Our Team
Built by lived and clinical expertise - united by a shared purpose.
Kriti Lodha
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, FOUNDER
Kriti Lodha is the Founder & CEO of Shera Care and a seasoned marketing, technology, and customer experience executive with 15+ years of experience building and scaling multi-million-dollar businesses, brands, and teams. She has held leadership roles at Toast and Procter & Gamble, from leading household brands like Gillette and Mr. Clean to helping build and scale consumer businesses at Toast through the pandemic and beyond its IPO. Kriti’s commitment to maternal mental health is deeply personal, shaped by her own traumatic experience with postpartum psychosis during the pandemic despite having no prior mental health history or known risk factors. Her journey- from an emergency room and general psychiatric hospitalization separated from her family and baby to traveling out of state for specialized perinatal treatment- exposed critical gaps in the maternal mental health care system and ultimately changed the trajectory of her career. Kriti is now a healthcare entrepreneur and nationally recognized advocate dedicated to tackle the maternal mental health crisis - and turn her pain into purpose.
Kriti also serves on the Board of Directors of Postpartum Support International, as Board Liaison to its Postpartum Psychosis Taskforce, and as Executive Advisor to Mass General Hospital’s Center for Women’s Mental Health. Through a national listening tour, she has also learned directly from patients, families, clinicians, and healthcare leaders about what it will take to build more accessible, equitable, and family-centered perinatal intensive mental health care - the origins of Shera Care.
Kriti is now bringing together her lived experience, advocacy, and career scaling businesses to build a new model of perinatal mental health care through Shera Care. She is an alumna of Harvard College and MIT Sloan’s Advanced Management Program, and her deepest “why” is her daughter- to role model the power of advocacy, service, representation, and leadership in creating social change.
Clinical Advisory Board
Maithri Ameresekere, MD
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Ameresekere is a board-certified psychiatrist and Director of Women’s Mental Health at Boston Medical Center, with expertise in reproductive psychiatry and perinatal mental health. She leads integrated behavioral health in OB/GYN, working to expand access for pregnant and postpartum patients and reduce barriers to care for immigrant and underserved communities. She provides clinical care and training opportunities in several interdisciplinary programs, including the Refugee Women's Health Clinic and Project RESPECT, which supports perinatal individuals with substance use disorders.
Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA
Dr. Nancy Byatt is a Tenured Professor at UMass Chan Medical School, perinatal psychiatrist, and physician-scientist focused on improving systems of care to promote the mental health of parents and children. She developed MCPAP for Moms, now a national model for perinatal mental health care. She is the Founding Executive Director of the Lifeline for Families Center and Lifeline for Moms Program at UMass Chan Medical School. Her research uses implementation science methods to design, implement, and evaluate scalable approaches for improving parental and child mental health services and outcomes.