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Donald Trigg is the Chief Executive Officer of apree Health, a combination of digital health innovator Castlight Health and advanced primary care leader Vera Whole Health.

Trigg has spent almost two decades at the intersection of health care and information technology. He served as President of Fortune 500 electronic medical record provider Cerner Corporation. As President, he held general management, P&L, and operational responsibilities for the full breadth of Cerner’s business groups. Prior to his role as President, Trigg held senior leadership roles at the company including executive vice president of Strategic Growth where he led a set of businesses that encompassed Cerner’s strategies around value-based care and Workforce Health. He also was managing director of the United Kingdom and Ireland, general manager of the U.S. Midwest region, and the first-ever vice president of Cerner’s government practice.

Trigg also has experience scaling early-stage growth businesses. He led the execution of Natural Language Processing (NLP) leader CodeRyte’s rapid growth plan, culminating in its acquisition by 3M in 2012. He also brings deep public policy experience to his role at apree Health including a decade in Washington, D.C. in senior policy roles in both the legislative and the executive branch. Trigg earned a BS from St. Lawrence University and is co-author of The New Health Economy: Ground Rules for Leaders (Georgetown University Press).

Ryan Schmid is the founder of Vera Whole Health, where he served as president and CEO until Vera and Castlight Health combined to become apree health in 2022. Ryan is passionate about transforming our country’s reactive sick care system into the life-giving, life-empowering industry it was meant to be. He strongly believes health, as defined by the World Health Organization, is a “…state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity.” And he believes that empathy must be at the foundation of this new, transformed healthcare system. Ryan is also the co-founder of Hope Central Pediatric and Behavior Health and Rainier Health and Fitness, nonprofits dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of people in low-income areas. Ryan earned an MBA at Seattle University and a BS from the University of Oregon.

Kevin Wang is Chief Medical Officer at apree health, leading the Quality, Provider, Managed Care, and Product Development teams. Central to Kevin’s role is enhancing the organization’s clinical capabilities to improve quality, patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and care team satisfaction in arrangements with increasing outcomes-based risk.

Kevin previously worked at HealthCare Partners/DaVita Medical Group, Evolent Health, and Huron Consulting Group where he successfully designed and implemented population health clinical interventions across diverse healthcare landscapes including health plans, academic medical centers, employer-based care centers, integrated delivery systems, large physician groups, and independent community hospitals.

Kevin’s training was in the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, an affiliate of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Kevin holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from New York Medical College.

Will Bondurant is responsible for accounting, strategic finance, and FP&A at apree health. Will was appointed as CFO in November 2019, but his tenure at Castlight began in Strategy & Financial Planning in April 2013. Since joining Castlight, Will has served in nearly every role of the business, including growing Castlight’s largest customer relationship with Anthem, leading client delivery as VP of Professional Services, and driving Product Strategy, Product Marketing, Business Development, and Financial Planning. Prior to Castlight, Will was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on healthcare. Will serves on the Board of Mount Tamalpais College and holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jamie Turner Lovett is Chief People Officer at apree health. She most recently served as vice president of human resources at Humana. While at Humana, Jamie led numerous large scale transformation initiatives and organizational restructures. Humana’s Healthcare Services segment, now CenterWell, allowed Jamie to drive acquisition integration efforts across the primary care, pharmacy, and home businesses. Jamie also led the initial development of clinical communities of practice for pharmacists, physicians, and nurses to name a few.

Prior to joining Humana, Jamie spent 12 years at HSBC in multiple roles, both within the operations and human resources. She has contributed to various non-profit boards historically and is currently involved in the Louisville area, where she resides.

Vijay Anand leads the technology organization for apree health, including product management, engineering, design and analytics. Before joining Castlight Health, he was the SVP of Global Engineering at Intuit, where he had a profound impact on company culture that led Intuit to be ranked among the top ten best companies to work across all global locations. He established global development centers that excel in technologies such as AI/ML, information security and built products that power prosperity for millions of consumers and small businesses around the world. Prior to Intuit he was Vice President of Engineering at Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation and played entrepreneurial roles at NetDynamics and Transarc. Vijay holds graduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology and computer science from the University of Arizona and the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.

