President

Dan Ross

Dan Ross co-founded CareJourney in 2014 and has dedicated over a decade to leading the company’s growth and developing market-leading value-based care analytics to transform healthcare. He has shaped CareJourney from a services firm into a healthcare SaaS and data products business with nearly 100 customers in value-based care, and helped the company win Deloitte’s 2022 Technology Fast 500 award.

Dan began his career as one of the first 100 employees of MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and went on to run enterprise BI services business Claraview (now a division of Teradata, NYSE: TDC). He co-founded Clarabridge in 2005, which was acquired by Qualtrics for $1.1B in 2021 and subsequently taken private by Silver Lake. Dan’s 30-year career in technology has been entirely focused on enterprise analytics software and services, with the last 10 years focused on healthcare.

Dan was a 2022 Mid-Atlantic Finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award and a Washingtonian Magazine “Tech Titans” honoree since 2018. He serves on the board of the Falls Church Education Foundation for Falls Church City Public Schools and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Chief Strategy Officer of Arcadia

Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra is the Chief Strategy Officer of Arcadia, a health data platform that acquired CareJourney, the company he co-founded in 2014.

He served as the first U.S. CTO (2009-2012) and authored “Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government” (2014).

He serves on the Boards of IntegraConnect, Virginia Center for Health Innovation, and Chairs the George Mason Innovation Advisory Council. He earned his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University.

Chief Operating Officer

Kevin Sheldon

Kevin Sheldon joined CareJourney in February 2017 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of CareJourney by Arcadia. He oversees several functions across growth, customer success, and corporate operations. Before joining CareJourney, Kevin had a long career in digital marketing and business intelligence for start-ups and large companies. He led strategic planning, marketing analytics, and audience development for some of the largest digital brands in the world including AOL.com, The Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. Kevin received an MBA from the William E. Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, and a bachelor’s degree in MIS from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Kevin served as President of RIT’s Alumni Association Board of Directors and as a Trustee on RIT’s Board of Directors. Kevin received the Mark Zupan Award for Building Alumni Community from the Simon School of Business in 2017.

VP, Product Strategy & Analytics

Dr. Chris Lester

Chris Lester joined CareJourney in February 2017 and is serving as the VP of Product Strategy & Analytics. In this role, he oversees the development of novel algorithms that power CareJourney’s products as well as CareJourney’s research goals and partnerships. Chris comes to CareJourney from Equate Analytics, a company dedicated to helping consumers explore health insurance options, where he led their search engine marketing and data science efforts. Before that, Chris was an Office of Science Graduate Fellow at the Department Energy sifting through peta-bytes of data for new particle signatures at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. His efforts contributed to the discovery of the Higgs Boson, a particle central to the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Chris received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Experimental Particle Physics and B.S from Duke University in Physics and German Literature.

VP, Member Services

Katie Mulrean

Katie joined CareJourney in February 2017 and currently serves as CareJourney’s VP of Member Services, overseeing a team of analysts, senior analysts and program managers who are both technical and client-facing. In this capacity, Katie oversees all of the company’s customer satisfaction initiatives, account management activities and data analytic services. Katie has over 10 years of experience specializing in data analytics, client relationship management, process improvement, and project management. Katie comes to CareJourney from Equate Analytics, a company dedicated to helping consumers explore health insurance options, where she led the first-party digital marketing team. Prior, Katie worked as a data auditor in the public sector designing tests of ETL processing and supervising high-risk audits. Katie holds an MS in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University and a BA in Mathematics and History from Washington College.

Vice President of Engineering

Jake Selby

Jake joined CareJourney in December 2016 and serves as the company’s Vice President of Engineering. In this role he oversees planning and implementation of engineering development projects, contributes to architectural guidelines and design of scalable solutions, and manages CareJourney’s various technologies and systems. Jake comes to CareJourney from the Democratic National Committee, where he served as Data Engineer in charge of data pipelines and workflows for the data services, voter file, and data science teams. Prior to that he worked at 270 Strategies as Deputy Data Director, where he built and managed data systems for a variety of projects and engagements. Jake holds a BA in Analytical Philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Vice President of Analytics

Chris Freyder

Chris Freyder joined CareJourney in September 2018 and currently serves as Vice President of Analytics at CareJourney by Arcadia. In this role, Chris oversees the development of all analytics powering the CareJourney suite of products and services. Chris comes to CareJourney from Highmark Health, a national blended health organization, where he worked inside the IDFS Actuarial department specializing in combining claims and EHR data to curate episodes of care and provider rankings. Chris received a MS from the University of Pittsburgh in Biostatistics and B.S. from West Virginia University in Industrial Math and Statistics.

Vice President of Partnerships

Niklas Kubasek

Nik Kubasek serves as Vice President of Partnerships at CareJourney and is responsible for joint go-to-market and channel distribution strategy for CareJourney’s analytics products. Prior to joining CareJourney, Nik spent the last decade in revenue, strategy, and business development leadership roles at early-stage startups, most recently scaling revenue operations at CareDash.com. Before that, Nik led business development, account management, and compliance at Cogo Labs, a Cambridge, MA-based technology incubator that centralizes access to data, technology and analytics to empower entrepreneurs to scale their businesses profitably. Nik holds a BA in Economics and German from Tufts University.

VP, Sales & Strategic Services

Sam Tye

Sam Tye joined CareJourney in May 2022 and currently serves as Vice President of Sales and Strategic Services at CareJourney by Arcadia. She oversees sales and delivery of professional services engagements. Her team specializes in topics including Medicare alternative payment models, Medicare Advantage, risk adjustment and high-value specialty care. Before joining CareJourney, Sam was the Director of Policy and Solutions Management at Archway Health, a company focused on helping healthcare providers succeed in risk-based payment models. She also spent time at Public Consulting Group, where she specialized in hospital cost reporting and alternative payment model consulting projects for public-sector clients. Sam received an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and bachelors’ degrees in Community Health and Psychology from Tufts University.