DGTL Voices with Ed Marx

C.P. Gurnani is the Founder of Aionos, an AI-enabled company he launched in April 2024 after a 44-year career in the global technology industry. He is best known for leading Tech Mahindra, and his earlier career took him through HCL under Shiv Nadar and Perot Systems under Ross Perot Sr. He continues to serve as Chair of Mahindra Holidays and founder of Mahindra University.

In this second appearance on DGTL Voices, C.P. sits down with Ed for a conversation that starts with a Bollywood song about perseverance and ends with why the world's real innovation is happening in places most people aren't watching. He walks through India's advantage at the intersection of talent, data, and the willingness to work within constraints, telling the story of a friend making cancer diagnostics affordable for under one dollar.

He shares the three biggest misconceptions about AI, why he thinks the world is measuring it wrong, and what it takes to build a company where the mission is to have fun and create real impact. Plus his leadership formula: discipline, determination, dedication, and the two-way street of giving and taking that made him the leader he is.

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Nish Khandwala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bunkerhill Health, an AI agent platform for health systems backed by Sequoia and deployed at Cleveland Clinic, Stanford, UCSF, and more than 25 other institutions. A Stanford CS grad with a Master's in AI and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Nish built Bunkerhill after a Nature-published research algorithm he helped build at Stanford sat unused on his laptop for two years, then found its real-world moment when his own father had a heart attack.

In this episode of DGTL Voices, Nish talks with Ed about the calcium-scoring model that inspired the company, why healthcare has to stop imposing drug-development timelines on modern software, and the governance shift he thinks hospital CEOs need to make: drive the cost of failure toward zero, iterate fast, and stop treating AI like a five-year plan. Plus his origin story from India to Saudi Arabia to Stanford, the difficult-conversations lesson he's learned about leadership, and why he doesn't buy the false dichotomy between clinical and administrative AI.

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Dr. Andrew Gostine is the CEO of Artisight, a smart hospital platform now deployed in more than 470 hospitals across the country. Trained as an anesthesiologist at Georgetown, Northwestern, and Stanford, he still practices medicine while running a company of nearly 200 employees distributed across 38+ states. Artisight's platform uses computer vision, NVIDIA GPUs at the bedside, and AI to reduce falls, extend nursing capacity, and automate documentation in patient rooms and operating rooms.

In this episode of DGTL Voices, Andrew talks with Ed about the winding path from Grand Rapids to Georgetown to a venture capital detour at a high-frequency trading firm before starting Artisight, why he believes starting a company is really about solving a trillion small problems, and the one question he keeps asking his team, his advisors, and himself: what is the next step? Plus his hard-won lesson about why hospitals need vendors to be prescriptive rather than collaborative, and why the future of smart hospitals depends on physicians and nurses having a seat at the innovation table.

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David Banks is the President and CEO of AdventHealth, one of the largest faith-based health systems in the country, with 55+ hospital campuses, 2,000+ care sites, and 100,000+ team members serving communities across the nation.

In this episode of DGTL Voices, David sits down with Ed for a conversation that begins with cycling and ends with the philosophy that shapes how AdventHealth approaches whole-person care. He talks about his path from sweeping the sidewalks of a small community hospital in California to leading a national health system, what it means for every facility leader at AdventHealth to also carry the title of Chief Spiritual Officer, and the "feel whole" promise the organization makes to every patient. Plus a story from early in his career that taught him an important lesson about putting patient need ahead of financials, and how the team did some of its most important work in the middle of COVID.

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Dr. Ashley Beecy is the Chief AI Officer at Sutter Health, a cardiologist, and a clinical informaticist. Before joining Sutter, she spent more than a decade at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, most recently as Medical Director of AI Operations. Her path into medicine took a less common route: she started as a computer systems engineer at IBM, then spent eight years at Citi in operational risk and product management before going to medical school while still working in finance.

In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ashley sits down with Ed to talk about what it takes to build an applied AI function inside a major health system. She walks through the three pillars guiding her work at Sutter, why organizational readiness matters as much as the technology itself, and the discipline required to scope and prioritize when the AI news cycle creates a constant pull toward urgency. Plus the seventh-grade math teacher who shaped her trajectory, the mantra her dad gave her about Brinks trucks and funeral processions, and why she defines success today by what teams achieve together rather than individual metrics.

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Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas is Vice Chair of Integration and Innovation at Northwestern Medicine, Executive Treasurer of the American Urological Association, and a former CEO of one of the largest private urology groups in the country. She earned her MD at Northwestern, completed her residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and her MBA at MIT Sloan.

In this episode of DGTL Voices, Jennifer talks with Ed about the spinal meningitis diagnosis at age three that pointed her toward medicine, what changed when she got to MIT and started thinking alongside multinational CFOs and SpaceX engineers, and why she left a CEO seat for protected innovation time at a health system. She shares her perspective as a Black female urologist on what it took to navigate her training, how she leads through really listening, and why she believes failure is part of the path to anything worth building.

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Ansh Singhal is 18 years old, a senior at Coppell High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and the founder and CEO of A1 Media, a digital marketing agency he's been growing for two and a half years. His client roster already includes Adidas and Paiwan Football, who recently flew him to Japan to lead marketing for an international tournament. He's headed to SMU's Cox School of Business in the fall.

In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ansh sits down with Ed for one of the show's occasional non-healthcare conversations. He talks about the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen, 1% better every day, and how it changed his trajectory. He shares why every high schooler trying to start something should start with a co-founder, what reverse mentoring looks like from the other side, and what he thinks executives twice his age are missing about social media and AI. Ed also asks him to weigh in on the future of healthcare from a tech-forward Gen Z perspective.

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Dr. Lev Gonick is the Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, where he leads technology infrastructure, AI innovation, and smart city architecture for the nation's largest public university.

An academic and technology pioneer for more than three decades, Lev has been a sitting CIO for 25 years, with prior leadership at Case Western Reserve University and co-founding regional digital equity initiatives like DigitalC.

In this bonus episode of DGTL Voices, Lev tells Ed about growing up in an academic family, the pivotal 1993 university sabbatical that shifted his career into online learning, and why a university's success should be measured by who it includes rather than who it excludes. He also shares insight into ASU’s radical new medical school program where every future doctor also graduates with an engineering degree to navigate the upcoming AI economy.

Plus: the unique strategy he uses to stay ahead of tech trends by employing 350 student "coaches," why building true human relationships matters more than titles, and how getting lost in the kitchen as an amateur chef keeps him grounded.

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