Kurt Waltenbaugh is a serial entrepreneur with a career focused on the consumer: using data to predict and influence behavior. Understanding consumer behavior, Kurt has built successful analytic solutions, products and companies in the health care, retail, education, and credentialing industries. Currently offering advisory, consulting, and CEO mentoring & coaching through Kestrel Rising, Kurt is helping create entrepreneurs improve, to make the world a better place.

Kurt was the founder of Carrot Health, a consumer+health data and predictive analytics platform offering engagement insights to payer and provider customers. Carrot Health was sold in 2021 to Unite Us. His previous companies were sold to Oracle (Retek) and Pearson Education (Integral7). Kurt was responsible for product strategy at Optum, Inc. (UnitedHealth Group), building data analytic businesses for the provider, payer and employer markets.

When not working with customers, Kurt is with his wife, Tracy, guiding their three children toward adulthood, and planning the next camping trek into the wilderness.