Leadership

Donald Trigg

Donald Trigg has spent almost two decades seeking to leverage technology and data to systemically improve health care worldwide. Don most recently served as president of Fortune 500 health care IT leader Cerner Corporation. As President, he held general management, P&L, and operational responsibilities for the full breadth of Cerner’s business groups.

Prior to his role as President, Don held diverse leadership roles at the company, from executive vice president of Strategic Growth where he built what would reach almost a $1 billion in topline revenue businesses to managing director of the United Kingdom and Ireland, to general manager of the U.S. Midwest region, to the first-ever vice president of Cerner’s government practice. Don also has extensive experience scaling early-stage growth businesses. He led the execution of CodeRyte’s rapid growth plan, culminating in its acquisition by 3M in 2012. 

Don earned a BS from St. Lawrence University and is co-author of The New Health Economy: Ground Rules for Leaders (Georgetown University Press).

Ryan Schmid

Ryan Schmid, founder and President of Vera Whole Health, is set on transforming our reactive sick care system into the life-giving, life-empowering industry it was meant to be. He believes that health, as defined by the World Health Organization, is a “... state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” And he believes that at the foundation of this new, transformed healthcare system is empathy.

Ryan is also the co-founder of Hope Central Pediatric and Behavior Health and Rainier Health and Fitness, non-profits dedicated to improving the health and well-being of people in low-income areas.

Ryan earned an M.B.A. at Seattle University and holds a B.S. in Business, with a focus on Entrepreneurship and Management, from the University of Oregon.

Sarah Cole

Sarah Cole, Chief of Staff, leads Vera’s Finance, People Strategy, and Learning and Development teams. She works closely with Vera’s sales and customer success teams to provide strategic perspective to contract development and believes that careful research, thoughtful partnership, and disciplined planning help Vera to align with customers to achieve their goals.

Sarah previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, for T-Mobile, and in economic development.

Since 2009, Sarah has been involved with Friends of the Children, as both Board President and a Board Member, and most recently as an avid supporter.

Sarah is a CPA and holds a B.A. in Accounting and Marketing from the University of Washington and an E.M.B.A. from Seattle University.

Herbert Cummings

Herbert Cummings is Chief Clinical Operations Officer and leads Clinical Operations, Clinical Management, Clinic Transformation and Care Center Performance Management. Herbert believes health care transformation begins with the ability to meet patient social, emotional, and economic needs through the coordination of care based in an advanced primary care model.

Herbert previously held the roles of Chief Operating Offer of the Virginia Medical Group at Bon Secours Mercy Health and Chief Operations Officer of Capital Area Health Network playing instrumental roles in both organizations growing the number of providers, locations and clinical services offered.

Herbert received an MSPH in Public Health Administration at Meharry Medical College and a B.S. in Biology/Chemistry at Tennessee State University.

Kevin Wang

Kevin is Chief Medical Officer at Vera, leading our Quality, Provider, Managed Care, and Product Development teams. Central to Kevin’s role is enhancing the Vera Whole Health clinical capabilities to improve quality, patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and care team satisfaction in arrangements with increasing outcomes-based risk.  

Kevin previously worked at HealthCare Partners/DaVita Medical Group, Evolent Health, and Huron Consulting Group where he successfully designed and implemented population health clinical interventions across diverse healthcare landscapes including health plans, academic medical centers, employer-based care centers, integrated delivery systems, large physician groups, and independent community hospitals.

Kevin’s training was in the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, an affiliate of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Kevin holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from New York Medical College.

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Ronald Williams

Chairman of the Board, Vera Whole Health and Operating Advisor to CD&R Funds. Former Chairman and CEO of Aetna. Board member of agilon health (Chairman), Boeing, Johnson & Johnson and American Express.  Former Chairman of PharMEDium, Envision Healthcare, and naviHealth.

Ryan Schmid

Co-founder, President & CEO, Vera Whole Health. Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Hope Central Pediatrics & Behavioral Health. Co-founder Rainier Health & Fitness, a nonprofit health and fitness center.

Harry L. Eichelberger

Founder of Archimedes Health Investors, a healthcare-focused private equity firm. Harry has been an investor in healthcare companies for 13 years, including companies such as SmartPak, Physician's Oncology Services, AccentCare Home Health, Accretive Health, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and RainTree Oncology Services. He has also led interactions with health policymakers in Washington as a past board member of the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare.

Jared Kesselheim, MD

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Leerink Transformation Partners and co-leader of the firm's growth equity investing in healthcare information technology and services. Prior to forming LTP in 2016, Jared was a Partner and the leader of the healthcare investing practice at Bain Capital Ventures. Jared also completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Daniel Malconian

CD&R Principal. Board member of Carestream Dental and Drive DeVilbiss. Plays a key role in CD&R’s investments in agilon health, Millennium Physician Group and SmileDirectClub. Previously held positions at Advent International and Bain & Company.

Dan Mendelson

CEO of Morgan Health at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Board member of Champions Oncology (CSBR), adjunct professor at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. Director of Coventry Healthcare, HMS Holdings, Pharmerica, Partners in Primary Care, Centrexion, and Audacious Inquiry. Previously held positions as founder and CEO Avalere Health and Operating Partner at Welsh Carson.

Ravi Sachdev

CD&R Partner. Board member of agilon health (Vice Chairman), Covetrus, Steve Madden, Millennium Physician Group, and the Healthcare Private Equity Association. Former Director of naviHealth. Former Co-Head of Healthcare Services at J.P. Morgan.