Mission: Catalyze action to achieve human health, equity, and well-being
Vision: Achieving whole person and whole community health by accelerating the transition to fully accountable value-based care for underserved Americans.
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Taking on moonshot challenges by identifying threads of common sense, actionable strategies, that builds to a movement for sustainable change.
Strategies developed through collaboration within a diverse group of professionals with wide range of lived experiences, sharing a passion to address big problems to improve the lives of underserved Americans enabling a path to independence.
Thirty years of being struck by the irony of food loss in the fresh produce industry, intractable food insecurity, escalating obesity and the devastating human and finical toll of diet related chronic diseases, driven by the quest for a better way.
Drawn by a vision of addressing huge problems most impacting historically underserved individuals and communities through a common-sense sustainable economic model, capable of scaling quickly.
Motivated by the challenge of designing a purpose built 4.0 health tech organization with people at its core to achieve the company’s vision. Catalyzing a community-based effort around a clear mission that naturally draws together a truly diverse group of exceptionally talented people collaborating toward a shared big vision. The culture of innovation, exploration, and outcomes that people want be involved in creating. The opportunity for an encore purpose!
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A fruit lover as a child laid the path to a career in the fresh produce industry. The common theme over my 45-year career was the drive to increase the consumption of fresh produce. A natural curiosity, stubborn persistence driven by innovation, resulted in a career spent making a market vs selling in a market. In 1980, led a Stanford Business School case study on the consumer impact of fresh cut produce. 1985, key architect in the formation of Markon, an industry leading produce buying coop established by early adopter broadline foodservice distributors incorporating fresh produce in their offer. 2007, led a Harvard Business School case study on forming an alliance of competitors to execute a branded taste strategy to increase consumption of tree fruit. In 2012, recognized as an “Innovator of the Year” by the National Restaurant Association for increasing consumption of ready to eat, single serve fresh grapes year-round in schools nationally.
Over my career I have been struck by the irony of food loss at the production level, persistent food insecurity and escalating obesity. In 2012, I was asked to join United Way’s campaign to “systemically end” food insecurity in Maricopa County AZ, chaired by Derrick Hall the CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks. During this time, working with the nation’s first food bank and last mile social needs organizations, Derrick shared with me “that to systemically change anything there must be an economic model.” This proved to be true and has driven my search since then for such an economic model to increase fresh produce consumption of 120 million underserved Americans. A search that has led to the need and opportunity to accelerate the transition to fully accountable value-based care.
Over my career I have been struck by the irony of food loss at the production level, persistent food insecurity and escalating obesity. In 2012, I was asked to join United Way’s campaign to “systemically end” food insecurity in Maricopa County AZ, chaired by Derrick Hall the CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks. During this time, working with the nation’s first food bank and last mile social needs organizations, Derrick shared with me “that to systemically change anything there must be an economic model.” This proved to be true and has driven my search since then for such an economic model to increase fresh produce consumption of 120 million underserved Americans. A search that has led to the need and opportunity to accelerate the transition to fully accountable value-based care.
