Is the VBC Experiment Working?

Andy Slavitt was President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the Covid response. He has led many of the nation’s most important health care initiatives, serving as President Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid and overseeing the turnaround, implementation and defense of the Affordable Care Act. Slavitt is the “outsider’s insider”, serving in leading private and non-profit roles in addition to his government services. he is founder and Board Chair Emeritus of United States of Care, a national non-profit health advocacy organization as well as a founding partner of Town Hall Ventures, a healthcare firm that invests in underrepresented communities. He co-chaired a national initiative on the future of health care at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He chronicles what goes on inside the government and across the nation at town halls, in USA Today, on his award-winning podcast In the Bubble, and on Twitter. He is the author of Preventable, a best-selling account of the US’s Coronavirus response released in 2021. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School, he and his wife have two grown sons.

Annie Lamont is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT where she focuses on venture and growth opportunities in Healthcare and FinTech. Annie currently serves on the Boards of Advise Health Holdings, Brightline, CareBridge, Clearco, Main Street Health, Modern Age, Quartet, Truepill, Vesta Health and VillageMD. She is also a Board Observer at Notable. Annie is also actively involved with Blend (NYSE: BLND), Devoted Health, Inscripta, Komodo Health, Precision Medicine Group, Rubicon Founders and TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions. Annie has been featured on the Forbes Midas List, Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list, Institutional Investor’s FinTech Finance 40 list, and the Top 100 Venture Capitalist rankings published by CB Insights and The New York Times. She was the first recipient of the National Venture Capital Association’s award for Excellence in Healthcare Innovation. Annie was also honored with the Healthcare Private Equity Association’s 2017 Russell L. Carson Award for lifetime achievement in healthcare investing. Annie served as a core participant of the Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary’s Innovation and Investment Summit (DSIIS). Annie also served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees and the Executive Board of the National Venture Capital Association. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.

Brad is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Russell Street Ventures, an innovative healthcare firm focused on launching and scaling companies that serve some of our nation’s most vulnerable patient populations. Brad also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Main Street Health, which provides primary care services to patients in rural America, and as Executive Chairman of CareBridge, which serves homebound Medicaid patients. Together, CareBridge and Main Street Health have over $2.5 billion in annualized revenue, with each company valued at over $1 billion. Brad was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspire Health, which he grew into the nation’s largest home-based palliative care provider before selling it to Anthem for $440 million in 2018. Brad then served as Chief Operating Officer of Anthem’s Diversified Business Group, a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of five companies. While in government, Brad served as Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Deputy Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). At the White House, Brad helped operationalize various elements of the federal response to COVID-19 including scaling testing across the country and launching Project Airbridge, which shipped billions of medical supplies from around the world to America. Brad also served as a Board Member of Operation Warp Speed, helping develop COVID-19 vaccines in record time. At HHS, Brad launched innovative payment models that lowered the price of prescription drugs and allowed rural communities to transform how healthcare is delivered. Brad previously served as Chief of Staff at the Tennessee Department of Economic Development where he helped create over 28,000 jobs while reducing the cost to taxpayers. Brad also served as the founding Executive Director of the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a K-12 education non-profit in Tennessee. Brad has lectured at Duke University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. He has also authored articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Fierce Healthcare, The Tennessean, Knoxville News Sentinel, and Memphis Commercial Appeal. Brad graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University and received an M.Phil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Brad is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Lauren and their three daughters Harper, Avery and Emma.