Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
Capital Rx
Marcel White has joined pharmacy benefit manager Capital Rx as chief people officer.
White was most recently head of human resources in a strategic growth segment at Humana. He brings expertise from over 30 years of human resources experience in health insurance, pharmacy benefits and hospitality industries.
Before joining Capital Rx, White was head of human resources at the nation's largest senior primary care provider, CenterWell Senior Primary Care within Humana. White was previously the senior vice president of human resources at the nation's largest full-service pharmacy benefits manager for the hospice and palliative care sector, Enclara Healthcare.
This year Capital Rx saw substantial growth with a $106 million series C investment round. The company’s customer base now includes 180 employer groups, unions, health plans and government entities encompassing 1.6 million patients. White will lead Capital Rx’s talent acquisition efforts in attracting a strong, diverse talent pool.
Centivo
Enrique Olivares has been named the new chief technology officer for Centivo, a startup health plan for self-funded employers.
Olivares touts 25 years of health plan and business transformation experience. He joins Centivo from Tufts Health Plan where he held various positions including vice president in the integration management office and business transformation and vice president of corporate program management.
At Point32Health, Olivares most recently held the role of vice president of integration. In this role, he integrated two multibillion-dollar regional health insurers. He held various senior positions at Point32Health, Tufts Health Plan, Aetna and Deloitte Consulting.
Olivares will report to Chief Product Officer Alan Cohen.
LRVHealth
Josh Flum, former CVS Health chief strategy officer, has joined LRVHealth as a managing partner of the venture capital firm.
During his 20-year tenure at CVS Health, Flum led retail pharmacy operations, facilitated the integration of CVS Health and Aetna and launched CVS Health ventures, a venture capital fund that invests and partners with digital health companies. Flum most recently served as executive vice president and chief strategy and business development officer at CVS Health.
LRVHealth was founded in 2000 with the goal of functioning as a “inside healthcare” venture capital platform. Its network includes providers, payers and vendors reaching half of all healthcare consumers in the U.S.
“LRVHealth has a very unique mission and purpose that’s the perfect fit for the next chapter of my career,” Flum said. “The firm’s track record proves that its strategy of essentially embedding itself with healthcare incumbents to guide a thesis-driven approach to investing is a recipe for successfully nurturing innovation that will transform healthcare. The healthcare market is complex, and to drive real, sustainable change you need to build deep relationships between the people who live, breathe and understand that complexity and the entrepreneurs with the next great ideas to change it. That’s what I love doing and it is what LRVHealth does best.”
Ixlayer
Alecia Pritchett has been promoted from digital health and diagnostic lab testing expert to chief growth officer of ixlayer.
Pritchett has held a range of positions giving her broad experiences on clinical teams and within the lab. Early in her career, she helped introduce cutting-edge genetic testing solutions in the lab. She later built the infrastructure required to launch diagnostics in the consumer space at PWNHealth. Pritchett joined ixlayer in 2019 with the goal of advancing the remote lab testing industry as head of corporate strategy.
The health testing company also recently named the five members who will comprise its health testing advisory board. Moncef Slaoui most recently and notably served as chief advisor for Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government’s COVID-19 vaccine development effort. Paul Martino is VillageMD co-founder and chief strategy officer,
The Honorable David Shulkin, M.D., who served as the ninth secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will also join the board. Craig Lipset is the vice chair at the MedStar Health Research Institute board of directors and founder of clinical innovation partners. Marcus Osborne most recently served as senior vice president and former chief financial officer for the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative.
> GATC Health announced that Richard Schatz, M.D., co-inventor of the coronary stent, has joined its medical advisory board as chairman.
> Saama Technologies name Lisa Moneymaker as chief technology officer and chief product officer.
> Vanderbilt University Medical Center has ousted Chief Investment Officer Alaine Zachary and will rely on Morgan Stanley’s outsourced chief investment officer unit Graystone Consulting, which will now handle the hospital’s assets.
> Talkspace, a digital behavioral health care company, appointed Jon Cohen as its new chief executive officer.
> Getlabs, a remote healthcare delivery provider, announced three leadership team hires: Scott Albrecht will fill the role of vice president of finance, Amanda Souders will be vice president of people and Karen Maher has been named general counsel.
> Korro Bio, an RNA editing company, named Venkat Krishnamurthy as senior vice president, head of platform and Stephanie Engels as senior vice president, head of people and culture.
> Newark Beth Israel Medical Center has appointed Amy Doran as chief operating officer and Denise Shepherd as the hospital’s new chief nursing officer.
> Keck Medicine of USC welcomed Tom Bates as the health system’s first chief quality officer and Mary Virgallito as the first chief quality officer at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital.
> Health Network One, a provider of specialty benefit management services for health plans, welcomed Christian Alvarez as chief financial officer.
> Kettering Health announced that Fred Manchur is retiring as chief executive officer.
> VCU Health System announced that Arthur Kellermann, M.D., has resigned as health sciences senior vice president and chief executive officer.
> DexCare, the digital care operating system that spun out of Providence Health, has appointed Rick Pittenger as chief technology officer.