Management Team

David Rose

David Rose is a technology visionary, serial entrepreneur, and is Chief Executive at Vitality, a company that is reinventing medication packaging.

Previously, he was founder and CEO of Ambient Devices where he pioneered embedding Internet information in everyday objects like umbrellas, light bulbs, bathroom mirrors, and refrigerator doors, to make the physical environment an interface to digital information.

Rose is the inventor on many patents including online photo-sharing, information visualization, interactive television systems, ambient displays, proximity sensing displays, and smart medication packaging.

Rose teaches a popular course in tangible user interfaces at the MIT Media Lab. He speaks frequently on product innovation at industry conferences and corporate retreats.

He received Bachelor degrees in Physics and Fine Art from St. Olaf College and earned a Masters degree from Harvard University.

He lives in Brookline with his wife and two young children and enjoys singing in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Joshua Wachman

Joshua Wachman has a track record developing head-turning products and building innovative businesses in technology, media & entertainment, financial services and consumer healthcare.

He began his professional career as an Imagineer developing theme parks and new businesses for Walt Disney’s highly secretive R&D division.

As President of WatchPoint Media, Wachman was the creative and technical visionary behind a “clickable video” technology that embedded advertising and commerce hyperlinks directly into cable and satellite TV. (WatchPoint was acquired by GoldPocket in 2003.)

As Vice President of Business Development for Fidelity’s Online Strategy Group, Wachman led new product development and was point-person for strategic initiatives in social networking, multi-media publishing and content syndication.

Wachman has been retained as a technology strategist by Sony, The National Inventors Hall of Fame, Ambient Devices, Viant, Dreamworks and Fidelity. He has a film credit for special effects work in the Dreamworks film ANTZ and holds several patents.

He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees at MIT where he studied at the renowned MIT Media Laboratory.

He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife and 3 children.

Jamie Biggar

Jamie Biggar is a life-long problem solver and code monkey. He brings over a decade of experience architecting, coding, and leading teams to deliver a broad variety of software and systems.

Before joining Vitality, Biggar worked as a Senior Developer for many years at WGBH Interactive, consulted for Oxygen Media and Showtime, and helped launch scifi.com for The Sci-Fi Channel.

Biggar holds a Bachelor degree from Brown University and a Masters degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University, where he later taught for a number of years.

He lives in Cambridge where he enjoys running along the river and brewing his own beer.

Julia Kim

Vice President of Technical Operations

Rated by clients as delivering 100 percent for customer service, Julia Kim strives to exceed expectations every day.

Before Vitality, Kim architected service oriented architecture solutions to deliver operational efficiencies in core business areas at Circles, which provides the highest level of concierge service to some of the world's leading brands. She was recognized multiple times for her contribution to call center operational gains that, in some cases, exceeded 300 percent.

Kim has years of experience solving clinical and research healthcare issues. While at PatientKeeper, she led enterprise level product implementations to help physicians enhance patient care at large medical institutions, like Duke University Health Systems and Johns Hopkins Hospital, by providing critical patient information at the point of care. At CareGroup, she deployed an academic research management system and other web-enabled grants management tools that streamlined existing workflows for the academic research departments at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

She earned her Bachelor degree at Johns Hopkins University and a Masters degree from Harvard University.

Kim resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she perfects her collection of coconut-based bakery goods recipes in her free time.