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Education:

• Master of Business Administration — UNC Chapel Hill
• BS, Health Policy and Management — UNC Chapel Hill

Prior Experience: Healthcare Consultant, Huron Consulting Group

Career Switcher: No

Hometown: Overland Park, KS

Verticals: Provider & Healthcare Delivery; Healthcare Consulting

Ask me about: Anything! From an industry perspective, I’m best equipped to answer questions about healthcare operations in both the ambulatory and inpatient space, as well as what it’s like working with/for health systems. Happy to share my journey and help fellow-KFBS students navigate their careers in any way I can.

Fun fact: My husband and I had to cancel our wedding in the Spring of 2020 just thirty days before it took place due to COVID-19. We ended up getting married on the original day, in a park with just us 2 and an Atrium pastoral care minister (our original officiant was unable to make the trip due to travel restrictions); it ended up being a very different but amazing day!

Biography: Taylor grew up in Overland Park, KS, and ventured to North Carolina to attend the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate. At UNC she developed a deep passion for healthcare while earning a Bachelor of Science in Public Health with a major in Health Policy and Management from Gillings School of Public Health.

After school, Taylor worked as a healthcare consultant in Huron Consulting Group’s Clinical Operations division. In this position, she traveled around the country helping health systems reduce their length of stay and achieve operational efficiency. After three years with Huron, Taylor moved back to Chapel Hill to pursue an MBA at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, which she completed in May 2019.

Post-graduation, Taylor completed an Administrative Fellow with Atrium Health under the preceptorship of their Central Division President. She transitioned from the Fellowship to Director of Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) with Atrium’s Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute in 2020. Her role has since expanded to Director of Cardiovascular Programs, which includes administrative responsibility for Heart Transplant & MCS, Structural Heart, Atrial Fibrillation Center of Excellence, Sports Cardiology and Cardio-Oncology.

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Company: Healthcare Service Corporation

Education: Master of Business Administration, General Management – UNC Chapel Hill; BA, Accounting – Michigan State University

Vertical: Payers, Healthcare Consulting

Prior Experience: Deloitte Consulting

Career Switcher: Yes

Hometown: Detroit

Current City: Chicago

Fun fact: I am a big Star Wars and NBA basketball fan.

Ask me about: My career journey and how I landed in Medicaid managed care.

Stephen Harris currently serves as HCSC’s President of Government Markets, leading the financial performance, long-term growth and execution of Medicaid and Medicare lines of business including sales, regulatory oversight, market performance, product, risk adjustment and STARs.

Stephen, a seasoned health care executive with a deep background in government programs, has more than 20 years of experience in business operations and performance improvement in the health care industry. Stephen most recently served as Plan President of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, where he successfully delivered growth, operational excellence, and solid financial performance.  With a deep background in government programs, he added responsibility for the Medicaid line of business across HCSC’s five-state region in March 2024. Stephen joined HCSC in 2018 as Divisional Senior Vice President, Government and Consumer Solutions and additionally served as HCSC’s Medicaid President.

Stephen is a certified public accountant and holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and a BA in Accounting from Michigan State University.

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Education: Master of Business Administration & Bachelor of Science – University of Michigan

Career Switcher: Yes, early on in career.

Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI

Ask me about: My favorite books, recipes and where I love to hike

Fun fact: I once kayaked to a wedding.

Verticals: Healthcare Consulting; Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

Biography: Jeanne Taylor Hecht is a global Business Executive and Board Member with deep experience leading successful teams across mature and emerging markets within the product development, pharma services and life sciences space. As CEO of JTH Consulting, LLC., Jeanne commands broad knowledge and deep expertise in the Life Sciences arena. She has dedicated much of her career to guiding international companies through healthy growth – thoughtfully, strategically, and with unyielding integrity.

Jeanne’s Life Sciences consulting practice supports companies with sales, marketing and market growth strategies, strategic plan development as well as advisory and board work. Her experience spans the CRO, medical imaging, research site, emerging biotechnology, eClinical, early-stage AI and technology business landscape and life sciences services market. In this capacity Jeanne serves as a strategic advisor to BOD’s, venture capitalists, PE companies, CEO’s as well as their business leaders. Jeanne serves as a NED for a publicly traded company out of the UK, Vectura Group (VEC), a publicly traded company out of India, Veeda Clinical Research, and for an emerging eClinical company in the US, Ripple Science. Jeanne serves on several academic boards including the Center for the Business of Health and 100 Women at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler’s School of Business. She is an active and founding Advisory Board member for Wake-Forest University’s master’s in clinical research program.

During her career in industry, Jeanne built and empowered successful teams in mature and emerging markets, and across numerous product and service sectors. Recently as CEO of Ora, Inc., Jeanne supported her teams’ excellent delivery of full-service pre-clinical and clinical ophthalmic drug and device development – motivated, as always, by the good work of her teams and the patients they strived to serve. Jeanne first joined Ora in 2018 as a member of the Board of Directors and was later named to the CEO position. Under Jeanne’s guidance, Ora expanded its international presence into Europe and China, introduced new lines of businesses, and furthered its goals along numerous strategic paths. Prior to that, Jeanne was a member of the Board and Chief Operating Officer of Median Technologies (ALMDT.PA), a publicly listed oncology imaging company where she was responsible for leading, implementing, and driving the company’s global strategy including the expansion into a new therapy area, NASH. Earlier in her career, Jeanne held many senior roles at IQVIA (formerly QuintilesIMS), an international company that provides biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services. She was a Member of the Quintiles Executive Committee, and President of the Quintiles WIN (Women in Networking) group. Prior to this, she held several leadership positions of increasing responsibility with the company. She was also Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Decision Biomarkers, Inc. and Regulatory Affairs Officer for the UNC Oncology Protocol Office.

Jeanne is also a volunteer of Senior PharmAssist, a nonprofit group that provides medication access and medication therapy management to seniors in North Carolina. She further volunteers with Kids=Play, a nonprofit group building playgrounds for children with disabilities in Southern Virginia, and with Ronald McDonald House. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from that university’s Ross School of Business. She earned a Certificate of Project Management from the Project Management Institute. Jeanne is an active member of the Carolinas Chapter of Women Corporate Directors (https://www.womencorporatedirectors.org/), the world’s largest membership organization and community of women corporate board directors.

In her free time Jeanne enjoys spending time with her husband, scuba diving (she is a technical diver), playing tennis, reading, cooking, and birdwatching.