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Advisory board

The people who keep us honest

Contlo is building AI that writes to, talks with and decides on behalf of brands. Our advisors are operators and patient advocates who have lived the consequences of technology done well and done badly. They challenge our product, our ethics and our growth.

Meet the board About Contlo
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Tim O'Connor
Advisor, AI in healthcare and patient experience
San Francisco Bay Area
MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
BA, La Salle University
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Healthcare and patient communicationResponsible AIGo-to-marketEngineering leadership

Former CEO, CMO and SVP of Engineering, U.S. Army veteran, and a Stage IV lung cancer patient now working on AI for cancer care.

Tim spent his career running companies and the teams inside them, holding CEO, Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Engineering roles across technology businesses. That mix is rare: he has owned the P&L, the brand and the codebase, and he brings all three perspectives to how Contlo builds and sells.

In 2025 Tim was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. He turned that diagnosis into his next body of work, using AI as a thought partner to understand scans, prepare for oncology visits and make decisions under uncertainty. He wrote about it in Stage IV Cancer, AI, and Me, and now works with Radical Health, Kindrel Commons and Epic Systems' MyChart on AI for cancer patients. He also co-hosts the Kindrel Commons podcast, an AI education series for people who did not grow up with it.

Tim is a U.S. Army veteran who served as a Captain in the Corps of Engineers. He holds a BA from La Salle University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he was a Siemens Scholar.

“AI should help people understand what is happening to them and ask better questions. It should never replace the humans who answer them.”
Tim O'Connor
Highlights
  • CEO, CMO and SVP of Engineering across technology companies
  • Works with Radical Health, Kindrel Commons and Epic Systems/MyChart on AI for cancer care
  • Author of Stage IV Cancer, AI, and Me, a patient's guide to using AI through diagnosis and treatment
  • Co-host of the Kindrel Commons: AI Is For Everyone podcast
  • U.S. Army veteran, Captain, Corps of Engineers
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Vivek Bhaskaran
Founder and CEO, QuestionPro
Austin, Texas
BS, Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University
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Customer experience and researchCapital-efficient growthEnterprise product strategyGlobal expansion

Built QuestionPro from a bootstrapped survey tool into a global research and experience platform without a dollar of outside capital.

Vivek founded QuestionPro in Seattle in 2005, incorporating the company the day after he left his consulting job. He funded it from savings, grew it through product and search rather than fundraising, and has never taken outside investment. By 2008 QuestionPro was on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, and today it serves customers worldwide with offices in the United States, India, Mexico and Germany.

His operating philosophy is simple: value is what a customer pays for and keeps paying for. That lens shaped QuestionPro's Surveys, Customer Experience, Workforce and Communities product lines, and it is the lens he brings to Contlo, a QuestionPro company. Vivek also serves as Chairman of Survey Analytics and co-founded TryMyUI.

Born in Assam and raised in Kolkata, Vivek lived in Russia before moving to the United States, where he studied Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. He is based in Austin, Texas, and when he is not with customers he is usually on a motorcycle.

“Forget the norms. Measure yourself by the value you create for customers, not by funding or publicity.”
Vivek Bhaskaran
Highlights
  • Founded QuestionPro in 2005 and bootstrapped it to a global research platform
  • Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies, 2008
  • Offices in the United States, India, Mexico and Germany
  • Chairman, Survey Analytics; co-founder, TryMyUI
  • BS Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University
What the board does

Three questions we bring to every meeting

Advisors are not a logo wall. They meet with the founding team on product, trust and company building, and they are free to say no.

01

Product judgment

Where Brand AI and autonomous agents should act on their own, and where a human must stay in the loop.

02

Trust in regulated spaces

How AI communication should behave in healthcare, finance and other industries where a wrong message has real cost.

03

Durable growth

Building a company that earns revenue from customers rather than headlines, and scales on its own terms.

Interested in advising Contlo? hello@contlo.com

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