Michael G. Wilson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Michael G. Wilson is the head cheerleader of Healthcare Highways (HCH), a father of two, and a leader of hundreds who believes collaboration breeds candor, integrity, ingenuity, and drive.

Michael has more than 36 years of experience in healthcare consulting, building out high-performance value-based networks and consulting with hospital systems and employers on direct contracts. He began his career with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York, and then cofounded Equitable Plan Services, Inc., a third-party administrator (TPA) located in Oklahoma. He went on to found PPO Oklahoma, Corporate Health Plans of America, Inc. (CHPA), and later Texas True Choice, Inc. (TTC), which became one of the largest PPO networks in Texas.

In 2008, Michael acquired Century Healthcare, only selling the company after growing it into a recognized market leader in limited-benefit plans, MEC, and MVP. With Healthcare Highways established and successful in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas, Michael is now focusing his efforts on growing the model nationwide.

Michael graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Finance. He was a five-time All American Gymnast at the University of Oklahoma and NCAA Champion in floor exercise in 1979, as well as a member of the World Cup and World Championship teams in 1978 and 1979. His most cherished accomplishment is earning a coveted position on the 1980 United States Men’s Olympic Gymnastics team.

Alan Scoggins

President and Chief Operating Officer

Alan Scoggins’ expansive career includes more than 35 years of experience in many facets of healthcare, finance, and operations management. Prior to joining Healthcare Highways as President, Alan served four years as Vice President of Government Products and Services for MultiPlan, three years as Vice President of Sales and Account Management for Viant Health Payment Solutions, and ten years as President of Texas True Choice.

Bliss Brazil

Chief Financial Officer

Bliss Brazil oversees the financials for the Healthcare Highways family of companies and ensures that HCH is positioned for sustainable growth and market capture.

Bliss’s career spans more than 15 years of varied experience in financial management, business leadership, and corporate strategy within the insurance and healthcare industries. At Healthcare Highways, Bliss is responsible for the enterprise’s financial functions, including accounting, audit, treasury, corporate finance, and investor relations. Bliss also oversees all mergers and acquisitions for the enterprise. Prior to joining Healthcare Highways, Bliss held leadership roles at numerous start-up companies within the health insurance industry. She began her health insurance career as the President of Lone Star Audit where she conducted medical bill and dependent audits for self-funded employer groups.

Bliss earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from the University of Texas at Austin and holds Group 1 (Life, Health & Accident), Property & Casualty and Surplus Lines Licenses.

Chris Wilson

Chief Revenue Officer

Chris Wilson leads and manages the revenue growth of HCH. He works with TPAs, payers, consultants, employers, providers, hospitals, and vendors to create innovative solutions that deliver high value for all stakeholders.

Chris brings TPA/payer, consulting, and stop loss experience through working with one of the oldest independent benefits TPAs and co-founding a captive insurance agency that distributed both fully insured and self-funded products. Those successes led him to founding the brokerage firm CJW & Associates, LLC, which was subsequently acquired by Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the parent company of Gallagher Benefit Services. Chris’ experience provides valuable insight into the challenges of growing revenue while also running a profitable and healthy business.

Mike Ryan

Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Account Management

Mike brings more than 30 years of experience in healthcare sales and services, holding various leadership roles at both national and regional organizations. Mike began his career as a Public Accountant, earning his CPA designation, while working primarily in the audit department of a large, national accounting firm. Mike subsequently transitioned into healthcare insurance, joining the sales department of Mass Mutual’s Employee Benefits Division. Mike eventually rose to a leadership position at the company, which—after an acquisition by Wellpoint—was operating under the UniCare brand’s Life & Health Division.

As Regional Vice President at UniCare, Mike was responsible for a 14-state territory. Most recently, Mike served as President of Century Healthcare, a national organization responsible for sales, marketing, customer services and financial budgets, growing it to a market-leading company of Limited Benefits & MEC products before its sale in 2019.

He is a longtime member of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), served as President of the Dallas Chapter in 2009-10, and has been awarded the Chapter’s highest recognition, the Henry Dawson Award, for his time and service to the organization.

Peter Brawer, Ph.D

Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer of Hospital System Partnerships

Dr. Peter Brawer is a highly accomplished healthcare industry leader who brings over two decades of expertise from his years working as a provider and with large health systems overseeing population health, quality, network creation, and value-based contracting. Additionally, he has served as a consultant and advisor to large national employers, including health systems, to capitalize on their strengths and succeed in the constantly developing healthcare environment.

