Our Board

Curt Bailey is President and Chief Executive Officer Bloodworks Northwest. Curt joined Bloodworks Northwest after 20 years in management consulting. Curt was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in the firm’s healthcare practice based in Seattle. Curt has advised a variety of healthcare companies across the United States with an emphasis on serving non-profit, community-based, and academic healthcare institutions. Curt’s work spanned strategy, operational improvement, and organizational health, and he has published in leading journals, such as the Harvard Business Review. Prior to joining McKinsey, Curt served as a Captain and helicopter pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps. He earned his MBA from Yale University and his BA from Tufts University. Curt has lived with his family in the Seattle area since 2002. He is active in the community and has served on the Board of Trustees for a local Montessori school, and chaired Yale School of Management’s West Coast Advisory Board.

John Wagner is the Chief Network and Operations Officer, NW, Mountain and Arizona Markets for Aetna, a CVS Company. John is responsible for optimizing local market network performance and cost as well as advancing strategic goals in support of membership growth and retention. This includes pushing innovation for all lines of business, coordinating expansion activities, and meeting the diverse needs of Aetna plan sponsors. The NW and Mountain Market includes: Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada and Utah. John is based out of the Portland office where he serves as Aetna’s senior most leader in the Oregon business community. John has worked for Aetna since March of 2012. His prior experience includes leadership positions at Providence Health Services where John was Vice President of Payer Strategy, at Cambia/Regence (Blue Cross, BlueShield) where John was Vice President of Provider Strategy with accountability for all things provider for the four state (OR, WA, ID, UT) health plan, and for PacifiCare in Oregon and Texas. John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Oregon State University, and an MBA from the University of Portland. In addition to his professional experience, John has held board positions on the Boys and Girls Club of King County, the American Red Cross Oregon Chapter, and LifeWorks NW, a Portland based behavioral health safety net provider organization.

Megan Pedersen is the Director of the Office of Labor Relations for King County. Megan partners with the County’s unions to advance Executive Dow Constantine’s goal of being the best run government through a focus on employee engagement, continuous improvement, and financial stewardship. Since 2016, Megan has led “total compensation” negotiations for wages and benefits with the King County Coalition of Unions, which represents over a third of the County’s employees. In 2017, she led the County’s efforts to establish a first-ever Master Labor Agreement with the Coalition of Unions, creating efficiencies and standards across some 60 bargaining agreements. Megan previously served as Deputy Director of the King County Records and Licensing Services Division and as a Litigator with the Office of Labor Relations. Before joining King County, Megan was an associate with the Seattle law firm, Williams Kastner. She is a graduate of the University of Washington Law School.

Carol is the Director of Member Pooling Programs for the Association of Washington Cities (AWC), overseeing AWC’s Employee Benefit Trust, Risk Management Service Agency, Workers’ Comp Retrospective Rating Program, and Drug & Alcohol Consortium. For the majority of her 35 years with the AWC, Carol administered the Employee Benefit Trust, insuring 36,000 members from over 280 municipalities and special purpose districts. She serves as a resource for labor-management task forces addressing the complexities of health care coverage and frequently speaks at the state and national level on governmental entity health pools and public sector risk management trends. She was appointed to the Washington State Health Benefit Exchange Advisory Committee in 2015; serves on the Board of Directors to the National League of Cities Risk Insurance Sharing Consortium; as well as the Member Practices Committee with the Association of Governmental Risk Pools (AGRiP).

Sue Birch is the Director of the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). As HCA Director, she is focused on transforming the health care delivery system to better serve those for whom the state purchases care, while keeping health care costs in check. Before joining the HCA, Sue spent nearly seven years as the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, where she led the state’s successful implementation of the Affordable Care Ac. A nurse by training, Sue also served as Chief Executive Officer of the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association.

