Former Intel and Google exec Diane Bryant tells a heartbreaking story of why she took a CEO job at a startup that hopes to save lives
This story requires our BI Prime membership. To read the full article,Diane Bryant tells Business Insider that she had her friend and former colleague in mind when she took the role of CEO at a startup called Neural Analytics.
She took this CEO job in part because she remembered how a stroke — and the doctor that misdiagnosed it — impacted her former Intel colleague Sean Maloney just as he was expected to become Intel's next CEO.Diane Bryant announced last week that she had taken the role of CEO with a medical robotics startup called Neural Analytics.
She was looking for "a startup I believed in, and if I felt the founders were open to being advised," she said. All that due diligence helped her narrow her focus to healthcare tech. "We deployed [Internet of Things] devices for a thousand patients," Bryant recalls. The connected devices tracked their gait, tremble, sleep and other metrics to help researchers in determining if their treatments were working. The health group then did a similar thing for cancer researchers.
Maloney was widely considered to be on track to become Intel CEO, succeeding Paul Otellini. But in 2010 Maloney had a stroke. He drove to an emergency room where the doctor didn't believe he was having a stroke, told him it was a migraine and sent him home. Later that weekend, he collapsed,. He fought his way back, and within a year was recovered enough to resume an executive role at Intel, even leading a famous bike ride in 2015 to raise awareness for stroke victims.
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