Ensemble Health Partners Leadership

Judson Ivy is a Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Ensemble Health Partners. He attended DeSales University.

Over twenty five years of progressive finance leadership in both established and start-up companies. A skilled executive, adept at balancing day-to-day operations with key strategic initiatives. Known for common sense management approach and ability to tackle numerous cross-functional issues. Strong expertise in a variety of complex industries and areas.

NYS CPA (inactive).

Member - AICPA, NYSSCPA and HFMA

Robert comes to Ensemble as the former CFO of Owens & Minor, a Fortune 500 global health care services company.

During his tenure, Owens & Minor had approximately $10 billion in revenues, over 17,000 employees, a services business unit with operations in the US and Europe and a products business unit with sales in over 90 countries. Prior to becoming CFO, Robert held various leadership positions, including finance leader for the largest business unit, Treasurer, and department head roles for strategy, corporate development and investor relations. Over his nearly 10 years with Owens & Minor, he gained valuable exposure to US health care providers through supporting Owens & Minor’s legacy acute-care distribution business.

Before joining Owens & Minor, Robert was a health care mergers and acquisitions investment banker with Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers in New York. Earlier in his career, he advised companies on financial performance management and compensation plans with Stern Stewart & Co in New York and The Netherlands.

He has an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and earned a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia. On a personal level, Robert enjoys spending time with family, sailing, photography, mountaineering, fishing and bicycling.

Shannon White is a senior revenue cycle operations and business development executive with over 25 years of healthcare experience and a proven history of building successful teams and implementing strategies that improve financial performance. She is an effective leader who can coach, motivate and leverage relationships to inspire vision and success.

Prior to joining Ensemble, Shannon served as vice president of the Shared Services Center for Fort Smith, LLC, a subsidiary of Community Health Systems. She managed the growth of the Services Center from a standalone business office to over 50 facilities operating in nine states. Working with the governor of Arkansas, she negotiated $22 million in rebate programs and economic development incentives for the organization. Under her leadership, her team grew to more than 700 team members. Within Fort Smith, this growth was a tremendous accomplishment and reflective of her organization becoming the employer of choice. Through various cost savings initiatives and efficiency, she improved cost to collect, year over year. She also maintained a cash collection to net revenue percentage of 103% or above annually and led a reduction of net AR days to 53.

Shannon is known for her visionary leadership, high performance and for creating a successful culture of service leadership.

Bill Gilooly provides strategic leadership to how Ensemble hires, develops, services and retains associates. He and his team are tasked with creating an energizing, growth-minded and inclusive culture that values people, praises effort and rewards results. Bill leads Ensemble’s “Employer of Choice” efforts and all elements of human resources, including talent acquisition, talent management, total rewards, diversity and inclusion, people insights, learning and development, associate services, payroll, HR technology and strategic people planning.

Bill comes to Ensemble from Bed Bath & Beyond, where he most recently served as EVP and chief human resources officer for the $12+ billion-dollar specialty retailer with over 1,500 stores and 65,000 associates in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

At Bed Bath & Beyond, Bill led the HR function for all BBB companies - Bed Bath & Beyond, buybuyBABY, Christmas Tree Shops and That!, Cost Plus World Market, Harbor Linen/TY Group, Harmon Face Values, Of a Kind, One Kings Lane, PersonalizationMail.com and Decorist. His responsibilities included diversity and inclusion, change management, learning and development, associate relations, talent acquisition, benefits, compensation, organizational development and other HR functions.

Bill completed the Executive Education Program in Driving Strategic Change & Achieving Breakthrough Service at the Harvard University Business School. He also completed Executive Education Programs at the University of Michigan Business School and the North Carolina Business School. He completed coursework in the MBA program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and earned his BS in Management Science at Bridgewater State College.

Blaine Kerr is an AVP, Deputy Chief Privacy Officer at Ensemble Health Partners and is based in Naples, Florida. He has worked as Privacy Officer at PENN STATE HEALTH, Director of Privacy at Community Health Systems Inc., and Chief Privacy Officer at Jackson Health System. Blaine attended Penn State University and HACC Central Pennsylvania s Community College.

Dan Melillo designs and builds digital health solutions that unlock innovation and drive consumer engagement, connectivity and productivity for Ensemble clients. In addition to chief digital officer, Dan continues to set global vision and strategy as managing CEO of Odeza following Ensemble’s June 2021 acquisition of the integrated patient communications tech company he founded in 2018.

From concept to launch and market performance to product evolution, he is responsible for bringing great ideas to life. Dan infuses a unique blend of strategic and commercial instincts, leadership skills, tech prowess and a pure passion for possibilities into the strategies he develops for Ensemble’s evolving product ecosystem. He and his team partner with clients and prospects to support them in addressing barriers and identifying their digital health technology needs. Through a highly consultative and collaborative approach, he builds and delivers on customized value-added partnerships.

His experience in healthcare technology spans more than 15 years and includes past roles at R1 RCM, MethodCare (now part of Waystar) and GE Healthcare.

Dan earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Business Administration from Elizabethtown College.

As Ensemble’s Chief Information Officer, Daniel is responsible for information systems and advanced technology to support the company’s operations. He brings 20 years of health care IT and operations experience to Ensemble. During his career, Daniel has held various positions within the industry, most recently as regional IT director for Tennova Healthcare, a subsidiary of Community Health systems, overseeing IT operations for multiple hospitals. Prior to that, he led an IT organization at a health system in Arkansas. Daniel brings extensive IT experience that includes revenue cycle, financial and clinical systems in both the acute care and ambulatory settings. In addition to managing IT operations, his focus includes improving workflow by re-engineering applications and technology to simplify processes.

Grant Veazey leads the technology strategy and vision, including Ensemble IQ, client data security and overall Ensemble Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. He has over 20 years of healthcare product experience with a proven history in supplying transformative vision for industry leading healthcare companies. Grant is an innovative leader who has utilized machine learning, data steaming, graph technology, cloud architecture, and API enabled platform engineering to drive digital transformation of complex organizations.

Before joining Ensemble, Grant served as the Vice President of Enterprise Engineering on the Optum Healthcare Platform. He was responsible for product and engineering delivery of the UHG Healthcare Platform enabling 2 billion API calls annually. He also provided executive leadership to a 450+ person technology team. Prior to his work on Healthcare Platform, Grant served as the CIO of Optum360 where he was responsible for technology and analytic strategy. Over his 12 years with Optum, He led multiple large scale global teams within Optum Insight’s Payer and Provider markets as the vice president of product engineering.

Grant attended Western Kentucky University where he earned his master’s in business administration with a technology focus. He serves as an Advisory Board Member for Tennessee CIO organization.

Judson Ivy is a Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Ensemble Health Partners. He attended DeSales University.