Benjamin Handwerker, ekco COO
Former NASA engineer Benjamin Handwerker runs ekco operations: clinic onboarding, delivery, and the day-to-day work that keeps patient threads live.
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Benjamin Handwerker is ekco’s Chief Operating Officer. He is a former NASA engineer with a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. He runs the operations that get clinics live and keep patient threads moving.
What he owns at ekco
Benjamin leads operations for:
- Clinic onboarding and go-live. Getting practices set up, staffed, and sending on schedule.
- Delivery and reliability. The day-to-day work that keeps check-ins and reorders running in patient threads.
- Internal ops. The systems and cadence behind HIPAA-ready clinic delivery.
When clinics evaluate communication software, they ask whether the team can actually run the product in a real practice. Benjamin’s job is to make that answer yes.
We do not overclaim clinical outcomes here. The work is operational discipline: clinics go live on time, staff know what to expect, and problems get surfaced before patients feel them.
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