Garner’s mission is to transform the healthcare economy, delivering high-quality and affordable care for all.
Our goal is to change how our health care system works at its core
Using a new approach to data science and novel financial incentives, we help patients identify the highest-quality care and help doctors improve how they practice medicine.
We seek to change the economics of health care so that providers thrive by practicing the best medicine, not by performing more invasive procedures. If you are excited about delivering high-quality and affordable health care for all, join us.
Our Values
Our values flow from our mission and were shaped by the language and ideas of our employees. Our culture connects us in caring deeply about doing something different and hard: transforming the healthcare economy. The values are the code behind that culture — an actionable set of norms for how we operate with one another, including how we make decisions and support each other.
We are singularly focused on our mission to transform the healthcare system.
We embrace the hard work needed to accomplish our audacious goals.
We move with the utmost sense of urgency.
We cultivate a high-performing team where everyone is expected to deliver exceptional results.
We welcome talent from all backgrounds and always reward merit over experience.
We believe that individual accountability is essential to producing the highest quality outcomes.
We share feedback directly and authentically, even when doing so is challenging.
We own our mistakes and are eager to improve.
We get to the best answers by openly discussing our disagreements.
We believe that empathy and kindness create a more enjoyable workplace and fuel higher productivity.
We proactively share ideas, surface issues and drive improvement outside our area of focus.
We help our teammates, knowing we have the same mission.
Our leadership
Nick Reber
Nick Reber
Nick Reber is the Founder and CEO of Garner Health. Prior to founding Garner, Nick served on the leadership team at Oscar Health where he focused on analytics and provider network development, and helped oversee the firm’s growth to over $2 billion in revenue. Prior to Oscar, Nick was a partner at Bridgewater Associates where he served as co-head of Research Analytics.
Phil Salinger
Phil Salinger
Phil's data and research background fuels Garner's data-driven mission to reshape healthcare. Prior to Garner, Phil spent 15 years at Bridgewater, where he led the firm's currency trading. There he ran the research and algorithm construction that powered the world's largest actively traded currency portfolio. Outside of work, Phil is a board director for STRIVE, a nationwide workforce development nonprofit, and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his family.
Michi Kono
Michi Kono
Michi Kono is the CTO of Garner Health and a seasoned technology leader. At Stripe, he led teams overseeing core ML models for payment fraud prevention and identity verification. At Meta, he managed the global payment processing systems that powered all company-wide commerce. At Capital One, he spearheaded the development of the company’s inaugural ML feature engineering platform and registry. Known for scaling high-performing, distributed teams, Michi excels in data-driven leadership and driving transformative engineering initiatives.
Steve Santangelo
Steve Santangelo
As Chief Revenue Officer, Steve has overall accountability for the sales and distribution of Garner Health’s employer product offering. Prior to joining Garner Health, Steve held a wide variety of sales and leadership roles during his 10+ year career at United Healthcare. His most recent position at UHC was the Vice President of Specialty Sales, for the Northeast Region. Overall, Steve is an experienced sales leader with strong market knowledge and vast experience across many commercial insurance products and segments.
Jake Shuster
Jake Shuster
Jake Shuster is the CFO of Garner Health and has spent 12+ years in Finance roles. Prior to joining Garner, Jake led Finance teams for high-growth companies including Clear (NYSE:YOU) and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). He started his career in consulting and private equity.
Emily Hayne
Emily Hayne
Emily Hayne is Senior Vice President of Provider Partnerships at Garner Health, where she leads strategy and growth across Garner’s provider ecosystem. She brings more than a decade of experience building and scaling relationships with health systems and physician groups, with prior roles at Carrum Health, Abbott, and the Advisory Board Company (now part of Optum).
Our investors
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Recognized for excellence
Our incredible team is the heart of our thriving culture, which has earned us four Comparably Top Workplace awards. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.
