Meet Sapphire

US Army Veteran, Captain Field Artillery

35+ Years Operational, Business Product, Development, Sales,
Marketing in Healthcare Sector

Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives

Founded a leading healthcare Accounts Receivables Management company – Recovered over $50M written off provider receivables from payers

Successful Exit: Sold the company that Invented minimally invasive heart surgery system to a Johnson & Johnson company

Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. J&J Startup – Director of Professional Education. Trained more than 200 sales reps and 2000 surgeons.  Key player in companies’ growth from $5M to $250M in 3 years.

US Patents

Attended USMA at West Point

UCLA Graduate – ROTC Scholarship Winner

MemorialCare of Long Beach Foundation Board Member

20 years of startup experience.

CRO of Scoutbee, a procurement software solutions company; Scoutbee raised $76MM and acquired 78 Fortune 1000 clients.

Founder of Ventura and OnQ Media Marketing and Advertising Company, whose clients included; HP, MGM Studios, Four Seasons Hotel, and Wall Street Journal.

Additional Startups include Service One, Gibi Technologies, Pura Naturals, Edge 5, Critiqueit, Silver Crest Entertainment, and Scoutbee.

Experience in all aspects of start-up creation, business development, marketing, sales, and exit strategies.

Board Member Long Beach Accelerator.

Economic Development Commissioner, City of Long Beach

President of Critiqueit sold to a public company.

Corporate and International Tax Attorney for over 30 years, including over 10 years as the VP of tax of two for Fortune 500 High-tech multinationals.

Working with CXO’s was responsible of all aspects of global taxation including financial accounting of tax and jurisdictional tax reporting.

Led global tax teams ranging from 30 to 70 professionals including complex contract financial analysis and negotiations and M&A activities.

Expert in Interational Compliance, Audit and Tax negotiated cutting edge tax incentives in countries like Singapore, Switzerland and China.

Supported company supply chain, sales and marketing partnering with Finance, IT and Legal, and operations regularly.

Co-led a $125 million IT implementation for a restructuring of intracompany transaction flows and Intellectual property affiliate ownership.

Past Roles

VP of Gobal Tax, Applied Materials.

VP of Tax, Agilent Technologies.

Education

UC, Berkeley, BA,

Seattle University School of Law, J.D.

New York University School of Law, Master of Law, LLM, Taxation

35 Yrs. as Founder of 4 Executive Heathcare Focused Recruiting partnerships for rapidly growing VC funded startups and Fortune 500 companies, such as USSC now a subsidiary of Tyco.

Developed exclusive engagements and facilitated the hiring and retention of over 600 senior level executives and sales team members.

Creating an innovative approach to recruitment offering clients standard setting “360-day money back guarantee”.

Raised over $25M for new healthcare start-ups from VC and angle investors.

Built strong networks of advisors and consultants to support healthcare companies’ business development and rapid growth.

Taught “How to Properly Recruit in Our Digital Age”.

25 years’ Healthcare Provider experience in payer and provider contracting and negotiation.

Experience includes healthcare management consulting, managed care, national provider network development, strategies, Value Based Care, contracting, rate modeling and analysis.

Developed and implemented strategies to optimize hospitals, surgery centers, health plans and employers care delivery and payer contracting relationships.

Assisted healthcare providers, source, evaluate, train and implement new technology solutions that enable them to succeed improve NPR and maximize internal staff performance.

Successfully implemented a State of the Art, Contract Management SaaS solution in a 35-facility organization.

Successful Startup Experiences include, Founding, Leading and Growing Impactful Healthcare focus organizations.

Past Roles

Strategy Director at Dignity Health, St Mary's Medical Center

Director of Managed Care at Signature Healthcare Services.

CEO, Management Consultant and Member of Alliance Managed Healthcare

Senior Contracting Manager for National Network Development - United Healthcare

Organizations

Member, Manage Care Committe, Nevada Hospital Association

Member, Manage Care Committee, Hospital Association of Southern California (HACS)

Member, Managed Care Committee, National Association for Behaviorial Health

Education

UTA - The University of Texas at Arlington, Management, Business Administration and Operations