Brad is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Russell Street Ventures, an innovative healthcare firm focused on launching and scaling companies that serve some of our nation’s most vulnerable patient populations. Brad also serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Main Street Health, which provides primary care services to patients in rural America, and as Executive Chairman of CareBridge, which serves homebound Medicaid patients.

Brad was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aspire Health, which he grew into the nation’s largest home-based palliative care provider before selling it to Anthem in 2018. Brad then served as Chief Operating Officer of Anthem’s Diversified Business Group, a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of five companies.

While in government, Brad served as Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Deputy Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).

At the White House, Brad helped operationalize various elements of the federal response to COVID-19 including scaling testing across the country and launching Project Airbridge, which shipped billions of medical supplies from around the world to America. Brad also served as a Board Member of Operation Warp Speed, helping develop COVID-19 vaccines in record time. At HHS, Brad launched innovative payment models that lowered the price of prescription drugs and allowed rural communities to transform how healthcare is delivered.

Brad previously served as Chief of Staff at the Tennessee Department of Economic Development where he helped create over 28,000 jobs while reducing the cost to taxpayers. Brad also served as the founding Executive Director of the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a K-12 education non-profit in Tennessee.

Brad has lectured at Stanford University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has also authored articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Fierce Healthcare, The Tennessean, Knoxville News Sentinel, and Memphis Commercial Appeal. Brad graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University and received an M.Phil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. 

Brad is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Lauren and their three daughters.