Speaker & Panelist Biographies

Mr. William R. Boyles
Editor & Publisher
Consumer Driven Market Report
Consumer Driven Market Report is an independent newsletter group financed by subscriptions only and accepting no advertising. Mr. Boyles started working in health care in 1971 as a medical claims review analyst for Blue Shield of Michigan, worked in the national offices of Blue Shield (Chicago), then earned an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Michigan (1973) with a specialty in health economics. After graduate school he began covering the U.S. Congress (1976) for a leading newsletter chain with a focus on financing medical schools and teaching hospitals. He is a standing member of the U.S. House and Senate Periodical Press Galleries. In 1984 he founded the first national newsletter on the Health Maintenance Organization product, followed in 1989 by the first newsletter on PPOs, and in 2002 the first newsletter on consumer-driven health care. He is the author of numerous articles and commentaries in trade publications. Consumer Driven Market Report (Washington D.C.) was the first publication in the U.S. to write about consumer-driven health care and the CDH movement. Its readers include health insurance companies, large international consultants, and leading economists and actuaries. The focus is on research trends and expert opinions about emerging products and companies.

Mr. Jack E. Bruner, FSA
Global Health Care Practice Leader
Hewitt Associates
Jack Bruner has been Hewitt’s Global Health Care Practice Leader since 1991. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience in all phases of employee benefits, total compensation, and human resources strategy. Currently, Jack is helping organizations create consumer-driven health care solutions to enhance quality and value while reducing costs. He also continues to develop groundbreaking strategies using the Internet to improve the health management process. Jack is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He has a BS degree and MA degree in actuarial science. Jack is a frequent guest speaker for a number of organizations, including the Conference Board, Council on Employee Benefits, National Business Group on Health, and WorldatWork. Jack’s current clients include Dell Inc., FedEx Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, The Home Depot, and Marriott International.

Professor Dr. Reinhard Busse MPH FFPH
Department Head for Health Care Management, Faculty of Economics and Management
Technische Universität Berlin
In addition to being one the Observatory’s research directors, Professor Busse is a member of several scientific advisory boards (e.g. for the Federal Association of Company-based Sickness Funds, the German Agency for Health Technology Assessment, and the Federal Physicians’ Chamber) and a regular consultant for WHO, the EU Commission, OECD and other international organizations within Europe and beyond as well as national health and research institutions. His research focuses on both the methods and the contents of comparative health system analysis (with a particular emphasis on the reforms in Germany, other social health insurance countries and central and eastern Europe, role of EU), health services research including cost-effectiveness analyses, health targets, and health technology assessment (HTA).

Ms. Anne-Kathrin Haas
Senior Officer Health Policy
AOK Bundesverband (Federal Association of Regional Health Insurance Funds in Germany)
Ms. Haas was appointed Senior Officer Health Policy as of July 2000. In this position, she is responsible for health policy analysis. Developing and introducing the company´s positions into governmental activities and legislation are another major part of her responsibility. Furthermore, she assists the President of the Board and the President of the Administrative Board in all public and corporate policy matters. Ms. Haas is AOK-Bundesverband´s expert and contact person for international delegations seeking input and solutions from the German Health Care System. Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Haas was Senior Project Member for integrated service models. From 1996 until 1998 Ms. Haas served as Manager of the Office of the Executive and Administrative Board at the Regional Association of Ambulant Physicians in Freiburg, Germany. Her responsibilities included regional contract affairs, relations with health care insurance organizations, and issue management. She is increasingly recognized as expert on a wide range of health policy issues and has published in that field. She is an appointed member of the regularly held Four Country Conference and the Global Medical Forum. Ms. Haas is an alumna of the European Health Leadership Program, held at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. She began her career in the Public Health Care System, after graduation from the University of Freiburg in 1996. She earned an economics degree with a special focus on health care management. A German citizen, Ms. Haas was awarded with a scholarship to study in Canada during the academic year 1993/1994. From 1986 until 1989 Ms. Haas worked in her learned profession as Commercial Banker and also as Manager of Export Sales in the Paper Industry.

