DATAVANT TEAM

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

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 Borek

General Manager & President, Provider

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.
Tal Rosenberg
Tal Rosenberg

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

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.
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Jim Bridges

General Manager & President, Payer

Jim has a proven track record of strong leadership, market development, and a unique grasp of the Payer space. Most recently he was the SVP/GM Government Services at Change Healthcare. Jim achieved repeated success as a healthcare executive with a focus on developing and growing new healthcare markets, technology, and services. Jim was also the Founder and CEO of PayRight Health Solutions, LLC, a healthcare payments technology business that raised multiple rounds of funding and later sold to a strategic investor. Jim is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM). He holds both a BS in Biology and a Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jose Garcia
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.
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!
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.
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 & Chief Technology Officer

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.
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Marisa Jo Kozachenok

Chief Acceleration Officer

Marisa Jo Kozachenok is an entrepreneurial and forward-looking executive leader with deep commercial and operations experience. She specializes in capturing top-line growth within challenging markets, leading the planning and execution of turnaround initiatives, and creating a sense of urgency for transformative change. Marisa spent the last 15 years at GE, most recently as the Chief Commercial Officer, Gas Power Services. Previously she held senior P&L, commercial, product management and operations roles across the Energy and Transportation industries. Marisa earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. She and her husband have three children.
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.

Travis May

Co-Founder and President

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