Around The Health Tech World: LifeWIRE founder and Nova Insights Principal, Howard Rosen

Howard Rosen is a CEO with more than 30 years of experience as a founder and leader of diverse, successful companies in the healthcare and entertainment industries.

Howard has created, organised and directed the development of innovative businesses that produce technology and communications solutions for clients and partners that include Fortune 500 companies, US public sector, military and civilian.

Howard is CEO of Nova Insights and the founder of LifeWIRE Group.

What is your morning routine?

Wake up, catch-up on latest headlines, exercise (or intend to do so anyway), over a light breakfast, review/revise my schedule based on emails and industry-related headlines

Which technology could you not live without?

Mobile device (I have had my mobile number since 1990)

How do you relax?

Play guitar and/or read non-fiction biographies

Which quote resonates with you?

Theodore Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;

“Who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;

“Who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

What is the best thing about your job?

I speak and confer with incredibly insightful and brilliant folk who inspire me to push the envelope to be the best for my clients and those around me.

If you could spend a day in someone else’s shoes, whose would they be and why?

I wouldn’t want to as what makes them who are they is because of all their experiences and perspective, my being “in their shoes” would change that and/or me.

What is the one thing that we are not talking about?

If it’s regarding technology, it’s forgetting the human factor. Though there is talk and discussion on that, there is very little action.

Would you rather travel 100 years forward or back in time?

I would rather travel 100 years back to see (as opposed to having read) the genesis of much of what we have now (good and bad).

What advice would you give to 18 year old you (and would you have listened to you!)?

Think fast, talk slow

What is your biggest regret?

There are very few regrets, perhaps things I may have done differently, but then I wouldn’t have experiences and opportunities that have come my way.

That said, the only thing I wish did differently was finding more time with my wife and kids (and dog and cat).