Kevin Makati MD
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
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Makati’s vision is to create transformative change in healthcare by improving care delivery, leveraging technology to enhance communication, identify workflow efficiencies by using health tech, and partner with like minded individuals and organizations who are passionate about elevating the patient experience.
As a founding physician partner board member of a system with a $4.9 billion operating budget employing over 6,000 medical professionals and performing over 80,000 outpatient surgical procedures, he has had a unique experience and understanding with healthcare delivery, payor contracting, and quality measure assessments. As a practicing cardiologist, he has had direct involvement with quality improvement programs including the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR®), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) as well as patient satisfaction improvement programs involving CMS vetted survey tools such as HCAHPS and OAS CAHPS.
Makati completed a physician leadership program to better help liaison clinical needs with administrators of his enterprise health system. He has assisted locally with the adoption of an enterprise wide Cerner deployment and the construction of service line level EMR protocols applicable to a 15 hospital system. As the former service line chairperson, Makati has led committees charged with improving throughput efficiency, setting system wide practice policies and procedures, and establishing practice standards.
Makati graduated and has completed training at Boston College, University of Connecticut, Washington University, and Tufts University and is double boarded in Cardiology and Clinical Electrophysiology.
Eric Carter MD
Chief Strategy Officer & Founder
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Carter is a double board certified physician in family medicine and hospital medicine. He has dedicated his career to improving the patient experience at his AA bond rated healthcare system that operates at 15 hospitals in the Tampa bay-St. Petersburg area in Florida. As a former Chairman of the Clinical Excellence Committee, active member of the EMR Governance committee, and managing partner in his multispecialty medical group of over 500 physicians, Carter is well poised to understand patient engagement dynamics within an enterprise level system. He has dedicated the last 5 years into building and leading a technology team in a mission to improve the healthcare consumer experiences. With his administrative experience, and 17 year history of medical practice, Carter brings his valuable experiences and insights into innovative solutions for common healthcare challenges.
Carter earned his Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry from Baylor University in Texas. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. He completed his residency in family medicine at the University of South Florida with distinguished honors.
Brandon Sultemeier
Chief Marketing Officer, Founder
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A savvy, innovative CEO/Marketing Director, Brandon Sultemeier is recognized in the industry for 12+ years of performance marketing success, executive leadership and operational management expertise. While maintaining an uncompromising focus on high-quality standards and bottom-line profit improvements, he is able to streamline organizational production through the structuring of key strategies, business plans, policies/procedures, operations and finances with increased customer service ratings and team productivity. Throughout his tenure, Brandon has earned the reputation of a strong, dynamic marketing professional by innovative and skillful execution of creative marketing strategies. He also offers a proven track record of hands-on client support with success in creating tangible outcomes, allowing companies to thrive in extremely competitive markets.
Employing his true passion for business and marketing, Brandon built and successfully exited his first dot com business before the age of 25. Since 2008, he has spearheaded all aspects of marketing operations for Mutual Media, focusing on consulting, media buys, branding, and client growth. Brandon also specializes in using proprietary programmatic marketing methods to drive maximum growth, produce record-breaking increases in profits and continually achieve all client marketing goals and objectives. Throughout numerous client engagements, he generates 20M+ yearly qualified leads, 1B+ annual impressions and $100M+ in yearly partner revenue.
Scott Wolf DO
Director, Operations
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Senior C-Suite Executive, Wolf is recognized as dynamic and highly-accomplished, with achievements leading strategic growth and service delivery initiatives in President, CEO, CMO, COO and earlier medical director and practitioner roles. Created and implemented hospital growth and patient care strategies, leveraging extensive healthcare industry expertise developed in leadership and medical director roles at hospitals, Fortune 100 pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
Wolf has participated in and facilitated senior-level strategic decision-making in healthcare delivery systems, in both organizational leadership as well as consultative/advisory roles. He has led delivery of innovative, high-quality care initiatives via new models of care resulting in exceptional patient experience. Wolf has fostered strategic alliances and partnerships within organizations and community stakeholders to collaboratively execute business strategies.
He has managed organizations to financial and operational performance targets, leading organic growth and M&A initiatives. Wolf has evolved total health management, via CIN and ACO’s, and drove new service line delivery successes across multiple clinical domains as well as high-risk areas, including, but not limited to, behavioral health, addiction and recovery services. Wolf has focused on creating optimal healing environments and enhancing flow and throughput to support seamless transitions to the right site of service, thus reducing unnecessary service delivery variation. He has leveraged community resources and integration along the continuum of care to provide an exceptional experience while optimizing clinical, quality and financial outcomes. Wolf has provided clinical and strategic guidance in the development of contemporary models of care that afford provider organizations the opportunity to thrive in the current environment.
Daniel Hughes
Director, Sales & Business Development
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Hughes has over 20+ years of cross functional experience in leadership roles ranging from start-ups to fortune 500 medical device companies. He has been involved with over 30+ product launches from concepts to product development, FDA clinical trial design/approval, training/education, go to market strategy, & commercial sales execution. Hughes has established strong key opinion leader relationships around the world in multiple specialties. He is a proud father of 4 boys and extremely passionate about supporting humanitarian projects around the globe.
Brian Batista
Director, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
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Batista has 15+ years of experience in the field of IT with extensive knowledge in security concepts including Identity Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Role Base Access Controls Engineering, and Vulnerability Governance.
Before his current role, Batista has held many positions in IT Security for an array of clients within different industries including Raymond James Financial; a Fortune 500 company. His role with Raymond James has included IT Security Analysis, internal Identity Access Management and internal vulnerabilities. His diverse experience has allowed him to grow as a security specialist maintaining contemporary competence in this important role.
Batista is a veteran within the healthcare industry as reflected by his 10 years of employment within the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industry including Centene/Wellcare and Florida Blue where he served as a contracted IT Security consultant. These roles included maintaining HIPAA Compliance training and certifications for the organizations employees. His compliance expertise includes certifications governing PHI, PII, HIPAA Privacy, HIPAA Security, and HIPAA State Laws.