A strategist who learned healthcare from the money side first.

I started in public financial management at Indiana University, the kind of training that makes you weirdly comfortable with budgets, policy, and the unglamorous mechanics of how big systems actually move money around. Healthcare was the natural follow-up: it's the largest, most consequential, most beautifully broken system we've got.

For nearly eight years at Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), I worked the full arc of the New York commercial business, from new-business hunter, to account leader, to running a $70M+ book of business as a Strategic Consultant, to most recently driving operations and strategic partnerships across the West region. Along the way I helped shape product, digital health, and underwriting strategy that touched the healthcare costs of more than a million people.

On the side, I spent a year as a Venture Fellow at VU Venture Partners, sourcing and diligencing healthcare startups. That experience reframed how I think about pace, conviction, and the gap between a beautiful pitch deck and an organization that can actually deliver.

Today, I'm Director of Payer Growth at Azara Healthcare, a role that sits exactly where I want to be: at the table where payer contracts, value-based care arrangements, and provider technology stop being three separate conversations and start being one strategy.

I recently completed a dual MBA / MS in Healthcare Leadership at Cornell Johnson (Class of 2026). And since 2019 I've served on the Junior Board of the Eagle Academy Foundation, supporting young men of color across six schools in NYC and New Jersey, because thought leadership without proximity isn't leadership.