Leadership

At the heart of his vision is meeting members where they are on their health care journeys. He is building on the company’s 100-year-old legacy as a trusted health plan, facilitating collaborative partnerships between providers and patients, and strategically investing in like-minded companies through Echo Health Ventures to meet the needs of the approximately 3.1 million members we serve through our health plans in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Before Jared became Cambia's CEO in 2021, he drove innovation and performance across the organization as president and chief operating officer. Jared’s career with Cambia began in 1999, when he joined the company in a finance role. He moved briefly to BlueCross BlueShield of Montana, where he served as chief marketing and underwriting officer. Jared returned to Cambia in 2009 as president of Cambia’s regional health plan in Oregon. 

Jared serves as chair of the board of directors for TriWest Healthcare Alliance and serves on the boards of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Prime Therapeutics and Echo Health Ventures. Jared also serves on the board of directors for the Portland Metropolitan Area Boys and Girls Clubs. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in economics and history from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.

John has held executive positions with Swiss Reinsurance Company, GE Insurance Solutions and other divisions of General Electric, and he was previously an attorney with Garvey, Schubert & Barer in Seattle. He is admitted to practice law in Washington, Oregon, Utah and Colorado.

John is the former chair of the board of directors for the Oregon Food Bank, and currently serves on the board of directors and chairs the governance committee of Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northwest.

John received his Bachelor's degree in engineering and applied sciences from Harvard University. His law degree is from University of California, Berkeley.
 

Before joining Cambia in 2012, Gail was director of Corporate Communication and Community Affairs at Portland General Electric where she led branding, advertising, community engagement, public relations, social and interactive media as well as customer, employee and financial communications. Prior to joining PGE in 1996, Gail held marketing and communications positions at Banc One Corporation, Stephens Advertising and the California Association for Health Services at Home.

Gail is an active member of the community and passionate about helping children, serving on various nonprofit boards and committees over the years such as CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children). Currently, she chairs the board for Westwind Stewardship Group and is on the board of Habitat for Humanity, Portland Metro. Gail has won the Cambia Values Award for Trust, as well as various Spotlight awards through the Public Relations Society of America.  Gail earned bachelors and masters degrees in communications from the University of North Dakota. 

Chris's career at Cambia began in 2013, when he joined the company as president of BridgeSpan Health Company. His role expanded in 2016 with the addition of the Consumer Health and Life Insurance brands to his areas of accountability. In 2018, he was tapped to take on leadership of the operational areas of the company as well.

Before his time with Cambia, Chris spent 11 years as a regional executive with Cigna in Southern California and in the Pacific Northwest.

In the community, Chris serves on the board of Food Lifeline in addition to volunteering with the Issaquah Hot Meals program and serving as a soccer club coach. He is also an Adventures Guide and Circle Navigator with the Sammamish YMCA.

Chris holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Washington.

Rob has more than 20 years of experience in health care venture capital and business building. Before founding Echo, Rob served as the President of Cambia Health Solutions' diversified business unit (Direct Health Solutions). In this role, Rob oversaw Cambia's wholly-owned operating companies (including cost and quality transparency market leader HealthSparq; ancillary benefits provider LifeMap) as well as its venture and private equity investing activities. Rob joined Cambia in 2010 to launch and build the company's diversification and corporate venture investment efforts. Under Rob’s leadership, Cambia invested in nearly 20 companies.

In 2015, Rob cofounded the Cambia Grove - an innovation hub focused on catalyzing and supporting the Pacific Northwest’s emerging health care economic cluster. At the Cambia Grove, innovators and entrepreneurs work closely with regional stakeholders to find solutions to pressing health care challenges.

Before joining Cambia, Rob was the founding partner of Faultline Ventures, where he worked with numerous early stage companies and strategic investors. Previously, he was a Partner at Capitol Health Partners, a Washington, D.C., and New York City-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage health services and health care information technology.

Active in industry and community organizations, Rob serves on the boards of several health care companies and is a founder and former director of the Nashville-based largest network of young health care executives, Leadership Health Care. He currently serves on the board of the Cambia Health Foundation, is co-chair of the Health Executives Network (HELN) and a Fellow of the American Leadership Forum. He was formerly on the board of directors at Life Science Washington (formerly Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association) and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI).

