
Sabina Bhatia
Chief Customer Officer at PayActiv
Sabina Bhatia is an accomplished C-Suite Leader and customer champion tirelessly fighting for the financial wellness of every American worker. As a Chief Customer Officer at Payactiv, she acts as a daily advocate and amplifier for the needs of thousands of corporate clients and millions of lower-income workers.
With great passion and focus, Sabina has been instrumental in building the financial category of Earned Wage Access from infancy to mainstream adoption as the most important employee wellness benefit of 2022.
Sabina spent 20 years on Wall Street as an analyst restructuring financially stressed companies. She has an undergraduate degree in economics and MBA from Pace University.
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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As Founder and CEO of Pain Care Labs Pain Relief, Dr. Amy Baxter’s mission is to eliminate unnecessary pain. She invented and patented VibraCool® Vibrating Cryotherapy to treat tendinitis and decrease opioid use, and her Buzzy® device has been used to control needle pain for over 32 million needle procedures. She has been named a Healthcare GameChanger, Healthcare Transformer, Wall Street Journal “Idea Person”, Most Innovative CEO of the Year by GA Bio, a Top 10 Disruptors in Medical Tech, and “Top Women in Tech to Watch” by Inc. She is currently developing a wearable VibraCool Low Back pain reliever to accompany VibraCool Knee Pain and VibraCool Elbow Tendinitis Relief, and exploring regenerative implications of thermal and vibratory energy. After graduating from Yale University and Emory School of Medicine, she completed pediatrics residency and child abuse and emergency pediatrics fellowships. Prior to becoming a full-time CEO, double-boarded pediatric emergency physician Dr. Baxter founded and directed PEMA Emergency Research, Scottish Rite, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Federally funded for her work in needle pain management, she has published multiple first author papers and textbook chapters and lectures nationally and internationally on sedation, procedural pain management, and the incidence, cause and consequences of needle phobia. To develop her neuromodulation pain reduction platform, Dr. Baxter was awarded a 1.1MM Fast-Track SBIR by the NIH. She wrote the patents for cooling and vibration utilization to decrease pain, and prepared and filed the FDA 510K submission for medical devices, securing the FDA expansion of the utilization to include muscle pain and cosmetic injection pain control. A founding Board Member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation, additional experience includes the Standish board for hospital pain relief, Trustee of the Robert A. Heinlein Butler Library, Editorial Boards of Medscape and Elsevier Pediatrics, and Board Member of the International Women’s Forum Georgia Chapter. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Baxter reviews for multiple scholarly journals, conferences, and national and international grant boards. Speaking venues include Exponential Medicine, Bloomberg, Converge, AARP Life at 50+, TEDx and TEDMED. Dr. Baxter is known for creating and validating the BARF nausea scale for children with cancer. She is also known for turning down Mark Cuban, Robert, and Mr. Wonderful on Shark Tank.

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Sabina Bhatia
Chief Customer Officer at PayActiv
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Sabina Bhatia is an accomplished C-Suite Leader and customer champion tirelessly fighting for the financial wellness of every American worker. As a Chief Customer Officer at Payactiv, she acts as a daily advocate and amplifier for the needs of thousands of corporate clients and millions of lower-income workers.
With great passion and focus, Sabina has been instrumental in building the financial category of Earned Wage Access from infancy to mainstream adoption as the most important employee wellness benefit of 2022.
Sabina spent 20 years on Wall Street as an analyst restructuring financially stressed companies. She has an undergraduate degree in economics and MBA from Pace University.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT DEALING WITH AND REDUCING PAIN
- WELLNESS: Emotional well being - how to cope with chronic pain
- SITUATIONAL PAIN - Pull a muscle? Bad back?
- ICE vs HEAT in reducing pain
- RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression & Elevation
- And now VIBRATION - literally shake that pain away
- PILLS: When to ask your doctor for pain pills and how / when to avoid
- OVER THE COUNTER:
- The pros and cons to using topical anaesthetics
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As Founder and CEO of Pain Care Labs Pain Relief, Dr. Amy Baxter’s mission is to eliminate unnecessary pain.
