Our leadership team combines experience across the health care spectrum and a track record of building disruptive companies.
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Jeff Bander, MD
Chief Medical Officer & Founder
Dr. Jeff Bander is an innovative and successful chief of cardiology at Mount Sinai West. Dr. Bander is acutely attuned to his patients’ needs and has built several successful offices in three New York City boroughs as a result of the growing demand for his medical care.
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Board of Directors

Gene Huang
Executive Chairman
Gene has a 30+ year career building health care businesses, focusing on health services companies, health plans, provider organizations and most recently payment reform and value-based care initiatives.
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Vytas Kisielius
Chief Executive Officer
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.
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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 vice president of finance at Cigna and then as chief financial officer at Aetna, overseeing several key acquisitions.
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Dan Ross
Director
Dan has 20 years of experience as a business executive, entrepreneur and investor active in tech-enabled enterprises in the health care services sector. He is currently a partner at Health Catalyst Capital (HCC), a health care-focused VC fund.
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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.
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Management Team

Gene Huang
Executive Chairman
Gene has a 30+ year career building health care businesses, focusing on health services companies, health plans, provider organizations and most recently payment reform and value-based care initiatives.
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Vytas Kisielius
Chief Executive Officer
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.
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Jeff Bander, MD
Chief Medical Officer & Founder
Dr. Jeff Bander is an innovative and successful chief of cardiology at Mount Sinai West. Dr. Bander is acutely attuned to his patients’ needs and has built several successful offices in three New York City boroughs as a result of the growing demand for his medical care.
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Tom Mackintire
Chief Revenue Officer
Tom comes to ReferWell with more than 20 years of sales and sales leadership in the health care market. He was with HealthGrades in its infancy and was a key part of more than seven years of double-digit sales growth.
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Nir Z. Pengas
Chief Technology Officer
Prior to joining ReferWell, Nir was the co-founder and chief technology officer at OccumHealth, a micro-intervention monitoring and validation technology for the home setting with a specific focus on value-based health care in the US.
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Sam Boochever
Chief Financial Officer
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.
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Rosie Joseph
Head of Operations
Rosie brings to ReferWell more than 15 years of experience driving initiatives that impact customer service and network operations. In management positions at East River Medical Imaging, she supported numerous provider liaison initiatives.
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Amika Reed
Director of Account Onboarding
Amika is committed to providing quality care to people of all backgrounds. She earned her clinical degree from Kasturba Medical College in India and a Master of Health Administration from Hofstra University.
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Jackie Simon
Head of Marketing
Jackie is interested in how health care proactively keeps people well and how health care technology creates efficiencies to improve care delivery.
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