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Meet the Eleanor Health team.
In order to provide the best care for our community members, we have built a passionate, diverse team that works to embody our mission of helping people affected by addiction live amazing lives. We work together to improve the access to and quality of treatment and will always go the extra mile to help our community members reach their recovery goals.
The team
Corbin Petro
Co-Founder & CEO
Corbin Petro is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health, focused on expanding access to an integrated, evidence-based outpatient care and addiction recovery platform for opioid and other substance use disorders. Previously, Petro was the founding CEO and President of Benevera Health, a first-of-its-kind payer/provider joint venture (JV) encompassing two businesses: Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare’s New Hampshire insurance business and a newly formed population health services company. Petro has an extensive background in healthcare including as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Massachusetts Department of Medicaid (MassHealth), a $13 billion agency providing health care to 1.4 million Massachusetts residents, advising a US Senator on health reform, and roles at Bain and Company, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte Consulting, and American Management Systems.
Petro was honored as one fifteen healthcare executives under 40 named a 2018 Up and Comer by Modern Healthcare. She received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is married, has two sons, and resides in the greater Boston area.
Nzinga Harrison, MD
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Harrison serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Eleanor Health with more than 15 years experience practicing medicine. She is a double-board certified physician with specialties in general adult psychiatry and addiction medicine. She completed undergraduate training at Howard University in Washington DC; medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and residency training at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Harrison has spent her career as a physician treating individuals from marginalized communities with substance use and other psychiatric disorders. As a physician executive, she has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer roles committed to creating and improving systems-based delivery of psychiatric and substance abuse care. She is a vocal advocate for stigma reduction, and is passionate about the necessity for whole-person care as individuals and communities seek to recover from and prevent substance use disorders. Nzinga is married to a stock market investor and has two teenaged sons who keep her busy with academic pursuits, swim meets, basketball games, archery tournaments, and pilot academy.
Michael Moeller
Chief People Officer
Michael Moeller serves as Eleanor Health’s Chief People Officer. Previously, Michael was the founder and managing principal of ORGalpha Performance Advisors, a boutique consultancy focused on delivering superior business performance through people. Michael founded ORGalpha after more than two decades as a senior HR and operations executive for global Fortune 500 corporations and high-growth healthcare startups. These include Aramark, Blue Shield of California, Campbell Soup, Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy, and Orthology Inc.
Prior to moving in-house, Michael guided strategy and organization projects as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Co. and advised clients on antitrust matters as an associate attorney with Shearman & Sterling. Michael is a graduate of Georgetown University and Brooklyn Law School.
Outside the office, Michael relaxes by staying busy. He lives in suburban Philadelphia where he enjoys cycling, all forms of racket sports, and any opportunity to share great food with good friends and family.
Seth Frazier
Chief Business Officer
Seth Frazier is a nationally recognized executive in innovation, value based care and strategy. With more than three decades in health system and start-up leadership roles, Seth has a strong track record of translating innovation into tangible clinical and business outcomes for leading organizations. Seth has created multiple high performing partnerships addressing clinical transformation, value based care, and academic affiliations. His proven record spans C-suite roles in transformation, value based care and strategy.
Currently, Seth leads Strategy for Tendo. Tendo is working to create the trusted connection between patients, clinicians, and caregivers by creating software that provides seamless, consumer-driven experiences throughout the care journey.
Prior to Tendo, Seth served as EVP and Chief Strategy Officer for the Henry Ford Health System. Seth drove a strategic repositioning as part of a new C-Suite that grew covered lives by 100,000, clinical revenue by 6% CAGR, and Ford’s ambulatory network (7 new facilities). Seth provided health system business leadership to a Medicaid health plan acquisition and a far-reaching academic partnership with Michigan State University.
In 2011, Seth joined Evolent Health as part of the founding executive team. Seth led a KLAS-recognized solutions consulting team that built value based care organizations across the country. Evolent’s growth led to a successful IPO in 2015 with a $1 billion market capitalization.
Prior to Evolent, Seth served as Chief Transformation Officer for the Geisinger Health System. Seth was part of the team that built proof of concept programs providing the foundation for many Affordable Care Act innovations recognized in President Obama’s healthcare reform address. He personally oversaw the business component of ProvenCare®, Geisinger’s nationally recognized bundles initiative, a critical template for CMMI’s BPCI initiative. He also built an innovative Operations Research group that drove meaningful health system capacity utilization improvements and savings while publishing an early peer-reviewed article on successful whole hospital patient flow simulation.
Seth served in multiple leadership roles at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He established a successful globally capitated regional ACO that achieved market leading quality improvements, growth and financial savings. As CHOP’s strategy executive, Seth led multiple growth efforts including the Penn-CHOP Proton Therapy deal, national centers of excellence contracting and a new enterprise strategic plan.
Seth started his career with APM, Inc. which grew to become the nation’s largest freestanding healthcare consulting firm. Seth led managed care, clinical transformation, service line growth and operations improvement engagements for many of the country’s premier institutions.
