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Elara Caring is one of the nation’s largest providers of home-based care, with a footprint in the Northeast, Midwest and South. Elara Caring brings together three award-winning organizations — Great Lakes Caring, National Home Health Care, and Jordan Health Services — into one transformational company. We provide the highest-quality comprehensive care continuum of personal care, skilled home health, hospice care and behavioral health.

Our intimate understanding of our patients’ needs allows us to apply proprietary platforms to deliver proactive, customized care that improves quality of life and keeps patients in their homes.

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Scott Powers

Chief Executive Officer

Scott Powers

Chief Executive Officer

Scott has years of experience as an industry leader dedicated to transforming health care to be high quality, personalized, and consumer focused. Most recently, Scott led Alignment Healthcare as the nation’s fastest growing and most disruptive Medicare Advantage and chronic disease management company. Prior to Alignment, Scott served as the President of Health Insurance at Cambia Health Solutions, guiding and transforming the four-state Regence Blue Cross & Shield into a disruptive and rapid growth payer. Prior to his experience in the healthcare sector, Scott built a career driving innovation, quality, and performance excellence as a managing partner at Alvarez & Marsal and a senior executive at Intel Corporation.

Scott has served on numerous boards, industry associations, and continues to advise companies who are disrupting and innovating healthcare. He holds both an MBA and BS from W.P. Carey at Arizona State University. Scott has been married to his wife, Sarah, for 30 years, and they have five children and one grandchild.

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Bruce Jarvie

Chief Financial Officer

Bruce Jarvie

Chief Financial Officer

Bruce has provided financial advisory services to companies and stakeholders in various industries for over 30 years. Prior to joining Elara Caring, Bruce served as CFO at EmblemHealth beginning in 2018. He engaged with EmblemHealth to support a multimillion dollar improvement in margin from portfolio shaping, outsourcing, network

management, pricing strategy and administrative expense reductions. Bruce has also held several financial leadership positions, including Chief Financial Officer at Optum, Vice President Finance at BAE Systems and at the parent company of United Airlines, UAL Corporation.

 

Bruce earned a B.S from University of Colorado and holds an MBA from Purdue University.

  

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Jeff Bonham

President of Markets

Jeff Bonham

President, Personal Care Services

Jeff brings over 25 years of health care experience, including operational experience in personal care, home health and hospice operations and financial management. He was previously Founding Executive with Advance Healthcare Consulting, LLC, an operational consulting company focused on assisting post-acute care providers and a co-founder of Valor Home Health Care, LLC. He also served in operational and finance positions with Auxi Healthcare, Inc. and Administrator of Home Health Care for Williamson County Programs on Aging in Herrin, IL.

Jeff earned a B.S from Bradley University and holds an MBA from the University of Nevada.

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Ian Gordon

President of Operations

Ian Gordon

President of Operations

Ian has over 20 years of experience in the health insurance industry. He previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Solera Health, where he proactively matched patients to "best fit" prevention, coping, and support programs and services based on each individual needs and preferences. Ian has also held prominent positions as Senior Vice President of Health Plan Operations at Regence BlueCross BlueShield and Chief Operations Officer at BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.

 

Ian earned a B.S from Montclair State University and M.S. from University of Virginia. He also holds a MBA from Rider University.

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Dave Marchand

Chief Information Officer

Dave Marchand

Chief Information Officer

Dave has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry, designing and building innovative and transformative solutions for the healthcare, financial services, defense, aerospace, petroleum, travel, and telecommunications industries. Dave joined National Home Health Care in 2017 and previously served as CIO for Jordan Health Services since 2013. Dave initially engaged with Jordan to solidify the company’s security architecture, streamline and integrate various applications, and most recently advance Jordan’s proprietary ADL application and services model.

Prior to joining Elara Caring, Dave held senior level positions at several companies including President/CEO of Precision Genetics, Chief Information and Technology Officer at Accelion, and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Dell/Perot Systems.

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Patricia Bradford

Chief Human Resource Officer

Patricia Bradford

CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER

Pat is an experienced Human Capital executive with more than 30 years in the profession. She has an excellent track record in Human Capital management in startup environments as well as Fortune 500 organizations. She has led the Human Capital function in several industries, including for naviHealth. She also has proven experience building a Human Resource organization in a high growth company. Her experience allows her to effectively influence the delicate balance of employee and company needs. Pat joined National Home Health (now Elara Caring) in August of 2016.

