Address
Highwoods One
10900 Nuckols Road, Suite 110
Glen Allen, VA 23060
Phone
804-396-6412
Ally Align Health
Highwoods One
10900 Nuckols Road, Suite 110
Glen Allen, VA 23060
804-396-6412
Will Saunders is the Founder and CEO of AllyAlign Health. Will has a passion for reforming the healthcare system to more efficiently and effectively care for vulnerable and medically complex patients.
Prior to founding AllyAlign, Will was the President of the largest business unit of Xerox Business Services; contracting with 38 states to assist in Medicaid program administration. Will grew the unit to over $1B in revenue with more than nine thousand employees; and enjoyed working as a trusted partner with state customers in implementing the mandates of health reform and the Affordable Care Act.
Before his work with Xerox, Will was the President of Heritage Information Systems, a successful health information technology company that was sold to the entity that became Xerox Business Services. Heritage was a pioneer in aggregating disparate sources of healthcare data and utilizing a clinical rules engine to drive solutions that decreased the cost and improved the quality of healthcare. Will started his career as a CPA for Price Waterhouse.
Paul Wallace serves as Managing Director for Heritage Group.
His prior experience includes more than 20 years in venture capital and private equity investing with firms such as GTCR, Lazard Asia, Gilbert Global, Petra Capital and SV Life Sciences.
He also spent 6 years leading corporate development for Tivity Health (NASDAQ: TVTY), during which time the company’s revenue increased more than fivefold.
He received his M.B.A. from Kellogg and his B.A. from the University of Richmond. He is a native of Nashville, where he resides with his wife and three wild children.
Bob Schulz has served as a director of AllyAlign Health since the company’s formation in 2013. In 2006, he co-founded and currently serves as a Managing Member of Health Enterprise Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm that has raised $427 million in three funds. In 1997, prior to co-founding HEP, Mr. Schulz was a Managing Member and co-founder of CB Health Ventures (“CBHV”) and its investment funds.
Previous to CBHV, Mr. Schulz spent three years as the President and COO of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., a publicly traded business development company, and ten years with Credit Suisse First Boston (now Credit Suisse). Prior experience included work on synthetic fuels research for Chevron Research Company and Exxon Research and Engineering Company.
Bob is currently or has been a director of several portfolio companies including ContinuumRx, SCIO Health Analytics (acquired by EXL), Applied Pathways (acquired by Anthem), CareMedic Systems (acquired by UnitedHealthcare), CorSolutions Medical (acquired by Matria), Carefx (acquired by Harris Corp.), Passport Health Communications (acquired by Experian) and Skylight Healthcare (acquired by GetWell Network).
He received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Columbia Business School (Beta Gamma Sigma).
Ken Paulus is the past President and CEO for Allina Health, of one of the nation’s largest integrated delivery systems serving Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. Proceeding his role at Allina, Ken was the President and CEO of Atrius Health System, the largest integrated physician group in New England and a teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Ken held the role of Chief Operating Officer of Partners Community HealthCare – the integrated medical network representing Partners HealthCare System, the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
In addition to AllyAlign Health, Ken serves on multiple corporate boards: Health Grades, Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC), and Breg.
Ken was born in Wisconsin, raised in Chicago. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in biology at Augustana College and is Masters of Healthcare Administration school at the University of Minnesota.
Bill Lucia serves as HMS Holdings president and chief executive officer. In 2008, he joined the HMS board of directors and was appointed as chairman in 2015. He joined HMS in 1996 and continues to lead HMS through the evolving healthcare landscape, demonstrating the ability to formulate and implement key strategic initiatives.
Prior to HMS, Bill served as senior vice president of operations and chief information officer for Celtic Life Insurance Company. Previous to that role, he held the position of senior vice president of Insurance Operations for North American Company for Life and Health Insurance. He currently serves as chairman of the Council for Medicare Integrity.
Bill is also a fellow of the Life Management Institute program through LOMA, an international association of insurance and financial services companies engaging in research and educational activities to improve operations.
Brian Ronnau is the Chief Information Officer at AllyAlign Health.
With more than 20 years of experience in technology innovation, Brian Ronnau leads the technology organization and is responsible for managing all aspects of AllyAlign Health’s digital solutions and technology roadmap.
Prior to AllyAlign, Brian was the CIO for Advance Health where he implemented solutions driving rapid growth, innovation, and compliance best practices. Brian received his Master’s degree in the Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia and his undergraduate degree in Information Services from The College of William and Mary.
Brian is active in the community, having co-founded the Richmond community ToolBank, a non-profit tool lending program and serving on the Board of Directors. Brian and his wife have lived in the Richmond-area for over 10 years and he is the proud father of energetic twin daughters.
Dr. Bauerle is the Chief Medical Officer for Ally Align, she also serves as Plan Medical Director for Missouri Medicare Select, NHC Advantage, and Sunrise Advantage Virginia.
Dr. Bauerle is a board-certified Internist with over a decade of experience in long term care. She completed her residency at Des Peres Hospital in Des Peres Missouri and was in the first class of residents to participate in St. Louis Universities Acute Care for the Elderly affiliation.
She is also a Washington University Alzheimer’s Project Scholar. She has held multiple facility level medical directorships in the St. Louis area. Dr. Bauerle is committed to the care and quality of life for the institutionalized and elderly.
