meet our SPEAKERs
François de Brantes
Principal
XO Health, Inc.
François de Brantes is leading XO Health's design and operational implementation of alternative payment models as well as the ongoing performance of the network. Throughout his career, François has led innovation and plan design for all aspects of advanced alternative payment models, from basic incentives design to contract structure to operational implementation. He actively supported the launch of the Leapfrog Group; created Bridges To Excellence; led the development and implementation of PROMETHEUS Payment; led the development and design of a value-based insurance design product; and applied that expertise to designing and implementing episodes of care and other advanced alternative payment programs for employers, providers, and health plans. He is also a senior partner at High Value Care Incentives Advisory Group, at the forefront of transparency and payment innovation. He previously led the commercial business line development of Signify Health's Episodes of Care Payment Division and was also head of strategic initiatives for GE Corporate Healthcare for over a decade.
Andrew Bremberg
Former Director of the Domestic Policy Counsel
Trump Administration 2016 to 2020
Andrew Bremberg is an attorney and political advisor who most recently served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. He previously served as Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Donald Trump. Bremberg began his career at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he served as Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary for Public Health during the George W. Bush Administration. He later worked as a department manager and health policy expert at MITRE, advising multiple federal agencies. Bremberg has also served as policy advisor and counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell and as policy director for Governor Scott Walker's 2016 presidential campaign and the GOP Platform Committee. Following the 2016 election, he led President-elect Trump's transition team for Health and Human Services and co-chaired the National Council for the American Worker. In 2019, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, where he presented his credentials later that year.
Lisa Campbell, Esq.
Partner
Groom Law Group
Lisa Campbell is co-chair of Groom Law Group's Health Services group. She advises clients on all aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the insurance market reforms, qualified health plan standards, exchange rules, consumer assistance programs for the federal marketplace, and ACA section 1557 nondiscrimination rules.
Lisa also works with clients on the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), state insurance law, and Medicare and Medicaid. She represents health insurance companies, employers, consultants, and trade associations on federal and state laws regulating health coverage. She also provides advice on advocacy with federal and state agencies, compliance programs, government enforcement, and regulatory initiatives.
Lisa is the former Director of the Compliance and Enforcement Division for the Oversight Group at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), and immediately prior to joining Groom, she was the Group Director for the Consumer Support Group at CCIIO. In her positions at HHS, Lisa worked closely with all key stakeholders, including health insurance companies, state insurance regulators, the Departments of Labor and the Treasury, trade associations, and consumer groups.
As Director of the Compliance and Enforcement Division, Lisa managed the team responsible for compliance and enforcement of private health insurance coverage. Lisa directed the implementation of the enforcement program for the ACA market reform provisions, led work related to implementing program and policy initiatives for the requirements of the ACA and other federal requirements, and provided technical assistance to states, health insurance companies, trade associations, and consumer groups on the ACA. As Group Director of the Consumer Support Group, Lisa was responsible for implementing consumer assistance programs for the federal Marketplace, including the Navigator, non-Navigator enrollment assistance personnel, and Certified Application Counselor programs, casework, and reporting of plan data. She was responsible for coordinating on the policy and implementation of the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) and Internal Appeal and External Review requirements.
Lisa speaks and writes regularly on MHPAEA and the ACA, including presentations relating to health care reform, enforcement and the ACA section 1557 nondiscrimination requirements from the perspective of health insurers and employer plan sponsors.
David Cardelle, R.Ph.
Chief Strategy Officer
Advanced Medical Strategies (AMS)
David Cardelle, R.Ph., serves as AMS' Chief Strategy Officer. He joined the company in June 2021 and brings over 30 years of extensive experience in the healthcare industry as a Registered Pharmacist. He has worked in various key roles as a Provider, working in retail and hospital pharmacies, as a Payer, working for a large BCBS plan as well as a regional HMO in Cambridge, MA, and as an outsourced Payment Integrity Partner, working with dozens of health plans across the U.S. He pioneered the first outsource audit service for specialty injectable overpayments as well as developed and managed Hospital Bill Review, DRG Validation, Home Infusion, Renal Dialysis, DME, and Implant Audit and Recovery programs. Most recently, David helped to develop a unique transaction-based delivery model to help automate a variety of pre-submission payment accuracy solutions. David has a BS in Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston, MA.