Mr. Johan Hjertqvist
Founder and President
Health Consumer Powerhouse
Johan Hjertqvist is the founder and president of the Health Consumer Powerhouse in Brussels, the European do-tank for better healthcare by consumer information and knowledge (2004). Before the Powerhouse, Mr Hjertqvist was the director of Timbro Health Policy Unit, a division of the Timbro Policy Group, Stockholm, Sweden. Mr Hjertqvist has a background in health care policy and welfare entrepreneurship. Starting in 1999 he led a four-year-project analysing the transformation of health care in the Stockholm region. The first report from this project was published in 2000 (“Sjukvårdens kulturrevolution”), followed by “Månfärd eller pyspunka” (2001) and “Slutet på början” (2002). His introduction to the Stockholm process (“The Stockholm health care revolution”, 2000 and “The end of the beginning, 2003) is an internationally known manifesto to reform. During the 1990s Mr Hjertqvist played an active role in the transition of internal market ideas to a number of countries including the UK, Norway and Canada amongst others. Mr Hjertqvist has also acted as an adviser to the Greater Stockholm Council with a focus on market infrastructures where purchasers and providers meet. Creating new arenas was another idea behind his projects between 1995 and 1999, bringing health care entrepreneurs and contractors together to strengthen the impact of market pluralism. He is a frequent lecturer on health care reform. He writes newsletters and is a member of international health care networks and institutions such as the Stockholm Network in London, Centre for the New Europe in Brussels and The Frontier Center in Winnipeg. Mr Hjertqvist has a Master of Law degree from the University of Stockholm. In the late 1970s he was instrumental in the founding and building of the Timbro Policy Group, for a long time the sole think tank in Sweden (and still the most influential one). He was editor-in-chief of the NPT, another Timbro operation and the first Swedish news agency to promote business content. In the middle of the 1980s he belonged to a small group of entrepreneurs who founded the first private Swedish venture capital market. He also worked as a Senior Counsellor at the Burson-Marsteller Communications Group. From 1991 to 1994 he was deputy Mayor of his home town Tyresö outside Stockholm. Mr. Hjertqvist is the author of a number of books (fact as well as fiction) on politics and health and has contributed to anthologies on similar subjects.

Mr. Brad Kimler
Senior Vice President
Fidelity Employer Services Company
Brad Kimler is senior vice president of the Health and Welfare Consulting group at Fidelity Employer Services Company, a division of Fidelity Investments. Brad is a frequent speaker on emerging trends in health care and is recognized nationally as a leading thinker on the evolution of employee benefits. Brad works with clients on benefits design and financing strategies and also consults internally on new product development initiatives for Fidelity’s outsourcing businesses. Prior to joining Fidelity in 2003, Brad was a Principal at Hewitt Associates, Inc, where he spent 14 years. Brad received a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Georgetown University in 1986. He is a member of the Harvard Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Project and is on the Institute for the Future Health Horizons Advisory Panel.

Mr. Bernd Knof
Director of International Affairs
DKV (Private German health insurer)
Mr. Knof graduated from the European Business School in 1995 and joined the DKV group in 1997 after his military service in the German army. He spent his first 3 years with DKV Belgium, concentrating on international Expatriate business. In 1999, after DKV had become part of the ERGO Insurance Group, he moved to Düsseldorf and into the ERGO Holding to be an Assistant to a Board member of ERGO International Operations. In September 2001 Mr. Knof returned to Belgium and was appointed as Managing Director of DKV Belgium, the largest private health insurer in Belgium with a customer base of more than 1.3 million insured lives. As a member of the board he was responsible for the Business Unit Finance, Human Resources and Information Technology. At the same time he was the liquidator and run-off manager of the O.S.A.T. insurance carrier in Paris. In October 2004 Mr. Knof returned to Cologne, Germany and was appointed as head of the International division of DKV Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG, Europe’s largest private health insurance company. Within his division lies responsibility for business development outside of Germany, technical results of international health business as well as sales and administration of all travel and Expatriate products of DKV.

