2022-2023
FINRA
Associate Product Manager
Product work on regulated digital systems: backlog, UAT, and documentation under federal rules.
Los Angeles · Founder · Operator
Michael Nkereuwem
I build companies at the seam of healthcare, data, and sport.
I ship AI products in sports and clinical settings. I sold a company. Now I partner with independent practices that want to scale without losing the work they were built to do.
The brief
I flipped sites and domain names as a kid, ran an eBay shop on government lots, then funded graduate school by turning hard academic audio into research data.
Columbia taught me visualization. FINRA taught me how to ship inside a rulebook. FantasyBall, SmartPractice AI, and the work in between were the same bet: make messy human signal usable.
The through-line is operators who know their craft, and systems that either get out of their way or bury them.
Ventures
Companies I have built
Sports prediction, clinical AI, research transcription, and now healthcare partnerships.
- 01
Echelon Healthcare Partners
CurrentManaging Partner · 2026-now
Partnerships for independent practices and specialized providers. I help founders take chips off the table, cut administrative drag, and grow without giving up clinical autonomy.
2026-now
- 02
SmartPractice AI
ClosedFounder · 2024-2026
Clinical AI for documentation and practice revenue in dental, veterinary, and hospice. Six figures in five months, then sunset.
2024-2026
- 03
FantasyBall.io
ExitedFounder · 2023-2024
AI sports analytics. Concept to a mid-five-figure exit in year one, with more than a thousand concurrent users.
2023-2024
- 04
SpoVis
VentureFounder · Sports analytics
Computer-vision analytics for coaches, athletes, and scouts. Built from years on the field watching what a box score misses.
Sports analytics
- 05
AcademyTranscript
Earlier workFounder · 2018-2020
Audio-to-data for research institutions, including Columbia. We handled the hard 1% of academic audio and qualitative coding.
2018-2020
Selected seats
Product, research, and the field
2020-2022
Traime Behavioral Health
Clinical Operations
Built an automated patient-tracking system, stood up outcome dashboards, and led adoption of digital assessment tools.
2018-2020
Columbia University
Graduate Research Assistant
Co-author of COVIZ, a VR visualization of COVID-19's effect on New York City. Most large problems are not missing data. They are missing a way to see it.
About
A dual life in clinics and competition
I work from healthcare administration, technology, and competitive athletics. That is why I care about practice economics and the locker room: people doing hard, specific work, and the infrastructure around them.
After FantasyBall I moved into clinical software for documentation, hospice, veterinary, and dental. The operators I met were still trapped in tools that stole the hour they needed for care. Echelon Healthcare Partners is that conversation on the capital side.
If you run a practice, a fund, or a product that has to live in real workflows, write me.
School
- Columbia UniversityM.S., Advanced Clinical Practice2018-2022
- Georgia State UniversityBachelor’s degree2018
- Hamilton CollegeUndergraduate study2012-2013
- St. Paul’s SchoolConcord, New Hampshire2009-2012
Press and research
Publications featured in
Columbia University
Michael Nkereuwem
Cogburn Research Group, Columbia School of Social Work.
Hamilton College
Men’s track & field competes at Rensselaer
2013 Upstate Classic. First in the triple jump.
YouTube
COVIZ: Visualization of Effects of COVID-19 on New York City
The COVIZ project film from the Columbia research group.
Indie Hackers
The FantasyBall story, and selling the company
Starting young, funding school with transcription, and shipping an AI sports product.
IEEE VR 2021
COVIZ: Visualization of Effects of COVID-19 on New York City
VR visualization with Steven Feiner, Courtney Cogburn, and collaborators at Columbia.
Contact
Write directly
Partnerships, product, and the next company. I read everything at mikenkereuwem1@gmail.com.