About – Narinder Singh

I’m a technologist who has oscillated between trying to run towards and away from that identity since I first became enamored with a computer. I believe technology can change the world for the better and am passionate about applying that energy to improving healthcare. I love to laugh and learn, feel guilty for not doing enough, and believe if you are doing the right things with the right people it seldom feels like work. After beginning my career at Accenture’s Center for Strategy Technology I led several R&D teams at webMethods, an integration startup that eventually went public. After a corporate strategy role in the Office of the CEO at SAP I co-founded Appirio which raised funds from Sequoia, GGV and General Atlantic, became the largest independent partner of salesforce, Workday and Google enterprise, and grew to over 1200 people before its acquisition. From there I decided to work on something that could serve others. I went back to school to learn about medical devices and AI, yet it was later that healthcare became personal. My mom endured an unexpected twelve weeks in a hospital with multiple major surgeries – culminating in a successful bilateral lung transplant. I spent over a thousand hours in the hospital with her and the experience led me to write a guide for how families could navigate the crisis of critical care . Through that the eventual mission of LookDeep – to help hospitals ‘Be Present for Every Patient at Every Moment’ – became my obsession. Applying emerging technology to help patients in the hospital and those that care for them is the most important professional experience I’ve ever had the fortune to work on. See my writing and perspectives at Forbes Technology Council.

From my bio on LookDeep Health's site ↗.

At a glance

Past – Co-founder, Appirio. President, Topcoder. Corporate Strategy SAP. VP Eng, webMethods.

Education – Masters translational medicine (UCSF/Berkeley), MBA (Wharton), BS (Northwestern).

Today – Board of Directors PAR Technology (NYSE:PAR), The Sikh Coalition, LookDeep Inc.

Since that bio was written: I left the Sikh Coalition's board in 2024. Today I serve on the boards of PAR Technology and LookDeep.

Timeline

1995 Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University (McCormick School of Engineering), class of 1995 source ↗ to confirm
2001-09-11 Co-founder of the Sikh Coalition, formed by volunteers the night of September 11, 2001 source ↗ to confirm
2006 Co-founded Appirio, a cloud consultancy, in 2006 source ↗ to confirm
2006-2016 Roles at Appirio included CMO and Head of Products, Chief Strategy Officer, and leading strategy, R&D, marketing and international source ↗ to confirm
2011-2014 Chief Strategy Officer, Appirio (and co-founder) source ↗
2012 Represented Appirio at the World Economic Forum; Appirio was named a 2012 WEF Technology Pioneer source ↗ to confirm
2012-2024 Chairman of the Sikh Coalition's board (described as chairman of the board of trustees in 2012; Executive Board Chairman in 2022; board chair through 2024) source ↗ to confirm
2013-2016 President of topcoder, the crowdsourcing design, development and data science community acquired by Appirio in September 2013 source ↗ to confirm
2014-04-09 Testified before the U.S. House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Research and Technology at the hearing 'Prizes to Spur Innovation and Technology Breakthroughs' source ↗
2016-04-25 Appeared as a Sikh Coalition board member on The Daily Show segment 'Confused Islamophobes Target American Sikhs' (April 25, 2016) source ↗
2016-11 Appirio acquired by Wipro in November 2016 (reported at about $500 million) source ↗ to confirm
2019-03 Co-founder and CEO of LookDeep Health (AI and computer-vision patient monitoring for hospitals), CEO since March 2019 source ↗ to confirm
2023 Co-author with LookDeep's Michael Choma and Duke colleagues of an ATA 2023 poster on integrating AI/computer-vision observations into clinical workflows source ↗
2024 Left the Sikh Coalition's board in 2024; his current boards are PAR Technology (NYSE: PAR) and LookDeep