team & partners

Dr. Trisha Swift’s 20+ year career spans conventional healthcare, technology, and management consulting - blending frontline expertise with strategic leadership. Starting as a nurse's aide, she rose to registered nurse roles in intensive care and perioperative settings before advancing into the executive leadership and the C-Suite, where she led Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Regulatory Accreditation for large health systems.

Driven by a vision for broader impact, Dr. Swift transitioned into consulting, guiding Fortune 500 healthcare organizations, health systems, and insurers through clinical strategy, tech-enabled care, and business transformation. A strong advocate for integrating traditional and complementary medicine into modern healthcare, she has championed initiatives on health equity, disease prevention, digital care, and food as medicine - sharing her insights through published thought leadership in Forbes, Beckers Healthcare Review, and Health Affairs to name a few.

Her passion for holistic well-being inspired her to establish Mula Integrative Health & Wellness, bridging her clinical expertise with the principles of Integrative Ayurveda. Dr. Swift’s experience in navigating the overpriced, fragmented, and reactive sick-care system has fueled her mission to redefine healthcare—shifting it toward a proactive, personalized, and value-driven model of holistic wellness.

Dr. Swift earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Iowa, a Masters degree in Nursing from Mount Mercy University, and a post-doc Masters degree in Ayurveda & Integrative Medicine from Maharishi International University. She's a member and contributor in the Forbes Technology Council and a member of the Harvard Business Review's Advisory Board.  

With over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Rabin is a senior healthcare technology advisor having served in a variety of roles in management consulting and hospital leadership. He has led tech-enabled transformation initiatives for health insurers and healthcare systems across the nation.

Rabin is passionate about leveraging data and technology to transform care, cost, and service for health plans and provider organizations. He has extensive expertise in electronic health records (EHR), population health management (PHM), interoperability, care management, utilization management, data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, and go-to-market (GTM) strategies. 

Rabin received his Bachelors in Sociology from the University of Nebraska and a MBA from Walden University. He holds several certifications in cloud technologies and is a published thought leader in tech-enabled healthcare.

Dr. Robert Keith Wallace is a pioneering researcher on the physiology of consciousness. Dr. Wallace's research showed that the Transcendental Meditation® technique produced a fourth major state of consciousness different than waking, sleeping, or dreaming. 

His work has inspired hundreds of studies on the benefits of meditation and other mind-body techniques. Dr. Wallace’s findings have been published in Science, American Journal of Physiology, and Scientific American. He received his BS in physics and his PhD in physiology from UCLA, and he conducted postgraduate research at Harvard University. 

Dr. Wallace is founding president and member of the board of trustees of Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Fairfield, Iowa. He is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Health. 

Dr. Wallace established the first Maharishi AyurVeda clinics in the United States and is the author of Gut Crisis, The Rest and Repair Diet, The Coherence Code, and Total Brain Coaching. 

Kristina Buckley Kayel is a luxury marketing and branding executive with a 20-year plus track record of augmenting customer demand and business performance for legacy brands and sectors.

She is currently the Managing Director & CMO of Natural Diamond Council. NDC is a not-for-profit organization responsible for category branding and marketing with the mission to inspire the consumers desire for and confidence in natural diamonds. She steers NDC’s editorial platform (naturaldiamonds.com), global advertising campaigns, trade and retail partnerships, education, experiential activations, press, and consumer insights. 

Prior to NDC, Kristina oversaw marketing & communications at Van Cleef & Arpels (Richemont Group) for over a decade. She has also held marketing leadership roles at Baccarat, Bottega Veneta, and Ferragamo.

Kristina is a long-term strategist, brand equity builder, leader of multidisciplinary teams, thriver in diverse stakeholder environments, driven by constantly challenging the status quo, and possesses an exceptional capacity to meld the art & science of marketing with consumer psychology to differentiate brand value propositions.

In her free time, Kristina pursues her passion in integrated holistic health and wellness, recently achieving 200-hour certification in Ayurveda. 

She has triple citizenship (US, UK, Austria) and international education with a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Sciences from University College of London and an MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy.

Dr. Brian Mendenhall is an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Board-Certified psychiatrist and the founder and CEO of MindForge Psychiatry, an integrative, performance-focused private practice serving professionals, athletes, and executives. 

