Andrea Ippolito is the CEO and Founder of SimpliFed, a maternal care home platform centered on baby feeding and breastfeeding support. Andrea previously served as the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Innovators Network within the VA Center for Innovation. In this capacity, she designed and oversaw the creation of a $10.5M program that provides VA employees with tools and resources to develop innovative solutions to improve the lives of Veterans and their families. Previously, Andrea served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow based out of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and General Services Administration. She pursued doctoral studies in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, where she was the Co-Director of MIT Hacking Medicine and completed her MS in Engineering & Management. In her entrepreneurial career centered on technology, systems, and innovation, Andrea was the Co-Founder of Smart Scheduling, an innovative application that improves access to care and was acquired by athenahealth in 2016, an Innovation Specialist at the Brigham Innovation Hub and Product Innovation Manager at athenahealth, and a Research Scientist at Boston Scientific. She obtained both her BS in Biological Engineering and Master of Engineering degree in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University.
