Callie is an award-winning, cross-sector leader with deep expertise connecting organizational mission to areas of opportunity. She is also a birth and death doula, bringing a rare blend of systems-level strategy and deeply human care to everything she builds.

She was hand-picked to launch the first Office of Social Responsibility at the world’s largest healthcare company, where she led a $22M investment strategy to close critical research gaps and elevate the fields of maternal and women’s health. Her work has consistently bridged social impact and business outcomes, including developing community interventions that unlocked $3B in revenue for a Fortune 5 company while positioning the brand as a credible thought leader in impact. Across sectors and stages, Callie is known for turning complex challenges into bold, actionable strategies, and building the coalitions needed to make them real.

Carrie Nixon is a healthcare innovation attorney and the Founder and Managing Partner of Nixon Law Group. Alongside her colleagues at NLG, she works with digital health, virtual care, and AI-enabled healthcare companies as they build, scale, and navigate complex regulatory and reimbursement landscapes. She was drawn to this work after observing a consistent pattern early in her career: truly innovative companies often struggle not because their ideas lack merit, but because regulatory, compliance, and payment systems were not designed with innovation in mind.

Over time, serving as counsel to founders and growth-stage teams has shaped her view of legal strategy as a business enabler rather than a barrier. She believes the strongest outcomes come from practical, values-driven collaboration, intellectual honesty about risk, and helping teams understand not only what the rules are, but how to use them thoughtfully to support sustainable growth and better patient care.

Shalen De Silva is an operator and leader in Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care, helping fast-growing healthcare companies uncover the truths and tactics required to bring innovative solutions to market for the 140 million Americans covered by Medicaid or Medicare.

He works closely with founders to validate strategy and accelerate commercialization by connecting them directly with MCO and payer executives, decision-makers, and industry operators. His work spans Medicaid waivers, procurement cycles, quality initiatives, supplemental and flex benefit vendor channels, and other pathways to scale products and services in managed care. He is also known for offering unfiltered, practical guidance on company building, governance, fundraising, and product development.

Dennis M. Sponer began his career as in-house counsel to one of Nevada's largest Managed Care Organizations and shortly thereafter founded one of the first workers' compensation-specific Pharmacy Benefit Managers. He is passionate about founder-led startups and entrepreneurship. Through his consultancy, SRX Advisors, he serves as a fractional general counsel and advisor to several healthcare companies and VC firms.

He is licensed as an attorney in California and Nevada and is a senior advisor to Connected Capital, a London-based UK FCA-regulated advisory firm. He is a thought leader in the legal, health-tech, biotech, pharmaceutical and startup worlds. Sponer devised his first PBM, ScripNet, as a payer-based technological solution to the pharmaceutical payment and remittance challenge. Sponer sold ScripNet to Optum Healthcare Solutions in 2012. His latest venture, HSARx, was a consumer-facing pharmacy benefit manager serving health savings account owners. He sold HSARx to SwiftScript in October of 2023.

Clem Foltz, FSA, is a healthcare actuary and value strategist who translates clinical impact into payer-aligned financial outcomes. As Founder of Momentum Actuary, he helps healthcare organizations position their solutions within real-world budget constraints, using CFO-level decision frameworks to connect innovation with economic viability.

Clem specializes in aligning clinical value with the financial realities facing health plans and risk-bearing providers. He works at the intersection of actuarial science, analytics, and value-based care, helping companies quantify impact, navigate risk arrangements, and articulate clear return-on-investment stories that resonate with payer executives and finance leaders. Across his work, Clem is known for bringing analytical rigor to complex healthcare challenges. His approach blends actuarial discipline with practical strategy, helping healthcare leaders make confident, data-driven decisions in high-stakes environments.