Focus Areas - FINANCE, INTEGRATIVE HEALTH, POLICYHealth Creation Innovator Develop strategies to utilize integrative practices that are cost-effective, patient-centered, and engage wellness to improved population health and health equity. Capacity to translate market opportunities and solutions based on ‘health creation’ trends. Astute investment advisor with particular expertise in integrative holistic healthcare and technology venture.Strategic and resourceful in connecting data, concepts, and stakeholders together to achieve goals. Leverage cross-sectional skills (finance/health/policy) to obtain actionable insights. Strengths in research and financial analysis, and project implementation. Pragmatic, adaptable, and a critical thinker – attuned to finding solutions ‘out side the box.’Major Accomplishments Strategic Effort Creates Productive Use of Resources for Impact• Strategically connected and negotiated two separate policy groups together in discovery of civic engagement and analytics tool, creating multi-functional relationships to achieve multi-faceted goals.Innovative Financing Mechanism for Funding Gap • Conceptualized and developed an innovative financing mechanism to address a gap in funding for integrative health to be utilized in cross-sectional areas: research and angel/venture funding or impact investing.Resourceful in Passing Legislation in MN• Successfully build relationships with key stakeholders to pass 2014 Integrative Health Bill (Amendment to Statue 146A) in MN legislature.• Researched, prepared, and articulated important policy committee arguments and performed detailed-analysis at junctures in the process that were critical to the bill passing.