Board Member
Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD, is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she leads investments for the firm’s bio fund across therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health, with a focus on companies that are leveraging unique datasets to improve drug development and patient care delivery. She also serves on the board of BigHat Biosciences.
Prior to joining a16z, Vineeta has held many different roles in the healthcare space: as a physician taking care of patients; as an operator at tech-driven healthcare companies; and most recently as a venture investor on the GV (Google Ventures) life sciences team, focused on biotech companies with a data-driven approach. Previously, she was an early data scientist at Kyruus; a management consultant for biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device clients at McKinsey & Co; and a Director of Product Management at Flatiron Health, where she led the company’s partnership with Foundation Medicine to integrate real-world clinical and genomic data into national-scale database products to accelerate drug development and research in oncology. She has collaborated with academic researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Broad Institute, where she did graduate work in computational biology and human genetics.
Vineeta holds a B.S. in biophysics from Stanford University, and MD and PhD degrees from Harvard Medical School / MIT. She completed her clinical residency at Stanford, and is board certified in internal medicine. Vineeta continues to see patients at Stanford as an adjunct clinical professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.
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a16z
Executive Chairman
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ALLEYCORP | Groups
Board Member, CEO
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OSCAR | BRIDGEWATER
Board Member
Scott Kupor is an investing partner focused on growth-stage companies building in the bio and healthcare industries, manages the firm's investor relations team, and is responsible for the firm's growth initiatives.
Scott was the first employee at Andreessen Horowitz and managed the firm's growth from $300 million in AUM to more than $30 billion. Prior to joining the firm, Scott worked as vice president and general manager of software-as-a-service at Hewlett Packard. Before that, he held numerous executive management positions at Opsware, including senior vice president of global field operations, vice president of financial planning and vice president of corporate development. Prior to Opsware, Scott represented software companies in both financing and mergers and acquisitions transactions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Lehman Brothers.
Scott is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It, and serves on the boards of Cedar, Headway, Foursquare, Labster, Ultima, and SnapLogic. He also served as chairman of the board for the National Venture Capital Association.
Scott graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in public policy with honors and distinction. He also holds a law degree with distinction from Stanford University and is a member of the State Bar of California.
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A16Z
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ALLEYCORP
Chief Operating Officer
Gabriel is Chief Operating Officer at Pearl Health. He was previously a leader on the Product team at Centivo. While there, he led market launches in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida and Michigan, in partnership with 14 regional health systems.
Prior to Centivo, Gabriel was an early employee at Oscar Health Insurance, where he served in a number of roles including Director of Product Operations, Chief of Staff, Interim Head of Marketing and in a Special Projects role on the Data Analytics team.
Gabriel received his A.B. in Philosophy from Harvard University. He wrote his honors thesis under the advisement of T.M. Scanlon, in which he argued for an alternative moral framework for justifying informed consent in clinical medicine.
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Chief Operating Officer
Centivo | Oscar
Chief Product Officer
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Chief Product Officer
Hint Health | Athenahealth
Chief Technology Officer
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Chief Technology Officer
Akamai
Executive Vice President, Finance and Strategy
Executive Vice President, Finance and Strategy
PSP Investments | Black Diamond Asset Management
Chief Growth Officer
Steven Duque is Chief Growth Officer at Pearl Health. He was previously Vice President of Marketing at Catalant Technologies, where he partnered with cross-functional company leaders to design and execute Catalant's go-to-market strategy and messaging, build brand awareness through thought leadership and category creation, and enable sales teams and product-led growth to efficiently generate more than 40% year-over-year revenue growth during his tenure. Prior to Catalant, Steven served as Vice President of Product and Marketing at Happie, in addition to serving in various marketing, sales, and evangelism leadership roles at Intuit and Bullhorn, among others.
Steven received his A.B. in Philosophy (primary concentration) and Sociology (secondary field) from Harvard University.
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Chief Growth Officer
Catalant | Happie
Chief Legal Officer
Jonathan E. Goldin serves as Pearl’s General Counsel. He came to Pearl from a global consulting firm, where he was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of its financial advisory business. Before working in-house, Jonathan practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He focused on representing corporations, directors and officers in litigation relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities law issues, regulatory inquiries and other complex civil matters. Jonathan began his legal career as a law clerk, first in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and then in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Jonathan is active in professional organizations, such as the New York City Bar Association and the Association of Corporate Counsel. His public service has included membership on the New York City Water Board (and its Joint Audit Committee with the New York City Water Finance Authority), the Commercial Division Advisory Council of the New York Court System, the New York Chief Judge’s Committee on Non-Lawyers and the Justice Gap and the Pro Bono Advisory Committee of the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.
Jonathan holds an A.B. from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
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Chief Legal Officer
Wachtell Lipton | Teneo
Provider Growth Associate
Sujai is an Associate of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, he co-founded NeoHealth, a startup focused on developing pharmacy management software for healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa. NeoHealth has won numerous grants and awards including 3rd place at the Michigan Business Challenge and 1st place at the China Business Challenge. Sujai also started a student organization called MedLaunch which designs assistive technology for individuals with disabilities. MedLaunch has expanded to two colleges and created 10+ technologies to assist various community partners.
Sujai is passionate about combining his experience in entrepreneurship, marketing, and design in order to address inefficiencies in the healthcare system. He received his degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan.
Associate, Customer Success
NEOHEALTH
Principal Software Engineer
Nick comes to Pearl with over 20 years of software development experience, including both early-stage startups and large enterprises. Most recently, Nick worked on scaling Tier 1 backend services at AWS and Amazon logistics. Prior to Amazon, Nick built data pipelines at VillageMD and developed proprietary data synchronization software for which he is named on two patents held by VillageMD.
Personally, Nick is passionate about emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, music, and investing. He has written three independent software patents, enjoys 3D printing, strumming guitars, and revving V-Twins and V8s. Nick earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Principal Software Engineer
VillageMD | Amazon
Senior Associate, Network Development
Lauren Black is a Senior Network Development Associate at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, Lauren spent four years working in physician development at Bendcare, focusing on bringing independent care centers around the United States into a model that prioritizes high quality patient care by leading in education and technology.
Lauren received her Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, FL, where she focused on consumer psychology and market influences.
Senior Associate, Network Development
Bendcare
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
PEGASUS
Staff Data Scientist
Devon Brackbill is a Staff Data Scientist at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Devon worked at Amazon Robotics, where he built ML systems to optimize warehouse performance, and designed autonomous robotic systems to sort packages. Before that, Devon worked at Meta where he built ML models and measurement systems to reduce the prevalence of harmful content on Instagram. Devon also worked at a health system in Camden, NJ to implement predictive models for commercial and CMS value-based care programs.
