Healthcare Industry Veteran Brings Over a Decade of Business Development Experience and Entrepreneurial Acumen to the Peer-Based Community Health Organization
Redwood City, California, December 7, 2023 – Wider Circle, a peer-based community health organization working with payers and providers to connect neighbors for better health, today announced the appointment of Brett Zelkind as the company’s chief strategy officer. In this role he will be responsible for driving the company’s growth trajectory while also cultivating strategic partnership with health plans and providers that support Medicare and Medicaid members across the country.
Brett joins Wider Circle from andros where, as chief strategy officer, he drove the company’s business development efforts while leading multiple funding rounds, leading M&A activity, overseeing acquisition integration, and supporting efforts to move the company’s product from a solution to a full platform offering. Previously in his career he held management positions at WellCare Health Plans, and business advisory firms WeiserMazars and Marwood Group. Brett has an MBA from the University of Delaware and a BA from the University at Buffalo.
“We are thrilled to welcome Brett to the Wider Circle executive leadership bench and look forward to harnessing his deep healthcare and more specifically his extensive payor and value-based care experience to elevate how we extend the reach and impact of the Wider Circle model to support even more members in the year ahead,” said Darin Buxbaum, CEO of Wider Circle.
In 2015, Wider Circle set out to find a better way to help Americans thrive at any age. Today the company remains committed to solving the last mile of healthcare by building neighborhood groups that empower members to motivate and support each other to get the care they need, when they need it, where they need it. This is accomplished by using the company’s analytics capabilities to identify members who are eligible for the program and building trusted neighborhood groups, leveraging its multi-modal outreach techniques to engage these populations where they are in the community. 2023 has been a year of significant growth for Wider Circle. With Brett onboard, the company expects to continue its rapid growth in 2024. .
“At every stage of my professional career, I looked for roles that could simultaneously challenge and inspire me and ultimately afford me with an opportunity to have a profound impact on healthcare delivery,” said Brett Zelkind. “As Wider Circle’s Chief Strategy Officer I look forward to working in close collaboration with senior leadership to continue to identify new ways to extend the company’s mission and advance its unique peer-supported community care model to meet the needs of at-risk health plan members at the hyper-local level.”
About Wider Circle
Wider Circle works with health plans and providers nationally to deliver unique community care programs that connect neighbors for better health. Centered on trusted relationships, Wider Circle connects health plan members with like-minded neighbors to inform, support and motivate one another, empowering them to be more proactive about their health. Wider Circle’s trusted delivery network has been proven to drive resilience, improve member experience, engagement and reduce inappropriate utilization and has been published in the peer reviewed literature. Today, Wider Circle offers its unique neighborhood care programs to tens of thousands of communities nationwide. To learn more, visit widercircle.com.
