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Joel Nelson

Vice President of Innovation,
UnitedHealthcare

Joel Nelson is the Vice President of Innovation for United Healthcare.  His team leads strategic growth opportunities that span across UHC including nascent technology and business model exploration with partners large and small, facilitated in part by the United Healthcare Accelerator powered by Techstars, which he co-founded. To this work Joel brings his own background of entrepreneurship and innovation exploration, having built his own startups externally and within large organizations. Joel is an active angel investor and is a newly converted “Northerner” having moved from the western states to Minneapolis, where now that his wife and 3 kids have experienced the summer lake life, will never move anywhere else!