• Chief Psychiatrist, Ready Responders

• Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital

• Founder, Chief Medical Officer, CompanionMX

• Founder, Chief Science Officer, Innerscope Research (sold to Nielson)

• Chief Neuroscientist, Nielson

• Lecturer, MIT Media Lab

• Member, Aspen Global Leadership Network, Henry Crown Fellow

• Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

• SBA, Columbia; MA, Oxford University; MD, Harvard Medical School

Carl is the Chief Medical Officer at Cava Capital and a member of the core management team of the fund. Carl is responsible for overall Health Care due diligence at our portfolio companies, sourcing exciting new opportunities for the team, and co-founding and helping to operate businesses invested in by Cava Studio. 

Carl is a physician, scientist, and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience at the interface of healthcare and technology through multiple start-ups. He is a board-certified psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a part-time Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Carl is also the Chief Psychiatrist at Ready Responders, Inc., a venture-backed on-demand health service with over $100M in funding including investments from GV, Frist Cressey Ventures, and Deerfield Management. 

Previously, he has founded and leads several companies including CompanionMx, an app-based company with digital biomarkers for depression, and Innerscope Research, a pioneer in the field of consumer neuroscience. Innerscope was acquired in 2015 by Nielsen, where he served as the first Global Chief Neuroscientist for several years. Carl is also chair of Beyond Conflict, a global non-profit using brain, and behavior science to resolve complex social issues. 

He is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network as a Henry Crown Fellow and a former visiting lecturer at the MIT Media Lab. Carl has a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School where he graduated with honors. 

He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed science journals, holds seven U.S. patents, gives lectures nationally and internationally, and is the author of a forthcoming book on technology and the brain to be published by Harvard University Press.