Leadership

Tarah Neujahr Bryan

Chief Corporate Brand and Communications Officer

Tarah Neujahr Bryan, MAJMC, joined Health Catalyst in 2013 and has served as Editorial Director, Vice President of Marketing, and Chief Marketing Officer; she is currently the Chief Corporate Brand and Communications Officer and a member of the Health Catalyst leadership team. She brings a breadth of marketing and communications experience to her current role. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Tarah served as the Marketing Communications Director and the Foundation Executive Director at a community hospital, managed at an advertising agency, was the Editor and Operations Manager at an archaeology firm, and provided triage assistance and patient admissions at a Level-II Trauma Center. She has a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Arts from Montana State University-Billings.

Tarah has volunteered with many organizations including Intermountain Therapy Animals and Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and has done pro-bono communications work for American Cancer Society, Wings Cancer Foundation, and many other non-profit organizations.

Dan Burton

Chief Executive Officer

Dan Burton serves as CEO of Health Catalyst, a healthcare data warehousing and analytics company. He became involved with Health Catalyst when it was a three-person startup. Mr. Burton is also the co-founder of HB Ventures, the first outside equity holder in Health Catalyst. Prior to Health Catalyst and HB Ventures, Mr. Burton led the Corporate Strategy Group at Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU). He also spent eight years with Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) in strategy and marketing management roles. Before joining HP he was an associate consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, where he advised healthcare systems and technology companies. Mr. Burton holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was elected a George F. Baker Scholar, and a BS in economics, magna cum laude, from BYU.

Christina Chang

Senior Vice President, Growth Go-To-Market Strategy

Christina Chang serves as SVP of Growth GTM Strategy at Health Catalyst. She brings 14+ years of experience growing products and customers for seed-stage startups through fortune 500 companies. Most recently, she led B2B product marketing and go-to-market teams at Adobe, Lyra Health, and HP. She also spent five years as a Manager in Accenture’s consulting practice. Christina holds Bachelor’s degrees with Distinction in Economics and English from Stanford University as well as an MBA from  Harvard Business School.

Diane DiMusto

Senior Vice President, Growth Analytics & Strategy

Diane DiMusto serves as the SVP of Growth Analytics and Strategy at Health Catalyst. She brings with her over 13 years of experience in the business analytics field, including 10 years working in technology to grow business reach and revenue. Her focus is on creating strategies to increase penetration, optimize investment, and streamline operations.  Prior to working in technology, Diane consulted fortune 500 companies on their business strategy and operations with McKinsey & Company.  Diane holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from INSEAD

Mike Doyle

Chief Customer Officer

Mike Doyle joined Health Catalyst in May of 2013 as a Vice President. He has been connected with the Health Catalyst senior leadership team since 2006. Prior to Health Catalyst, Mike led the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) program at Allina Health as Director of Healthcare Intelligence. He helped Allina grow its EDW program from a nascent clinical improvement initiative to an enterprise-wide strategic asset, in heavy demand by thousands of users across all of Allina’s 11 hospitals and 100+ clinics. Prior to his work with Allina, Mike was employed on the Northwestern Medicine campus in Chicago, beginning as a Systems Administrator at the Medical School and eventually leading the Analytics and Systems Integration team at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. In addition to his experience building strong technology teams, Mike has experience in technical roles such as database administrator, web programmer, data architect, and business intelligence developer. Mike holds a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

TJ Elbert

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data

TJ Elbert joined Health Catalyst in January 2019 and serves as the SVP and General Manager of Data. Mr. Elbert brings over 15 years of healthcare information technology, data warehousing, and analytics experience to Health Catalyst. He came to Health Catalyst from Northwestern Medicine where he held a number of leadership roles in data warehousing and population health. Prior to Northwestern he worked as an Integration Architect at Cerner Corporation where he led a number of large health system EMR implementations and services engagements. Mr. Elbert graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering. He will complete his MBA and Master of Science in Business Analytics from the University of Iowa in December 2021.

Leslie Falk

Senior Vice President, Value Architect

Dr. Leslie Hough Falk is a senior vice president and a member of the Health Catalyst leadership team. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Boise State University, and an MBA and a BS in Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is also certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Green Belt Lean, and Information Privacy Professional (CIPP, CIPP/IT). Dr. Falk has a varied professional background from bedside pediatric critical care, nursing administration, medical product research & development, and education in hospital and industry settings, nursing informatics, biomedical engineering, and marketing.

