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Andy Schuyler Spent a Career Turning Health Data Into Decisions
Long before healthcare software learned to say “AI,” the physician executive was arguing for a humbler achievement: weave scattered information together, put it where decisions happen, and make it useful.
Moshe Scheinberg Is Building the Meeting Place Behind Skilled Nursing’s Next Conversation
From reimbursement software to a new industry media platform, the New York executive’s work follows one practical idea: fragmented fields move faster when their people, data and conversations share a room.
Doug Biehn Is Turning a Blood Test Into a Business of Better Decisions
After two decades turning complex healthcare technology into something people can actually use, the Octave CEO has chosen his hardest translation job yet: making biological uncertainty legible.
Benjamin Shaker Built One Market. Then It Became the Operating Manual.
Agilon health began its national field test in Columbus with Benjamin Shaker at the controls. His career since has been an exercise in making a local partnership repeatable without making it generic.
Andrew Flanagan Is Making Telehealth Disappear
The Iris Telehealth CEO has spent a career turning technology into ordinary infrastructure. The idea at its center is simple: virtual care wins when nobody has to call it virtual anymore.
Mark Borneleit Bet on the Unfashionable Work - Then Built a 70-Warehouse Machine
A former investment banker turned an unglamorous logistics problem into a multi-state operating system. Now a new majority owner is betting that his warehouse network can travel farther.
Scott Shreeve Put Primary Care on the Employer's Payroll - Then Took It Nationwide
An emergency doctor learned that the waiting room was often the last stop in a much longer systems failure. His response was an unusual business lesson: when patients would not buy a new care model one by one, sell the architecture to the employer.
John Erwin Built a 20-Person Bet Into a Healthcare Switchboard
He spent 15 years learning how conversations move people. Then he carried that lesson into healthcare, where the next useful action can matter more than the cleverest software.
Brad Younggren’s Career Is a Map of Where Care Is Going Next
From a Stryker unit in Iraq to smartphone diagnostics, text-first primary care and a newly acquired Seattle startup, Younggren has spent two decades asking the same practical question: how much closer can the system move to the person who needs it?
Ted LeNeave Turned the Org Chart Upside Down - Then Built Accura Around It
A Virginia administrator came to Iowa with a family, a founder's itch and one stubborn diagram: put residents and frontline staff at the top. A decade later, that upside-down chart remains a compact explanation of how Ted LeNeave wants Accura to work.
Sogol Sepehri Works the Seams of the System
The physician-executive moved from Austin hospital medicine to a national role translating clinical judgment across operations, documentation and revenue - the quiet seams where modern healthcare either connects or frays.
Darren Schulte Is Building the Operating System Between the Appointment and the Crisis
The physician-executive spent two decades teaching software to read the chart. At Vynca, he is tackling the harder problem: turning those signals into coordinated action before a routine gap becomes a costly crisis.
Vishnukamal Golla Is Building the Missing Middle of Cancer Care
A surgeon trained to operate on the body turned his attention to the machinery around it - the incentives, handoffs and tools that determine whether specialty care actually works as one system.
Tracy MacNeal
Tracy MacNeal is a chemical engineer turned healthcare executive who serves as President and CEO of Materna Medical, a women's health technology company in Mountain View, California. With more than 25 years across pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, digital health and medical devices, and six transactions to her name, she has built a career on commercializing hard-to-define products and opening markets that others overlook. She sits on the board of AdvaMed and chairs its Women's Executive Network, and she is known for pairing engineering rigor with a storyteller's instinct for building trust with clinicians, investors and customers.
Garrett Fienberg
Garrett Fienberg is the Chief Executive Officer of Truveris, a pharmacy cost containment company that has built an independent, data-led technology platform to bring transparency to PBM pricing and drive down drug costs for employers and benefit consultants. He joined Truveris in 2021, was elevated to Chief Operating Officer in March 2024, and stepped into the CEO role in 2025. Over a 20-plus-year career he has founded and sold venture-backed startups, run growth for a publicly traded healthcare SaaS company, and worked across venture capital, hedge funds, investment banking, and consulting.
Kathy Wallace
Kathy Wallace is the CEO of LifeCare Hospital of Plano, part of LifeCare Hospitals of North Texas. A registered nurse with roughly 35 years in healthcare and about 18 of them at LifeCare, she rose through clinical and executive roles into the corner office. She is one of an all-female group of CEOs, all trained in critical care, who lead LifeCare's North Texas long-term acute care hospitals. Her focus is on early-intervention and mobilization protocols that shorten recovery times for the most fragile, critically ill patients while cutting readmissions.
Mark Foster
Mark Foster is the president and CEO of CurvaFix, a Bellevue, Washington medical device company building curved intramedullary implants that follow the natural bend of the pelvis to repair fractures. He took the top job in July 2023, the same week the company closed a $39 million Series C led by MVM Partners, and his mandate is commercial scale: turning a novel, FDA-cleared implant into a nationally distributed product. Before CurvaFix he ran Trice Medical and led the U.S. sports medicine business at Smith & Nephew, part of roughly 24 years spent almost entirely inside orthopedics and medical devices.
