About Us

Joe joined R1 in June 2013 and serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors. To this role, Joe brings 20+ years of management experience and will drive continued operational excellence, technology leadership and value creation for R1's client partners. Joe served as Chief Operating Officer prior to May 2016 and was instrumental in creating and standardizing the R1 Performance Stack℠

Previously, Joe served as a Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations and Supply Chain at Applied Materials Inc. Prior to joining Applied, Joe held executive positions in global operations for Nortel Networks Corporation, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, since 2006, including President of Nortel Business Services from August 2009 to February 2010, and Senior Vice President of Global Operations from August 2007 until August 2009. From 1993 to 2006, Joe held a number of positions at General Electric Company, a global infrastructure, finance and media company. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Rachel Wilson joined R1 in June 2020 as Executive Vice President, Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer. She is responsible for the Finance function, including Investor Relations and Treasury.

Rachel joined R1 with over 25 years of experience in capital markets, business finance, financial planning and analysis and investment banking. Rachel Wilson joined from Iron Mountain, where she was the Chief Financial Officer for Iron Mountain Data Centers and previously served leading Treasury and FP&A. Rachel is currently serving on the SEC’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC). Prior to Iron Mountain, Rachel served as vice president, Financial and Investor Relations and previously Corporate Development for the Jarden Corporation. Earlier in her career, Rachel was a managing director in corporate finance at Citigroup; and served in corporate finance and M&A investment banking roles with Morgan Stanley for over a decade.

Rachel has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a MA in International Relations and Economics from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies as part of a BA/MA program from Johns Hopkins University.

Gary joined R1 in August, 2017 as Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Gary will be responsible for R1’s customer growth initiatives, including sales, marketing, product management and solution development. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer at Premier Inc., where he developed and led the commercial organization.

Gary created a professional and sustainable market-focused organization while leading the business up to and beyond its successful IPO in 2013. Under Gary’s leadership the business more than doubled its annual revenues. Prior to Premier, Gary served as Senior Vice President of sales and support for Surgical Information Systems and previously worked at McKesson Corporation, where he held a series of progressive leadership roles in product management, corporate marketing and enterprise sales. Gary earned his bachelor's degree in Marketing from Auburn University and an MBA from Kennesaw State University. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kate Sanderson joined R1 in November, 2018 as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer. In this capacity, Kate is responsible for charting the course of our HR strategy and talent development needs for transforming the commercial infrastructure in healthcare.

Prior to joining R1, Kate spent 15 years in various HR leadership roles at Aon. In her last role at Aon Kate was responsible for a broad mandate relating to HR strategy and delivery including Total Rewards and HR Shared Services. Kate is experienced in driving large scale change initiatives including business transformation, global platform implementation and HR business process outsourcing (BPO) and offshoring. For the past decade Kate has held global roles overseeing teams and clients in Eastern and Western Europe and Asia / India in addition to North America. Prior to joining Aon in 2003, Kate worked at CIGNA where she was a graduate of the HR Leadership Program. She holds a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations (MILR) degree from Cornell University. Kate resides in Chicago and enjoys distance running, having completed 3 marathons.

Sean Radcliffe joined R1 in February 2017 and serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Sean has over two decades of experience guiding corporations through a wide range of business and legal matters, including strategic planning, intellectual property protection, client and vendor engagement, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, and all aspects of public company compliance.

Prior to joining R1, Sean served as General Counsel at Ciber, Inc., a nearly $800M public company providing global information technology consulting and outsourcing to commercial clients. Prior to Ciber, Sean spent eight years as Chief Corporate Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at IHS, helping to build a global intellectual property portfolio. Prior to that, he worked as a senior attorney at WilTel Communications, a major telecommunications firm. During his 20-year law career Sean also served at three Tulsa, Oklahoma-based law firms.

Corey Perman joined R1 in January 2015 and serves as Executive Vice President, Compliance & Risk. Corey leads the company’s global Compliance, Integrity and Risk Management programs with a commitment to building and enhancing compliant and ethical operations through subject matter expertise and a partnership-oriented approach with employees and customers alike. Corey’s responsibilities include monitoring, mitigating, and educating on risks across all service lines.

Prior to joining R1, Corey served as Senior Compliance Officer and Legal Counsel at Downers Grove, Illinois-based Advocate Health Care (2010-2015). Before joining Advocate, Corey practiced law in the Washington, D.C. and Chicago offices of Epstein Becker Green (2001-2009). His practice focused on health care litigation, investigations and compliance. Corey began his legal career as a Trial Attorney handling ERISA litigation for the United States Department of Labor (1998-2001). Corey has frequently presented at local and national health care programs and conferences on compliance and business ethics topics, including at the Health Care Compliance Association’s annual Compliance Institute. In the fall of 2017, Corey was featured in Profile Magazine in highlighting his and R1’s perspective and approach to ensuring ethical practices and processes throughout the company’s culture and workforce.Corey completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and attended law school at Washington University in St. Louis.