Rob is a graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in history and is a Chartered Financial Analyst, charter holder.

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Before joining Cambia, Marion was the senior medical adviser for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, with wide-ranging responsibilities including policy creation, modernizing the quality payment program, promoting value-based care, and advocating for the vast expansion of telehealth. She has led diverse groups of physicians, serving as the chair of the Indiana University Health Physician Board, and was on the medical group’s Quality Committee. She has been a physician executive in two large medical groups, chair of two surgical departments, and was surgeon-in-chief at an academic medical center. Additionally, she was previously president of two professional medical societies and has been published in more than 95 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. 

Marion is a head and neck surgeon with microvascular training. Her residency training was at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and she earned her Master of Business Administration from Duke University Fuqua Business School with a concentration in Healthcare Management.

In a dynamically shifting landscape, her teams work to educate communities about how governmental actions impact consumer-centered health care experiences, articulate Cambia’s point of view on policies that affect our business model, and work collaboratively with partners throughout the company to make Cambia’s voice heard on legislative and policy issues.

Jennifer began her career at Cambia in 1997 and previously held roles within Cambia’s legal division and public policy team. In 2012, she was named market president of Cambia’s Utah insurance company, leading strategy development and execution of the company’s operations in Utah. 

Prior to joining Cambia, she worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, the Utah Department of Health and the Utah Attorney General's Office Health Division. 

Jennifer is active in the community and serves on the boards of United Way of Salt Lake, the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, and the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business National Advisory Board. She is also co-founder of Utah Wonder Women, a networking and development organization for female business and community leaders.

She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a law degree from the University of Utah. 

Angela’s leadership has helped position Cambia as a trusted advisor to many of the Northwest’s most respected companies at a time when sound strategic health care decisions are more critical than ever. In her role as Oregon market president, Angela directs and guides the overall performance of the Oregon health plan, including sales, provider contracting, government affairs and community relations.

Prior to coming to Cambia in 2012, Angela served at Payne Financial Group, Inc., for 10 years, most notably as chief revenue officer. She also served in national account sales at United Health Care in New York City, as the business development officer at Hewitt Associates in New York City, and as market vice president at Aetna Health Plans in Philadelphia.

A scholarship athlete in college, Angela received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Michigan. She is a member of several industry organizations, including the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and the Oregon Healthcare Leadership Council. She is also currently on the board of the Oregon Food Bank.

He joined Regence in 2004 as chief actuarial officer, and was named Appointed Actuary for seven Regence entities in 2010. Before joining Regence, Steve was assistant vice president for actuarial and underwriting in the Group division of Safeco Life & Investments; he also led underwriting for Lincoln Re Risk Management Services.

Steve is active in the community, having served on the board of Special Olympics Oregon and as board president for Meals on Wheels People as well as several other leadership activities for that group.

He has a bachelor's degree in pure mathematics and a master’s in applied mathematics, both from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries as well as a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and has authored numerous articles for that organization.

Aadam’s experience spans health care, technology, finance, operations, strategy and business development. Before joining Cambia, he was general manager of Change Healthcare, a health care technology company that is also the largest financial and administrative exchange in the United States. While there, he was responsible for the P&L and strategic direction of Change’s pharmacy claims processing businesses in the United States and Canada. He also led operations and integration of the software and analytics business unit. His passion for the consumer experience is evident through the new products he created for Change’s customers – including analytics-as-a-service offering – and in the key customer partnership he expanded.

Prior to Change Healthcare, he was vice president at Health Evolution Partners in San Francisco where he invested in early-stage health care companies and private equity funds. He has also served as an Advisory Board Member at ten private equity funds and two early-stage companies.

Peggy is passionate about helping people with serious illness and their caregivers lives well. In 2019, she founded the Oregon Coalition for Living Well with Serious Illness. She sits on the leadership council for the Rosalyn Carter Institute for Caregivers and co-chairs the Roundtable on Quality of Care for People with Serious Illness at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), as well as the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s Palliative Care Learning Collaborative. Peggy also serves on the board of directors of Grantmakers In Aging. In 2016, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine recognized the Cambia Health Foundation with its highest honor, a Presidential Citation. 

