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 medico-legal paperwork

Our physician-engineered AI platform dramatically streamlines the medico-legal workflow, enabling healthcare, 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 healthcare and legal professionals have more time to do what they love—a future with less paperwork and cognitive burnout and more impact.

Meet the team

Driven by a shared vision to revolutionize medical documentation, Dr. Lesh and a team of medical experts, data scientists and technology professionals are bringing Quench SmartChart to market.

  • Michael D. Lesh, SM, MD, FACC

    Founder and CEO

    Cardiac Electrophysiology
Physician Entrepreneur
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, UCSF

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  • Mandar Karhade, MD, PhD

    Chief AI Officer

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  • Josh Bornstein

    Chief Operating Officer

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  • Jennifer Rustigian

    Head of Marketing

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  • Colin Fischer

    Business Operations

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  • Antara Bhide

    Analytics Intern

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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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