Mr. Robert Laszewski
President, Health Policy and Strategy Associates, Inc. (HPSA)
Chairman North America, Global Medical Forum Foundation
HPSA is a policy and market place consulting firm specializing in assisting its clients through the significant health policy and market change afoot. Before forming HPSA in 1992, Mr. Laszewski was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Group Markets, for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Group. He has twenty years of health insurance industry management experience—nine of those years as a chief operating officer. The majority of Mr. Laszewski’s time is spent being directly involved in the marketplace as it comes to grips with the health care cost and quality challenge. His clients include health insurance companies, casualty insurance companies, HMOs, Blue Cross organizations, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and physician groups. Recently, HPSA has been involved in the development of organized delivery systems, joint ventures between insurance companies and providers, joint ventures between HMOs and insurance companies, the acquisition and divestiture of blocks of health insurance business, the creation of strategies for workers' compensation carriers to manage their costs in the changing health care delivery market, and the strategic planning of numerous clients as they come to grips with their response to policy and market driven change. Mr. Laszewski is very active in the purchase and divestiture of health care and insurance businesses having been involved in a number of such transactions in recent years. Mr. Laszewski has participated extensively in the nation's health care debate, especially on health insurance reform and the impact it will have on existing health insurance programs, the insurance industry, and the evolving role between payers and providers. Bob Laszewski has written and spoken widely on the subject of health care reform and market change. His media appearances include health care features on ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS, and NPR, as well as on The McLaughlin Group and John McLaughlin’s “One on One.” Additionally, numerous articles about his ideas have appeared in the national and trade press and he has been regularly quoted in many newspapers including The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Bob Laszewski is North American Chairman of the Global Medical Forum Foundation. He also chairs the Forum’s activity in China. His opinions are regularly sought by groups such as the Health Insurance Association of America, The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Internal Medicine, the Council for Health Information Management, and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (sponsors of the CEBS designation), as well as other trade associations, state policy makers and regulators, hospital administrators, and religious groups. He has offered his perspective on health care reform in testimony before several committees of both the House and Senate of the U.S. Congress.

Mr. Lawrence “Larry” Leisure
Senior Vice President, Sales and Account Management
Kaiser Foundations Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Working with sales and marketing leaders throughout the Kaiser Permanente program, Leisure is accountable for the leadership and development of world-class sales, account management and distribution capabilities. Leisure has direct accountability for the leadership and performance of National Accounts Sales and Account Management; Major Benefit Consultant Relationships; Personal Advantage Shared Services - Individual Products (PASS); Sales Effectiveness; and Sales, and Marketing Systems Planning. In addition, he shares joint accountability with the regional vice presidents responsible for achieving membership and revenue objectives. Leisure is a member of KP’s national Health Plan Operations Leadership Team (HPO-LT) and the Marketing Sales and Business Development (MSBD) leadership group. Prior to joining KP, he was Global Managing Partner, Health Services Industry, at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). From 1991 to 1996, he was the Health & Welfare Practice Leader at Price Waterhouse. Previously, he was Group Benefits Practice Leader at Towers Perrin. Leisure is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Future and a frequent speaker at health and benefit forums, including the Global Medical Forum and World Health Congress. A nationally recognized health benefit consultant and change agent, Leisure has worked with many of the nation’s largest employers, insurers, health plans and pharmacy benefits management firms. Leisure received his master’s of business administration degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

