Our Company

As President and CEO, David provides enterprise leadership and strategic direction for Navitus to drive its continued growth. He is responsible for external relationships such as industry thought-leader engagement, media interaction, and potential and current client strategies and support. David collaborates with the executive management team to maintain Navitus’ strategic plan and to develop and direct its goals, policies and execution.

Prior to joining Navitus, David served as President of Dean Health Plan, where he led the operations and continued growth of one of the largest HMOs in the Midwest, with a network of more than 4,000 practitioners at nearly 200 primary care sites and 28 hospitals. David has also served as Executive Vice President—Markets at Blue Shield of California, where he managed a nearly $20 billion, 4-million member non-profit health plan. He has previously held executive roles at Aetna, Coventry, Anthem and Humana, where he oversaw a health plan that included a 110-physician, multi-specialty group practice. David began his career as a CPA, providing auditing services for publicly traded hospital and insurance clients. 

David has held leadership positions on a number of boards, including the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Labor-Management Council and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He earned a degree in accounting from the University of Louisville and has completed executive education at Duke University and Harvard University.

As Chief Administrative Officer, Carrie provides active leadership and support for the organization’s Human Resources, Corporate Compliance, Information Governance, and Fraud Programs.

In this role, Carrie is accountable for day-to-day implementation, performance and maintenance of company processes and controls.

Carrie has more than 25 years of experience across several health care disciplines, including physician, hospital, home health, and pharmacy, as well as contracting and revenue cycle. She has been involved with HIPAA since the inception of the privacy and security rules.

Carrie is certified in health care compliance through the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and serves on the Board of Directors and Privacy Workgroup for the HIPAA Collaborative of Wisconsin.

As Chief Pharmacy Officer, Sharon oversees Health Strategies, Provider Services and Lumicera Health Services.

Within the Health Strategies division, Sharon’s accountability includes clinical and population health initiatives, drug utilization review programs, formulary and drug rebate management, and outcomes management. She is also accountable for Provider Services efforts, including developing, auditing and credentialing pharmacy networks that meet client access, discount and quality needs. This includes procurement strategies for pharmacy services through retail, mail and specialty channels to provide the best value to clients and members.

Sharon previously served as the Vice President, Specialty Pharmacy, at Lumicera Health Services. Lumicera is a subsidiary of Navitus and uniquely delivers a cost-plus model for specialty pharmacy.

Prior to joining the organization, Sharon worked as a clinical pharmacist in both retail and health system pharmacies. In these roles, she developed a clinical and patient-care foundation, conducting comprehensive medication reviews for patients with complex therapies and providing patient-centered consultations.

Sharon earned her Doctor of Pharmacy and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is a licensed pharmacist in Wisconsin and is on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy and the Drug Selection Advisory Committee for CivicaScript. In 2023, she was awarded the top 50 most influential leaders in Pharmacy award presented by the Pharmacy Podcast network.

As Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, George is responsible for providing strategic leadership to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies. In this role, George leads fiscal functions including finance and budgeting, analytics, investments and partnerships, accounting, AP/AR, payroll, and actuarial services and underwriting. 

With over 25 years of senior executive experience in health care services and having worked for both Fortune 100 and private equity-backed companies, George brings a notable breadth and depth of expertise to Navitus.  He is well versed to lead in accordance to Financial Accounting Standard Board principles as well as financial management techniques and practices appropriate within the healthcare industry and for private companies.

As Chief Growth Officer, Diana is accountable for business growth and expansion within markets that Navitus serves. She is a champion for customer centricity, providing leadership to further market-driven action, excellent service, and achievement of aligned goals. Her organization spans new sales and business development, proposals, marketing, implementation, client financial analysis, account management, and clinical account management.

Diana brings 30 years of experience managing accelerated business development in the health care space. Prior to joining Navitus, she served as Vice President and Chief Growth Officer at Aetna and Vice President and General Manager at Blue Shield of California.

She is a former director of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in Alameda County, California. Diana holds a Master of Business Administration degree in marketing from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Riverside.

As Chief Operating Officer, Darryl is responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight for Navitus PBM operations and technology. This includes enabling technologies for core service capabilities, such as eligibility, claims administration and customer care operations. Additional areas of accountability include data quality and informatics, process automation, and customer and member digital experience.

