Bilal Farooqui

Founder & CEO

2025

Meet Sunny Health, your concierge that helps members find care, book appointments, and get answers instantly. No phone trees. No confusion. Just results. Our consumer beta is live at sunnyhealth.ai and we're partnering with select forward-thinking TPAs, brokers, and benefits advisors to deliver a magical experience to the consumers they serve. If you'd like to partner with us or learn more, please reach out via DM or bilal@sunnyhealth.ai

Vice President of Product Management

2023 - 2025

I lead a cross-functional product, engineering, design, & data science team building an AI platform to transform direct-to-consumer healthcare shopping & how consumers make purchasing decisions. RVO Health is the largest health & wellbeing platform in the US through consumer destinations such as Healthgrades and Healthline, helping nearly 100 million people a month seek information, find a doctor, save money, and take action around their health & wellbeing. Our portfolio of industry-leading websites, products and services touches every part of the health and wellness journey. RVOH is a joint venture between United Health Group and Red Ventures.

Vice President Of Product Management

2021 - 2023

Joined Optum via Rally Health acquisition Head of Product, Rally - www.rallyhealth.com VP Product, Optum -- through Rally Health acquisition

Vice President of Product Management

2021 - 2023

Building the future of healthcare experiences using machine learning; Head of Product, Consumer Platform (Rally's Digital Health Plan offering, core Rally web & mobile app, myUHC and UHC mobile app, ML-powered consumer support chat, and enterprise design system) previously, Head of Product, Virtual Care & Fintech; Creator of Rally Pay, Rally’s flagship consumer healthcare payments platform processing 100s of millions of dollars in consumer payments; inventor of mechanism to use ERAs for consumer payment reconciliation on existing payer rails Also run Special Projects (most recently spun up Rally's Covid-19 response including symptom checker, test center locator, and real-time vaccine finder); continuous deploy repo in which merge to master commits code to production in real time, super hard to do in healthcare usually Rally has been acquired by Optum/UnitedHealth Group

Senior Director of Product Management

2020 - 2021

Director of Product Management

2019 - 2020

Senior Product Manager

2016 - 2019

Co-Founder & Head of Product

2013 - 2016

Revenue optimization platform for large healthcare provider systems; CrystalMD's CrystalSite was one of the first products that allowed doctors and hospitals to collect consumer payments in Bitcoin

Co-Founder & Head of Product

2006 - 2011

Y Combinator funded social network for music discovery. First ever audio player embeddable in Facebook. Led small product & engineering team in San Francisco that scaled platform from 0 to 5 million active users over a few months using FreeBSD, NFS replication, mySQL replication, and memcache. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ijigg-top440