Leadership team
Executive Leadership
TRAVIS DALTON
President,
Chief Executive Officer
With over 20 years of leadership experience focused on enabling better outcomes for patients and providers while reducing the overall cost of healthcare, Travis currently serves as President & Chief Executive Officer of MultiPlan where he oversees the execution of the Company’s mission and growth strategy. Prior to joining MultiPlan, Travis held the role of General Manager & Executive Vice President of Oracle Health where he had global responsibility for growth, delivery, support and health client accounts in 32 countries. Travis also served in numerous leadership roles at Cerner during his tenure with the Company including President and Chief Client & Services officer where he worked closely with commercial and global clients and in the government sector, the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration. Travis earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from The Ohio State University.
DOUG GARIS
Chief Financial Officer
Doug is an accomplished finance executive with distinct global public markets expertise. He leads Multiplan’s finance and accounting team and specializes in FP&A, corporate strategy, capital deployment, and financial operations. Prior to joining the Company, Doug was the CFO of Oracle’s largest vertical industry – Oracle Health and Life Sciences following Oracle’s $28 billion acquisition of Cerner in 2022 (previously Head of FP&A at Cerner). He began his career at PwC and held multiple financial leadership roles at Masonite International Corporation. Doug holds an MBA in finance from The University of Tampa’s Skyes School of Business.
JERRY HOGGE
Chief Operations Officer
With over 30 years of executive leadership experience focused on sales, product development, strategy, and large-scale operations, Jerry serves as Executive Vice President & Chief Operations Officer of MultiPlan. In this role, he is focused on overseeing company-wide operations to ensure alignment and efficiency with delivering MultiPlan’s current product portfolio and position the organization for scalable growth across new product offerings and new vertical markets. Prior to joining MultiPlan, Jerry served in several senior executive leadership roles at CALIBRE Systems, MITRE and Military and Veterans Health Solutions at Leidos.
MICHAEL KIM
Chief Information Officer
Michael oversees the Company’s technology organization. He has nearly 20 years of experience leading large IT organizations including major insurance companies such as The Hartford Property and Casualty Company and Torus Insurance.
WILLIAM MINTZ
Senior Vice President,
Corporate Affairs & Strategy
With more than 20 years of leadership experience in healthcare, William oversees Government Affairs, Marketing & Communications, and Corporate Development. Prior to joining the company, William served as the Chief Operations Officer of Oracle Health, where he led a variety of corporate teams and initiatives including the integration of Cerner. He previously served in senior leadership roles with Cerner Corporation, Leidos Holdings, Care3, Aetna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. William received his MBA from Yale School of Management.
CAROL NUTTER
Chief People Officer
Carol is responsible for developing, promoting and executing the people strategy in support of the Company’s current needs and future growth objectives. She has over 20 years of experience leading people functions and has a deep knowledge of traditional human capital specialties and transformational business strategies. Prior to joining MultiPlan, Carol held several executive leadership positions in both emerging companies and large global corporations including Optoro, Promontory Financial Group, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
TARA O'NEIL
General Counsel
With over 30 years of healthcare experience, Tara oversees MultiPlan’s multi-disciplinary legal organization, including legal, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, client and provider contracting, and provides comprehensive support for the Company’s talent acquisition and management needs. Prior to her current role, Tara served as Deputy General Counsel of MultiPlan among other legal roles with the Company. She also has an established history of providing strategic and practical business insights, leadership, mentoring and team development.
Senior Leadership
MONICA ARMSTRONG
Chief Strategy Officer,
National Accounts
Monica is responsible for leading the National Accounts Sales & Account Management team with a focus on optimizing and executing the Company’s Growth Plan within our National Accounts’ client segment. Throughout her 25 year healthcare career, she has successfully and consistently built and expanded long-term relationships with payors across several market sectors including National and Regional Carriers, Third-Party Administrators, Unions, and Specialty Healthcare Payors.
ANDREW CONE
Chief Revenue Officer
Andrew oversees sales, client relationships, and growth across our Regional Health Plan, Third Party Administrator, Government, and Property & Casualty markets. His over 30 years of experience is defined by successful positions in leadership, exceptional growth results, and a strong focus on healthcare information technology, services and solutions. Prior to joining MultiPlan, Andrew has held senior executive positions at Optum, Icario, and Volant Ventures.
SEAN CRANDELL
Senior Vice President,
Healthcare Economics
Sean oversees the Company’s Healthcare Economics team and is responsible for strategic analytic advisory regarding the delivery and design of healthcare services to our clients, provider partners and MultiPlan stakeholders. Sean has over 20 years of diverse healthcare industry experience working at Viant Health Payment Solutions, Texas True Choice and Corporate Health Plans of America. Sean holds a MBA from Baylor University, Hankamer School of Business.