Stephen Carrabba
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
ClaimInformatics
Stephen Carrabba is the President and Co-Founder of ClaimInformatics. He provides hands-on management oversight of key aspects of the business including ensuring the business is run on a state-of-the-art, highly secure technology platform, hiring and retaining industry experts, fostering strategic partnerships, and developing a forward-looking vision and strategy.
With his training and inquisitive nature, Stephen researches the most up-to-date technologies and looks to drive the business toward early adoption whenever appropriate to improve efficiencies and establish a competitive edge. Stephen’s business success is inextricably linked with his ability to foster business relationships, earning the trust of clients and partners.
Prior to ClaimInformatics, Stephen founded several successful companies, including a nationally recognized cost reduction consultancy focused on taking the wasteful spending out of healthcare. With Stephen’s expertise in controlling expenses and maximizing profits, his clients benefit from technology-driven, personable service.
Stephen is a graduate of Babson College and is a member of several for-profits and non-profit boards. He was recognized by the Hartford Business Journal as a Forty under 40 Recipient because of his entrepreneurial accomplishments. Stephen lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children.
Matt Collier
Senior Consultant, Pharmacy Benefit & Self-Funded Strategy
IMA Financial Group, Inc.
Matt Collier is a Senior Consultant at IMA Financial Group where he specializes in pharmacy benefit strategy and self-funded health plan solutions. With a deep understanding of employer-sponsored benefits and the evolving healthcare landscape, Matt partners with organizations to design cost-effective, innovative benefit programs that align with broader business goals. Prior to his current role, he built experience in the consulting and employee-benefits space, consistently translating complex data and market trends into actionable plan design and vendor-management strategies. A strong communicator who thrives on collaboration, Matt regularly presents insights on topics such as the impact of GLP-1 therapies and emerging benefit drivers. His dedication to creating sustainable, high-value benefits programs has earned him a reputation as a trusted advisor for HR leaders and decision makers. Matt holds a degree from the University of Colorado Denver and is based in Englewood, Colorado.
Chris Condeluci, Esq.
Legal and Policy Counsel
SIIA
Christopher E. Condeluci is Washington Counsel for the Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA). Chris previously served as Tax and Benefits Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. During his time on the Finance Committee, Chris participated in the development of portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the new health insurance Exchanges, the State insurance reforms, and the new taxes enacted under the law. He is one of the few senior Congressional staffers who actively participated in the health reform debate to join the private sector since the law's enactment, and as a result, he possesses a unique level of expertise on matters relating to tax law, ERISA, and the ACA.
Jennifer Cordes, JD
Assistant General Counsel, Group Benefits Division
Amwins Group, Inc.
Jennifer Cordes serves as Assistant General Counsel for the Group Benefits Division of Amwins Group, Inc., where she provides comprehensive legal support to the group benefits business. Her responsibilities include advising business partners on a broad range of legal matters, drafting and negotiating contracts, and evaluating emerging programs within Amwins' portfolio of offerings as a leading general agent and managing general underwriter serving both small and large group markets.
Prior to joining Amwins, Jenn spent over a decade with Mercer Health & Benefits, holding several leadership positions. She led the Central Market within Mercer's national legal consulting practice, advising large employer-sponsored plans on complex federal regulations, including ERISA, MHPAEA, HIPAA, and COBRA. In addition, she led Mercer's multiple employer solutions team, developing innovative benefit strategies for associations and professional employer organizations (PEOs). Her experience also includes serving as a general consultant working with large employer plans on benefit plan design and overall strategy for diverse client organizations.
