Alexandra Drane

Alexandra Drane is co-founder and CEO of Rebel Health and ARCHANGELS. She served as Wellness Expert for Prudential, and co-founded Eliza Corporation (acquired by HMS Holdings Corp: HMSY), Engage with Grace, and three other companies. A serial entrepreneur, she is also a cashier-on-leave for Walmart. She believes retail is the front line of health, that caregivers are our country’s greatest asset, and that we need to expand the definition of health to include life.

Drane takes an active role with the non-profits she feels are doing their best to change the world, including two she co-founded. She sits on the Board of Advisors for RAND Health, the Leadership Council for the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, the Entrepreneurs Council for The United States of Care, the Board of Advisors for Open Notes, and Harvard Medical School’s Executive Council of the Division of Sleep Medicine. She is a Governor appointed member of the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a member of the Board of Directors of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a member of the Board of Advisors at EndWell, and has served as the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a Harvard Teaching Hospital). She also serves on the Board of Advisors for MassChallenge HealthTech, and the Board of Advisor’s for Boston Children Hospital’s IDHA (Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator).

Drane was named 2019 Top Women in Healthcare’s Entrepreneur of the Year by PR News, one of Disruptive Women in Health Care’s Women to Watch in 2014, and one of Boston Globe’s 2013 Top 100 Women Leaders. She appears on Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” and Healthspottr Future Health 100 lists, as well as an inventor on multiple patents.Bringing passion, humor, authenticity and inspiration to a global audience, Drane is one of the most sought-after speakers and has keynoted at high-visibility industry events, including TEDMED, Health 2.0, Strata Rx, MedicineX and more.

Drane’s background in the healthcare industry made her the ideal candidate to join Prudential Financial in exploring the unique and modern challenges (and opportunities) facing Americans today in a new film series called “The State of US.” Drane holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Tufts University, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She sits on the Board of Advisors of TEDMED, the Harvard Executive Sleep Council and is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a Harvard Teaching Hospital) in Boston, MA. Drane is a member of the Health Executive Leadership Network, Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation and is a trustee of several charitable trusts.