Curative’s transformation from pandemic testing to employer health insurance gives Wilson-Ciranna an unusual vantage point on growth, risk and operating finance. She explains why the company committed roughly $500 million to its insurance launch and how its zero-deductible, zero-copay model is designed to remove barriers that can discourage people from seeking preventive care or taking […]
2019: Building a Health Plan Around What People Actually Do | Tami Wilson-Ciranna. CFO, Curative
When Tami Wilson-Ciranna joined Curative in April 2020, the assignment came with what now looks like a spectacularly optimistic assumption: three months. “I met with Fred on a Tuesday and I started on Thursday,” she recalls. Fred Turner, Curative’s co-founder and CEO, was leading the company’s response to COVID-19, and Wilson-Ciranna—who had retired and become…
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1182: From Cockpit Decisions to Capital Decisions | Andre Mancl, CFO, Nium
Andre Mancl recalls sitting only a few months into his first CFO role when a senior technology executive arrived with an urgent warning: engineers were leaving for Google and Facebook, and the company needed an immediate across-the-board compensation increase of 30% to 40%. It would have been a major financial commitment. But Mancl hesitated. Drawing…
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1163: The Discipline Behind Transformational AI | Sue Vestri, CFO, CRIO
On her first day at Greenphire, Sue Vestri sat in a conference room “learning all of the acronyms” of the clinical trial industry, she tells us. There were “many, many, many,” she recalls, and she listened to the sales team outside her door to understand how the product was positioned and why it mattered. That…
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