Devon completed his PhD from Penn in Computational Social Science, where he studied how individual actions give rise to group performance in collective problem-solving and consensus formation tasks. His primary interests are in simulation, causal inference, and machine learning. His research has been published in Science, PNAS and elsewhere.
Staff Data Scientist
Amazon Robotics | Facebook
Senior Manager, Network Development
Kara Briggs is a Senior Manager of Network Development at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, she worked at Humana in various roles, including physician contracting, provider engagement supporting value-based partnerships and most recently as the product owner for Humana’s population health reporting platform, providing actionable data for value-based providers to impact overall cost of care and patient outcomes.
Kara earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from The Ohio State University.
Senior Manager, Network Development
Humana
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BONFIRE | DELOITTE
Director, ACO Operations
Gillian Christie has focused her career on promoting health at the intersection of business and technology. She is currently at Pearl Health, focused on strengthening primary health through value-based models. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Gillian was previously with Circulo Health, an early-stage start-up focused on value-based primary care. She has also worked at Walmart Health on their healthcare strategy and partnerships. Gillian has advised several leading institutions, such as Intermountain Healthcare, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Bloomberg-Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Before that, she worked at the Vitality Institute (part of the South African insurer, Discovery) in New York City.
Gillian received a Doctor of Public Health from Harvard, a Master’s (MPhil) from the University of Cambridge, and a MA (Hons) from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Gillian was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.
Director, ACO Operations
Circulo Health
Vice President, Product
Lana Cohen is Vice President of Product at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Lana spent over seven years at athenahealth as a Product Leader in the Platform division working on integration strategies and patient engagement solutions.
She is passionate about enabling physicians with the right information and tools at the right time and place to achieve better outcomes — and in empowering patients to be active agents in their care. At athena, she led the rollout of “login with athenahealth” credential for patients across the athena network and numerous patient and clinician-facing app integrations, including Apple Health and several Payor integrations. Prior to her MBA, she led Product for an early-stage fintech company.
She holds a Masters in Business Administration, with a Healthcare certificate, from the MIT Sloan School of Management and B.A. in English from Clark University.
Vice President, Product
ATHENAHEALTH
Manager, Network Operations
Ben is a Manager of Performance Operations
at Pearl Health. Before joining our team, he helped stand up provider network functions at MoreCare, a Medicare Advantage start-up. Prior to MoreCare, he was on the Population Health Operations team in VillageMD’s MSSP ACO and he helped connect patients to key health resources through his time at Lawndale Christian Health Center, an FQHC.
Ben holds a BA in English from North Park University and an MTS from Duke Divinity School, where he was also a Fellow in the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative. He wrote his Master’s thesis on the role of public-private partnerships in faith-based community health centers to deliver more effective and equitable care to underserved communities.
Manager, Performance Operations
MoreCare | VillageMD
Senior Associate, Network Development
Brittany is a Senior Network Development Associate at Pearl Health. Prior to working at Pearl, Brittany spent two years working in network development at Aledade, focusing on primary care ACO development and expansion in the Mid-Atlantic region. She is passionate in promoting health equity for all, eliminating health disparities among marginalized groups, and introducing physicians to value-based care.
Brittany received her Bachelor’s of Science in Public Health Science from the University of Maryland, where she studied life sciences and public health. She is currently pursuing her Master’s of Science in Health Informatics Administration. She resides in Maryland and is a huge fan of the Washington Commanders. After work, you can find her in the gym working out, in the kitchen cooking, or searching for her next travel destination.
Senior Associate, Network Development
Aledade
Director of Product Partnerships & Operations
Kelly is the Director of Product Partnerships and Operations at Pearl Health. She was previously at Clover Health, where she managed the Strategic Technologies Portfolio of programs for the organization. While at Clover, she led several system implementations and focused on optimizations of the technology ecosystem.
Prior to Clover, Kelly held a number of roles at Arcadia.io, from implementation and account management, to sales engineer. She spent the early part of her career in healthcare consulting, gaining exposure to care delivery systems, safety net hospitals, and government application programs. These experiences ignited her passion for public health and health policy, and her interest in helping physicians better serve patients.
Kelly holds a Master of Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University.
Director, Product Partnerships & Operations
CLOVER | ARCADIA
Senior Director of Growth Strategy & Operations
Holly is Senior Director of Growth Strategy & Operations at Pearl Health. She previously worked in Strategy & Financial Planning for Mount Sinai Health Partners, where she partnered with cross-functional leadership to design and implement primary care physician incentive programs tied to value-based care outcomes, created funds flow distribution models for shared savings generated in value-based contracts, and contributed to multi-year strategic planning efforts.
Holly also built out the financial operations for Mount Sinai Health Partners from the ground up, and led the annual build of the business's $50MM+ operating budget in partnership with company leadership. Prior to Sinai, she worked at an investment bank on the Healthcare Coverage team. Holly received her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College.
Senior Director, Growth Strategy & Operations
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH PARTNERS
Head of Technical Operations & Security
Russell Fowles is Head of Technical Operations & Security at Pearl Health. Russell comes to Pearl with expertise in building and scaling security-focused Technical Operations teams from the ground up at high growth companies. He has over a decade of experience in his field and is passionate about securing technical infrastructure in a way that does not impede innovation.
Prior to Pearl, Russell was Head of Technical Operations at TrialSpark. As the first Technical Operations team member, he laid the foundation for long term growth through the deployment of scalable systems, automation, and workflows. Before joining TrialSpark, Russell was an early employee at Oscar, where he served as the first Director of Information Technology. Other previous experience includes Spotify and adMarketplace where he worked in similar roles.
Although they’ve seen better days, Russell is a die-hard fan of the University of South Carolina football team. A native South Carolinian, Russell moved to New York City a little over a decade ago. He currently resides in Park Slope with his wife and two sons and can usually be found chasing the older one on his scooter in Prospect Park.
Head of Technical Operations & Security
TRIALSPARK | OSCAR
Director, Network Development
Amy is a Director of Network Development at Pearl Health. Previously, she was on teams at Sunovion, athenahealth and Baxter BioScience, working with clinicians, care teams and hospital administration. Amy collaborated across healthcare teams to improve patient outcomes and workflows while growing revenue and managing spend.
Amy grew up in Burlington, VT, was a professional ballerina and holds a BA in English from Siena College.
Director, Network Development
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals | athenahealth
Senior Manager, Customer Success & Growth
Charles is Senior Manager of ACO Operations & Strategy at Pearl Health. He previously worked in Strategy and Innovation at naviHealth where he designed and launched new programs in post-acute care for Medicare Advantage customers. He was also responsible for working with external partners and exploring collaboration opportunities for naviHealth. Prior to naviHealth and while in business school, Charles worked for two healthcare-focused venture funds, identifying and executing on early-stage investment opportunities in healthcare services and IT.
