Kent Marquardt

Echo Health Ventures (EHV), a strategic collaboration between Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions to invest in innovative health care services and technology companies, is proud to welcome Kent Marquardt to its advisory board.

Kent Marquardt served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Premera Blue Cross. He was responsible for the Premera family of companies’ finance, actuarial, corporate informatics, underwriting, and healthcare economics departments. He also led the Innovation program and Strategic Investments and was part of the Executive Leadership Team.

“Kent’s history steering strategy and vision for companies focused on analytics and customer engagement to attack inefficiencies in health care costs is invaluable,” said Rob Coppedge, Echo Health Ventures President and CEO. “His value-driven approach echoes our commitment to bending health care to revolve around people rather than institutions.”

Marquardt currently is the CEO of Maverick Advisors, LLC, specializing in innovation and strategy with health care companies. Marquardt is also an outside director for Landmark and Cardinal Analytixs, and an advisor for Book MD and Health Velocity Capital. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin.

ABOUT ECHO HEALTH VENTURES

Echo Health Ventures LLC invests to build and grow tomorrow’s great health care companies. We invest across every stage and work with our portfolio companies to challenge and transform the health care system. As a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions, we work closely with our Parents to catalyze the development of our portfolio companies’ and accelerate their innovations to scale nationally. Echo Health Ventures operates nationwide with offices in Seattle, Durham, N.C., and Portland, Ore. Follow us on Twitter @healthecho.