Abacus Insights manages healthcare data by breaking down data silos to make a real impact for our customers. Our platform standardizes data across the healthcare ecosystem by providing a highly secure unified data infrastructure that minimizes change management and maximizes analytics enablement to reduce costs and improve outcomes.
Our values are the core of everything we are and do.
We are committed to building our company upon a strong set of principles, which guide our everyday choices actions and interactions.
Integrity and Honesty Shape Everything
Results matter. But how we achieve them matters more.
Client-Focus Is Our Focus
We listen carefully and compassionately to our clients’ needs and take the responsibility for their data seriously.
Achieve More Together
We collectively support one another to achieve maximum impact and are committed to improving the lives we touch.
Performance Excellence in All We Do
We bring our all every day to deliver the best results for our clients.
Innovation Is in Our DNA
We bring a discovery mindset to ideas different from our own; constantly exploring, iterating, and translating that vision into action.
Leadership
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Minal Patel, MD
Minal is a serial physician entrepreneur who founded Abacus Insights to serve payer needs around data integration and insight generation. Prior to this he has held senior roles at payer organizations most recently serving as SVP and Chief Strategy Officer of Horizon BCBSNJ.
His entrepreneurial experience includes founding Care Management International, a pioneer in leveraging offshore clinical talent to support payer clinical functions, which was successfully sold to iHealth Technologies – now Cotiviti (COTV) – and Vayu Technologies, a telecommunications platform developed by Bell Labs and spun out and sold to SeniorLink. He holds a BA and an MD from Boston University and an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he served as a staff physician and faculty at Harvard Medical School for nearly a decade.
He has also served as an associate with McKinsey and Company. Outside of the office, Minal spends time with his wife and two sons, skiing in the winter and trying to play golf in the summer.
His entrepreneurial experience includes founding Care Management International, a pioneer in leveraging offshore clinical talent to support payer clinical functions, which was successfully sold to iHealth Technologies – now Cotiviti (COTV) – and Vayu Technologies, a telecommunications platform developed by Bell Labs and spun out and sold to SeniorLink. He holds a BA and an MD from Boston University and an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he served as a staff physician and faculty at Harvard Medical School for nearly a decade.
He has also served as an associate with McKinsey and Company. Outside of the office, Minal spends time with his wife and two sons, skiing in the winter and trying to play golf in the summer.
Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder
Gokul Varadharaj
Gokul joined Abacus as one of its initial leaders to drive the product and business alliances strategy. He currently serves as Chief Revenue Officer for Abacus. He is a seasoned Payer business and technology operations executive, with over 12 years of experience in Payer Strategy and Operations roles.
Prior to Abacus, Gokul led major strategic initiatives at Horizon BCBSNJ to enable the organization’s successful push towards Fee for Value in New Jersey. He was also part of the Booz and Co. (now PWC) core Payer team that helped clients successfully navigate and transform their business models to thrive post-ACA (Affordable Care Act). He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Anna University, India.
Prior to Abacus, Gokul led major strategic initiatives at Horizon BCBSNJ to enable the organization’s successful push towards Fee for Value in New Jersey. He was also part of the Booz and Co. (now PWC) core Payer team that helped clients successfully navigate and transform their business models to thrive post-ACA (Affordable Care Act). He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Anna University, India.
Chief Operating Officer
John Pyhtila, PhD
John is a proven data, analytics, strategy and operations healthcare leader and innovator. For payers providers and healthtech companies, he has transformed enterprise data, analytics, and infrastructure to drive growth and innovation, improve care and patient experience, and reduce healthcare costs.
John is focused on growing Abacus Insights’ leadership in data usability through new strategies, services and products that deliver maximum client value. Previously, John was Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer for Innovaccer and the first Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Mass General Brigham, where he developed a cloud-based enterprise data and analytics platform to produce business intelligence that advanced patient care and operational performance. As Cigna’s head of analytics, John collaborated with business executives to deliver data and analytics that improved member engagement, lowered employee healthcare spend, reduced operational costs and increased revenue.
John holds a PhD in biomedical engineering from Duke University, master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.
John is focused on growing Abacus Insights’ leadership in data usability through new strategies, services and products that deliver maximum client value. Previously, John was Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer for Innovaccer and the first Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Mass General Brigham, where he developed a cloud-based enterprise data and analytics platform to produce business intelligence that advanced patient care and operational performance. As Cigna’s head of analytics, John collaborated with business executives to deliver data and analytics that improved member engagement, lowered employee healthcare spend, reduced operational costs and increased revenue.
John holds a PhD in biomedical engineering from Duke University, master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.
Chief Information Security Officer
& Chief Information Officer Bill Brown
& Chief Information Officer Bill Brown
Bill is CISO & CIO at Abacus Insights. Bill has spent his career leading global information security and information technology teams at start-up, mid-size and Fortune 1000 companies. He has expertise in developing comprehensive risk-based Information Security programs, which balance Enablement and Enforcement, work across company leadership, and are embraced by employees, executive teams and Boards of Directors.
Prior to joining Abacus, Bill was CSO at ClickSoftware and led the M&A Security Due Diligence Response and Remediation efforts which resulted in Click’s $1.4B acquisition by Salesforce. Prior to ClickSoftware, Bill was CISO at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and before that CIO & CISO at Veracode.
Bill is a former Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader and serves as an Advisor with several private companies. Bill holds an undergraduate degree from Bridgewater State University and an MBA from Babson College. Bill and his wife live on Cape Cod and Lincoln, NH. When he’s not working, Bill enjoys his spending time with family, as well as fishing during the warmer months and snow sports during the winter.
Prior to joining Abacus, Bill was CSO at ClickSoftware and led the M&A Security Due Diligence Response and Remediation efforts which resulted in Click’s $1.4B acquisition by Salesforce. Prior to ClickSoftware, Bill was CISO at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and before that CIO & CISO at Veracode.
Bill is a former Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader and serves as an Advisor with several private companies. Bill holds an undergraduate degree from Bridgewater State University and an MBA from Babson College. Bill and his wife live on Cape Cod and Lincoln, NH. When he’s not working, Bill enjoys his spending time with family, as well as fishing during the warmer months and snow sports during the winter.
Chief Financial Officer
Frank Hunt
Frank brings a passionate and experienced leadership focus to the financial and accounting team. Combining financial discipline with an operational focus, Frank leads teams through rapid growth stages. Before joining Abacus, Frank was CFO at AbleTo Inc. which received an NEVY award for Liquidity Event of the Year (2022); he was also CFO of Connotate, Inc. and Chief Accounting Officer of both Reval.com and Centennial Communications.
Vice President, Delivery & Client Success
Jack Quigley
Jack is a highly accomplished senior technology executive with deep expertise across all aspects of enterprise architecture, data management and operations for payers, including master data management. In a distinguished career at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, he most recently served as Chief Architect, responsible for data strategy, interoperability, enterprise architecture, data and integration architecture, technology architecture, solution architecture and data governance. As Horizon BCBSNJ’s Director of Data Architecture, he made digital APIs the new integration standard.
Jack’s experience also includes positions as Senior Director of enterprise architecture for Syneos Health and Senior Director of IT systems for CVS Health. Jack holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University. When he is not working, Jack enjoys strumming his guitar and spending good times with his wife and four sons.
Jack’s experience also includes positions as Senior Director of enterprise architecture for Syneos Health and Senior Director of IT systems for CVS Health. Jack holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University. When he is not working, Jack enjoys strumming his guitar and spending good times with his wife and four sons.
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