Leaders

Counsel from executives who built a legacy, for the ones building theirs.

Our leaders have run a nearly 270-provider medical group, founded and sold a healthcare consultancy, led product innovation for a Fortune 5 healthcare company, and led marketing for a large not-for-profit health system.

Michael Alden
CEO

Michael Alden

Michael led product innovation for a Fortune 5 healthcare company and has co-founded three healthcare companies.

He has helped raise multiple rounds of angel and venture funding, had companies acquired, and helped bring numerous transformative products to market for tens of millions of people. Michael specializes in bringing the future into focus and helping organizations capture value from product innovation.

Travis Dowell
SVP, Physician Enterprise Strategy

Travis Dowell

FHFMA · FACHE · FACMPE

Most recently, Travis was President and CEO of Memorial Medical Group, a nearly 270-provider multi-specialty network across central Illinois, where he converted multiple locations to rural health and FQHC status.

Under his leadership, the group earned Patient-Centered Medical Home designations and multiple Employer of Choice awards, grew through recruitment, added urgent care locations and retail clinics, and adopted virtual products using AI.

Travis began his career as a cost accountant implementing a decision support and cost accounting system at Memorial Health. He went on to direct the health system's general finance department before taking the lead operational role at Memorial Medical Group in 1996.

He holds a degree in Finance and Accounting from Millikin University, an MBA from the University of Illinois Springfield, and fellowships with HFMA, ACHE, and MGMA.

Jeff Miller
SVP, Clinical Technology

Jeff Miller

Jeff founded Navvis Health Care in the mid-1990s, grew it into a category leader in competitive strategy execution, and sold it to Healthways in 2011. He stayed on to help lead Healthways' population health strategy and business intelligence work with large integrated health systems.

As CEO and Board Member of Intellivisit, Inc., Jeff led the company from a team of founders to a commercially scaled enterprise in AI-assisted care delivery and patient navigation. In May 2023, he helped facilitate the merger of Intellivisit and Urgent Care Partners to create Intellivisit Solutions.

Over 33 years as a senior health advisor, Jeff has specialized in strategies that harmonize process, people, and technology, including how to identify, evaluate, and deploy the technology and decision support that meet a health system's strategic objectives.

Shelly Washburn
SVP, Brand & Marketing

Shelly Washburn

Shelly led the marketing efforts for a large not-for-profit health system and rebranded a central Illinois-based medical school and academic physician practice into one singular identity.

She also drove profitable growth with go-to-market strategies for an Illinois-based community bank, resulting in 20% year-over-year growth on the company's balance sheet. Shelly is a strategic marketing leader with 25 years of experience in healthcare, academic medicine, and financial services, specializing in brand growth through integrated marketing campaigns.

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