Cody Simmons

Cody is the Co-Founder and CEO of DermaSensor, a health technology company that has raised $40 million and in May 2024 launched America's first automated skin cancer detection device for use by all one million physicians. As a bioengineer and entrepreneur, Cody has spent all of his career bringing new health technologies to physicians and patients. He is a frequent speaker at health technology and entrepreneurship events, and Cody was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 in healthcare. Prior to joining DermaSensor, Cody led commercial efforts for a Silicon Valley medical device screening and monitoring startup. His first industry role was in a leadership development program at Genentech, after which he was a manager in a US oncology commercial strategy group. During his graduate work at Stanford, he co-founded a health technology startup with two other graduate students, raising an angel round, participating in the StartX program, and completing a licensing deal with Stanford. Cody's academic and research background is in bioengineering and entrepreneurship at Brown and Stanford Universities.