Summary
Medha Parlikar is a fintech and blockchain-savvy founder and executive with eight years in senior technology leadership and two decades of end-to-end product and engineering experience. As Co-Founder & CEO of Verq, she is building a payments-forward platform to speed provider payouts and increase transparency in healthcare, drawing on her prior role as Co-Founder and CTO of Casper Network where she led research and delivery of a novel blockchain protocol. She blends hands-on technical judgment with product strategy—previously driving product launches, large cost reductions, and machine learning initiatives at Avalara and guiding open-source blockchain development at Pyrofex. Based in Puerto Rico, she sits on boards advising fractional investing and multi-blockchain privacy startups, signaling a crossover expertise in fintech, crypto, and privacy technologies. Colleagues describe her as a builder who turns research-led ideas into production-grade systems while keeping a sharp focus on measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biology, BS Biology at Western University
BCIS Programming, BCIS Programming at Coleman College