The son of a physician and a nurse, Charles has a passion for improving the patient and provider experience. He received his B.A. in Government and History from the University of Virginia and MBA from Vanderbilt University. Outside of the office you can find him jamming with his family band.
Senior Manager, ACO Operations & Strategy
NAVIHEALTH
Staff Software Engineer
Emma is a Staff Software Engineer at Pearl Health. She previously worked at edX, where she led a team of engineers to maintain the business-critical ecommerce component. While there, she redesigned ecommerce monitoring and alerting to focus on business impact with the goal of alerting when, and only when, a business critical issue arose. Prior to edX, Emma worked at Catalant and Happy Software, where she established a new product line, Rehab Pro Direct.
Emma holds a bachelors in Computer Science from Brandeis University.
Staff Software Engineer
EDX | CATALANT
Senior Associate, Network Development
Richard Harris is a Senior Network Development Associate at Pearl Health. Prior to working at Pearl, Richard spent nearly four years working in network development at L.A. Care Health Plan, focusing on providing access to quality health care for Los Angeles County’s vulnerable and low-income communities and residents. He is passionate in building and maintaining adequate networks, enhancing the provider experience, and promoting an equal quality of care to all communities.
Outside of focusing on his career, you will find Richard checking out an amusement park, recording music, or diving into new creative projects.
Senior Associate, Network Development
L.A. Care Health Plan
Product Manager
Vishwa is a Product Manager at Pearl Health. He previously worked at athenahealth where he enabled the providers to easily integrate their mission critical devices with athenahealth's EHR by partnering with manufacturers. While at athenahealth, he was also responsible for a developer productivity tool that greatly cut down the time for code deployment.
He received his MBA and MS in Information Systems from Boston University and Bachelors in Telecommunications Engineering from Bangalore Institute of Technology, India.
Product Manager
ATHENAHEALTH
Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer
edX | Apple
Vice President, Enterprise Partnerships
Angie is Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships at Pearl Health. She is a seasoned growth leader with more than 25 years of experience in healthcare, having worked at many notable companies in the hospital, payer and provider sector, as well as the digital health and technology sector.
Before joining Pearl Health, Angie was the Chief Growth Officer at Imaware and served as VP of Business Development at Genome Medical. She also led enterprise sales at TigerConnect and was a senior sales executive at Athenahealth.
Angie is a native Californian and enjoys mentoring young minds through coaching sports.
Vice President, Enterprise Partnerships
ATHENAHEALTH | Tiger Connect
Head of Data Science
Peter Jamieson is the Head of Data Science at Pearl Health. Peter has extensive experience leading data science teams in both the healthcare and financial services industries. Prior to joining Pearl, he ran the DS team for Poloniex, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, focusing on issues related to security, risk, and financial performance. Before that, he worked as a consultant with BCG Gamma, Boston Consulting Group’s data science and advanced analytics practice, supporting clients in the pharmaceutical and insurance verticals, among others. In addition, he spent several years overseeing athenahealth’s population health and patient engagement data science efforts. He is passionate about helping businesses leverage cutting-edge technologies to make smarter decisions and serve their customers better.
Peter holds a BA in Mathematics, magna cum laude from Carleton College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Head of Data Science
POLONIEX | BCG GAMMA | ATHENAHEALTH
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Dialexa
Director, Network Development
Andrew is a Director of Network Development at Pearl. Prior to joining our team, he built and led growth teams at athenahealth, NeuroFlow and Elevate Women's Health. Andrew also has great clinical experience as a 9-1-1 paramedic, which has provided him with a unique and impassioned lens for the much-needed shift to value and risk-based modeling.
A Virginia Beach native, and Boston resident for over 15 years, Andrew currently resides in Denver, where he enjoys the great outdoors, ample snowfall, and surprisingly great sushi.
Director, Network Development
ATHENAHEALTH
Data Analyst
Rebecca Kee is a Data Analyst at Pearl Health. Rebecca has extensive experience as a researcher in health economics and outcomes research, with work spanning multiple disease areas. Prior to joining Pearl, Rebecca was a part of the Advanced Modeling team at PRECISIONheor where she performed data analyses on healthcare claims and survey datasets, and built statistical models and web-based user interfaces.
Rebecca holds a BA with Magna Cum Laude in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and is currently pursuing a MS in Analytics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Data Analyst
PRECISIONheor
Director, Product Marketing
Director, Product Marketing
TALA | CATALANT
IT Engineer
Brad is an IT Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, he worked for several healthcare startups, including Vault Health and Haven Healthcare, where he helped grow their IT departments from the ground up.
Brad holds a BS in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and a MS in Cyber Security from Southern New Hampshire University. Outside of the office, you can find him spending time with his wife and daughter, reading and exploring the New England area.
IT Engineer
Vault Health | Haven Healthcare
Software Engineer
Kelsi is a software engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, she worked as a mobile developer at Walmart Global Tech. There she developed apps to support the associates in stores.
Kelsi holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from Harding University.
Software Engineer
Walmart
Principal Product Manager
Morgan is a Principal Product Manager at Pearl Health. He is a healthcare boomerang – after starting his career as a software developer, he moved to Product at athenahealth on the Clinical Interoperability team. Morgan then moved to ecommerce at Wayfair, where he led the Search team and developed expertise creating data-driven scalable ML solutions. After a leadership stint at JuniperMarket, Morgan is excited to be back in healthcare, using cutting edge technology to ensure better care for both patients and their providers.
Outside the office, he can generally be found hiking, at a bakery, or playing with his two dogs. Morgan holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
Principal Product Manager
athenahealth | Wayfair
Senior Product Manager
Alana Levy is a Senior Product Manager at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Alana spent six years at Flatiron Health, working in Product Operations, Program Management, and Sales. She was responsible for developing and launching oncology software products that helped deliver quality care to cancer patients, and closed several of Flatiron’s largest software deals with community oncology practices around the country.
Alana was previously on the founding team of Crediyo, a healthcare technology startup that aimed to simplify the financial experience for patients and improve payment outcomes for providers. Prior to Crediyo, Alana served as a Sales Consultant at Oscar Health.
Alana holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, an MPH from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA from Cornell University. A former Division I track and field athlete, she now runs competitively for Brooklyn Track Club’s Performance Team and is hoping to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Team Trials in the marathon.
