Self-Directed  Pharmacy Benefit Solutions

Roy Wilkinson - Roy is a healthcare technology leader and entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of pharmacy benefit planning for over 30 years. He has been a Principal, Officer and Health & Welfare Practice Leader for the actuarial firms Milliman and The Segal Group. During his career, he has been the Founder and President of two healthcare benefit consulting and technology firms and created one of the first electronic prescribing applications for physician practices, helped develop an innovative wireless transport protocol, founded one of the first health insurance shopping and review companies, and was an early shareholder in a XML-based software company that was successfully acquired by Citrix. He has also served as Vice-Chairman of a leading national patient assistance program that provided free prescriptions medication to patients in need.

Greg Watanabe - Greg possesses over 25 years of executive experience with both public and private PBMs and has demonstrated a proven record of success in operations, business development and IT. He is both a pharmacist and an MBA and has delivered problem solving strategies to improve client retention and sales, strategic planning and business execution.. During his career Greg has served as President and COO of MedImpact, the largest privately-held PBM with 55 million lives; VP of Pharmacy Operations for Wellpoint Pharmacy Management, a PBM with 32 million lives and was acquired by Anthem; and SVP & General Manager for Argus Health Services (now DST Pharmacy Solutions), the largest provider of pharmacy benefit administrative services to insurance companies, BC/BS plans and regional health plans.

Michael Thompson - Michael has over 30 years of successful benefit consulting and claims administration experience with demonstrated expertise in claims processing, human resource management, account management and new business development. He was a Principal and Officer at both Mercer and Aon Hewitt, as well as serving as President of Johns Hopkins Healthcare. During his career, Michael has also served as President of several third-party administrators, including Susquehanna Administrators, CoreSource, and NCAS (owned by CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield). Additionally, he was Vice-Chair of a leading national patient assistance program providing free prescription drugs to patients in need.

Mark Lucente - Mark is a technology entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in software, cloud, and IT security for some of the most complex enterprises in North America. Mark enables healthcare companies to innovate the patient and member experience by leveraging HealthIT platforms. Most recently he was part of the leadership team that grew Zilker Technology to a successful acquisition by EY in October 2020. In his role as a Managing Partner, executive architect, and featured consultant for Zilker Technology, Mark worked directly with customers to help move from concepts to realized solutions. Mark has designed and implemented cutting edge HealthIT platforms that leverage Cloud, API Management, Business Process Orchestration, Distributed Ledger (e.g. blockchain), Machine Learning, Microservices, Mobile Application, IoT, Data Streaming, Externalized Business Rules, API & XML Security, and Cloud Security within the context of clinical and health insurance businesses.

Andy Krause - Andy is a chief technologist and inventor with very diverse and deep experience in AI, data mining, BI, and information architecture in biomedical, financial services, and web marketing. As an entrepreneur he has successfully built, mentored, and led R&D teams and companies based on AI and predictive modeling. He was first to develop and commercialize hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) predictive modeling combining data mining expertise in statistics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, semantic ontologies, and other advanced machine learning techniques. Andy has been the Founder and/or CTO of Neuristics, which enables merging credit data and scoring and is used by CreditXpert, the largest consumer credit company on the Web; Revelytix, a pioneer in semantic web technologies; and Infermetrics, a company that provided real-time web analytics and ad optimization engine for interactive online advertising.

Angela Wilson - Angela has over 20 years of financial management experience for both corporate and healthcare clients. She is a Certified Public Accountant and was a Partner in the E&Y healthcare practice, leading audit teams and other financial engagements for numerous public and private healthcare systems, life science, biotechnology and PBM clients. Angie has significant experience with registration statements, IPOs, secondary offerings and non-public debt offerings. She has also assisted many clients with private placement offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

Mei Tang, PharmD, MBA - Dr. Tang has an extensive background in the PBM and Specialty pharmacy industry. She also has deep experience in pharmacy operations, clinical and quality programs, compliance, network development, process improvement, international market development, and system design and implementation. Dr. Tang previously served as VP of Operations at Modernhealth Specialty Pharmacy (now Kroger Specialty Pharmacy), Director of Pharmacy at OptumRx; Director of Formulary Management at MedImpact; Director of Pharmacy at WellPoint NextRx, staff pharmacist at FirstDataBank, and clinical pharmacist at Sinai-Grace Hospital.

Hugh Easley, PharmD - Dr. Easley brings over 15 years of broad pharmacy experience in areas ranging from clinical and operational roles. More recently he has been involved in optimizing an enterprise pharmacy strategy for health systems, identifying formulary cost savings opportunities, optimizing 340B, as well as assisting in opportunity evaluation and launch of retail and specialty pharmacy and home infusion operations. Through his range of experiences, Hugh has developed a clinically focused, evidence-based pharmaceutical formulary and medication management for a self-insured health care system. This helps them uncover opportunities that optimize their benefits programs while supporting better health outcomes.

Rocco Calabrese Rocco brings executive-level management and leadership with extensive experience in the financial services and Taft-Hartley trust fund administration industries. His specific skills include strategic planning, operations/IT systems requirements, conversions and new platform development, investment/financial management, claims administration and collective bargaining. Rocco's career experience includes serving as Chief Executive Officer for Southern California UFCW Unions & Employers Joint Benefit Funds Administration; VP of American Benefit Plan Administrators, a TPA that provides administration services to Taft-Hartley benefit trusts; Chief Executive/Administrator of Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan and Industry Health Fund; and VP for Labor Management Benefit Plans at Lloyds Bank California. Rocco will be advising MutualRx on successful execution of our business plan.

Kay Plantes - Dr. Kay Plantes, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, advises boards and clients on strategy, business model innovation and strategic leadership. Kay has deep experience in all healthcare markets and is passionate about improving healthcare quality and value. As a Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International board member, she chairs the Finance Committee and is a member of Human Resources and Audit/Firewall committees. Additionally, she advises MyHealth.us, a start-up in J&J’s incubator, and Nth Automation, a leader in biotech manufacturing automation. She was a Board-member for Bluetree Network where she chaired the Strategy Committee and served on the Finance Committee. She also served on the Advisory Board of Tegria, a healthcare IT company.

Earlier in her career Dr. Plantes helped catalyze creation of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, a US NIH’s model for safety improvement and co-authored Beyond Price: Differentiate Your Company in Ways That Really Matter. She was selected by Private Company Director as a “2021 Director to Watch.”

Gary Owens, MD - Gary is a physician who is an expert in the field of prescription drugs and specialty drugs. He has served as VP at Independence Blue Cross where he was responsible for the prescription drug benefits and specialty drugs for over 2 million members. He has also been a consultant to the Towers Watson Rx Collaborative where he chaired their P&T committee, served as Medical Director for the Patient Access Network Foundation, and is a Board member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP).