Featured Speakers

Michael J. Critelli, Executive Chairman, Pitney Bowes Inc.

Employer Initiatives in Advancing Value-Driven Health Care
Wednesday, November 14
8:45 am – 9:45 am

Michael J. Critelli, now executive chairman of Pitney Bowes Inc., had been the chairman and chief executive officer of the organization, a $5.6 billion mailstream solutions company, since January 1, 1997. During the 30 years since he completed his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin and was awarded a JD, cum laude at Harvard Law School, he has had a distinguished career as a company, industry, and community leader.
Since becoming chairman of Pitney Bowes, Critelli has led the company through a period of unprecedented transformation and growth, and firmly established its leadership in global mail and document markets. During his 27-year tenure, Critelli has served in various capacities at the company, including vice chairman, president of financial services, secretary and general counsel, and chief personnel officer.  

His leadership also extends to health care and healthy communities, diversity, corporate governance and ethics, talent development, and transportation. Critelli’s passion and expertise in these areas have led to both personal and company awards and recognition. He currently serves as the chairman of the board for three non-profit organizations. Critelli is in his third term as chairman of the National Urban League Board of Trustees. He is also chairman of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Advisory Board, which is a center of excellence for the study and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Jacob S. Hacker, Professor of Political Science at Yale and a Fellow at the New America Foundation

Will Health Care Reform Happen, and What Will It Look Like?
Tuesday, November 13
9:00 am – 10:00 am

Jacob S. Hacker is a professor of Political Science and resident fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is also a fellow at the New America Foundation and a former junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. His most recent books are The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back (publication date: October 2006) and Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (with Paul Pierson). Currently, he is heading a Social Science Research Council project on the "privatization of risk," co-chairing the National Academy of Social Insurance's 2007 conference, and completing two books: Inequality and American Politics: Participation, Power, and Policy (Norton, 2007) and an edited volume on the politics of inequality and insecurity in the United States (with Joe Soss and Suzanne Mettler).

He is also the author of The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security (Princeton University Press, 1997), which was co-winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration; and The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which, as a dissertation, received prizes from the American Political Science Association, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the National Academy of Social Insurance.

His articles and opinion pieces have appeared in the American Political Science Review; the American Prospect; the Boston Globe; the Boston Review; the British Journal of Political Science; Perspectives on Politics; Politics and Society; Studies in American Political Development; the International Journal of Social Welfare; the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; the New Republic; The New York Times; the Nation; the Los Angeles Times; the Boston Globe; and The Washington Post.

Regina E. Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair, Harvard Business School, and Author, Who Killed Health Care 

Curing America’s Health Care Crisis
Wednesday, November 14
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards. She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care and health care focused factories, two terms that she coined.

Herzlinger is a leading advocate of market-driven, consumer-oriented health reform.  She has written three books on health care reform, including most recently, Who Killed Health Care? This book is more than just an assault on the forces that are driving up health care costs, driving down the number of people who are covered, and degrading patient care. It is also a manifesto, a powerful argument for consumer-driven reforms that already are transforming the system. Herzlinger’s other books are Consumer-Driven Health Care and Market-Driven Health Care.

Her research has been profiled in industry journals and business publications such as The Economist and Fortune. She was elected one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare," Modern Healthcare, 2004, 2003. She was named the first CIMA Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Managed Healthcare selected her as one of health care's top ten thinkers. Last, Herzlinger was elected by her students as one of the outstanding instructors of the Harvard Business School MBA Class.

She received her Bachelor's Degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Doctorate from the Harvard Business School.

 

Barry Mason, Vice President, Global Healthcare Payers, IBM

Transformative IT: Driving Quality, Cost, and Efficiency in the Health Care System
Tuesday, November 13
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Barry Mason has been with IBM for 26 years and currently serves as Vice President, Global Healthcare Payers. He joined the IBM team in 1981 as a systems engineer, progressing through a variety of sales, management, and large complex project management positions focused on national and international corporate clients. Barry has held multiple executive positions where he was responsible for driving IBM business transformational solutions and leading IBM’s strategic relationship development.

