Maya Ellison
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Maya started Verdant Orbit to make digital confidence less of a prerequisite for getting through care. She keeps the studio grounded in community needs and durable partnerships.
About Verdant Orbit
Care access shouldn’t depend on digital confidence.
We believe a person’s device, language, disability, or comfort with technology should not determine how easily they can move through care.
Why we exist
A studio built around real care journeys.
Verdant Orbit Healthworks began with a simple observation: essential services are often designed around the systems behind them, while people are left to do the translating. We bring product, design, engineering, accessibility, and care operations into the same conversation.
Our work is focused on organizations serving people across the United States. We build alongside existing teams, respect the knowledge they carry, and make room for the people who use the services to shape what comes next.
The people behind the work
Thoughtful partners, different points of view.
Our team brings complementary experience across product, care operations, technology, security, and accessible design.
Grant Hollis
Chief Technology Officer
Grant helps teams make sound technical choices across platforms, integrations, and legacy systems. He favors clear architecture that can evolve with the service.
Priya Nanduri
VP, Product Strategy
Priya turns broad goals into product decisions people can test. Her work connects user research, operational reality, and a useful roadmap.
Elena Marquez
Director of Accessible Experience
Elena brings accessibility into research, design, and delivery. She helps teams treat inclusive interaction as a quality of the whole service.
Owen Barrett
Principal Software Architect
Owen shapes resilient platform foundations and integration approaches. He enjoys making complex systems understandable to the people who maintain them.
Simone Kelley
Head of Care Operations
Simone brings firsthand operational perspective to service design, especially handoffs, capacity, and the small details that help teams coordinate.
Daniel Wu
Lead Data Product Manager
Daniel works with teams to make data products useful and appropriately contextualized, from definitions and governance to everyday workflows.
Tessa Franklin
Design Systems Lead
Tessa builds shared design foundations that help teams create consistent experiences without flattening the needs of different communities.
Marcus Adeyemi
Security & Privacy Lead
Marcus works across product and engineering to make privacy and security practical parts of planning, implementation, and ongoing care.
Claire Donnelly
Client Partnerships Director
Claire keeps collaboration open and organized, bringing client teams, delivery partners, and studio specialists together around shared goals.
Jonah Reed
Senior Support Program Manager
Jonah helps teams establish dependable support practices, capture useful feedback, and turn recurring questions into better service experiences.
Work with us
Good partnerships make better products.
Bring us the challenge your team is ready to work through.