Chip Kennedy

Hi there, I'm Chip. I’m a digital product leader and social entrepreneur with a mission to create products and systems that support people, their health, and their communities. I care about creating equity, access, and dignity and I like building products that do the same. I proudly work in The Triangle NC tech ecosystem.

Overall: I care about, work on, teach, and advise folks on:

→ advisor @ The Amalgamation 🪧

→ former VP of product and engineering @ Guaranteed Health 🧑‍⚕️

→ mentor @ Five One Labs 🇮🇶

→ mentor @ Gaza Sky Geeks 🇵🇸

→ advisor, former interim chief technology officer @ Periodikal 🧮

→ former product manager @ Parachute Health 🪂

→ caregiver to my Dad, ALS patient

→ former chief technology officer @ Tastemakers Africa 🌍

→ partner nyc open data week 2018 📈

→ speaker @ impact summit 2018 💡

→ founder and former director of studio @ Collectively 🚀

→ former lead software engineer @ Referrio 📝

→ B.S. computer science @ Case Western Reserve University 🎓

→ caregiver to my Uncle, long-term brain tumor survivor

→ former software engineer @ Lean Dog 🐶

→ former paper boy @ The Patriot Ledger 🗞️

I've spent 8+ years as an entrepreneur, product builder, and software engineer with a passion of helping startups grow their platforms, ideas, and communities.

Since 2021, I’ve worked specifically with digital healthcare startups. As the VP of Product and engineering at Guaranteed Health, I lead healthcare product, engineering, and technology strategy and execution. I also worked at Parachute Health where I had the privilege of building and scaling their medical ordering platform for medical facilities, suppliers, manufacturers, and health systems, all to improve patient outcomes.

Pre-pandemic, I was CTO of Tastemakers Africa: a community platform centering Black experiences, Black voices, and Black stories across the world. It was the best startup I’ve had the opportunity to build with (and had the best founder I've had the opportunity to run a company with). We built a travel experiences marketplace at scale, created a global virtual community, and brought on fantastic investors - including Precursor Ventures and Flybridge Capital.

On the come up, I found my way in the startup world by founding and running a startup studio: Collectively. We brought on extraordinarily talented product designers and software engineers to work with startups, venture capitalists, and accelerators. We built digital products for some amazing mission-driven organizations and even ran discovery sprints for the NYC Mayor's Office. I’m most proud that we created a valuable community at the intersection of impact startups and product freelancers.

Outside of technologist-ing, I'm always (trying to be) training for my next marathon 👟, reading about politics 🇺🇸, and learning cooking from youtube 🍛.