The Only Healthcare Builder
Ecosystem in America

Where Healthcare Focused Experts Lead, Advise, and Fund the Future of Care.

Health Board Advisors

The Only Healthcare Builder Ecosystem in America.

Where Healthcare Focused Experts Lead, Advise, and Fund the Future of Care
The Health System Builder Reality

From Idea to Venture With
Commercial Precision

You are a leader. You know what works. You’ve built it. But the system is still breaking around you.


This is the private platform for leaders who won’t settle, where insight becomes equity,capital becomes infrastructure, and leadership becomes transformation from seed to scale.


You’ve seen: 

  • Brilliant solutions stall in silos
  • “Advisory” roles become ornamental
  • Capital flow to charisma, not execution
  • Infrastructure fails to support innovation


You didn’t show up to play support. You’re here to reshape care at the systemic level, and that starts here.

What HBA Fellowship Means

Fellowship Isn’t Access, It’s Alignment.

At Health Board Advisors, you don’t just get deal flow. You join a private builder ecosystem where your expertise creates leverage at scale.

A Peer Community of Builders

Operators. Founders. Clinicians. Strategists. All aligned in mission and unmatched in discernment.

Influence That Builds Infrastructure

Board roles and advisory seats that matter, matched for strategic fit, not availability.

Returns Aligned with Responsibility

Invest in ventures that balance revenue with systemic change. Here, ROI and legacy are one.

Strategic Collaboration, Not Pitch Deck

No spammed startups. Only curated matches with clinically vetted founders where your lens shapes execution.

The Red Carpet Experience More Than Access

It begins with alignment, elevation, and meaningful advantages.

From the moment you’re accepted, the Red Carpet Experience ensures you’re seen, supported, and strategically positioned to grow.

It’s where credibility gets recognized, and leadership gains leverage.

The HBA Fellowship

Our Fellowship Is More Than Advisors

We are builders and a community that refuses to compromise on execution.

Feature

What You Get

Investment Structure

Direct match with de-risked, ready-to-scale ventures

Advisory Visibility

$25K+ per deal

Signature Community

Paid + equity board/advisory roles + featured visibility + platform growth

Events

Masterminds • Hot or Not • The Boardroom • Match Day • Deal Room

Elite Recognition

Annual Gala of Book of You Retreat + HBA Select Black Card + white-glove support
The HBA Fellowship

Fellowship Is Earned, Not Bought

Every Fellow is curated for excellence, empathy, and real-world readiness.

1.

Apply

Submit your application. We assess operational mindset, alignment, and momentum, not just titles.

2.

Interview

We interview you to highlight your expertise and promote your expertise.

3.

Verify

Confidential background verification via a trusted third party. Ensures high-trust execution from day one.

4.

Get Matched

You’re paired with founders and ventures where your insight moves markets, not just cap tables.

5.

Build & Scale

You co-build from seed to scale. Your capital, vision, and execution DNA become part of lasting systems.

Why We’re Building Health Board Advisors

Richie Hosein — Health Board Advisors

Richie Hosein

Co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer

I started my career in medical device sales, built and scaled multiple startups, and even led membership strategy for global brands like Playboy, where I learned the true value of building a community that lasts. Over the years, I’ve helped raise millions for founders, advised startups through growth hurdles, and saw far too many fail not because of weak ideas, but because they lacked the right advisors, operators, and capital alignment. That’s why I co-created Health Board Advisors to give founders what they actually need: a membership-based ecosystem that connects them with vetted investors, mission-aligned board advisors, and a team that doesn’t just advise, but stays to build.

Dr. Val Torres, MD, MBA

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

During my time in healthcare, I’ve seen too many silos and a crisis of leadership in which titles have replaced true competence. Health Board Advisors, Inc. (HBA) was born to fix that; to bring together the right people with the right mindset to build, lead, and innovate from the ground up. In the age of AI, HBA is where the future of healthcare is decided, by leaders who actually know what they’re doing.

Dr Val Torres — Health Board Advisors expert
Sabrina Runbeck, healthcare scaling and growth strategist — Health Board Advisors

Sabrina Runbeck, MPH, MHS, PA-C

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer
I got burned out and sidelined after a decade in medicine, and I saw the same thing happening to my peers. Those brilliant clinicians are being left out of the very innovations we’re expected to adopt. That’s what pushed me to pivot into executive leadership, rebuild teams from the inside out across 12 hospital systems, and speak publicly about why clinicians must lead, not follow. I’m building Health Board Advisors as the system we’ve all been missing. One where clinicians aren’t just advisors or end-users, but co-architects, investors, and board leaders driving real impact.

Shawna Smith

Co-founder, Chief People Officer
For decades, I’ve witnessed and supported family, friends, and clients as the healthcare system traumatized, abused, and neglected both patients and practitioners. A system intended for healing failed time and time again. I want to support the clinicians and founders who have come out on the other side, ready to stop at nothing to end this cycle of abuse and offer solutions that alleviate human suffering all over the planet. I’m co-creating Health Board Advisors to gather and empower change-makers in their missions, structure high-performance teams that deliver, and align founder-investor matches that make the distance of global impact.
Shawna Dickson Smith, purpose alignment and organisational transformation coach — Health Board Advisors expert