Jaydeo Kinikar

Jaydeo brings over two decades of leadership experience with entrepreneurial mindset in building & scaling innovation businesses. He has a track record of leading several concept to launch innovation businesses at GE, Philips, Best Buy Health and an automotive startup where he started his career journey. He has successfully built & operated health technology & service businesses at the intersection of Med Device/IoT, Virtual Care and Retail/Consumer Health. He is passionate about creating empathy-driven experiences that transcend patient-consumer journeys. Under Jaydeo’s leadership, businesses have been transformed into growth engines with strong revenue acceleration, margin expansion & shareholder value creation. Jaydeo is currently the Vice President of Strategy & Offering at Best Buy Health. He is responsible for spearheading Best Buy’s efforts in Virtual Care through business strategy, offerings (product) & partnerships in Provider, Payer & Senior Living markets. In prior leadership role at Philips, he led portfolio strategy transformation across Connected Care business. Prior to that, he built & scaled a Digital Health venture at Philips, focused on Remote Patient Monitoring through medical-grade biosensors/wearables, cloud platform with clinical workflows & analytics and seamless service. He has also established & scaled several businesses at GE including an innovation venture focused on IoT sensors and predictive analytics. Jaydeo is a frequent speaker & thought leader at Digital Health events and a co-author of Springer textbook on “Healthcare Information Technology for Cardiovascular Medicine”. He also serves on the Board for Directors at MassMEDIC and CTA Health Division organizations.