Beth Israel Lahey Health CEO and leadership

Kerry (Jones) Brown is a Chief Of Staff at Beth Israel Lahey Health and is based in United States. She has worked as Chief of Staff - Office of the CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Kerry attended Denison University and Boston University Questrom School of Business between 1996 and 1998.

As Chief Compliance Officer for Beth Israel Lahey Health, Lori works to advance a system-wide culture of compliance and commitment to ethical principles. She and her integrated team serve as strategic partners in managing and mitigating risk across the system.

Lori is a seasoned chief compliance and ethics officer with more than 20 years of experience in health care compliance. Before joining Beth Israel Lahey Health, she has served as Senior Vice President for Corporate Compliance and Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at City of Hope in California. In this role, she oversaw the corporate compliance program for City of Hope National Medical Center, the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope and the City of Hope Medical Foundation.

Lori has also served as Vice President and Chief Corporate Compliance Officer at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and as Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer at Tufts Health Plan and in multiple roles in compliance and privacy with Kaiser Permanente in both California and on the East Coast.

Lori received her undergraduate degree from the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, and her law degree from the Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts.

As Chief Information Officer for Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), Manu provides strategic and operational leadership to guide the future direction and integration of the information technology enterprise for the BILH system and enable high-quality service to clinical and business operations. He also leads BILH's Health Technology Exploration Center (HTEC) which is focused on building and shaping scalable technologies to transform the global health care landscape. His prior roles include Chief information Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a Harvard Medical School affiliated Academic Medical Center in Boston) and Secretariat Chief Information Officer at Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. As Massachusetts' State HIT Coordinator, Manu led the development of the nation's first medicaid funded statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) known as "MassHIWay" which has delivered over 300 Million healthcare transactions since its inception. Manu was recognized by his peers at the New England chapter of HIMSS as "The CIO of the Year" for 2014. Manu has an engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, an MBA from Boston University and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.

Alex Barker is a Principal at SullivanCotter and a member of the Employee Workforce Practice. With more than 20 years in strategic management at some of the nation’s largest hospitals and health systems, Alex brings real-life and innovative workforce advice to employers navigating the rapidly changing health care environment.

Elizabeth H. Johnson MD MS FACP is a Chief Medical Officer Performance Network at Beth Israel Lahey Health and Chief Medical Officer Primary Care at Beth Israel Lahey Health and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has worked as Member Board Of Directors at Coverys; Internist at Martin s Point Health Care; and Chief of Internal Medicine and Urgent Care, Kenmore Center at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Elizabeth studied at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Bowdoin College.

Gyongyi Szabo is a Chief Academic Officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health and Chief Academic Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. She works or has worked as Professor, Associate Dean at University of Massachusetts Medical School.

John Kerndl serves as Beth Israel Lahey Health’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He has 30 years of health care experience across a range of organizations in multiple functional areas.

Since 2016, John served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Beaumont Health, the largest health care system in Michigan, where he led all financial functions for the system’s eight hospitals and 167 outpatient sites. Before joining Beaumont, he spent six years as Senior Vice President and Operations CFO for LifePoint Health in Tennessee. Prior to that, John served in CFO and regional vice president-in-training roles for three Arizona hospitals as part of Vanguard Health Systems, as well as Assistant CEO and CFO for Community Health Systems in Illinois.

John also worked for Tenet Healthcare Corporation as a CFO for North Shore Medical Center in Miami, and as a regional finance director in Atlanta, Georgia and Hilton Head, South Carolina. Earlier in his career, he was a practice administrator for Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina, and directed the operations of large medical groups in Florida and California.

John earned his Master of Business Administration in finance from the University of Chicago and his bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgia State University.