10 CHROs in Healthcare Technology
Chief people officers outnumber CHROs nine to one in this healthcare technology group, at employers from Datavant and Elation Health to Hippocratic AI, Signant Health and Definitive Healthcare. Six have held the top HR title at more than one company, and four name acquisitions or private equity ownership in their titles or profiles, which matters to a health tech company that is growing fast, raising money or folding in an acquisition.
Professionals to explore
Doug Battista
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Signant Health
As Chief People Officer at Signant Health since 2022, Doug Battista describes leading HR for a private equity backed business delivering technology for clinical trials, with a workforce on several continents. Doug was Chief Human Resources Officer at Sanford Burnham Prebys (2021-2022) and at Jenny Craig (2012-2014), and President Of Operations at Jenny Craig (2014-2019).
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Jeannine Lombardi
LinkedInExperience: Chief Human Resources Officer · Definitive Healthcare
Jeannine Lombardi holds the one current CHRO title in this group: Chief Human Resources Officer at Definitive Healthcare since 2025, a healthcare commercial intelligence company. Jeannine was Chief People Officer at Ginkgo Bioworks (2022-2025), EVP Chief Administrative & HR Officer at InfuSystem (2019-2022) and Chief Human Resources Officer at Crimson Hexagon (2016-2019), with three earlier top HR seats to compare.
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Jennifer Wood
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Experity
Chief People Officer at Experity since 2019, Jennifer Wood held the same title at Practice Velocity (2019), after Vice President, People Operations (2017-2019) and Director, People Operations (2015-2017) there. Jennifer describes HR work across healthcare technology, food ingredients, industrial biotechnology and plastics, with a focus on efficient HR systems and workplace culture.
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Kimberly L. Sisnett
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Chief People Officer · Ensora Health
Mental and behavioral health therapists are the customers of Ensora Health, a provider of software and services where Kimberly L. Sisnett has been SVP, Chief People Officer since 2023. Kimberly was Chief People Officer at Waystar (2020-2023), and also held Senior Vice President, People at Valassis Marketing Solutions (2020) and SVP, Human Resources - Americas at NTT DATA, Inc. (2018-2020).
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Kristin McQuiston, SHRM-CP, PHR
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Vyne
M&A, private equity, HR transformation and org design are the focus areas Kristin McQuiston names. Chief People Officer since 2023 at Vyne, a healthcare information exchange company, Kristin was at STANLEY Security Vice President, Human Resources (2021-2023), a title noting the company was acquired by Securitas Technology, after Human Resources Director, HR Manager and HR Business Partner titles.
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Laura O'Tuel
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Surgical Information Systems
Laura O'Tuel has been Chief People Officer at Surgical Information Systems since 2021, after Vice President, Human Resources (2016-2021) and Director, Human Resources & Recruiting (2011-2016) at the same company. Laura advises the CEO and Executive Committee on organizational strategy and was HR Recruiting Manager at EMS Technologies (2008-2011), a fit for growing HR from director to executive team.
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Lisa King, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · MedeAnalytics
MedeAnalytics, where Lisa King has been Chief People Officer since 2021, describes itself as a private equity funded, pre-IPO SaaS provider of analytics for healthcare payers and providers. Lisa was Chief Human Resources Officer at Powerhouse (2018-2021), held CHRO titles at Pinnacle Logistics and Orthotic Holdings Inc. (OHI), and was Vice President of Human Resources at Curtiss-Wright Corporation (2009-2015).
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Sarah Kasten
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Elation Health
For compensation and talent development questions, Sarah Kasten fits: Chief People Officer at Elation Health since 2021 (Elation describes EHR software for primary care), Executive HR Consultant at Springtide Child Development (2021), Head of Human Resources at Kaplan Test Prep (2015-2020) and Executive Director of Talent Development and Compensation at Kaplan (2009-2015).
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Sejal Rajagopalan
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Hippocratic AI
Since 2025, Sejal Rajagopalan has been Chief People Officer at Hippocratic AI, a company that builds generative AI healthcare agents for health systems, payors and pharma. Sejal was Senior Vice President, People at SmithRx (2021-2025), Director, Human Resources at C3 AI (2019-2021) and VP, Human Resources at Endpoint Clinical (2018).
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Susan Yun
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Datavant
Two of Susan Yun's chief people roles ended in acquisitions: Signify Health (2021-2023), acquired by CVS Health in March 2023, and ibi | Information Builders (2020-2021), acquired by TIBCO in December 2020. Susan has been Chief People Officer at Datavant since 2024 and held the same title at JDRF International (2016-2020), so integration and sale questions fit well.
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Choose the right perspective
For acquisitions, talk to Susan Yun, whose two employers before Datavant were acquired, or Kristin McQuiston, who lists M&A and private equity; Doug Battista and Lisa King both work at companies described as private equity backed. Laura O'Tuel and Jennifer Wood reached the chief people role inside companies where they had held earlier HR titles, Sejal Rajagopalan fits an AI company, and Sarah Kasten, Kimberly L. Sisnett and Jeannine Lombardi cover primary care EHR software, behavioral health software and healthcare commercial intelligence.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you set pay bands when a health tech company hires clinicians, engineers and sales staff in the same year?
- 02What should the people team do in the first 90 days after a healthcare software company is acquired by a larger healthcare buyer?
- 03How does HR get a private equity backed health tech leadership team ready for a sale or a public offering?
About this directory
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