Chris Benko untill recently was the CEO and co-Founder of Koneksa Health, a health information technology company focussed on improving measurement of clinical endpoints using digital tools and remotely collected patient data. Prior to founding Koneksa, Chris was a vice president in Merck’s corporate strategy office working with its Global Health Innovation venture capital fund. He began his career at Merck in 1995 and progressed through roles in information technology, as well as talent and organizational development, working in R&D, commercial, and at the corporate level as vice president for global talent management.