Our experienced leadership team comes to Verisk Health with a wide range of business, medical and technology backgrounds. Each member of our team brings a unique vision to the Verisk Health family, ensuring that our company and the products and services we offer are optimized from a financial, clinical and technical perspective.
- Mike Coyne, Chief Executive Officer
- Nathan Gunn, MD, President, Enterprise Analytics Division
- Nadine Hays, Executive Vice President
- Jim Despelteau, Chief Technology Officer
- Dave Hansen, Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration
- Mike Quigley, Executive Vice President, Client Operations
- Amrit Pant, Senior Vice President, Verisk Health and President, Verisk Information Technologies.
Mike Coyne, Chief Executive Officer
Mike Coyne serves as Chief Executive Officer for Verisk Health, a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ: VRSK), that leverages healthcare data to help organizations understand their medical and financial risk to better manage costs and improve clinical outcomes. In this role, Mike is responsible for the overall performance and strategic direction of the company. He joined Verisk Health in 2005 as the head of the strategic planning group, responsible for the development and implementation of new market initiatives. During his tenure, Mike has played a key role in shaping the company’s vision, executing strategic initiatives, and growing the company both organically and through acquisition.
Prior to joining Verisk Health, Mike held several key positions at Verisk Analytics. Most recently, he was a member of the corporate business development group, where he worked on acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic alliances in the healthcare space. He also served as a product manager in Verisk Insurance Solutions division, responsible for ongoing development of the division’s flagship antifraud product in the property and casualty insurance space, ISO ClaimSearch. Earlier in his career, Mike was an associate in the professional liability group at Mendes & Mount, LLP.
Mike holds an MBA from Fordham University, a JD from St. John’s University, and a BA from the College of the Holy Cross.
Nathan Gunn, MD, President, Enterprise Analytics Division
Dr. Gunn serves as President of the Enterprise Analytics Division of Verisk Health, a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ: VRSK), which leverages data and analytics, clinical insight and technology to help healthcare organizations manage costs, improve clinical outcomes, and achieve regulatory compliance. During his tenure at Verisk Health, Dr. Gunn has held roles as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Solutions.
Prior to joining Verisk Health, Dr. Gunn completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He then joined McKinsey and Company's North American healthcare practice, where he focused on provider operations and growth strategy, international health system reform and design, and private equity.
Nadine Hays, Executive Vice President
Nadine is responsible for strategic partnerships, sales, and marketing across the several healthcare market segments served by Verisk Health. She also oversees the company's international operations.
She has nearly 20 years of experience in clinical informatics and healthcare IT, working with several leaders in the industry to introduce innovative solutions for managing the quality and cost of care. Prior to joining Verisk Health, Nadine was the Chief Marketing Officer of D2Hawkeye, a healthcare data analytics company acquired by Verisk Health in 2009.
Before leading the marketing and sales teams at D2, Nadine led the strategy and business development team for McKesson Health Solutions, the integrated care management and claims performance arm of McKesson Inc. She also served as an executive at various healthcare and software companies, including Ingenix, Iameter and National Healthtech. Nadine is a licensed attorney, having practiced as a securities specialist for several years.
Nadine has a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a JD from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, CA.
Jim Despelteau, Chief Technology Officer
Jim leads the product engineering team in the execution of all Verisk Health product releases.
He has more than twenty years of experience conceiving and delivering enterprise software and hardware solutions for the healthcare, telecommunications, financial services and semiconductor industries.
Before joining Verisk Health, Jim was the SVP of Engineering at D2Hawkeye (D2), a healthcare data mining company. Prior to D2, Jim led research and engineering teams as Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Engineering for Kana Software, Inc., a Fortune 100 provider of award winning, web based Customer Relationship Management product suites. Jim also held key technical leadership positions for Omtool, Ltd., an industry leader in business process automation products, and ADE Corporation, a silicon wafer metrology systems provider for the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Jim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.
Dave Hansen, Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration
Dave provides leadership to the Finance and Administrative teams.
Dave was the Chief Financial Officer of D2Hawkeye, a healthcare data analytics company, from 2003 until 2009 when it was acquired by Verisk Health. Prior to his position with D2Hawkeye, Dave co-founded Falcon Capital Partners, a private investment and consulting company. Falcon's successes included Capella Senior Living, an organization that provided investment, restructuring, and advisory services for private investors and financial institutions in the long-term care industry.
From 1996 to 1998, Dave was the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Mariner Health Group, Inc. While at Mariner, Dave assisted in the successful $1.2 billion sale of the company to another publicly traded company. From 1988 to 1996, he was a partner in the Boston office of Coopers & Lybrand LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP).
Dave received a BBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an MBA from Cornell University.
Mike Quigley, Executive Vice President, Client Operations
Mike is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company.
He brings a diversified business background to the Verisk Health team, with over 25 years of experience as a general management executive. Mike's focus on team building, productivity improvements and execution of key initiatives will help the company continue its significant growth while ensuring its ongoing commitment to quality and service.
Prior to joining Verisk Health, Mike was the Executive Vice President of D2Hawkeye, a data mining company based in Waltham, MA. Mike has also served as President and General Manager of a Honeywell subsidiary that provides service-based solutions to the utility markets nationwide. In this role, he instituted an annual cycle of strategic planning, kickoff and mid-year update to guide the organization towards its established annual goals in growth, productivity improvement, working capital utilization and people initiatives. In addition to this, he took a leadership role in challenging the organization to use Six Sigma methodology to increase productivity and improve competitiveness.
Mike is a graduate of Boston College with a BS in Accounting.
Amrit Pant, Senior Vice President, Verisk Health and President, Verisk Information Technologies.
Amrit leads Verisk Health's technology and operations teams in Nepal and is responsible for all aspects of the associated business. Amrit brings to Verisk Health extensive experience in software development, data analytics, technology strategy and integration.
Before joining Verisk Health, Amrit was president and co-founder of a mobile analytics company where he was responsible for company strategy, product planning, technology roadmap and business development. Prior to this role, he consulted to multiple companies with large scale system development in Silicon Valley, California. Amrit was also a member of the architecture and product development team at Silicon Spice Inc., and he worked at IBM Japan focusing in product R&D.
Amrit received his BS and Masters degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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