Patricia 'Patty' Obermaier is Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer at Acentra Health, where she leads business development, marketing, and product management for a technology and health solutions company serving government and commercial clients. A biology graduate of MIT with a Darden MBA, she spent the bulk of her career at Microsoft - most recently as Chief Growth Officer for Global Health and Life Sciences overseeing a $12 billion portfolio and helping integrate the $20 billion Nuance acquisition. Before that she doubled Microsoft's U.S. Health and Life Sciences business from $3 billion to $6 billion, founded the consultancy Resigility, and spent five-plus years as a senior executive at IQVIA. She sits on the boards of ASGN Incorporated and Applied Information Sciences and was named to Fierce Healthcare's 2021 Women of Influence.
Accompany Health is a Bethesda, Maryland-based healthcare company building integrated primary, behavioral, and social care for low-income patients with complex medical needs. Founded in 2022 and publicly launched in January 2024 with $56 million in Series A funding, the company pairs a proprietary care-model technology platform with at-home and virtual visits, 24/7 support, and help navigating benefits like Medicaid and SNAP. It aims to be the kind of patient-centered, dignified care system that high-need, under-resourced patients rarely get.
Better Health is a modern medical supplier and digital care platform that helps people living with chronic conditions get the supplies they need at home, delivered with peer support, education, and insurance handled for them. Founded in 2019 by Naama Stauber Breckler and Adam Breckler, the company bundles diabetes, ostomy, urology, incontinence, and wound care products with human peer coaching, operating across 48 states and contracting directly with payers including Medicare, Medicaid, Cigna, Humana, Florida Blue, and Oscar.
Cadence is a New York-based clinical technology company that helps health systems deliver continuous, proactive care to patients with chronic conditions at home. It pairs FDA-cleared connected devices that track vitals with an AI-powered care platform and a 24/7 clinical team, so doctors can catch problems - rising blood pressure, fluid buildup, glucose swings - before they become emergencies. Cadence partners with more than 20 leading U.S. health systems and supports tens of thousands of patients across dozens of states, targeting chronic diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and COPD.
Chapter is an AI-native Medicare advisory platform that helps older Americans choose the right Medicare and retirement healthcare coverage. Instead of acting as a commission-driven marketplace, Chapter reviews plans from every insurance carrier nationwide and pairs that data with licensed, independent advisors to deliver unbiased recommendations. Founded in New York in 2020, the company has supported more than 500,000 enrollees and crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue.
Greater Good Health is a Los Angeles-based healthcare company rethinking primary care for seniors. It runs value-based primary care clinics and clinical programs built around a nurse practitioner-centric care model, designed to manage complex Medicare populations through proactive, preventive, whole-person care. The company partners with health plans and risk-bearing organizations to expand access where physician shortages have left aging patients underserved.
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.
Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz is the CEO and co-founder of Chapter, an AI-powered Medicare navigation platform he started in 2020 after watching his own parents struggle to enroll. Built with co-founder Vivek Ramaswamy and early backing from J.D. Vance, Chapter crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and raised a $100 million Series E in April 2026 at a roughly $3 billion valuation. A former Palantir government-team lead with degrees from Wharton and Cambridge, he calls himself one of the most hated people in the Medicare brokerage business precisely because Chapter's advisors are paid to recommend the best plan rather than the most lucrative one.
Perry Health is a New York-based digital health company delivering remote, doctor-led diabetes management for people living with type 2 diabetes. Members receive a cellular-connected glucose meter, unlimited test strips shipped to their door, and ongoing 1:1 support from a care team of clinicians, dietitians, and accountability coaches. The program is built for Medicare-eligible seniors and is offered at no out-of-pocket cost for those on eligible plans. Perry reports that members saw an average 2.5-point reduction in A1C within their first 12 months.
Gokul Mohan is the co-founder and CEO of CareHarmony, a Brentwood, Tennessee health-tech company that pairs machine learning with around-the-clock clinical teams to deliver chronic care management and care coordination at scale. A Wharton finance and entrepreneurship grad with a biomedical engineering degree, he traded a Morgan Stanley and McKinsey track for a bet that the gap between a doctor's visit and a patient's daily life is where healthcare actually breaks. CareHarmony serves dozens of hospitals and health systems across more than 20 states and raised a $15M Series A led by Maverick Ventures in 2022.