Dr. Gillian Leng
Implementation Systems Director
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Dr. Leng qualified in medicine in 1987 and, after working for several years in clinical medicine, she took up a post at Edinburgh University to research the causes and treatments of peripheral vascular disease. In 1994 she was awarded a doctorate for her research into measurement techniques in the epidemiology of peripheral vascular disease. In 1994 she became an editor of the Cochrane Review Group for Peripheral Vascular Diseases, and was instrumental in ensuring inclusion of patients and lay members into the Cochrane review process. Dr Leng is now also a member of the Advisory Board for the UK Cochrane Collaboration, and a member of the Cochrane Methodology Advisory Board. Dr Leng has specialist medical training in public health, and has worked as a consultant for an English Health Authority where she had responsibility for clinical governance and implementation of national guidance. She has an honorary senior lectureship at University College, London. In 2000, she took up the post as Guidelines Programme Director at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), where she was responsible for development of clinical guidelines. In 2004, Dr Leng took up a new executive director post at the Institute designed to support the implementation of NICE guidance in the National Health Service. In both roles she has engaged closely with patient organisations, to inform the guidance development process and to support implementation.

Prof. Raphael H. Levey, MD
Founder and Chairman
Global Medical Forum Foundation
Dr. Levey completed his clinical training in general and thoracic surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and spent four years in basic research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda and at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. Dr. Levey joined the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) in the Department of Surgery at the Children's Hospital and in the Division of Medical Sciences (Immunology). He received tenure at HMS in 1975 and founded the Organ Transplantation Program at Children's Hospital, serving as Chief of Unit for over ten years and performed the first successful bone marrow, kidney and liver transplants at the hospital. He was a Moseley Fellow in Medicine at HMS, a Markle Scholar in Academic Medicine and a Faculty Research Associate of the American Cancer Society. He has held visiting Professorships at many European and North American Universities and was elected a Member of the Collège de France. He is the author of 80 scientific papers in leading refereed journals and has received grants from the American Cancer society and NIH. In the early 1970s, he developed in the laboratory and then transferred to clinical use a new class of immunosuppressive agents and, in so doing, worked closely with pharmaceutical companies and the Food and Drug Administration. In the late 1970s, Dr. Levey founded Health Care International (HCI). The company developed a private, for-profit, highest quality, university hospital in English speaking Europe, closer to an under-served market from Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; the hospital provided the most advanced care for complicated illnesses at reasonable costs. Dr. Levey served as Chairman of the Company, creating what was the largest start-up company in the history of the City of London. He is the Founder of the Global Medical Forum Foundation (GMF) of which he is currently global chairman. GMF is a network of leaders and innovators in medicine, which meets every year in Zurich, Washington, Berlin, Abu Dhabi and Beijing/Shanghai. The mission of GMF is to make a difference in the healthcare debate by bringing the many different constituencies of healthcare into dialogue.

Dr. Marcel Mangen, MBA
Vice President Commercial Strategies
Janssen-Cilag GmbH
Dr. Marcel Mangen is a member of the Board of Janssen-Cilag GmbH, Germany. In this position he is in charge of commercial affairs, health economics, public and governmental affairs, and public relations. He joined Janssen-Cilag in 1985 after a successful marketing career at Rhône Poulenc, Germany, and Central Marketing Sarl., Luxembourg. In his various management positions within Janssen-Cilag, including international assignments, Dr. Mangen has gained a broad professional experience in the pharmaceutical market. He is a member of the Johnson & Johnson European Public Affairs Committee. Dr. Mangen is a citizen of Luxembourg. He graduated as a scholar of the "Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst" in agricultural economics from the University of Bonn where he also obtained his doctorate degree. In 1972 he graduated as a Master of Business Administration from Michigan State University with a Fulbright Scholarship.

