Michael Laskoff
Michael is an experienced telehealth entrepreneur, executive and advisor focused on combining emerging technology and business model innovation to commercialize and scale behavioral and population healthcare solutions. Over the past decade, he has raised over $30M from highly regarded venture funds – including .406 Ventures, Sandbox/BCBS Ventures, HLM, Canaan Partners and AXA Strategic Ventures – to start and grow two, technology-enabled healthcare services companies, Annum Health and AbleTo. In 2020, AbleTo was acquired by the nation’s largest health plan.
Currently, Michael serves as a board director at City Health Works (chairman), Medorion, wayForward, Wellth, and Project Health Minds (not for profit.) He is also an advisor to Intellihealth, Iris OB Health, CareTribe, Equip BH, and EMK Capital, a UK PE firm. Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) at Weill Cornell Medicine and has served on the board of Visiting Nurse Services of New York (2010-15). Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Michael worked at Furman Selz (investment banking), Bertelsmann, and McKinsey & Co.
Michael wrote Landing on the right Side of Your Ass, A Survival Guide for the Recently Unemployed (Three Rivers Press / Random House) and the “Hiring Line” columnist for BusinessWeek. He has a BA in political science from University of Chicago and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives with his wife in New York.