Leadership.

Steve Sell is an experienced, mission-based CEO known for transforming organizations through partnerships, product innovations and talented, collaborative teams. He has designed, built, and run multiple high-growth organizations that navigated and capitalized on periods of tremendous environmental change.

Most recently he served as the President, CEO and Chairman of Health Net (Centene’s largest subsidiary) from 2016-2019 where he was responsible for the strategy, execution and financial performance of a $14B business with 7,300 employees and 3 million members in Medicare, Medicaid and Commercial. As CEO and Chairman, he re-tooled the company’s multi-line strategy, rebuilt the entire senior team, expanded key provider partnerships and migrated core system platforms while exceeding the company’s financial plan by 10+% annually.

In all, Steve spent 22 years with Health Net, its subsidiaries and predecessor companies. Steve serves as an advisor to multiple health start-up companies and volunteers in the education world by serving on several local and national boards.

Lisa has served as our Chief Experience & Innovation Officer since February 2021.  Since joining agilon health in March 2017, Lisa has held various senior executive positions, including Senior Vice President and Chief of Communications in Planning and Strategic Development and Senior Vice President, Innovation and Growth. Prior to joining agilon health, Ms. Dombro led the development of services and strategies which fueled success in value-based care for national organizations such as Fresenius Medical Care North America, Sound Physicians, and Surgical Care Affiliates.  Lisa received a B.S. from Miami University. 

Tim joined as Chief Financial Officer in January 2021. Previously, he has served as the CFO PepsiCo Americas Foods, most recently as the CFO Blue Apron, and brings more than 30 years of experience in scaling businesses and delivering consistent performance. At PepsiCo, Inc., Tim held a variety of finance leadership roles, including heading Financial Planning and Analysis, Supply Chain Finance, PepsiCo’s Global Transformation Group, and serving as the CFO of Pepsi-Cola North America and ultimately PepsiCo Americas Foods, a division of PepsiCo with approximately $23 billion in revenue at the time. Mr. Bensley served as the CFO at Blue Apron, a $500 million public e-commerce company. Mr. Bensley received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Upon graduating, he spent five years as an Officer in the U.S. Army, where he progressed to Captain and served as a Company Commander.

Veeral Desai is deeply passionate about healthcare delivery and transformation.  He has served in several executive leadership roles since joining agilon health in early 2017. He joined as President, Enterprise Operations where he oversaw the development of agilon health operating platform, including risk adjustment, human capital, data & analytics, and payer delegated functions. Veeral held operating responsibility for our markets spanning the Western and Eastern regions of the company. In his current role as Chief Strategy and Development Officer, he leads business development, corporate strategy, new market implementation, and product development for the company.

Prior to joining agilon health, Veeral served in several senior executive roles at Vantage Oncology and McKesson. He was President of Operations for Vantage’s cancer delivery network and Chief Operating Officer of the Vantage Cancer Care Network, an innovative model for value based cancer care. Before Vantage, Veeral spent nearly a decade as a leader in the healthcare practice of Bain & Company. Veeral earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lyn brings 15 years of experience providing legal counsel to healthcare companies, both as in-house counsel, as well as in private practice. Prior to agilon health, Lyn served as Deputy General Counsel for Alignment Healthcare, and prior to that, CareMore Health Systems, where Lyn oversaw the day to day legal matters for the company, and partnered with, and advised company leadership to advance business operations. She led the development of legal department processes and operations to increase effectiveness and efficiency and has extensive experience in managed care and value-based contracting, complex business transactions and contract negotiations, corporate governance, intellectual property, compliance and regulatory matters, privacy, employment and labor, and litigation management.

Before serving as in-house counsel, Lyn practiced health law at Epstein, Becker & Green, and K&R Law Group. Lyn earned her JD from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, a Master’s in Public Health from Saint Louis University, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco.

Prior to joining agilon health in 2017, as Ohio Market President, Ben served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Mount Carmel Health Partners, a clinically integrated network, part of Trinity Network. He was responsible for a network of 1,800 providers and more than 190,000 covered lives across ten value-based contracts.

Under his leadership at agilon health, he led the growth of the Central region from one to six markets over three years. Early 2020, he was named Chief Markets Officer, overseeing all 11 of the market partnerships that are on the agilon health platform today.

His education includes a B.A. in Economics from Youngstown State University and a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from the Ohio State University.

Dr. Kornitzer joins agilon health with broad clinical and operational experience leading a diverse range of medical enterprises, including community-based practices, ACOs, IPAs, and integrated ambulatory networks. He served as Chief Medical Officer of the Mount Sinai Health Network for six years, where Dr. Kornitzer oversaw one of the premier academic delivery networks in the country as the system developed robust population health tools, quality programs, care coordination resources, and invested in practice transformation.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Kornitzer had operational and strategic positions at leading community-based healthcare organizations focused on quality and value, including Balance ACO and House Calls Medical Group. In addition to his clinical and operational roles, Dr. Kornitzer previously served as a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he worked with U.S and foreign governments, hospital systems, and pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Kornitzer earned his medical degree with AOA honors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed his residency at Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital.

Mat Varghese joined agilon health in October 2021 as the Chief People Officer. In this capacity, Mat will lead the advancement and execution of agilon health’s employee development, growth and talent acquisition strategy.

Mat brings nearly 20 years of experience years in various HR leadership roles at large multi-national organizations such as General Mills, General Electrical, Arthur J. Gallagher Inc. and R1 RCM Inc. In his last role at R1 RCM, Mat was responsible for a broad mandate relating to HR strategy for the delivery and operations organization. He brings human resources management experiences across multiple industries, with a record of scaling HR within global businesses and implementing cost-effective business processes. He holds a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations (MILR) degree from Michigan State University and a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from the University of Michigan. Mat resides in Barrington, IL.

Steve Sell is an experienced, mission-based CEO known for transforming organizations through partnerships, product innovations and talented, collaborative teams. He has designed, built, and run multiple high-growth organizations that navigated and capitalized on periods of tremendous environmental change.

Most recently he served as the President, CEO and Chairman of Health Net (Centene’s largest subsidiary) from 2016-2019 where he was responsible for the strategy, execution and financial performance of a $14B business with 7,300 employees and 3 million members in Medicare, Medicaid and Commercial. As CEO and Chairman, he re-tooled the company’s multi-line strategy, rebuilt the entire senior team, expanded key provider partnerships and migrated core system platforms while exceeding the company’s financial plan by 10+% annually.

In all, Steve spent 22 years with Health Net, its subsidiaries and predecessor companies. Steve serves as an advisor to multiple health start-up companies and volunteers in the education world by serving on several local and national boards.

Karen McLoughlin joined the agilon health board of directors in July 2021.  From 2012 – 2020, Ms McLoughlin was the Chief Financial Officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions (“Cognizant”).  Prior to being named CFO in 2012, Karen was Senior Vice-President, Enterprise Transformation and Financial Planning & Analysis.

Prior to joining Cognizant in 2003, Karen spent six years at Spherion Corporation (acquired by Randstad in 2011) and three years at Ryder System Inc. where she held key financial management positions. Prior to joining Ryder, she spent six years in the South Florida Practice of Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).

Karen currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Best Buy since September 2015. She is the chairperson of the finance and investment policy committee and a member of the audit committee.

Karen obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Wellesley College and her MBA from Columbia University

Ronald A. Williams is Chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises, LLC and is the former Chairman and CEO of health insurance giant Aetna Inc.  Mr. Williams is the bestselling author of “Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization”, where he provides tested leadership advice, whether you’re searching for a new career, looking for proven management solutions, or seeking to transform an organization. Developed from Mr. Williams’s own personal and professional journey, as well as the experiences of some of America’s leading CEOs, his strategies emerge from engaging stories, outlined with practical steps that will help you achieve your most important career and life goals.

Mr. Williams focuses his energy on private equity, values-based leadership and transformational change, and health care value creation.  Through his firm, RW2 Enterprises, Mr. Williams counsels C-Suite corporate executives on strategy and transformational leadership.  He is Operating Advisor to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice and serves as Chairman of portfolio company agilon health.  He is Lead Director of American Express and Director of The Boeing Company and Johnson & Johnson.

Mr. Williams became president and joined Aetna’s Board in 2002 (Aetna had a full year 2001 continuing operations loss of – $0.46 per share for a $292 million loss).  In 2006, he became chairman and CEO.  Under his leadership, Aetna was named FORTUNE’s most admired company in the Health Care: Insurance and Managed Care category for three consecutive years.  In 2011, the year he retired, Aetna had full-year operating earnings of $5.17 per share. The Market capitalization grew from $4.7 billion in 2001 to $15.3 billion in 2011 and the company ranked 77th on the Fortune 100 list.

Mr. Williams is Chairman of The Conference Board, a member of the President’s Circle of the National Academies and a member of the Cleveland Clinic Board of Trustees.  He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development.  He served on President Obama’s President’s Management Advisory Board from 2011 to 2017.

He is a graduate of Roosevelt University and holds an M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Sachdev joined Clayton Dubilier & Rice in 2015. He has played a key role in the firm’s investments in agilon health, Covetrus, naviHealth, and Tranzact.

Previously, he served as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Healthcare Services at J.P. Morgan, advising senior healthcare company executives on strategic initiatives, M&A and capital markets. In that role, Mr. Sachdev advised on multiple transactions including the sale of Medco to Express Scripts, Vanguard to Tenet, Trizetto to Cognizant, and the IPOs of HealthEquity, SCA, Premier, and IMS Health.

