Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr. is the Chairman and CEO of Winkenwerder Strategies, a healthcare advisory and investment firm. He is an influential and very well recognized leader in American healthcare, with experience in medical care, healthcare finance and health insurance operations. Dr. Winkenwerder currently serves on the board of directors for several healthcare technology and services firms.

Dr. Winkenwerder served as Chief Executive Officer of Highmark Inc. till May 2014. Highmark is among the ten largest US health insurers and is the third largest integrated financing and delivery system, with $17.5 billion in annual revenues, based in Pittsburgh, PA, operating Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in three states and a $2.5 billion integrated hospital-physician network in western PA.

From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Winkenwerder served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs handling 132,000 personnel, 9.2 million beneficiaries worldwide and an annual budget of $40 billion. Before that, he held senior leadership positions at Blue Cross of Massachusetts, Prudential Healthcare and Emory University. Dr. Winkenwerder is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a board-certified physician who has practiced primary care medicine.

Dr. Winkenwerder graduated from the Davidson College and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He received his Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

As the Chief Executive Officer of CitiusTech, Bhaskar Sambasivan focuses on accelerating healthcare digital transformation and technology solutions to address key challenges and priorities across the healthcare ecosystem. Mr. Sambasivan comes with over 30 years of experience in healthcare, life sciences and digital technology services. He was, most recently, President of Patient Services and Chief Strategy Officer of EVERSANA, a leading Life Sciences company focused on end-to-end next-generation pharmaceutical product commercialization solutions. Under his leadership, Cognizant’s Life Sciences business grew over thirty-fold in 15 years. Prior to EVERSANA, he spent close to 15 years at Cognizant and was the Global Head of Life Sciences. Earlier, Mr. Sambasivan spent many years with Siebel/Oracle and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He has been recognized by Pharma Voice group as one of the most 100 influential and inspirational leaders in Life Sciences industry both in 2017 and 2018. He is an active sponsor of many outreach programs, which helps provide education and facilities to children and students around the world. He is also a board member for an online digital learning company.

Mr. Sambasivan is an author and demonstrates a personal commitment to social outreach, diversity, and academic enrichment. He has a Master’s Degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

As Chief Operating Officer of CitiusTech, Atul Soneja works closely with the organizational leadership to strengthen CitiusTech’s delivery organization, including its proficiency teams, talent development and quality management processes, to ensure world-class quality, scalability and service delivery excellence.

Mr. Soneja has over 26 years’ experience in building and scaling technology products and services organizations across the globe. Before joining CitiusTech, Atul was the Global Head of EdgeVerve, a subsidiary of Infosys that focused on AI and automation products and platforms.

Prior to EdgeVerve, he handled multi-billion-Dollar IT services businesses at Infosys, across multiple industry verticals like Financial Services, Manufacturing and Retail. Atul has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.

Eric Schultz is Executive Vice President, CitiusTech and President, FluidEdge Consulting (a CitiusTech Company), a specialized healthcare consulting company.

Prior to joining CitiusTech, Mr. Schultz was President and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. for over eight years. Under his leadership, Harvard Pilgrim was consistently ranked among America’s highest-rated health plans by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Previously, he was President and CEO of Fallon Community Health Plan for 10 years. He also held executive positions with CIGNA Healthcare and Prudential Healthcare.

Mr. Schultz serves on the board of the Kenneth Schwartz Center, and previously served as Chair of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans (MAHP).

He has an MBA in Healthcare Leadership from the Yale School of Management and Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Economics from the University of Connecticut.

Chris Simchick has over 30 years of experience in the IT consulting industry and is a co-founder of SDLC Partners and CyLumena. He is responsible for business strategy and operations, vision and direction of the firm, building the leadership team, and developing strategies for employee development. Chris is an active member in the business community, participating with the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and serving on the Business Climate and Tax Committee. Since 2009, he has been an active board member of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, which is the largest council of its kind in the U.S. He serves on their executive, public policy and finance committees. Chris has visited lawmakers in congress and the presidential staff at the White House, speaking on the importance of a robust technology community and championing for issues related to immigration reform, taxation, and the creation of incentives to support a strong innovation and start-up technology community in the Pittsburgh region and throughout the U.S.

Chris is an experienced leader with a significant portion of his career focused on building and scaling businesses, sales strategy, and operational execution in the highly competitive consulting services sector. He has gained an exceptional understanding of the challenges and constraints faced by clients and brings a breadth of industry experience, enabling him to provide informed and hard-won guidance and advisory services to other leaders building and executing sales and operational strategies.

Having co-founded CitiusTech in 2005, Rizwan Koita served as its Chief Executive Officer till October 2021. Under his leadership, CitiusTech became one of the fastest growing healthcare technology solutions providers, serving more than 120 leading healthcare organizations worldwide, and crossing over $300 Mn in annualized revenues.

Before CitiusTech, Mr. Koita was the CEO and founder of TransWorks (now part of Concentrix), a leading BPO with over 15,000 employees today. Earlier, he was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Co., where he consulted transnational clients on growth and operations strategy. His philanthropic venture, Koita Foundation, helps NGOs scale by leveraging technology and digital transformation. He actively supports the Koita Centre for Digital Health at IIT Bombay.

Mr. Koita is a winner of the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2013. He received IIT Bombay's Distinguished Alumni Award 2019. He is also a recipient of the Indo-American Society's ‘Young Achievers Award in Business.’ He has a Master’s Degree in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

Jagdish Moorjani is the co-founder of CitiusTech. He served as Chief Operating Officer of CitiusTech till October 2021, and built an exceptional 5,400+ professionals organization, responsible for all CitiusTech services, solutions and platforms. Mr. Moorjani has 20+ years of experience in the area of technology delivery and outsourced services. Prior to CitiusTech, he was the co-founder and COO of TransWorks (now part of Concentrix), a leading BPO with over 15,000 employees today.

Mr. Moorjani has earned his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) where he earned the Institute Medal for ranking first in his graduating class. He received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied towards his Master’s degree in Engineering. Mr. Moorjani also has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Mumbai University. Mr. Moorjani is also involved in several not-for-profit initiatives in his personal capacity.