Seth received his MBA from the Wharton School as a Kaiser Fellow and Award Winner. He received his BA in Economics (Honors) from Haverford College. Seth resides in Washington DC where he also spends his time advising non-profits.
Ben Hall
Sr. Vice President/Head, Product Strategy
Ben Hall serves as SVP, Head of Product Strategy for Eleanor Health and is responsible for leading and executing Eleanor’s product vision across service platforms and enabling technologies. Ben has extensive experience launching and scaling technology-enabled businesses focused on improving the U.S. healthcare system and driving better outcomes and experiences for patients, providers, and payors.
Previously, Ben led the product strategy and corporate development efforts for Formativ Health, a joint-venture between Northwell Health and Pamplona Capital that helps provider organizations build and maintain lifelong relationships with patients and consumers. Prior to Formativ, Ben was a Director of Corporate Development at athenahealth. He has also held positions at Updata Partners and Accenture.
Ben graduated from Harvard College and completed his MBA in entrepreneurship and finance at Babson College’s F.W. Olin School. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and three young daughters where they can often be found at a hockey rink or lacrosse field.
Danica Patterson
Regional Market President
Danica Patterson serves as Eleanor’s Regional Market President, leading up growth and operations for North Carolina and New Jersey. Prior to joining Eleanor, she served as VP of Value Based Care at GoHealth Urgent Care where she worked with large health systems across the country to design value based programs by leveraging the convenient access of urgent care centers. Patterson spent 11 years at a large non-profit health system where she built the organization’s value based care division. She also led the health system’s strategic planning and business development initiatives for acute and ambulatory care services, physician clinics and comprehensive patient care programs. She worked in state and federal government affairs representing hospitals and health systems in Florida and New York. Patterson holds Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degrees in health policy from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Patterson enjoys living in North Carolina with her husband and four children.
Sara Greenbaum
Regional Market President
Sara Greenbaum serves as Regional Market President at Eleanor Health, leading operations and growth for Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, & Washington. Prior to joining Eleanor, Sara was the VP of Growth at Beacon Health Options. As General Manager of Beacon Care Services, she led the company’s efforts to build, operate, and grow a new behavioral health provider business to increase access to quality mental health care. Previously, Sara held a series of strategy and operations leadership roles at CVS Health, spearheading initiatives to develop and implement new retail health services and formats including HealthHUB. Earlier in her career, Sara worked for the Clinton Foundation, where she was a founder and Chief Strategy Officer of the Clinton Climate Initiative. Sara received a BA in Political Science from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She lives in the Boston area and, outside of the office, she enjoys live music, photography, sports, outdoor adventures, and world travel.
Alex Piersiak
Sr. Director, Marketing, Member Growth & Engagement
Alex Piersiak
Sr. Director, Marketing, Member Growth & Engagement
Matt Gagalis
Head of Business Development
Matt Gagalis is Eleanor’s Head of Business Development, responsible for developing and supporting value-based partnerships with health plans, health systems, and other key stakeholders across the care continuum. Prior to joining Eleanor, he has led business development and payer strategy at several successful early-stage healthcare companies that focused on a range of high-priority areas including complex care management, medication adherence, interoperability and transitions of care. Matt holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Matt lives in New Hampshire with his wife and three children, and loves to spend free time with his family in the mountains and on the beach.
Ellen Harrison
SVP of Operational Excellence & Strategic Initiatives
Ellen Harrison joined Eleanor Health in November 2021, tapped to provide strategic leadership for expansion of whole-person, integrated population health, and operational effectiveness across our markets and central service operations. Prior to joining Eleanor Health, Ellen led the Eliza health engagement group for Cotiviti (formerly HMS) ensuring the delivery of a full suite of personalized member engagement solutions designed to help the healthcare consumer make meaningful behavior change. Previously, Ellen served as acting-COO Portland-based, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, a grant funded member organization facilitating regional and national quality improvement programs. Ellen was Vice President of Medical Management for Martin’s Point Health Care responsible for care management, quality improvement and provider network strategy for Tricare and Medicare Advantage and integrated population health management for the MPHC medical practices. During her tenure, Martin’s Point achieved and maintained a 5 Star Medicare Advantage rating. Other executive roles included VP, Shared Decision Making Products at Health Dialog; President of HMOs for Trigon BCBS of Virginia (now Anthem); and, Vice President and General Manager, CIGNA Healthcare of Connecticut. Ellen holds a BS in Nursing from Syracuse University and an MBA from the University of Connecticut. Ellen and her family live in southern Maine with their four-legged family of dogs, cats, donkeys and a horse.
The board
Corbin Petro
Co-Founder & CEO, Eleanor Health
Corbin Petro
Kurt Sheline
Principle, Echo Health Ventures
Kurt Sheline
David Whelan
General Partner, Town Hall Ventures Managing General Partner, Oxeon Ventures Fmr. General Partner & CFO, Accretive LLC
David Whelan
Kyle Raffaniello
Kyle Raffaniello is a proven leader in the healthcare industry with over 25 years of experience in accelerating corporate growth. She has a passion for excellence in bringing innovative solutions to market that add value to clients’ operations.
