Forum Speakers
Speakers are listed in order of appearance.
Jon R. Rankin
President & CEO
North Carolina Business Coalition on Health
Jon Rankin
Jon serves as President and CEO of the North Carolina Business Coalition on Health (NCBCH), where he leads efforts to support employers in improving healthcare quality, access, and value. In this role, he convenes employers and key stakeholders and helps shape conversations around healthcare policy and employer-driven solutions to rising costs. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions.
Prior to this role, Jon spent more than 25 years leading benefits and total rewards functions for large employers, following his service as an officer in the U.S. Army.
Jon holds multiple professional designations, including Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from HRCI, as well as Certified Benefits Professional (CBP) and Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) from WorldatWork. He also holds life and health insurance licenses in the state of North Carolina.
He earned a Master of Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wichita State University.
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Jacob Moore, J.D.
First Vice President,
Alliant Insurance Services
Jacob Moore
Jacob is an attorney with over 14 years of experience advising a variety of health care clients, primarily in the area of employee benefits. Prior to joining Alliant, Jacob served as in-house legal counsel to The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and, before that, Alight Solutions, a third party recordkeeper to large employer plans. As in-house counsel, Jacob’s primary responsibility was to advise his clients on federal and state regulatory requirements impacting those entities in their service provider roles. Jacob also previously worked as a Legal Consultant at Mercer Health and Benefits where he partnered with consultants to address client matters related to ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA and other benefit related rules.
Jacob earned his Bachelor of Arts in health and kinesiology from The University of Texas at Tyler and received a law degree from DePaul University.
Steve Ditto
Nautilus Health Institute
Steve Ditto
Steve Ditto is a healthcare executive with 30 years of experience across health plans and health systems. He is a board advisor to the Nautilus Health Institute and leads its PBM Project including development of the Contract X-Ray methodology and services.
Steve is the author of The Middleman’s Cut book and weekly newsletter detailing how employers pay far more than they should to healthcare middlemen. The book draws upon Mark Cuban’s public commentary and pairs his plain spoken CEO-to-CEO case for change with Steve’s fiduciary playbook so boards and executives can take action.
Steve is also a Fellow at the Frist College of Medicine where he advises the Department of Health Systems Science in training the next generation of physicians and pharmacists in the business of healthcare.
As a senior executive and founder of Ditto and Associates healthcare consultants, Steve has helped healthcare organizations develop innovative solutions to improve healthcare value, quality, and cost. His experience includes working across the healthcare ecosystem including employers, health plans, health systems, physician groups, Medtech firms, and digital health startups.
Greg Baker
Chief Executive Officer,
AffirmedRx
Greg Baker
As CEO of AffirmedRx, Greg leads the company’s mission to deliver better health outcomes, predictable costs, and partnerships that empower employers to take control of their pharmacy benefits.
With decades of experience as a pharmacist, businessman, and entrepreneur, Greg is redefining the role of a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) by focusing on three core areas: Cost Transparency, Data Control, and Patient Health Improvement. He is driven by a commitment to creating a clinically-focused PBM that prioritizes patient care over profits.
Greg also serves as an Editorial Advisory Board Member for Managed Healthcare Executive.
Renzo Luzzatti
President,
US-RX Care
Renzo Luzzatti
Renzo has over 25 years experience in the health care industry with a primary focus in managed care, pharmacy, and pharmacy benefits. His healthcare career has included management roles in almost every facet of the pharmacy world from drug development, manufacturing, and marketing to dispensing and care delivery as well as pharmacy benefit risk management.
He has an undergraduate degree in Biology and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He has served in numerous management capacities at well-known companies including Ernest & Young, Abbott Laboratories, and WellPoint/Anthem. He co-founded US-Rx Care in 2007 to address identified service and efficiency gaps in the pharmacy benefit market-place. US-Rx Care has since become a valued, reliable business partner to benefits management firms, health plans, and self-funded employers large and small.
Joe Toniolo
Sr Director, Health & Welfare Plans,
US Foods
Joe Toniolo
Speaker bio coming soon
Zeev Neuwirth, MD
Medical Director,
North Carolina Business Coalition on Health
Zeev Neuwirth, MD
Zeev Neuwirth, MD, serves as Medical Director of the North Carolina Business Coalition on Health and Head of Strategic Partnerships at Rezilient Health. A healthcare executive, physician, author, and nationally recognized thought leader, Dr. Neuwirth has spent more than two decades advancing innovative, consumer-centered approaches to healthcare delivery and transformation.
He is the author of Reframing Healthcare: A Roadmap for Creating Disruptive Change and Beyond the Walls: Megatrends, Movements & Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare. He is also the creator and host of the Creating a New Healthcare podcast, where he engages healthcare leaders and innovators in conversations about transforming the healthcare system.
