As CEO of Echo Health Ventures, Rob leads the company's efforts to identify, invest in and grow innovative companies that enable and deliver a transformed experience to health care consumers nationwide. As part of Echo's unique partnership with its parents, Rob works closely with the senior management teams and board of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions to support collaboration with Echo's portfolio companies, accelerate Cambia and Mosaic's strategies and more quickly bring health care innovation to national scale.Rob has more than 20 years of experience in health care venture capital and business building. Before founding Echo, Rob served as the President of Cambia Health Solutions' diversified business unit (Direct Health Solutions). In this role, Rob oversaw Cambia's wholly-owned operating companies (including cost and quality transparency market leader HealthSparq; ancillary benefits provider LifeMap) as well as its venture and private equity investing activities. Rob joined Cambia in 2010 to launch and build the company's diversification and corporate venture investment efforts. Under Rob’s leadership, Cambia invested in nearly 20 companies.

Tracing our origin to the first health plan in the U.S., Cambia Health Solutions – the $9 billion revenue parent company to numerous health care businesses, including the four Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans - is a total health solutions company building a diverse family of disruptive health care businesses. Historically, Cambia’s core business has been health insurance – its health plans are the market leaders in the Pacific Northwest. However, the U.S. health insurance industry is in the midst of massive disruptive change as a result of demographic mega-trends, growing economic pressure and federal and state level reform. Through its Direct Health Solutions division, Cambia pursues an investment strategy which is rooted in our mission to create a more economically sustainable and person-focused health care system. The companies we build and invest in support products and services that address the needs of our traditional stakeholders (consumers, employers and physicians) and provide unique and specialized services for consumers with or without insurance.As President of Direct Health Solutions, Rob leads Cambia’s health solutions businesses, including the portfolio of wholly-owned companies and strategic investments. In this role, Rob accelerates Cambia’s work in investing in and building companies that enable and deliver a transformed experience to health care consumers nationwide. Rob joined Cambia in 2010, and has led the company’s diversification and strategic investment efforts. Under Rob’s leadership, Cambia has invested in nearly 20 companies. Rob also cofounded the Cambia Grove in 2015, an innovation center focused on the Pacific Northwest’s emerging health care economic cluster. At the Cambia Grove, innovators and entrepreneurs can work closely together with regional stakeholders to find solutions to pressing health care challenges.

Tracing our origin to the first health plan in the U.S., Cambia Health Solutions – the $9 billion revenue parent company to numerous health care businesses, including the four Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans - is investing in a diverse portfolio of disruptive health care businesses. Historically, Cambia’s core business has been health insurance – its health plans are the market leaders in the Pacific Northwest. However, the U.S. health insurance industry is in the midst of massive disruptive change as a result of demographic mega-trends, growing economic pressure and federal and state level reform. Through its Direct Health Solutions division, Cambia pursues an investment strategy which is rooted in our mission to create a more economically sustainable and person-focused health care system. Our investments support products and services that address the needs of our traditional stakeholders (consumers, employers and physicians) and provide unique and specialized services for consumers with or without insurance.

The Pacific Northwest is a hotbed of innovation in technology, service delivery and health care. The accelerating convergence technology and services in the health care industry, driven by the need for clinical and administrative efficiencies, the need for a more consumer-focused system and imperative that best practices and new therapies be quickly assessed and efficiently make their way into the workflow, is creating a unique opportunity for the cluster of technology enabled health care services companies in this region.innovateHealth has been formed by a group of regional stakeholders to support the development of this innovative business cluster. We will organize regular events in Seattle and Portland to bring the community together and provide a platform for regional innovators to introduce their companies to a broader national and global audience. We will also focus on promoting the region as the best place in the country to launch new technology enabled health care companies.

Manager of health care services and health care information technology venture capital funds

Manager of health care services and health care information technology venture capital funds

Manager of health care services and health care information technology venture capital funds

Manager of health care services and health care information technology venture capital funds

Reviewed applicants for the program that later became Medicare Health Support