Our Team

Built by clinicians, engineers, and operators

Beacon exists because of lived experience - in chronic pain clinics, at the engineering frontier, and inside busy pain practices.

Leadership

Founders and executives who have been in the room - and in the pain.

Erez Levanon

CEO & Co-Founder

Equanimity AI

Lived with CRPS and chronic pain for 23 years - 7 surgeries, two failed spinal cord stimulators - and spent 20 years leading complex technological systems in the IDF before building Beacon from his own experience as a patient.

Sam Hazak

CTO & Co-Founder

Equanimity AI

16+ years building AI systems at the intersection of human behavior and large-scale data. Sam brought that foundation to Beacon's clinical engine - signal ingestion, longitudinal profiling, and the insight layer that translates what a patient does between visits into something a clinician can act on.

William S. Rosenberg, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Mosaic Neurosurgery · Mosaic Life Care

Board-certified neurosurgeon and Medical Director - ensures every Beacon capability is grounded in how real clinical workflows actually run.

Gladstone C. McDowell II, MD

Chief Commercial Officer

Equanimity AI

Interventional pain physician and healthcare operator leading Beacon's commercial strategy and clinic relationships across independent pain practices.

Clinical Advisory Board

Nationally recognized pain physicians and neuromodulation specialists who keep Beacon clinically grounded.

Hemant Kalia, MD, MPH, FIPP, FAAPMR

Clinical Advisor · Active Customer

Savya Health, Rochester NY
VP, American Society of Pain and Neuroscience

Erika Petersen, MD, FAANS, FACS

Clinical Advisor

Professor of Neurosurgery
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Lawrence R. Poree, MD, MPH, PhD

Clinical Advisor

Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
UCSF

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