During his decades-long career as a private sector healthcare technology leader, including as group executive VP for Optum, Andy Slavitt drove some of the most significant and successful initiatives in healthcare, impacting millions of Americans as well as the shape of the healthcare system. He was the former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama. Prior to that he was the Group Executive Vice President of Optum, and before that a health care tech founder and entrepreneur. He is a columnist for USA Today and JAMA and is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN, Fox and CNBC. He attended University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School.

Buettner now works in partnership with municipal governments, large employers, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces, and universities.

Buettner has appeared on The Today Show, Oprah, NBC Nightly News, and Good Morning America, and has keynoted speeches at TEDMED, Bill Clinton’s Health Matters Initiative, and Google Zeitgeist.

Dr. David Shulkin is the current Chief Innovation Officer at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, SD. Sanford Health serves 2.7 million people in 300 communities, 1,398 physicians, 44 medical centers, and 291 clinics Sanford Health has 29,639 employees.

In his role as president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and its parent company Stella, Dr. Craig E. Samitt is responsible for overseeing the strategy and operations of the state’s first and largest health plan.

His record of collaborating across the health care system to deliver higher quality care at a lower cost led to him being named as one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders” by Modern Healthcare in 2018.

Mr. Abramson is active as an advisor or board member to numerous regional and national organizations including: Normandale Community College, The Health Care Executive Group, University of St. Thomas Graduate Programs in Software, and BethelBiz mentorship program.
He currently co-chairs the Minnesota eHealth Advisory Committee which advises the Commissioner of Health and the Legislature on electronic health policy.

Justin is the CEO of Digitize.AI, which is on a mission to use Artificial Intelligence to transform how healthcare is administered. Justin spent the past decade working with Artificial Intelligence and automation before co-founding Digitize.AI.

Previously, Justin was Practice Leader for Digital Transformation, Automation & AI at Independence Consulting Group, where he built the Digital/Automation practice from the ground up.

Brandon joined AIM in 2002 and executed top-line growth initiatives that expanded the business into one of the largest and most successful specialty benefits management companies in the United States.

Brandon has held a variety of leadership positions within hospital systems, health plans, and emerging technology companies.

Senior technology leader with 20 years of experience in leading information technology systems design and implementation with a heavy emphasis on business alignment, user satisfaction and team building. Strong experience in interfacing with business stakeholders, end users, vendors and technical resources to create and maintain technical solutions which align with existing or new business processes. Excel in budget management and analysis; effective control of costs through economical utilization of personnel, materials and tools. Persuasive communicator and committed to organization goals, mission and vision statements.

As Chief Financial Officer, Divita has accountability for financial oversight of GuideWell and its various businesses. Responsibilities include accounting and financial reporting, actuarial, corporate development, investments, procurement, and corporate tax, among others.

Prior to becoming Chief Financial Officer, Divita was Group Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Accounting Officer.

Mike Gold began his forty-three year career at the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in Hawaii. Over the years, he held leadership positions throughout the organization, culminating in serving for ten years as COO and five years as CEO.

During his tenure as CEO, HMSA grew to more than 730,000 members, and was recognized as Hawaii’s top company in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Hawaii Business magazine.

Senior executive with broad background in health insurance, workers’ compensation, and financial services. Exceptional record of leading large and small organizations, creating sustainable change, and implementing transformational strategies that improve enterprise performance, service, and operating cost structure. Recognized as an innovative, strategic thinker with demonstrated leadership and motivational skills.

Eric Hamborg is Chief Customer Officer at MOBE. As the face of MOBE, Eric is responsible for all business development and client relationships. Prior to joining MOBE, Eric built a successful career in pharmaceuticals with Upsher-Smith Laboratories. Highlighted with over two decades of hands-on coaching and leadership, Eric has developed a broad range of strategic, award-winning programs and initiatives. He prides himself on being innovative, energetic and collaborative. Eric is a graduate of the University of St. Thomas School of Business. He is an avid cyclist and simply enjoys being active and fit.

Dr. Matthew Hoffman is the CMIO at UHIN, Utah’s health information exchange. He earned a BS in Finance from Brigham Young University and his medical degree from the University of Utah. He also pursued a Master’s in Biomedical Informatics.

Tom Howard is a skilled healthcare consultant with nearly two decades of experience leading payer and provider organizations through a variety of complex technology projects. He provides strategic counsel on issues ranging from data integration and Health Information Exchange (HIE) to population health management and IT system selection and implementation.
Howard has deep expertise in healthcare IT integration, including Health Level 7 (HL7) messaging and HIE projects. Prior to joining Cumberland, Howard was a manager at Accenture, where he helped architect a successful nationwide health information network prototype. In addition, his experience includes serving healthcare clients through roles at Capgemini and EY.

Richard founded Leverage Health Solutions in 2007 (formerly The Lungen Group) as a means to effectively provide Healthcare Growth Services on behalf of leading healthcare service companies to the healthcare market..

Prior to founding The Lungen Group in 2007, Richard was SVP of Business Development at HealthPlan Services, a leading BPO firm servicing health plans where he was responsible for record sales.

She has been serving as the Director since 2014. Her main role and her passion are to engage communities in the decision making process to create a healthy, thriving community.

She strives to ensure that health is represented in every community conversation and decision. The national trend is to forge strong public-private partnerships to tackle the health priorities of a community.

