Dr. David Rhew, ‘92 MD

David is Microsoft’s Global Chief Medical Officer & VP of Healthcare. He has served as Microsoft’s International Coordinator for the Pandemic Response, working with WHO to develop their World Health Data Hub, CDC to standup their vaccine data lake, and U.S. states to roll-out COVID-19 vaccines.

He is Adjunct Professor at Stanford University; holds six U.S. technology patents that enable authoring, mapping, and integration of clinical decision support into electronic health records; and has been recognized as one of the 50 most influential clinician executives by Modern Healthcare.

Dr. Rhew received his Bachelors of Science degrees in computer science and cellular molecular biology from University of Michigan. He received his MD degree from Northwestern University and completed internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He completed fellowships in health services research at Cedars-Sinai and infectious diseases at UCLA.

He has served as CMO for Samsung and Zynx Health and sat on National Quality Forum’s Executive CSAC Board. He is Chair-emeritus for Consumer Technology Association’s Health Technology Board and currently serves on AdvaMed’s Digital Health Board; the Governing Committee for NESTcc, the medical device advisory group for FDA, CMS, and NIH; and the Board of Directors for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Ricky Goldwasser, ‘98 MBA

Ricky Goldwasser has spent her career advising institutional investors and public and private companies across the healthcare services continuum. She spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley where she was a managing director, head of U.S. Healthcare Services & Technology Research and most recently Investment Banking groups, and was co-head of U.S. Healthcare Research at UBS.

Throughout her career, she has led many successful initial public offerings including Livongo, Accolade, GoodRx, One Medical, Doximity, Oscar, Alignment, AmWell, Bright, and Oak Street. She has been recognized by Institutional Investor magazine as a top-ranked research analyst for 18 years. She currently sits on the board of Amwell. She holds an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Tel-‐Aviv University.

Lidia Fonseca

Lidia Fonseca is the Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Pfizer, responsible for enterprise-wide digital, data and technology strategy and solutions to support the purpose of delivering Breakthroughs that Change Patients’ Lives. In 2024, under Lidia’s leadership, Pfizer was one of four drug and biotechnology companies recognized in Forbes’ inaugural list of America’s Best Employers for Tech Workers. Lidia is a member of the Board of Directors of Medtronic and the U.S.-Japan Business Council.

She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA and Master Business Informatics from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Graduate School of Business.

Akshay Kapur

Akshay is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office. Over the course of more than 15 years, he has served clients across healthcare, including payers, pharmacy-benefit managers, health systems, service providers, brokers, and large employers. His clients include publicly traded, mutual, and not-for-profit organizations.

Akshay specializes in corporate and business-unit strategy development, M&A, and performance transformation. Within healthcare, he leads McKinsey’s commercial and employer-benefit services segments, focusing on tangible, multilever performance-improvement actions across growth, medical cost, and administrative cost.

Akshay is also a leader in McKinsey’s Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. In addition to performing client work, he leads McKinsey’s major pre-eminent forums, including Global Business Leaders Forum and Board Forums.

Outside the firm, Akshay serves on the Leadership Council of Civic Consulting Alliance in Chicago

Dr. Sanjay B. Saxena, ‘94, ‘99 MBA, MD

Sanjay Saxena, M.D., is a Senior Partner and Managing Director, at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He most recently served as the Global Sector Leader of the BCG’s Health Care Payers, Providers, Health Care Systems and Services (PPSS) business for the past 7 years.

Sanjay has spent 25 years working with the Boards, CEOs and senior management teams of leading payers, providers and healthcare services companies. He also works closely with VC, private equity and technology firms looking to invest in, grow and scale their healthcare businesses.

His expertise includes developing enterprise/business unit strategy; driving large-scale transformation, change and enablement programs; leading merger integration efforts; and accelerating value realization through digital transformation, major cost-out and/or organizational restructuring initiatives.

Sanjay received an MBA with distinction from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. In addition, he holds a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. His undergraduate degrees are also from Northwestern University, where he completed a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a B.A. in Philosophy.

Dr. Craig Garthwaite

Professor Garthwaite is the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, Professor of Strategy, and the Director of the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK). He is an applied economist whose research examines the business of healthcare with a focus on the interaction between private firms and public policies. Garthwaite received a B.A. and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland.

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