Mal Sridhar is the CEO of TheraDriver, a venture-backed software company pioneering AI-driven solutions for behavioral health clinics. TheraDriver currently partners with over 200 autism and ABA providers across the U.S., helping to reduce administrative burden and streamline clinical workflows through AI technology. Prior to founding TheraDriver, Mal led machine learning infrastructure at Waymo, Google's self-driving car division. She also served as a Product Lead at CircleUp, where she applied data and machine learning to optimize private market investment strategies. Throughout her career, Mal has been driven by a deep passion for leveraging machine learning, AI, and data storytelling to improve outcomes across diverse industries — from behavioral health and autonomous vehicles to financial services. Mal began her career at McKinsey & Company and is a proud alumna of the University of Michigan.
The next competitive advantage in ABA isn't doing more work. It's eliminating the wrong work. Machines thrive on the forms, rules and repetition that drain people; clinicians thrive with kids, making an impact. So we set the moonshot: the Zero-Admin Clinician. Every hour a BCBA or RBT works goes to care, while AI agents take on the back-office tasks, with a human manager approving the work. This replaces tasks, not people. The goal is a lighter load for clinicians, billers and office staff, so practices can grow to meet their waitlists. The payoff compounds: clinical capacity, retention, outcomes and enterprise value.
