Founders and CEO

Yenvy Truong is a 15+ year veteran of the healthcare and wellness industries—a serial entrepreneur, investor and thought leader.

Yenvy began her career as an analytical chemist in a major pharmaceutical company. She ascended the ranks of several corporations and diagnostic startups before embarking on a career as the founder and catalyst of successful companies. She has founded and co-founded start-ups in the arenas of digital health and remote lifestyle monitoring, as well as metabolic, functional, anti-aging, and regenerative medicine. In the process, she has had the privilege of working alongside prominent physicians, Nobel Laureates, and industry-leading healthcare innovators.

Her most recent endeavor as founder and CEO of a healthcare startup shepherded breakthrough research from their origins in a major university, all the way to an accredited digital health enterprise. The resulting company boasted three patents, with some of the most prestigious clinical organizations in the world on its client roster. Yenvy also mentors disruptive startups in various industries, helping them create the perfect roadmap to reach their objectives.

Throughout her career, Yenvy has embodied a passion for systemic reform, supporting the shift from a reactive disease-care system to a proactive healthcare system. She lives this passion by promoting the implementation of cutting-edge technology, physiological, medical, and nutritional science developments into standard patient care.

Yenvy has a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, an MBA, and a certification in Mergers and Acquisitions from Stanford University.

In her free time, Yenvy loves traveling, reading, surfing, yoga, Pilates, and meditation. She is also an avid biohacker, using her own body as a test subject and her scientist’s affinity for data to find the best solutions for her own optimal wellness.

Dr. Jay Kimmel is an orthopedic surgeon with Advanced Orthopedics New England. Dr. Kimmel specializes in Sports Medicine with an emphasis on shoulder and knee injuries.

Dr. Kimmel is the co-director of the Connecticut Sports Medicine Institute (CSMI) at St Francis hospital. CSMI is a multidisciplinary institute dedicated to bringing the principles of sports medicine to the local community. Dr. Kimmel is a leader in bringing value-based health care to the sports medicine community.

Dr. Kimmel enjoys teaching and is an assistant clinical professor in both the department of family medicine and department of orthopedics at the University of Connecticut.

Dr. Kimmel attended Cornell University in New York and then the University of Rochester where he earned his doctorate in medicine. He completed his orthopedic residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center where he trained with some of the pioneers in shoulder surgery. He then went on to do a fellowship in Sports Medicine at Temple University Center for Sports Medicine in Philadelphia where he participated in the care of the Temple athletes.

Dr. Kimmel is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery and is board-certified in Orthopedic Surgery. He recently re-certified in 2013. He is a member of the exclusive American Academy of Sports Medicine, whose members have demonstrated by their training and practice a thorough knowledge and commitment to sports medicine. Dr. Kimmel has earned the Subspecialty Certificate in Orthopedic Sports Medicine given by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery.

Dr. Kimmel lives with his wife Wendy, a professor in clinical psychology at Clark University. When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and working diligently on his tennis game.

Dr Steve Schutzer is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in robotic total hip and knee replacement surgery. He has been in practice for 34 years.

He Co-founded Upswing Health in 2017 with his partner Dr Jay Kimmel.

Steve has been a leader in the National and regional effort to transform the healthcare sector from a siloed, volume-driven model with no culpability to a value-based framework aligned with provider transparency, accountability and predictability. He is the Physician Executive for the Orthopedic Service Line at Trinity Health Of New England and Medical Director of the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute, a Nationally recognized, validated center of excellence built on trusting relationships.

Steve also serves on the Executive Committee of the Moving to Value Alliance, a grassroots multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at creating a value-based healthcare ecosystem with the highest quality outcomes at a reasonable cost for the employers in Connecticut and their healthcare consumers. He leads the MTVA sub-committee on centers of excellence.

Steve is an avid outdoorsman. In his “free time” he enjoys riding motorcycles, ATVs, tractors and occasionally a bicycle, as well as training in Korean martial arts.