ABOUT US

Kumar Subramaniam is the associate vice president of the Johns Hopkins HealthCare Innovation business unit. In this role, he both leads the Solutions team and supports the development of the business unit’s Ventures portfolio. He also is an associate faculty member in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Kumar joined the Solutions team in November 2017 to lead the ACG^® System and Population Health Analytics teams, having spent more than 20 years in leadership roles in various health care organizations—including Humana, hCentive, Care Innovations, and ShareCare Healthways—building a strong track record as an innovator in the development and commercialization of health care information technologies.

Kumar earned a doctorate degree in business administration at the Walden University School of Technology and Business. He also holds an MBA in entrepreneurship from the University of Louisville, a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Pune University and has cleared all three levels of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst exams.

Susan Carr brings to the Solutions team 20 years of business development experience in infectious diseases, infection control, managed care, patient satisfaction, and patient safety.

Susan spearheads the effort to identify faculty innovation with commercial potential and to shepherd faculty through the commercialization process. In her role, she also fosters and supports collaborations with commercial collaborators.

Before joining Solutions, Susan held several business development and consulting leadership roles within the health care and pharmaceutical industries. Her expertise includes assessment of business development opportunities, competitor and market landscape mapping, and primary and secondary market research.

Melissa White Davis has more than 20 years of marketing, business development and strategic partnership experience. Her expertise includes building quantifiable marketing strategies, brand management, product marketing and navigating the evolving digital health and wellness industry. As the director of marketing, Melissa is dedicated to advancing our mission by helping our customers–payors, health systems and large employers—understand how our analytics and interventions products will help achieve better health outcomes for their member, patient and employee populations.

Sarah Kachur is part of the population health analytics leadership team at Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions. She is responsible for a portfolio of analytic products and engagements providing real world business analysis and actionable expertise within the institution and to Solutions’ external customers. Together with an experienced team of analysts and product managers, she develops data-driven patient and population-level solutions to address the most pressing clinical and financial challenges, leads analytic consulting engagements and plays a key decision-making role in the ACG System product management lifecycle and new product development.

Sarah’s career experience demonstrates a talent for strategy definition and realization using analytic insights across health plans and health systems. Prior to this role, she led Population Health Analytics for Johns Hopkins HealthCare’s four health plans and system-level population health initiatives, using her expertise in high-risk patient identification, clinical data mining, identification of health improvement opportunities, and monitoring and evaluating clinical programs. She is Johns Hopkins’ business lead for the precision medicine inHealth Population Health Center of Excellence, partnering with faculty to use advanced machine learning techniques to quantify changes in individual health and related utilization and expenditures. In addition, Sarah has 10 years of experience in managed care pharmacy, including Part D plan implementations, formulary and adherence program development, and risk prediction using pharmacy data.

Sarah received her M.B.A. from Loyola University Maryland. She holds a doctorate of pharmacy degree with a specialization in pharmacoeconomics and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Rhode Island. She is board certified in ambulatory care pharmacy.

Steve Libowitz leads the Business & Administration team, which manages Solutions’ back-office functions as well as supports the finance, marketing and product teams.

During his 32 years at Johns Hopkins, Steve has developed and maintained guidelines to protect the integrity of the Johns Hopkins-branded products and programs that are marketed to companies, agencies and organizations throughout the world. He also has directed Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Office of Consumer Health Information and Center for Innovative Approaches to Health Care, the University’s Office of News and Information and served as editor of the University newspaper, The Gazette.

Prior to his long tenure at Johns Hopkins, Steve was a journalist and a producer and writer of patient education and other non-fiction film and video programs. He also taught film and media studies for 25 years at Towson University and Johns Hopkins University.

Steve holds a master’s degree in mass communications, from Towson University, and a bachelor’s degree in mass communications, from Florida Atlantic University.

Harriet Martyn brings over 15 years of experience in population health analytics, customer engagement and public health policy to Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions. In her current role, she leads a product development team building digital solutions that focus on preventing and managing chronic illness through personalized engagement approaches to improve health outcomes and quality of care for large populations.

Harriet earned a Master of Science degree in public health, with a specialization in health policy, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds a postgraduate diploma in local government management from Warwick Business School and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from University College London.

Alina Oseguera is the Director of Finance, Commercial Markets for Johns Hopkins HealthCare. With over 15 years of experience in corporate finance, financial management and reporting, Alina oversees for Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions the financial forecasting, analysis, performance and reporting functions. She also is responsible for identifying useful measures and key performance indicators for success. Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Alina was part of the Management Reporting & Analysis teams at Legg Mason Global Asset Management and Constellation Energy.

Giulianna Peri brings to the Solutions team more than 20 years of leadership experience as a marketing, operations, and information technology executive in health care, telecommunications, and architecture and planning.

As Director of Strategic Alliances, Giulianna is the principal liaison between the Solutions team, market-facing partners, and customers to lead strategies that maximize mutually beneficial outcomes while growing the Solutions product portfolio.

Throughout her career, Giulianna has worked with leading academic medical centers and corporate organizations to advance their business objectives by creating and managing e-commerce initiatives, developing new business processes, improving marketing operations, and facilitating partnerships worldwide.

Prior to joining the Solutions team, Giulianna lead an organization pioneering the online commercialization of intellectual property between the top health systems in the United States and around the world.

Giulianna has a Master of Science in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University and bachelor’s degrees in Management, with a concentration in International Business, and in French from Florida Atlantic University.

Brent Strieter leads the business development and sales efforts for Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions.

A consistent Presidents Club award winning sales director, Brent brings to the team over 20 years of experience in health care information technology (HIT) sales and market development.

His previous experience includes building several HIT startups – selling data normalization and interoperability solutions to health plans, hospital systems, and health care technology companies – and successfully launching two health care SaaS platforms, working in various leadership roles.

Brent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.