Meet your team

Founder

Richard Gilmore MD

Founder & CEO · Board-Certified Breast Cancer Surgeon

Dr. Gilmore founded Previve after witnessing firsthand the devastation of a late-stage diagnosis when his mother’s cancer was found at Stage IV. His foundational belief: prevention and early detection must be personalized, proactive, and built entirely around the individual.

Clinical Team

Lee Schwartzberg MD

Co-founder & Lead Breast Oncologist

30+ years as a medical oncologist and healthcare leader. Every patient Defense Plan is personally synthesized and signed by Dr. Schwartzberg.

Madeline Hardacre MD

Lead Lifestyle Medicine Specialist

FACOG, DipABLM, ABOM. Oncology-focused lifestyle medicine physician delivering a personalized plan to measurably reduce your cancer risk.

Professional Team

Paolo Lavado

Member Experience and Operations Lead

Paolo Lavado is the Member Experience & Operations Lead at Previve, where he oversees administrative operations and patient experience. With more than a decade of experience in healthcare operations and concierge medicine, Paolo is passionate about creating seamless, patient-centered experiences and building systems that allow patients and providers to focus on what matters most: exceptional care.

Chris Stolte

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

Chris Stolte is a serial entrepreneur and Wharton MBA graduate who has built and scaled ventures across industries and functions — from strategy and operations to design and go-to-market. He currently lectures in Entrepreneurial Communications at Wharton. At Previve, Chris leads product vision and strategy, ensuring the platform delivers a world-class experience that matches the rigor of its clinical science.

Veronica Pesant

Director of Clinical Partnerships

Veronica Pesant brings 25 years of experience commercializing healthcare products and building clinical partnerships. She drives partnership and referral growth: launching new offerings, building referral networks from the ground up, and turning early pilots into lasting results. Her career spans specialty pharmacy, oncology, and preventative medicine across the South Florida and California markets. A four-time President’s Club winner, she’s bilingual in English and Spanish and a graduate of the University of Florida.

Advisors

Leon Wu

Finance Advisor

Advises Previve on financial strategy and long-term sustainability.

You don’t have to navigate cancer risk alone.