Our Vision For Home Care

Geoff founded ClearCare after personal experience as a family caregiver. He realized that there had to be a better way to give transparency to family members leading to ClearCare’s early point-of-care innovations and a cycle of ongoing innovation in partnership with ClearCare’s customers. Geoff has over fifteen years of experience in software development and is an alumnus of companies such as Motorola, Andersen Consulting, and Merrill Lynch. Geoff received his B.A. from Northwestern and M.B.A. from Kellogg. Geoff grew up in Texas but moved to the Bay Area and was fortunate to be eventually followed by all of his immediate family. He and his wife Andrea have two wonderful children, Kate and Henry, and an enthusiastic labradoodle named Charley.

David leads enterprise accounts at ClearCare. He brings extensive experience helping companies grow through strategies driven by winning customer value propositions. Most recently David led Strategic Programs at Vantiv, the Nation’s third largest electronic payments processor. During his tenure, David helped Vantiv grow sales, deliver new products, enter new market segments and evolve their technology platform, enabling Vantiv to double in size and successfully IPO on the NYSE. Prior to Vantiv, David was a manager at Marakon Associates, a leading management consulting firm. At Marakon, David delivered strategy engagements with leading financial services, healthcare, industrial, and consumer products companies. His additional experience includes private equity and investment banking.

Outside of work, David enjoys spending time with family and friends and pursuing athletic endeavors ranging from running to golf to skiing and watersports. He has an MBA from The Wharton School and a BS, summa cum laude, from Duke University.

As Vice President of Engineering, Bala Krishna Nakshatrala leads product development, security and technical operations at ClearCare and brings more than 10 years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering various consumer products and scalable SaaS applications. Prior to ClearCare, Balki led engineering teams at MasterCard and several startups - Truaxis (acquired by MasterCard), BillShrink and Yodlee. He holds a master’s degree in Computational Engineering from Mississippi State University and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Outside of work, Balki enjoys spending time with family camping, traveling, and going on long drives.

Peter Sheats leads the product development team at ClearCare and brings with him over a decade of experience developing large scale SaaS applications. He is passionate about creating easy-to-use and elegant web and mobile applications. He also thoroughly enjoys getting to know and understand our customers and their needs and loves coming up with innovative solutions to save them time and money. He graduated with honors from Palm Beach Atlantic University with a B.S. in computer science. Peter, his wife Amanda, and two boys Malachi and Timothy currently live in sunny Jupiter Florida where he was born and raised.

Bobbi Jo leads sales at ClearCare. She brings with her four years experience in Long Term Care and nine years experience in SaaS. She got introduced to the senior care industry after losing two grandparents and an uncle to Alzheimer’s. She learned then that there was an entire team of people in long term care that dedicated their lives to providing dignity and quality of life to our most vulnerable population. When she found the opportunity to join the cause four years ago, she grabbed it as quickly as possible.

Bobbi Jo earned her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wyoming.

In her spare time, she enjoys running, cycling, karate, and riding on Honda motorcycles alongside her husband as they compete to see who is the fastest.

Dave leads ClearCare’s customer success teams and brings a wealth of support and SaaS operations experience from multiple industries.  Prior to joining ClearCare, Dave led platform support at McKesson, where he built out a seamless end to end support organization with an eye on customer satisfaction. Dave’s diverse industry experience includes home/health care, speech, change management consulting and private equity.  

Outside of work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife Angela, daughter Hailey, and Toby “the wonder mutt” and he can be found most weekends at his daughter’s softball tournaments or watching his beloved San Francisco Giants.  He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State University.

JJ leads the Account Management function at ClearCare. He brings a wide breadth of experience managing customer relationships through strategic partnership development. Prior to ClearCare, JJ held senior roles at Triage Consulting Group where he managed several teams of consultants focused on revenue cycle engagement services. In his tenure at Triage, JJ worked with some of the largest national and regional healthcare systems across the US including HCA, Scripps Health, Tenet, and Centura Health. 

JJ earned his B.S. in Business Administration - Finance from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he was a member of the DI soccer team. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, triathlons, and tirelessly rooting for his hometown San Diego sports teams.

Derek Jones joined the senior care industry after losing several family members who could have lived a longer and higher quality of life if awareness of affordable home care services were available in his rural NC community. At one of the fastest growing senior care brands Derek managed 9 home care offices with revenues in excess of $20 million and then led global sales and marketing programs. Prior to joining the senior care industry Derek was an Analyst at American Franchise Company, a Charlotte, NC based investment and management firm focused on the health care industry. Derek also worked with MarketSource, a firm which focused on integrated sales and marketing tactics which help leading manufacturers and service providers in the consumer electronic, IT, telecom, automotive, and healthcare industries gain market share and grow revenues.

Derek received a B.S. from North Carolina State University in Biological Business Management and completed a Management Development Program with the Harvard Business School Club of Charlotte.

Derek enjoys spending time with family running road races, has completed 6-half marathons, mountain biking, and anything to do with baseball or the outdoors.

Chelsea joined Battery in 2006 and focuses on investments in the software and healthcare-IT sectors. She is particularly interested in vertically focused SaaS companies. Chelsea currently serves on the boards of Avalara, ClearCare, Intacct and WebPT. She was also involved with Battery’s investments in Glassdoor and Marketo (NASDAQ: MKTO). Her previous investments including Brightree (acquired by ResMed), Data Innovations (acquired by Roper Industries), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) and RealPage (NASDAQ: RP). In 2013, Chelsea was named to the Forbes Midas “Hot Prospects” list of up-and-coming venture capitalists.

Prior to Battery, she was an associate at the private equity firm Key Principal Partners. Earlier in her career, Chelsea was a manager at Accenture, where she led technology and strategy projects. She also has held positions with Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and with Classified Ventures. She received a BS with honors in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Duncan is a vice president at Battery, focusing on later-stage enterprise-software investments, including buyouts, carve-outs, take-privates, PIPES, and growth-equity. He is currently involved with Battery’s investment in ClearCare.

Prior to Battery, Duncan was a principal at True Wind Capital, a middle-market technology private equity firm. Earlier in his career, Duncan was a vice president at Thoma Bravo where he sourced and executed new platform investments and portfolio company add-on acquisitions within the infrastructure software sector. Duncan began his carrier as a leveraged finance analyst at Citigroup.

Duncan earned a BS in management with concentrations in finance and economics from Boston College.