“Healthcare is one of those things that affects everybody,” Justin Fulcher told Charleston Digital Corridor in 2020. “Without the basic, fundamental healthcare access, it handicaps many parts of the world.” That conviction shaped the first major venture of his career and, according to a recent profile, still informs how he approaches complicated institutions today.

A Platform Built for Weak Infrastructure

The venture was RingMD, a telemedicine company Fulcher co-founded at age 21 in 2013. It connected patients and doctors remotely across Asia, eventually reaching multiple countries. The design problem was practical. Across much of the region, people had phones before they had dependable access to clinics, so the service needed to function despite spotty bandwidth and uneven infrastructure.

That work earned a place on Forbes Asia’s 30 Under 30 list for Healthcare & Science in 2017. Fulcher eventually left day-to-day management, though he still sits on the RingMD board and holds a minority stake. He has no operational role.

Carrying the Lessons Into Government

The profile argues that building for fragile health systems prepared him for another kind of difficult environment: federal bureaucracy. Both settings punish mistakes and reward patience. Justin Fulcher became a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense in early 2025, concentrating on acquisition reform and getting new technology adopted faster. Justin Fulcher contributed to reforms that cut software procurement timelines “from years to months” and modernized key department IT systems. He also traveled with senior officials to high-level talks in the Indo-Pacific.

His current interests include defense technology innovation and supply chain resilience, with particular attention to rare-earth elements and other critical materials. He holds a 2023 Master’s in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and is pursuing a Doctorate in International Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

The through line, the profile suggests, is a preference for systems that hold up under pressure. Whether the setting is a cross-border telemedicine service or a defense procurement office, Justin Fulcher has gravitated toward work where reliability matters more than attention. Check out this page for more information.

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