CEO & Co-Founder

Erika is a mother, wife, baseball fan, CEO, and co-founder who has had anemia since childhood. Throughout her life, she has been frustrated by the lack of simple anemia testing and management solutions.

In 2014 as an undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she invented Sanguina’s first product, AnemoCheck Mobile, with co-founder Wilbur Lam, MD, Ph.D. and collaborators at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University. AnemoCheck Mobile is the first smartphone app for completely non-invasive and instant hemoglobin estimation, provided through a fingernail selfie. Overall, Sanguina creates affordable and accessible screening products, so the 1.6 billion people (25% of the world’s population) with anemia can be more easily informed and proactive about their health - anytime, anywhere.