His approach blends neuroscience, mindfulness, psychodynamic therapy, and osteopathic principles to sharpen clarity, restore nervous system balance, and strengthen long-term resilience.

Dr. Mendenhall trained at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he served twice as Chief Resident. He has additional training in nutritional psychiatry, integrative psychiatry, and somatic-based approaches. A member of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry, Dr. Mendenhall brings broad clinical experience across community, correctional, hospital, and collaborative care settings. Prior to founding his own practice, he served as a consulting psychiatrist for integrated primary care teams. 

A long-time student of Zen meditation and a Muay Thai practitioner, he brings a grounded, no-nonsense perspective to clinical work and strategic system design. He is particularly focused on bridging high-performance mental health strategies with integrative frameworks that scale intelligently and retain clinical integrity.

For over three decades, Rob has advised companies ranging from start-ups to those at the top of Fortune 500 list. He has also launched multiple captive insurance companies including American Global Reinsurance Company and, most recently, XO Health Reinsurance Company.

Over the years, Rob has become the go-to specialist in customized self-funded plans. He historically and consistently helps his clients achieve a 20 to 30 per cent savings YOY.

Rob is the founding CEO of Fountain Health Insurance, an innovative health insurance company designed to transform how health insurance is delivered in the United States. 

Since 2004, Rob has served as the President of Rossiter Insurance Company out of Oyster Bay NY. 

Rob feels the opportunity to disrupt the current sick care system and reinvent health insurance as proactive care is now, and that's what drives and motivates him each and every day. 

Dr. Shanbhag is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor, Ayurveda Expert, Professor and Best-Seller Author. He is the Founder & Director of Natural Medicine & Ayurveda – Clinic, & Academy in San Jose. His 16 years of education in Natural Medicine & Ayurveda includes 4 years ND at Bastyr University, 4 ½ years MD (Ayurved) at Poona University, 5 ½ years BAMS (Bachelors in Ayurveda Medicine & Surgery) at Karnataka University. 

During 1989 thru 2006, he was the Founder & Director of the AYU Ayurvedic Wellness Centre – Clinic & Academy in Seattle. During 1991-96, he was the Chairman of the Ayurvedic Medicine Department at the Bastyr University in Seattle. During 1985-88 he was the Head of the Ayurvedic Research Institute, Pune India.

Currently, he is an adjunct faculty member of Bastyr University in Seattle, MMI College of Ayurveda in Watsonville and Sai Ayurvedic College in Miami. He is the best-seller author of “Beginner’s Introduction to Ayurveda” by Keats Publishing. In 1988, Dr. Shanbhag was awarded the prestigious I.I.M. Gold Medal for his MD (Ayurveda, India) Research Thesis. In 2008, International Academy of Ayurveda Physicians honored him with the Vishwa Ayurveda Ratna Award. In 2010, he won the Award for Excellence in Ayurvedic Teaching by the Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America. He is a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences.

Dr. Shanbhag specializes in integrating Ayurveda, Naturopathic Medicine & Yoga to treat acute and chronic diseases. For individuals and families, Dr. Shanbhag plays the role of a wellness coach. He guides his clients in the process of healing themselves to achieve optimal body-mind-wellness through daily & seasonal wellness routines, appropriate exercise, yoga, individualized nutrition, healing herbs & vitamins, gentle detox-cleanse (Panch Karma), pranayama, meditation, stress management, anti-aging & rejuvenation therapies.

As an experienced Nurse Educator, with two decades in healthcare, Heather's career spans perioperative settings, emergency and critical care, acute care, academia, policy-making, and informatics. She has a deep appreciation for holistic, trauma-informed, culturally competent, and patient-centered care, viewing each patient as a unique individual rather than a collection of symptoms. 

Heather's mission is to instill these values in future healthcare professionals. By promoting compassion, knowledge, and skill, Heather aims to shape a healthcare environment that combines science with empathy and respect for the human experience.

Heather received her Bachelors in Nursing from Mount Mercy University and her Masters in Nursing from Western Governors University. She is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Tennessee Wesleyan University and is often sought after for her expertise in child safety policy and legislation.