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Shareh Ghani Turned Behavioral Health Into a Data Problem Worth Solving
From the ACT teams of Maricopa County to the C-suite of a national managed care company, Shareh Ghani built a career on a stubborn idea: that good care and good data are the same project.
GHI
GHI pioneered the broad doctor network before the term PPO became everyday insurance language. Nearly nine decades later, its name survives inside EmblemHealth - and inside the health benefits of generations of New Yorkers.
Magellan Health
It started as a chain of psychiatric hospitals in Georgia. Fifty-plus years later, Magellan Health decides how millions of Americans get their mental health care approved - and after a $2.2 billion round trip through Centene, it is about to be on its own again.
Evolent
The company betting that the most expensive corner of American medicine - cancer, cardiology, and back surgery - can be run better when the people paying for care and the doctors delivering it are finally pulling in the same direction.
DataCare
DataCare is a San Jose, California software company that builds cloud-based tools for the workers' compensation and managed care industry. Its Ahshay platform unifies medical case management, utilization review, and document workflows in one HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 certified system, helping insurers, third-party administrators, self-insured employers, and nurse case managers process medical claims faster while keeping evidence-based, defensible documentation.
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.
Chris Severn
Chris Severn is the co-founder and CEO of Turquoise Health, a San Diego company building software to make healthcare pricing transparent and to simplify the way hospitals and insurers contract and pay each other. After a decade modeling hospital managed-care contracts and running machine learning for payment integrity, he started Turquoise in 2020 with engineer Adam Geitgey, pivoting into federal price-transparency rules just as they took effect. The company has aggregated price data from thousands of hospitals and, in March 2026, raised a $40 million Series C led by Oak HC/FT to become what Severn calls the operating system for healthcare contracts and payments. He also teaches improv comedy and has testified before Congress on price transparency.
Molina Healthcare
Molina Healthcare is a Fortune 500 managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, that provides government-sponsored health insurance - chiefly Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA Marketplace plans - to low-income and underserved Americans. Founded in 1980 by emergency-room physician Dr. C. David Molina, it grew from a single clinic in Wilmington into a multi-state insurer covering roughly 5.8 million members across some 20 states, with about $43 billion in 2025 premium revenue.
Khanh Nguyen
Khanh Nguyen is the CEO of Cozeva, the operating system for value-based care that manages over 25 million lives across 97,000+ providers. A PharmD from UCSF with 15+ years pioneering payer-provider collaboration, she led Cozeva to a reported $480M merger with Vatica Health in 2025, combining the #1-rated Best in KLAS risk adjustment platform with Cozeva's #1 quality platform - creating the most comprehensive value-based care enablement company in the U.S.