As the founding President of FAIR Health, Robin Gelburd built the organization into a national leader in healthcare cost transparency. Under her direction, FAIR Health has fulfilled its mandate to provide an independent, national database of healthcare claims; a free website to educate consumers about healthcare insurance and costs; and data for academic and policy research. FAIR Health oversees the nation’s largest collection of healthcare claims data, which includes a repository of over 24 billion billed medical and dental procedures that reflect the claims experience of over 150 million privately insured individuals, and separate data representing the experience of more than 55 million individuals enrolled in Medicare. Certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a Qualified Entity, FAIR Health receives all of Medicare Parts A, B and D claims data for use in nationwide transparency efforts. A recipient of a 2016 Dig|Benefits Technology Innovator Award, bestowed by Employee Benefit News, Robin has been invited to speak to organizations across the country on topics of critical importance to employers, employees, healthcare professionals and institutions, health plans, third-party administrators, consultants and other healthcare stakeholders. Her presentations have taken place at forums sponsored by the American Medical Association, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Alliance for Health Reform, the Institute for HealthCare Consumerism and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, among others. She also has published numerous articles on topics such as data analytics in The Self-Insurer, healthcare cost transparency and clarity in Managed Healthcare Executive, the New York State consumer protection law in Employee Benefit Adviser and consumer preferences on the Institute for HealthCare Consumerism website, among many others. Prior to being recruited as President of FAIR Health, Robin served for eight years as General Counsel of a medical research foundation comprising approximately 30 premier academic medical centers, hospitals and research institutions in New York State. During her tenure at this consortium, she also was appointed Chairperson of New Yorkers for the Advancement of Medical Research, a statewide coalition of over 40 organizations that she helped found in 2003 and whose mission was the promotion of state funding and support for stem cell research and regenerative medicine. Previously, Robin was a health law partner at the New York City law firm Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein (now Manatt, Phelps & Phillips). During her 10 years at that firm, she represented an array of healthcare-based clients—including health plans, hospitals, provider groups and organizations, skilled nursing facilities, special needs plans and ambulatory care centers—on a variety of strategic, regulatory, policy, governance, business and contractual matters. Earlier, Robin worked as a litigation and corporate associate at the international law firm Morrison & Foerster. She began her legal career as a federal appellate law clerk to the Honorable Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. from the Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit. She received a BA with honors from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a JD from Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.

Roger Adler leads the Finance team in fiscal management and strategic planning, as well as supporting the organization’s operations. Before joining FAIR Health, Roger served in several roles in technology, market research, finance and strategic planning over 25 years at Time Inc. As Finance Director of Time Inc.’s Corporate Services, from 2011 to 2015, Roger managed the finances and supported operations of corporate cost centers, including worldwide real estate and facilities, human resources, legal, central finance and corporate communications. In earlier roles, Roger managed consolidations, budgets and forecasts along with supporting the operations for media brands such as Time, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money. Prior to these positions, Roger worked in Time Inc.’s corporate strategic planning, where he performed corporate financial planning and analysis, acquisitions, dispositions and new business development, including the relaunch of LIFE magazine. Before joining Time Inc., Roger spent five years at Erisco, an employee benefit system company, designing systems and analyzing medical claim information. Roger holds a BS in Mathematics from Union College and an MBA from Columbia University.

Ray Agostinelli came to FAIR Health with a background in data analytics systems design and development, having served in executive roles in organizations in the healthcare, travel and social media sectors. He founded a software company specializing in open source technologies for the nonprofit civil legal aid community, for which he developed solutions providing access to legal information for low-income citizens in over 20 states. Previously, as an early management team member at FAIR Health, he contributed to the establishment of benchmark data products operations, cost transparency tools for consumers and providers, and the research program supporting academic study into public health and healthcare costs using medical claims data. Ray received BAs in Physics and Philosophy from Dartmouth College.

Prior to joining FAIR Health, Bart Bronfman had over 15 years of experience as Chief Financial Officer for two not-for-profit organizations, St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children, a pediatric healthcare system providing subacute and long-term care in facilities and at home, and Pathways to Housing, a social services agency. In these positions he provided financial and strategic direction to the organizations. Previously, he served as Corporate Controller for American NuKEM Corporation, a national environmental consulting and services company, and managed the worldwide planning and analysis function for Avis, an international vehicle rental and leasing company. He received a BA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Rutgers Business School.

Ben Casado García has over 25 years of progressive information technology experience in global organizations. He joined FAIR Health after serving for the previous three years as the Chief Technology Officer for a multi-million-dollar global consulting firm based in Madrid, Spain. Ben made the transition to the healthcare industry from the financial markets, where he was a key designer and architect at JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney and Prudential Financial. He also founded a software development company, later purchased by the Carlyle Group, and served as a member of the Board until 2008. Ben received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, an MS in Computer Science from Monmouth University and an Advanced Project Management certification from Stanford University.

Bert Cliche oversees development efforts for externally and internally facing websites and applications, as well as working to coordinate infrastructure releases. He joined FAIR Health with over 25 years of technology experience, more than 15 of which were with Wall Street firms. Previous roles included Director at Merrill Lynch, where he ran the engineering team for Investment Banking, Research, Human Resources, Legal/ Compliance and Corporate Technology. Prior to that, Bert was Senior Vice President and Chief Architect for Equity and Fixed Income Prime Brokerage, Equity/Fixed Income Sales and Futures technology areas at Citigroup. Bert graduated with a BA from Hampshire College, majoring in Modern Algebra and minoring in Sculpture.

Rachael McKeon has more than seven years of diverse not-for-profit experience in project planning and management. In her current role, she participates in the development of strategies to improve operational activities and coordinate institutional partnerships with a variety of organizations. She is involved in the company’s quality assurance programs and planning for senior management semiannual strategic meetings and manages the corporation’s support staff. Prior to her current role, she was the Director of Web Services, responsible for FAIR Health’s web portals. She led planning, development and maintenance of the web portal environment. She developed and managed enhancements and changes to the commercial and consumer-facing web portals and mobile apps. Before joining FAIR Health, Rachael worked at Sandell Asset Management, where she provided research support to both the analysts and the CEO. Earlier experience included positions at Red Light Management and Force One Entertainment. Rachael graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Music and Business.

Chris O’Donnell has over 25 years of experience in marketing, operations and customer experience. She is responsible for the overall customer experience for the multiple stakeholder groups that FAIR Health serves. Her role encompasses managing the client services team, the consumer help line and product management for a segment of the company’s product offerings. Prior to joining FAIR Health, Chris ran her own consulting practice, helping financial services organizations develop user-friendly products and processes. Earlier in her career, Chris was the Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for the voluntary benefits division at Prudential Financial and managed individual retirement accounts for Wells Fargo Bank. Chris is a graduate of Middlebury College with a BA in Economics.

Ali Russo has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of information technology, including more than 15 years in healthcare data, analytics and product development. Prior to joining FAIR Health, Ali was with McKesson, where she had many roles, including, most recently, responsibility for the Analytics Services team under the Health Solutions division. As Director of Analytics Services, her focus was to bring actionable analytic information to the healthcare sector based on allocated claims data. Ali received her BS in Biology from the State University of New York at Albany.

Prior to joining FAIR Health, Michelle Scott was Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of the National Audubon Society, the national conservation organization. She also served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the East-West Management Institute (EWMI), a non-governmental organization that conducts civil society, rule of law and economic development programs in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. After leaving EWMI, she was elected to its Board of Directors and in 2010 became the Board’s Chairman, a position that she continues to hold. For over 18 years, Michelle was Vice President and Corporate Counsel for Prudential Financial, responsible for significant investment transactions and tax planning, and served as General Counsel of The Prudential Foundation. Earlier in her career, she was legislation counsel for the Joint Committee on Taxation of the United States Congress and was in private practice with law firms in New York City and Washington, DC. Michelle has spoken and written extensively on tax and nonprofit law. A long-term member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, she was Co-Chair of its Committee on Tax-Exempt Organizations for several terms and was appointed to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue’s Advisory Committee on Tax-Exempt Organizations. Michelle is a member of the National Steering Committee for the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School and has served on the Boards of Directors of The Transition Network and The Associated Blind. She earned an AB from Bryn Mawr College and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Before joining FAIR Health, Dean Sicoli served in several roles in television news and media, with over 16 years at CNN and HLN and over 2 years at the Fox Business Network. Most recently, Dean was Executive Producer at the Fox Business Network, where he created and developed their program Making Money with Charles Payne. Prior to that he worked at CNN/HLN, where he served as Executive Producer of Nancy Grace from 2005 to 2013, a show he also created. Under his tenure, Nancy Grace was CNN’s top-rated program, and the social and digital media version became CNN’s most successful brand with original content. Dean also created a documentary-style crime series in 2012, Nancy Grace Behind Bars, which aired on both CNN and HLN. Prior to Nancy Grace, he worked in numerous producing roles on Larry King Live on CNN from 1997 to 2006, serving as Senior Supervising Producer and Managing Editor of Larry King Live from 2001 to 2006. Dean holds a BS in Marketing from Villanova University.

As Executive Sponsor for FAIR Health’s large client base, Donna Smith maintains an effort to bring value to the various stakeholders that cross multiple market segments in the healthcare ecosystem. Donna has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, concentrating on benefits administration, managed care, payor and claims solutions. Prior to joining FAIR Health, she was an independent consultant to a variety of entities in the healthcare and benefits sector, including health plans, third-party administrators and other companies serving the health insurance payor and self-funded employer markets. For these entities, her consulting services concentrated on marketing, sales and organizational strategic planning. In addition, Donna also served the provider community, working with small physician group practices to evaluate electronic medical record (EMR) solutions, based on meaningful use evaluations. Earlier in her career, Donna served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a technology company, SBPA Systems, a role she retained when the company was acquired by SunGard, a leading technology and services provider of employee benefits, healthcare claims adjudication, business process automation and reporting solutions for the health and benefits insurance industry. In addition to focusing on business development, sales and marketing, Donna developed customer service, implementation and account management teams as well as executive and customer advisory groups. Donna has participated in several key industry associations—including Self-Insurance Institute of America (SIIA), Health Care Administrators Association, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Institute for Healthcare Consumerism (IHC) and Institute of Medicine (IOM)—by serving in many capacities, such as focused panels, workshops, task groups and committees, including a Board of Directors appointment with SIIA. Donna continues to participate and speak at various industry forums representing the many sectors FAIR Health serves. She holds a BS in Business Management and Marketing from Louisiana Tech University.

Ashley Smyth joined the FAIR Health team with over 15 years of experience in healthcare communications, health policy and program development. She has held senior management positions at organizations throughout the healthcare sector, including an academic medical center (Mount Sinai Hospital), government (the New York City Mayor's Office and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation) and a private foundation (AMDeC Foundation). Most recently, Ashley served as the Administrative Director for Mount Sinai Hospital’s Office for Excellence in Patient Care and Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Department of Health Policy. Ashley was awarded her BA summa cum laude from Bowdoin College. She received master’s degrees in public health and public policy from Columbia University.

Tom Swift is responsible for licensing negotiations and contracts, data privacy and security and general corporate legal issues. Prior to joining FAIR Health, Tom was a Director and Counsel at Credit Suisse, a global integrated bank, advising on technology, intellectual property, privacy and general contract issues for 15 years. He has spoken and written on privacy and technology issues, and actively participated in a securities industry association addressing a variety of market data issues. Prior to that, he was a litigation attorney at Shearman & Sterling in New York, working on an array of commercial litigation matters, including antitrust, bankruptcy, securities and commercial lending cases. He received a BA in Government from Pomona College and his JD from New York University School of Law.

Jim Wilson leads FAIR Health’s Information Security Program and will oversee the expansion of the organization’s Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliancy initiatives to include Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certification. Jim has over 20 years of professional technology security experience, with an extensive background in information technology security governance, compliance and operations. He has over 12 years of HIPAA-regulated industry experience, most recently as Director of IT Security at Interpace Diagnostics, the molecular diagnostics subsidiary of PDI, and, prior to that, as Global IT Manager at the cardiac medical device manufacturer Datascope Corp., where he directed an international team of 12 individuals covering both the United States and the European Union. Jim also served nine years as Director of IT Operations & Security at American Friends of The Hebrew University (AFHU), where his responsibilities included managing organizational security functions across their six US offices and Israel. He is a long-standing member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and also has served as technology representative to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), now known as the Joint Commission. Jim attended Rutgers University and has Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium ((ISC)2).