The people behind the network

Paul Meyer has spent his career building digital infrastructure for the common good. He co-founded The Commons Project, the Rockefeller Foundation–supported nonprofit behind CommonHealth and the COVID vaccine QR code standard adopted worldwide. He founded and led Voxiva, which deployed mobile health services across 17 countries — including the first nationwide digital disease-surveillance systems in Peru and Rwanda — and built the coalition behind Text4baby, a free maternal-health service that has supported more than 2 million women and is featured in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. He later founded Wellpass (health messaging for 70+ Medicaid plans, 30 health systems, and 3 million people; acquired by Virgin Pulse), and earlier co-founded IPKO, which grew into Kosovo’s leading telecom. He began his career as a White House speechwriter for President Clinton. He holds a JD from Yale Law School and a BA from Pomona College, studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, and has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and MIT Technology Review’s Humanitarian of the Year.

Kyle Cobb is a public-sector health-IT and standards executive with more than twenty years driving interoperability and data modernization across healthcare and public health. Most recently she served as Acting Deputy Director, Technology & Product at the CDC, leading modernization of the agency’s enterprise data infrastructure and the One CDC Data Platform to unify analytics across federal health systems. Earlier, at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), she served as Deputy Director of the Standards Division and as the Branch Chief overseeing the tools and testing for the national Health IT Certification Program — ensuring conformance with USCDI, HL7 FHIR, C-CDA, and other standards and advancing nationwide API adoption for health-data exchange. She has also led CMS data-modernization and quality-measurement work at The Lewin Group and Abt Associates and served as Senior Director of Quality Measurement at the National Quality Forum. She holds an MS in Information Science from Simmons University.

Vikas Vats is a co-founder of Smart Health Network and leads its data and analytics strategy. He previously served as Chief Analytics Officer at Verisk Analytics, where he led the company’s innovative-analytics, data, and AI teams and spearheaded the adoption of machine learning across solutions spanning property & casualty insurance, life insurance, financial services, and energy. Earlier he held executive marketing, business-development, and analytics roles at marketRx (acquired by Cognizant) and Medmeme, co-founded an early e-commerce company, and began his career in product management and engineering at Motorola. He was named one of the pharmaceutical industry’s top 100 leaders by PharmaVoice. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dr. Julia Skapik is a physician and clinical-informatics leader working at the intersection of informatics, standards, and care delivery. She is Board Chair of HL7 International — the ANSI-accredited standards organization that publishes FHIR — where she has served as a director since 2021 and chair since 2024. She is a practicing primary care physician at a federally qualified health center in Virginia and a staff physician at Inova Health System. She previously served for five years as Chief Medical Information Officer of the National Association of Community Health Centers, where she built a four-million-patient community-health data warehouse and governance framework, and earlier as Senior Medical Informatics Officer at ONC, where she led the clinical-quality-measure and clinical-decision-support standards for the federal Meaningful Use program. She holds an MD and an MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from Johns Hopkins, and is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.

Glen Stettin is a physician executive with three decades leading clinical, research, and innovation functions through two of healthcare’s largest integrations. He was Chief Innovation Officer at Evernorth/Cigna, where he led research and development, patient and physician experience, and product development and management focused on new clinical solutions and data, analytics, and platforms as services. Before Cigna he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Express Scripts, which Cigna acquired in 2018; he joined Express Scripts when it merged with Medco Health Solutions in April 2012, and across 17 years at Medco held leadership roles in the clinical, operations, technology, and product organizations. He earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees through Lehigh University and the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also served as Medical Chief Resident at Moffitt-Long Hospital, a cardiology fellow, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCSF and Stanford University.

Bo Wang is an engineering leader and enterprise architect with more than twenty years building high-throughput systems serving hundreds of millions of users. He is Enterprise Architect at CodaMetrix, the autonomous AI medical-coding system ranked #1 by KLAS, where he leads the re-architecture of its core infrastructure into an event-streaming pipeline operating across 500+ hospitals. Across a decade at Synacor Cloud ID he rose to VP of Engineering, building the OAuth/OIDC/SAML identity infrastructure behind HBO/Max, YouTube TV, Peacock, NFL Network, and SiriusXM and operating it at more than 20,000 requests per second at 99.99% reliability. Earlier he led development of the electronic health records system at Harvard / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that now manages care for more than 150,000 patients. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with deep expertise in distributed systems, identity and security, cloud infrastructure, and healthcare interoperability (HL7, FHIR).

Marv Richardson is a healthcare-technology executive whose career spans large-payer technology operations and technology entrepreneurship. As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Health Care Service Corporation — the parent of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in five states and the country’s largest customer-owned health insurer — he led a technology organization of more than 4,000 employees and consultants delivering over $1 billion in annual value, advancing digital-health, AI, and operational-efficiency initiatives that Gartner benchmarked as more effective and lower-cost than peer payers. His organization was recognized by Computerworld as a “Best Place to Work in IT” and by CIO magazine’s CIO 100. Earlier he co-founded Trexin Consulting, which reached the Inc. 5000 for six consecutive years before a successful exit, and served as Chief Technology Officer of Lante, helping drive the growth behind its IPO. He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science (Honours) from the University of Manitoba, where he received the Governor General’s Gold Medal for highest standing, and has been named Infoworld’s Services CTO of the Year.