 

Pat earned her B.A in Communications from the University of Denver. She has earned professional certifications in HR and Labor Relations.

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Betta Swanson

Chief Compliance Officer

Betta Swanson

Chief Compliance Officer

Betta brings over 10 years of experience in healthcare compliance. She has a demonstrated history of building, managing, overseeing and leading complex compliance programs. Prior to joining Elara Caring, Betta served as Chief Compliance Officer at 21st Century Oncology Inc. where she was responsible for successfully managing all implementation, annual, and ongoing compliance requirements. She oversaw their enterprise-wide compliance program, provided guidance to the Board of Directors, and led a team of Regional Compliance Officers, Compliance Auditors, and HIPAA staff to ensure thorough compliance. She also served in compliance positions as Vice President at Strategic Management Services and as compliance team lead at ecfirst.

 

Betta earned a B.A. in Social Policy from Northwestern University, and a Master of Public Policy from The University of Chicago. She also holds a certification in Healthcare Compliance from the Compliance Certification Board (2013).

 

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Andrew Schwartz

Executive VP of Enterprise Development

Andrew Schwartz

Executive Vice President of Enterprise Development

Andrew brings over 15 years of investment and operating experience to his role at Elara Caring. Andrew is responsible for managing the day to day execution of value creation initiatives across Elara Caring. This includes performance management, data and analytics, operational execution, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisitions. He was previously an investment professional at Blue Wolf Capital, a private equity firm that makes transformational investments in middle market companies. At Blue Wolf, Andrew invested in and worked collaboratively with businesses to navigate pivotal inflection points, such as acquisitions, operational transformation, material market changes and distress.

Andrew began his career as an investment banker at JP Morgan and Citigroup. Andrew holds a B.A.S.c. in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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Joseph Jasser, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Joseph Jasser

CHIEF Medical OFFICER

Joseph brings over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, operating population health departments, overseeing clinical strategy, and managing primary care physicians. Prior to joining Elara Caring, Joseph was previously Chief Medical Officer with Signify Health, where he was responsible for the company’s clinical network, infrastructure and development. He has also served as V.P. Operations and Chief Medical Officer Cigna-Healthspring Point of Care, as well as Senior Medical Director at Cigna Medical Group.

 

Joseph earned a B.S from Ohio State University and holds an Executive MBA from Washington State University.

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Christopher MacInnis

Chief Revenue Officer

Christopher MacInnis

Chief Revenue officer

Christopher brings over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. During the past two decades, his career has focused on home and hospice care. Prior to joining Elara Caring, Christopher served as a Senior Vice President of Hospice - Home Health Operations and Senior Vice President of Business Development with Pruitt Healthcare in Norcross, Georgia. In these positions, he managed program development, strategy and sales operations for three business lines that generated hundreds of millions in annual revenue. As a leader in the healthcare field, Christopher was a Vice President of Strategy and Development with Kindred at Home in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was responsible for the internal Home Health, Hospice and Community Care continuum development. 

 

Christopher earned a B.S in Civil Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, and MBA from the University of South Carolina.

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Jennifer Kildea Dewane

General Counsel

Jennifer Kildea Dewane

GENERAL COUNSEL

Jennifer brings over 23 years of extensive health law experience in advising health care providers and health plans on regulatory, compliance, corporate, transactional and managed care matters. In her current role as General Counsel for Elara Caring, Jennifer provides legal advice on a broad range of issues impacting the in-home health care continuum, with a focus on compliance, governance and corporate matters. She previously served as Deputy General Counsel to CareSource, an organization that operates Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Marketplace and other government-sponsored health plans in various states.  Prior to CareSource, Jennifer was a partner at Foster Swift where, for 15 years, she exclusively practiced health care law and served as the firm’s Health Care Practice Group Leader and a member of the Executive Committee. Jennifer was also a member on the State Bar of Michigan Health Law Council for 9 years and continues to be a frequent speaker on health law topics.   

 

Jennifer earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law. She is admitted to practice law in Michigan and Ohio. She has received recognition for her work by Best Lawyers in America and by Michigan Super Lawyers.

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