Board of Directors

Ron Williams has served as a director and chairman of the board of agilon health since 2017. Mr. Williams also is chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises and serves as an operating advisor to CD&R. Mr. Williams serves on the board of directors of American Express Company, The Boeing Company and Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Williams also served on the Board of Envision Healthcare from May 2011 to October 2017. Mr. Williams served as the CEO and Chairman of Aetna Inc. from February 2006 and October 2006 to December 2010 and April 2011, respectively. Mr. Williams also serves as Chairman of The Conference Board and a director of NAF and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Mr. Williams received his B.A. from Roosevelt University and holds an M.S. in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Steve Sell has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and director since June 2020. In addition to his current role as Chief Executive Officer and President and director of agilon health, Steve also serves as an advisor to several early-stage healthcare companies. Steve served as President, CEO and Chairman of Health Net from March 2016 to June 2019 and President, Western Region of Health Net from November 2008 to March 2016. Steve received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sharad Mansukani, M.D. has served as a director of agilon health since 2017. Dr. Mansukani also serves as a Senior Advisor to TPG, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Convey Health Solutions. Dr. Mansukani served as Chairman of the board of directors to Envision Rx Options from 2013 to 2016; a strategic advisor to the board of directors at Cigna Corp. from 2012 to 2015; Vice Chairman, Board of Directors of Health Spring, Inc. from 2007 to 2012; a director of IMS Health Holdings, Inc. from 2009 to 2016; a director of Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc. from 2007 to 2017; as lead director of IASIS Healthcare from 2005 to 2018; and a director of Kindred Healthcare, Inc. from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Mansukani also has served as a Senior Advisor on Medicare’s Program Advisory and Oversight Committee to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and senior vice president and chief medical officer at Health Partners. Dr. Mansukani completed a residency and fellowship in ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a fellowship in quality management and managed care at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the Managed Care Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Business.

Ravi Sachdev has served as a director of agilon health since 2017. Mr. Sachdev also serves as a director of Covetrus, Inc. and Steve Madden, Inc. As a Partner of CD&R since June 2015, Mr. Sachdev focuses on the healthcare sector. From November 2010 to May 2015, Mr. Sachdev was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Healthcare Services at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Prior to November 2010, Mr. Sachdev held the 142 positions of Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. from January 2009 until November 2010 and Director at Deutsche Bank AG from January 2007 until January 2009. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank AG in 2006 as a Vice President, Mr. Sachdev served as a Vice President at Peter J. Solomon Company, an investment banking firm, specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector, from 1998 to 2006. Mr. Sachdev received his B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Richard Schnall has served as a director of agilon health since 2017. Mr. Schnall also serves as co-President of CD&R and on the board of directors of SmileDirectClub, Inc., as well as on the board of directors of Carestream Dental LLC, DeVilbiss Healthcare LLC and Healogics, Inc. Mr. Schall previously served on the board of directors of US Foods and Envision Healthcare. Mr. Schnall worked in the investment banking divisions of Smith Barney & Co. and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Schnall is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Michael Smith has served as a director of agilon health since 2017. Mr. Smith is also the co-founder and Senior Advisor of Cardinal Equity Fund. Mr. Smith also served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Anthem, Inc. from January 1999 until his retirement in January 2005. Mr. Smith joined Anthem in April 1996 as Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer of Anthem’s subsidiary American Health Network. Mr. Smith has served as an advisor to or director for several public and private companies, including Vectren Corporation, Envision Health Care and HH Gregg. For each of the foregoing companies, Mr. Smith served as both a director and chair of the audit committee. Mr. Smith received a degree in Economics from DePauw University. He has also served as the Chair of Indiana Commission for Higher Education and is currently serving as chair of Governor Holcomb’s Commission for Next Level Teacher Pay.

Derek Strum has served as a director of agilon health since 2017. Mr. Strum also serves as a partner at CD&R, and on the board of directors of Carestream Dental, Cynosure, Digestive Disease Research Foundation, Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare and Healogics. Previously, Mr. Strum worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley from 2000 to 2003, and at York Capital Management, a multi-strategy investment firm, during the summer of 2006. Mr. Strum received his B.A. from Emory University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

William Wulf, M.D. has served as a director of agilon health since 2017. In addition to his role as director of agilon health, Dr. Wulf is the CEO of Central Ohio Primary Care. COPC is one of our physician group partners. Dr. Wulf was a founding partner of COPC in 1996 and assumed the role of CEO in 2013 after 25 years as a practicing Internist and the Corporate Medical Director. Dr. Wulf has also served as an advisor for multiple payors, including Anthem, Aetna and United Healthcare. Dr. Wulf received his BS from 143 Ohio State University and his M.D. from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo.

Dr. Michelle Gourdine joined the agilon health board of directors in Jan 2021 and is passionate about reducing healthcare inequality. Besides being a primary care physician, health policy specialist, and expert in preventive health and wellness, Michelle has gained acclaim as an author for her book: Reclaiming Our Health:  A Guide to African American Wellness (Yale University Press, April 2011). She is a frequent speaker for organizations including the American Diabetes Association, the American Cancer Society, the Institute of Medicine, Howard University, and the National Association of Health Services Executives. Michelle is SVP and Chief Medical Officer (interim) for the University of Maryland Medical System, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Senior Associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the former Deputy Secretary of Health and Chief Public Health Physician for the state of Maryland and former Health Commissioner for Baltimore County. 

Clay Richards joined the agilon health board of directors in Jan 2021. Clay is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of naviHealth; Clay has responsibility for the organization's strategic vision and leadership. Richards spent most of his career in health care, where he most recently served in executive roles at Healthways, Inc. prior to founding naviHealth. He is active in the community and serves on the board of the Martha O'Bryan Center, which empowers children, youth, and adults in poverty to transform their lives, and on the Oak Hill School Board, as well as the Nashville Health Care Council Board and Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School Board of Visitors.