Executive Team
Andrew Hines
Founder
Andrew is a data scientist, software engineer and entrepreneur. He founded Canvas in 2015, building on his experience in healthcare and applied data science. He holds a BS in Mathematical Statistics and Business Administration from SFSU and an MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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Adam Farren
Chief Executive Officer
Adam leads the team at Canvas. He has over 15 years of startup and healthcare experience and previously served as a go-to-market leader and Chief Growth Officer at companies in healthcare, education, media and financial technology. He holds a BA from Princeton and an MBA from Haas Business School at UC Berkeley.
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Beau Gunderson
Chief Engineering Officer
Beau leads Engineering at Canvas. He has 27 years of software development experience across healthcare, infrastructure, and developer tooling, and is the engineer behind much of Canvas's internal platform. His earlier work includes the Harvard Personal Genomes Project and Open Humans, an open platform for participant-led health research. His open-source work is downloaded almost 4 billion times a year.
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Greg Miller
Chief Revenue Officer
Greg leads the Revenue team at Canvas. He has over 10 years of EMR sales experience and previously helped build and lead the sales team at Elation Health. He holds a BA from Cornell and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.
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Andrew Hines starts Canvas
After watching his wife Annalies, a family nurse practitioner, grapple with bad medical software, Andrew Hines founded Canvas to build a customizable and extensible EMR.
First clinic on Canvas
Andrew and founding engineer Beau Gunderson ship the first platform version of Canvas for small ambulatory clinics.
Developer tools first launched
Canvas launches its first set of tools for developers to build and manage their Canvas infrastructure, including the programmable EMR, API, and SDK.
ONC certification achieved
Read moreCanvas achieves certification by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), enabling customers to meet meaningful use requirements.
JP Patil joins
Read moreCanvas adds industry veteran JP Patil as Chief Product Officer after seven years in product leadership at Included Health.
Adam Farren joins
Read moreAdam joins Canvas as President and Chief Operating Officer after fifteen years in growth leadership in healthcare and technology.
Open source patient app ships
Read moreCanvas completed its first major open source initiative, enabling customers to easily integrate patient-side scheduling, messaging, payments, and medical records.
Canvas releases Plugins and the new SDK
Read moreCanvas provides its next iteration of tools to customize and automate workflows across scheduling, charting, billing, and more.
Adam Farren appointed CEO
Read moreAdam becomes the company's second chief executive, succeeding Andrew.
Greg Miller joins
Greg joins Canvas after nine years in a sales leadership role at Elation Health.
Hyperscribe released
Read moreCanvas releases its first AI product, a clinical co-pilot with comprehensive context
Canvas Plugin Assistant goes live
Read moreCPA, powered by Claude Code, is an AI assisted coding agent for Canvas
Canvas Platform wins Best in KLAS
Read moreAnnounced as the winner of the Ambulatory Specialty EMR category