Kimberly Collier is vice president, human resources for Puget Sound Energy (PSE). Under her leadership, PSE is focused on talent retention and attraction, employee experience, and ensuring PSE has an inclusive culture and diverse workforce who can meet the needs of all of our customers. Prior to joining PSE, she held executive roles inside and outside of the utility industry. From 2009 to 2016, she served as deputy director of Seattle Public Utilities, where she was the Officer responsible for human resources, environmental justice and service equity, safety and HR operations, and data management. Prior to that, she was director of human resources for Cox Communications in Phoenix, Arizona. She’s also held roles with The Dial Corporation, Motorola and Kinko’s, Inc. Kim serves on the Board of the Puget Sound Energy Foundation and on the Advisory Board for the Energy Executive Course of the College of Business and Economics at the University of Idaho. She also serves her community as a member of the African American Advisory Council for the Bellevue Police Department and serves as a Community Representative for the Independent Force Investigation Team of King County, WA. Kim has a bachelor’s degree in business from The College of New Jersey. She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the HR Certification Institute.  Kim lives in Bellevue, Washington.

Jim Crawford is the Interim Chief Executive Officer for the Washington Health Benefit Exchange. Prior to his appointment in June, Jim served for three years as Chief Financial Officer at the Exchange. He has over 20 years of state and local government management experience, primarily in the financial area. Jim was named Assistant Director for Budget at the Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM), where he served for 6 years. Prior to that appointment, Jim worked as Senior Budget Assistant to the Governor for education in the Locke and Gregoire administrations. He also previously worked for the Olympia School District, Washington State Department of Ecology, and the state House of Representatives. In 2018, Jim received the Governor’s Award for Leadership in Management.

Dr. Dacones is a nationally recognized leader in driving value-based care innovation and a long-time advocate of the Quadruple Aim. She joins us from Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW), where she most recently served as President and CEO of Northwest Permanente (NWP) and chair of the National Permanente Executive Committee. In these roles Dr. Dacones had remarkable success in modernizing business functions, growing the KPNW footprint, improving margins, driving innovation, and fostering clinician and team member engagement. She also practiced as a primary care physician and hospital-based internist for more than 22 years and has been recognized numerous times as a physician and leader. In 2020, she was named one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Minority Leaders. In 2019, she was the recipient of Portland Business Journal’s Health Care Leadership Award. Dr. Dacones received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where she also completed her internship and residency training in internal medicine. Imelda is moving to Seattle from Portland with her husband and two children. As their children start college in the fall, she looks forward to getting reacquainted with her college sweetheart and husband, Paul. They plan to explore the great state of Washington while getting involved in the communities we serve.

Dr. Jay Fathi, a family physician and recognized community and health care leader across Washington State, currently serves as the Plan President and CEO of Molina Healthcare of Washington, the largest health plan by membership in the state. After serving for 12 years as a full spectrum family doctor at the 45th Street Community Health Center, he founded and served as the Senior Medical Director of Community Health at Swedish Health Services. He then helped lead the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Washington as President and CEO of a managed care health plan that provided health coverage to over 250,000 mostly low-income individuals across Washington state, including all 25,000 children, youth, and young adults in foster care. Dr. Fathi holds an appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, has served on numerous local, state, and national boards and committees, and has been recognized locally and nationally for teaching, leadership, and dedication to the health and well-being of the underserved. He has also worked as a consultant and advisor to numerous providers, social service, government, labor, and nonprofit organizations and businesses, working towards system improvements and health equity.

Sarah Greene is the Strategy Consultant and Advisor focused on translating research into health improvements.  Most recently, she served as the Executive Director of the Health Care Systems Research Network, a consortium of researchers embedded in health care delivery systems. She worked with Group Health (now Kaiser Permanente) for over 15 years in a variety of roles and has published original research on patient-centered care and communication between cancer patients and their care team. Sarah has been active with the Alliance since its very early days and was Chair of the Alliance’s Consumer Education Committee from 2009 to 2021. Sarah joined the Board in 2016. She enjoys the opportunity to bridge her research knowledge with the daily experiences we all have as consumers and patients, in an effort to improve health care for all.