Previously, Kyle was Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of ValueOptions, a behavioral health company, where she was responsible for profits across all lines of business. She was Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Consortium Health Plans, an organization focused on account growth and retention for the nation’s 20 largest Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. Kyle has also held senior sales and marketing positions at a number of regional health plans, as well as led provider relations for several large medical delivery systems.
Kyle earned a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration from George Washington University. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Theology from Mount St. Mary’s College.
Christina Mainelli
Christina Mainelli is a senior healthcare executive with more than 20 years of experience in all facets of healthcare delivery from payer to patient, including physical health, mental health, and social care. She has direct experience growing and scaling multiple high-growth businesses in healthcare services and technology. Christina serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Quartet Health, a platform focused on helping people get connected to the best possible mental healthcare. In this role, she is responsible for defining and executing Quartet’s strategy as it enters its next phase of growth in delivering access to high-quality behavioral healthcare for high-acuity patients.
Prior to Quartet, Christina was the Chief Operating Officer at Unite Us, a healthcare technology company that connects patients to social care. In this role, she scaled the operations as it doubled its revenue and workforce while moving from an in-person to entirely remote delivery model. Christina also served as the EVP and Chief Growth Officer at Beacon Health Options, the nation’s largest managed behavioral health company. In this role, Christina ensured that Beacon’s long and short-term strategies resulted in client growth and retention. While at Beacon, Christina played a leadership role in the sale of Beacon to Anthem, to further Anthem’s strategy of delivering whole-person care.
Christina also serves on the board of directors of Businessolver, a market-leading benefit administration technology company, as well as Eleanor Health, a company focused on addiction and mental health recovery.
Ed Weklar
VP, Mergers & Acquisitions Center of Excellence / Head of Corporate Development Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
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Ed Weklar
As head of corporate development for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), Ed Weklar is responsible for helping Blue Cross NC to achieve its strategic growth goals for revenue, operating income, and membership through acquisitions, partnerships, and investments. Ed has a dual focus on helping to “enhance the core” by supporting all business units in their inorganic growth efforts and helping to “expand beyond” by identifying new areas of growth that align with Blue Cross NC’s mission.
Among other responsibilities, Ed is accountable for leading the business development and the corporate development teams to identify organizations that provide technology, services, or products that can help to make health care better, simpler, and more affordable, and engage with those organizations to develop strategic collaborations that can make North Carolina healthier and drive sustainable growth for Blue Cross NC. Additionally, Ed’s team leads the sourcing, evaluation, and execution of investments in private equity and venture capital funds that have been identified as strategic partners to Blue Cross NC and can contribute to the growth of Blue Cross NC’s portfolio.
Before joining Blue Cross NC, Ed gained experience in private equity, corporate development, and operations. Most recently, he was a Principal at Assistive Partners, a private investment firm. Prior to that, Ed was a Managing Director in Corporate Development at The Advisory Board Company, where he helped to accelerate growth, increase profitability, and drive positive impact through a strategic acquisition effort. Prior to that, Ed gained a diverse mix of acquisition and operating experience in both growth and turnaround situations at private equity firms Arlington Capital Partners and Questor Management Company. Ed’s portfolio companies have included a “Strategic Deal of the Year” winner and a “Turnaround of the Year” winner. Ed started his career in North Carolina at First Union Securities in the Leveraged Finance Group.
Rachel Winokur
Rachel Winokur is a seasoned operator and investor with years of experience in health care. Until recently, she served as the Chief Executive Officer of NeueHealth, the care delivery, provider enablement, and network management business within Bright Health Group, a role she held since 2019. As CEO of NeueHealth, Rachel led the company’s expansion into new geographies, including its health system and provider relationships, as well as oversaw Bright Health’s owned and affiliated provider organizations, including a full platform of provider enablement and risk management solutions. Rachel helped found Bright Health in 2016 as its Chief Business Officer, where in addition to the above responsibilities, she also had accountability for markets, implementation, mergers, acquisitions, fundraising, and overall business strategy.
Before joining Bright Health, Rachel worked for Aetna as a senior executive from 2011 to 2015 where she helped start and lead Healthagen, Aetna’s payer-neutral population health management business.
Prior to Aetna, Rachel worked for the Carlyle Group from 2007 to 2011 as a healthcare private equity investor. Her previous experience includes roles at Datascope from 2003 to 2007, Bertelsmann from 1999 to 2003, and Goldman Sachs from 1994 to 1997.
Rachel currently sits on the board of Maven and Eleanor Health and is an advisor to Declaration Partners and Primetime Partners. She has previously sat on the boards of HealthVerity, HealthReveal, eScreen, and Proteus, and was previously an advisor to Greycroft Partners. Rachel holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, with honors in both biomedical and electrical engineering, from Duke University.
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