Officers

Gary K. Ko, CFA, is a finance executive with over 20 years of experience. Previously he was Vice President/Equity Research Analyst at Franklin Templeton Investments, and specialized in U.S. Healthcare stocks. Throughout his career he has been an important member of an investment team that manages up to $130 billion in investment assets. He had also founded two for-profit companies during his career. Gary had wanted to found a nonprofit to tackle unjust medical billing and medical debt since March 2016, when his newborn son was admitted to the neonatal ICU for a heart defect and subsequently subject to unjust medical bills. In 2019, he decided to execute on this vision, and founded CALMBA.