Justin Fulcher was 21 when he co-founded RingMD in 2013. The telemedicine platform let patients reach physicians remotely across Asia and eventually ran in multiple countries. A new Price of Business profile revisits that venture as the starting point for a career defined by work in demanding, regulated settings. The company’s early years shaped habits he would later bring to government.
Designing for Weak Infrastructure
RingMD’s premise rested on an uneven reality. Across much of Asia, mobile networks expanded faster than hospitals and clinics. Justin Fulcher and his team built a product meant to function when bandwidth was unreliable and when traditional healthcare delivery was sparse or nonexistent. Each new market also brought its own regulatory framework, which raised the bar for compliance and reliability.
“Healthcare is one of those things that affects everybody,” Fulcher told Charleston Digital Corridor in 2020. The company’s progress brought outside recognition. Forbes Asia placed Justin Fulcher on its 30 Under 30 list in the Healthcare & Science category in 2017. He has since stepped back from daily operations, but he continues as a board member and minority shareholder and holds no operational role.
The Next Chapter
The skills from RingMD later found a very different use. Fulcher joined the U.S. Department of Defense in early 2025 as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, working on acquisition reform and technology adoption. The profile says he helped bring software procurement timelines down “from years to months” and contributed to reforms that modernized key IT systems. He also took part in high-level international engagements, including dialogues in the Indo-Pacific.
Justin Fulcher’s present work covers defense technology innovation and supply chain resilience for materials such as rare-earth elements. He holds a 2023 master’s in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute and is working toward a doctorate at Johns Hopkins SAIS. The jump from a telemedicine startup to Pentagon reform is less surprising than it looks, since both demanded systems that work under pressure. Visit this page on LinkedIn, to learn more.
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