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DAVID J. BRAILER, MD, PhD

David J. Brailer, MD, PhD, chairman of Health Evolution Partners, has sought to drive positive change in health care in his work as a physician, researcher, teacher, entrepreneur and policymaker. He earned his MD at West Virginia University, completed internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and earned his PhD in health economics at The Wharton School. Dr. Brailer taught in Wharton’s MBA curriculum for ten years.

Dr. Brailer founded CareScience, Inc. and served as Chairman and CEO from inception, through its IPO and until its sale in 2002. CareScience led the market in development of care management, outcomes analysis and health information exchange under his leadership.

President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Brailer as the first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and he served in this role from May 2004 through May 2006. Dr. Brailer oversaw the President's Executive Order, which called for widespread deployment of health information technology within ten years to help realize substantial improvements in safety and efficiency.

NINA LABATT, MBA


Nina Labatt is Chief Financial Officer and she is responsible for financial management and reporting, operations, human resources, and communications. She currently serves on the board of directors of the VCBC, the industry association for venture capital finance professionals.

Before joining Health Evolution Partners she spent five years in a similar role at Labrador Ventures. Previously, Ms. Labatt spent six years at Goldman Sachs in New York where she worked in investment banking division departments, including Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, and Principal Investing. She spent one additional year in Corporate Finance with Montgomery Securities before moving into operations management for Nice Ventures where she was CFO, PeoplePC where she was Director of Operations, and Saints Ventures where she was a Managing Director and CFO.

Ms. Labatt received her bachelor’s degree in Economics with Honors and her master’s degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School.


JEFFREY RIDEOUT, MD, MA, FACP


Dr. Rideout is Chief Medical Officer and is responsible for accessing, managing and using cutting edge knowledge about innovations and industry change in health care to benefit HEP’s partners, portfolio companies and investment professionals. Dr. Rideout leads Health Evolution Partners’ Purchaser Value Initiative.
 

Dr. Rideout currently serves as a member of the American Health Information Community (AHIC’s) Chronic Care Workgroup for the US Department of Health and Human Services and is a member of the newly created National Quality Forum Task Force for Personal Health Records executive briefing series.
 

Before joining Health Evolution Partners, Dr. Rideout was the global leader of the health care division for Cisco Systems Internet Business Solutions Group, and Cisco’s Chief Medical Officer. He also provided strategic leadership for health benefit value purchasing decisions for Cisco’s 65,000 employees and dependents worldwide. Previously, Dr. Rideout was Chief Medical Officer and SVP for Blue Shield of California.
 

Dr. Rideout is a board certified internist. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. He also holds a master’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

 

ROY ZIEGLER


Roy Ziegler is responsible for venture stage investment activities at Health Evolution Partners. He has been in the health care information technology industry for over 25 years in consulting, entrepreneurial, operating and investment roles across the provider, payer and life sciences sectors.

Prior to Health Evolution Partners, Roy was a venture partner with Partech International focused on health care information technology early stage investing. Previously, he was an Executive Vice President at First Consulting Group (FCG) and was responsible for new business practices, managing large P&L’s, and making acquisitions to broaden the services portfolio.. Roy lead the company to over 40% CAGR and a successful IPO... Prior to joining FCG, he spent ten years at Accenture, where he worked on IT strategies and implementing software and enabling technologies in the health care industry.


Roy graduated cum laude from Pepperdine University where he received an undergraduate degree in Business Administration.


PARTNERS AND ADVISORS

 

CalPERS

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, CalPERS has committed up to $700M to Health Evolution Partners. CalPERS is the nation’s largest pension fund with assets of more than $245B, and is the nation’s third largest purchaser of health benefits.

 

Advisors to the Health Evolution Partners Innovation Network:

  • RICHARD H. CARMONA, MD, MPH, FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), Vice Chairman of Canyon Ranch; President, Canyon Ranch Institute; Distinguished Professor Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona;

  • DAVID M. LAWRENCE, MD, former chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente;

  • ARNOLD MILSTEIN, MD, MPH, co-founder of The Leapfrog Group; national leadership in making health care markets conducive to high value innovations;

  • MOLLY J. COYE, MD, MPH, founder and CEO of The Health Technology Center

Advisors to the Purchaser Value Initiative:

  • PETER V. LEE, executive director of national health policy for the Pacific Business Group on Health.

  • JOHN W. ROWE, MD, former chairman and CEO of Aetna and president and CEO of Mount Sinai NYU Health.

 

 

 

 

 


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