Welcome to WellFounded
WellFounded is the pioneering Founders’ Health Service and home of CHHP, The Centre for Health & Human Performance Research.
Who we are
We’re a team of doctors, scientists and concierge care professionals dedicated to tech-enabled excellence in medicine, performance & survivorship.
As founders, explorers, soldiers and athletes who know extremes well, we’re passionate about health for improbable success. We’re researchers of resilience and longevity who thrive seeing extraordinary, purpose-driven people achieve their work & life goals.
Who we serve
Our ever-innovating practice in health, performance & longevity research serves top founders and their companies, investors, athletes, expeditions and fellow clinicians, through to critically sick patients.
We solve for unmet health needs. Whether you need to get to the bottom of a critical medical issue or to the top of a mountain, we are committed to be with you, throughout the journey, however hard the challenge.
What we do
For founders and VCs we deliver team-based health, wellbeing & elite performance programmes. For our concierge members we deliver lifelong health optimisation, ultra-rapid response and unbiased expert counsel focused on best possible outcomes. Always, for getting more out of life, for longer.
We’ve set global standards in this domain, helped set a few world-records and set foot on all 7 continents in our work & research.
Meet some of our team.
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Dr. Jack Kreindler
Founder, CEO, Principal Physician
MB BS BSc (Phys) DipMM.
Jack has a 20+ year history pioneering health & human performance for occupational, expedition and clinical settings. Jack is no stranger to start-ups: Veteran founder, investor and advisor in US and UK health/biotech - Mosaic Ventures, Founders Forum Healthtech (Founder and Chair), Headspace (first advisor), vielife, Klarismo, Certific, Sentrian, CHHP.
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Dr. Andrew Crockett
Co-Founder, CPO, Principal Physician
MBBS BSc(Hons) MSc ENT MRCGP MRCS DOHNS
Andrew is a General Practitioner with a special interest in performance and longevity medicine with previous specialist training in surgery and radiology. Andrew has competed in international sport as well and train and support soldiers through the demands of selection into the airborne forces as an Officer in the Army reserve.
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Francesca Butler
Client Care Team
Francesca is an experienced carer and clinical customer support manager. Her previous experience was working within the care industry, She supported her team to work effectively and to a high standard providing quality care, promoting the wellbeing of her client’s, upholding their dignity and treating them with the utmost respect and kindness.
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Dr. Ranulf Crooke
Co-Founder, COO, Principal Physician
MBBS BSc(Hons) MRCGP DFSRH MSc SEM
Ran is a General Practitioner with a Masters Degree in Sports & Exercise Medicine. His interests are in health optimisation, healthspan, human performance science and longevity medicine. Ran is our Chief Operating officer in charge of process and regulation.
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Dr. Federica Amati
Head of Nutritional Science
PhD BSc (Hons) MPH MSc RNutr
Federica holds a PhD in Clinical Medicine Research from Imperial College London, is a Registered Public Health Nutritionist and is an Association for Nutrition (AfN) accredited Nutritionist. She researches and advises internationally including with NNedPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, Imperial, NIHR, WHO, and Zoe Health, and is one of the first in the UK to teach Nutrition to medical students.
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Dr Tom Gedman
Head of Mental Health and Performance, Principal Physician
BSc MBChB MRCGP AFMCP TEAM CBT
Tom is a General Practitioner with a special interest in mental health and functional medicine.He graduated with honours in Psychology and honours and distinction in Medicine from the University of Manchester. As a trained TEAM CBT cognitive therapist, he has developed rapid protocols that significantly reduce recovery time for mood disorders, addiction, and relationship problems.
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Yoni Gottlieb
Chief of Staff & Client Care Lead
With over a decade and a half’s policing experience, successfully managing people, information, conflict and risk, Yoni has spent the last 10+ years in the sport, charity and startup sectors leading operations to uphold ISO and CQC clinical standards and ensuring client success.
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Nikita Wood
Client Care Team
With 15 years of experience as an administration assistant and distribution manager, Nikita joined the WellFounded team with a dedication to contributing to a productive and inspiring work environment.
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Prof Sumantra Ray
Head of Nutritional and Preventative Medicine
MBBS, MPH, MD, DNHE
Prof Sumantra Ray is a UK licensed medical doctor and registered public health nutritionist. He is the Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health and holds appointments across Imperial College London, Ulster University and the University of Cambridge, with several hundred publications, a plethora of invited presentations, and his recent textbook on the Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare.
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Marje Isabelle
Lead Women’s Health & Success Coach
Marje has deep personal experience of almost every aspect of women’s health issues and of female entrepreneurship and human flourishing as a woman through every stage of a woman’s life and female specific challenges life from fertility, IVF, motherhood, menopause, cancer, relationship and life change.
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Dr Fionnuala Barton
Lead Menopause Specialist
MBBS BSc MRCGP
Dr Fionnuala is a UK trained GP and Menopause Specialist accredited by The British Menopause Society. She is focussed on supporting women to feel empowered, in control and in optimal health during perimenopause, menopause and beyond. She also specialises in the proactive management of PMS and PMDD. Drawing on over a decade of clinical experience and embracing the most up-to-date advances in women's health, Dr Fionnuala is dedicated to providing expert, evidence-based and bespoke health and wellbeing strategies utilising a 360-degree whole-person approach rooted in understanding, empathy and compassion.
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Dr John Stevenson
Principal Physician
MB BS BSc (Hons) MRCP MRCGP
Dr John is a General Practitioner with a special interest in diabetes, preventative and metabolic medicine. He works with families in all aspects of primary care. He takes a personalised approach to navigating wellbeing practice at home and work.
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Ellie Yates
Events and Communications Manager
Ellie gained a first class History degree and postgraduate qualifications in events marketing and management before moving into the education sector where she worked for 15 years whilst raising her children. Ellie works closely with Marje in coordinating our conferences, events and also leads on our content communications.