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Thomas Hawes

Thomas Hawes

Luminoah board member and Blue Venture Fund managing director.

DirectorRoles at 3 startups
Updated Nov 9, 2026·Latest SEC filing Nov 6, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Thomas Hawes

Thomas Hawes is a Luminoah board member; the company focuses on simpler enteral nutrition delivery. He is also managing director of Blue Venture Fund and a board director and co-founder of Upward Health. Upward Health provides whole-person healthcare.

He chairs Patientco's board and serves on the boards of AbleTo, HeartFlow, ID Experts and Oncology Analytics. He is a board observer for Phreesia, Lumiata and Wellspring Healthcare. He also serves on the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation's National Advisory Board. Before Blue Venture Fund, he matched for a Yale School of Medicine residency and completed his first year of medical training at Greenwich Hospital. He worked on clinical studies at ISK Institute and outcomes research at the National Cancer Institute and New York Medical College. Hawes holds degrees from Brigham Young University, New York Medical College and Harvard Business School. He is a Kauffman Fellow.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Thomas Hawes in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Luminoah, Inc. Current
Director
2026 – Present · Charlottesville, VA
Luminoah builds a portable, connected enteral feeding system for patients, caregivers, clinicians, and providers.
Blue Venture Fund Current
Managing Director
Upward Health Current
Board Director & Co-Founder
Patientco Current
Board Chairman
AbleTo Current
Board Member
HeartFlow Current
Board Member
ID Experts Current
Board Member
Oncology Analytics Current
Board Member
Phreesia Current
Board Observer
Lumiata Current
Board Observer
Wellspring Healthcare Current
Board Observer
Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation Current
National Advisory Board
Octave Bioscience Inc
Director
2021 – 2025 · Menlo Park, CA
Humata Health, Inc.
Director
2024 · Miami, FL

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Thomas Hawes works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Luminoah, Inc. · Form D, Nov 6, 2026
Joseph Piper
Joseph Piper
Chief Executive Officer and director
Garrett Marin
Garrett Marin
Chief Operating Officer
JA
BH
Brian Hansen
Director
Octave Bioscience Inc · Form D, Mar 24, 2025
GS
MK
Marcel Konrad
Executive officer
BB
Brook Byers
Director
DB
Doug Biehn
Chief Executive Officer and director
LC
Lucy Coassin
Director
MP
Humata Health, Inc. · Form D, Jul 25, 2024
OC
Oscar Callejas
Executive officer
JF
Jeremy Friese
President and Chief Executive Officer, director
MK
Michael Kolb
Executive officer
WP
Word Peake
Director
PF
Philip Fibiger
Executive officer

Sources

  1. SECLuminoah, Inc. Form D, filed Nov 6, 2026
  2. SECOctave Bioscience Inc Form D, filed Mar 24, 2025
  3. SECHumata Health, Inc. Form D, filed Jul 25, 2024