Management Team

Cynthia Benjamin, CEO

Ben Wilson, VP of Sales and Marketing

Cynthia brings expertise as a business strategist and design professional business strategist in healthcare and innovation for underserved populations. Her work ranges from social networks to data analytics to consumer products. She has been a design engineer at IDEO, a Management Consultant with Strategic Decisions Group and IMS Health, Director of Innovation for the Thrive Foundation, and is a Lecturer in Design and Innovation at the design school at Stanford University.

Ben Wilson, VP of Sales and Marketing

Ben is an accomplished digital health business development and marketing professional, strategist and growth leader with a record of achieving results through a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and pervasive industry contacts and an ability to develop and execute business development and marketing strategies. He has a proven record of helping companies to enter or significantly grow market share in healthcare.

Steve Tomas, CTO / VP of Engineering

Chrisanne Bradley, Director of Program and Product Management

Steve is a hands-on technologist guiding early stage companies and consulting with boutique firms to deliver process-led digital transformation and cloud adoption for enterprises of all sizes. He successfully started a healthcare related internet company, which was sold to what is now Caremark/CVS Steve joins Together with expertise in managing organizations for development, operations, and testing.

Chrisanne Bradley, Director of Program and Product Management

Chrisanne is a solutions-focused Program Manager with a passion for driving complex products from inception through launch and further growth. Her career has centered on technology startups, where she delivered innovative consumer products in the printing, telecom, wireless and remote-work communications spaces. Chris is excited to leverage her product lifecycle management expertise to launch products that can make a positive impact in people’s lives.

Instructor Team

Jennifer Lee, GCFP, Senior MOVING Together Instructor

Allison Porter Klinger, GCFP, MOVING Together Instructor

Jenn is a Certified Feldenkrais Method(R) Practitioner, completing Feldenkrais(R) trainings in the US and Europe, with a private bodywork and movement practice specializing in complex orthopedic and neurological issues for the past 23 years. Since 2011, Ms. Lee has helped develop, test and implement PLIÉ. As a Senior Instructor for the PLIÉ and Moving Together programs she has led online curriculum development and training for new instructors.

Allison Porter Klinger, GCFP, MOVING Together Instructor

Allison has over thirty years of experience in dance, movement education and the healing arts. With a keen interest in kinesthetic learning, she completed the SemioPhysics Feldenkrais(R) Training in 2000, and has been practicing Feldenkrais Method(R) in Sonoma County ever since. Most recently, Allison worked with Dr. Barnes and her research team to test PLIÉ at adult day enters in the San Francisco Bay Area.

LeeAnn Starovasnik, GCFP, MOVING Together Community Manager & Instructor in Training

LeeAnn is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(cm) enjoying over 20 years in practice and volunteer teaching with seniors at the LifeTime Learning Center. She’s nationally known for customizing seated Awareness Through Movement® classes. Her focus on continuous improvement began with improving computer and business processes for GE. She’s also applied her expertise in changing habits to helping people quit smoking. She loves building hope and empowering her students through the “more brain, more gain” philosophy embedded in the Feldenkrais Method®.

Chris Stribling, GCFP, MOVING Together Instructor

LeeAnn Starovasnik, GCFP, MOVING Together Community Manager & Instructor in Training

Chris is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais(R) Practitioner. He completed his Feldenkrais(R) training in Berkeley, CA in 1997. With more than 28 years of experience in the study of movement and the healing arts, he has maintained a private practice as a hands-on practitioner and movement coach in Sonoma County. In 2018, Chris volunteered as an assistant instructor for the PLIÉ research study in Novato, CA

Research Advisors

Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, MPH, Principal Investigator, UCSF/SFVA Scientific Team

Together Senior Health has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effects of Moving Together in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and San Francisco VA (SFVA).

Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, MPH, Principal Investigator, UCSF/SFVA Scientific Team

Dr. Barnes is a Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UCSF and a Research Health Science Specialist at SFVA. She co-developed the PLIÉ programs and is leading the UCSF/SFVA research team.

Wolf Mehling, MD, Co-Investigator

Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, MPH, Principal Investigator, UCSF/SFVA Scientific Team

Margaret Chesney, PhD, Co-Investigator

Dr. Mehling is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF and is an Integrative Medicine physician and core research faculty at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. He co-developed the PLIÉ programs and is a co-investigator on the UCSF/SFVA research team.

Margaret Chesney, PhD, Co-Investigator

Dr. Chesney is a Professor Emerita-Active in the Department of Medicine at UCSF and core research faculty at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She co-developed the PLIÉ programs and is a co-investigator on the UCSF/SFVA research team.

Rebecca Sudore, MD, Co-Investigator

Margaret Chesney, PhD, Co-Investigator

Rebecca Sudore, MD, Co-Investigator

Dr. Sudore is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF and a geriatrician at SFVA. She developed the PREPARE for your care program and is a co-investigator on the UCSF/SFVA research tea