Ms. Gail Marcus
Chief Operating Officer
UnitedHealth Europe
In her current role Ms. Marcus provides oversight for the functional areas of the European business with the vision of improving the ability of European public health systems to meet patients’ goals and conserve health care resources. Ms. Marcus has 20 years of healthcare experience working in large insurance and pharmacy benefit management companies. She brings leadership experience with broad business knowledge in healthcare and financial services, including business strategy, product management, marketing, finance and information technology. She has demonstrated results in developing and growing profitable businesses, defining and implementing business, product and marketing strategies, creating and leading high-performance teams and driving business transformation. Before joining UnitedHealth Europe, Ms. Marcus was most recently the Senior Vice President, Client Value and Chief Competitive Officer, at AdvancePCS in Dallas, Texas, a pharmacy benefit and disease management company. Here she improved value propositions for all customer segments, identified and built strategic business opportunities and increased overall client profitability. Previously, Ms. Marcus was a Senior Vice President, for CIGNA Corporation where she was Managing Director for CIGNA, UK with responsibility for growing the healthcare business in the UK. She has also held positions in the US healthcare operations in product management, finance and systems. Ms. Marcus attended school at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Engineering, M.S.E., with majors in Computers and Information Sciences and Wesleyan University, B.A., with majors in Spanish and Mathematics. Ms. Marcus continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Graduate Division, where she received her M.B.A. Ms. Marcus is a participant in the “Who’s Who of Women Executives” and is an adjunct professor for Healthcare Strategy at the University of Connecticut Business School. In addition, she was a contributing author of the Managed Care Handbook, by Dr. Peter Kongstevedt, published 2000. Ms. Marcus has successfully passed all portions of the CPA exam and Certified Cash Management exam.

Mr. Rudi Matter
Head of Business News Department, n-tv
Managing Director, TV Media
n-tv is a joint-venture of RTL and CNN. As a production company, TV Media specializes in business content for television and the internet. It produces the business programs for n-tv, e.g. „Teleboerse“ and „Handelsblatt-Ticker”. Before joining TV Media in 1997, Rudi launched „CASH-TV“, the first national private television program in Switzerland, and worked as a communications specialist for an international management consultancy. At the beginning of the 1990s, he developed several business programs for television stations in Germany and Switzerland. He received his professional training as a journalist at the „Basler Zeitung“ and the national Swiss Broadcasting Company SRG. He graduated from Zurich University with a Masters in history, philosophy and journalism, and completed the Stanford Executive Program (SEP).

Dr. Catharina Maulbecker Armstrong
Chairman Europe
Global Medical Forum Foundation
Dr. Maulbecker received her PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and then worked for a number of years in applied medical research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen. She has published and holds a patent in developmental biology and cancer research. She next joined McKinsey & Company and for six years was a core member of the global healthcare and pharmaceutical practice and an affiliate of the corporate finance practice. She has worked with a number of multinational companies both in the Financial, as well as the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device sector. In this function she lectured on disease management, managed care and the emergence of biotechnology start-ups in Europe and worked with a number of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. She has published work on trends in European managed care and physician networks in Swiss and German medical journals, including the Economist Intelligence unit’s book on Healthcare Europe in 1998. She founded GetWellness and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2002. For her work with GetWellness she received a number of business awards including the Business Woman of the Year title in 2001 in Switzerland. She helped found and finance companies in the Nutrition, Pharmaceutical and Medical Imaging sectors. She is a board member of a Pharma and medical device company in Europe. She has founded a strategy consulting company in Ohio. Dr. Maulbecker is the Chairman Europe of the Global Medical Forum Foundation.

Mr. Stephen McMahon
Chairman
Irish Patients’ Association
Prior to his current position, Mr. McMahon worked for a leading multi-national oil company for 30 years. During his assignments as an analyst and manager, he gained wide business experience covering Marketing, Business Analysis, Procurement, and Operations. Mr. McMahon co-founded the Irish Patients Association with his wife in 1995 and is now working full time for the organization. Mr. McMahon is an independent representative of the Performance Verification Group Health Sector, made up of leaders drawn from employers, trade unions as well as three independent representatives. The group has signed off on some €800 million of pay awards to some 100,000 employees in the health sector. He is also a member of the regulatory body for doctors, The Medical Council Of Irelands, working group on competence assurance and a member of the working group of the Health Service Quality Assurance Board which quality assures an acute hospital network. The Board has recently been informed by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) that its ACAS 2nd Edition Standards have received accreditation from ISQua’s International Accreditation Programme. This accreditation is valid until December 2008. He is also a member of the steering group for the Irish Nursing regulatory body, An Bord Altranais. He is the Irish Delegate to the Council of Europe’s expert advisory group dealing with Media & Health. He is a regular contributor at local, national and international conferences, and academic institutions, giving the patient’s perspective. For every €1 euro in core funding received under his stewardship the association has generated a further €1.3 for project related activities.

