Paul Pluschkell is a Healthcare Advisor on Mindbowser’s Advisory Board. He brings deep expertise in healthcare technology strategy, go-to-market decision-making, and a founder-operator perspective built over 25+ years as a serial entrepreneur and executive.
He is a 5x founder, with two successful acquisitions to his name, and currently serves as CEO and Co-Founder of StartupOS alongside his advisory role at Mindbowser.
Paul’s career did not begin in healthcare. It began with infrastructure.
He built and led at the intersection of telecom and enterprise technology during the era when internet infrastructure was being decided, not inherited. As President of Next Gen Broadband at Global Crossing, he ran a $650M division at the height of the dot-com wave.
That experience shaped something specific: an operator’s instinct for where technology cycles peak, where they break, and what actually survives long enough to matter.
He carried that instinct through five founding rounds. Spigit, from 2007 to 2014, was acquired by Planview. Kandy.io, from 2014 to 2017, was acquired by Sonos. EPICDX, from 2017 to 2021, brought him into healthcare directly. StartupOS, from 2021 to present, is his current build.
Alongside that, he advises Mindbowser on healthcare technology strategy.
What 25 years across that arc builds is not domain expertise in one vertical. It is something rarer: the ability to read a market’s maturity, spot the gap between what buyers say they need and what they actually fund, and ask the questions that founders inside a space stop asking.
That is what Paul brings to Mindbowser as an advisor. When a healthcare organization is evaluating a technology strategy, Paul brings the lens of someone who has been on the builder’s side of that bet, more than once.
Serial founder. Operator. Advisor. 25 years of building things that had to work in the market, not just on the deck.
Paul serves as Healthcare Advisor on Mindbowser’s Advisory Board. He concurrently serves as CEO and Co-Founder of StartupOS, a platform focused on the startup ecosystem.
He advises on healthcare technology strategy, go-to-market positioning, and founder-operator thinking for health tech clients.
Paul’s career spans founding, operating, and exiting companies across multiple technology cycles:
• Founder of MXNet, IXnet, and InnoStreams during his early career
• President, Next Gen Broadband, Global Crossing, a $650M division from 2000 to 2002
• Founder and CEO, Spigit, from 2007 to 2014, acquired by Planview
• Founder and CEO, Kandy.io, from 2014 to 2017, acquired by Sonos
• Founder, EPICDX, from 2017 to 2021
• CEO and Co-Founder, StartupOS, from 2021 to present
• Healthcare Advisor, Mindbowser Advisory Board
• BS, Eastern Illinois University, 1984 to 1987
• Adjunct Entrepreneurship Professor
Paul’s foundation is not in healthcare. It is in infrastructure and enterprise technology during the era when those markets were being built from the ground up.
His early work across MXNet, IXnet, and Global Crossing taught him to operate at scale under real market pressure.
That experience also taught him how technology adoption decisions are made when the stakes are high, and the cycle is moving fast, a skill that transfers cleanly into healthcare, where the same dynamics apply with higher consequences for getting it wrong.
#➤# Healthcare technology go-to-market strategy and market positioning
#➤# Founder-operator perspective on build, buy, and partner decisions
#➤# SaaS health tech strategy and product-market fit diagnostics
#➤# Technology market cycles and where healthcare is in them
#➤# Enterprise buyer behavior and what actually closes deals
#➤# Startup scaling, M&A positioning, and exit architecture
#➤# Innovation management and enterprise adoption frameworks
#➤# Entrepreneurship ecosystems and early-stage company building
• BS, Eastern Illinois University, 1984 to 1987
• Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Eastern Illinois University, where he teaches the discipline on which he built a career
• Career grounded in enterprise infrastructure and SaaS before specializing in healthcare technology strategy
• Founded and exited Spigit, an innovation management platform acquired by Planview
• Founded and exited Kandy.io, a cloud communications platform acquired by Sonos
• Ran a $650M division as President of Next Gen Broadband at Global Crossing during the peak internet infrastructure build-out from 2000 to 2002
• Founded EPICDX, bringing operator experience directly into the healthcare technology space
• Currently building StartupOS alongside advisory work at Mindbowser
• 5x founder with two successful acquisitions, with pattern recognition built from inside multiple technology cycles
• Healthcare Advisor on Mindbowser’s Advisory Board and strategic voice on healthcare technology go-to-market
• Adjunct Entrepreneurship Professor who translates operator experience into structured frameworks
• Former P&L owner of a $650M enterprise division, bringing enterprise-scale accountability, not just startup credibility
Paul’s advisory value comes from having been accountable for market outcomes across cycles that most advisors have only watched.
He:
• Reads the healthcare technology market by its adoption curve, not its feature set
• Asks where the buyer actually is in the cycle before advising on positioning
• Applies pattern recognition from prior market cycles, including telecom, SaaS, collaboration, and innovation management, to spot where healthcare technology is heading
• Stress tests go-to-market strategy by asking what has failed in analogous markets and why
• Evaluates investment and strategy decisions by what operators with real P&L accountability would actually approve
• Brings the founder’s instinct for when to build, when to buy, and when to wait
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