Advantmed

A passion for improving healthcare for all.

Our leadership team. Your dedicated partners.

There’s no substitute for experience. At Advantmed, our leadership team bring a unique perspective developed in the trenches of healthcare, working alongside health plans and providers to solve complex challenges and improve outcomes. Our expertise is diverse, but our passion is unified: to help our clients improve their clinical and financial performance so that they can help people enjoy healthier lives.
Akash Patel
Chief Executive Officer

Akash Patel is the co-founder and CEO of Advantmed. In 2005, Akash and Jignesh Patel founded the company with a vision of helping Managed Care Organizations optimize risk adjustment scores and quality improvement. Prior to launching Advantmed, Akash served as Chief Financial Officer for medical record retrieval, consumer electronics, and business process outsourcing organizations. In addition to his work at Advantmed, Akash serves on the board for Aluratek, a digital technology company.

Akash holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business from California Polytechnic State University of Pomona and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State of California. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, sports, and spending time with his wife, two children, and his extended family.

Toby Thomas
President

Toby brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and technology environments, growing businesses, developing and implementing strategy, shaping business models, structuring partnerships, raising capital, and building organizational capability in high-growth environments. Prior to Advantmed, he spent six years at ConcertoHealth as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President and has held executive leadership positions at several other healthcare organizations, including Advanced ICU Care, Autism Spectrum Therapies, and Cogent Healthcare.

Toby graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles and received his BA in business economics.

John Spitz
Chief Revenue Officer

John Spitz is the Chief Revenue Officer of Advantmed where he is responsible for the Sales, Marketing, and Client Success Departments. Prior to joining Advantmed, John held senior leadership roles at Inovalon and Constellation Energy where he led teams focused on sales, product development and execution, account management, technology, and general management.

John is a graduate of the University of Delaware and has earned the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America. In his free time, he enjoys camping, traveling, and spending time with his wife and two sons.

Jignesh Patel, PharmD
Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Patel is a co-founder of Advantmed. He brings more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience and has spent more than 15 years building, managing, and leading operations. As Chief Operating Officer, Jig oversees our operations with a focus on continually improving and scaling our business to better serve our clients, create efficiencies, and drive results. Prior to founding Advantmed, Jig worked in operations for CVS.

Jig holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of the Pacific.

Nazeer Khan, MD
Chief Medical Officer

As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Khan provides clinical expertise to inform and support our solutions, our operations, and our growth initiatives. A licensed internal medicine physician with 20 years of clinical and healthcare administration experience, Dr. Khan has held a number of executive roles within a variety of healthcare organizations, including primary care centers, a diagnostic center, independent physician associations (IPAs), management service organizations (MSOs), third party administrators (TPAs), retail and wholesale pharmacy, telehealth, a clinical trials company, Medicare Advantage Part-D (MAPD) HMOs, as well as, a global FDA registered health and wellness company. He also has worked closely with CMS and NCQA.

He received an undergraduate degree from Knox College and completed his MD at Rush Medical College. Dr. Khan currently holds medical licenses in multiple states.

Melissa Ritz
Senior Vice President, Client Success

Melissa Ritz is the SVP of Client Success at Advantmed, where she is responsible for ensuring the health and success of our client partnerships. Prior to joining Advantmed, Melissa held senior leadership roles at Teladoc Health and Inovalon where she led teams focused on government payer strategy, sales, client success, product management and execution. Before diving into value-based care programs, Melissa spent several years in life sciences where she worked with Amgen, Genentech, and Medtronic.

Melissa studied Business and Mass Communications at Colorado State and Towson Universities, is a member of CHIEF, and consults young start-ups in the Baltimore area. In her free time, she enjoys audio books, hiking, traveling, cooking, and spending time with her son and daughter.

Marta Murillo
Senior Vice President, Finance

A seasoned finance professional, Marta is responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting, and finance operations. Marta brings a wealth of financial experience in both health plan and provider-based population health environments. Most recently, she worked at ConcertoHealth as vice president of finance where she oversaw planning, pricing, and medical economics. Prior to Concerto, Marta was vice president of financial planning and analysis at SCAN Health Plan and held financial roles at HealthNow New York (BCBS WNY and BS of NENY) and United Healthcare.

Marta received her BA from Yale University and her MBA in accounting from the University of Puerto Rico School of Business.

Trina Schnapp
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Trina leads our global human resources function and brings over 25 years of HR leadership experience to Advantmed. Her experience encompasses a variety of companies across multiple industries and at various stages of maturity. Through her leadership, Trina drives strategies around talent, culture, transformation, and organizational effectiveness.

Prior to Advantmed, Trina led the global human resources functions for Relocity, Rexford Industrial, MarkMonitor and OpenTable. In addition, she led human resources strategy for Jones Lang LaSalle (West) and Equity Office Properties. Trina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from San Francisco State University and is an active member in the Society for Human Resources Management and a founding member of Chief’s Los Angeles chapter.

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