Mike Asselta
Mike Asselta is the chief executive officer of Compassus, one of the largest home-based care companies in the United States, spanning home health, hospice, palliative care and infusion therapy across some 200 locations. Appointed in May 2024, he came from nearly eight years at Fresenius Medical Care North America, where he ran U.S. care delivery and Fresenius Kidney Care - an operation of more than 60,000 employees and 4,000 sites. At Compassus he has bet the company's growth on joint ventures with major health systems like Providence and OhioHealth, arguing that the future of care happens where people actually live: at home.
Sam Weinstein
Sam Weinstein is a pediatric cardiac surgeon turned healthcare executive who runs SpecialtyCare, the Brentwood, Tennessee company that supplies the specialized clinical teams - perfusionists, neuromonitoring technologists, surgical assistants and sterile-processing staff - working inside more than 1,200 hospital operating rooms across 45 states. After 16 years operating on children's hearts in New York and leading more than 30 surgical mission trips to Latin America, he joined SpecialtyCare as Chief Medical Officer in 2015, became President of Operations in 2016, and has been CEO since 2017. His pitch is simple: take the largest operative procedural database in the business and use it to make surgery safer and cheaper, one case at a time.
Warren Olsen
Warren Olsen is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gallus Medical Detox Centers (Gallus Detox and Recovery Services), a Colorado-based behavioral-health company headquartered in the Denver area. He leads a roughly 44-person organization built around a clinician-founded care model, steering its growth, brand, and multi-site operations after the company raised seed capital in 2022.
Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson is a healthcare growth executive with 35+ years across dental, vision, Medicaid, Medicare, and chronic care management. He spent 15 years at LIBERTY Dental Plan, where he grew the business to more than $900 million in sales and over 6 million covered lives across all 50 states. After serving as Chief Growth Officer at Vheda Health, he was named Strategic Advisor to the CEO of LightSpun, the AI-powered dental insurance administration platform formerly known as 32Health, in April 2026, where he leads national growth strategy and payer partnerships.
Brad Kreick
Brad Kreick is the CEO of AccessHope, a commercial venture spun out of City of Hope that connects local oncologists with subspecialist cancer experts at NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. After three decades moving between payers, providers and private equity - Oxford Health Plans, Apria Healthcare, SolutionHealth - he took the helm to turn a nonprofit cancer benefit into a national business, closing a $33 million Series B in 2024 and scaling AccessHope past 10 million covered members.
Christopher Skowronek
Christopher Skowronek is the Chief Executive Officer of NuvoAir Medical, a Boston-based, virtual-first specialty care company built around the people most healthcare leaves waiting: patients with complex heart and lung conditions. He climbed into the top job after running growth and business for the company, and after two decades shaping sales and operations strategy across payers, providers and care-management platforms like Lumeris and Bamboo Health. His operating creed, borrowed from NuvoAir's own motto, is blunt: no one left behind. In 2026 he steered the company through the sale of its clinical-trials arm to Strados Labs so NuvoAir could do one thing without distraction - deliver cardiopulmonary care to patients across the country.
Nigel Ohrenstein
Nigel Ohrenstein is the CEO of Diagnostic Robotics, a Boston-based AI healthcare company building predictive tools for population health, triage, and care management. A UK-born former lawyer turned consultant, he has spent more than two decades operating at the front edge of value-based care: he scaled Express Scripts' Medicare business from under $10 million to over $500 million, co-founded the value-based care leader Lumeris, and served as president of both Kaia Health and TeleTracking Technologies before taking the helm at Diagnostic Robotics.
A.R. Weiler
A.R. Weiler is the CEO of C3 HealthcareRx, the Raleigh-based value-based care company formed when Wellbox Health and C3 merged in January 2026. A Harvard-trained computer scientist who began in Silicon Valley software, he has spent more than fifteen years building and scaling healthcare companies - running Healthsense, Livio Health Group, SonarMD and Wellbox, and holding senior posts at Oracle, OptumInsight, Virgin Pulse and Change Healthcare. He specializes in turning fragmented care vendors into coordinated, multi-specialty operations.
Alicia Hardy
Alicia Hardy (Alicia Ferguson Hardy) is the CEO of CommuniCare+OLE, a federally qualified health center serving 70,000+ patients across Napa, Solano, and Yolo counties in California. A licensed clinical social worker turned executive, she rose through the ranks of OLE Health over more than a decade before becoming CEO in 2018, then engineered the landmark 2023 merger with CommuniCare Health Centers - a project she developed as her capstone during an Executive MBA at Yale School of Management. Named one of Yale SOM's 2023 Best & Brightest EMBA graduates, Hardy is a passionate advocate for health equity, multilingual care, and expanding access for underserved populations.
Steven Sell
Steven Sell is a healthcare operator who spent five years as CEO of agilon health, the Westerville, Ohio company that backs independent primary care physicians taking full risk on Medicare patients. He stepped down on August 4, 2025. Before agilon, he ran Health Net, a $14 billion business with three million members.
Harpreet Mangat
Harpreet Mangat is a British-trained neurosurgeon turned Stanford MBA and McKinsey consultant who now serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hippocratic AI, a $3.5 billion healthcare AI company building clinically safe generative AI agents for patient engagement. His rare career arc - from brain surgery and ICU care during COVID-19, through venture capital and management consulting, to the frontier of healthcare AI - makes him one of the most credentialed operator-clinicians in the industry.