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Eric Thraikill

Eric Thrailkill is a seasoned healthcare innovator and strategist with over four decades of experience in advancing the healthcare industry’s approach to technology and patient care. Based in Nashville, Eric has been instrumental in fostering innovation ecosystems that support both early-stage startups and established healthcare organizations. He has led numerous initiatives focused on digital health transformation, healthcare technology, and value-based care, often working at the intersection of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and healthcare data analytics for early-stage companies.. Eric's unique approach combines a deep understanding of the healthcare landscape with a passion for personalized care, emphasizing consumer-driven, precision diagnostic and treatment solutions.




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Blake Madden

Blake Madden is the Founder and Creator of Hospitalogy, a newsletter affiliated with Workweek Media that provides the latest insights on healthcare finance, strategy, M&A, and digital health. 


Blake brings relevant thought leadership and in-depth analysis to more than 36,000 healthcare decision makers since launching Hospitalogy in April 2022. Prior to joining Workweek, Blake worked at healthcare consulting firm VMG Health, where he provided valuation and advisory services for clients across all healthcare services verticals including nonprofit health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care, imaging centers, physician practices, and more.


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Brent Dover

Brent Dover is CEO of Carta Healthcare. A seasoned health tech executive and respected leader with more than three decades of experience guiding growth-stage digital health companies through significant milestones for leading solution providers such as Medicity, Health Catalyst and Commure. Dover has developed and executed successful go-to-market strategies for software and services tailored specifically to health systems.

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Greg Miller

Greg leads marketing and GTM strategy for Carta Healthcare. For almost 40 years, Greg has been driven to transform healthcare, leveraging data to improve outcomes. Miller began his healthcare career within an academic medical center in Boston and for decades, he has been leading digital health companies, ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies, as they apply innovative solutions to drive healthcare process and quality improvement and digital health adoption.


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Jennifer Sargent

Jennifer Sargent is the CEO of Pacify - a company with a vision of being the new standard for maternal health.  Pacify connects patients with trusted doulas and lactation consultants, offering flexible support to guide parents through every stage of pregnancy and postpartum.  


After obtaining an MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Jennifer served in leadership roles in health and fitness organizations, including Vera Whole Health.  She joined Pacify in October of 2022 and has led and grown their technology enabled services through phases of rapid growth.


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Joan Butters

Joan Butters is a co-founder and the CEO of Xsolis, the AI-driven health technology company with a human-centered approach. Joan co-founded Xsolis in 2013 to help shape intelligent decision-making for payers and providers. Under Joan’s leadership, Xsolis has served some of the largest and most reputable healthcare organizations, including Humana, Mayo Clinic, AdventHealth, Banner Health and Ardent Health. She has been featured in Becker's Health Review, Inc. Magazine, AiThority, and Health IT Analytics, among other national publications.  
 
Prior to founding Xsolis, Joan served as Vice President/General Manager of Strategy and Emerging Solutions at Optum, where she identified and developed new technology solutions which generated over $225M annually and provided services across the healthcare ecosystem. 

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John Scannapieco

John Scannapieco assists both US and foreign businesses engaged in the global economy. For more than three decades, he has provided strategic guidance and counsel to businesses and individuals regarding their existing global operations or to those contemplating global expansion.

John serves as Honorary Consul from Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Tennessee. He has been involved in TerraLex and Mackrell International, two leading international legal networks. Through his involvement in these organizations, he routinely helps clients locate resources, including legal, financial accounting or other assistance, to complete transactions or to resolve disputes throughout the world.


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Lori Odom

Lori Odom is the Senior Vice President of Economic Development for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Lori leads the Chamber’s international business initiatives which include promoting the Nashville region globally, building a network of relationships with international business influencers, and facilitating economic growth through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

A graduate of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Lori earned a master’s in human resource development and a bachelor’s in communications. She sits on the boards of the Japan America Society of Tennessee, Sister Cities of Nashville, the Center for Global Citizenship at Belmont University, and the Tennessee World Affairs Council. 


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Will Morris, MD

Will Morris, MD, MBA, is board-certified in Internal Medicine and is a health technology leader, currently serving as Chief Medical Officer at Ambience Healthcare. In this role, he drives the company’s vision for clinical AI, collaborating with leading health systems to transform clinician workflows and improve patient care. Before joining Ambience, Dr. Morris was Chief Medical Information Officer at Google Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences, contributing to cutting-edge healthcare innovations. He previously held leadership roles at Cleveland Clinic, including Chief Innovation Officer and Associate Chief Information Officer, overseeing clinical IT systems and health IT advancements.

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Zach Evans

Zach Evans is the Chief Technology Officer with Xsolis, the AI-driven health technology company with a human-centered approach, where he is responsible for using Xsolis’ proprietary real-time predictive analytics and technology to support client objectives and internal business operations.

 

Zach previously held leadership roles at HCA Healthcare, Inc., the largest for-profit operator of hospitals in the United States. Most recently, he served as Assistant Vice President, Technology of Case Management and Performance Improvement, where he was responsible for using technology to achieve operational excellence, improve clinical workflows and augment quality outcomes. Prior to HCA, Zach served as Vice President of Strategic Development and Chief Information Officer at CareHere.



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