Rick Brajer Email & Phone Number

Rick Brajer is a CEO and Member of the Board at United Energy Workers Healthcare based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, North America. The son of Yugoslavian immigrants, Rick brings over 20 years of President and CEO leadership experience in healthcare, including venture, private equity, public (IPO), and public service (cabinet level government) environments. His leadership efforts are now solely focused on healthcare services to vulnerable populations (I/DD; mental health; substance use; elderly; occupational illnesses; at-risk youth). Prior leadership of businesses through a broad variety of complex challenges including market conversions to new clinical standards of care, turnaround to growth, complex M&A integrations, change in service delivery models, and shift from private company to public company status (IPO). Strategic and operating versatility in multiple sites of care (consumer health, physician office, clinical laboratory, payor, integrated health systems, decentralized provider based; long-term care), geographies (US, Country level within Europe, and Worldwide responsibility), and varying scale (start-up to mature global businesses). Strong understanding for the requirements of businesses as they scale, having successfully led health care service, diagnostic, diabetes, medical device, and technology enabled service businesses ranging from $24 million to $1.2 billion in revenue. Key strengths include leading change, shaping strategy, raising capital, creating highly engaged teams, attracting and developing talent, and building the systems and culture that drive execution. Recently led system-wide reform efforts through public service, as North Carolina's Secretary of Health and Human Services. This was a cabinet level position for a $20 billion agency with approximately 15,000 employees. System-level change included Medicaid reform, mental health and substance use system redesign, construction of state operated psychiatric hospitals, modernization and integration of IT systems, integrating data analytics into program operations, and new program initiatives targeted at improving the population health and work readiness of North Carolina's 10 million citizens.