Athena Cross is a healthcare leader with over 15 years’ experience leading market access initiatives, insurance contracting, healthcare reimbursement, public policy, and health care strategy in the public and private sectors. She specializes in creating programs that improving the public health care delivery system and has also led several initiatives and developed numerous strategies to improve and increase access to reproductive health services.

Athena is the Vice President of Open Innovation at Rymedi a life sciences blockchain company that revolutionizes the way highly regulated life sciences operate by integrating blockchain protocols, AI and deep industry experience. Athena is also a Cofounder and Managing Partner at Engine Blox, Engine Blox is dedicated to researching and leveraging blockchain capabilities that solve complex problems in emerging markets, developing economies, nation-states, and communities of color globally. Athena also runs a health care consulting company focused on public and private health care initiatives with a commitment to improving the public health system, reducing health care disparities and ending intergenerational poverty. Athena currently focuses on technology-based projects that leverage technology to create social change, offer STEM training and education to children and adults of color in low-income and marginalized communities, and the creation of technology-centered programs aimed at breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty