A dynamic healthcare and technology leader, Brad is known for his tenacity and passion for designing, building, and delivering innovative solutions to align with the evolving business and clinical needs of healthcare provider organizations. He champions Convergence Group’s mission: “improving access to and delivery of healthcare through digital acceleration”, playing a critical role in enabling care delivery organizations and their partners to drive positive change for consumers and clinicians through the adoption of digital health accelerators. The Group’s work across different types of organizations driving positive change in care delivery (retail, life sciences, integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, and digital tech companies) has led to the launch of a consumer engagement AI platform aimed at influencing behavior through hyper-personalizing how we engage with consumers/patients and drive effective consent and preference management. Brad brings over 20 years of health IT leadership experience across multiple roles, public and private healthcare organizations, and ancillary care verticals. Most notable achievements and accomplishments include:* Product Lead for Walmart Health & Wellness to develop IT strategy and build vs. buy decisions for ancillary services (e.g., behavioral health and dentistry) to include the UI/UX for Walmart's consumer digital front door, interoperability, imaging platforms, and practice management systems.* Lead the digital team operating model for a behavioral health organization to introduce an e-Commerce capability for learning management, deliver a digital capability mapping model and establish a customer omni-channel engagement strategy with roadmap.* Director of IT and HIPAA Security Officer for Light Wave Dental, responsible for IT strategy and operations to include cybersecurity and enterprise data analytics.* Technical Advisor to the CEO for Credible Behavioral Health, managing the overall IT infrastructure and technology projects supporting over 400 agencies across 36 states. Brad spearheaded innovation with the delivery of new product features such as Integrated Care, FHIR API framework, and Meaningful Use compliance.* Lead consulting engagements with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) during 8 years of tenure, to guide technology build versus buy decisions based on the VistA platform and helped the VHA invest more effectively in IT through a measurement framework focusing on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), benefits maturity model, and lean methodology