EXECUTIVE TEAM
Amy Haderer
Founder and CEO
Amy is a childbirth assistant (doula), artist, birth activist, mother of six, and founder of Motherboard Birth. Ever since the birth of her first daughter, Amy has been passionate about guiding families through the challenging landscape of their birth experience.
For over a decade, Amy has provided hands-on support to hundreds of families during the childbearing year. Amy saw a need for better education and better communication between parents and their care team. She is passionate about helping parents understand their options and make decisions based on the best available information.
Amy is passionate about reducing disparities in maternal health outcomes by building tools for parents, tools for providers, and a platform to connect the two.
The US is a maternal health system in crisis:
- One out of three babies are born by cesarean (2-3x what the World Health Organization recommends)
- One out of three women describing their births as "traumatic"
- Maternal mortality rates are the worst of the developed world and are climbing (3-4x higher for women of color)
Amy's goal may seem audacious, but Motherboard's high tech/high touch platform is a timely tool as the US examines the complexity of maternal health.
Skyler Shaw
Chief Technology Officer
Skyler Shaw is a software developer, professional skydiver, pilot, and avid traveler who loves solving interesting problems through architecting software solutions and writing clean code. After leaving the aerospace industry due to a passion for startup culture five years ago, he has worked on projects ranging in size from proof of concepts to applications with tens of millions of daily active users at Intercom. He is currently working with Motherboard Birth as a fractional CTO.
Jaemi Graham
Business Operations Manager
As Business Strategist and Certified Online Business Manager (OBM), Jaemi helps the team get things done so they can step out of the busy work and into their genius as change-makers and industry leaders. Jaemi is involved in the day-to-day running and managing of [M]otherboard, helping us with bigger picture and long-term planning.
Jaemi’s goal is to help everyone on the team work together efficiently, while managing complex projects, tracking initiatives and campaigns, and bringing in additional help where needed.
Paul Fisher
Chief Financial Officer
In his 12 years as a successful financial analyst, Paul has had extensive experience in creating financial models to help companies make smart decisions on where to invest their money. He focuses on spearheading business case analysis on products and market segments. Paul excels at collecting and organizing data from multiple sources across an organization, analyzing it, and presenting it in an accurate, concise, and clear manner.
Like Amy, Paul has a passion for improving birth experiences for all. The vaginal breech birth of his first son gave him firsthand experience of the chaos born out of miscommunication and lack of education about the birth process. The births of his other kids showed him how amazing it is when the birth team works together. He is honored to help [M]otherboard launch and become a successful, world changing business.
Andy Drogo
Founder and Chief Design Officer
Andy started his career in Boston as a Project Manager for a Software as a Service (SaaS) company. This experience gave him critical skills needed to manage Cross Functional Teams with Executive level visibility. During this work Andy often became frustrated with product usability and design. He used this as an opportunity to work with the Product Management team and set the foundation for his full-time move into product design.
In 2009 Andy jumped headfirst into product management and design for the first time. He had the incredible privilege of working with a small team to bring a brand-new product to market. On this team he worked as the Product Designer, Product Manager, and SCRUM Master. While an incredible challenge, they were successful in bringing a new product to market and helping to fuel his company’s launch to a successful IPO.
In 2011 the company opened a new office space that focused on selling and servicing Andy’s products. During this time he officially moved to a full time User Experience Designer role that allowed him to take ownership of all products at his company.
2013 was the year Andy and Jen had their first daughter. Andy created the first [M]otherboard, hoping it would help them communicate with staff and stand out from the crowd. The nurses were really excited about it when they checked in to the hospital. Jen was an absolute rockstar and Amy supported them through the process as their doula. Andy and Amy feel fortunate to have forged that initial connection and are excited to continue working together to improve both [M]otherboard and our maternity system.
In 2015 Andy moved back into an R&D role with an eye to the future. He is excited to be working on [M]otherboard and believe it has great ramifications in improving healthcare.