Empower Hope enables patients to forge a personalized path through our complex healthcare system…
Empower Hope was founded with a simple yet profound goal — to ensure that every person’s care truly reflects their values, goals, and preferences. In a healthcare system often constrained by complexity, we are reimagining how technology can bring humanity back to care. By combining patient preferences with ethical artificial intelligence and providing clinical insights, Empower Hope helps clinicians act earlier, communicate more effectively, and deliver care that honors what matters most to each patient.
Executive Team
Josh Anderson
Chief A.I. Officer
With ten years of professional experience in healthcare technology, I am an area expert in clinical data from EHRs and other sources. My ongoing academic achievements complement this experience with an ever-growing skillset in analytics and data aggregation.
As a Technical Solutions Engineer at Epic, the world’s largest electronic medical record company, I’ve gained experience in soft skills, managing complex projects in various organizational structures, while also honing my technical skills through the development and maintenance of intricate data structures. I am an expert in clinical data structures, both Epic and non-Epic, making me a valuable resource in translating clinical workflows to large aggregated data sets. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, I developed a Python script that maps and structures data from organizations across the Epic community, presenting a clean dataset for analysis. As the analytics lead for Cosmos, Epic’s organization-wide research data warehouse, I collaborate with colleagues to identify and clean up incorrectly mapped data. In this role, I also worked with key hospital executives to design and develop data marts that represented diseases with undiscovered pathologies, assisting researchers in drawing new conclusions from the vast amount of medical data now available.
Jason Grigoryan
Chief Executive Officer
With more than 23 years of experience in healthcare administration, Jason has built a distinguished career leading strategic initiatives that strengthen provider networks and elevate patient care. At Health Net, he spearheaded major contracting efforts, negotiating agreements with leading providers across all ancillary specialties to enhance network quality, efficiency, and access to care.
As the Chief Executive Officer of Angel Care Hospice & Palliative, Jason leads a dedicated team of 33 physicians, nurses, and administrative professionals committed to delivering compassionate, high-quality end-of-life care throughout Southern California. His leadership blends operational expertise with a deep sense of purpose, ensuring patients and families receive the dignity and support they deserve during life’s most sensitive moments.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing Management and proudly served as a U.S. Army veteran, bringing discipline, integrity, and service-oriented leadership to every role he undertakes.
In 2025, Jason became the CEO of Empower Hope, an AI-driven company that predicts end-of-life timelines for patients with the goal of improving care and support. He felt deeply compelled to take on this role because of his background in the post-acute and hospice space. Jason’s connection to helping people is deeply personal and traces back to his formative years, where he learned the profound impact of compassion and service.
When Jason discovered how Empower Hope can help patients and families prepare, find comfort, and make meaningful decisions during such critical moments, it resonated with him on both a spiritual and purposeful level. ‘This work embodies everything I believe in—using technology to serve humanity and bringing dignity, clarity, and hope to life’s most vulnerable moments.”
Alexander Everest, PhD
Chief Strategy Officer
Finly Zachariah, MD FAAFP FAAHPM FAMIA
Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Zachariah is recognized as a compassionate and highly skilled supportive medicine physician providing symptom management, pain control, and palliative care for adult and pediatric patients.
He is board-certified in Family Medicine, Hospice & Palliative Medicine, and Clinical Informatics. After earning his medical degree from Chicago Medical School, he completed a Family Medicine/Tropical Medicine residency in Whittier at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, followed by a fellowship in Hospice & Palliative Medicine at Kaiser in Los Angeles. Combining his training in tropical medicine with his humanitarian values, Dr. Zachariah has volunteered a significant amount of time in underserved parts of the world, teaching palliative care and assisting patients and clinical teams in Cameroon, Zambia, India, and Ethiopia.
He also serves as an Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, supporting his colleagues in adopting clinical technologies and refining the Electronic Health Record System to improve care delivery. His programmatic and academic focus includes tailoring patient care to individual values and goals, advance care planning, and leveraging technology to enhance the coordination and delivery of patient-centered medical care in serious illnesses.
He co-founded Empower Hope in 2022 to accelerate the delivery of goal-concordant care for all patients and families impacted by serious illness.
Patent Pending
A method for machine learning-enabled mortality prognosis may include training, based on a set of labeled training samples, a mortality prognosis model to determine a risk of patient mortality within a given timeframe
Publications and Presentations
Prospective comparison of medical oncologists and a machine learning model to predict 3-month mortality in patients with metastatic solid tumors Zachariah, F, Rossi, L, Roberts, L, Bosserman, L
Nudges to improve ambulatory do-not-resuscitate documentation at a comprehensive cancer center Nudges in Healthcare Symposium webinar; May 20, 2021. Roberts L, Zachariah F.