“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
Akhila Satish is the CEO of Meseekna. At Meseekna, she leads a team of diverse backgrounds and skill sets on a mission to assess, train and educate individuals on the power of their metacognition (their “how” of thinking). Meseekna’s technology is based on sixty years of research and five hundred peer reviewed publications.
In her career, Akhila has devoted herself to bringing products and technology to the market that are built on a solid scientific foundation. Her first company, CyberDoctor, a healthcare communications company, was the first company to run a successful clinical trial on a digital therapeutic for diabetes. For her work on CyberDoctor, Akhila was honored as a Rising Star at Health 2.0, a semifinalist in the Healthcare Innovation World Cup, and a Global Leader in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Center of Healthcare Innovation.
Energized by her experiences building and marketing scientifically designed products, Akhila is a passionate advocate for scientific literacy and changing the existing paradigms of bench to bedside research. She has written extensively about the economic costs of low scientific literacy and the struggle for scientists to share their work in accessible ways.