Senior Product Manager
FLATIRON | OSCAR
Director, Demand Generation
Lishen is the Director of Demand Generation at Pearl Health. Before joining the Pearl team, he was the Director of Demand Generation at G2, where he oversaw global marketing pipeline generation. Prior to working at G2, Lishen specialized in paid search and display marketing in both in-house and agency settings. Lishen received a B.A. in Urban Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. When not at work, you’ll find him spending time with his wife and daughter and mentoring college students at Purdue University.
Director, Demand Generation
G2
Manager, Growth Operations
Prior to joining Pearl, Kelly was Strategy and Operations Manager at StayMarquis, a vacation rental company. Taking all his previous experience working in high-growth tech startups, he partnered with the founders to build out sales operations from the ground up, streamlined workflows with cross-functional teams, owned the entire client onboarding, deployed marketing campaigns, and many other projects. Kelly has also worked across various operational and sales roles within Policygenius and Oscar Health.
Outside of the office, you can find Kelly hiking along the beautiful state parks of Upstate New York, going on road trips or cooking with his family.
Manager, Growth Operations
StayMarquis | Oscar Health
Manager, Software Development
Leo is Software Development Manager at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Leo was an Engineering Manager at Vendr, where he managed and led a team of engineers improving lead generation and pricing insights, and helped scale the Engineering organization.
Prior to Vendr, Leo was an Engineering Lead at Simply Business, where he managed and led a team of engineers integrating new insurance products.
Leo received his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Manager, Software Development
Vendor | Simply Business
Executive Office Manager
Molly is the Executive Office Manager at Pearl Health. Aside from leading the day-to-day operations of the executive office, she provides leverage for recruiting, events and team operations. Prior to joining Pearl Health, Molly’s career has been focused in wealth / investment management and luxury hospitality, eventually merging the two in a unique role encompassing her passions for project management, administrative support, event planning, and fostering a healthy work environment.
Molly received her B.A. in Communication Studies from University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Executive Office Manager
BRIDGEWATER
Head of ACO Operations
Michael Monsegur is Head of ACO Operations at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Michael served as the Senior Director of the Medicare ACO Programs at Steward Health Care Network where he ran the largest MSSP in the country. His value-based care experience stems from achieving improved quality outcomes at lower costs for over 160,000 Medicare FFS patients annually. Prior to MSSP, he managed Steward’s other CMS risk models, most notably the NGACO and BPCIA. Prior to Steward, he worked at a boutique healthcare management consulting firm as an analyst and program manager.
Michael received his B.A. in Economics and his M.B.A. in Healthcare Administration from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Head of ACO Operations
STEWARD
Head of Customer Success
Elizabeth is the Head of Customer Success at Pearl Health. Prior to Pearl, she worked at UnitedHealthcare, where she partnered with providers to deliver successful outcomes in value based care and risk arrangements. She also managed workstreams surrounding contract execution and fulfillment while acting as liaison for hospital and physician groups in downstate New York.
At Oscar Health Insurance, Elizabeth managed the out-of-network contracting process across all markets, prior to transitioning to a focus on engagement with hospital partners. Before working in managed care, she oversaw business development and recruiting operations at Premier Talent where she partnered with early stage companies to develop both agile workforces, and the Operations, HR, Administrative, and Sales talent required to support growth and expansion.
Elizabeth received her B.A. in English Language & Literature from Southeastern University.
Head of Customer Success
OSCAR | UNITED HEALTHCARE
Network Development
Khrisendat is a Manager of Software Engineering at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, he served as the technical lead of the data warehousing and analytics team at ListenFirst. There he helped to design and build the data warehouse and external analytics APIs.
Khrisendat holds a Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from CCNY.
Manager, Software Engineering
LISTENFIRST MEDIA
Director, Network Development
John started his healthcare career as a managed care analyst for Northwell Health where he was involved in various roles contributing to revenue growth, initially in managed care contracting, to sales for CareConnect (Northwell’s MCO startup) and lastly to physician alignment activities. From Northwell Health, John was recruited by Affinity Health Plan to optimize their provider network ahead of the plan’s sale to Molina Healthcare. John then spent time as an independent consultant doing network development work for OptumServe and managed care contracting for the advisory firm PayrAdvisors.
John has lived in New York City throughout his entire life. Originally born in Brooklyn, John grew up in the Belle Harbor section of Queens and still lives there today.
Director, Network Development
AFFINITY HEALTH | NORTHWELL HEALTH
Data Scientist
Nellie Ponarul is a Data Scientist at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Nellie worked at Ankura Consulting where she performed data analytics on large healthcare claims and financial datasets for class action lawsuits. She also worked as a research assistant in the Onnela Lab at Harvard where she worked with smartphone data for biomedical research and oversaw collaboration with clinical research teams.
Nellie holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles and a MS in Health Data Science from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Data Scientist
ANKURA CONSULTING
Vice President of Recruiting
Stephen is Vice President of Recruiting at Pearl Health. He previously led Talent Acquisition and HR Service Delivery at VillageMD, where he oversaw the hiring of over 1000 new employees across Technology, Clinical, and Corporate departments.
Prior to VillageMD, Stephen worked at FTD Companies where he managed technical recruitment, and at CyberCoders where he supported technology startups on the agency side as an Executive Recruiter.
Stephen received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters Degree from California Institute of the Arts, and most recently a Masters Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Bradley University.
Vice President of Recruiting
VILLAGEMD
Head of Network Operations
Lauren Prial is Head of Performance Operations at Pearl Health.
Prior to joining Pearl, Lauren was at Oscar Health where she held a number of strategy and operations leadership roles, including building Oscar’s Payment Integrity program from the ground-up. Most recently, Lauren led strategy, special projects, and business operations for Oscar’s Member Programs (Virtual Care, Population Health, Pharmacy, and Behavioral Health). She is passionate about tackling high-impact problems, building new things, and developing people.
Outside of work, Lauren loves to cook, cycle, and spend time with her husband and their energetic dog, Benji.
Lauren received her B.A. in English with a minor in History from the University of Virginia.
Head of Performance Operations
OSCAR
Head Actuary
Li Qiu is Head Actuary at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl Health, Li led the Medicare Advantage (MA) Actuarial team at Oscar Health as its founding team lead, helping to stand up the capabilities of the MA actuarial team such as bid development, valuation, forecasting and strategic initiatives. Prior to Oscar, Li was an early employee at Clover Health, where he developed the internal SQL/Python based MA pricing model and came to own many aspects of MA pricing. He began his career with Cigna, and graduated from the Actuarial Executive Development Program.
Li holds a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with honors, summa cum laude from Hamilton College.
Head Actuary
OSCAR | CLOVER
Market Success Manager
Radhey Raval is the Market Success Manager at Pearl Health. She previously served as a Quality Improvement Consultant for the Clinically Integrated Network at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where she focused on achieving practice transformation under both commercial and Medicaid value-based arrangements in the ambulatory care setting. Prior to Lurie Children’s, Radhey served as a Healthcare Consultant at Blue Cottage Consulting specializing in strategy, operations and facility planning.