Baldeep Dua is a finance executive with two decades of CFO-level experience across technology companies. She has served as Chief Financial Officer of Kirusa and of the Dotgo business unit at Gupshup, and co-founded and served as CFO of Dotgo; earlier she was a Vice President at Cognizant. She was named CFO of the Year by the New Jersey Technology Council and one of NJ Monthly’s Top 25 Leading Women in New Jersey, and serves on the boards of Executive Women of New Jersey and the NJ Technology Council’s CFO Advisory Board. She holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Delhi and an Executive MBA from Manchester Business School, where she was a Chevening Scholar.

Eric Hargan is the former Acting Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he served as part of the leadership of Operation Warp Speed. He is the founder and CEO of The Hargan Group, which advises healthcare organizations on regulatory, public-policy, and investment strategy, and Co-Chair of the Association for Responsible Healthcare Investment. He has been a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and serves on the board of University Hospitals in Cleveland. He holds a BA in Philosophy, cum laude, from Harvard and a JD from Columbia Law School.

Mark Ganz is the former President and CEO of Cambia Health Solutions — the parent of the Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield plans — which he led from 2003 to 2020 through a major strategic and cultural transformation, more than tripling its financial strength and earning repeated recognition as one of the world’s most ethical companies. Earlier at Cambia he served as President and CEO of Regence BlueCross of Oregon and as its Chief Legal Officer. He has chaired America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and served on the board of the BlueCross BlueShield Association, and currently sits on the Georgetown University Board of Regents, among other boards. He holds a BA and a JD from Georgetown University.

Nirav Shah is a Senior Scholar at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, where he teaches and researches healthcare quality and safety, digital health and generative-AI adoption, and value-based care. He is a co-founder of Qualified Health and previously served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York, where the state’s Medicaid program delivered more than $34 billion in taxpayer savings while improving quality and access for over 5 million New Yorkers, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Clinical Operations at Kaiser Permanente Southern California. He is an independent director of STERIS plc, a trustee of the John A. Hartford Foundation, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He holds a BA from Harvard, an MD from Yale School of Medicine, and an MPH from Yale.

Mary Pittman is the former President and CEO of the Public Health Institute, one of the country’s largest independent nonprofit public-health organizations, which she grew into a global organization implementing programs across 29 states and dozens of countries with more than 2,400 community-based partners. She previously served as President of the Health Research and Educational Trust, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, and as President and CEO of the California Association of Public Hospitals. She has been named one of UC Berkeley’s “16 Women Who Changed Public Health” and a Modern Healthcare Top 25 Women in Healthcare, and holds a DrPH from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Dilip Kumar most recently served as Vice President of AWS Applications at Amazon, leading the group that builds application-layer services to remove operational bottlenecks through cloud, AI, and machine learning. Earlier at Amazon he was Vice President of Physical Retail & Technology, where his teams built Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Dash Cart, and Amazon One — the palm-recognition payment service now deployed at stadiums, airports, and retail locations nationwide — and he spent two years as Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Scott Stephenson is the former Chairman, President & CEO of Verisk Analytics, which he led from 2001 to 2022 — joining as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, becoming President in 2011, and growing Verisk into one of the world’s leading data-analytics companies serving the insurance, financial-services, and energy markets. Earlier he spent sixteen years as a Senior Partner at The Boston Consulting Group. He currently serves as Chairman of One Inc and of Avetta and as a director of PSEG, and he has been recognized by Forbes among America’s Most Innovative Leaders. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Graham Gardner is the co-founder and former CEO of Kyruus Health, the patient-access company serving 275,000+ providers and 500+ hospitals (acquired by RevSpring). Earlier he was a Venture Executive at Highland Capital Partners, where he co-founded Generation Health and served as its Chief Medical Officer through its acquisition by CVS Caremark. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine and cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, where he was Chief Medical Resident, and holds a BA and MD from Brown and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mariya Filipova is Managing Director of The 4100 Group, an investment firm focused on care convergence, and CEO of Proclaim. She is an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Labs and previously served as VP of Innovation at Anthem (now Elevance Health), where she led the company’s adoption of emerging technologies and built its de-identified commercial healthcare data sandbox. She was a founding member of the Health Utility Network, the consortium that gave rise to Avaneer Health. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College.

Jean Drouin is the founder of Clarify Health Solutions, an enterprise analytics and value-based-payments company serving health systems, payers, and life-sciences organizations, which he led as CEO from its founding in 2015 until 2023 and where he continues to serve on the board. Before founding Clarify he was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led the global Healthcare Digital and IT practice, founded McKinsey Advanced Healthcare Analytics, established the firm’s UK and Australian healthcare practices, and served as Head of Strategy for NHS London. He holds an MD and MBA from Stanford and an AB in Molecular Biology from Princeton.

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Tom Valdivia is a healthcare executive, board member, and investor. He is Managing Partner and Director of the Mindshare Institute — Intermountain Health’s initiative that designs and launches nonprofit “health care utilities” built to deliver essential health services at the lowest sustainable cost (among them Aeroterra Health, on whose board he serves). He also serves on the board of SSM Health, where he chairs the Quality Committee, and is a Senior Advisor at InTandem Capital Partners. He holds an MS in Medical Informatics from the University of Minnesota.