Todd Hesse is Vice President of Sales and Business Development, MSBD (Marketing Sales and Business Development) for Kaiser Permanente Washington. In his role, Todd oversees sales & business development and leads the development and execution of market and business strategies that deliver substantial and sustainable growth in membership, revenue, and margin. Todd also plays a significant role in the development and execution of Kaiser Permanente Washington’s Go-To-Market strategy. Under his leadership, Todd has accountability for Sales, Account Management and Business Development in the Large Group, Small Group, Kaiser Permanente Individual and Family, and Medicare business lines. He leads 139 team members with responsibility for 694,000 Kaiser Permanente Washington members. Prior to being named Vice President in January 2021, Todd was the Senior Director and Business Line Leader for Strategic Accounts, Large Group Account Management, Strategic Customer Engagement and Kaiser Permanente on the Job (KPOJ), in Washington. Under his leadership, Kaiser Permanente Washington saw growth in 2020 of 30,000+ new school employee members. Todd relocated to Washington in May 2019 after leading the National Accounts West Team as Area Vice President. He has served in a variety of different management and leadership roles since starting with Kaiser Permanente in California in August of 2006. These include Senior Manager and Director roles including Director of Self Funding Sales & Account Management where Todd led Kaiser Permanente’s enterprise strategy and execution of bringing a Self Funding capability to market. He possesses extensive product, funding and market knowledge both in Washington and other Kaiser Permanente markets. Prior to coming to Kaiser Permanente, Todd held Sales and Account Management roles in both National and Multi-State markets with Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. In addition, Todd held Account Management roles with two Behavioral Health companies, Managed Health Network and PacificCare Behavioral. Todd is currently enrolled in the Executive Leadership Program at the Harvard School of Business.

Dr. Andrew Jones is the CEO of Confluence Health. He has always had a passion for community. This desire to learn how we function better together culminated in a bachelor of arts degree in history from Yale University. An interest in science soon led him to attend the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center for his medical degree. Completing his residency in family medicine, Dr. Jones served as chief resident and received the Alan J. Maxwell, MD Award for Clinical Excellence. After his residency, he served as the associate program director for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Family Medicine Program. Desiring to branch out in his practice, Dr. Jones joined Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Hired initially as a faculty physician, he quickly rose to positions of increased leadership and responsibility, being named the medical director of the Bruner Family Medicine Center and later program director for the family medicine residency program. While serving as program director, Dr. Jones also served as a board member and later chair for the Colorado Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors where he advocated for graduate medical education in Colorado. These roles also afforded him the chance to work stabilizing the hospital’s residency program and to create a wholly new obstetrics fellowship, which continues to this day. While serving in these roles, Dr. Jones was honored to also be nominated for physician of the year. Drawn to leadership roles where he could advocate for others and solve problems to make organizations stronger, Dr. Jones enrolled in the master of business administration program at the University of Colorado at Denver, focusing on health care administration. Recognized repeatedly for strong leadership, he received the James D. Suver Award for outstanding first-year student in health care administration and the Eugenie Sontag Award for outstanding graduate, while also receiving advanced training in process improvement at the Virginia Mason Institute. Accepting a position as the vice president for clinical performance excellence with Catholic Health Initiatives, Dr. Jones worked to develop improvements in eight different regions for 100 hospitals. A recognized leader in the medical administration field, Dr. Jones soon accepted the role of chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs for St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he oversaw a wide variety of clinical and operational functions for the hospital. During this time, Dr. Jones worked directly with Dr. Richard Bohmer, an advisor specializing in health care management, to redesign how to provide care to promote better quality, lower costs, easier access, and increased engagement from medical professionals, a project that was formative in the way he approaches medical administration and patient care. Dr. Jones was named chief executive officer of Confluence Health in Wenatchee, Washington in 2022, bringing his experience and expertise to a leading health care provider in North Central Washington. In his private life, Dr. Jones is a passionate supporter of the arts and music, having served previously on the board of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra. An outdoor enthusiast, he enjoys spending time in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Andrew Jones resides in Wenatchee, Washington with his wife and two children.