Earlier in her career, Jenn practiced law at Johnson & Krol in Chicago, focusing on Taft-Hartley plans. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois. Jenn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University (Ohio) and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Nathaniel Counts, JD
Chief Policy Officer
The Kennedy Forum
Nathaniel Z. Counts, JD, serves as the Chief Policy Officer for The Kennedy Forum, a national mental health non-profit, as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. In his position with The Kennedy Forum, he advances a public policy agenda aimed at ensuring equitable access to effective and responsive services and supports, within a population health framework that focuses on prevention and social determinants of health.
Cameron Deml
Vice President, Strategic & Federal Relationships
Brown & Brown
Cameron Deml is Vice President of Strategic and Federal Relationships at Brown & Brown, where he focuses on building and managing strategic business relationships across public- and private-sector clients. He regularly presents on employee benefits, wellness strategy and risk-management topics at industry conferences, and has been a featured speaker for organizations such as the Self-Insurance Institute of America and the Midwest Business Group on Health. Cameron is based in the Twin Cities area and brings practical experience partnering with employers and associations to design benefits programs that align with organizational objectives.
Joseph M. Dizenhouse, FSA, MAAA
President & Chief Executive Officer
SlateRx
Joey has spend more than 25 years in the healthcare industry, serving in a number of strategic, leadership roles. Serving as President and Chief Executive Officer at SlateRx since 2023, Joey is responsible for driving the organization's mission of revolutionizing the pharmacy benefit experience. With a key focus on servant leadership and innovation, he seeks value for SlateRx's clients and their covered lives across the complex pharmacy supply chain. He also provides strategic guidance for partner organization, HealthTrust. At HealthTrust, Joey led the Insurance, Human Capital, and Pharmacy (IHP) business segment, managing more than $15 billion in annual drug purchasing. Prior to HealthTrust, Joey spent 15 years at a large professional services consulting firm in a number of health and welfare leadership roles, serving many organizations during his tenure, including several from the Fortune 100.
Joey is a frequent public speaker on subject matter related to pharmacy insurance, benefits strategies, and the U.S. healthcare landscape. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and a licensed life and health insurance agent across all 50 states. He lives outside Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife Tracy, daughters Hailey and Layla, and son Jack.
Amy Gasbarro
SIIA, Board Chair
President, ELMCRx Solutions
Amy Gasbarro serves as the President of ELMCRx Solutions, a leading provider of pharmacy benefit management and prescription drug services. With a distinguished career in healthcare management, Amy brings a wealth of experience in operational excellence, client relations, and strategic development to her role. Appointed to spearhead ELMCRx’s next phase of growth, she works closely with co-founders Richard Fleder and Mary Ann Carlisle to enhance the company’s service offerings through innovative solutions and strategic partnerships.
Prior to her current role, Amy held various executive positions where she was instrumental in driving organizational growth and fostering innovation within the healthcare sector. Her visionary leadership at ELMCRx is focused on pushing the boundaries of traditional pharmacy benefit management, improving access to and the value of prescription drug point solutions for employers, brokers, and TPAs.
Ed Hausman
Chief Product Officer
Deerhold, Ltd.
Ed has spent his career at the intersection of healthcare and technology, providing product vision and strategy for healthcare startups. In his most recent role as vice president of product and business development and InformedDNA, he guided the development of tech solutions designed to help healthcare stakeholders utilize genomic insights to improve patient outcomes. He previously served as vice president of product at Deerwalk, Inc., where he built an industry-leading analytics engine. Deerwalk was acquired by Cedargate Technologies in December 2020. Ed earned his bachelor's degree in anthropology and linguistics from the University of Chicago and has lived abroad in Nepal teaching English.