Kevin Freeman

Chief Revenue Officer

Kevin Freeman serves as the Chief Revenue Officer at Health Catalyst. He came to Health Catalyst as a part of the Vitalware acquisition, bringing 15+ years of Healthcare IT sales leadership experience including publicly traded, private equity, and venture capital-backed companies. Kevin has a successful track record of building results-driven sales teams and driving business development growth. 

Bryan Hinton

Chief Technology Officer

Bryan Hinton joined Health Catalyst in 2012 and currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer. He has been instrumental in the development and integration of the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™)—Health Catalyst’s primary technology platform. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Bryan spent 4 years with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and 7 years with Intel. While at the LDS Church, he led the .NET Development Center of Excellence and was responsible for setting the architectural guidance of all .NET projects across the company. As a senior software engineer at Intel, he was responsible for the development and implementation of Intel’s factory data warehouse product that was installed at Intel factories worldwide.

Bryan carries a deep technical experience and understanding across all facets of software engineering with an emphasis on adopting software engineering practices as part of the data engineering process. He is passionate about building software and creating healthy engineering environments and teams. He believes deeply that curiosity and continuous learning are necessary skills to be fostered and encouraged for a successful team, and is an advocate for a healthy work-life balance.

Bryan graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT with a BS in Computer Science.

Paul Horstmeier

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Horstmeier brings 25 years of Fortune 500 and small business operations and general management experience to Health Catalyst. He co-founded HB Ventures and filled senior executive roles at HB Ventures portfolio companies. Within Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Horstmeier launched and grew three different businesses, including co-founding HP’s commercial e-commerce business which later expanded to include the management of the data systems and infrastructure for marketing operations across the company. As Vice President of HP.com, Paul headed up a 700-person organization which was awarded nearly every industry award for quality and innovation during his tenure.

Mr. Horstmeier holds an MBA and a BS in Computer Science from BYU.

Bryan Hunt

Chief Financial Officer

Bryan Hunt joined Health Catalyst in April 2014 and currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer. Prior to coming to Health Catalyst, Bryan worked for Deloitte Corporate Finance as a Senior Associate in the investment banking group. At Deloitte, Bryan provided strategic advisory and M&A advisory services to companies in healthcare and other industries. Bryan began his career as an investment banking analyst with Moelis & Company. He graduated cum laude from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.

Jason Jones

Chief Analytics and Data Science Officer

Jason Jones is passionate about achieving the Quadruple Aim through better and easier use of data in healthcare, including helping organizations to find analytic focus; helping providers feel that the systems they work for have their backs; and helping people to understand and have their goals and preferences respected for the hopefully brief periods during which they are “patients.” Previously, Jones served as Vice President, Information Support for Care Transformation, at Kaiser Permanente (KP). In that capacity, he brought together and co-led the national Hospital and Healthplan Quality and Finance analytic functions and led development of national quality strategy and care delivery IT investments. Prior to that, he was KP’s Executive Director of Clinical Intelligence and Decision Support and a Research Scientist in KP’s Southern California region. Before joining KP, Jones was a Senior Medical Informaticist for Intermountain Healthcare. He also held analytic and marketing positions at Bayer Healthcare in Wayne, N.J., and Ingenix (now Optum) Pharmaceutical Information Products in Salt Lake City, where he developed a model for converting United Healthcare data into a saleable asset for external customers conducting outcomes research. Throughout his career, Jones has taught graduate courses in statistics to medical informaticists at the University of Southern California and at the University of Utah. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers in medicine, predictive modeling, and outcomes improvement.

Dan LeSueur

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Outsourced Business

Dan LeSueur has been developing and implementing the core products and services of Health Catalyst since 2011. He started as a data architect, moved into a technical director role and is now the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Outsourced Business. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Dan owned and operated a management consultancy for five years that assisted ambulatory practices in the implementation of electronic health records and data-driven management methodologies. In this venture he served as data architect, business-intelligence developer, and strategic advisor to physicians and practice owners in the strategic management and growth of their practices. Dan holds Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Health-Sector Management from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Brigham Young University.

Linda Llewelyn

Chief People Officer

Linda Llewelyn is the Chief People Officer at Health Catalyst. Linda joined Health Catalyst in June 2013 as the HR Manager. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, she worked in several industries, including medical technology, health care, and financial services in various HR leadership capacities. Linda has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Utah.

