About Us - Dr. Dirk G. Schroeder

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Updraft Advisors was founded by Dirk Schroeder, ScD MPH,  who 1999 and midway through a successful academic career in global public health became an "accidental entrepreneur". 

Following his own crazy dream of co-founding an early digital health company, he relinquished tenure at a major university to start HolaDoctor Inc. 

For 18 years, he and his much more experienced co-founder/CEO built HolaDoctor Inc into the largest Spanish language health website and multicultural healthcare consulting firm in the country (and maybe the world). 

In 2017, HolaDoctor Inc was acquired in full by Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG), a 110-year old multinational company this is the major medical insurer in Central America and the Caribbean. Dr. Schroeder stepped down from his full time executive position at PALIG in 2019 to start Updraft Advisors. 

In addition to his own experience starting, building and selling HolaDoctor Inc, Dr. Schroeder teaches graduate-level courses on Social Entrepreneurship for Global Health, serves as a business advisor to major corporations, and is authoring his second book, entitled "Getting Past the Pilot: a practical guide for health and financial entrepreneurs and innovators". 

"The purpose of Updraft Advisors is to help entrepreneurs and innovators, especially in the health and financial fields, of achieving the same dream that I did", says Dr. Schroeder, "only FASTER!" 

if you are an dreamer, first-time and/or mid-career entrepreneur or innovator, let's talk! We'd like to see how we can help you get off the ground and soar. 

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