Our Vision
A world where every person affected by cancer is able to access their best care.
Our Mission
To give every cancer patient and caregiver a trusted clinical partner at their side to guide and support them throughout the cancer journey.
Our Story
Our co-founder Vanessa, experienced the challenges and uncertainties of caring for a family member with cancer firsthand – she was overwhelmed by her mother’s cancer diagnosis despite her 20-year career in biotech oncology.
Vanessa and the team believed that one-to-one guidance, augmented by technology, could transform cancer care. Vanessa and the Navvisa founders assembled a team invested in the mission of providing personalized cancer navigation services to patients and caregivers.
What Does Navvisa Mean?
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is like waking up in a foreign land
without maps, guidebooks, or knowledge of the language.
We think of our guidance as providing the
Navgational map and Visa passport for the journey.
Our Team

Vanessa Johnson
Co-Founder, CEO
MPH, My Health Concierge Co-Founder, Genentech, Biogen/IDEC, Celgene

Joan Forte
Chief Clinical Officer
RN, MBA; Stanford Health Care, Director, Strategic Patient Care; Co-Founder, Tandem Health

Ken Stineman
Co-Founder, COO
Headspace, Ginger, Genomic Health, Double-Helix, Incyte, Synteni, Intel, Princeton University BSEE

Brian Johnson
Engineering
Fairchild Imaging, RGB Networks; LSI Logic; C-Cube Microsystems; Philips Research; General Electric; Rensselaer Polytechnic, BSEE; Syracuse University MSEE;

Kim Garlinghouse
Nursing Lead
RN, MPH, Good Medicine, C2lt, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt

Neil Kennish
Sales
Cariloop, Employer Direct, FreshBenies, MobyMax, Cigna, Houston Rockets. Harvard University
Our Team of Oncology Nurses
Affiliations: UCSF, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute, University of Vermont, and more.
Our Advisors

David Kaplan, MD
Global Leader for Clinical Solutions, Mercer; Board Member / Senior Advisor / Consultant for companies in the Employee Healthcare marketplace

Elizabeth Thompson
Chairman / CEO Transcend 4Good; President, Susan G. Komen for the Cure; CEO, Lymphoma Research Foundation; President/CEO, C-Change

Nabeel Quryshi
Khosla Ventures Associate, Evera Co-Founder, 23andMe Research, Harvard, CS/Molecular Biology

Jerrod Helms
Chief Commercial Officer at DarioHealth; Head of Sales, Ginger; VP of Sales, Humana; Sr. Executive, for various Employee Benefits companies

Maureen Achebe, MD
Clinical Director, Div. of Hematology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Medical Director, Ambulatory Infusion Center, BWH; Harvard Medical School

Renee Albert
Marriot, Facebook, Senior Director Health Benefits; McKesson, Director, Symantec Corporation, Senior Director Global Benefits

Ron Fontanetta
Willis Towers Watson, Practice Leader; Columbia University MBA, MPH, SUNY Albany BA