Riyaad
Seecharan
I've spent three decades building software that connects people to systems they can't reach alone — NASA knowledge networks, commercial software at Microsoft, a string of healthcare ventures, and now Miami's civic infrastructure.
The connector's instinct
I'm a founder, fellow, and civic technologist building at the intersection of public innovation and healthcare technology. At the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority, I serve as Pilot Manager — connecting vetted startups with the county departments and data sets that run transportation, solid waste, and water and sewer infrastructure for 2.7 million Miami-Dade residents.
As part of the 2025–2026 Baptist Health Knight Innovation Fellowship cohort, I'm working on insights into 30-day post-discharge readmissions — a critical hospital quality and cost metric. I remain CTO of ELMC Rx Solutions — the healthcare company that acquired my prior venture, Tesser Health — and run the Seecharan Group as my advisory and venture practice.
Rooted in the Caribbean with family ties to Trinidad and Tobago, I live and build in Miami.
From NASA to civic tech
Knowledge Management & Innovation
Inside the Center for Innovation and Knowledge Management, Riyaad contributed to early work on capturing and connecting institutional knowledge across large organizations. He worked on systems including SAGE and Expert Seeker — both built to help people locate subject-matter experts across distributed networks — as well as intranet prototypes for the International Space Station program. The throughline of that work — using software to connect people to information they couldn't otherwise reach — has quietly run through everything he's built since.
Commercial Software & Acquisition
As Director of Product Development at EisenWorld, Riyaad led the team behind the PC migration tool that eventually shipped inside Windows 7 — work that culminated in the company's acquisition by Microsoft.
Startup Years & First Healthcare Exit
Between Microsoft and Tesser Health, Riyaad worked across a string of early-stage teams in the South Florida startup scene — building, shipping, and finding his footing as an operator. In 2011 he founded Not Going to Lie, a social media application built around honest, in-the-moment posting. In 2013 he founded PxSource and sold it the same year to Revolution EHR — a healthcare workflow exit that pointed clearly toward where the next decade of work would live.
Building, Scaling & Exiting
Healthcare became the focus in 2014 when he founded Tesser Health to cut pharmacy and medical spend for self-insured employers through behavioral science and software; the company was later acquired by ELMC Rx. He served as Chief Product Officer at EyeCheq, helping raise roughly $8M in Series A and reach a $40M valuation. Along the way he built and sold two more ventures — ClinicCover and GetPlano (an electronic health records platform) — both acquired by Barti Software. The work spanned HIPAA-compliant platforms, SaaS architecture, patient engagement, and product strategy.
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority
Today Riyaad runs MDIA's pilot program — matching vetted startups with the county departments (transit, water, waste) whose systems serve 2.7 million Miami-Dade residents. The same connector instinct that started at NASA, applied to municipal infrastructure.
Where the connecting happens now
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority
Designing and running the cohort process that brings vetted startups into transit, water, and waste pilots with the county — from RFP through deployment.
ELMC Rx Solutions
Continuing to lead technology at the healthcare company that acquired Tesser Health, building tools for pharmacy benefit analytics and cost reduction for self-insured employers.
Baptist Health
2025–2026 cohort. Working on insights into 30-day post-discharge readmissions — a critical hospital quality and cost metric.
Seecharan Group
Advisory and board work for early-stage founders, plus focused product and strategy sprints — typically at the healthcare and civic-tech crossover.
Where the work goes beyond the work
AIRIE
On the Artists in Residence in Everglades board since 2021 (chair 2023–2024). Helped bring the residency to the Venice Biennale in 2023 and the Cooper Hewitt in 2024.
Genius Factory
Founded in 2014 to bring STEM and leadership programming to middle-school kids in Overtown's Williams Park. Programming ran through 2020.
Venture Café Miami
On the board 2017–2018. Provided strategic guidance and taught classes that supported the programming.
PS 305
Advised 2021–2022 on strategy and operations — including communications and action planning.
Let's connect
I'm open to advisory engagements, civic-tech pilots, board roles, and speaking — particularly at the crossover of healthcare, public infrastructure, and emerging technology.