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San Francisco, California, Us

Lead strategic/ecosystem partnerships, including business development, channel sales, product partnerships, and go-to-market strategy

San Francisco, California, Us

Carrum Health is a value-based Centers of Excellence platform that negotiates directly with top healthcare providers to offer upfront bundled payments to employers. Our unique approach ensures patients receive more appropriate care that is better, less expensive, and easier for everyone. Our mission is to transform how surgery and cancer care are paid for and delivered to lower costs, improve outcomes, and ensure a superior experience for all stakeholders.

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Providence, Ri, Us

Chris led Virgin Pulse's partner ecosystem, helping clients and members seamlessly connect with the largest, global health and wellbeing marketplace. Chris was also responsible for VP+, Virgin Pulse’s partner bundle solution that enables a connected health experience through a collection of integrated partners in a one-contract buying solution at considerable cost savings.

Providence, Ri, Us

Accelerated the build-out of Virgin Pulse's global partner ecosystem to represent the most innovative and successful companies tackling global health and wellbeing challenges, in turn enabling partners and customers to deliver stellar and impactful consumer experiences. Homebase for Health™ is Virgin Pulse’s response to the growing frustration employers and health plans are experiencing as they seek to engage consumers in improving their health and wellbeing. Too many point solutions, multiple fragmented systems, disparate data, lack of integrated tools and services, low benefits awareness, engagement and utilization, lack of healthcare literacy, difficulty analyzing and using data effectively, poor user experience and limited resources and support are consistently cited by employers and health plans as barriers to consumer engagement.

Providence, Ri, Us

Joined Virgin Pulse through acquisition of Yaro in January 2020Responsible for building out the VP Navigate and VP Navigate for Health Plans solutions. VP Navigate is a new benefits navigation solution designed to help employees and health plan members take advantage of their benefits by providing them with a single, personalized view. VP Navigate incorporates technology acquired from Yaro, a mobile-first digital navigation and health literacy platform, to help consumers better understand, find and pay for healthcare services according to their specific needs and preferences.The launch of VP Navigate accelerates Virgin Pulse’s Homebase for Health™ strategy by introducing benefits navigation and care guidance capabilities that empower consumers to interact more confidently and competently with their health and healthcare costs.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chris was the head of product and led the delivery/implementation of Yaro’s mobile-first, consumer platform with a portfolio of clients. As a part of the founding team, he built the product/platform from the ground up, growing from 0 to 500K eligible members within a year. He was responsible for Yaro's product strategy, product development, business development, and client and member experience. About Yaro:Yaro simplifies healthcare navigation and provides a personalized experience for consumers with its mobile-first platform. The Yaro platform combines consumer digital design with a flexible tech stack to make it easier and simpler for consumers to understand their health benefits and shop and pay for their care. Yaro partners with health plans and TPAs to drive engagement through mobile & web and empower members to make smart healthcare decisions that save the member and the health plan money, ultimately lowering premiums.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Built a mobile-first, white-labeled care and benefits navigation platform for health plans, TPAs and employers at the intersection of HealthTech and FinTech. Key focus areas and responsibilities:• Developed Yaro's product strategy and roadmap through consumer research, competitor analysis/benchmarking, client/market needs, and business case development• Led Yaro product development, including copy/content creation, UI/UX, QA, and consumer testing• Delivered on Yaro's product roadmap through prioritization of epics and features into program increments utilizing SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and a fully automated CI/CD pipeline• Led the delivery/implementation of Yaro’s mobile-first digital consumer platform with a portfolio of clients, which included delivering on business requirements, driving consumer engagement through MarComm, and ensuring clients goals were met with a clear ROI• Built EDI integrations to surface real-time eligibility, accumulators, and claims (270, 271, 835, 837)• Integrated with Alegeus to bring a simplified, consumer-centered experience to understanding and accessing spending accounts

Dublin 2, Ie

Chris was a part of the Tech Advisory practice, bringing FinTech innovation through payments, cloud, intelligent automation, agile IT, legacy decoupling, security and blockchain/DLT solutions to financial services clients. He consulted at some of the world's largest banks, brokers, and P&C insurance providers, most notably JPMorgan Chase, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade, and QBE Insurance.Chris's experience spanned both the functional and technical domains of large-scale systems implementation and conversion projects within the financial services industry, including roles in management consulting, project management, business analysis, and process design. His experience included management through the system development life cycle, agile delivery, data conversion and reconciliation, requirements gathering, functional design, testing, deployment, and change management.

Dublin 2, Ie

Dublin 2, Ie

Northfield, Il, Us

- Utilized lean methodologies to re-design business processes, resulting in a $900K+ cost savings from improved operational efficiency.- Developed an algorithm and program to optimize inventory locations in the warehouse, reducing annual labor costs by $155K. - Designed a mobile computer program for warehouse pickers that resulted in $105K annual savings by shortening the travel distance of the picker and improving the algorithm that calculated the pick path.

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, Fr

- Reduced Statistical Process Control scrap by $50,000 annually, resulting in a Corporate Quality Award. - Calculated economic order quantities, yields, and created a production schedule for manufacturing three new components for circuit breakers to minimize inventory costs.- Performed time studies to create a machine utilization/capacity model and calculate previously unknown costs of production.- Developed a formal kanban system for the automated welding cell to reduce inventory and prevent shortages of tools.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Mba

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering

Spanish Language And Literature

Minor, Spanish Language And Literature