In 1996 Barry was promoted to Managing Director, and was designated one of IBM’s top 50 executives who direct teams responsible for implementation of client-centered technology solutions. He has led a consulting practice focusing on data analytics and customer relationship management in the retail and banking industries. He was promoted to Vice President in 2004.

He has deep expertise in the payer healthcare industry and brings to his view of healthcare a rich background in both the retail and the banking industry. Barry is also the senior location executive for the Twin Cities IBM offices.

 

Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President Health Solutions Group, Microsoft Corp.

Transformative IT: Driving Quality, Cost, and Efficiency in the Health Care System
Tuesday, November 13
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

As corporate vice president for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp., Peter Neupert is responsible for Microsoft’s collaboration with the health care ecosystem to address global infrastructure issues of significant scale. Under his strategic direction, the Health Solutions Group is developing applications and solutions for clinical and business requirements of health care professionals in the enterprise, which enable improved personal health management for consumers.

Before rejoining Microsoft, Neupert served as president and chief executive officer of Drugstore.com Inc. from July 1998 to April 2001, and then as chairman of the board of directors from July 1999 to September 2004. Neupert led Drugstore.com to become a top online retail store and information site for health, wellness, beauty, and pharmacy products. Neupert served in various capacities at Microsoft from 1987 to 1998. He started at Microsoft as the director of operating systems responsible for shipping OS/2, and later was responsible for MSNBC as vice president of News and Publishing for the interactive media group. 

Neupert served on President Bush’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 2003 to 2005. On that committee, he co-chaired the Health Information Technology subcommittee and helped drive the report “Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology,” published in June 2004 by PITAC. In 2000, Neupert received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for his work at Drugstore.com. He is an active member of the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine and sits on the Pacific Health Summit Advisory Board, as well as the boards of infiLearn.com and Cranium, Inc. Neupert holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s degree from Colorado College. 

 

Andy Slavitt, Chief Executive Officer, Ingenix

Transformative IT: Driving Quality, Cost, and Efficiency in the Health Care System
Tuesday, November 13
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Andy Slavitt is chief executive officer of Ingenix, a leading health information and technology company with over 5,500 people in over 45 countries worldwide. Before joining Ingenix in 2005 as chief operating officer, Slavitt served as chief executive officer of the consumer solutions business of UnitedHealth Group. He was responsible for leading consumer-driven health care, consumer portal development, and other initiatives to serve consumers and the uninsured. Previously, Slavitt was the founder and chief executive officer of HealthAllies, one of the first consumer health care benefits companies, which was acquired by UnitedHealth Group in 2003. Slavitt has also served as chief operating officer and director of Paula Financial, an employee benefits insurance company; a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company; and an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. Slavitt is a magna cum laude graduate of the Wharton School and The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, and an honors graduate of the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. 

 

Amy Walter, Editor in Chief of The Hotline

Insider Perspectives on the Changing Political Landscape
Wednesday, November 14
10:15 am - 11:15 am

Amy Walter is one of the nation’s top political forecasters. She has been successfully handicapping U.S. House races since she received The Washington Post’s Crystal Ball award for her spot-on predictions in 2000. As editor in chief of The Hotline, the National Journal Group’s online briefing on politics and policies, she is the publication’s primary voice.

Walter was dubbed one of the most powerful people in politics in George magazine for her insights into the mechanics that make the political machine run. She has served as a political analyst for CNN and as a panelist and commentator on CBS’ Face the Nation, Meet the Press (NBC), Washington Journal (C-SPAN), The NewsHour (PBS), and the CBS Early Show. She provided election night commentary for CNN in 2002, 2004, and 2006. Walter is frequently quoted as a congressional election expert in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Walter contributes to National Journal magazine and CongressDaily. She provided election night analysis for Voter News Service in 1998 and 2000. She also speaks to numerous organizations about elections. She has served as an adjunct professor at the School of Communications at American University. She was formerly a political director of the Women’s Campaign Fund. She concluded a banner decade operating as a senior editor of The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan publication renowned for providing some of the nation’s most respected and intuitive political analysis.