A Student Conference at Harvard Business School
 

Aidan Dewar

Aidan Dewar is the co-founder and CEO of Nourish. He co-founded the company November 2021, with the goal of addressing the root cause of the chronic disease crisis through AI-powered, insurance-covered, virtual nutrition care. Nourish is disrupting the traditional U.S. healthcare system by building a consumer-centric digital health system centered on nutrition and lifestyle change that improves outcomes, lowers costs, and helps people live healthier, longer lives. Prior to founding Nourish, Aidan co-founded the non-profit Feed the Front Line, an organization supporting local restaurants and frontline healthcare workers during COVID. He previously worked as an associate consultant at Bain & Company, and as an analyst at L Catterton and Goldman Sachs.

 
 

Daniel Kueter, MBA

Dan Kueter is the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, an $80 billion division of UnitedHealthcare and the nation’s largest business serving the health coverage and well-being needs of employers and consumers.

Prior to being named CEO in 2022, Dan served as chief financial officer of UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual. In this role, he had financial and strategic oversight of the business’s diverse portfolio of health plans, ranging from traditional fully insured and self-funded plans to the full scope of ancillary and voluntary benefits.

Dan joined UnitedHealth Group in 2001 and served in roles at Optum and UnitedHealthcare Networks before transitioning to Employer & Individual in 2008 to become a health plan market CEO. After nearly six years developing and leading large-scale, provider-led population health organizations outside the enterprise, Dan returned to UnitedHealthcare in 2018 to lead Employer & Individual’s network strategy as part of UnitedHealthcare Networks.

Dan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy, West Point. He and his wife, Diana, live outside Columbus, Ohio, and have three children in high school and college.

 
 

Alexandra Maddison

Alex Maddison is a seasoned global compensation and benefits leader with nearly three decades of experience across the globe. After earning her degree in international employment law in the UK, she built her expertise through various international roles, including a key position with Emirates Airline in the Middle East. Alex joined Google in London in 2014, eventually moving to Mountain View, California, and is leading the company’s worldwide Benefits, Mobility, and Immigration functions. She manages a globally distributed team responsible for supporting Alphabets diverse workforce.

 
 

Jeff Ries, MBA

Jeff Ries co-leads Morgan Health Ventures. He is focused on supporting Morgan Health's mission by identifying high-potential, growth-oriented companies with innovative business models, deploying $250 million of JPMorgan Chase capital, and developing mutually beneficial relationships with our partners.

Previously, Jeff was Managing Director at Healthbox, where he led all venture investment activities, including the management of the DaVita Venture Fund and Intermountain Health Care Innovation Fund. Prior to joining Healthbox, Jeff was at Oxeon Partners where he focused on building and investing in health care companies. He was also an investor at Sandbox Industries where he helped manage BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, a $500 million+ health care fund. While at Sandbox, Jeff started several tech-enabled startups and helped raise capital for Cultivian Sandbox, an agriculture-technology venture fund. He began his career at LaSalle Investment Management, a private equity firm with $50B AUM.

Jeff received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Northwestern University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

 
 

Sukanya Soderland, MBA

Sukanya is a partner at Oliver Wyman with 25 years of experience as a consulting leader and former C‑suite executive, helping organizations transform business models, design and execute innovative strategies, and drive profitable growth.

She works collaboratively with executive teams from companies across the healthcare landscape on enterprise strategy, organizational design, omnichannel consumer experience, product launch, partnerships and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and AI-enabled operating model transformation. Sukanya pairs forward-thinking vision with deep analytical rigor, focusing on clear execution and capability building to turn complex problems into practical solutions.

Across client engagements, Sukanya has delivered measurable outcomes: she led a transformation that cut run-rate operating expenses by 30% and nearly doubled the operating margin for a $30 billion health business; repositioned a $5 billion population-health company into a market leader through medical-behavioral integration; and returned an ACA business to profitability within a year. As chief strategy officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, she directed strategy, innovation, capital allocation, and the buildout of enterprise data, artificial intelligence (AI), and advanced-analytics capabilities, and helped launch a new joint-venture company, EvioRx, to address rising prescription drug costs. Sukanya originally joined the firm out of undergrad and was one of the founding members of the Health and Life Sciences Practice and the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center (OWHIC).