My career has centered around improving quality and lowering the cost of healthcare for patients in every community I have served. We are at a crucial time in our nation’s history to finally make this move to value a reality at scale for the more than 60 million Americans depending on a viable future with Medicare. As the CEO at Honest, I am honored to bring my leadership and shared passion to this spectacular team where, together, we can enable physicians to provide the best possible care for their patients and lead the successful transition from volume to value based reimbursement.

I experienced health care very differently during my childhood in the U.K. and was fortunate to have a general practitioner who managed all aspects of my care. He came to our home when we were sick, answered calls after hours, and appointments were scheduled with ease. The often inaccessible and inefficient health care in the U.S. is a stark contrast to that experience. Honest’s mission of empowering and enabling primary care physicians to manage all aspects of patient care will improve access and quality of care for those who need it the most. I am passionate about improving access and quality to healthcare and am excited to be part of our mission.

Throughout my medical career, I’ve seen patients’ limited involvement in medical decision-making, inadequate communication among care teams, care delays, and reactive interventions, including during my own father’s health decline. At Honest, our combined purpose is to tackle these issues by fostering collaboration across care pathways, acknowledging that our greatest impact lies in engaging with all in the care journey — from primary care providers to payors to patients.

I was determined to be a part of an organization that is committed to transforming health care. It has been heartbreaking to watch my grandparents navigate our complex healthcare system. They deserved better and so do others. Honest is making a difference in this world, and I am honored to be part of it.

Our health care system presents a complex and fragmented landscape for patients to navigate, particularly when they are at their most vulnerable. Empowering primary care physicians to hold the central role in care delivery is paramount to simplifying the experience for both the patient and the physician and achieving improved health outcomes. I want to be a part of making that a reality for all.

After spending over two decades in the health care industry, I’ve seen both the successes and failures of our system. I strongly advocate for a better model that benefits both physicians and patients. My passion lies in promoting value-based care, which I believe has the potential to greatly improve our health care delivery system.

As a former prosecutor of health care fraud, waste, and abuse, I’ve witnessed firsthand the detrimental effects of our flawed system on patients and their families. It’s imperative that we shift the paradigm of health care delivery toward enhanced care coordination and a steadfast emphasis on quality outcomes to ensure the well-being of patients and to mitigate the financial burdens imposed by the current volume-billing system.

I am excited to tackle the complex issues we need to navigate while transforming health care.

Adam Boehler is the founder and Managing Partner of Rubicon Founders, an entrepreneurial healthcare investment firm focused on building and growing transformational companies. Adam has extensive experience in investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation in both the private sector and in the U.S. Government.

Adam founded three successful businesses and is widely regarded as a leader in the healthcare and private investment sectors. Most recently, Adam founded and served as CEO of Landmark Health, a company delivering around-the-clock medical care to chronically ill patients in their homes. During Adam’s tenure, Landmark grew to be the largest home-based medical group in the country, with over 1,000 employees serving 80,000 patients.

While at Landmark, Adam was recruited to lead healthcare innovation for the United States, serving as Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Director of the Innovation Center at CMS (CMMI) where he focused on transforming the American healthcare system to create better outcomes for patients at lower cost. Adam was also a founding member of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership which ultimately led to the first COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.

Following HHS, Adam was appointed by the President and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the first Chief Executive Officer of the new U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the U.S. Government’s international investment arm. Adam served on the negotiating team for the Abraham Accords and is the recipient of the Department of Defense’s highest civilian medal for his work. Adam is currently a board member at the Atlantic Council and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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, OncoHealth, 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.

It’s not often that you get the opportunity to co-found a company that changes the way whole populations receive care. I wanted to help start Honest because I believed our mission would help patients have the kind of care and respect they deserve. If we are going to best take care of our patients, we have to get deep into the community and become a crucial part of the neighborhood. Honest works to improve patients’ lives – I’m grateful to be part of the team that enables this vision.

In 2001, Dr. Robert Bessler founded Sound Physicians (“Sound”), a physician led multispecialty medical group, where he served as the Chairman and CEO for 22 years. Dr. Bessler founded Sound to improve quality and reduce costs for patients across the United States. Through his strategic vision and leadership, the business grew from a start-up to a destination practice of choice for more than 4,000 physicians, and advance practice providers, and the provider of choice for more than 450 hospitals nationwide.

Sound began as a hospital medicine organization and grew to a thriving technology enabled healthcare services organization focused on driving reproducible process to improve quality and lower cost for Medicare programs, at risk medical groups, payers, and hospitals. Dr. Bessler and his team were able to grow Sound from start up to more than 5,000 clinical and business colleagues in 47 states by relentlessly focusing on creating an environment where people could do meaningful work to improve quality and lower costs.

Dr. Bessler earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Tufts University and graduated with honors from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth in Cleveland. He has been married to Michele, a community pediatrician for 26 years and they have three adult children.

Scott Serota is a healthcare expert and retired executive with more than four decades of leadership experience. He most recently served as president and chief executive officer of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of 36 independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, stepping down in January 2021 after 21 years in that role. He joined BCBSA in 1996, serving first as executive vice president for system development, where he was responsible for new business, strategy and technology evaluation, then as chief operating officer.

Previously, Serota was president and CEO of Chicago-based Rush Prudential Health Plans, where he led the integration of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center Health Plans and The Prudential. Early in his career, he created and led Physicians Preferred Health Inc., a Missouri-based PHO.

Serota is a founding member of the National Business Group on Health’s Institute on Healthcare Costs and Solutions, a board member of the Brain Research Foundation, Athletico Physical Therapy, the Board of Northwestern Memorial Health System-South Region, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Unitek Learning, and an advisory board member of Paragon Biosciences and the Vistria Group. He also serves on the Leadership Council of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Dean’s Leadership Council for the College of Science at Purdue University and the Washington University School of Medicine National Council.