Leadership team
Executive leadership
Keith Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
Keith serves as chief executive officer of Vatica, responsible for overseeing daily operations and achieving the organization’s strategic objectives. He leads the team in serving national and regional health plan clients, as well as more than 13,000 contracted providers. Keith was formerly the general manager of Optum at Home (a DSNP health plan) and chief strategy officer for the Home and Community division. Previously, he held various general management, operational and strategy positions across Optum several divisions in the 18 years with the organization. Keith started his career in the financial sector before transitioning into healthcare.
Steve leveraged his diverse business background to cofound Vatica Health. He started and ran a division of a prominent investment bank focused on M&A and restructurings, practiced corporate law and was VP of business development for a technology company. He’s also the author of the book Rain Power and the founder of RiseUp Ventures, a non-profit teaching entrepreneurship to incarcerated individuals and ex-offenders.
Jennifer’s role at Vatica Health builds on her extensive experience leading finance operations for innovative healthcare organizations. She most recently served as CFO of ComplexCare Solutions (acquired by Inovalon) following CFO positions at Peak Health Solutions and Windsor Health Group.
Shannon is a certified nurse practitioner with over 25 years of clinical experience in adult health, including critical care, internal medicine and orthopedic surgery. She is also a certified risk adjustment coder. As the leader of clinical operations, she is responsible for provider services, including implementation, member engagement, training and ongoing clinical support.
Senior leadership
Whitney Chernoff brings 20 years of healthcare technology experience as a client management executive and transformational business leader. As the executive vice president of customer success at Vatica Health, Whitney leads the PCP and payer client engagement teams as well as Vatica’s Physician Advisory Board, ensuring PCP and market feedback drives technology, innovation and product strategy.
Loy is Vatica’s senior vice president of data fabric engineering and chief architect. He led the company’s software offering from its initial demo to full launch in late 2011. As one of four primary employees who laid the foundation for Vatica’s core product, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the organization’s technical vision. Loy also oversaw the transition to a cloud-native architecture and continues to work with the product and technology teams to scale the platform and adopt emerging technologies. He currently leads the enterprise data platform (EDP), which leverages multiple data lakes and software to provide data-driven insights across the Vatica ecosystem.
Lindsay is a licensed attorney with extensive experience in legal and compliance roles at various healthcare organizations, including medical supply distribution, wound care, and health care technology companies. As the leader of the legal and compliance functions at Vatica, she is responsible for overseeing contracting and other legal matters as well as regulatory and contractual compliance at the company.
Eric Wallace
SVP, Provider Sales
Eric is responsible for growing provider partnerships at Vatica. He led growth in both health plan and venture-backed start-up organizations, where he's developed and implemented innovative payer-provider collaborations. He was most recently SVP, provider network contracting and population health for NYC-based health plan EmblemHealth, and prior to that he was part of the founding teams at Lumeris and Aetna/Healthagen.
Andrea Kusick serves as the head of the finance team at Vatica, bringing over two decades of experience in financial services and strategic advisory. Prior to joining Vatica, she spent 10 years in financial planning & analysis (FP&A) consulting, where she spearheaded strategic initiatives and delivered executive-level guidance across financial and operational disciplines. Her career includes leadership roles at prominent firms, including Morgan Stanley, where she held the position of vice president in real estate portfolio management.
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