Michael Best Strategies has redefined the path to building revenue and growth for our clients. • Our team of healthcare executives excels at strategy and ideation and stands above the competition.• We successfully execute plans necessary to build, market, and grow new healthcare enterprises. • Our process relies on our C-suite connections with more than 140 national payer, provider, employer and government entities.• We deliver to you our Market Validation Process which helps to answer all the typical purchaser questions regarding competitive landscape, positioning within their organization, quality of leadership team, and patient/member satisfaction.

We believe that you should be in control of your healthcare, and will make the best decisions for you! You will be empowered to make decisions given on cost and quality with CareValet. Additionally we felt it important that you are in control of care, needs, appointments, and have the ability to rate and comment on your provider experience. At Care Valet we’ve put all of these options at your fingertips in an easy to use app for your smartphone.

I am really excited about my new career chapter at Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds helps organizations and their employees achieve measurably better health outcomes, while also reducing healthcare costs. When employees and their families gain awareness and access to the most qualified physicians and personalized clinical guidance health care outcomes significantly improve which also improves the organization's bottom line. Everyone wins. Grand Rounds combines world-class medicine, consumer technology and data science. More than expert opinions, Grand Rounds delivers measurably better outcomes and ROI throughout the care cycle.

I am fortunate to not only live and teach a life of wellness and wellbeing, but I am also able to share it. My primary focus is on large employers (3,000 employees +). I have years of expereince listening to client's needs and working with them to delelop a wellness strategy through a broad continuum of services offered by Humana. A company I have worked for over 13 years.

On February 1st of 2011 I joined the new HumanaVitality team in Chicago Illinois. HumanaVitality is a joint venture between Humana Inc. and Discovery Health in South Africa. The new HumanaVitality organization will change the health care market by rewarding our members for engaging in healthly lifestyle and health management activities.

As a part of HumanaVitality's reorganization leadership team, I was responsible for selecting and leading a group of SME's to support national sales endeavors by developing and subsequently providing wellness education training programs for HumanaVitalitiy's sales force at large.Successfully ensured market penetration of our new West Coast Region in the first 3 months of taking on the role by developing a pursuit strategy for a major public sector client in Southern California that resulted in a net earnings of $1.1 Million firmly rooting the company’s presence in the region.Effectively capitalized on using social networking & media platforms using an enterprise wide CRM System (MyEmma.com) to expand market leads and professional networks to over 5,000 in the first six months of the regions launch. Solely scoped, designed and launched multiple tailored wellness campaigns focused on topics such as employee engagement, employee attendance and productivity and financial wellness that have yielded new net revenue for the company in excess of $2.6 in sales since heading the region in sales.Partnered with various HR leadership teams of national Fortune 100 corporations including but not limited to, Toyota, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance and The Commonwealth of Kentucky to develop tailored well-being seminars that cover overall program value on topics such as health claims cost reduction, increasing employee productivity and health risk reduction.

Manage marketing, product and training staff of 62 associates who support all non-blue Wellpoint commercial business initiatives working across multiple enterprise platforms -responsible for managing $15M annual budgetLead marketing efforts to launch new corporate brand focused on wellnessPresent new product enhancements to brokers and employers with broker events ranging from 40-500 attendeesRebuilt entire enterprise team in less than one year consolidating multiple locations to ChicagoDeveloped an effective sales training program using new technology and multiple media typesLaunched innovative multi media market campaign with new brand imagery and taglineImplemented technology to reduce costs of many business processes saving 250K+ annually on training costs

Vice President of CDH Account Management (Minneapolis, MN)Managed a strategic team that provided consultative direction to UHC Account Management with a focus on CDHP products, including but not limited to finalist presentations, product strategy development, escalated service issues and resource allocationCreated and hosted bi-weekly national field sales and account management call focused on CDH product, product migrations and strategyServed as an interface between UHC Sales and clients with Exante Financial ServicesConsulted with brokers and presented at national meetings Director, Product Development (Minneapolis, MN)Supported national accounts in custom product developmentManaged enterprise team in developing UHC integrated FSA product with HRAAccount Manager, Large Group (Louisville, KY)Achieved 100% renewal persistencyAwarded “Outstanding Account Manager” at UHC University out of 90 attendees

Marketing and Product Development (Louisville, Kentucky)Responsible for the overall product strategy for Humana’s two largest markets: Kentucky and OhioMembership in each assigned market increased over 5% year over yearServed as a team member of the Smart Suite Development and Implementation teamCreated reporting tool for Senior Management to track migration and product trendsIdentified and developed an action plan to eliminate plans with no membership on the legacy platform to increase system proficiency (the outcome was highlighted in annual review sent to shareholders)