He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Sharad Mansukani, M.D., has served as a director of Agilon Health since 2017. Dr. Mansukani also serves as a Senior Advisor to TPG, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Convey Health Solutions.

Dr. Mansukani served as Chairman of the board of directors to Envision Rx Options from 2013 to 2016; a strategic advisor to the board of Director at Cigna Corp. from 2012 to 2015; Vice Chairman, Board of Directors of Health Spring, Inc. from 2007-2012; a director of IMS Health Holdings, Inc. from 2009 to 2016; a director of Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc from 2007 to 2017; as lead director of IASIS Healthcare from 2005-2018; and a director of Kindred Healthcare, Inc. from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Mansukani also has served as a Senior Advisor on Medicare’s Program Advisory and Oversight Committee to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and senior vice president and chief medical officer at Health Partners.

Dr. Mansukani completed a residency and fellowship in ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a fellowship in quality management and managed care at the Wharton School of Business. He is a graduate of the Managed Care Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Business. We believe Dr. Mansukani is a valuable member of our board because of his experience as a medical professional, including in his positions working for government agencies and his experience on other healthcare companies’ boards.

Mr. Schnall has been with Clayton Dubilier & Rice for 21 years and is a member of the Investment and Management Committees. He is responsible for the acquisitions and subsequent sales of AssuraMed, Diversey, Envision Healthcare, PharMEDium, Sally Beauty and VWR; the acquisitions of agilon health, Brakes Group, David’s Bridal, Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, Healogics and US Foods; and the sale of Alliant Foods.

Previously, Mr. Schnall worked in the investment banking divisions of Smith Barney & Co. and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. He is a Director of agilon health, David’s Bridal, Drive, Healogics and US Foods.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Michael L. Smith served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Anthem, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield from April 1999 until his retirement in January 2005.  He joined Anthem in 1996 as Chief Operating Officer of a subsidiary, American Health Network.

Prior to joining Anthem, Mike was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mayflower Group, Inc from 1989 to 1995.  Mayflower operated a worldwide relocation service and provided school and public passenger transportation in 30 states.  He held various other management positions at Mayflower from 1974 to 1989.  He started his business career in the Indianapolis office of Arthur Andersen & Co. following his graduation from DePauw University in 1970.

Mike has served on the boards of several public companies including Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc., Vectren Corporation, Kite Realty Group, Calumet Specialty Products Partners, LP, First Indiana Corporation and GoHealth, Inc.  He is currently the Chairman of Ldi Ltd, LLC and a director of several private health related businesses including Drive Medical and Carestream Health, Inc.

Mike has also served as a Director of several charitable and civic organizations. Currently he serves on the Board of Trustees of DePauw University, Riley Children’s Foundation and the Christian Theological Seminary.

Mike is a founding member and advisor to Cardinal Equity Fund, a mid-market private equity investment fund headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Mr. Strum joined CD&R in 2003 and is currently a Partner focused on healthcare investments. In addition to agilon health, he has played a key role in CD&R’s investments in AssuraMed, Carestream Dental, Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, Envision Healthcare, Healogics, PharMEDium and VWR International. He currently serves as a Director of agilon health, Carestream Dental, Drive DeVilbiss and Healogics.

He also serves on the Board of the Digestive Disease Research Foundation. Prior to CD&R, he worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley and at York Capital Management, a multi-strategy investment firm.

Mr. Strum graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in economics and earned an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Dr. Bill Wulf is the first physician Chief Executive Officer of COPC, assuming this position in 2013.  Prior to this role, he served as the Corporate Medical Director of COPC for seven years. Bringing over 30 years of leadership in Primary Care delivery he was a leader among the founding physicians that helped establish COPC, Inc. in 1996. COPC, as an independent physician owned organization, has grown to over 430 physicians in 80 locations in central Ohio.

Dr. Wulf is a member of the COPC board of directors and serves on the board of agilon health. He is also on the board of directors and is the chair-elect of America’s Physician Group (APG).

As a board certified internist, he received his Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. Dr. Wulf previously operated a private practice in Columbus.

Dr. Michelle A. Gourdine has served as a director of agilon health since Jan 2021 and is passionate about reducing healthcare inequality. Besides being a primary care physician, health policy specialist, and expert in preventive health and wellness,  Dr. Gourdine has gained acclaim as an author for her book, Reclaiming Our Health:  A Guide to African American Wellness (Yale University Press, April 2011).

She is a frequent speaker for organizations including the American Diabetes Association, the American Cancer Society, the Institute of Medicine, Howard University, and the National Association of Health Services Executives.

Dr. Gourdine is SVP and Chief Medical Officer (interim) for the University of Maryland Medical System, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Senior Associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the former Deputy Secretary of Health and Chief Public Health Physician for the state of Maryland and former Health Commissioner for Baltimore County.