A Student Conference at Harvard Business School
 

Gil Addo, MBA

Gil Addo is the Co-founder and former CEO of RubiconMD, now a subsidiary of CVS Health. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Specialty Care Solutions at CVS Health. Founded in 2013, RubiconMD revolutionized healthcare by serving primary care clinicians across 37 states. The company was recognized by The Huffington Post as one of the “Five Companies Defining the Future of Healthcare” and, in 2020, was ranked #12 by AllianceBernstein on its list of the top 25 private companies disrupting the healthcare industry.

RubiconMD raised roughly $40 million in capital from top-tier investors and was acquired by Oak Street Health in 2021 for $190 million. Oak Street Health was subsequently acquired by CVS Health in 2023.

Before founding RubiconMD, Gil was a Consultant at Putnam Associates, a leading pharmaceutical strategy firm, where he developed payer and market access strategies for Fortune 500 clients. He also held strategy and business development roles at Xerox, Cubist (acquired by Merck), and two early-stage healthcare ventures.

Gil has been featured in Inc., Forbes, CNBC, Fortune, and Entrepreneurmagazines. He has been named one of Forbes' “30 Under 30” in healthcare, Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40, and Business Insider’s 30 Under 40 in healthcare. In 2020, he was named to Crain’s New York list of the Most Notable in Healthcare, and in 2017, he received their Heritage Healthcare Innovator of the Year award. Gil is currently an Operating Partner at Waterline Ventures and board director for Intus Care. He holds a faculty appointment as an Entrepreneur in-Residence at Harvard Business School. He received a BS in Economics and Biomedical Engineering from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. He sits on the boards of two nonprofits, The New York Academy of Medicine and the Help USA.

 
 

Angela Bader, MD, MPH

Angela Bader is Brigham and Women’s Endowes Professor at Harvard Medical School. She received her MD as well as an MPH in Policy and Management from Harvard. She was the founding director of the preoperative medicine clinic at the Brigham & Women’s. Her research focuses on valued based health care, shared decision making, and perioperative optimization.

 
 

Audrey Provenzano, MD, MPH

Audrey Provenzano is an internist and healthcare leader specializing in the care of vulnerable populations. After completing her Internal Medicine and Primary Care training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she completed the Kraft Fellowship in Community Health Leadership. Dr. Provenzano then joined the faculty at MGH Chelsea, where she provided clinical care, supervised trainees, and ultimately served as the Unit Chief of the Adult Medicine Department for four years. In 2023, she transitioned to Boston Medical Center to become the Associate Chief of Clinical Affairs for Primary Care. In this role, she oversees the hospital’s flagship internal medicine primary care clinic, which serves over 40,000 patients. She is deeply committed to optimizing the primary care experience for both patients and caregivers.

 
 

Mahek A. Shah, MD, MBA, MPA

Dr. Mahek A. Shah is a physician, strategist, and healthcare executive who integrates medicine, artificial intelligence, business, and policy to drive systemic transformation in global health. As founder of WTM Global, he advises Fortune 500 companies, governments, and startups on AI integration, value-based care, and responsible innovation. With experience spanning Wall Street, clinical practice, and academia—including leading value-based care initiatives at Harvard Business School under Professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan—Dr. Shah bridges economic strategy and human-centered design. A Harvard Kennedy School graduate, he focuses on ethical AI, public-private health partnerships, and equitable innovation. His thought leadership appears in top journals and platforms such as WHO, NEJM, JAMA, and Forbes, and he has spoken at TEDx and the World Economic Forum. Holding degrees from Baylor, Cornell, Harvard, and Rice, Dr. Shah is also the creator of the “From Wall Street to Care Street” podcast and a lifelong connector passionate about aligning finance, technology, and humanity in healthcare.

 
 

Lara Terry, MD, MPH

Dr. Lara Terry brings 20+ years of experience working in large integrated healthcare systems, venture-backed companies and academic medicine to her current role as Chief of Value Based Care at Boston Medical Center Health System. In this role, she addresses opportunities to improve clinical care delivery and risk contract performance using a data driven approach.

Prior to this role, Dr. Terry held leadership roles at Atrius Health in Population Health and Mass General Brigham in Medical Analytics and Informatics.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Terry worked in industry and, before that, academic research. She has over 25 publications and is a Paul B. Beeson Scholar, a national honor given to leaders in aging research.

She received degrees from Tufts University (BS), Harvard University (MPH) and UMDNJ (MD). She is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics and maintains a clinical practice caring for patients with cognitive decline.