Meet Our Leadership Team

Kevin was an award-winning journalist at the Boulder Daily Camera prior to transitioning into website management in the early 2000s. That work eventually morphed into user experience (UX) design and in 2012, he founded Epic Apps, a Denver-based software development firm he still co-owns. A few years prior to founding Epic, Kevin noticed his health declining, with a weird constellation of debilitating symptoms. The last decade spent in frustration trying to navigate the healthcare system was the impetus for Ravel.

Dr. Tusek is a board-certified family physician who also has experience as an emergency room doctor. He is a member of the Academy of Sports Medicine, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and the Institute of Functional Medicine, and operates a vibrant direct primary care practice with locations in Boulder, CO, and Longmont, CO.

Tanya started her journey as a Stanford Product Design Engineer and Art Design major. Her professional experience as a Biomedical Engineer led her foray into medicine and career as a Plastic Surgeon. After years of striving to control surgical outcomes in a one-sided effort, her focus grew to include the other half of the equation – the patient. The “Why” of Functional Medicine resonates with her engineering sensibilities and desire to impact change in health and healthcare delivery. Her commitment to patient service, long-term relationships, community-building and passion for whole-person collaborative-care inspired her most recent venture, BESANA Health and Wellness. BESANA was created to meet a rapidly growing yet unmet need in healthcare for a holistic and preventive approach to wellness.

With the soul of an advocate and the mind of an entrepreneur, James has spent the past decade sparking debate innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. To that end, he created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference, with record-setting participation online and growing physician communities around the world. His organization and best-selling book of the same name, Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for this new era of predictive, preventive medicine. He is also the Founder of KNEW Health, an affordable alternative to health insurance. He is an in-demand speaker and impresario, being featured on TEDMED, HuffPostLive and TEDx, as well as lecturing internationally. He lives in Sacramento, CA with his wife and daughter.

A creative, curious and engaged entrepreneur, Shelley has enjoyed a variety of disciplines and socially conscious communities. Her professional experiences include owning and running a vibrant, direct care general dental practice, teaching inter-professional Bioethics, Communication Skills, and Behavioral Change courses at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, training healthcare teams in delivering consistent, optimal patient outcomes and experiences, receiving certifications in women’s leadership coaching and Hatha yoga instruction, co-owning and running an historic mountain resort and spa, and addressing isolation and loneliness in older adult residential communities through facilitating curriculum-driven conversation circles.

After graduating with honors from the George Washington University School of Law, Dr. Hedley became a licensed attorney in Florida, working at a multi-state law firm and as a solo practitioner for a number of years. Seeking new experience and to fulfill an aspiration, Dr. Hedley attended the Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed residency at the University of Florida/Shands Jacksonville Emergency Medicine Program. He maintains board certification from the American Board of Emergency Medicine and actively practices at a number of hospitals – primarily in southern Georgia and Florida. Over time, with this experience, he began consulting for business start-ups and medical legal cases. In his "free" time, Dr. Hedley has started medical spas with five locations in multiple states and created multi-office weight loss and wellness centers, injury and rehab clinics, and indigent care and primary care clinics. His current endeavors include a rapidly expanding online healthcare compliance system for small to medium-sized healthcare practices and business-startup investment.

With a BA from Yale University and an MA in education from Columbia Teachers College, Melissa was a teacher for ten years, working closely with Spanish-speaking students and their families. In 2001, she founded Futuro Sólido USA, a Spanish-language agency emphasizing bridging cultural as well as language barriers, which has served a wide range of industries and developed unique and innovative products and strategies to educate Spanish speakers as to the importance of employee benefits. Melissa has presented extensively on strategies to onboard Spanish speakers with various workplace initiatives including health insurance and retirement plans, safety, and best management and communication practices. She has done numerous presentations and radio appearances and developed a series of Benefits Light Bulbs, short videos that illustrate how health insurance and our medical system work.

Cindy has been in the health insurance/investment business as a Broker since 1989 and holds a Producer insurance license, a securities license and a property & casualty license. She owned her own business until July 2019, when she joined operations with a large Colorado agency to expand their offerings and help build their financial department. She's been in Western Colorado since 1982, and enjoys helping others reach their financial goals and protect their families and assets with all lines of insurance and numerous carrier offerings.

Susan has assisted patients, providers and companies for the last 25 years with their missions of achieving optimal health and wellness, encompassing both traditional and holistic approaches. Her goal is to get to the root cause and meet people where they are to achieve small and large health successes.