Cingulate Inc. announced the appointments of Curt Medeiros and Gregg Givens to its Board of Directors. Officially, Medeiros and Givens joined Cingulate's board in September. Curt Medeiros, current CEO and Board member of software company Ovation.io, has more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience throughout the payer, provider, and life science markets.

He worked for nearly 10 years at Optum. From 2014 to 2016, he served as COO and Senior Vice President of Optum Life Sciences, which drives client value by providing best-in-class real-world data, analytics, consulting, and collaborations aimed at improving the health care system for all stakeholders. From 2016 to 2019, Medeiros served as President of both Optum Analytics and Optum Advanced Data & Analytics, overseeing businesses that grew to 1,200 employees and served the analytical needs of external payers, providers, and life science companies.

Most recently, Medeiros served as President and COO of publicly traded Ontrak Inc., a leading AI-powered and telehealth-enabled healthcare company, from December 2019 to June 2021. Gregg Givenshas more than 35 years of financial and operational leadership experience across the global fintech and healthcare processing, manufacturing, asset management, and real estate industries. For more than two decades, Givens served in finance and accounting leadership roles at DST Systems Inc. From 2014 to 2018, Givens served as the company's Senior Vice President, CFO, and Treasurer through its sale to SS&C Technologies.

Prior to DST, Givens, a certified public accountant, worked for nearly 15 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers.