Team - Datavant

Travis May

Founder & President

I founded Datavant in 2017 with a mission to connect the world’s health data to improve patient outcomes. Before this, I built a company called LiveRamp. I’m motivated by i) working with great people, ii) building one of the largest companies of all time, and iii) building one of the most consequential companies of all time.

Pete McCabe

Chief Executive Officer

Pete McCabe has a track record of delivering growth and outstanding client results while achieving operational transformation. He spent the last 19 years at The General Electric Company, most recently as the President and CEO of GE Renewable Energy’s Onshore Wind business. Previously he led Global Services Organization (GSO) for GE Transportation, and held multiple senior roles at GE Healthcare over an 11 year period. Pete earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1988 from Northeastern University. He and his wife have three daughters.

Bob Bailey

Chief Legal Officer

Prior to joining Datavant, Bob Bailey has more than twenty years of experience as a senior executive and more than 12 years as a chief legal officer with private and publicly-traded companies in healthcare. Starting in 2013, he served as Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Allergan PLC, and its predecessor companies, Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Actavis PLC. At Allergan, Bob led a legal team that managed and negotiated more than 20 closed public and private M&A transactions and numerous life science license and development arrangements. In his career, he has also led teams that defended and resolved a range of complex legal and regulatory matters, including SEC, DOJ, and internal investigations, and intellectual property, antitrust, commercial, product liability and complex tax litigation. Bob also previously served as Executive Vice President, Law, Policy and Communications at Bausch + Lomb from 2007 to 2013, after serving in successively senior roles in the Legal Department since 1994. Prior to that, he practiced law as an attorney at Nixon Peabody. Bob is a director of TearClear, an innovator in the ophthalmic pharmaceutical field. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center. He recently served on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Morristown (NJ) Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health. Bob received his law degree from the University of Minnesota after graduating from St. Olaf College.

Ram Balagopal

President & General Manager, Health Plans

Ram Balagopal brings over 18 years of experience in consulting, IT, products, and business process outsourcing services and has served in a variety of operational and advisory roles. In his current capacity, Ram is responsible for all aspects of the health plan business including strategy, sales, marketing, product development, and operations. Prior, Ram was a senior vice president at Cognizant Technology Solutions and focused on driving growth of the health plan business. As part of the senior leadership team at Cognizant, Ram was instrumental in driving growth and orchestrated a number of strategic acquisitions and M&A integrations including the $2.7B TriZetto acquisition in 2014.

Jamie Blackport

Head of Privacy Hub

Bob Borek

President & General Manager, Life Sciences, Public Sector & Ecosystem

I joined Datavant 3 years ago and in typical startup fashion have had a variety of roles and responsibilities since joining, from sales to product. Today, I manage our broader product organization. I work at Datavant for two reasons. First, it’s a massive opportunity. Healthcare doesn’t have a world-class middleware company, but desperately needs one. Datavant is going to be that company. Second, the people. On a more practical level, I want to work with exceptional people that I know I can learn from and that I will enjoy working with day in and day out. Datavant had that 3 years ago, and it’s only become more true with time. Prior to Datavant, I had several different roles that ranged from managing operations at a biopharmaceutical company to working as a restructuring and finance attorney.

Jason Brantley

President & General Manager, Provider Solutions

With over 10 years of experience in health information management and technology, Jason Brantley brings his laser-like focus on delighting customers, ensuring optimized operations and better outcomes for Providers to his role as President & General Manager of Provider Solutions. In this role, Jason is responsible for all aspects of the provider business including strategy, sales, marketing, product development and operations. At Ciox, Jason has served in a variety of roles in both the commercial and operations organization – beginning in the in the commercial organization, as Vice President of Sales, Senior Vice President Marketing and Commercial Operations and transitioning to operations as General Manager leading the HIM Services team, Jason most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Provider Services. Jason has been passionate about delighting his customers since his career began and developed a focus for optimizing operations to lead to this delight. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Auburn University. Jason and his wife Laura have two children.

Michelle Edler

Chief Operating Officer, Ciox Service Operations

Michelle Edler is a proven operations and growth leader, having held a variety of senior leadership roles of increasing responsibility across healthcare IT, healthcare devices, and large distributed healthcare services organizations. Prior to her arrival, she led billion-dollar businesses in the healthcare IT and X-ray spaces where she drove product design, development, marketing, sales, and after-market services improvements to deliver double-digit growth and achieve #1 market share positions. Michelle came from a successful career with General Electric, where she led complex globally-distributed service operations in GE Healthcare and GE Power. Prior to GE, she worked at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Michelle earned a Biomedical Engineering degree from Vanderbilt University.