Dr. Bauerle lives in St. Louis and enjoys cooking and family time with her husband and 11-year-old daughter.
As Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Pat serves as chief legal officer at AllyAlign.
Pat has over thirty years of experience as a practicing attorney. Most recently, Pat served as Senior Counsel and Chair of the Healthcare Industry Practice at a national law firm, resident in their Richmond, VA office. His representative matters include advising hospitals, long term care facilities and allied health entities on licensing matters; responding to OIG, CMS, and other agency investigative matters, including Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement issues; negotiating contracts with managed care organizations; counseling on HIPAA/HITECH and related privacy matters; and assisting a diverse array of employers on matters arising under the Affordable Care Act.
Pat has also held positions as the Director of Risk Management for a health system and CEO of a not-for-profit organization providing reproductive health and family planning services to women, men and teens.
Pat is an avid cyclist and can be found most weekends riding the roads and trails around greater Richmond. He and his wife also enjoy hiking with their grandchildren.
Alan Bratton is the Chief Operating Officer of AllyAlign Health. He has a long, distinguished track record of success in implementing complex technical and operational projects in the state and federal government and commercial healthcare environments.
Alan has over 33 years of professional experience in Public Sector Healthcare, Large-scale System Development and Solution Delivery, and Healthcare Payer Operations. He has managed multiple Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) projects as well as Drug Point of Sale, Enrollment Broker, Decision Support System, Case Management, Prior Authorization, Electronic Data Exchange and Eligibility projects over the course of his career.
Prior to joining AllyAlign, Alan managed large-scale, global technical organizations (1,600+ people), projects ranging from $5M up to $150M in budget size, and a portfolio of projects up to $250M. Two of the projects he led were Xerox’s assumption of operations of the California Medicaid program and the implementation of the New Hampshire Health Enterprise system. Both projects involved numerous vendors, multiple systems, management of 1000+ staff, and high visibility. Under his leadership, both projects were implemented on schedule and met all milestones and project goals; and met or exceeded performance metrics. Overall, Alan has worked with 26 states helping to deliver solutions for the administration of their Medicaid programs.
Alan earned a B.S. degree from Milligan College and an MBA. from Emory University.
Julianne’s main responsibility is to provide guidance and oversight for the financial reporting for all of the health plans. This includes overseeing the monthly financial results as well as coordinating audits, tax reporting, and regulatory filings.
Julianne has extensive experience in the financial, accounting, regulatory, and management aspects of the health insurance industry. She started her career as a CPA for Grant Thornton before being hired by Saint Mary’s Health Plans, the health insurance subsidiary for Dignity Health, serving as Director of Finance and Controller. At Saint Mary’s Health Plans she was responsible for financial and statutory reporting, NAIC and CMS filings, risk analysis, and budgets.
When Prominence Health Plan, a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, acquired Saint Mary’s Health Plans Julianne served as a part of the transition team, then as Vice President of Finance and CFO. At Prominence she oversaw GAAP and statutory financial reporting, earnings projections, RBC and capital projections, NAIC financial filings, CMS financial filings, underwriting, actuarial, product development and budgets for several entities. These included insurance companies offering commercial, exchange, and Medicare products in multiple states. She was also responsible for research and financial analysis of regulations, strategic business opportunities, market conditions, and impacts on financial results.
Julianne has relocated to Richmond and is excited about exploring the National Parks and museums.
R.J.’s primary responsibility is to expand the membership under AllyAlign’s management. In this capacity, he is responsible for the strategic partnerships with long term care providers, Medicare Advantage plan development, marketing and driving enrollment for AllyAlign’s partners’ plans.
R.J. has over 25 years of sales, marketing and business development experience. Most recently, R.J. was with Xerox State Healthcare (now part of Conduent) and its predecessor companies serving in a variety of sales and marketing roles. R.J. led complex sales efforts with states focused on Medicaid Enterprise Solutions (formerly MMIS), electronic health records, pharmacy benefit management, and other healthcare management solutions. As an individual contributor, R.J. booked over $1B in sales for the company. Immediately prior to joining AllyAlign, R.J. was responsible for leading the sales organization east of the Mississippi river.
A lifelong Richmond, Virginia resident, R.J. enjoys spending time with his wife and two children or playing bad golf.
Amy E. Kaszak is the President of special needs plans for AllyAlign Health. Amy has over 15 years of experience designing care management models for high-risk patients.
Prior to joining AllyAlign, Amy held multiple leadership positions with Intercede Health, a medical management company, including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Business Development Officer, and President of the company’s Transitional Care Clinics. She helped organize the company in 1995 as one of the nations’ first Hospitalist companies, building and operating Hospitalist networks in Texas for CIGNA, Humana, and PacifiCare. Amy later worked to develop the concept of the high-risk medical home, co-authoring a 1997 article that coined the term “Extensivist” to describe an outpatient physician focused on complex, chronic condition patients. In addition to her work with Intercede Health, Amy has helped create corporate messaging for healthcare organizations and contributed to multiple healthcare publications, including collaborating on a chapter on Hospitalist programs in the book 1999 Hospital Strategies.
Amy earned a B.A. degree from Baylor University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.