Deepak Arora didn\u2019t set out to start a company. When he arrived in the U.S. in 2015, he\u2019d already spent two decades forging a successful career in IT and health care technology in India and Canada. As a senior manager at IBM Watson Health, Arora directed global teams, oversaw projects involving artificial intelligence-integrated products, and had the kind of upward trajectory that made executive leadership seem inevitable.<\/p>\n
But then everything changed.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Arora and his family experienced a devastating loss: the death of his young daughter, Mahi, who drowned near their home in Hartland, Wisconsin. \u201cWe were five minutes too late,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the thought just wouldn\u2019t go away: How could we have prevented it?\u201d<\/p>\n
The thought became an obsession, and a couple of years later, Arora founded a tech company devoted to answering that question. The executive-turned-entrepreneur\u2019s vision was simple: to develop a wearable, predictive safety device that uses AI to alert caregivers about potential accidents before they happen.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Arora enrolled at 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Lubar College of Business<\/a>, drawn to the program\u2019s new Executive MBA concentration in Integrated Health Care Leadership. He was still working at IBM but wanted to better understand finance, marketing and strategy.<\/p>\n For Arora, the curriculum instilled leadership skills that made him feel he could run a company. In 2022, leveraging his health care background and expertise in AI and software development, he launched Wearable Technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n