Radhey holds an MHA from University of Illinois Chicago and a B.S. in Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience from The University of Michigan.
Manager, Customer Success
LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Director, Brand Design
Jared is a brand strategist and the Director of Brand Design at Pearl Health. With a background in design management and a B.S. in Communications from Fitchburg State University, Jared brings a wealth of experience and passion to the table. He has a proven track record of success, having led a successful corporate rebrand and improved digital marketing, client communications, and trial demonstratives at a global economics consulting firm.
Jared is not just a brand strategist, but a mentor and a teacher who has helped train and guide many brand designers and marketers. His passion for designing and communicating company values, conducting comprehensive interviews, weaponizing thought leadership, and building engaging experiences for audiences is unrivaled. He excels at data visualization and works collaboratively across teams and specialties to bring brands to life ways that resonate with their audiences — be it through interactive experiences, personalized reports, engaging content, or other methods.
Director, Brand Design
BRATTLE | CATALANT
Senior Associate, Recruiting Operations
Mary is a Senior Associate with our Recruiting Operations team. Prior to Pearl Health, she worked as a recruiting coordinator at AWS and Etsy.
Mary received her B.A. in Communication Studies from Christopher Newport University and her Juris Master in Employment and Labor Relations from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
A native of Northern Virginia, just outside of the D.C. area, Mary currently resides in Florida. After work, you can find her coaching kids’ soccer, at the dog park with her dog, Franklin, or refurbishing furniture in her garage.
Senior Associate, Recruiting Operations
AWS | ETSY
Senior Software Engineer
Sonali Rosete is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Sonali worked with an early stage digital health company, building data pipelines to personalize and scale a digital health coaching mobile and web app.
Sonali holds a BS in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech and an MA in Biostatistics from University of California, Berkeley.
Senior Software Engineer
O'REILLY MEDIA | SEVEN.ME
Director, Growth Partnerships
Justus comes to Pearl as an expert in practice transformation, value-based contracting, and primary care operations. Throughout his career he’s worked with over 300 independent physicians, helping them deploy technology, streamline workflows, & achieve success in value based contracts.
Previous to Pearl Justus was a market operations lead for Stellar Health, managing operations & supporting product development across both payer & provider relationships. His previous experience also includes Clover Health, where he was a leader in the launch of the Clover Assistant platform, and Cigna-Healthspring / CareAllies in Nashville, TN.
Depending on the season, outside of work you’ll find Justus either hiking in the Adirondacks or skiing on the West coast.
Director, Growth Partnerships
STELLAR HEALTH | CLOVER
Senior Associate, Network Development
Eric is a Senior Network Development Associate at Pearl. Prior to joining our team, he spent time in both sales and management roles at DrFirst. Eric also has experience as a Pastor, Professor and Undercover Investigator.
An Arizona native, he enjoys mountain biking, waterskiing, basketball, running, and surfing.
Senior Associate, Network Development
DrFirst
Director, Network Development
Bri is a Director of Network Development at Pearl. Prior to joining our team, she held roles at AccessDx, Avanir and Encompass Health developing cross-functional teams to improve patient outcomes and workflows, while providing expert level education and growing revenue. Bri has great clinical experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist, which has provided her with a unique perspective and passion for the shift to the value-based care model in patient care. She holds an MBA from the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business, and a Master’s in Communication Sciences and Disorders, as well as Master’s in Education from USC.
Director, Network Development
Avanir Pharmaceuticals | Encompass Health
Director, Network Development
Zeeshawn is Director of Network Development at Pearl Health. He previously worked for Apricus Health developing new markets for their DCE program in Texas and Florida. He worked directly with the COO to introduce the DCE model and implement operations with new groups. Zeeshawn entered into the value based contracting arena while working for Southwestern Health Resources, specifically network development of independent specialist groups to the ACO network for SWHR.
Prior to his roles in healthcare, Zeeshawn was a tennis professional at The Greenbrier and Cincinnati Tennis Club. Medicine and healthcare were always in the family for Zeeshawn. His father is a vascular surgeon, and his brother is a sports medicine physician. Through their experiences, there have been many discussions about ways in which healthcare delivery can be improved upon.
Zeeshawn received his B.S. in Psychology from Xavier University and played tennis for their team. Outside of healthcare, you can find him pursuing his passion for playing golf.
Director, Network Development
APRICUS HEALTH
Senior Manager, Network Development
Becca is a Senior Manager of Network Development at Pearl Health. Prior to joining the team at Pearl, she held leadership and sales positions at Mindpath Health and Encompass Health, working with providers and patients to increase access and quality of care. She excels at team building and has experience leading a large national sales team, utilizing data and implementing processes to enhance productivity and drive growth.
Becca was born and raised in South Carolina, where she currently resides with her husband and their two dogs. She enjoys having Lake Murray in her backyard for recreation and travels to scuba dive as often as possible.
Senior Manager, Network Development
Mindpath Health
Software Engineer
Aaron Spindler is a Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, he worked at a third-party fulfillment startup and a federal government agency, with a focus on streamlining processes and eliminating bottlenecks with the use of technology.
Aaron holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
Software Engineer
SHIPPINGTREE
Manager, Growth Operations
Jennifer is a Growth Operations Manager at Pearl. Prior to joining our team, she was employed in Revenue Operations at Achievers, a high-growth employee recognition and engagement software company. Jennifer was responsible for the development of data-driven insights that support strategic and organizational initiatives to foster growth. She has also worked as an auditor at Ernst & Young, gaining exposure to business processes in a myriad of industries.
Jennifer is a licensed CPA, CA, holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting & Finance from the University of Waterloo.
Manager, Growth Operations
Ernst & Young | Achievers
Senior Associate, Network Development
Megan is a Senior Network Development Associate at Pearl Health. Prior to working at Pearl, Megan focused on network development, account management and sales outreach for both Mindpath Health and Agape Care. She also spent time with Capgemini, assisting with software customization and implementation.
Megan received her Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from Anderson University, where she concentrated in Business Marketing and was a Track and Field NCAA athlete. She resides in South Carolina, ,just a two hour drive from both the beach and mountains. Outside the office, you can find Megan exercising, spending time with friends, and planning her next travel destination.
Senior Associate, Network Development
Agape Care | Mindpath Health
Director of Product Design
Moses is the Director of Product Design at Pearl Health. He joined our team to continue his mission of leveraging design to influence and shape the healthcare industry — towards one where every patient receives the care and experience they deserve.
