Martha is an experienced CEO and P&L owner who creates, grows and scales healthcare businesses both domestically and internationally.  She utilizes an innovative strategic approach to setting direction, building high performance teams, mentoring rising leaders, uncovering key value creation levers, and delivering exceptional financial results.  As a successful CEO, she brings authenticity, passion and financial discipline to develop industry leading strategies.  She has built diverse businesses by recruiting top talent and fostering a culture of innovation at all levels.

As a board member and CEO advisor, Martha is using her deep knowledge of the healthcare industry to help develop businesses focusing on disruptive ideas that transform the way care is provided.  She is a founding board member of PsychHub, an educational and training platform start-up combining clinical research and the art of storytelling to support mental health, substance use and suicide prevention.  Martha is on the board of Alma, a start-up helping behavioral health providers to provide high quality care in an inclusive environment.  Martha is an advisor to several start-ups in both the medical and behavioral health spaces, with a focus on quality, early intervention, and evidence based practices.  Martha is an advisor for HPIR – Health Plan Innovation Roundtable, a new collaboration of EHIR, with 11 regional health plans covering 30 million members.

Previously, Martha was CEO of Optum Behavioral Health, where she spent 5 years developing high-impact integrated care for over 35 million members.  She more than doubled the revenue to $5B through organic growth, acquisitions, and digital innovation.  Martha created a culture of innovation both on her team and within the enterprise.  She helped to develop businesses, one focused on transforming an acquired B2C application into B2B business and provider, and one focused on taking the point solutions across the industry and integrating them to deliver at scale in the behavioral health ecosystem.  She helped to develop the strategies and mentored the CEO’s of these early stage businesses.

Prior to Optum, Martha served as New England Market President for Aetna where she grew revenue to $2B, by establishing ACO’s across multiple states, entering into the first health care exchanges, then reestablished Aetna’s presence in Boston. Prior to this, she successfully built Aetna’s Global benefits business growing the international business to $1B revenue, through both M&A and organic growth, creating the industry’s largest provider of expat benefits.  Martha’s international experience includes deep immersion in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dublin, London and Dubai.