
After nearly two decades helping one waterfront community grow, Greg Garrett moved south to lead another. His career is a study in the unglamorous details that make a place feel alive: listening, measuring, adapting and giving people reasons to keep going.

She doubled a program by listening closely, rose from the service floor to the CEO’s office, and now wants technology to return time to people. Kristina Lugo’s career is a study in scaling care without sanding away its humanity.
J. Thomas Briody is the President and CEO of Institute on Aging in San Francisco, a nonprofit serving older adults across the Bay Area and southern California. A third-generation elder care leader, he has spent more than three decades building integrated continuums of care across both for-profit and nonprofit sectors.
Michael Zawadski is a healthcare technology executive who led RTZ Systems for over a decade before stepping up as founding CEO of Collabrios Health - a 2024 platform merger that unified electronic health records, financial TPA services, and care coordination tools for over 125 PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) programs nationwide. A JD-trained operator with an uncommon blend of legal, financial, and health-tech instincts, he oversaw the assembly of a company serving more than one million individuals in community-based care.