Prior to Pearl Health, Moses spent more than fifteen years working with different startups, honing his abilities in design and shaping his leadership acumen. From early stage ones like Truepill and Handshake, to larger ones like LinkedIn — Moses is drawn to both problems and the people that deliver true impact and user outcomes.
Director of Product Design
Versed | TruePill
Product Designer
Ben is a Product Designer at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, he worked as a designer at Infosys/Wongdoody. There he worked on a variety of internal and client-facing UX/UI projects including those within the domains of telecommunications, finance, and healthcare. His primary aim is to be a staunch user advocate with the goal of creating innovative and research-backed solutions.
Ben holds a BA in Anthropology and Hispanic Studies from Bowdoin College. Outside of the office, you can find him cooking or exploring the urban fabric and marveling at 20th-century architecture.
Product Designer
Infosys
Director, User Experience Research
Suzanne Velez is the Director of User Experience Research at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Suzanne spent four years at Foundation Medicine as an Experience Design leader; while there, she spearheaded deep qualitative investigations aimed at uncovering insights and strategic opportunities to align and better support people with late-stage cancer, their healthcare providers, and their clinical care teams. These research insights informed the design of products and services meant to equip oncologists with targeted genomic insights, enable better treatment decisions, simplify workflows, and improve overall cancer care.
Suzanne brings over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of social science and design, with a particular passion for mission-driven initiatives that can effect systemic change and have a meaningful impact on people’s health, well-being, satisfaction, and overall quality of life. Her work experience extends into the evidence-based design of healthcare environments, the strategic planning of educational facilities to support 21st-century learning, and the design of accessible consumer products that consider people’s differing abilities and life stages.
She holds an M.S. in Applied Research from Cornell University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.
Director, User Experience Research
FOUNDATION MEDICINE | THE MEME DESIGN
Senior Data Engineer
Samuel is Senior Data Engineer at Pearl Health. He was previously a data engineer at IBM Canada, where he helped to build data pipelines to integrate customer and product usage data to provide a 360 view of the customers. Prior to IBM Canada, Samuel worked as data engineer at Toronto Star, and Scotiabank. These data engineering experiences in different industries have given Samuel exposure to different types of data, as well as different data stacks, from Hadoop to data warehouse on cloud, and DevOps tools like Kubernetes, Docker and Jenkins.
Samuel received both his Bachelors of Applied Science and Masters of Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Senior Data Engineer
IBM
Senior Software Engineer
Jason is a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, he was a Sr. Software Engineer at Amicus, where he rebuilt the back-end from the ground up. Before that he spent a decade at PolicyStat, learning the trade and developing into a Senior Software Engineer
Jason generally has twitch.tv open as background noise while he works. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University.
Senior Software Engineer
Amicus
Associate, Network Development
Laura is a Network Development Associate at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, Laura worked as a member of the Market Development Team at ParetoHealth, the country's largest group benefits captive manager. In this role, she identified and established partnerships with consultants in various regions to enable employers to take control of their healthcare spend while delivering the highest quality care. During her time there, she gained a unique perspective into the healthcare industry, including cost management, risk financing, and the importance of primary care physicians.
Laura received her Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communications at Elon University, where she studied public relations and business administration. She currently resides in Philadelphia and enjoys exploring new restaurants throughout the city.
Associate, Network Development
ParetoHealth
Data Analyst
Allison Wiggins is a Data Analyst at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Allison was a Senior Associate Strategy Specialist at J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management where she performed macroeconomic research and data analysis to drive investment insights for clients and the firm's leadership team. Allison also works as a data analytics consultant for Gotham FC, where she helps the team make data-driven tactical and financial decisions.
Allison holds a BA in Statistics with a focus in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Harvard College.
Data Analyst
JPMorgan Chase & Co
Senior Data Scientist
Danny Wudka is a Data Scientist at Pearl Health with over a decade of experience in healthcare analytics in building clinical products, improving decisions, and optimizing operations. Prior to joining Pearl, he helped scale and improve care delivery at Carbon Health.
Danny holds a BS in Neuroscience from University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters in Information and Data Science from University of California, Berkeley.
Senior Data Scientist
Carbon Health | Kaiser Permanente
Senior Manager, Customer Success
Zane is a Senior Manager of Customer Success Operations at Pearl Health. Prior to joining our team, she was Customer Success Operations Manager at Komodo Health, where she supported a CS team of 85, managed renewal analytics and workstreams, and served as co-chair for the women’s affinity group. She has also worked for New York Genome Center, Remedy Partners and Roivant Sciences.
Zane holds an A.B. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, where she was president of the Strategy and Operations Club. Outside of work, you can find her training and teaching on the flying trapeze in New York City.
Senior Manager, Customer Success Operations
Komodo Health
Data Analyst
Jillian is a Data Analyst at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, Jillian was responsible for supporting and scaling data analytics and reporting for Invitae’s biopharma partnerships. Prior to Invitae, Jillian was at GSK in the Technology Future Leaders Program, and had a variety of rotations spanning R&D data science collaborations, digital marketing, and commercial operations.
Jillian received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. Outside of the office, you’ll find her hiking the Bay Area trails or training for her next marathon.
Data Analyst
Invitae
Senior Manager, Customer Success
Sybil is a Customer Success Manager at Pearl Health. Before joining Pearl, she headed up population health operations within a large multi-specialty clinic in Charlotte, NC, where her efforts were focused on building out high-risk care management programming to support the group’s varied value-based arrangements, including Advanced Medical Home, Medicare Advantage and MSSP. Prior to this, Sybil served as a field operations leader with Aledade where she led a team of transformation experts who empowered primary care providers and systems to adopt new tools, technology and operational changes in the ACO’s risk-arrangements, primarily MSSP.
Sybil lives in western NC with her partner, 4 kids, and 2 fur babies. In her free time she enjoys yoga, gardening, and sewing.
Senior Manager, Customer Success
Tryon Medical Partners | Aledade
Software Engineer
Tal Zaken is a Software Engineer at Pearl Health. Prior to joining Pearl, Tal worked for the NYC Department of Sanitation, where he developed citywide composting programs, managed data for an emergency food delivery program and oversaw reporting of NYC's annual recycling statistics.
Tal holds a BA in English Literature from Brandeis University.
Software Engineer
NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY)
Senior Software Engineer
Steven is a senior software engineer at Pearl Health. He previously worked at Verafin and Amazon. As part of the targeting platform team at Amazon, he designed and implemented an anomaly detection system for customer segments which led to an improvement in catching data pipeline issues. As part of the security development team at Verafin, he led the re-architecture of a critical internal application from a monolithic to a microservice based design.