Sunil Budhrani, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief Strategy & Medical Officer
Judi Health
Sunil Budhrani, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Sunil Budhrani is the Chief Strategy and Medical Officer at Judi Health, where he is responsible for innovative clinical offerings and partnerships, expansion of Judi® platform capabilities, enhanced pharmacy benefit management (PBM) and administration solutions, and continued success with membership growth. He is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician on the George Washington University School of Medicine faculty and has managed departments and practiced at several other leading institutions nationwide.
Dr. Budhrani brings decades of experience as a physician executive to Judi Rx, having most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of Innovation Health, a first-of-its-kind payer-provider partnership between CVS/Aetna and one of the largest health systems in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area, INOVA Health System.
In addition to his roles in hospital settings, Dr. Budhrani also founded one of the first national end-to-end telemedicine solution companies, CareClix Telemedicine, and prior to that, a multi-sited, regional Urgent Care system, PrimeMed Urgent Care Systems. He also served as the first Chief Medical Officer of the Affordable Care Act health plan, Evergreen Health Care, for the State of Maryland.
Tristan Harris
Senior Director, Member Engagement Operations
Quantum Health
Tristan Harris
Over his tenure at Quantum Health, Tristan Harris has built a broad leadership portfolio across many of the functions that shape the member experience. He has led the entirety of Quantum Health’s customer service organization – the Pods – as well as Clinical Operations spanning Disease Management, Case Management, and Utilization Management. That breadth gives him a rare end-to-end view of how advocacy, clinical expertise, service operations, and benefits navigation must work together to make healthcare easier for members.
Today, as Senior Director of Member Engagement Operations, Tristan leads centralized operational functions including Payor Operations, Utilization Management Support, and Quantum’s internal Health Plan Operations team. Health Plan Operations provides care coordination, clinical support, and navigation for Quantum Health’s own employees and families – effectively bringing the Quantum experience to Quantum. Across these responsibilities, Tristan focuses on reducing friction, strengthening payer and cross-functional partnerships, and building scalable, high-performing operations that help people get to the right care and make better use of their benefits.
Mary Mulcare, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Summus
Mary Mulcare, MD
Dr. Mary Mulcare serves as Summus’ Chief Medical Officer. In this role, she oversees all clinical
aspects of Summus’ operations. Mary formerly served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of
Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. Mary held several leadership roles
at Weill Cornell, including Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of
Emergency Medicine and Assistant Director of the Margaret and Ian Smith Clinical Skills Center.
She brings deep medical experience and a commitment to patient and physician education. She
continues to make significant academic contributions to the fields of medical education and
Geriatric Emergency Medicine.
Mary completed her undergraduate education at Princeton University and obtained her medical
degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating with honors
from the AOA Medical Honor Society and the Gold Humanism Society. She served as Chief
Resident of the Emergency Medicine residency program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (a
combined program between Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of
Physicians and Surgeons). Upon graduation, she completed a fellowship in Geriatric Emergency
Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Shannon Graham, MSW
Market Expansion & Strategic Partnerships,
Meru Health
Shannon Graham, MSW
Shannon Graham, MSW, is
Market Expansion and Strategic Partnerships Manager at Meru Health, where she builds partnerships across North Carolina’s health systems, ACOs, employers, and community organizations to expand access to quality mental health care. Shannon brings over a decade of experience in healthcare business development, with deep roots in physician partnerships and specialty care.
David Kraus, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Outcome Referrals
David Kraus, PhD
Speaker bio coming soon
Hannah Cockrum
Director of Human Resources
PWT
Hannah Cockrum
Hannah Cockrum serves as Director of Human Resources for PWT, where she leads initiatives across compliance, employee benefits, and organizational development. In her role, she supports a multi-location workforce across the U.S. and Canada, focusing on building strong, compliant HR foundations while fostering a culture that supports both organizational performance and employee engagement. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Business Coalition on Health.
Hannah has held progressive HR leadership roles at PWT, including Corporate Human Resources Manager, bringing a well-rounded perspective on talent management, workforce planning, and business operations. Her experience also includes work in staffing and client-facing environments, with a strong focus on compliance, compensation strategy, and talent development.
She is passionate about the role benefits play in supporting employee wellbeing and organizational success and is committed to creating environments where companies and employees can thrive together.
Hannah holds multiple professional certifications, including SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP), Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Staffing Professional (CSP), and Certified Plan Sponsor Professional (CPSP). She also sits on the HSA and the Governmental Affairs committees for the Plan Sponsor Council of America.
Amber Burnap
Director, Absence Consulting
Brown and Brown
Amber Burnap
Amber leads Brown and Brown’s Stratgice Non-Medical Solutions (SNS) Day One consulting practice, guiding consulting offerings and partnering with Marketing and Sales to shape client-facing content and thought leadership. She plays a key role in amplifying the practice’s industry presence through conferences, roundtables, and webinars.
With SNS since 2018, Amber has held progressive roles supporting complex clients and shaping the organization’s consulting approach. She brings over 16 years of industry experience and holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Appalachian State University.
She is based in Waxhaw, North Carolina.