Clay Marsh, MD, is West Virginia University’s chief health officer, and serves as a member of President E. Gordon Gee’s leadership team. As WVU’s vice president for health sciences, he oversees five health sciences schools and three health campuses, and serves on the governing boards that determine policy and priorities for WVU Medicine and its component organizations.

Tony Miller Bind CEO Tony Miller’s passion for the health care system to be designed by consumers comes from his mother. The matriarch of a blue-collar family, she would often tell physicians how she wanted all of her children to be treated while referencing her ever-present Grey’s Anatomy Handbook. His impatience and irreverence with the status quo led him to co-found Definity Health in the late 1990’s. He pioneered consumer-driven health care because he passionately believes that changing the financing of health care holds the key to redesigning our broken system.

Brendan O’Connor is Director of Business Development at Quantified Ventures, where he brings deep healthcare consulting, project management, and advocacy experience, as well as a demonstrated track record of developing and advancing strategic relationships among parties with differing priorities — a necessity in the world of impact investing. In this role, Brendan focuses on identifying best-in-class opportunities that can tap into impact capital by way of outcomes-based financing strategies, in order to achieve scale and maximize outcomes for individuals and communities.

Upon Joining Horizon BCBSNJ, Mr. O’Hara served as the director of two innovations teams at Horizon BCBSNJ, building programs for Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and Episodes of Care (EOC). These programs are designed to yield improved patient outcomes while efficiently using health care resources. Today, these programs include more than 750,000 Horizon BCBSNJ members, over 20 hospitals and thousands of physicians.

Dawn Owens is President of TripleTree, a healthcare investment bank and principal investor. Dawn leverages 25+ years of experience, including CEO of OptumHealth, to advise and invest in innovative and high-growth healthcare technology and services businesses.

Mike is responsible for coordinating the strategic planning process for NCH working closely with the Board of Trustees, Senior Leadership and Physician Leadership in this development of short and long range strategic plans.

He is also responsible for executing and implementing major strategic initiatives which have included the Mayo Clinic Care Network affiliation with Mayo Clinic, the Blue Zone Initiative, and the development of several services including the growth of the NCH Physician Group and other products and service lines provided by NCH.

Keith Roberts, Vice President –Engagement as a Service (EaaS) at Change Healthcare is responsible for leading the discovery, development and deployment of A.I. based innovations to inspire a better health healthcare system through consumer engagement. EaaS operates at the intersection of data science, behavioral science and experience design to deliver the last mile of desired consumer behavior on behalf of our payer and provider clientele.

Kyle  is Co-Founder and President of Bright Health, a new health insurance startup serving the individual marketplace. Kyle was also the Founder of RedBrick Health and CEO of Definity Health. Kyle earned his M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota.

Justin Roth leads Investment Banking at TripleTree. Justin joined the firm as a Managing Director in 2012, serving clients across the healthcare services and technology markets and leading the firm’s business development efforts. In addition to his M&A background, Justin held a number of executive leadership positions in healthcare and brings strong industry and operating experience to his role at TripleTree.

MARK A. RYLE, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer – Project Open Hand: Mark Ryle is an astute businessman with the soul of a social worker. His globe-trotting, high-pressure years in corporate finance – juxtaposed with his heart-stringing-and-boot-strap-pulling together of the nonprofit vision and mission as current CEO of Project Open Hand — reinforce a career foundation as a skilled and results-driven executive. Mark’s devotion to serving the critically ill began while a University of Texas student in 1985, when his best friend was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Although the illness was new and frightening, a commitment to helping the vulnerable was familiar.

Ferris Taylor was recently chosen as the Executive Director of the Health Care Executive Group (HCEG), where he has served on the board for 14 years. HCEG is a national network of select executives from across healthcare coming together to continually learn, grow, share and reshape the industry. Taylor until recently was Chief Strategy and Chief Operating Officer at Arches Health Plan, a non-profit member-governed health insurance company that had been providing health plan options to 80,000 individual and group members throughout Utah. Unfortunately, Arches is one of the many CO-OPs who are being shut down by CMS and he is working as a consultant to wind down the Arches operations. Taylor brings more than 40 years of business leadership including 30 years in health care, technology and consulting services to his executive roles.

Tom oversees strategies that bring new solutions to market; the BCBSMN Foundation; community health, social responsibility strategies & community relations initiatives.

Prior to joining Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota in 2017, Vanderheyden held multiple leadership roles over the course of 13 years at UnitedHealth Group (UHG).

Jim VanderMey is the Chief Innovation Officer for OST. As one of the founders of OST, Jim has provided technical and strategic leadership to the organization since the beginning. He specializes in seeing the “big picture” of technology, the computer industry, and the business objectives supported by IT. As OST has gained an international reputation, Jim has taught and spoken at conferences in Europe, Japan, and throughout North America.

Brenda Schmidt is a social entrepreneur focused on improving quality and lowering healthcare costs through community-integrated healthcare. Solera’s technology platform connects patients, payers, and physicians with a curated network of community organizations and digital solution providers paid through medical claims. Brenda was recently recognized as the “Best Med-Tech CEO” by 2018 MedTech Breakthrough that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global health and medical technology market.

Rob Zeaske is the Chief Executive Officer of Second Harvest Heartland, one of the nation’s largest food banks and 2014 Food Bank of the Year. Rob has overall responsibility for leadership, planning, board development and management of Second Harvest Heartland. Under Rob’s direction, Second Harvest Heartland has not only grown in size and scale, but also has earned a reputation as a national innovator and thought leader in hunger relief and nutrition.