Spark Advisors is a New York-based technology-enabled Medicare brokerage that builds an all-in-one platform for independent agents, agency principals, and call centers. It combines an agency management system, a Medicare-specific CRM, back-office services, and AI-powered tools to help brokers grow their books of business and keep clients enrolled. The company supports more than 10,000 brokers and powered roughly 250,000 Medicare enrollments in 2025.
Sylvia Hastanan is the founder and CEO of Greater Good Health, a Los Angeles medical group built entirely around nurse practitioners delivering primary care to seniors. A Penn-trained nurse who picked up Wharton business courses on the side, she spent nearly two decades inside HealthCare Partners, DaVita, and Optum before starting the company almost by accident during the pandemic. Greater Good Health has since raised a Series B and grown to roughly 120 employees, betting that an overlooked workforce can fix access where physician shortages can't.
James Jiang is the cofounder and CEO of Spark, a New York company building the technology and back-office services that independent Medicare brokers use to run their businesses. A Yale graduate who started as a global technology investor and then cofounded the in-home senior care company Roster Health, he bet that the future of Medicare belongs to local independent agents rather than call centers or private-equity roll-ups. Under his lead, Spark raised a $25M Series B in 2024 and processed roughly 250,000 enrollments across 10,000 agents in 2025.
James C. Capretta is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he holds the Milton Friedman Chair and studies health care, entitlement programs, and the long fiscal arc of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. He spent more than 16 years inside the federal government, including as an associate director at the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2004, where he was the lead OMB official on Medicare and Medicaid policy. A market-oriented reformer who argues for consumer choice and cost discipline over centralized control, he is the author of US Health Policy and Market Reforms: An Introduction and a prolific commentator on the math of America's safety-net programs.
Joseph Antos is one of Washington's most-quoted health economists, the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy and a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. A University of Rochester PhD who started as a Cornell math major, he spent decades inside the federal machinery - the Congressional Budget Office, the Council of Economic Advisers, OMB, the Department of Labor and HHS - before becoming AEI's go-to voice on Medicare, the federal budget, and market-based reform. He has advised the World Bank and foreign governments, served terms regulating hospital rates in Maryland, and teaches at George Washington University.
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.
Andrew Toy is the CEO and Board Member of Clover Health (NASDAQ: CLOV), a Medicare Advantage insurer using AI to help physicians identify and treat chronic conditions earlier. A Stanford-trained computer scientist who immigrated from Hong Kong at 16, Toy built Divide (acquired by Google for $120M in 2014), led Android Enterprise at Google, then joined Clover Health in 2018 as CTO before ascending to CEO in 2023. Under his leadership, Clover achieved 51% year-over-year membership growth and its first GAAP net income in Q1 2026, powered by the Clover Assistant AI platform that diagnoses diabetes three years earlier than conventional methods.
Brad Kittredge is the co-founder and CEO of Brightside Health, a San Francisco-based telemental health platform serving 135 million covered lives across commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. Driven by his father's decade-long struggle to find effective depression treatment, Kittredge built Brightside from a two-day old Stripe notification into the first telepsychiatry company to achieve 100% national Medicare Part B coverage. Before Brightside, he led product teams at 23andMe and Lantern, and built ComplexDx - later acquired by 23andMe. He holds an MBA, MPH, MA in International Affairs, and a BA in Psychology, all from UC Berkeley and UC San Diego.
WelbeHealth is a Menlo Park-based public benefit company operating PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) centers across California, delivering comprehensive medical, social, and in-home care that lets frail seniors keep living in their own communities instead of nursing homes.
Si France, MD is the Founder and CEO of WelbeHealth, a Menlo Park-based healthcare company operating PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) programs across California. A physician-entrepreneur with dual MD/MBA degrees from Dartmouth, he previously founded GoHealth Urgent Care, scaling it to 150+ centers before selling to TPG Growth in 2014. At WelbeHealth he pioneered the first four for-profit PACE organizations in the United States, building a model that enables low-income, medically frail seniors to remain in their homes and communities rather than enter nursing facilities - while saving taxpayers $10,000 per patient annually.
Victor Sadauskas is an emergency medicine physician turned entrepreneur and the Co-founder and CEO of Kivo Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company delivering AI-powered virtual pulmonary rehabilitation to COPD patients at home. A Y Combinator W23 alum, Sadauskas built Kivo from his firsthand clinical observation that only 3% of eligible COPD patients ever access pulmonary rehab - a gap he set out to close with a Medicare-covered, home-based program combining remote monitoring, respiratory therapy, and AI-driven coaching.