Our Team

The people behind VIPCare

Healthcare veterans, investment professionals, and clinical innovators united by a shared mission to transform healthcare delivery through founder-first investing.

Leadership Team

Experienced leaders who've built and scaled healthcare companies, led clinical operations, and invested in transformative healthcare technologies.

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Sunny Tara

Founder, Chairman

Sunny Tara is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of VIPCare Health, a care delivery venture focused on building and funding companies led by clinical founders. A serial entrepreneur and technology executive with more than 20 years of experience, Sunny co-founded CareCognitics and previously founded docBeat, which was acquired by Vocera Communications. He brings deep expertise in strategy, artificial intelligence, data science, and building transformative businesses across healthcare, gaming, hospitality, and retail.

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Shahid Shah

Board Member, Strategic Advisor

Shahid Shah is the Board Member and Strategic Advisor of VIPCare Health, a care delivery venture focused on building and funding companies led by clinical founders. Mr. Shah is internationally recognized as 'The Healthcare IT Guy' who has built and exited multiple digital health companies. He architected clinical solutions for the American Red Cross, built EMRs used by hundreds of physicians, and served as CTO for a billion dollar CardinalHealth division. He advises NIH and TATRC's SBIR/STTR programs helping small businesses commercialize healthcare applications.

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Dr. Robert Groves, MD

Co-founder, President of Clinical Innovation

Dr. Robert Groves is the Co-founder and President of Clinical Innovation at VIPCare Health, a care delivery venture focused on building and funding companies led by clinical founders. Dr. Groves is a physician executive and healthcare thought leader with decades of experience spanning direct patient care, virtual care, population health, clinical innovation, and value based strategy. He spent 27 years practicing medicine, developed and led one of the country's largest tele ICU services, and later held senior leadership roles focused on quality, utilization, education, and care transformation. His perspective helps VIPCare Health use technology to remove routine friction while preserving the trust, personal connection, and meaningful time patients and physicians need.

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Dr. Spencer Kubo

Chief Medical Officer

Spencer brings a diverse set of experiences and expertise to the chronic care management strategies of VIPCareHealth. Previously, he was Medical Director of the Heart Failure-Heart Transplantation Program of the University of Minnesota, where he authored over 250 original articles and abstracts. He has also been Chief Medical Officer or a consultant to numerous medical device companies developing breakthrough treatments to improve the lives of patients with cardiac diseases. He maintains a part time clinical practice and most recently was the Physician Lead of the Heart Failure Service Line for Allina Health. In that capacity, he lead a multidisciplinary group focused on improving outcomes of heart failure patients treated at any of the 12 hospitals and over 90 clinics in the Allina system.

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Alan Sklar

Co-Founder, Board Member

Alan Sklar is the Co-founder and Board Member of VIPCare Health, a care delivery venture focused on building and funding companies led by clinical founders. Mr. Sklar brings approximately 40 years of transactional legal and business experience to VIPCare Health. He is the managing partner of Las Vegas based Sklar Williams PLLC, which he founded in the mid 1990s, and has advised prominent organizations and entrepreneurs across healthcare, corporate law, banking, finance, securities, and real estate. Alan also cofounded GBank Financial Holdings and its banking subsidiary, GBank, and helped establish Silver State ACO, Nevada's largest accountable care organization. His experience in governance, healthcare transactions, and business formation supports VIPCare Health's responsible and sustainable growth.

Leadership philosophy

The People Closest to Care Should Help Lead Its Future

VIPCare Health does not treat clinicians only as advisors or subject-matter experts. When they have the interest and ability to lead, we want physicians, nurses, and other care-delivery professionals to serve as founders, CEOs, executives, and operators.

We recognize that clinical experience does not automatically provide every skill needed to run a company. Our role is to complement clinical leadership with experienced business operators, technology leaders, investors, governance, and shared services. This allows clinical leaders to remain close to the mission while developing the systems and management discipline required to scale.

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