Steven holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Masters of Computer Science from the University of Toronto, with a thesis focused on Human Computer Interaction.
Senior Software Engineer
VERAFIN | AMAZON
Senior Clinical Advisor
Dr. Berg is Pearl’s Senior Clinical Advisor. Cameron received his BA from Pomona College, his MD with honors from The George Washington University School of Medicine, and then completed specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Stanford. He worked as an emergency physician while developing an interest in population health, and cultivated a passion for disambiguating complicated workflows.
Cameron suffered major injuries in 2020, when he was hit by a car while bicycling to work; the resulting traumatic brain injury prevented him from returning to clinical work, and his personal experiences with healthcare reinforced his commitment to physician/patient-centered care.
Senior Clinical Advisor
Clinical Innovation
Dr. David Berg is President and Co-Founder of Redirect Health, a national healthcare innovation company and key Pearl Health Anchor Partner. Prior to co-founding Redirect Health, Dr. Berg established and maintained successful healthcare clinics both in Canada and the United States.
At Redirect Health, Dr. Berg leverages decades of healthcare leadership experience to make healthcare simple and affordable for businesses across the country. Dr. Berg is the author of The Business Owner’s Guide to Ending the Fight with Healthcare, a how-to guide that helps business owners leverage healthcare as a competitive advantage. In 2018, the Phoenix Business Journal honored Dr. Berg with the “Healthcare Heroes Innovator Award” for creating a transformative healthcare member experience that eliminates barriers for people to get affordable healthcare. Dr. Berg was also the finalist for three best-in-class awards at the 2018 World Health Care Congress in Washington DC.
Dr. Berg holds degrees in Physics and Biology from the University of Toronto as well as a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College.
Clinical Innovation
REDIRECT HEALTH
Healthcare Innovation
Fay Rotenberg Bush is the CEO of Firefly Health. She brings dynamic experience as a Healthcare CEO, Venture Investor, Founder, and Developer with a background in distributed systems to her role on Pearl’s Advisory Board.
Prior to Firefly, Fay worked with Premji Invest to initiate their U.S. healthcare growth equity investments, including Devoted Health and Grand Rounds. Fay co-founded and served as CEO of Mymo, a healthcare technology company that bridges the gap between excess physician capacity and patient demand. Before co-founding Mymo, Fay was a Partner at LG’s venture fund where she invested in health and enterprise software companies and spearheaded the firm’s activity as a Limited partner in early-stage venture funds. She also led the first product spin-off of AetherWorks, a software-defined storage solution for healthcare and finance companies. She began her career as an Analyst and Associate for Venture funds in MA, CA, and DC.
Fay attended Georgetown University and Phillips Academy Andover. She’s actively involved as an Advisor or Board Member of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Cornell Tech, Phillips Academy Andover, Masschallenge, Girls Who Code, and the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
Healthcare Innovation
FIREFLY HEALTH
Business Strategy
Chelsea Cooper is an Advisor at Pearl Health. She also currently serves as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Oscar Health, where she has held leadership roles in partnerships, strategy, and operations, and led a Care Delivery organization of 400+ people across Concierge, Complex Case Management, Telemedicine, Oscar Clinic, and Population Health & Strategy teams. Prior to joining Oscar Health, Chelsea served in general management and operations leadership at technology companies Hired, Uber, and Samasource, and developed deep investment banking experience at Amber Capital and Goldman Sachs. Chelsea received a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University and an MBA from London Business School.
Business Strategy
Oscar Health
Board Observer
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Board Observer
ALLEYCORP
Machine Learning & AI
Dr. David Ferrucci is the award-winning AI researcher who started and led the IBM Watson team from its inception in 2006 to its celebrated success in 2011 when Watson defeated the greatest Jeopardy players of all time. From 2011 through 2012, Dr. Ferrucci pioneered Watson’s applications in health which helped lay the technical foundation for a new Healthcare Division at IBM. In 2013, Dr. Ferrucci joined Bridgewater Associates to explore applications of AI in markets and management.
Dr. Ferrucci’s more than 25 years in AI and his passion to see computers fluently think, learn, and communicate inspired him to found Elemental Cognition in 2015. Elemental Cognition is an AI company focused on deep natural language understanding and explores methods of learning that result in explicable models of intelligence.
Dr. Ferrucci has 50+ patents and published papers in the areas of AI, Automated Reasoning, NLP, Intelligent Systems Architectures, Automatic Text Generation, and Automatic Question-Answering.
Machine Learning & AI
ELEMENTAL COGNITION | IBM WATSON
Senior Growth Advisor
Bill Georges was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. In his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Bill was responsible for developing and overseeing the Company’s corporate strategy, expanding its business development and leading the Strategic Initiatives Group, which develops and implements key business programs. He also led the Company’s Enterprise Project Management Office and Business Process Improvement functions, and managed the Company’s venture fund investments. Prior to his nearly 15 years at Horizon Blue Cross, Bill was Vice President and Senior Analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities, where as a sell-side analyst, he covered the managed care industry. Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in Economics from Brown University, a Juris Doctor degree from Villanova University and an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Senior Growth Advisor
HORIZON BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD
Business Strategy
Nick is an advisor to Pearl Health. Nick currently serves as SVP of Strategic Initiatives at Covera Health, a pioneer in advanced clinical analytics focused on using AI to provide diagnostic quality insights to radiologists at the point of care .
Prior to Covera Health, Nick was Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Oscar Health, where he also served as Vice President of Network Strategy and various leadership roles across the Sales team. Before Oscar Health, Nick was a Senior Manager at Monitor Deloitte, and worked at Freedman Consulting, a public policy consulting firm.
Nick holds a Masters in Arts in Law Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University; he received his A.B. from Harvard University.
Business Strategy
Dandelion HEALTH
Advisor
Brian has 25+ years of leadership experience within healthcare organizations (payers and technology-based solution providers) ranging from startups to large, publicly traded companies. He is a C-suite executive (CEO, COO, CSO, CGO), board member, and advisor who is passionate about transforming the healthcare system to improve access to care, healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes. Brian is a disruptor, innovator, and problem-solver with a compelling record of leading, transforming, and growing healthcare technology companies.
Brian acts as an advisor to prominent, national VC/PE funds, in evaluating investment opportunities and coaching the leadership teams of their investment portfolio companies on matters ranging from go-to-market strategies, pricing models, product design, workflows, growth, sales, execution, and measurement against established performance indicators.