Dr. Brawer previously worked at Aon as Senior Vice President of Population Health for the consultancy’s National Health Care Industry practice. During his time at Aon, Dr. Brawer served as a national and global resource for over 200 Account Executives, impacting 250+ healthcare clients. Prior to his time at Aon, he served as a leader in the health system space working as Vice President of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety at Mercy–St. Louis, and as System Vice President, Population Health at SSM Health–St. Louis. Dr. Brawer served as Associate Chief of Staff for the St. Louis Veterans Health System. Dr. Brawer has held academic appointments both at the Warren Alpert (Brown University) School of Medicine, and Washington University’s School of Medicine.

Dr. Brawer holds a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from St. Louis University, a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Loyola University Maryland, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Scranton. He completed his residency at Geisinger Medical Center and Fellowship in Pain Management at The University of Virginia.

Brian Wallach

Executive Vice President, Provider Networks

Brian Wallach is responsible for the enterprise-level development of Healthcare Highways' provider networks–from strategic planning to network building oversight and provider servicing.

Brian began his career as a healthcare attorney in Houston where he followed a managing partner to run a regional HMO (Sanus/NYLCare) that was later acquired by Aetna US Healthcare. After spending several years responsible for Aetna’s South Texas provider network, Brian joined Cigna Healthcare where he served as of RVP of Provider Networks. In this position, he was responsible for managing 125,000+ providers across 18 states with $20B+ in medical spend. An innovator by nature, Brian contracted with Cigna’s first ACO, served on leadership teams responsible for several large acquisitions, and was responsible for Cigna’s national transplant network. Brian relocated to Belgium to head the international provider network for Cigna’s Global Healthcare division. Brian was recruited back to the United States in late 2014 by Oscar Health to start its Texas operation.

Brian holds a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, where he participated in a dual education fellowship between the UHLC and the University of Texas School of Public Health - Law and Public Policy.

Brett Coleman

President, Healthcare Highways of Oklahoma

Brett Coleman is responsible for network strategy, management, and provider relations for Healthcare Highways' Oklahoma market, and has more than 27 years’ experience working in the healthcare industry within Oklahoma.

Prior to joining Healthcare Highways, Brett was the President of LifeCare Health Services, where he was responsible for the management of multiple companies under the umbrella of LifeCare, including a third-party administrator, PPO network, nurse advice line, health benefit consulting, and managed care and revenue cycle management consulting service. Brett also has extensive experience working in the health provider arena. He previously served as Systems Director of Managed Care and Revenue Cycle Management at INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma’s largest health system with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue.

Rhonda Ovalle

Senior Vice President, Provider Network Management

Rhonda Ovalle is responsible for building, managing, and servicing the Healthcare Highways' provider network in the great state of Texas.

Rhonda served as the Assistant Vice President of Contracting for Cigna Healthcare in the Houston market for almost sixteen years before moving to Healthcare Highways in 2016. Rhonda’s extensive experience in the healthcare industry spans nearly three decades, starting her career in customer service for several organizations including PCA Health Plans and NYLCare before bringing her well-developed appreciation for negotiation and collaboration into her Provider Network Management role.

Rhonda earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Psychology from Texas State University.

Rebecca Preston, MD, JD

Chief Medical Officer

With more than three decades of experience working at nationally recognized healthcare organizations, Dr. Rebecca Preston brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her role. Prior to joining Healthcare Highways, Dr. Preston most recently served as the Health Plan Medical Director at Memorial Hermann Health System where she enhanced plan performance and delivered a $50 million improvement to the bottom line in the first 12 months. In addition to her time at Memorial Hermann, Dr. Preston’s prior administrative experience covers several senior leadership roles including Chief Medical Officer at Sendero Health Plans, Physician Administrator at Heartland Regional Medical Center, and Medical Director for Scott & White Health Plan.

Dr. Preston is a graduate of the Texas A&M College of Medicine as well as the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she graduated as a Leary Scholar.

Murugesan "Jambu" Jambukesan

Chief Information Officer

Jambu Jambukesan leads Healthcare Highways’ information technology efforts, including developing the IT strategy, driving innovation, and executing all enterprise goals.

Jambu has over 35 years of experience in developing and implementing a wide range of software applications, with 20 years of that experience United States healthcare. During his tenure as Chief Information Officer at OrchestrateHR, Jambu developed several health insurance and payroll applications that enabled the firm to provide a complete employee benefits solution and elevated the firm’s technology capabilities into a core competency for the company.

Jambu was instrumental in creating an Athletic Injury tracking system, which was used by more than 300 universities to provide revenue cycle management for their athletic training centers. He also has expertise in creating and managing offshore development and operations teams. During his time as Vice President of Polaris Financial Technology, Jambu worked in multiple countries (Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and UAE) and with clients such as Citibank.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Madras and completed a course on Information Management at the University of Birmingham, England. He is an avid traveler and runner.