Colette Knight Scott is the founder of Samana Care™, built on more than 30 years of personal caregiving experience and over four decades of entrepreneurial and operational leadership.
Her caregiving experience runs deep and personal: caring for six family members across four decades, owning and operating a licensed daycare, and serving as a foster parent. She also spent time in healthcare administration, auditing clinics across nephrology and dialysis care, some of the most closely-monitored, high-frequency-contact specialties in medicine. That work gave her a first-hand view of the same coordination gaps from inside the system.
"I am the customer, the clinician's ally, and the operator, in one person. I didn't study this problem. I lived it."
Colette Knight Scott
Alongside her caregiving background, Colette's operating career began at fifteen in her family's multi-unit restaurant franchises, and includes a decade-long joint venture with Host Marriott operating 26 concepts at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. That combination of hands-on caregiving and hands-on operating experience is the foundation Samana Care™ is built on.
She also brings a background in the arts and a career built around customer experience, which is exactly why Ana was designed to feel warm and human, never clinical.
"Sometimes people just need to know you care."
Colette Knight Scott
Leads Samana Care™ with a rare vantage point: the bedside, the billing office, and the boardroom. Caregiver, administrator, and operator, all in one person.
Andrea spent two decades turning complexity into calm, leading capital projects and day-to-day operations across a mixed-use real estate portfolio. She brings that same steady execution to Samana Care™.
Charles is a seasoned attorney and tax strategist with a JD and an LL.M. in Taxation, with deep expertise in business formation, entity structuring, and complex financial transactions. As General Counsel, he guides Samana Care™ through the high-stakes legal and financial decisions that come with building a healthcare company from the ground up.
Sharon brings more than 20 years in healthcare operations, policy, and managed care, including serving as CEO and President of University of Michigan Health Plan and senior leadership roles at Coventry, Amerigroup, and OmniCare. She's currently Principal Advisor at Grow Healthcare and holds an MPP and an MHA.
Erik is a lawyer and technologist with more than 30 years in IT, a licensed Georgia attorney focused on privacy and technology law, and founder of Mirability LLC, a fractional CTO/CIO/CISO firm. He spent nearly 12 years as VP of Technology and Security at Improving, overseeing security for 1,500 consultants.
Michelle is a Senior Technical Program Manager with more than 20 years driving complex enterprise transformations at Dell, AT&T, Sogeti USA, and MultiView. She's PMP and CSM certified, with a BS in Information Systems from the University of Texas.
Sadio is a Fractional Chief AI Officer and founder of AI Vantage Consulting, one of the first generative-AI-native consulting firms in the US, and the Academy for AI Strategy. A 25-plus-year technology veteran, his enterprise AI work spans healthcare, media, and financial services, including a $1 billion-plus platform at Comcast.
Marlon is the founder of Organize Financial and creator of the Institutional Fundability Ecosystem, helping businesses become capital-ready before seeking financing. He previously worked as a Project Engineer at Saudi Aramco and Lockheed Martin.
Adam is Head of Solution Architects at Atlassian, leading technical solutions consulting for enterprise organizations. With more than 20 years across enterprise architecture, Agile at Scale, and DevOps, he previously led Atlassian's global Advisory Services organization across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
Bridget is a systems engineer and public health strategist, and Co-Chair of the Integration Advisory Board for the LA County Health Agency, following senior roles at Intel. She's also founder of the Bridget B Foundation and a recognized IMPACT Champion of Change.
Nakia is a commercialization and innovation leader and senior research faculty at Georgia Tech, with more than two decades helping research-driven startups get to market.
Nicole is a veteran change strategist and trusted connector across Atlanta's educational, civic, and business communities, currently serving as Business Development Director for Iuvo Systems. She holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from Clark Atlanta University and leads growth strategy and partnership development at Samana Care™.
Christy is a registered nurse with more than 35 years across oncology, cardiology, home health, and the pharmaceutical industry, spanning bedside nursing, patient education, and clinical training. She has also been a caregiver for her husband and her parents, and brings that lived experience to Samana Care™.
Tracy is a Family Nurse Practitioner with more than 20 years of advanced practice across family medicine, women's health, hospice, oncology, and nephrology. She currently practices nephrology at Emory Healthcare, caring for patients in dialysis units, and earned her nursing degrees at Wayne State University and the University of Detroit Mercy.
Johnta' is a clinical care professional with more than 15 years of hands-on patient support across endoscopy, anesthesia, perfusion, critical care, and laboratory operations, including advanced clinical roles at Alabama Digestive Health Endoscopy Center, the University of South Alabama, and Springhill Medical Center.
Ardith is a clinical research leader with more than 15 years in oncology, proton therapy, and neuropsychiatric research. She is Clinical Research Coordinator IV and Team Lead Supervisor at Emory's Winship Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated cancer center, and holds dual master's degrees in Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling.
Cartrelle is a healthcare educator and operations specialist with more than two decades across clinical care, academic leadership, and healthcare administration. She directs the Dental Assisting Program at Atlanta Technical College, previously worked in healthcare billing and finance at Emory Northlake Regional Medical Center, and is pursuing an MS in Healthcare Management and Informatics at Kennesaw State University.