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
Charles Spence is the Senior Vice President of Operations for Ally Align Health and serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the company’s health plans. He is responsible for strategic operational leadership and management of services to support AllyAlign’s growth.
As an accomplished technology and operations executive, Charles brings a wealth of Medicare, Medicaid and Part D experience to AllyAlign. He has a strong track record of success leading large-scale implementations, remediation programs, and operations at healthcare organizations including Archimedes, EpiphanyRx, Cigna-HealthSpring, Community Health Systems, Healthland, and Humana.
Committed to giving back, Charles is active with several Veteran based non-profits and is the co-founder and Chairman for the Veterans Corporate Council (VCC), a 501c3 focused on the development and growth of Veteran Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
Charles earned a B.S. degree from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and an MSc and M.B.A. from the University of Maryland. He’s also served on several national working groups including HITRUST and NIST.
In his spare time, Charles enjoys traveling with his wife and two children.
Amy E. Kaszak is the President, Special Needs Plans for AllyAlign Health. As AllyAlign Health’s second employee, Amy helped shape the company’s strategy of empowering long-term care providers to change the financial incentives and care models for vulnerable populations. Amy oversees all partner relationships, clinical operations, business development, and sales and marketing activities of the company.
Amy’s experience with innovative care models began in the mid-1990s when she helped organize one of the first hospitalist companies in the country, Intercede Health (formerly Inpatient Medical Services). Based in Houston, Texas, the company built and operated Hospitalist networks for CIGNA, Humana, Pacificare, and Heritage, and NAMM IPAs and, as payment models shifted, later partnered with hospitals across the country to implement Hospitalist and SNFist practices. Amy helped pioneer the concept of the high-risk medical home, co-authoring a 1997 article that coined the term “Extensive” to describe an outpatient physician focused on complex, chronic condition patients.
Amy earned her B.A. degree from Baylor University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She currently lives in Houston, Texas.
R.J. Gilson is the Senior Vice President, Market Development for AllyAlign Health, leading the expansion of membership for plans 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 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 before joining AllyAlign, R.J. was responsible for leading the government healthcare sales organization located 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.
Julianne Hug is the Chief Financial Officer of AllyAlign Health, providing guidance and oversight for the financial reporting of all 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 began her career as a CPA for Grant Thornton. She later served as Director of Finance and Controller for Saint Mary’s Health Plans, the health insurance subsidiary for Dignity Health, and 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 on the transition team, and later as Vice President of Finance and CFO. In these roles, 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 recently relocated to Richmond and is excited to explore the region’s National Parks and museums.
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 throughout his career.
Before 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.
As Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Pat serves as the chief legal officer at AllyAlign. With over 30 years of experience as a practicing attorney, Pat most recently served as Senior Counsel and Chair of the Healthcare Industry Practice at a national law firm.
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 issues 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.
Dr. Bauerle is the Chief Medical Officer for AllyAlign, and 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 a Washington University Alzheimer’s Project Scholar and 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.
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.
Before 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.
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 his Master of Healthcare Administration school at the University of Minnesota.
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).
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 six 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.
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.
Before 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.
Will is a graduate of the University of Virginia and resides in Richmond, VA. In his spare time, Will enjoys spending time with his wife and four daughters.