Who we are.
Myelina Health was founded by a person living with MS and the technologist who has been her quiet ally in turning lived experience into working software. Two skill sets sharing a roof. One mission for women navigating MS.
Aaryn Olesen
Co-founder
Aaryn Olesen is the co-founder of Myelina Health. Diagnosed with MS, Aaryn channels lived experience into building tools that meet women where they actually are: navigating symptoms, careers, relationships, and motherhood, often all at once.
Her path to this work spans more than two decades in pharmacovigilance, where she dedicated her career to patient safety — most of it at AstraZeneca — growing into leadership and executive roles along the way. Aaryn holds a Bachelor's in Psychology from UCLA, completed doctoral work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the Yale School of Public Health. She is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach trained through the Mayo Clinic and a Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Aaryn lives in Dana Point, California, where she draws daily energy from being near the ocean.
Brian Pentz
Co-founder & Technical Architect
Brian Pentz is the co-founder and technical architect of Myelina Health. He is the founder of AI Keeps It Real, an applied AI practice that builds production multi-agent systems for individuals and small teams.
Brian is a Google for Startups alumnus, selected as a founder in the program, and a licensed professional with experience across real estate and finance — backgrounds that taught him how to operate in regulated environments where details matter and trust is earned slowly. At Myelina Health, he is responsible for the privacy-first infrastructure, the multi-model AI stack, and the data pipeline connecting Apple Health, Oura Ring, and patient-reported outcomes.
Brian lives in California with his wife and their child.
“Lived experience and clinical credentials on one side. Engineering, AI strategy, and operational discipline on the other. The two together is the company.”