Before creating his own advisory firm to support the growth of early-stage healthcare companies, Brian led Tabula Rasa HealthCare’s Office of Strategic Growth—an office he created in 2014 for the initial purpose of establishing a footprint in the payer market (including health insurers, self-funded employers, and risk-bearing provider organizations) as a runway for Tabula Rasa’s IPO. Within six months of joining the Company, Brian secured its first payer pilot, followed shortly thereafter by its first payer commercial contract ($62MM). The Company’s
IPO followed in 2016 (NASDAQ: TRHC). During his tenure with Tabula Rasa, Brian continued to expand the Company’s payer market through the design, testing, validation, and deployment of new products, services, and financial models (including chronic disease programs and the deployment of value-based contracting
solutions). Brian also worked to lay foundations for the Company across new markets, including pharma/life sciences, life insurance, consumer, and international.
Brian presently serves as the Chair of the Board of Advisors of StationMD, a telehealth company serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (where he was previously the first independent director on the corporate board). He also serves as a member on the Board of Advisors to Pearl Health, a leader in assisting primary care practices understand and accept “intelligent” financial risk arrangements.
Brian is a member of the Board of Directors of CP Unlimited (Formerly Cerebral Palsy
Association of New York State), a leading provider of residential and day programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. CP Unlimited has close to 2,000 employees supporting more than 700 persons in residences and many hundreds more through its day programs.
Brian spent his earlier professional years leading the successful startup and exit of an oncology-focused medication decision support technology company. He has also held strategy-related management positions with two large Blue Cross organizations and, before that, as a senior administration official in government.
As an expert in healthcare strategy, growth, and policy, the Jefferson School of Population Health elected Brian as a Senior Fellow. He also served as the longest tenured Chair of the New Jersey Association of Health Plans. Over his career, government leaders, from governors to members of Congress, have appointed Brian to serve on federal and state healthcare access and reform commissions.
Brian earned a JD from Rutgers University School of Law and a BA in Economics from Vassar College.
Brian and his wife, Donna, live in South Carolina with their two rescue dogs, Lucca and Finley.
Advisor
Tabula Rasa HealthCare | StationMD
Risk Management
John is co-founder and Managing Director at Floating Point, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the intersection of technology and complex, highly-regulated industries.
Prior to launching Floating Point, John was Chief Risk Officer and a member of the founding team at Oscar Health. As one of the two longest-serving C-level executives of the firm, he helped lead Oscar from inception to nearly 500,000 members and over two billion dollars in annual revenue.
John began his career as a quantitative researcher at Bridgewater Associates, where he was one of fewer than 20 investment professionals responsible for developing the firm’s core macroeconomic trading models. John holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Risk Management
FLOATING POINT | OSCAR
Data Science
Patrick Mauro is a data scientist enabling Pearl Health’s mission by creating a quantitative framework around the complex problem of efficiently delivering high-quality healthcare.
Patrick learned the craft of statistical analysis and distributed computing while working as a high-frequency trader at Hudson River Trading, where he led a team trading US and European equities. Thereafter, Patrick has consulted in a variety of industries, from entertainment to food rescue to biomedical engineering. He is passionate about performing sophisticated analyses of complex data sets in order to deliver actionable business insights and architect advanced computing systems. When not combing over data, Patrick also works as a mountain guide, where he delves into a far less quantitative but far more tangible world of risk analysis.
Patrick holds a S.M. in Electrical Engineering and an A.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College.
Data Science
HUDSON RIVER Trading
Data & Risk
Cole Morris is a health tech entrepreneur building life-changing devices at Clear, where he is a co-founder, COO and CFO.
He was previously Vice President of Data at Oscar Health Insurance. There, he led a team of more than 30 data scientists spanning medical economics, product analytics, payment integrity, clinical data science, and business and network analytics. Prior to leading Oscar’s data efforts, he was Director of Care Routing at Oscar, focused on bending the cost curve by better matching Oscar members to high value doctors.
Before venturing into healthcare, Cole was an Investment Team Lead at Bridgewater Associates, where he led a team of Investment Associates providing analytics to some of Bridgewater’s largest clients and wrote investment algorithms in the Research department.
Cole graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, summa cum laude and phi beta kappa.
Data & Risk
OSCAR | BRIDGEWATER
Co-Founder & Advisor
Ankit Patel is co-founder and President of Pearl Health. He was previously the Vice President of Provider Alignment at Clover Health, building programs and software to engage providers to achieve better health outcomes at lower costs. Prior to joining Clover, he was a Senior Advisor at the CMS Innovation Center, where he worked on various value-based payment models including the Pioneer ACO program and the Maryland All-Payer Waiver. He began his career as a health care attorney for an academic medical center.
He received his B.A. in International Studies at the University of South Carolina – Columbia and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Co-Founder & Advisor
CLOVER | CMS
Business Strategy
Since 2005, Margit Pearson has been managing over $5 billion in investments as well as charitable giving for a few individuals. She has invested directly in over a dozen companies in the healthcare and biotech industry in their early stages: seed, Series A, B and C rounds.
She has been CEO/President of both NYSE and startup companies after living and working in Latin America, Scandinavia, Europe and Australia for Mckinsey and Company.
Margit graduated from Harvard Business School in 1975.
Business Strategy
MCKINSEY & COMPANY
Board Observer
Jay Rughani is a partner on the Bio + Health investing team, where he focuses on software, data, and marketplace companies across healthcare and life sciences.
Prior to a16z, Jay worked at Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche). There, he helped to build some of the company’s first data & analytics software products used by biopharmaceutical companies to study real-world cancer care. He went on to develop numerous commercial partnerships with large biopharma companies, smaller biotechs, and other research organizations.
Previously, Jay advised large healthcare and technology organizations on corporate growth initiatives at Deloitte and supported various go-to-market, product, and fundraising efforts at DealerMatch (acquired by Cox Enterprises).
Jay received a B.A. in Mathematics & Economics at Emory University and grew up in Clearwater, FL, and London, UK.
Board Observer
A16Z
Asset Management
Lauren is the Chief Operating Officer of Kirkoswald Asset Management, a global macro hedge fund with a focus on emerging markets. She leads Kirkoswald’s strategic business initiatives to ensure that best in class practices are implemented for the global team. As part of this role, she has oversight of the marketing strategy, human capital, compliance, public relations, information technology and cybersecurity. Previously, Lauren was an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank where she spent 12 years in a variety of roles within the Equities division in both NYC and London.
Lauren earned her MBA from Columbia Business School in 2015 as a Feldberg Fellow and she graduated from Princeton University in 2007 with a degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
She enjoys volunteering for all three of her alma maters in a variety of capacities: fundraising, interviewing prospective students, organizing career and social gatherings, mentoring students and recent graduates, and fostering engagement across generations and geographies. Lauren also serves on the Board of Inspiring Girls USA, an organization that connects girls with women role models to introduce them to the full variety of careers and options in life.
Asset Management
KIRKOSWALD | UBS
