Glioblastoma doesn’t arrive slowly. It arrives all at once.

New language, urgent decisions, limited time. And families are expected to function immediately.

We learned the hard way, so we built what we felt we needed.

Who we are

We're a team shaped by our experiences caring for loved ones through glioblastoma, working with leaders across academia, advocacy, oncology, and healthcare analytics to better support families.

Founder stories

Jason Binder

Founder

Jason spent 45 months caring for his wife, Tracy, during her battle with glioblastoma.

He lived the long arc of the disease, the constant recalibration, the late-night research, and the pressure to make decisions with incomplete clarity.

He saw how fragmented the information was and how much responsibility fell on families to translate it into action.

With a background in data, research, and therapeutic development, he began building AI tools to help them think more clearly and prepare more intentionally. After seeing traction with his first tool, it was clear families needed this support.

Ember grew from that need.

Angeline spent 10 months caring for her mother, Lupe, during her glioblastoma diagnosis while pregnant and parenting.

She lived the compression of time, the sudden immersion into new language, urgent decisions, and the expectation to function before feeling fully oriented.

She saw how much effort families pour into researching, organizing, and supporting one another, and how little structure exists to help them make sense of it.

With a background in early-stage technology and product strategy, she became focused on the gap between information and implementation. Joining Jason in 2025, she’s dedicated her focus to helping families.

Ember grew from that conviction.

Cofounder

Angeline Giammona

Meet our team

  • Greg Grevera

    Greg Grevera is a nurse practitioner and Patient Advocacy leader focused on patient-centered strategy across neuro-oncology, rare diseases, and emerging diagnostics. As a caregiver for his late husband through cancer, he experienced firsthand how hard it is to navigate serious illness and how much trust, clarity, and connection matter. That experience shaped his belief in how patient advocacy really works. Through G3 Health Strategies, Greg now helps biotech and pharma teams strengthen engagement with advocacy communities and build strategies grounded in the real experiences of patients and caregivers.

  • Danielle Ralic

    Danielle Ralic is the Founder and CEO of Ancora.ai, a leading AI-powered platform for clinical trial navigation. A specialist in healthcare analytics, a lecturer and a frequent industry speaker, she brings 15+ years experience leading global technology initiatives for top pharma and providers at Deloitte and ZS Associates. She is passionate about using data and analytics to enable better and more equitable care.

  • Erica Olenski

    Erica Olenski, BCPA, CPXP, is a healthcare communications strategist with 20 years of experience advising health innovation companies, startups, and public-private initiatives. She was quick to adopt generative AI and now brings that mindset to the front lines of healthcare, where strategy, storytelling, and patient experience are being rewritten in real time.

    As the primary caregiver for her late son through recurrent brain cancer and stroke recovery, she navigated medical trauma, broken systems, and years of uncertainty. That experience reshaped how she leads and deepened her commitment to centering caregivers in the patient experience.

  • Austin Allen

    Austin Allen leads data science at Ember, bringing a background in biostatistics, machine learning, and cancer research from Duke University. He builds the data infrastructure behind Ember's privacy-first analytics, ensuring that patient and caregiver voices can be heard at scale without compromising trust. This work matters because the insights hidden in how people navigate serious illness deserve to be unlocked safely and used to help the next person facing the same journey.