Frank Jennings brings more than 25 years of experience in business development and management of sales professionals in a variety of technology services centered around employee benefits. Most recently, Jennings served as Chief Commercial Officer at Covera Health, a clinical analytics company focused on reducing medical misdiagnosis. Prior to Covera, Jennings led sales strategy as strategic advisor and Senior Vice President of Sales for Doctor on Demand, with additional sales leadership and new business development roles at Castlight Health, SuccessFactors, and ADP. His passion is anchored around helping technology companies that are committed to delivering better healthcare outcomes, devise their go-to-market strategy, and win market share. Jennings holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.

Tamar Rudnick is Senior Vice President of Growth at apree health, where she oversees marketing, business development, and commercial growth strategy. Prior to this role, she served as VP Product Strategy and Analytics, where she was responsible for defining Castlight’s strategic roadmap in partnership with Product leadership and developing the company’s analytics roadmap. Tamar previously served in a variety of other roles at Castlight including User Marketing, Product Management, Business Development, and Corporate Strategy. Previously, Tamar was a consultant at Bain & Company, where she focused on enterprise technology and healthcare sectors. Tamar began her career working at early stage technology companies and at Columbia University conducting Behavioral Economics research. She has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Yale University.

Herbert Cummings is Chief Clinical Operations Officer and leads Clinical Operations, Clinical Management, Clinic Transformation and Care Center Performance Management. Herbert believes health care transformation begins with the ability to meet patient social, emotional, and economic needs through the coordination of care based in an advanced primary care model.

Herbert previously held the roles of Chief Operating Offer of the Virginia Medical Group at Bon Secours Mercy Health and Chief Operations Officer of Capital Area Health Network playing instrumental roles in both organizations growing the number of providers, locations and clinical services offered.

Herbert received an MSPH in Public Health Administration at Meharry Medical College and a B.S. in Biology/Chemistry at Tennessee State University.

Jesse James is Chief Medical Information Officer at apree health. Prior to this role he served as Chief Medical Officer at CHESS Health Solutions. He previously served as Chief Medical Information Officer of Evolent Health in Arlington, VA where he was the clinical architect for enterprise information systems and data use, working collaboratively across the organization to enhance clinical goals in value-based development. Prior to that, he served as the associate medical director at Inovalon, Inc.

Jesse was also involved with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC-HIT). He was deeply involved in the EHR Meaningful Use program, development of clinical quality measures, and served as clinical advisor on multiple federal committees. Other notable achievements include receiving the honorary award for excellence in Innovation at the ONC-HIT and serving as a co-chair for the MACRA Technical Expert Panel for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Measure Development.

Jesse earned his medical degree at Yale School of Medicine and his MBA at Yale School of Management. He completed his medical residency in Internal and Preventive Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

Marla McLaughlin is Associate Chief Medical Officer at apree health, leading our Senior Clinical Leadership Team, Provider Organization, and Clinical Training. Marla believes that transforming the health of a population starts with each individual patient and a strong patient-provider relationship. She works to ensure that best in class Advanced Primary Care and Value Based Care are a focus clinically.

Marla previously worked for 14 years in direct patient care. Her first three years of practice were in a community-based fee-for-service family medicine practice. She then spent the next 11 years in an employer-based primary care clinic at Cerner Corporation, taking care of the employees and their families. Prior to her current role at Vera, Marla was the Regional Lead Physician in Vera’s Kansas City market, followed by the Regional Medical Director. She focused on quality clinical outcomes and educating the providers as the value-based model continued to develop and evolve.

Marla trained in Family Medicine at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. She holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies – Biology, Chemistry, and Health Related Sciences – from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She also received her Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the University of Missouri-Columbia.