Equality Health Leadership - Equality Health

Leadership

Hugh Lytle

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer

A serial entrepreneur and self-described healthcare rebel, Hugh has a passion for disrupting an undesirable status-quo. With more than 25 years of executive healthcare leadership experience, he’s focused on developing groundbreaking healthcare solutions like the work being done at Equality Health. Read More »

Brandon Clark

Chief Strategy Officer

An accomplished community health executive, Brandon brings more than a decade of experience in healthcare strategy, finance, and operations to Equality Health. He was drawn to Equality Health because of its disruptive vision, diverse team, and passion to transform the healthcare experience for underserved populations. Read more »

Garrett Black

Chief Operating Officer

Garrett brings an exceptional track record of developing high-performing, diverse leadership teams and managing large-scale clinical and business operations within both provider and health plan organizations to Equality Health. Read more »

Brian Fischer

Chief Financial Officer

Brian Fischer, a certified public accountant and expert in managed-care finances, has thrived during his 25 years in healthcare management. He has extensive insight into developing, evaluating and operating Medicaid, Medicare and commercial managed care organizations and contributed to the award and start-up of numerous health plan ventures and the evaluation and acquisition/sale of multiple health plans. Read more »

Mark Besh

Chief Growth Officer

Mark focuses on thoughtful and profitable “quality growth” strategies at Equality Health with a particular focus on value creation. His impressive track record in the healthcare sector has led to the formation of publicly traded companies, and his stewardship in the institutional investment business helped skyrocket the growth of assets under management.
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Beverly Tanabe

Chief Marketing Officer

Beverly excels in driving revenue growth using marketing, sales, business development, and communications strategies. Drawing on her award-winning experience in healthcare marketing, she applies entrepreneurial approaches to catapult brands, products, and services. Read more »

Ruth Gutierrez Hafoka

Chief Human Resource Officer

Ruth is a business leader who advocates for talent and takes pride in her ability to translate business strategies into innovative yet pragmatic talent strategies. Throughout her career, she has successfully led significant cultural transformations that enable growth, while ensuring that personnel decisions advance an inclusive and innovative environment.
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Lisa Stevens Anderson

Arizona Market President

Lisa is a healthcare veteran who has served in executive leadership roles in the Valley for 25+ years. She made the switch to Equality Health because she wanted to “align her personal and professional mission and values to improve the health of the community” with a like-minded organization. She’s excited about providing the resources that allow people to control their own destinies. Read more »

Craig Gaites

Texas Market President

Craig serves as the strategic leader of Equality Health’s Texas market. He is responsible for coordination across the technology, product, and commercial functions to continually refine and deliver high quality solutions to enhance care coordination, care gap management, and member experience to both payers and providers. Read more »

Mark Stephan, MD

Chief Medical Officer

A mission-driven physician, Mark believes the greatest impact to be had is helping those who have the least. He says patients should “drive their own bus” and feels strongly about providing patient advocacy and education. His intense interest is in improving integrated medicine and care delivery systems for providers and patients. Read more »

Todd Galloway

Chief Actuarial Officer

With a penchant for turning complex challenges into intuitive understanding and opportunities, Todd has inherent expertise in optimizing health plan performance. His accumulated knowledge from managing physical, behavioral and long-term care products in the Medicaid, Medicare and commercial markets and experience in operational, financial, medical and marketing departments has shaped his firm belief that healthcare entities cannot run optimally without integrated business intelligence solutions among departments.
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Tomás León

President, Equality Health Foundation

Tomás has been a lifelong advocate for advancing diversity and inclusion, bringing more than two decades of experience in community mobilization, health equity, policy advocacy, and marketing communications to his role at Equality Health. He says the company mission aligns with his purpose in life—advocating for people left behind—and his role allows him to “bring all of who he is to work.” Read more »

Anabell Castro Thompson, NP

Senior Vice President, Health Equity

A 20-year industry veteran and Latino advocate, Anabell was previously founder and director of the Hispanic program within the largest non-profit Hospice in the nation. She currently is the Immediate Past President of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. Her vision encompasses transforming healthcare delivery for vulnerable populations through advocacy, public policy and implementation of culturally congruent models of care—all with the goal of fostering healthy, equitable communities. Read more »

Sharla Fisher

Senior Vice President, Client Engagement

With over 25 years of healthcare experience and a passion for making a difference, Sharla brings a plethora of experience and insight to Equality Health in her role as Senior Vice President of Client Engagement. Her accomplished background includes building large-scale strategic partnerships, developing and leading executive-level sales teams, and creating innovative, value-based solutions. Read more »

Claire Zimmerman Nichols

Vice President, Product Innovation

Claire Zimmerman joined the Equality Health team in 2018 and serves as Vice President of Product Innovation. She works closely with Equality Health’s partners to drive product strategy and ensure successful delivery and adoption of Equality Health’s technology solutions throughout the U.S.
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