Profile
Jake is a proven healthcare innovator, transformational leader and continuous student of healthcare’s transition to value based care. He brings over 15 years of healthcare experience serving in a variety of leadership roles with payers, providers, healthcare service and technology companies.
Jake is an expert in provider sponsored initiatives and value-based programs that deliver results to health plans and population health managers, bringing meaningful change to healthcare consumers, payers and providers.
His collaborative, inclusive leadership style is based on experience across diverse, challenging, change environments where he has directed enterprise-wide cross functional teams including: Network Development, Provider Relations, Care Management, Customer Operations, Claims Operations, Laboratory Services, Pharmacy Operations, Revenue Cycle, Sales, Account Management, Marketing, and Finance.
Possessing a range of general management experiences, Jake is able to rapidly understand organizational strategy, developing a sharp focus on key growth and cost objectives that drive performance while establishing a decision framework that is respected through the enterprise. Above all, he values integrity, trust, respect and a commitment to excellence.
As a scholar of healthcare, Jake is constantly learning and evolving his knowledge for how we can improve the purchase, consumption and delivery of healthcare in America. He has published several white papers and analysis on health care trends. He has served as an advisor to a variety of healthcare service and provider organizations while helping secure capital to fund growth strategies with corporate and early stage firms.
Jake holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from Austin College and an Executive MBA from Southern Methodist University. He enjoys running, cycling, yoga, the great outdoors and working with local charitable organizations.