Taylor Hittle
Principal & Founder
Hittle Strategies
Taylor Hittle is Principal and Founder of Hittle Strategies, a boutique federal policy and government affairs firm specializing in health care, retirement, and employee benefits policy. She also serves as Executive Director of the Partnership for Employer-Sponsored Coverage (P4ESC). Taylor brings more than 15 years of senior experience across Congress, the executive branch, and the private sector, advising policymakers, employers, and executives on ERISA, health care transparency, prescription drug policy, and employer-sponsored coverage. She has advised senior HHS leadership, including during the COVID-19 response, and previously served in senior roles at HHS, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Washington Council EY.
Deep Kapur
Co-Founder
Amera Health Solutions
Deep Kapur is the co-founder of Amera Health, a company transforming health plan administration through automation and data-driven solutions. With extensive experience in health insurance operations and technology, he focuses on streamlining claims processing, enhancing stop-loss reporting, and improving efficiency for plan administrators and self-funded employers. Deep’s leadership reflects a commitment to reducing administrative complexity and fostering greater transparency across the healthcare ecosystem. Through Amera Health, he continues to innovate at the intersection of healthcare and technology, helping organizations modernize their operations and deliver better outcomes for their members.
Steve Miller
SVP, Client Executive - Employee Benefits
Kapnick Insurance Group
Steve Miller has over 20 years of experience working as an employee benefits consultant with some of Michigan's most notable organizations. As a benefits consultant with Michigan-based Kapnick Insurance Group, Steve specializes in designing alternative health plans for large self-funded employers. He has a proven track record for developing programs and solutions that not only challenge, but completely re-imagine the status quo in healthcare.
Steve has significant experience designing, implementing, and consulting on solutions using advanced data analytics, including AI-based technologies with data aggregation. His broad perspectives working directly with employers, healthcare providers, and advanced technologies, places him in an ideal position to re-invent and continuously push the limits of sustainable healthcare models.
Anthony Murrello
Government Relations Manager
SIIA
Anthony currently serves as the Government Relations Manager for the Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) where he assists in advocacy and political activities. His other roles include tracking state legislative and regulatory policy, as well as managing The Self-Insurance Political Action Committee (SIPAC). Anthony graduated from American University in 2020. His previous work experience includes working for Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill (NJ) and was most recently a legal clerk for the City Attorney of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Hugh O'Toole
Chief Executive Officer
Innovu
As Chief Executive Officer of Innovu, Hugh O’Toole is changing advisor/consultant practice models from their siloed focus on Health & Welfare, Retirement and Property & Casualty, to a holistic Human Capital Risk Management model. He understands that the world of retirement services and benefits can be complicated and has dedicated his career to aligning the financial wellness of American employees with the positive impact their wellness has on the financial statement of their employers. With leading capabilities in data aggregation, data science/analytics and behavioral finance, the industry can have a much greater impact with the convergence of data and benefit disciplines versus a siloed view. In 2014, he founded Viability AG LLC, to address the relationship between financially well employees and the impact on the employer’s financial statement, through mitigating the future liability from healthcare, risk protection/management, productivity, and engagement of their employees. In 2015, Viability was purchased by MassMutual, and he joined the MassMutual team as a Senior Vice President. His first mission was to bring non-profit employers and their employees institutional investment product, versus the legacy insurance products historically sold to them. As a partner of Professional Pensions, Inc. they accomplished this mission, and the firm grew rapidly.
Matt Robben
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Serif Health
Matthew Robben is the Co-founder and CTO of Serif Health, where he leads the development of pipelines and platforms that transform complex healthcare price-transparency machine-readable files into user-friendly, actionable insights. Under his technical leadership, Serif Health launched flagship products including an API and corresponding web portal (Signal) for interacting with the entire TiC dataset in real-time, algorithmic processes for filtering "zombie" price rates, and machine-learning enhanced data collection and QA techniques. He is passionate about driving practical improvements in how payers, providers, and employers leverage price transparency. Matt obtained his BS in Computer Engineering cum laude from Northwestern University, and previously led engineering teams at One Medical, Dropbox, and Microsoft.
