Company

With headquarters in Seattle, Opala was created by health plan and provider stakeholders to turn data into efficiencies and insights.

Opala’s mission is to collect, standardize, and consolidate healthcare data to build a complete picture of patient health.

Opala’s vision is to be the most trusted source of patient insights, radically improving healthcare.

7.8M+

patients

111K

providers

9Y+

of healthcare data

Management Team

Ken Chandler
Chief Executive Officer

Ken Chandler is a strategic healthcare leader with over 20 years of experience in health care operations. Prior to Opala, Ken was with Premera Blue Cross, most recently serving as senior vice president of National Accounts. In that role, he was responsible for an $8.9 billion business portfolio representing Premera’s largest, high profile, complex, and sophisticated employer clients. During this time, Chandler also served as Chairman of the Consortium of Health Plans Board of Directors and drove product solutions aimed at improving access to care and health innovations. He also served in a secondary role as CEO of Vivacity, a Premera-owned wellness company. Earlier in his career at Premera, Chandler served as vice president of National Account Operations and vice president of Operations for LifeWise Health Plan of Oregon, a Premera-owned company.

Scott Ross
Chief Technology Officer

Scott Ross is a dynamic technology and product leader dedicated to bringing innovative collaboration to the areas of healthcare that need it most. Prior to Opala, he was a product leader at Teladoc Health, where he integrated multiple acquisitions into a unified telehealth product experience, advancing the vision of delivering whole-person care to over 75 million members across the world’s largest health organizations. At InTouch Health, Scott spent over a decade building provider experiences that pushed the boundaries of telemedicine—before the pandemic—in areas such as patient intake, clinical documentation, imaging, IoT fleet management, and analytics, ultimately leading to InTouch Health’s $1 billion acquisition by Teladoc in July 2020. Scott’s career has spanned nearly every role in software development, from automating global telecom infrastructure to crafting the front ends of business collaboration tools at enterprises such as Citrix (now GoTo). He has also launched startups, such as Keltronix, where he applied a healthcare mindset to ag-tech by enabling beekeepers to monitor hive health using patented edge-network video analytics. He has built several mission-driven teams and is most grateful for the amazing people he has met and worked with along the way. Scott holds multiple patents within healthcare and telecom and earned a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Meghan Quint, PhD
SVP, Product and Customer Success

Dr. Meghan Quint builds and scales cross‑functional teams that translate complex data challenges into elegant, automated solutions—accelerating digital transformation, reducing friction in care coordination, and ultimately improving patient outcomes.

With more than fifteen years at the intersection of healthcare and innovation, Meghan has championed strategic partnerships that bring startup agility to large payers and providers. At Premera Blue Cross, she forged alliances with emerging startups to pilot next‑generation care models, drive population‑health analytics and optimize care management workflows. In parallel, she’s served as a university researcher and instructor—publishing on organizational effectiveness, leadership decision‑making, corporate culture and change management—and mentoring executives to harness personal strengths and expertise for sustainable impact. Meghan draws on her PhD and MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Seattle Pacific University and dual BS/BA degrees from the University of Washington to blend evidence‑based methods with hands‑on technical delivery. A fierce advocate for women in leadership and higher education, Meghan is passionate about empowering high‑potential professionals to unlock their vision, build resilient cultures, and lead change.

Jessica Owens
Director, Talent

Jessica Owens has over 20 years of Talent Management experience building high performance teams and products. Jessica launched her career in the IT consulting industry where she supported clients, such as IBM, Mayo Clinic, and Wells Fargo for 10 years. Next, she transitioned to internal roles growing Fortune 500 and startups alike, including Starbucks and Bungie. At Bungie, Jessica grew the studio from 128 to 600+ employees and launched two major products during her tenure. Most recently, she spent 5 years scaling Facebook’s Oculus AR/VR team both domestically and internationally with responsibilities across Recruiting, Research, Development and Product. As an advocate for diversity, Jessica is passionate about building a culture of equity and inclusion.

Board of Directors

Kent Marquardt
Chairman

Kent Marquardt has over 30 years of healthcare experience with a track record of helping entrepreneurs create significant and successful enterprises. Kent joined Cardinal Partners as an advisor in 2017 and since October 2018 has served as a General Partner of the firm. Utilizing his over 30 years of healthcare and investment expertise, Kent’s investment focus at Cardinal is in AI and machine learning companies and technology-enabled services to drive next generation of member experience and engagement. Kent currently serves on the Board of Directors of Prealize, a Cardinal portfolio company and Brook. He is also a strategic advisor to VIM and Tuzag.

