
MIT Sloan HSI Lunch Seminar Series Scale Up Event Exiting and Transforming: Level Up
E62-450
100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA United States
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Examine strategies for exiting or transforming scaled healthcare enterprises.
Speakers:
Operator: Caitlin Zulla, CEO, US Radiology
Strategic Investor: Sukanya Soderland, formerly BCBS MA
Financial Investor: David Russell, VP, Bain Capital
Moderators:
Rebecca L. Schechter, MBA, Formerly at Nuance/Microsoft, Healthcare executive and CEO
Eric Berger, MBA '11, Partner, Bain & Company
Location: E62-450
Time: 11:30am - 1pm
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Caitlin Zulla serves as the CEO of US Radiology Specialists, one of the country’s premier providers of diagnostic imaging services. Caitlin has extensive healthcare leadership experience, including expertise in outpatient care delivery and a broad array of aligned physician specialties. Previously, she served as CEO of Optum Health East where she oversaw health care delivery across 10 states. Prior to that, she was CEO of SCA Health, a leader in the ambulatory surgery industry, overseeing more than 320 surgical facilities, 13,500 aligned physicians, and 11,500 team members who serve over 1.4 million patients annually. She also held roles as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer at SCA Health. Throughout her career she has focused on extended access to healthcare for patients. Caitlin is deeply committed to fostering engagement and creating an environment where every team member feels valued and empowered to contribute to our shared mission.
Caitlin serves on the public board of National Vision (NASDAQ: EYE) where she also sits on the Compensation Committee and serves on the Board of Directors for One World Surgery — a nonprofit aimed at delivering quality, accessible primary and surgical care in developing countries. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, a Master of Public Health and Health Management from Columbia University and a Master of Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.
Sukanya Soderland is the former Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategy, Innovation, Enterprise Data & Analytics and Business Performance and Process Improvement for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Prior to joining BCBS Massachusetts, she served as a senior Partner at Oliver Wyman in the Health and Life Sciences Practice, co-founded the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center, and was the lead healthcare Partner in Oliver Wyman’s Digital, Technology, Operations & Analytics Practice. She is a frequent speaker in national forums on healthcare transformation and serves on the Board of Advisors at Boston’s Museum of Science, the Advisory Board of the America India Foundation, and on the Board of the Trustees of Reservations, the largest owner of conservation land in Massachusetts. Sukanya graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
David Russell joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2018. He is a Vice President in the Healthcare Vertical and a member of the North American Private Equity team.
Prior to joining Bain Capital Private Equity, Mr. Russell was a consultant with Bain & Company in the Washington, D.C. office. He focused on private equity diligences and strategy projects across multiple sectors, including consumer and healthcare.
Mr. Russell received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and received BAs in Economics and History.
Speakers

Caitlin Zulla
CEO
US Radiology Specialists
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-zulla-3856b85/
Caitlin serves as the CEO of US Radiology Specialists, one of the country’s premier providers of diagnostic imaging services. Caitlin has extensive healthcare leadership experience, including expertise in outpatient care delivery and a broad array of aligned physician specialties. Previously, she served as CEO of Optum Health East where she oversaw health care delivery across 10 states. Prior to that, she was CEO of SCA Health, a leader in the ambulatory surgery industry, overseeing more than 320 surgical facilities, 13,500 aligned physicians, and 11,500 team members who serve over 1.4 million patients annually. She also held roles as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer at SCA Health. Throughout her career she has focused on extended access to healthcare for patients. Caitlin is deeply committed to fostering engagement and creating an environment where every team member feels valued and empowered to contribute to our shared mission. Caitlin serves on the public board of National Vision (NASDAQ: EYE) where she also sits on the Compensation Committee and serves on the Board of Directors for One World Surgery — a nonprofit aimed at delivering quality, accessible primary and surgical care in developing countries. Zulla earned a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, a Master of Public Health and Health Management from Columbia University and a Master of Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.

David Russell
Vice President
Bain Capital Private Equity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-russell-12407565/
Mr. Russell joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2018. He is a Vice President in the Healthcare Vertical and a member of the North American Private Equity team.
Prior to joining Bain Capital Private Equity, Mr. Russell was a consultant with Bain & Company in the Washington, D.C. office. He focused on private equity diligences and strategy projects across multiple sectors, including consumer and healthcare.
Mr. Russell received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar and received BAs in Economics and History.

Sukanya Soderland
Chief Strategy Officer & Senior VP of Strategy, Innovation, Enterprise Data & Analytics and Business Performance and Process Improvement
formerly BCBS MA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukanya-soderland/
Prior to joining BCBS Massachusetts, she served as a senior Partner at Oliver Wyman in the Health and Life Sciences Practice, co-founded the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center, and was the lead healthcare Partner in Oliver Wyman’s Digital, Technology, Operations & Analytics Practice.
She is a frequent speaker in national forums on healthcare transformation and serves on the Board of Advisors at Boston’s Museum of Science, the Advisory Board of the America India Foundation, and on the Board of the Trustees of Reservations, the largest owner of conservation land in Massachusetts.
Sukanya graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Rebecca L. Schechter, MBA
Healthcare executive and CEO
Formerly at Nuance/Microsoft
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-schechter/
With over 25 years of experience in building and transforming businesses at scale across healthcare and financial services, she is a passionate end to end P&L leader/CEO having led business with revenue of $250M to $6B., investor, and advisor who leverages technology to improve outcomes for all.
Most recently, as the SVP and General Manager of DAX, Nuance's market-leading healthcare GenAI SaaS solution, she led a team of talented professionals committed to transforming the clinician-patient experience with the latest advancements in conversational AI, ambient intelligence, and generative AI. Prior to that, she was the CEO of Optum Behavioral Health and held President and C-Suite roles at Liberty Mutual and State Street.
She is a Board Director at iA Financial Group, where she contributes to the risk, governance, and ethics oversight of one of Canada's largest insurance and wealth management companies. As a Venture Partner at Nina Capital, a global healthtech venture fund, she supports early-stage startups that are developing cutting-edge solutions in digital health, medtech, biotech, and wellness. She is also an advisor to global Private Equity Investors in healthcare/technology.
Her core competencies include driving transformative plays at scale, delivering profitable growth with a proven track record in highly competitive and regulated markets. She has an MBA from MIT Sloan, and has lived, worked and studied across Europe, North America and Asia.

Eric Berger
Partner
Bain & Company
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-berger-48367215/
Eric Berger is a member of Bain’s Healthcare & Life Sciences and Private Equity practices with more than 10 years of consulting experience.
Eric advises clients across a range of industries, with a focus in private equity funds as well as healthcare payers and services and biotech / pharma. He has additional experience in industrial goods and services and consumer packaged goods.
He holds expertise in topics related to commercial due diligence, business unit strategy, operating model, organization design, pricing, brand strategy and mergers & acquisitions.
Prior to joining Bain in 2011, Eric worked for a small consulting firm in Boston focused on the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Previously, he was a researcher in organic chemistry at Harvard University. Eric has published in Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society and was awarded a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Jean Dreyfus Boissevain scholarship.
Eric earned an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. He holds a BA cum laude and MA in chemistry from Harvard University.

Anne Quaadgras
Director
MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-quaadgras-6208778/
Anne Quaadgras is the Director of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan.
Her work focuses on health systems transformation, and the role of information technology in supporting that change.
Prior to her doctoral work, Anne was a management consultant for fifteen years, specializing in improving decision-making and investment processes in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries.
She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT. Anne earned her doctorate in information systems at Boston University, where her dissertation research explored how globally distributed groups of experts recognize and respond to operational problems.