Peggy is also active in the local philanthropic community where she volunteers her time as a board director or leadership council member of several non-profit organizations, including Friends of the Children, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Start Making a Reader Today (SMART), Habitat for Humanity, the American Heart Association and All Hands Raised. She serves on the Governor’s Healthy Schools Reopening Council. In 2017, Peggy chaired the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign in Oregon and used that platform to promote health equity and palliative care awareness for people living with heart disease. She co-chaired the Classic Wines Auction benefitting five local children’s charities in 2015 and 2016.   

Peggy was recognized as a finalist in the Innovation category for PR News' Top Women in Healthcare Leadership Awards in 2019. She was also recognized by Portland Monthly magazine as an Extraordinary Board Member in 2017 for her service to the community and leadership of the Cambia Health Foundation. She was honored by Dress for Success Oregon with its Athena Award in 2016, by the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington as a Woman of Distinction in 2015, and by the Portland Business Journal as a Woman of Influence in 2014.

Peggy joined the company in 1997 as an associate general counsel and has held several posts, including chief of staff to the CEO, vice president of Legal Services, and director of Litigation & Risk Management.  Previously, Peggy worked as an attorney at Garvey Schubert & Barer.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Lawrence University and her law degree from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College. She has also completed the Stanford Executive Program and is a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association.

A native Oregonian, Lisa has been with Cambia for nearly 20 years and has about 30 years of legal and health care experience. Pairing industry knowledge and relationship building, Lisa gets things done through empathy, servant leadership and a deep commitment to the people we serve. 

Most recently, Lisa served as the deputy general counsel and senior vice president for our Cambia Legal team. Before joining Cambia, she was a partner at Washington, D.C., law firm Miller & Chevalier, working on the health insurance program for federal employees. She was also associate counsel at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

Lisa earned her law degree from Cornell Law School and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oregon.

Vince maintains clear and rigorous performance expectations for Cambia's actuarial, underwriting, finance, government programs, accounting, treasury, corporate development, procurement, and real estate and facilities teams as they safeguard the company’s assets, evaluate investments, ensure timeliness and accuracy of financial statements while meeting compliance and reporting requirements. 

Creating value for our customers and the company is critical to Cambia's investment approach. Vince and his teams create value as key players in pricing, investment decisions, evaluating business and strategic plans, participating in corporate and business development, and engaging in strategic partnerships or acquisitions.

Vince joined the company in late 2009, having previously spent 15 years as a senior finance executive with Intel, then seven years as a consultant and CFO for a start-up. He serves on the board of trustees for BCS Financial's Plan Investment Fund, the Oregon Health Sciences University Foundation, and Barrett Business Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBSI).

He received his bachelor's degree in business from South Dakota State University. His Master of Business Administration is from Arizona State University.

He also provides strategic direction for information technology services to ensure day-to-day operations align with Cambia’s transformation from a traditional health plan to a consumer-centric total health solutions company.

Prior to joining Cambia, Laurent was senior vice president and general manager at GE Healthcare. Based in Istanbul Turkey, he led the GE Healthcare IT business in its highest growth region, which was comprised of 85 countries in emerging markets, including Russia, Central Asia, Turkey, the Middle East and Africa.

Earlier in his career with GE, Laurent served as president and CEO of GE Healthcare Korea and GE Healthcare IT Enterprise Solutions, including Global CIO roles for GE’s Energy, Oil & Gas and NBC Universal divisions.

Laurent holds a bachelor’s degree with honors, and a master’s degree in materials science and engineering from Brown University.

He joined the company in 1986. As vice president of Human Resources at BlueCross BlueShield of Utah he helped the plan transition into the Regence family of companies. He has led HR functions across the Cambia enterprise since 1997. He also served as vice president for Medicare Northwest.

In the business community, Mark serves on the National Employee Benefit Committee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and on the advisory board of the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland.

Mark's bachelor's degree in business management and master's in public administration, with a health care emphasis, are from Brigham Young University.