Jose Garcia

Chief Financial Officer

Jose brings to Datavant his experience building finance functions in public and private companies. Previously, Jose was CFO of Apple Leisure Group, a fast-growing travel and hotel management company that was successfully acquired by Hyatt. Before that, he was CFO of Spirit Aero-Systems, a public company in the aviation industry. Jose started his career at General Electric Co (GE), where he spent 20+ years in various financial leadership roles across GE Renewable Energy, GE Latin America, and GE Power Services. He has extensive experience in operating finance, mergers and acquisitions, IPO readiness, value creation and integration.

Marla Kessler

Chief Marketing Officer

Marla leads all aspects of Datavant’s marketing organization, including brand, content, partner, product, and demand generation. She was most recently Chief Customer Officer at Aetion where she led the organization’s efforts to scale and evolve its marketing and communication activities. Prior to Aetion, she spent 13 years at IQVIA, leading the rebranding of the merged companies, IMS Health and Quintiles, into IQVIA, and also had business line leadership experience in commercial strategy and real-world evidence solutions in the U.S. and E.U. Earlier in her career, Marla built deep client relationships at McKinsey and held marketing leadership roles at Pfizer. She brings unparalleled knowledge of the complex dynamics of healthcare stakeholders, across life sciences, payers, providers, and the public sector.

Aneesh Kulkarni

Founder & Head of Engineering

I helped get Datavant off the ground in 2017, and have led our Engineering function since Day 1. I’m building the engineering team I wish I was part of earlier in my career. We often say that we hire folks that are nice, smart and get things done — we really mean it, and I hope you’ve seen that in the people you met during the interview process. We’re enabling privacy-conscious machine learning applications to be built at a scale never before seen in healthcare, and have a number of technical challenges to solve from secure de-identification of health data, to high-precision matching.

Holly May

Chief People Officer

I joined Datavant in summer 2018 — we were just 17 team members. I lead our efforts around building and nurturing a high performing and inclusive team (including talent acquisition, talent development, compensation, growth & performance, employee experience, culture, values and DEI). This also includes the systems we use to scale the company like goal-setting, orientation, communications, knowledge management, success as a remote team, and cross-functional strategic initiatives. I spent 5 years as a management consultant for drug makers and medical product companies, and most recently have been leading talent, culture, and operations within fast growing tech companies. At Datavant, I love that we’re a team of people who are eager to grow and be outside our personal comfort zone — that has characterized my own story and is the story of so many others across the team. I’ve grown more as a person and a professional in the last 1 years than most People executives do in 5-10 years. If that kind of accelerated growth is what you’re looking for as a professional, Datavant is the place to be.

Alex Muir

Chief of Staff

I joined Datavant in April 2021 as a Product Success lead for our COVID-19 Research Database and Life Sciences vertical. From there, I rotated to be Chief of Staff where I support Pete McCabe & Travis May. Prior to Datavant I conducted neuroscience research to try and understand severe mental illness. Datavant has been the perfect place to apply my previous background while constantly learning new skills. I currently live in Orange County, and outside of work I love running, going to the beach, and trying new restaurants. We are always welcoming new members to the team — if you are interested in Datavant feel free to reach out!

Tal Rosenberg

Head of Partnerships & Emerging Businesses

Tal Rosenberg is Head of Partnerships & Emerging Businesses. After being in senior leadership at IQVIA, he joined Ciox last year to lead and grow the Ciox RWD business. His remit includes the innovation, design, development, delivery, supply chain and operating model of Ciox Health RWD business. Tal is a twenty-year veteran at creating new value ecosystems and markets at the intersection of Life Sciences and Information Technology.

Shannon West

Chief Product Officer

I joined Datavant in January 2022 from Ciox Health and lead our Identified Data Platform and connections to providers and other clinical data sources. Prior to joining Datavant and Ciox, I was at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid serving as the first CTO at the Innovation Center (payments innovation, not the handwavvy kind!), as well as a Senior Advisor to the CMS Administrator and the White House while at the United States Digital Service. I am obsessed with solving data fragmentation and improving meaningful data exchange in healthcare and believe fiercely that Datavant is the most well positioned company to make this happen! I am always open to chat about Datavant, healthcare, killing the fax machine, and how excited we are to have you on the team – feel free to reach out any time!

DATAVANT Team

Our mission is to connect the world’s health data to improve patient outcomes.