Before joining the Navitus team Darryl served as CEO of MEACO Konnect after working at Rx Outreach for 11 years as COO and CEO. Darryl began his professional career as an officer in the United States Army. After his service in the military, he worked for Anheuser-Busch, later Anheuser-Busch InBev, for nearly 19 years in various positions. Before joining Rx Outreach, Darryl transitioned to Senior Director of Operations at Express Scripts.

Darryl has served on several non-profit Boards: Gifted Resource Council, NeedyMeds, Behavioral Health Network of Greater St. Louis, BJC Patient Care Committee and Missouri Baptist Medical Center. He currently serves as a Trustee at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy.

Darryl holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management information systems from Old Dominion University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Webster University.

As Navitus’ Chief Legal Officer, Paul manages legal matters related to the company, leading a team that provides expertise on legal and regulatory issues as well as government relations. His team focuses on business law, lobbying and advocacy, statutory and regulatory requirements, contracts, information technology and intellectual property, health care law, negotiations, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Navitus in 2014, Paul worked in private legal practice as a solo practitioner and at the law firm of Quarles & Brady. He also held various roles at Dean Health Systems.

Paul received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, graduating cum laude. He also earned a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Wisconsin — La Crosse. He is admitted to practice law in Wisconsin, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the U.S. District Courts of Eastern and Western Wisconsin.

Ben is General Manager of Specialty Pharmacy, at Lumicera Health Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Navitus Health Solutions and a full-service national specialty pharmacy accredited by both URAC and ACHC. In this role, Ben provides strategic direction and oversight at Lumicera. His accountability includes operations, strategy and business development, and continuing to ensure that Lumicera delivers an exceptional specialty pharmacy program to meet the needs of their patients and partners.

Ben most recently served as Lumicera’s Vice President of Pharmacy Operations and Business Development. In this role, Ben utilized his experience and passion for operations to expand Lumicera’s capabilities and help grow the organization. Using his expertise in logistics, cold chain management, procurement and vendor management, Ben developed a specialty pharmacy fulfillment center of excellence, which has led to strategic engagements with national carriers and speaking engagements at some of the largest logistics conventions in the country.

Ben is a Certified Specialty Pharmacist and Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin and his MBA from the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

As President and CEO of Archimedes, Heather provides vision and strategic direction for continued growth of Archimedes, a specialty drug management company that provides analytics, technology, and service solutions for employers, health plans, and health systems. She is responsible for industry thought leadership, forward leaning solutions, and alignment with clients to achieve their goals. Heather collaborates with the executive management team at the enterprise and board level.

Heather brings more than 20 years of experience to the role.  She is a proven executive leader with an extensive portfolio of achievements. Prior to joining Archimedes, Heather demonstrated successful progression through a high-performance organization, serving as General Manager and Vice President of Product and Research at Express Scripts. Among her many initiatives during her 16-year tenure at Express Scripts, Heather had leading roles in acquisition integrations, clinical thought leadership and new product launches. She is named on 2 patents through her work.

Heather made the move to Archimedes to align with the payers. Given the skyrocketing cost of pharmacy benefits and the expectation that specialty drug spend would exceed 50% of the benefit, it was evident to her that it was time to challenge the status quo. At Archimedes, Heather has been able to work with billions of dollars of drug spend across both the pharmacy and the medical benefits, providing guidance and solutions for plans looking for ways to maintain high quality clinical care at an appropriate price. Taking this pragmatic and aligned approach, Heather has been successful at savings clients millions of wasted dollars in specialty drug management. As an influencer, Heather has led many market-changing solutions through her work with Archimedes, paving the way for more sustainable pharmacy and medical specialty drug benefits.

Heather has co-authored and published thought leadership pieces on pharmacy benefit management and industry changing strategies.  She has received pharmacy leadership awards from St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Heather holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from St. Louis College of Pharmacy and completed a specialized pharmacy residency at St. Louis College of Pharmacy after graduation.

“Plan sponsors do not have to accept the status quo; there are solutions to help keep the specialty drug benefits affordable and sustainable.”