For over a decade, Michael has developed an extensive array of leadership experiences in some of Canada’s leading for profit and not-for-profit healthcare institutions. Michael has led sales and growth initiatives that have provided unique solutions and unlocked value for healthcare institutions, practitioners, patients and consumers across the entire continuum of care. A deep desire to build a healthcare system that is more efficient and effective and delivers care services as and where needed brought Michael into the universe of virtual and digital care delivery. Michael has led numerous investments in technologies designed to improve the lives of individuals by addressing their health and wellness needs through the use of virtual and digital care solutions. Michael brings to Carebook a strong background in corporate strategy, sales and transactional engagement that will help build Carebook into a truly global provider of digital and virtual care solutions. 

Michael received his law degree from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and his MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business. He has been called to the bars of Ontario and New York State.

Olivier has more than 20 years of experience in venture capital, operations, finance, and M&A. Prior to joining Carebook, Olivier was CEO of a digital health company, where he led transformational and growth initiatives that resulted in the successful sale of the company in 2021. Before that, Olivier was Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at a leading healthcare venture capital fund based in Toronto, where he participated in the funding, management and exit of several technology companies. He also worked as a corporate lawyer for leading law firms in London (UK) and Montreal, advising public and private companies on all types of transactions. Olivier holds an MBA from INSEAD (France) as well as a Bachelor of Law Degree from Laval University (Quebec City).

A technology leader with more than twenty years of experience, Charles brings his recognized technical and personal skills to grow and lead Carebook’s software development teams. Prior to Carebook, Charles had various technical leadership roles at Autodesk, an international leader in the visual effect software industry, and then as chief technology officer at Téo Taxi, a technological startup in the transportation business.

Dr. Sheldon Elman is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Medisys Health Group, Canada’s leading provider of corporate health services and co-founder of Persistence Capital Partners and Esplanade Ventures. They are amongst the largest private equity and venture capital firms in Canada focusing on Healthcare. Dr. Elman, who is still in active medical practice, is board certified and a member of the Canadian College of Family Physicians, as well as YPO-Young Presidents Organization-Gold, CEO- Chief Executives Organization, Le Cercle dès Presidents and a past member of the board of the CD Howe Institute. He is very involved in many fundraising efforts for Cancer Research and is on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish General Hospital. Dr. Elman is passionate about the positive impact that digital health is having and will continue to have on the wellbeing of individuals and their families.

Together with Dr. Sheldon Elman, Mr. Stuart Elman co-founded Persistence Capital Partners, a leading Canadian healthcare-focused private equity fund in 2008. He is responsible for all aspects of Persistence Capital Partners, from sourcing and evaluating new investments to managing existing ones. Mr. Elman currently sits on the Board of Directors of a number of Persistence Capital Partners’ portfolio companies. Prior to co-founding Persistence Capital Partners, Mr. Elman spent nine years at Medisys Health Group initially as CFO, and later as President, where he was instrumental in raising capital and leading the company’s significant organic and M&A-driven growth. He led Medisys’ IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2002 and its going-private transaction and acquisition by Persistence Capital Partners in 2008. Mr. Elman began his career at Trader Classified Media, then the world’s largest classified advertising group, where his responsibilities included strategic planning, business development, and M&A. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.

Anne-Marie Boucher, a lawyer and Masters in Tax, is a founding partner of one of Montreal’s fastest-growing law firms, BCF, where she practiced tax and corporate law for most of her career. As the education director of the Quebec Tax Association, she was part of a delegation of Canadian experts mandated to assist the Government of Brazil with their tax reform. She taught tax and estate planning for several years at the University of Montreal, University of Sherbrooke, and McGill. Today, she remains of counsel to BCF and is a founding investor and member of the investment committee of BCF Ventures, a successful early-stage venture capital fund. In addition, she provides active oversight of the Garber family holdings, working closely with Iconik Capital, the well-respected multi-family Office based in San Francisco. She has a formal education in board governance and sits on a number of leading Montreal, Canadian, and international Boards, including the prestigious Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Enerjet Co, Alpine Canada, the McCord Museum, the Jewish Community Foundation, the World Wildlife Foundation and the St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation. An active athlete, Anne-Marie Boucher is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.

With a specialist certificate in neurosurgery from the Collège des médecins du Québec and from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Dr. Philippe Couillard served as head surgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at Saint-Luc Hospital in Montreal, Canada from 1989-1996. He co-founded the Dhahran Department of Neurosurgery in Saudi Arabia, was a professor at Université de Sherbrooke from 1996 to 2003, and served as chairman of surgery at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Couillard was elected as Member of the National Assembly of Québec for the Mount Royal riding in 2003 and re-elected in the Jean-Talon riding in 2007. He was appointed Minister of Health and Social Services from 2003-2008, then served as a partner at an investment firm, spent time as a consultant, and taught a course on the governance of health care systems. In 2014, he was elected Member of Parliament for the riding of Roberval and became the 31st premier of Quebec. During this time, he helped initiate innovative public policies in several key sectors.

Mr. Younie is a Director of ICM Limited, a joint manager of UIL. He currently serves as a Director for Allectus Capital Limited, West Hamilton Holdings Limited, and Somers Limited, where he also oversees operations. He previously worked within the corporate finance division at Arbuthnot Securities Limited in London. Mr. Younie is a graduate of Bristol University, and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Mr. Pilla brings with him nearly 30 years of leadership experience in the health care sector, in areas such as community pharmacy, pharmaceutical distribution and sales management, specialty health networks, chronic disease management and adherence and health information technology. In recent years, Mr. Pilla led McKesson Canada, serving as Chief Executive Officer from 2016 to 2020. He also acted as President and Chief Executive Officer of Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Pilla held various leadership positions with McKesson Canada, RNG Group Inc., and Petro-Canada.