Wes joined R1 in 2004 and serves as Executive Vice President, Digital Solutions. Wes leads a cross-functional organization responsible for efficiently on-boarding new customers and integrating our Performance Stack℠ into our customers’ organizations. He brings a deep expertise in revenue cycle, our approach, and non-profit health systems to successfully launch new engagements with clients.Prior to this role, he held various other roles, including Leader of the East Region.

Prior to R1, Wes spent five years at Stockamp & Associates and Capgemini focused on revenue cycle consulting and change management projects. He led teams of consultants in revenue cycle transformation projects at not-for-profit Health Systems, focused on operational consolidation, net revenue and cost improvement.Wes received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University. He currently resides in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Logan joined R1 in 2004 and serves as Executive Vice President, Central Operations. In this capacity he leads our Central Operations and Shared Services where he is responsible for providing a scalable support infrastructure streamlining revenue cycle operations. He also has responsibility for Physician Advisory Services teams. He has held numerous other roles at our client sites across our markets over his career.

Prior to R1, Logan spent six years at Stockamp and Associates focused on revenue cycle consulting and change management projects. He led internal teams of consultants in achieving net revenue and cash improvement at client hospital sites across the country.Logan received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University. He currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.

John joined R1 in January 2004 and currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer. John is the operational leader of our revenue cycle customer engagements. Prior to this role, he served in various other positions including leader of the East region, leader of the Ascension Michigan Market, and other leadership roles in our Shared Service group. He brings extensive experience in all aspects of running modern revenue cycle operations.

Prior to joining R1, John spent seven years at Stockamp & Associates leading large-scale, end to end revenue cycle re-engineering projects for primarily academic health systems achieving 3%-4% in annual P&L benefit as well as significant balance sheet improvements. Prominent clients included NY Presbyterian, Continuum Health Partners of NY, University of Iowa Health System, UC San Diego Med Center, University of Colorado Health System. John received a Bachelor of Arts in Healthcare Administration and Political Science from Concordia College. He resides in Birmingham, Michigan

Chris joined R1 in 2008 and serves as Executive Vice President, Patient Operations and Customer Solutions. Chris leads an organization focused on designing long term customized solutions for R1’s customers and their patients. Chris brings deep expertise in financial analysis and operational design to create lasting positive experiences for R1’s customers and their patients. Previously, Chris has held multiple roles within R1 including overseeing its FP&A function, launching R1’s Analytics and Performance Management organization, and most recently overseeing R1’s Digital Transformation Office. In these roles Chris has spent significant time working nationally with all of R1’s Operating Partner customers to improve their net revenue performance and transforming their patient experience.

Prior to R1, Chris held multiple roles of increasing responsibility with HSBC a Global Financial Institution. Chris graduated from the University of Michigan with a BBA in Finance and Marketing. He currently resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife and 3 daughters.

Vijay joined R1 in October 2019 and serves as Chief Solutions Officer and Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development. He will be responsible for R1’s physician-focused operations, including growth, product development and strategic initiatives.

Vijay joins R1 with more than 20 years of healthcare experience in consulting, operations, and developing new healthcare business ventures, including over 15 years of experience developing and managing value-based payment models for providers and payors. Most recently, he was the Chief Value Officer for DaVita Medical Group with accountability for strategy, M&A, contracting, performance and operations. Prior to that, he was the Chief Financial Officer for DaVita Medical Group with responsibility for the finance function and oversight of joint ventures. Prior to DaVita, Kotte served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Medicare operations for Meridian Health Plan. Additionally, he previously served as President of the Midwest region for WellCare Health Plans, where he was responsible for operations, sales and long-term strategic planning.

Julia joined R1 in November 2019 and serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer. Julia is a strong, experienced technology leader who brings deep expertise in transforming technology organizations, modernizing/unifying fragmented IT infrastructure and developing forward-looking digital technology.

She started her career in the US Air Force then spent over 10 years at General Electric. At GE, she served as CIO for key, multi-billion dollar business segments including the Healthcare Financial Services and Business Productivity Division. Most recently, Julia was the CIO at Aflac U.S where she led a team of over 1000 associates overseeing development, delivery, and ongoing IT operations. Julia is a business-savvy technology leader who is known for her strong collaboration with the business and developing teams.