Charlene Lind is the Vice President of Client Relations for Northwest Administrators, Inc. She has worked in the benefits and finance industry for over 25 years. For over 20 of those years, she has held a variety of positions responsible for third-party benefit administration of single and multi-employer benefit plans at Northwest Administrators, Inc. In her current role as Account Executive/Compliance Manager, she is involved with the Washington Teamsters Welfare Trust along with a number of other health plans in the western United States. Charlene has completed the IFEBP Administrators Masters Program and is involved with the Northwest Association of Administrators.

Greg Marchand is the Director of Global Benefits for The Boeing Company. He is also the process owner for Employee Benefits issues for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Previously, Greg served as the Senior Manager of Health and Welfare Operations for The Boeing Company. He also serves as the Boeing representative to the Leapfrog Group and is a member of the Leapfrog Board of Directors. Prior to joining Boeing, he served as a consultant to the Kellogg Company and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Larry McNutt is Senior Vice President Corporate/Pension Administration with Northwest Administrators, Inc. He has been directly involved in Taft-Hartley fringe benefit administration for over 35 years. His experience includes administration of benefits for many industries, including construction, freight and warehousing, building service, shipbuilding and food processing. Larry is a Certified Public Accountant in Washington state and has served as independent auditor to several Taft-Hartley trust funds in Washington and California. He is a past-President of the Northwest Association of Administrators, a past speaker for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and contributing author to IFEBP publications. Larry served as Assistant Administrator and more recently Administrator of the Carpenters Trusts of Western Washington for the past 15 years.

Lee Mills McGrath is the Executive Vice President for Health Care Services at Premera Blue Cross. McGrath has extensive experience in both the provider and payer space, focused on payment reform and population management. She joined Premera in 2018 after spending several years working for other BlueCross Blue Shield Association plans, serving as the Divisional Vice President of Network Strategy and Innovation at Health Care Service Corporation in Illinois. She was also President of Illinois Health Partners, a joint venture between DuPage Medical Group and Edward Health Ventures, one of the largest clinically integrated networks in the Chicagoland area managing over 250,000 HMO and ACO patients. At Premera, McGrath is focused on improving healthcare through better solutions that focus on quality and lower cost, and through building relationships in the provider space that lead to better partnerships.

Steve Mullin is President of the Washington Roundtable, a public policy research and advocacy group comprised of senior executives from major private sector employers in Washington state. He is responsible for providing overall strategic direction for the organization and manages its agenda development process, budget, staff, communications, government affairs and member relations. Steve joined the Roundtable in 1996, previously serving as the organization’s Vice President. Prior to joining the Roundtable, Steve served as founding Executive Director of Partnership for Learning, a business-supported non-profit organization dedicated to building public awareness and understanding about the need to better prepare Washington’s students for college and the world of work. He has also worked for several local public affairs consulting firms, as a U.S. Senate staff member in Washington, D.C., and as a legislative staff member in Olympia. Steve is a graduate of Middlebury College and the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs.

David Nosacka is the Division Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. He is an integral member of the Executive Leadership Team with more than 25 years of progressive financial leadership and will ensure their system meets and exceeds financial goals to the service and benefit of their patients and communities. David has an extensive and impressive career having held numerous leadership roles in both for profit and nonprofit organizations throughout the country. Most recently, he joined them from Hospital Sisters Health System in Springfield, Illinois, where he served as the Division Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Over the past two decades, he has held leadership roles with HCA Healthcare/Triad Hospitals in Plano, Texas; Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska; and several other large, integrated health care systems ranging from critical access hospitals to academic medical centers. David is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He and his wife have three children ages 24, 18 and 15. Originally from Louisiana, he enjoys fishing, live music, travel, cooking, and spending time with his family.

Laura Reding is the Managing Director of SEIU 775 Benefits Group Health Benefits Trust. She leads the policy, operations, and strategy of a Taft-Hartley Trust delivering health and wellness benefits to more than 55,000 home care workers in Washington state. In a historic first, the Health Benefits Trust expanded medical and dental coverage to the children of 23,000 home care workers under her leadership. Laura has 20 years of healthcare experience including care delivery, benefit purchasing and administration, utilization management, and healthcare operations. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Science in Counseling from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and earned her Master in Business Administration from the University of Washington.