We created Fig because we’ve been there.

Max brings years of experience building and leading health-tech startup teams. He believes food is an under-utilized resource in treating chronic disease, resulting in billions of dollars of unnecessary medical spend each year. Max is working to fill this gap in care and help millions feel their best through food. As a new San Diego resident, you can catch Max learning to surf the waves in his downtime.

Andrew Hollar is the co-founder of Fig and a believer in the power of food. An ex-McKinsey consultant, Andrew’s life changed suddenly in 2014 after a trip to Mexico. He had developed post-infectious IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), likely from a case of food poisoning. After three years of struggling with symptoms, Andrew finally found relief through diet, and now he's excited to help others feel their best through food. In his spare time, you can catch Andrew traveling the world on miles and points.

Jake came to Fig after a bout of IBS forced him to restrict his diet and he learned how hard life can be for people with dietary restrictions. He's on a mission to build tech that makes dietary restrictions much simpler to deal with. For the past two years, he has been building the Fig app - if you have any issues you can send to him and he will see what he can do!

Tyler (also known as "Tyler and his Tummy") has had dietary restrictions since contracting a stomach virus at the age of 10. Growing up in a family where every member had unique intolerances & allergies, Tyler knows first-hand how much time and hassle dietary restrictions can cause. That's what led him to help build and grow Fig, where his mission is to help as many people as possible find food they can eat. A fun fact about Tyler is he lived in a tent in Hawaii for two months while working on an organic farm. You can follow him on TikTok and Instagram (@tylerandhistummy) to keep up with his journey!

Anurima is passionate about making healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone, starting with food first healthcare. As the product manager at Fig, she is focused on creating intuitive, simple, and enjoyable solutions to complex problems around dietary restrictions. She has a background in biomedical engineering and health technology, and she is the Community Outreach chair for the Society of Women Engineers NYC Chapter. When she’s not working, she’s either dancing her way through New York City or road-tripping up and down the east coast.

Bex discovered their corn allergy as an adult, but believes they have been allergic since birth. After this corn allergy became so severe that derivatives and airborne contact began to cause life-threatening reactions, Bex began writing the blog Corn Allergy Girl to catalog their discoveries about the many places that corn derivatives can hide and how to avoid them. Getting to combine their day job as a software engineer with their passion to help others with special diets and chronic health conditions has been an absolute dream come true for Bex. When they are not working on Fig, Bex grows corn and pesticide-free food and raises chickens for corn-free eggs in their small urban backyard, and spends any free time they have listening to heavy metal and attending heavy metal shows.

Mia is the Social Media Manager at Fig. She has 50+ food allergies and makes content both on the Fig accounts and on her own account, @theallergicgirl, where she has amassed over 40 million views. When Mia isn't going viral, she's finding new allergy-friendly spots to eat across NYC!

Rachel Dyckman is a registered dietitian with a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition from New York University. Rachel completed her dietetic internship through New York University in affiliation with The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. As an ulcerative colitis patient herself, Rachel has a particular interest in IBD and is passionate about helping others to use diet as a means to aid in gastrointestinal symptom management and disease control. She also has specialty training in the low FODMAP diet.

Danielle Lewis is a licensed and registered dietitian specializing in gastrointestinal health. Danielle earned her Bachelor’s of Science in dietetics from the University of Georgia and completed her Master’s degree and dietetic internship at Georgia State University. She has specialty training in the low FODMAP diet from Monash University and the Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet from Nestle. When Danielle is not working, she enjoys running and spending time with family and friends.

Joanna is an Accredited Practising Dietitian & Registered Nurse who loves food. Her passion for digestive health stems from a lifelong battle with IBS which has taught her both how hard it is to live with unpredictable gut symptoms and how life changing it can be when food sensitivities are well managed. At Everyday Nutrition, she works exclusively with people who have digestive issues to help them identify their triggers so they can get back to enjoying food and life again.

Kate Watson is a FODMAP-trained registered dietitian. She is the former co-founder and president of Nicer Foods, the first company in the USA dedicated to making pre-made FODMAP friendly foods. Kate struggled with IBS for two decades until she found relief on the low FODMAP diet. She is passionate about educating people about this diet because she knows first hand how life-changing it can be.

Kristi Winkels is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in food allergies, Celiac disease, and food intolerances. She founded EatingWithFoodAllergies.com in 2007 with the mission to help people eat well with food allergies. She provides virtual food allergy and nutrition coaching in her private practice and is based out of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.