego.