Leadership
AZcare is led by a team with deep experience building AI communications technology, scaling enterprise platforms, and operating venture-backed companies. The team previously built BabbleLabs, an AI communications company backed by Dell Technologies Capital and Intel Capital. BabbleLabs delivered over 10x ROI and was acquired by Cisco in 2020.
Samer Hijazi PhD
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of AZcare, responsible for defining the company’s platform vision and technical strategy, building and leading world-class engineering teams, developing an enterprise-grade AI system that acts on behalf of people, and enabling scalable, secure communication across complex human and technology workflows.
Martha McClatchie
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of AZcare, responsible for establishing the company’s financial and operational foundation, overseeing capital strategy, forecasting, governance, and ensuring the organization is built to support institutional investment, disciplined growth, and long-term scalability.
Michelle Mao, PhD
Co-founder and CTO of AZcare, leading AI strategy and technology development. She previously co-founded BabbleLabs, acquired by Cisco in 2020, where she later led AI for Webex. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and is building AI agents that turn intent into real-world action.
Chris Rowen, PhD
Strategic Advisor and Board Member at AZCare, Chris is a pioneering entrepreneur and technologist who founded Tensilica and BabbleLabs. Chris has deep experience working on audio, video, natural language and AI analytics for Webex conferencing, calling and contact center systems, with special focus on the future of AI.
Advisors
Basem Nayfeh, PhD
Technical Advisor at AZcare, Basem joins our Board bringing decades of experience across AI, conversational systems, enterprise software, and telecommunications.
Sarah Azad
Technical Advisor at AZcare, Sarah is a board-certified OB-GYN with over 20 years of clinical practice at El Camino Women's Medical Group, Sarah brings direct, on-the-ground insight into how patients and providers actually navigate scheduling, care coordination, and communication, exactly the friction AZcare is built to remove.
Alyssa Patnode
Technical Advisor at AZcare, with a background in organizational design and people strategy. Alyssa has experience scaling high performance technical teams.
The Future of Operational Workflows
Phone systems still power critical business processes. AZcare is building a new layer to automate that work, turning time spent on calls into completed outcomes.
