Kyle Christopher Hayungs is a 2X award winning digital health technology innovator who has been on stages or involved in speaking engagements at some of the top academic institutions with some of healthcare's and governments topmost influential leaders providing his subject matter expertise and insights in the digital health technology, IOT, and virtual care management space. Kyle’s recent venture www.MRGHealth.com + www.SmartCare360.co is an Apple iOS / Google Android health and wellness platform which provides an all in one Determinants of Health & Disease Specific Virtual Care Management Platform + Patient Support & Care Coordination Platform, with Integrated Telehealth + Video Conferencing, Remote Patient Monitoring, Remote Therapeutic Monitoring, Principle Care Management, Chronic Care Management, Transitional Care Management, Specialty & Disease Specific Care Plans, 250+ FDA Approved Vital Tracking Devices, Pop-Health Risk Stratification, Patient Risk Scoring, and Revenue Cycle Management.

Over the past 5-7 years Kyle has been engulfed in this space and has built one of the, if not the world's most comprehensive virtual care health & wellness management platforms according to the ex-CEO of Optum innovation & Virtual Care Management along with other leaders of that caliber in the space. Kyle holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in marketing, and a Degree in Vascular, General, Cardiac, and Obstetrical Ultrasound Sonography. His philanthropy work focuses on improving access to care for less fortunate or uninsured, veteran's affairs, single parents, first responders, terminally ill, mentoring at-risk youth, and providing access to care to homeless shelters through the MRG Foundation which stands for Mentorship, Resources, Giving Back. He’s has served on the Board of Directors and served roles in several philanthropic organizations such as The American Heart Association, Beauty for Freedom, Ferrari Kid, Southwest Keys Program, ICON Talks, and Living Beyond a Dream.

Kyle’s expertise in capturing opportunities by closing exclusive deals, creating and implementing marketing strategies, and building multi-million-dollar businesses has led to him to be one of Entrepreneurs Below 25 “People to Watch.” He has been nationally recognized for his sale’s engineering by successfully raising over $10,000,000 dollars in funding for new pre-revenue companies, as well as bootstrapping 3 companies in the last 10 years that have done over $20,000,000 dollars in sales.

Kyle looks at all aspects of a business and determines the value add immediately while developing the correct team to execute swiftly in all areas. American Heart Association, Beauty for Freedom, Ferrari Kid, Southwest Keys Program, ICON Talks, and Living Beyond a Dream. Kyle also has significant experience in the Marketing & Communications Space and ATM & Payment Processing Technology sector, from his previous company Merchant Resource Group which assisted small-mid size businesses in the areas of electronic payment processing, web development, custom software, marketing, sales development, online ecommerce, print, IT services, copyright, patent, trademark, IP development, and more. Past clients include Coca Cola, Toyota, Singapore Airlines, San Antonio Spurs, Several Restaurant Franchise Chains, and Ford, and Chevrolet. Personal Biography Draft: Growing up as a kid, my grandfather, Henry Novell was one of my idols and inspiration. He was a serial entrepreneur and owned all kinds of businesses. The ones I recall the most are train manufacturing and railcar leasing, chemical manufacturing and transport companies, mobile home parks, auto dealerships, insurance companies, furniture stores, toy store franchises, and real estate. As a young kid and adult in middle school and high school, I got introduced to some things that most don’t in a lifetime at a very young age and didn’t make some of the best decisions growing up.

I ran around with Gangs and associated myself with drug dealers in was in and out of all kinds of trouble. Something I’m not proud of but making the best of it, however, I can, one youngster or family at a time. My senior year in high school I was in an accident and broke my back requiring me to have major back surgery and have 12 screws and titanium rods in my back to hold my vertebrae and two fused discs in place. I’ve lived in chronic pain since the age of 18 literally waking up and going to sleep in pain and was so very scared of opiates because of a couple friends died from overdosing on them so I turned to cannabis to help mask the pain I had to live with instead of popping pills and who knows where that would have led to. It’s in my blood to be a serial entrepreneur. As a kid I would follow my grandfather around and try and find anything I could to do to work with him and learn from him whatever I could. In the eighth or ninth grade, my grandfather passed away from a hospital error and that sparked my interest in healthcare innovation and solving problems in healthcare.

I was the first person out of my family to move away from my hometown to go to college and graduate. I got a degree in vascular general obstetrical and cardiac ultrasound sonography. I had to pay my way through college, getting student loans and finding other means to make ends meet. During that time, it was the California green rush. An ounce of cannabis was worth more than an ounce of gold at the time which made my Medicine unaffordable, so I started dabbling into botany. A few years into it, my entrepreneurial spirits took over and I made it into an enterprise level business while I was in my medical school.

Once I completed my medical program, I retired from the” game” and 1.5 years later I got served with a conspiracy charge for distribution of high-grade cannabis. The Feds were trying to get me with a five-year sentence. I pled guilty, gave them a boat, some cash, and a couple watches and they added a money laundering offense to the case and lowered the time in a plea bargain to 24 months and I served 18 months in Federal prison for it. When I got out, I had nothing and had to start my life over in December 2010. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. It made me who I am as a person and mentally prepared me for what I call TheTexasPLANdemic and all the challenges that come with doing something like changing the status quo in healthcare and disrupting health & wellness delivery models on a global scale via www.MRGHealth.com and www.SmartCare360.co