Leadership

Steve Leber, Chairman/CEO, Founder

Steve Leber was the CEO of Leber Ventures and IPrime Health and Wellness, which are vehicles for incubating ideas and bringing them to market. He created and produced the first Aetna Infomercials and forged a partnership between Aetna and the Home Shopping Network to create and produce the first Direct Response Television program for the sale of insurance products in the U.S. He has also served as a Consultant to Aetna in its acquisition of 150, 000 new GROUP customers in New Jersey and is working with Anthem on new GROUP initiatives. As the Head of William Morris Agency Music, he personally represented, amongst other artists and groups, the Rolling Stones, Diana Ross, the Bee Gees and managed AC/DC, Aerosmith, the Scorpions and Michael Bolton. He also produced Beatlemania, Jesus Christ Superstar, the Moscow Circus in the US and the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles franchise. He is developing and producing the Broadway Musical, Warhol on Broadway, which is planned for its Broadway debut in 2026. At present, his main focus is on the launch of Mediflix.

Neil Braun, Founder

Neil Braun has served as President of the NBC Television Network, CEO of Viacom entertainment and President of Imagine Entertainment (Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s production company). For more than twenty years he served on the Board of Directors, Audit and Governance Committees of IMAX Corporation and on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations. Immediately prior to the launch of Mediflix, Neil was Dean of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Neil went to the University of Chicago Law School and started his career as corporate attorney at Paul, Weiss in New York City. He leads the development and implementation of the Mediflix subscription level offerings.

Ron Berk, Founder

Ronald Berk graduated Georgetown University Law Center with a JD and NYU School of Law with a LLM degree. He practiced law for over 20 years representing Fortune 500 Companies such as General Motors Corp., Alcoa and Aetna. Starting in 1991, he founded and became CEO of 14 integrated companies that designed, manufactured and sold luxury goods in omni channel distribution in the US and in selected countries internationally. In 1996, he founded a marketing company that specialized in selling product on Direct Response Television producing shows on QVC and HSN that sold over $2.5 billion in products setting volume and productivity records through new and creative ways to market and merchandise goods on television.

Steve Scheffer, Founder

Steve Scheffer served for decades as President of HBO’s Film Programming acquiring all the movies for HBO and Cinemax from the major studios and independent producers (including HBO financed theatrical productions), overseeing distribution of HBO original programming such as The SOPRANOS and SEX and the CITY and overseeing HBO’s home video operations. Previously, he held executive positions at Columbia Pictures, MGM, Allied Artists and Polydor Records.

Advisors

  • Phil E. Stieg, MD, PhD

    Neurosurgeon

  • Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA

    Obesity Specialist

  • Reed Tuckson, MD, FACP

    Insurance, Black Coalition

  • David Rhew, MD

    Chief Global Medical Officer, Microsoft

Management Team

  • Matt Stern, MD, Medical

    Matt Stern received his B.A. from Harvard University and medical degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He completed his training in neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Stern cofounded Penn’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, which he helped build into one of the premier centers of its kind in the world. ​

    Dr. Stern has authored or co-authored numerous papers on Parkinson’s disease (PD) and related disorders and edited and/or co-edited 8 books. Dr. Stern has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator of many studies related to PD and movement disorders. He was also co-chair of VA Cooperative Study 468 investigating Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s disease and Founding Director of the Philadelphia VA Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center. ​

    He serves on numerous consulting boards and has lectured throughout the world. He is an inaugural member of Penn's Academy of Master Clinicians and is a Past President of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society which has awarded him its President’s Distinguished Service Award and Honorary Membership. The University of Pennsylvania recently established the Howard Hurtig-Matthew Stern Professorship in Neurology to commemorate his contributions to Penn Medicine and in 2022, established the Matthew B. Stern, M.D. Lectureship in Neurology.​

  • Sharon Cammisa, Commerical

    Sharon brings a unique blend of traditional values, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit to the businesses she builds and manages. With over 25 years’ experience in healthcare marketing and medical education, she has parlayed her media experience and knowledge of traditional peer-to-peer selling among health care professionals into developing highly effective and award-winning digital communications. She led the acquisition team in a succesful exit of her digital communications business to WPP.

  • Spencer Falk, Growth

    Spencer Falk is a successful healthcare commercial leader and proven business builder who brings over 40 years of manufacturer and service provider know-how to his companies and clients. His combination of client-side and service–side experience enables him to identify opportunities and problems and to develop recommendations and solutions to meet business needs. With extensive experience in the Life Sciences industry, Falk knows what makes customers respond. Falk is a dynamic entrepreneur and business builder who has created successful exits from 3 companies he has founded.

  • Paul Kendle, Operations

    Paul is a seasoned executive with over 35 years of experience in various industries. For the last 20 years, Paul has held both CEO and General Management positions in technology and life sciences organizations. His experience spans sales, marketing, operations, finance, customer management, product management and technology. In his current role as Chief Operating Officer, Paul supports all aspects of business operations and finance and for Mediflix. Paul is a graduate of from The Citadel - The Military College of SC and was an Officer in the U.S. Navy.

  • Sanjay Patel, Technology

    Sanjay is a leader focused on digital transformation, team building, governance, quality management, and R&D. He brings healthcare as well as multiple industry experience in B2B2E, B2B, and B2C, with a proven track record of helping Fortune 500 companies and high growth startups at ADP, Cisco, Allscripts, Picis, Mercy Hospital, Horizon Blue Cross, AllRecipes, Fexy Media, Footmarks, Teachstone, Thomson Reuters, and others. Specializations include Enterprise Sales, Consumer and Enterprise SaaS, Healthcare Technology & Medical Records, Medical Products & Compliance (FDA), Software Process (Agile, SCRUM, & ISO 9000), Edtech, PropTech, AgTech, and Cleanteach. Sanjay’s roots as an entrepreneur bring together creative, business, and technology to create breakthrough experiences, with over 23 years of experience. He is passionate about product and business growth, incubating and scaling new products, and harnessing innovation. He is highly skilled at bringing concepts to life, productizing ideas, crafting the product vision, and working to execute the delivery of the product from requirements through to technology implementation.