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Amy VanHaren is the Founder & CEO of pumpspotting, a community-driven breastfeeding and pumping support platform that enables companies to offer comprehensive baby-feeding benefits to their employees, customers, and patients. 

Yolanda Macias is the director of DEI at AbelsonTaylor, a health and wellness advertising agency in Chicago. 

Bob Leonard is a co-founder and board member at Spark Health, and the SVP of strategic partnerships at Therapy Partner Solutions.

Dr. Madhavi Vemireddy is the co-CEO of Cleo.

Isabella Aldrete is a summer reporter at Employee Benefit News. She is currently a senior at Barnard College and a former deputy editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator.

A gifted storyteller, Brittany has a wealth of experience making sense of volumes of data to help business leaders solve real world people problems. She holds a Masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology and an ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation. Currently, Brittany combs through millions of employee datapoints collected through Dayforce, Ceridian's always-on people platform, to create easily digestible and actionable insights to drive quantifiable business value.

Craig Kurtzweil is the chief data and analytics officer at UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual. In this role, he is responsible for leveraging healthcare's largest data set to help enable informed health care decisions, ensuring consistency across internal and external reporting, exploring new ways to apply data through machine learning and artificial intelligence, and making data a competitive differentiator for UnitedHealthcare in the marketplace. He is known for his leadership in delivering compelling insight based on data and analytics in a narrative that supports the vision of helping people live healthier lives and making the health care system work better for everyone.

Craig joined the organization in 2005 to begin building a team of strategic customer analytics specialists. Since then, he has been focusing on enhancing the role that analytics plays in the ability to support National Accounts customers. Craig formed the Center for Advanced Analytics to focus on analytic innovations that change the way we evaluate health care value. His teams also focus on the largest and most complex clients that require a deeper and broader view of data, ranging from cost and utilization data to productivity and disability exposure. He is constantly working on the next generation of health care analytics.  

Prior to joining UnitedHealthcare, Craig served as an actuarial consultant at Deloitte. Craig graduated University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science in actuarial science. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, son and daughter.

Patty Starr is president and CEO of Health Action Council and is responsible for driving the strategic direction of the organization--build stronger, healthier communities where business can thrive. Since joining the Health Action Council staff in 2013, she has transformed the organization yielding broad national expansion and seven consecutive years of growth. 

Patty is a member of the Advisory Board at the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Board of Directors for Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO). She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Better Health Partnership, Ohio Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and Health Action Council before becoming executive director in 2013.  In 2022, she was named a Woman of Influence by Cleveland Business Journal, and in 2018, she was named among Notable Women in Healthcare by Crain's Cleveland Business. 

Prior to Health Action Council, she was the senior director of health insurance and benefits at the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE) and president and founder of The Ark Individual Insurance Brokerage.

Cheryl DeMars is the president and CEO of The Alliance.

Patricia J. Goldsmith is Chief Executive Officer of CancerCare. A frequent speaker at national meetings and symposia, Goldsmith was named in 2021 to Forbes Magazine's 50 Over 50 Vision List, honoring women making an impact on society and culture. In 2022, CancerCare published a free Toolkit that helps inform the benefits package design and decision-making process and offers key considerations when  plans  include utilization management.