MEET THE LEADERSHIP TEAM
Meet the team that helps make our company culture unique and exciting.
Leadership
An exceptional team curated of thought-leaders, innovators, and go-getters, Apixio’s leadership team is one of a kind.
Name
Position
bio
Sachin Patel
Chief Executive Officer
Sachin brings broad experience across both healthcare and technology, spanning a variety of leadership roles, including operations, finance, and development. Sachin joined Apixio in 2017 as Chief Financial Officer and later served as President and Chief Financial Officer before taking his current role. Sachin has extensive experience working with value-based care provider groups including Vantage Oncology, a national leader in community oncology, where he served as Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer of Vantage Cancer Care Network, an innovative model for managing cancer populations. Sachin has also held positions with Citigroup Investment Banking and began his career in engineering roles with Cisco and IBM. Sachin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Tom McNamara
Chief Growth Officer
Tom has 25 years of experience building successful sales organizations for healthcare technology and analytics companies. Prior to joining Apixio, Tom served as head of sales for GNS Healthcare, Connance, and Silverlink Communications. He also led sales at HPR, a medical payments company, up to and through a successful IPO. Tom is a results-oriented executive who excels at motivating field teams, providing solutions to client requirements, and clearly positioning the value of technology services. He holds a BS from the University of Vermont and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School.
Meg Holland
Chief Operating Officer
Meg is a seasoned healthcare professional committed to improving quality of care. She is a strategic thinker whose pragmatic and customer-centered approach has been cultivated from 25 years of experience with technology startups, service companies, and government agencies. Most recently Meg was COO at HealthLoop, Inc., where she spent four years building a team and a company and creating a new market of patient engagement solutions for healthcare. Previously Meg was VP of Business Operations at Epocrates, where she was a key member of the team that developed and launched the Epocrates EHR. Meg also held the role of VP of Client Services during a period of high company growth and profitability that culminated in the Epocrates IPO. Prior to Epocrates, Meg was a strategy consultant with Accenture’s Health Services Group and a Medicaid policy analyst with the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Meg attended Stanford where she earned her BA, and later her MBA from Stanford’s prestigious Graduate Business School.
Sumanth Tamma
Vice President of Engineering
Sumanth Tamma is an accomplished engineer and leader with over 20 years of experience building scalable products and technology solutions. Prior to Apixio, Sumanth was a Senior Engineering Manager at Apple where he led teams that developed products like GameCenter, iTunes Analytics, Apple Fit+ as well as scalable platforms and solutions for the Apple AppStore. At Microsoft, Sumanth developed key features for Bing Search and TellMe, a voice-based search assistant. Sumanth was also the co-founder of Rcube Technologies, a company focused on building crowdsourced navigation products. Sumanth holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology, a Master’s in Computer Science from The University of New Mexico, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Mark Scott
Chief Marketing Officer
Mark Scott has almost two decades of healthcare marketing and communications experience. He has overhauled and launched the global brands of two multibillion-dollar public companies: San Diego-based medical technology maker CareFusion and Massachusetts-based diagnostic device company Alere. He previously worked at Masimo, where he launched the Patient Safety Movement which helped bring national attention to the issues of patient safety and garnered keynote speakers such as President Bill Clinton. Mark’s deep experience covers the complete marketing spectrum, including product marketing, launch activations, brand development, product positioning and messaging, packaging and labeling, public relations, content marketing, website development, and crisis communications. Mark’s thought leadership on health technology and marketing has been published in Dataconomy, Healthcare Risk Management Review, and the Harvard Business Review. Mark earned a BA and MA in Political Science, International Political Economy, from the University of Western Ontario.
Alan Sun
Vice President of Product
Alan Sun is a product leader with over 15 years of experience delivering products across the healthcare ecosystem to improve patient care and outcomes. Before joining Apixio, Alan co-led product at Syapse, a healthcare data company advancing precision oncology in partnership with large health systems and life sciences companies, where his product management and design teams delivered decision support products to oncology care providers. Prior to Syapse, Alan had product leadership roles at Lyra, where his team launched a platform that connects employees of self-insured companies to behavioral health services, and Epocrates, where his team managed a mobile clinical reference app used by >1M healthcare professionals. Alan is a strategic and design-thinker passionate about building high-performing product teams that solve meaningful healthcare challenges. Alan holds a Bachelors in Management Science from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Sam Diederich
Vice President, Strategy
Sam has more than a decade of strategic management experience within the healthcare industry across a variety of leadership roles, including corporate strategy, product, and growth. Prior to joining Apixio, Sam was the Senior Vice President at Optum, where he led large-scale businesses driving strategy, sustainable growth, product innovation, and industry differentiating partnerships. Sam has dedicated his career to improving the quality of care delivered to members, increasing healthcare affordability, and reducing costs for payers and providers. Using a collaborative and solution-oriented approach, Sam excels at developing new business models to solve meaningful challenges throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Prior to Optum, Sam has held roles at technology start-up TierMed Systems and at IBM. Sam holds degrees in Finance and Economics from the University of St. Thomas’ Opus College of Business in St. Paul, Minnesota.