Prior to joining Cardinal Partners, Kent was EVP and CFO of Premera Blue Cross for 19 years, where he led Innovation and Strategic Investments. He drove early development and Premera investments in the several companies, including Landmark, Mobe, Prealize, and VIM. While at Premera, he led the development of the Blue CFO group and developed key relationships with a number of Blue plans, including Florida Blue, North Carolina, South Carolina, Highmark, IBC, Nebraska, Arizona, Tennessee, and Michigan.

Most recently, Kent has been CEO of Maverick Advisors, LLC, since July 2017. Maverick Advisors specializes in innovation and strategy with early stage companies and focuses on companies using advanced analytics and customer engagement to reduce healthcare inefficiencies. Kent has worked with a number of early stage companies to develop and refine their strategy and transition to a viable product offering. One example of this is his work with VIM to shift their focus to be an innovative referral management and curator of specialists, along with the connector of the last mile of healthcare services to the member, health plans, and providers.

Kent is also the managing partner of Balboa Winery and Stoney Vine Vineyard. Kent received his BBA degree in accounting from University of Wisconsin (Whitewater) and MBA from University of Wisconsin (Madison).

Thomas McKinley

Tom McKinley has over 35 years of venture capital investment experience with a successful track record of helping entrepreneurs create significant and successful enterprises. Tom joined Cardinal Partners as an advisor in 2008, and since January 2009 has served as General Partner. Utilizing his over 35 years of technology investment expertise, Tom’s investment focus at Cardinal is in healthcare information technology, technology-enabled services, AI, ML, and blockchain in healthcare. Most recently, Tom has been the founding CEO and chairman of Prealize Health, a project in conjunction with Professors Arnold Milstein and Nigam Shah at Stanford University. Tom led the firm’s investment in 2009 in virtual care company, Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), a telehealth services provider of doctor consults to consumers. At Opala, a data automation partner that makes payer-provider collaboration easier and more reliable, Tom was the founding CEO and helped form a founding team in partnership with Premera Blue Cross.

As an alumnus, Tom maintains close ties with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, as well as Harvard University, where he serves as class secretary and started the Harvard College i3 Innovation Challenge, an undergraduate startup competition. Tom received his AB degree in Economics from Harvard University, MS in Accounting from the Stern School of Business at New York University, and MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD

Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research. She is a leading researcher in health IT policy with a specific focus on electronic health records and interoperability. She has examined policies and organizational strategies that enable effective use of electronic health records and promote interoperability. She is also an expert in EHR audit log data and its application to studying clinician behavior. Her research identifies obstacles to progress and ways to overcome them and is used by researchers, health systems, and policymakers.

Julia has published over 100 influential papers, has testified before the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, has been named one of the top 10 influential women in health IT, and has won numerous awards, including the New Investigator Award from the American Medical Informatics Association and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. She has served on an array of influential committees and boards, including the NHS National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology, the Health Care Advisory Board for Politico, and the Interoperability Committee of the National Quality Forum. Her private sector experience includes advising numerous health IT companies and time as a consultant at Accenture.

Julia holds a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard and spent six years on the faculty at University of Michigan prior to joining the University of California San Francisco as a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research.

John Wray

John Wray is a global healthcare executive and corporate officer with over 25 years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry. John served as the Senior Vice President of Delivery System Collaboration at CIGNA for 9 years, where he was responsible for network contracting and establishing collaborative relationships with health care providers in domestic and international markets, including joint ventures. John also spent 14 years as Senior Vice President of Managed Care at CommonSpirit Health, a healthcare delivery system with 43 hospitals across the US. John has a J.D. and BA in Political Science and Sociology from Indiana University.

Advisors

Molly Coye, MD

Executive in Residence at AVIA and Board Member at Amedisys, Ginger, and ConsejoSano

Douglas Fridsma, MD, PhD

Past EVP and Chief Medical Officer at Advocate Health Care

Doug Ghertner

CEO at IVX Health, Board Member at ClarisHealth and XSOLIS, former President at Change Healthcare, and former SVP of Client Solutions at CVS Health

Joe Mello

CEO at First Light Advisors, Board Member at Radiology Partners, and former COO at DaVita Medical Group

Lee Sacks, MD

Past EVP and Chief Medical Officer at Advocate Health Care

Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University, Associate CIO for Data Science at Stanford Health Care

Mark Smith, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF; Board Member at Teladoc Health, Phreesia, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, former CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation

John Clarke

Co-founder and Managing Partner at Cardinal Partners, Board Director for Abide Therapeutics, aTyr Pharma, Ivenix, Vividion Therapeutics, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Colt Courtright

Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Premera Blue Cross

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7.8M+

patients

111K

providers

9Y+

of healthcare data