Mural Health represents a natural evolution to Sam’s past work; the Mural Link product leverages a next-generation participant payment technology to drive deeper benefits to the participants and more meaningful value to both sites and sponsors executing the study. Prior to co-founding Mural Health, Sam founded Greenphire in 2008, where he was responsible for inventing the first payment technologies that were vertically integrated into the clinical trials industry.

Sam is from suburban Philadelphia (Delco!) and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Laura joined Mural Health as the fractional Chief People Officer after reconnecting with her former coworker and friend, Sam Whitaker. Laura has led the People Operations function at five startups and is passionate about employee experience, DEI, people development and intentional culture creation. She's excited to be part of Mural Health's growth and success. Laura has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters Certification in HR Management from Villanova University. She serves on multiple company boards as an HR Board Advisor and was President of Mount Saint Joseph Academy's Alumnae Board.

Laura resides in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and 2 daughters. She's an avid golfer, a podcast enthusiast and a coffee lover.

Shawn has been in the software business for over two decades, as a programmer, and as a manager and mentor to his teams. Having worked with Sam twice in the past, he eagerly seized upon this opportunity to create something simultaneously new and mature, leveraging his experiences in various industries to co-found Mural Health and lead its engineering team.

Mike is an accomplished technology executive with a track record of orchestrating and optimizing engineering, QA, AI, data and Devops teams in the SaaS, fintech growth startup ecosystem. Mike has worked at several Philadelphia-area startups with successful exits, including ColdLight Solutions, Spring EQ, Relay Network and Ecount/Citi Prepaid. Most recently, Mike worked as a startup advisor and fractional CTO, providing critical feedback to businesses, helping them build technology roadmaps, modernize data analytic capabilities, formulate strategic plans, and conduct rigorous talent assessments. Mike is passionate about technology and is always looking for ways to leverage it in his personal and professional life. When Mike isn’t working, he enjoys spending time with his wife, daughters and loyal Labrador Retriever, Sunny. He’s an avid cyclist, golfer, gamer, astronomer, tinkerer and spicy food fanatic.

Emma joined Mural Health as a Product Manager with a passion for improving participant experiences in clinical trials. Through her prior work as a project manager, she is well acquainted with collaborating with clinical researchers to develop health applications. Emma cares deeply about creating technology that reduces burdens often attributed to interactions within the medical field. In addition, her time as a clinical research coordinator and past longitudinal research participant served to deepen her appreciation for the advancements Mural Health will look to achieve.

Paul joined Mural Health bringing along his diverse experience in the eClinical industry. Having an engineering background and keen drive to continuously innovate, Paul recognized the substantial value Mural Health offers in its approach to shift more focus on the participant experience. Paul is excited to share how Mural Health plugs the patient seamlessly into the eClinical ecosystem.