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Meet our
leadership team.

Executive leadership​

AbdurRehman Sarwar

Founder, President + CEO
AbdurRehman is a visionary leader with 20+ years of healthcare experience. He founded Spark in 2014 and infused his passion for innovation and excellence into the company’s core.

Robert Snead

CFO + Treasurer
Robert brings a wealth of institutional knowledge to his role. His 25 years of experience include leadership positions at a Fortune 500 global healthcare services firm and multiple investment banks.

Shannon White

Chief Operating Officer
With 25+ years of hands-on operational experience, Shannon is a true revenue cycle expert. She is a passionate leader dedicated to building strong teams and raising the bar for performance.

Grant Veazey

Chief Technology Officer
Grant brings more than 20 years of healthcare technology experience to Spark, including as the former CIO of Optum360 and VP of Enterprise Engineering at UnitedHealth Group.

Andrew Bess

Chief Client Officer
With 18+ years as a healthcare leader and CEO of the largest fixed-wing medical transport company in the U.S., Andrew knows what it takes to deliver best-in-class customer service and patient experience.

Ben Foster

Chief Commercial Officer
Ben’s 25+ years of healthcare revenue cycle consulting experience and ability to structure value-based partnerships has translated to measurable cost and net revenue improvements for clients. 

Matt Tormey

Chief Compliance Officer
Matt leverages 25+ years of experience in both the private and public sectors to provide strategic, operational and administrative leadership for Spark’s compliance and internal audit teams.

Patricia Munchel​

Chief People Officer​
Patricia is passionate about talent development, business performance, productivity, culture and associate engagement.​

Nick Pace

General Counsel
With 25+ years of experience providing legal and strategic advice to boards of directors and executive management teams, Nick oversees all legal affairs for Spark.

Senior leadership

Nancy Phillips

Chief Information Security Officer
Nancy brings over 35 years of experience in designing and engineering cybersecurity products, services, and programs, and for the past decade, she has served as a CISO for healthcare and managed services organizations, building and leading high-caliber teams and programs.

Wendy Buice​

SVP, Client Delivery​
Wendy has 15+ years of experience managing revenue cycle operations and supporting client relationships, including as a Client Delivery leader at Conifer Health Solutions.​

Ryan Brown​

SVP, Human Resources​
Ryan is a transformational leader with broad human resources domain expertise across a variety of industries including finance, technology, retail and healthcare. ​

Jonathan Clark

Chief Information Officer
Jonathan has 20+ years of healthcare experience leading enterprise technology initiatives and integrations, including as Senior Director of Infrastructure Integration at Optum.

Allyson Evenson

SVP, Controller, Chief Accounting Officer
Allyson has 25+ years of experience in technical accounting, internal controls and investor relations for large multi-national companies.

Rob Guthrie

SVP, Business Development
Prior to joining Spark, Rob was Vice President at Waystar and spent 15 years leading commercial efforts for the software division of Kaufman Hall.

Janel Harmon

SVP, Client Delivery
Janel brings 25 years of healthcare experience with a background in revenue cycle operations to her role at Spark, providing strategic oversight to all client engagement initiatives.

Devdatta Halbe

SVP, Engineering
With master's degrees in math and computer science, Devdatta brings extensive engineering experience to Spark, including as the VP of Product Engineering at UnitedHealth Group.

Jeff Hurst

SVP, Client Delivery
Jeff leverages 30+ years of healthcare finance experience to deliver meaningful and sustainable financial and operational results for clients.

Jenna Jordan

SVP, Health Information Management
Jenna brings 20+ years of HIM operational experience to her role providing strategic oversight of Spark’s mid-office operations.

Greg Kerr

Chief Privacy Officer
Greg has 25+ years of experience implementing and overseeing HIPAA privacy and compliance programs. Greg is responsible for enforcing Spark’s privacy program, training and audits.

Ryan Kreinbring​

SVP, Business Development​
Prior to joining Spark, Ryan served as the Vice President of Sales at Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, leading the go-to-market strategy and commercial efforts.​

Jose Loza​

SVP, Patient Access + Pre-Access​
Jose brings 20 years of healthcare industry experience to Spark. He specializes in driving revenue growth, building client relationships and motivating teams to excel.​

Billy Parrish

Chief Product Officer
Billy leads Spark’s product strategy, development and deployment, leveraging 20+ years of healthcare IT and product experience, including as VP of Product Management at Optum and NextGen.

Jason Pritchard

SVP, Finance
As a former hospital CFO, Jason has 10+ years of experience managing and optimizing hospital financial performance.

Andrew Ray​

SVP, Operations Excellence + Innovation​
Andrew is a seasoned executive revenue cycle leader recently serving as an Expert Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company in their revenue excellence practice.​

Robert Ratcliff

SVP, Operational Readiness
Robbie brings 20+ years of revenue cycle operations experience to his role as executive client liaison. His expertise is in management of multi-facility service centers in large healthcare organizations.

Tanya Robbins​

SVP, Revenue Cycle Operations​
Tanya has 25+ years of experience across acute and physician revenue cycle operations. ​

Lane Rosenthal​

SVP, Revenue Integrity​
Lane has 20+ years of experience in revenue cycle integrity and underpayment recovery. He helps clients optimize revenue capture, reduce denials and enhance financial performance. ​

Pieter Schouten

Chief Innovation Officer
Leveraging 30 years of experience in analytics and AI, Pieter has helped Spark gain 10 patents for revenue cycle innovation and automation.

Amy Summers

SVP, Marketing + Commercial Operations
Amy has 10+ years of experience deploying effective strategies for growth across healthcare revenue cycle marketing and sales enablement teams.

Khiet Trinh, MD​

Chief Physician Advisor​
Dr. Trinh is a board-certified family physician also board-certified in physician advisory. Prior to joining Spark, Dr. Trinh was the Chief Medical Officer for Bon Secours Health System.​

Jennifer Walen

SVP, Physician Revenue Cycle Operations
Jennifer has a clinical background and 30+ years of experience working on both the provider and payer side of healthcare.

Ken Williamson

SVP, Business Development
Ken has 20+ years of healthcare business development experience, including as senior vice president of sales for MEDHOST.

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