Fawad Butt

Co-Founder and CEO

Penguin Ai

Fawad served as the Chief Data Officer at Kaiser Permanente, United Healthcare, and Optum, leading the industry’s largest team of data and analytics experts and managing a multi-hundred-million-dollar P&L. At Optum, he was responsible for overseeing the end-to-end data and analytics capabilities, platforms, products, tools and services across the enterprise. Under his leadership, his team modernized key data and analytics capabilities to support the ever-evolving analytical needs across the UHG and Optum businesses.

Fawad fostered a culture of innovation across the analytics ecosystem, encouraged experimentation with new methods and technologies, and invested in talent and tools to deliver a robust digital foundation for the enterprise, enabling best-in-class care and cost outcomes for the $60M UGH members. Prior to UHG, Fawad served as the Chief Data Governance & Chief Data Officer at Kaiser Permanente. At Kaiser, Fawad helped define the industry’s most robust Data Governance Model, led an enterprise-wide Data Privacy & Security initiative, and built the foundational data and analytics capabilities which allowed Kaiser to be market leading in digital care deliver for years to follow. Prior to starting Penguin Ai. Fawad was an Executive-in-Residence at Canvas Ventures, a venture capital firm with $3B under management. During his time at Canvas, he worked closely with the Management Partners to evaluate health care investments and help the firm drive a data analytics, AI, and machine learning thesis. He was involved with the following portfolio companies as a board observer and technical leader: Particle Health, Vida Health, and PineCove Health.