Making Fertility Benefits An Employer Priority w/ David Stern, CEO, Kindbody
Episode Description
Fertility benefits have gone from a Silicon Valley recruiting perk to a boardroom priority in under a decade. Employers are no longer just offering access. They are demanding measurable outcomes, transparent costs, and clinical accountability.
David Stern, CEO of Kindbody, joins host David E. Williams to discuss why the vertically integrated model of combining a fertility benefit manager with owned clinics is producing better outcomes for employers and patients alike, and what it means that a company serving Walmart employees in rural Arkansas is now one of the most important access stories in American reproductive medicine.
🎙️⚕️ABOUT DAVID STERN
David Stern has over 30 years of women's health experience with a career focused primarily on the fertility industry. Most recently he served as CEO of Boston IVF, one of the largest IVF center networks in the United States, which became part of IVIRMA Global, the largest fertility group in the world, in 2024. Prior to that he was CEO of Symbiomix Therapeutics, leading the company from development stage through commercial launch before its acquisition by Lupin Pharmaceuticals in 2017. He has held executive roles at Merck Serono as SVP and Head of the Global Fertility Business Franchise, and has built commercial teams and partnerships at Celmatix, Ohana, and OvaScience. He also served on the board of California Cryobank and began his career in women's health at Organon Pharmaceutics. He holds an MBA from the F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College and a BS in Biology from Brandeis University.
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