David Schleifer
Associate Director of Programs
Peterson Center on Healthcare
David Schleifer is Associate Director of Programs at the Peterson Center on Healthcare, a philanthropy dedicated to making healthcare more affordable, efficient, and effective for all Americans. He leads initiatives focused on helping employers become more informed purchasers and managers of healthcare benefits. This includes supporting efforts to equip employers with the data and insights they need to analyze healthcare spending and evaluate their options for reducing costs while improving access to high-quality care. Prior to joining the Peterson Center on Healthcare, David conducted public opinion research at Public Agenda, where he led studies focused on how Americans navigate healthcare costs, quality, and access. David earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Wesleyan University and a doctorate in sociology from New York University.
Julie Selesnick, Esq.
Founder & Principal
Health Plan Legal Counsel
Julie Selesnick has been practicing law since 2001, during which time she has amassed a wealth of experience in high-stakes dispute resolution, representing clients on both sides of the aisle, from major corporations to small businesses, labor unions, individuals, and class plaintiffs. Julie has led jury and bench trials as first chair, helping clients recover more than $91 million through settlements and verdicts.
The passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (“CAA”) had a profound effect on health plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) and governmental health plans operated by municipalities, counties, school boards and states. Responding to this sea change in the health plan statutory environment, Julie expanded her law practice to provide legal and compliance counsel to plan sponsors and fiduciaries, Taft-Hartley trustees and coalitions, and vendors servicing group health plans. Julie founded and is the Principal Attorney at Health Plan Legal Counsel PLLC in 2025, helping plan and vendor clients come up with innovative solutions to complex problems in a proactive manner. As not all problems can be solved without legal action, Julie also remains Of Counsel to Berger Montague, partnering with them to develop class action litigation on behalf of health plans, health plan participants and beneficiaries, and health plan vendors against large carriers, PBMs and other entrenched large entities in the employer-sponsored health plan space.
Ria Shah
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Handl Health
Ria is a recognized expert in U.S. healthcare price transparency, specializing in transforming complex payer, provider, and claims data into intuitive products that deliver measurable savings for self-funded employers. She leads product at Handl Health, developing a proprietary actuarial and data platform that processes more than 500,000 machine-readable files across thousands of networks into decision-grade insights for brokers, health plans, and employers. Previously, Ria served as a strategist at EY-Parthenon, where she specialized in payer reimbursement and outcomes-based contracting across the U.S. and EU5. Today, she sets Handl's product strategy to empower brokers with data-backed insights, enabling them to build smarter, more transparent benefit strategies for their clients.
Sidhartha Sinha
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Avant Health
Sidhartha (Sid) Sinha is the founder and CEO of Avant Health, an AI-native TPA. He has built and led product and implementation teams at multiple venture-backed health tech startups building data and AI products for top healthcare systems and insurers. Prior to that, Sid designed hospitals, clinics, and care delivery models across the US and Mexico at Vizient, a national healthcare analytics and services firm. He is an industrial engineer with a focus on complex systems design in healthcare.
Jordan Smith
Practice Leader
Lumelight
Jordan O. Smith is a benefits consultant, entrepreneurial co-founder, and Practice Leader at Lumelight. With more than 15 years of leadership experience spanning the nonprofit, higher education, startup, financial, and legal sectors, Jordan has held senior roles including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Principal Consultant.
Jordan is recognized not only for his subject-matter expertise, but also for his ability to build organizations, lead teams, and scale operations in complex regulatory environments. He has advised executives, boards, and industry leaders on compliance strategy, risk mitigation, and operational excellence. Beyond Lumelight, Jordan is a co-founder and partner in multiple ventures and serves on the Board of Directors for Gateway House, a nonprofit supporting individuals living with severe mental illness.
A graduate of Wofford College, Jordan lives in Greenville, SC. He remains active in his community through Westminster Presbyterian Church, where he volunteers as a Youth Advisor and sings baritone in the Sanctuary Choir. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, reading, practicing yoga, and exploring the Swamp Rabbit Trail.
