Health2Tech DC April 2025

Dr. Susan Mani is an executive leader with broad strategic and operational expertise in transforming healthcare. Dr. Mani has extensive experience redesigning and optimizing large-scale care delivery models within both health systems and health plans that are dedicated to significant improvement in population health outcomes. She has a proven track record for consistently breaking down complex situations with sub-optimal outcomes and reconstructing them into innovative, high-performing, and financially sustainable scenarios.

Currently, Dr. Mani leads corporate clinical program strategy and operations at Humana. Using a human-centered design with integration of data and technology capabilities, she leads multiple national agile teams to create connected member and provider-centric products and experiences with the proven ability to improve access and health outcomes for Humana members.

Neil Carpenter is a healthcare strategy and innovation leader he advises clients such as health systems, payors, and venture studios. Neil is or has been an Advisory Board Member and leader for multiple startups in the Oncology, BH, and value-based care space. In his career, Neil has been a health system leader and a chief strategy officer for a post-IPO health tech startup, NantHealth. At NantHealth he was responsible for portfolio management and building a new value-based care product line.

Neil also spent a decade at leading consulting firms leading strategy and transformation projections. Neil’s clients included Kaiser Permanente, Sisters of Mercy Health System, Steward, UnityPoint, Trinity, Dana Farber, the Military Health System, Montefiore, and the University of Virginia among many others.

Neil also ran statewide engagement of vulnerable populations for Maryland’s COVID-19 task force. Neil’s thought leadership included modeling the impact of COVID-19 on the US healthcare sector has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the BBC, and several industry publications.