Mr. Alfred P. Moore
Division President, Wausau Benefits, Inc., Avidyn Health,
LLLP, Innoviant, Inc. and Innoviant Pharmacy, Inc.
Fred Moore attended St. Vincent's College in Pennsylvania where he earned a bachelor's degree cum laude in History and the German language. He completed graduate work in European history and the German language at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Vienna, Austria. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business. He is a Chartered Life Underwriter and a Fellow in the Life Office Management Institute. Moore began his career as an agency manager for Sun Life of Canada. He then moved into the roles of vice president-career agencies for Liberty Life and senior vice president-marketing for American Health and Life. Moore moved to increasingly challenging roles as executive vice president-marketing, senior vice president-group insurance, senior vice president-individual products and vice president, chief agency officer, for Central Life at American Mutual Life Insurance Company. He later joined AmerUs Financial—the retail banking, real estate and insurance sales businesses of American Mutual Life Insurance Co.—as president and chief operating officer. Moore joined Wausau Benefits in 1996 as vice president-group operations and market development. He was named senior vice president-group operations in September 1997 and president and CEO of Wausau Benefits in 2000. In October of that year, in a management-led buyout, Wausau Benefits was launched as an independent company. It was acquired in May 2003 by Fiserv, Inc. as a member of its Fiserv Health business unit. Moore was named division president of Fiserv Health, responsible for Wausau Benefits, Avidyn Health, Innoviant Pharmacy Benefit Management and Innoviant Pharmacy, Inc. in 2004. Moore’s current position is executive vice president of Fiserv Health, where he is in charge of developing strategic direction, working with unit leaders on talent and organizational development, leveraging brands and applying his in-depth knowledge of health care administration to anticipate market direction and offer key insight on how to coordinate and guide operations.

Dr Alexandra Wyke
Managing Director
PatientView and Health and Social Campaigners’ Network international (HSCNetwork international)
Alexandra Wyke founded PatientView in May 2000 as an independent organisation that provides valuable information about patient attitudes on healthcare delivery and disease-based issues worldwide. HSCNetwork international, part of the PatientView, was subsequently launched in 2003 as a novel global virtual network for health-based NGOs and statutory bodies. As part of its activities for members, the HSCNetwork publishes a monthly briefing document which focuses on important campaign issues. The publication is also available to those in the public domain. For more information: www.patient-view.com Between 1996 and April 2000, Alexandra Wyke was responsible for creating and running a successful international healthcare publishing unit at the Economist Intelligence Unit. And between 1983 and 1996, Dr Wyke was the business and science correspondent for The Economist. Aside from her work at The Economist, her other publications include: articles in the Harvard Business Review, the Daily Telegraph, The Economist’s The World in 1995 and 1996; a chapter in Going Digital, and a business report on motivating managers, published by The Economist Group. In 1997, her book, 21st-Century Miracle Medicine, was published by Plenum (see Amazon.com). Dr. Wyke frequently lectures and chairs healthcare forums worldwide. Alexandra Wyke has also organised conferences for Imperial College and The Economist. She has consulted for pharmaceutical firms and other organisations. She has worked for television and radio, appearing in an expert capacity in many programmes. In 1996, she was elected by the BBC to participate in a small team which assessed the corporation’s radio and TV coverage of technology. Alexandra Wyke sits on the advisory boards of INSEAD’s healthcare initiative. Alexandra Wyke has a PhD in biochemistry from St. George’s Medical School. London. She can be contacted on alexwyke@patient-view.com.

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