Quench is building workflows that
work for you

We started Quench with a simple observation: brilliant medical and legal minds were drowning in 1000s of pages of medical-legal documents.

Our physician-engineered AI platform dramatically streamlines the medical record review workflow, enabling medical, legal, and insurance professionals to rapidly extract, summarize, and organize vast, complex documents.

We're building more than software. We're creating a future where medical and legal professionals have more time to do what they love—a future with less paperwork and cognitive burnout and more impact with artificial intelligence.

Meet the team

A passionate team of doctors, data scientists and tech experts are bringing Quench SmartChart to market.

Dr. Lesh combines medicine, technology, and entrepreneurship expertise to transform healthcare.

With degrees in computer science, electrical and biomedical engineering from MIT, plus medicine and cardiology from UCSF and the University of Pennsylvania, he has launched multiple successful medical device and digital health ventures.

As founder and CEO of Quench, Dr. Lesh leads a team of professionals building software that helps medical and legal professionals navigate complex medical records and surface insights in minutes.

Michael D. Lesh, SM MD FACC
Founder & CEO

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Founders & Advisors

  • Karl Swanson, MSc, DO

  • Jeff Zalewski, BSME, MBA

  • Nick Murray-Ishihara, BS

  • Sean Kelleher, MBA

    Manager at Deloitte

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  • Christine Cassel, MD

    Professor of Medicine, UCSF

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  • Michael "Cubby" Carlson, DO

    PGY-3 Radiology Resident, Riverside Community Hospital

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  • Joshua Faber, MD

    PGY-1 Emergency Medicine Resident, New York -Presbyterian Hospital

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  • Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH

    Occupational & Environmental Medicine Physician, UCSF
Clinical Informatics Fellow, UCSF

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  • Johannes Otterbach

    Chief Technology Officer, nyonic

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