She invented and patented VibraCool® Vibrating Cryotherapy to treat tendinitis and decrease opioid use, and her Buzzy® device has been used to control needle pain for over 32 million needle procedures. She has been named a Healthcare GameChanger, Healthcare Transformer, Wall Street Journal “Idea Person”, Most Innovative CEO of the Year by GA Bio, a Top 10 Disruptors in Medical Tech, and “Top Women in Tech to Watch” by Inc. She is currently developing a wearable VibraCool Low Back pain reliever to accompany VibraCool Knee Pain and VibraCool Elbow Tendinitis Relief, and exploring regenerative implications of thermal and vibratory energy.
After graduating from Yale University and Emory School of Medicine, she completed pediatrics residency and child abuse and emergency pediatrics fellowships. Prior to becoming a full-time CEO, double-boarded pediatric emergency physician Dr. Baxter founded and directed PEMA Emergency Research, Scottish Rite, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Federally funded for her work in needle pain management, she has published multiple first author papers and textbook chapters and lectures nationally and internationally on sedation, procedural pain management, and the incidence, cause and consequences of needle phobia. To develop her neuromodulation pain reduction platform, Dr. Baxter was awarded a 1.1MM Fast-Track SBIR by the NIH. She wrote the patents for cooling and vibration utilization to decrease pain, and prepared and filed the FDA 510K submission for medical devices, securing the FDA expansion of the utilization to include muscle pain and cosmetic injection pain control.
A founding Board Member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation, additional experience includes the Standish board for hospital pain relief, Trustee of the Robert A. Heinlein Butler Library, Editorial Boards of Medscape and Elsevier Pediatrics, and Board Member of the International Women’s Forum Georgia Chapter. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Baxter reviews for multiple scholarly journals, conferences, and national and international grant boards.
Speaking venues include Exponential Medicine, Bloomberg, Converge, AARP Life at 50+, TEDx and TEDMED. Dr. Baxter is known for creating and validating the BARF nausea scale for children with cancer. She is also known for turning down Mark Cuban, Robert, and Mr. Wonderful on Shark Tank.
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Sabina Bhatia
Chief Customer Officer at PayActiv
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Sabina Bhatia is an accomplished C-Suite Leader and customer champion tirelessly fighting for the financial wellness of every American worker. As a Chief Customer Officer at Payactiv, she acts as a daily advocate and amplifier for the needs of thousands of corporate clients and millions of lower-income workers.
With great passion and focus, Sabina has been instrumental in building the financial category of Earned Wage Access from infancy to mainstream adoption as the most important employee wellness benefit of 2022.
Sabina spent 20 years on Wall Street as an analyst restructuring financially stressed companies. She has an undergraduate degree in economics and MBA from Pace University.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE HOURLY EMPLOYEE:
- HR Employee Benefits
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
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Sabina believes profit should go hand-in-hand with purpose and is a proud member of the Conscious Capitalism Senior Leadership Network. She is also a mentor for Girls on the Run (a national non-profit organization designed to strengthen social, emotional, physical, and behavioral skills), a certified skydiver, a 5-time marathon runner, and a 2-century bike rider.
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n a competitive hiring market, company owners are often looking for an edge when it comes to recruiting and retaining workers. Payactiv, a company that offers employees access to their earnings between pay periods, says it offers that; clients include Walmart, Wendy’s restaurants and Visiting Angels. HomeCare spoke with Sabina Bhatia, vice president of strategic alliances for Payactiv, about how the service might fit into home health and personal care industry.
“Before my current tenure with Silicon Valley FinTech company PayActiv, I spent 20 years in a different world. I was a credit analyst on Wall Street, analyzing the financial stress of sub-investment grade companies including investigating investment strategies in companies I believed could provide an attractive return. Trafficking in this business made me feel powerful and successful. It’s what paid my bills.”
Timeline
Dec 2015 - Present
Payactiv
Chief Customer Officer
Feb 2012 - Dec 2015
Blackcomb Capital Consulting
Investment Analyst
2010 - 2011
Peak6 Investments LP
Credit Analyst
2008 - 2009
Basso Capital
Credit Analyst
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Tell us about your professional background and what matters to you most today? |
What is the relevance of the $100 million, $400, and $35 billion, and $200 billion marks? |
Could you tell us the relevance of a B-Corp and Conscious Capitalism in the economy you serve? |
What makes it so expensive to be poor? |
Can you talk about the timing of pay and its correlation to epidemic financial stress? |
How can technology play a role in the post pandemic world? |