Primary Job Title Chairman and CEO Primary Organization 
Essence Group Holdings
Gender Male
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An entrepreneur in health care, financial services and energy, Mike has led teams that built Continuum, a multi-billion dollar global leader in insurance software; Healtheon/WebMD, the largest consumer health information and transaction clearinghouse (chronicled in Michael Lewis’ best-seller, The New, New Thing); and NEOS, a solutions-oriented
geosciences company that is leading the field in multi-measurement interpretation (of geo-datasets) and imaging of the earth’s subsurface. Today, Mike is leading Essence Healthcare and Lumeris. Essence operates health care’s most effective virtual integrated delivery network (vIDN) for accountable care. Lumeris delivers technologies, methodologies and learnings to hospitals, payers and physicians committed to delivering high-quality, low-cost and high-satisfaction accountable health care services. Essence/Lumeris’ purpose is to slow the growth of health care’s $2.6 trillion in expenses while simultaneously improving clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. Mike and his wife, Betty, are equestrians and their three children are rapidly progressing their entrepreneurial careers in food distribution, energy and health care.
