Executive 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.

Tim Bensley has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 2021. Previously, Tim served as the Chief Financial Officer of Blue Apron, from May 2018 to December 2020, and a variety of finance leadership roles at PepsiCo from July 1986 to April 2015. At PepsiCo, Tim’s leadership roles included heading Financial Planning and Analysis, Supply Chain Finance and Sales Finance at Frito Lay North America; Senior Vice President of PepsiCo’s Global Transformation Group and serving as the Chief Financial Officer of Pepsi-Cola North America and ultimately PepsiCo Americas Foods. Tim received his B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Master’s degree in Project Management from Boston University.

Veeral Desai has served as our Chief Strategy and Development Officer since September 2020. Veeral joined agilon health in April 2017 as President of Enterprise Operations. Veeral served in several senior executive roles at Vantage Oncology (most recently as President of Operations, Chief Operating Officer for Vantage Cancer Care Network) from December 2010 to April 2017. Veeral served as a consultant at Bain & Company from September 2002 to July 2005 and September 2007 to December 2010. Veeral received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ben Kornitzer has served as our Chief Medical and Quality Officer since January 2020, when he joined agilon health. In addition to his role as Chief Medical and Quality Officer of agilon health. Ben served as Chief Medical Officer and Vice-President of the Mount Sinai Health Network from January 2014 to January 2020. Ben received his A.B. from Brown University and holds a medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed his residency at Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital.

Ben Shaker has served as our Chief Markets Officer since September 2020. Ben joined agilon health as Ohio Market President in January 2017. Ben served as Vice President and COO for Mount Carmel Health Partners, which is part of Trinity Health, from December 2013 to January 2017. Ben received his B.A. from Youngstown State University and holds a Master’s degree in Health Administration from The Ohio State University.

Girish Venkatachaliah has served as our Chief Technology Officer since January 2021. Girish served as a Partner, Data and Artificial Intelligence on the Growth Buyout team at Frazier Healthcare Partners from July 2020 to January 2021. Previously, Girish served as the Chief Technology & Product Officer of Decision Resources Group from September 2019 to April 2020. Girish also served as the Vice President of Data Strategy, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning at athenahealth from July 2017 to September 2019, where he led the strategy, research, product management and engineering teams. Prior to athenahealth, Girish held several executive roles at IBM and was the Vice President of Product Development, responsible for a portfolio of cloud offerings in Data and Artificial Intelligence, at the time of his departure. Girish received a Bachelor’s degree from Bangalore University and Master’s degrees from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Santa Clara University and jointly from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University.