Sadiqa Mahmood, DDS, MPH

General Manager & Senior Vice President, Life Sciences Business

Sadiqa Mahmood, DDS, MPH is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Life Sciences business at Health Catalyst and contributes to the overall vision and growth for the company. Sadiqa’s work focuses on identifying and addressing areas of high unmet need for therapeutic development through application of real-world data. She is an advisor to several healthcare organizations and global policy makers. Sadiqa is a dental surgeon and holds a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Passionate about improving access to care and patient outcomes by leveraging data and healthcare ecosystem, Sadiqa has spent her career at the intersection of medicine, policy, technology, and analytics. Previously she led clinical analytics, quality and safety, value-based contracting, and population health across healthcare organizations, including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Partners HealthCare System, and Boston Medical Center. Sadiqa has been an advocate of collaborative learning system in healthcare and has steered cross-industry multi-stakeholder national and global collaborations to drive healthcare innovation.

She joined Health Catalyst in 2019 as SVP of Medical Affairs. Sadiqa has lived and worked in Asia and UK in addition to the US. She is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Outside of work, she is a Formula 1 fan and race as a member of a local team.

Patrick Nelli

President

Patrick Nelli joined Health Catalyst in 2013.  At Health Catalyst, Patrick helped build the company’s internal business operations group, including the analytics infrastructure and processes.  He also helped build Health Catalyst’s CAFÉ Product Line, which aims to be a national repository of healthcare data from Health Catalyst customers’ EDWs and third-party data sources that enables benchmarking and uniquely powerful machine learning algorithms to help health systems efficiently prioritize areas for improvement.  Prior to coming to Health Catalyst, Patrick was in the healthcare group at GTCR, a Chicago-based private equity firm, and in the healthcare group at McColl Partners, a boutique investment bank.  He has a degree in Physics with a Concentration in Biophysics and Biochemistry from Wake Forest University.

Dan Orenstein

General Counsel

Dan Orenstein is the General Counsel and Secretary of the Board, with responsibility for all aspects of legal and regulatory affairs at Health Catalyst. Orenstein has nearly two decades of private practice and in-house legal and executive experience in healthcare and information technology. For the 10 years prior to joining Health Catalyst, Orenstein worked at athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a publicly traded healthcare IT company and pioneer in results-oriented, cloud-enabled services, serving as General Counsel during his last 7 years with athenahealth. At athenahealth, Orenstein helped to steer the company through a period of rapid and sustained growth, including supporting the company’s 2007 IPO, standardizing and scaling the company’s revenue contracting processes, and advising on service design to ensure compliance with health regulations. Prior to joining athenahealth, Orenstein practiced in the areas of corporate, intellectual property, and healthcare law with law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C. He has written and presented on a number of topics involving healthcare law and technology, and has served in a leadership role with the American Health Lawyers Association. Orenstein received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Matt Revis

Chief Operating Officer, Twistle 

Matt Revis leads the Twistle business at Health Catalyst, having joined while serving as Twistle’s President and COO prior to the acquisition in July of 2021. Matt brings over 20 years of experience in various General Manager and Product leadership roles in technology. 

Matt got his start in healthcare while leading the Dragon NaturallySpeaking product line at Nuance Communications, helping to build the company’s healthcare strategy through a mix of product innovation, M&A and strategic partnership development. Matt also spent 7 years leading Nuance’s mobile handset business with a focus on NLU/AI based conversational interfaces. Matt led Product at Jibo, a social robotics startup in Boston, before joining Twistle in 2019.

Matt has a BA in English and American Literature from Brandeis University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Holly Rimmasch

Chief Clinical Officer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Quality Analytics

Holly Rimmasch serves as the Chief Clinical Officer and SVP & GM, Clinical Quality Business Unit at Health Catalyst. She brings more than three decades of healthcare experience to her role, ranging from direct patient care to clinical and operational healthcare strategy and management. Key areas of accountability include clinical improvement, patient safety, quality, and population health.

Prior to joining Health Catalyst, she had many roles including the role of the Assistant VP at Intermountain Healthcare responsible for Clinical Services and the system Clinical Operations Director for Cardiovascular and Intensive Medicine. At Intermountain and Health Catalyst, Holly has held leadership roles enabling her to affect change at a system level. Holly also co-founded and was a Principal in HMS, Inc, a healthcare strategic consulting firm focusing on population health.

She has spent the last 25 years dedicated to identifying opportunities through data and analytics, implementing best practices, supporting adoption, and improving clinical, operational and financial outcomes. Holly holds a Master of Science in Adult Physiology from the University of Utah and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Brigham Young University.

Britney Rosenau

Chief Analytics Officer, Allina Health

Britney Rosenau has dedicated her career to improving the way health systems use data and insights to deliver the care patients and communities deserve. She currently serves as the Chief Analytics Officer for Allina Health as a part of a significant partnership between Health Catalyst and Allina Health. Prior to this role Britney led Engagement Management for Health Catalyst where she helped define and operationalize a support model for client delivery. Other career experiences focused on analytics for health care improvement including Research, Quality, Regulatory and Improvement roles.