JAMES HEAD
Strategic Advisor
Jim served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Company from November, 2021 to August, 2024. Prior to that he served as a Partner at BDT & Company, LLC from 2016 until March 2021 and, prior to that, worked at Morgan Stanley for 22 years where he held various executive leadership roles, including Co-Head of the Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring Group, Americas from 2013 to 2016; Co-Head of the Financial Institutions M&A Group, Americas from 2008 to 2013; and Managing Director from 2003 to 2016.
PETER HENRY
Vice President,
Corporate and Government Affairs
With nearly 20 years of experience working as congressional staff and in government affairs, Peter is responsible for cultivating engagement with government policy makers, trade associations and other entities to advance our public policy priorities for MultiPlan. Prior to joining the Company, Peter served as Senior Director, Corporate Affairs at both Oracle Health and Cerner and was responsible for policy development and government affairs strategy supporting engagement and growth strategies to improve the delivery of healthcare. Prior to that, he spent over a decade working in Washington, DC, where he served in various congressional staff positions, including as a legislative director in the US Senate.
MELISSA HUMPHREY
Senior Vice President,
Marketing and Communications
Melissa oversees the marketing and communications strategy for the Company. She has held various marketing leadership positions in healthcare technology and analytics over the past 20 years, including Gainwell Technologies, HMS, Signify Health and Vizient. Throughout her career, she has launched startups and built new marketing departments, as well as transformed existing teams into high-performing, revenue-generating marketing organizations. Melissa’s varied experience includes a passion for partnering with sales teams to create and achieve revenue growth strategies, as well as transitioning and building brands through key growth periods.
Curren Katz
Chief Data Science Officer, PhD
Dr. Curren Katz leads the strategic direction and Data Science teams for MultiPlan where she unifies the company’s efforts and accelerate our expertise in data science and AI. Curren brings 15+ years of transformation, data, and AI experience from across the healthcare continuum – payer, provider, and pharmaceutical. She joined MultiPlan from Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) pharmaceuticals, where she served most recently as Global Head, Strategic Business Transformation after leading Data Science and Digital Health. Prior to J&J, Curren spent five years at Highmark Health, founding and leading the enterprise Data Science department covering payor and provider markets, with responsibility for strategic partnerships, AI Governance, and other key growth drivers. She received her doctorate from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, master’s from Harvard University, and bachelor’s from New York University.
CHRIS KEMP
Senior Vice President,
Provider Markets
With over 20 years of working in the healthcare industry, Chris is responsible for building and maintaining customer relationships with key stakeholders, including: healthcare providers, hospital systems, medical groups, and other industry partners. Prior to joining MultiPlan, Chris served as an Area Vice-President at LeanTaaS, a healthcare AI and predictive analytics firm, where he helped to grow the company through channel and provider relationships. Much of his earlier career was at Cerner Corporation in various growth and sales leadership positions developing Federal, Commercial and Specialty markets for their EHR, Population Health and Life Sciences Solutions.
DEREK REIS-LARSON
Senior Vice President,
Claims Pricing Services
Derek leads MultiPlan’s Payment & Revenue Integrity and Analytics-Based Services, as well as the Company’s network operations. Prior to his current role, Derek served for 15 years as Vice President of Operations, and has held leadership positions at MultiPlan across claims, network, and customer service, and has managed a number of large-scale integrations. He holds a MFA from the California College of the Arts.
ANDREA ROWE
Senior Vice President,
Product
In her role, Andrea is responsible for the Company’s product vision, strategies and long term growth. During her tenure with MultiPlan, she held various leadership positions within Operations, IT and Integrations, such as delivery of web portals, ensuring service excellence through optimization of healthcare claims and service operations, and led integration of acquired entities. Prior to joining MultiPlan, she served in increasingly strategic roles with Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield within claim operations, dental product line, and in a large platform migration.
BRUCE SINGLETON
Senior Vice President,
Network Development Strategy
Bruce leads MultiPlan’s Network-Based Services. His team grows and refines provider network relationships and identifies and implements new network solutions. He has over 20 years of experience leading network development strategy for some of the industry’s leading organizations including Aetna, Coventry Health and Concentra. He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Accounting.
ALWYN VAN HEERDEN
Vice President,
Strategy and Corporate Development
Al oversees the execution of all merger and acquisition (M&A) and partnership activities while also supporting strategic initiatives aligned with best-in-class finance processes for the Company. Al has more than 14 years of experience in M&A, partnerships and structuring financings. Prior to joining MultiPlan, Al served as Senior Director, Corporate Development at Elevance Health (formerly Anthem, Inc.) where he led strategic acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and other strategic relationships. In addition, Al has a background in investment banking with financial firms Rothschild, Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital and started his career in consulting. Al holds an MBA from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester and is a CFA charterholder.
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