Our leadership team has deep experience across the healthcare spectrum as well as a track record of building disruptive companies.
Management Team
Vytas Kisielius
CEO
Vytas Kisielius
CEO
Prior to joining ReferWell, Vytas was CEO and co-founder of CMC. He built that business to include top utilities, credit card, real estate, and student lender clients in North America, Europe and Australia. Vytas started his career with IBM in various sales and product development management roles; was President and COO of Health Information Technology; was SVP at Sky Alland Marketing and President/CEO The Data Group; and was VP/General Manager of Americas Operations for Frontec AMT. Vytas co-founded Adeptra, Inc. (purchased by FairIsaac Corp in 2012) as well as CMC. Vytas holds an BA with high honors in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Jeff Bander
CMO
Jeff Bander
CMO
Dr. Jeff Bander is an innovative and successful Interventional Cardiologist at Mt. Sinai. Dr. Bander is acutely attuned to his patients’ needs and has built several successful offices in three NYC boroughs as a result of the growing demand for his medical care. He has brought cutting edge and cloud-based technology to his offices, which has enabled him to improve patient care and drive efficiencies of his staff. Jeff holds a B.S. from MIT and a MD from Harvard University.
Tom Mackintire
CRO
Tom Mackintire
CRO
Tom comes to ReferWell with over twenty years of sales and sales leadership in the healthcare markets. He was with HealthGrades in its infancy and was a key part of over seven years of double-digit sales growth. He has worked in the payor and provider spaces, and most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Sales for CaptureRx, a third-party administrator, working with community health centers, hospitals, and health plans. Tom graduated from UMass Lowell with a degree in Finance.
Sam Boochever
CFO
Sam Boochever
CFO
Sam started his career in Finance at Allscripts, a leading Electronic Medical Record provider, where he managed P/L reporting for a $250 million business unit, the companies largest. Sam then founded his own start-up, 1Degree, which is a platform that humanizes the influencer-fan relationship by allowing fans to FaceTime with their favorite influencers. Under Sam’s leadership, 1Degree saw consistent double digit growth and expanded to a dozen different countries. Sam joined ReferWell in 2018 as the CFO where he will oversee ReferWell’s strategic growth opportunities. He has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a MBA from the University of Virginia.
Nir Z.Pengas
CTO
Nir Z. Pengas
CTO
Prior to joining ReferWell, Nir was the co-founder and CTO of OccumHealth, a micro-intervention monitoring and validation technology for the home setting, with a specific focus on value-based healthcare in the US. Nir has a an extensive background in healthcare technology. He served as the VP of Research and Development with Remedy Partners, the largest Awardee Convener in the CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative; he was the VP of Engineering for Remedy Systems (Acquired 2013); and he served as the interim CTO for Tomorrow Networks (acquired by Merck Pharmaceuticals). Nir’s robust skillset as a healthcare technologist have helped him win multiple product innovations awards including the EHR accessibility challenge with the ONC (The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) and the Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge with Nuance.
Rosie Joseph
Head of Operations
Rosie Joseph
Head of Operations
Rosie brings to ReferWell more than 15 years of experience driving initiatives that impact customer service and network operations. During management positions at East River Medical Imaging, where she supported numerous provider liaison initiatives, and at HSS where she strengthened relationships with business partners, peers and senior leaders, she has successfully managed and been involved in all aspects of operations. Rosie is a proven mentor and motivator of our multidisciplinary team responsible for client onboarding, training and ongoing support. She embraces our core values of growth, integrity and innovation for our clients in line with driving continuous performance improvement initiatives. Rosie holds a bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences from Long Island University and a master’s degree in Public Health administration from Touro University.
Board of Directors
Charles Boorady
Director
Charles Boorady
Director
Charles has over 25 years of experience with healthcare investment and information technology business reengineering activity. He is currently the Managing Direct and Health Catalyst Capital, a healthcare focused VC fund. Past firms include Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Accenture. Charles was ranked #1 by Institutional Investor Magazine for his coverage of Managed Care, for which he ranked top 3 in the country for over a decade; named among the “Dazzling Dozen” by Forbes Magazine; and often quoted in national and trade press for his insights on healthcare industry trends. He is a Founding Advisory Board member of The Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center, convening leaders to identify business solutions to improve healthcare outcomes. Charles has an MBA in Analytic Finance and Statistics from The University of Chicago and a BS in Engineering from Cornell University.
Gene Huang
Director
Gene Huang
Director
Gene led the team that launched Oxford Health Plan’s Medicare Advantage plan and rapidly grew it into an $850 million business. He led Operations and Development for Aveta, developing Chronic Special Needs offerings within their Medicare Advantage health plan including responsibility for network development and contracting with groups, physicians, and hospitals. He served as VP of Health Facilitation for CIGNA HealthCare and Chief Operating Officer of Opticare Eye Health, before becoming President and Chief Development Officer for a large multi-state physician practice business focused on home visits by physicians and nurse practitioners to Medicard and Medicaid insureds. In 2012, Gene joined Remedy Partners and now runs their bundled payment business with a focus on skilled nursing facilities. Gene works closely with ReferWell on payer program and operational support design, to ensure that we meet payers’ needs while being ever cognizant of the provider perspective. Gene holds a Bachelors degree in chemistry from Cornell University and Masters in the Management of Technology from M.I.T.
Dan Messina
Director
Dan Messina
Director
For the past 35 years, Dan has helped insurers find new strategies for managing total cost of care, from his time as VP of Finance at Cigna and then as CFO of Aetna, overseeing several key acquisitions. He was CEO and President of Magellan Health, one of the nation’s leading providers of behavioral health and employee assistance programs. He guided Health Advocate’s growth from a startup to an industry-leading healthcare advocacy and assistance company serving 11,500 clients and 40 million members. After it was acquired by West Corporation, Dan stayed on as co-president of the Health Advocate Division. He applies his vast expertise to help ReferWell deploy a unique solution that balances payers’ and providers’ often conflicting needs through automated referral management that delivers substantial benefits to payers, providers and patients alike. Dan graduated with honors with a Bachelors Degree in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame and was a licensed CPA in Florida and Connecticut.
Matt Storeygard
Director
Matt Storeygard
Director
Matt’s extensive experience includes five years at Cross Sector Consulting, where he provided strategic consulting services including planning, financial analyses, competitive analyses and implementation strategies for a variety of clients, including health care, education, community development finance and workforce organizations. Previously, he worked at the Urban Institute, where he developed predictive models to analyze the effects of health policy legislation.
Matt received his B.A. in Economics at Haverford College and an M.B.A.in Finance and Strategy at Yale School of Management.