Her education is from the University of Minnesota where she graduated with a Master’s in Public Health. Minnesotan born and raised Britney spends much of her free time with family and two beautiful rescue dogs ‘Up North’.

Dave Ross

Associate Chief Technology Officer

Dave Ross joined Health Catalyst in 2021 and currently serves as Associate Chief Technology Officer. Dave was the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Twistle, leading all product development and engineering activities for over ten years prior to Twistle being acquired by Health Catalyst. Before starting Twistle, Dave was Director of Information Systems at Albany Medical Center in New York.

Dave is a software engineer at heart. For over twenty years, has built and led software development initiatives across healthcare and educational technology sectors. He is passionate about finding the perfect intersection between engineering excellence and delivering business value. Innovation has always been a central theme of Dave’s work, and he encourages team members to look for novel ways to continuously raise the bar and unlock hidden potential. Dave holds a BS in Information Systems from SUNY Empire State College.

Kyle Salyers

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development

Kyle Salyers joined Health Catalyst in August, 2014 as a Senior Vice President. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, he was a Co-Founder and the Managing Director of CHV Capital, a venture capital affiliate of Indiana University Health. In addition to Health Catalyst, Kyle led CHV/ Indiana University Health’s investments in a range of healthcare IT and medical device companies, including MedVentive (acquired by McKesson), MindFrame (acquired by Covidien), Perfect Serve, NICO, NeoChord, Par8o, and Celleration. Prior to CHV Capital, he served in a number of leadership positions across government, academia, and in entrepreneurial companies, including as a Special Advisor to the President of Indiana University & Executive Director for Advancing Indiana, Investment Director & Innovation Fellow at Rose-Hulman Ventures and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Senior Vice President of Thomas P. Miller and Associates, Vice President of the Indiana Technology Partnership, and Economic Development Manager for the City of Indianapolis, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith.

Jeff Selander

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Expansion Business

Jeff Selander currently serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Expansion Business with focus on the employer and Asia Pacific markets. Prior to this Jeff served as the Chief People Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Health Catalyst. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Mr. Selander was CFO at HB Ventures, a private equity firm in Boise, Idaho. Health Catalyst was Jeff’s fifth start-up as a venture finance professional, and his third as CFO. During his career, Jeff has assisted CEO’s in raising over $250 million in debt and equity from institutional investors. Before joining HB Ventures, Jeff was the CFO for Great Basin Scientific, a pre-revenue life sciences start-up. Previous to Great Basin, Jeff played several senior finance roles for iBAHN Corp., a venture-backed high-speed Internet provider to the hospitality industry. Mr. Selander holds an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, Boston, Massachusetts and a BA in international relations from BYU.

Trudy Sullivan

Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer

Sullivan leads Communications and Diversity & Inclusion efforts as a Health Catalyst leadership team member. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BA in History from the University of Portland, Oregon. Sullivan brings experience in B2B, B2C + B2G environments, from innovative high tech companies, including biomedical, semiconductor and aerospace & defense. She spent more than a decade in healthcare, including serving more than one hundred Pacific Northwest hospital customers, as CEO of an American Red Cross blood services region. Sullivan’s functional experience includes Operations Management; Human Resources; Marketing; Business Development; Strategy; M & A; Investor, Government + Community Relations; and Brand Development.

Jill Terry

Chief Learning Officer

Jill Terry is the Chief Learning Officer at Health Catalyst and a member of the executive leadership team. She joined Health Catalyst University in May 2014 as an instructional designer and program manager for the Accelerated Practices Program. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Jill served in various educational roles at Intermountain Healthcare, consulting with clinical and nonclinical subject matter experts to design and develop learning experiences. Jill is a strong education strategist with a degree in psychology and a focus on the cognitive processes involved in learning and motivation. In her current role, she is responsible for aligning the learning strategy with the vision and overall goals of the organization. She also oversees Health Catalyst University operations and educational offerings for team members and clients.

Dan Unger

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Financial Transformation Business

Dan Unger joined Health Catalyst in April 2014 and serves as the SVP and General Manager of Financial Transformation Business. He came to Health Catalyst after working at R1 RCM where he managed a consulting team that worked with large health systems to improve revenue cycle processes and reduce costs through analytics and operational improvements. Prior to R1, Dan worked as a consultant at Equation Consulting, a physician economics consulting firm, and as a pricing and profitability analyst at JP Morgan Chase. He graduated from the University of Arizona with degrees in Finance and Entrepreneurship and received his MBA in International Finance from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.