Sheila P. Burke is a Faculty Research Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and a member of the faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is also a Strategic Advisor and Chair of the Government Relations and Public Policy Group, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.

Ms. Burke joined the Smithsonian Institution in 2000 as Under Secretary for American Museums and National Programs and in 2004 became Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, a position in which she served until September 2007.

Tara Oakman, PhD, is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to improve the value of our investments in health and health care and also on strengthening vulnerable children and families.

Prior to joining the Foundation in 2013, Oakman served as director of the Quality Team at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Earlier, she was an international health officer with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Global Health Affairs and also served as a program analyst in the HHS Budget Office.

Mr. Ario is a managing director of Manatt Health Solutions. He has 30 years of experience helping to shape and implement public policy, including nearly two decades devoted to leading health reform efforts at the state and federal government levels. He provides strategic consulting and policy analysis to assist state governments, health plans and foundations in understanding and navigating healthcare reform, with a particular emphasis on how public Marketplaces and private exchanges will reshape the healthcare landscape. Mr. Ario previously served as the first Director of the HHS Office of Health Insurance Exchanges (2010-2011). Prior to his federal service, Mr. Ario was the Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner (2007-2010), Oregon Insurance Commissioner (2000-2007), and served on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for a decade. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, M. Div. from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from Saint Olaf College.

Karen leads Aon Hewitt's Health Solutions and Strategies Team. She is responsible for growing and innovating Aon Hewitt's health solutions. These unique solutions enable our clients to improve employee health and productivity while managing health care costs.

She is an architect of Aon Hewitt's Corporate Healthcare Exchange. This innovative solution introduced a defined contribution approach to providing health insurance through a competitive, fully-insured group health plan model. Aon Hewitt's exchange launched in fall 2012 with 3 clients representing over 200,000 covered lives and 8 participating health plans. This has expanded to include 33 clients representing over 850,000 covered lives.

Mila Kofman is the Executive Director of the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority. Appointed to the position by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors, Kofman is a nationally recognized expert on private health insurance markets and has worked with states and all stakeholders to implement health insurance reforms. Her approach is informed by her hands-on experience as the former Superintendent of Insurance in Maine implementing health insurance reforms, being a former federal regulator working with states to implement HIPAA reforms of the 1990s, studying state-based reform efforts and markets, and working with employer purchasing coalitions seeking to leverage purchasing power for sustainable financing of medical care. Ms. Kofman holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland (summa cum laude).

Peter Lee is the Executive Director of Covered California. Peter reports directly to the Covered California Board and serves at its pleasure. Most recently, Peter served in the Obama Administration, helping establish the new Center for Medicaid and Medical Innovation. He has served as the Director of Delivery System Reform at the federal Health and Human Services' Office of Health Reform. Peter lead the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), first as CEO and then as the Executive Director of National Health Policy. Prior to PBGH, Peter was the Executive Director of the Center for Health Care Rights, a consumer advocacy organization based in Los Angeles.

Carolyn Quattrocki is the Executive Director for the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange. Prior to her appointment, she served as Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Health Care Reform and Deputy Legislative Officer and health policy advisor in the Governor's Legislative Office, with primary responsibility for health care, insurance, and labor issues. Ms. Quattrocki also worked as a Special Assistant to Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., was a litigation associate at the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., and a law clerk for the Honorable Frank A. Kaufman, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Ms. Quattrocki has a law degree from Yale University and a B.A. from Northwestern University.

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, is Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, and the Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

Previously, he was Director of Hospital Medicine and an Associate Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He was also AVP Outcomes Performance, responsible for leading measurement, including the electronic health record measures, and facilitating improvement of health outcomes across the health care system. Previously, he was Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. In 2007-08, he was a White House Fellow assigned to the Office of Secretary in HHS and the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Susan Dentzer is Senior Policy Adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and one of the nation's most respected health care journalists and thought leaders. She is an on-air analyst on health issues with the PBS NewsHour and a commentator for National Public Radio.

Dentzer served from 2008-2013 as the editor-in-chief of Health Affairs. She also previously led the NewsHour's health policy unit, reporting extensively and offering analysis on-air.

Dentzer is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the IOM's Board on Population Health. She is also an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute. She graduated from Dartmouth, is a trustee emerita, and chaired the Dartmouth Board of Trustees from 2001-2004. She also serves on the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth Medical School.

Katherine Hempstead, PhD, is a Director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she works on health insurance issues. She joined the Foundation in 2011 as a senior program officer in the Research and Evaluation unit. Previously, Hempstead was director of the Center for Health Statistics in the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and worked as an analyst in the Office of the Attorney General, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety. She is a visiting faculty member at Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. Hempstead received a PhD in Demography and History from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also earned an MA in Demography and a BA in Economics and History.

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA is president and chief executive officer of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. HFMA provides the resources healthcare organizations need to achieve sound fiscal health in order to provide excellent patient care. In 2014, Fifer was named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.

Prior to assuming his position with HFMA in June 2012, Fifer spent 11 years as vice president of hospital finance at Spectrum Health, in Grand Rapids, Mich. He also spent time with McLaren Health Care Corporation, Flint, Mich., as vice president of finance and Ingham Regional Medical Center, Lansing, Mich., as senior vice president of finance and CFO. Fifer started his career with nine years at Ernst and Young, also in Michigan.

Peter M. Leibold is the Chief Advocacy Officer for Ascension Health. In this role, Leibold works closely with executive leadership, advocacy and government affairs leaders across the Health Ministries of Ascension Health. He leads the execution of an integrated advocacy and government affairs strategy to enhance Ascension Health's ability to lead the transformation of healthcare, with continued emphasis on providing access for vulnerable populations.

Prior to joining Ascension Health, Leibold served for fifteen years as the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), the largest association in the United States dedicated to educating and promoting collegiality among health lawyers.

Jeffrey G. Micklos is Executive Vice President, Management, Compliance & General Counsel of the Federation of American Hospitals, a national trade association representing investor-owned and managed community-based hospitals. Mr. Micklos serves as lead policy counsel on legal and regulatory issues involving compliance and fraud and abuse, privacy, administrative procedure, medical liability, antitrust, and accreditation. Mr. Micklos also advises his organization on operational matters involving lobbying disclosures, Federal Election Commission reporting, employment, contracts, and litigation and has managerial responsibilities for the organization's budgeting, finance, administrative services, and personnel activities.

Doris Peter, PhD is the Director of the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, where she leads multidisciplinary teams that develop consumer-friendly translations and presentations of data to help consumers understand comparisons of the quality and value of health care products (e.g., drugs) and services (e.g., hospitals, physicians, insurance plans). These communications reach millions of consumers through Consumer Reports' media channels, and through Consumer Reports' dissemination partners. Under a grant from the California Department of Insurance, Consumer Reports is also part of a consumer-focused price transparency project, in partnership with UCSF and UC Davis. While helping to inform individual consumer choice, Consumer Reports' health Ratings also help drive change in the healthcare industry itself.

Senator Daschle is the Founder and CEO of The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson. Senator Daschle served his home state, South Dakota, in the Senate from 1987 to 2005. He is the only senator to have served twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. In addition, Senator Daschle is Chair of the Board of Directors at the Center for American Progress, Vice-Chair for the National Democratic Institute and a co-founder of the Bipartisan Policy Center. He is the author of Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis; Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform and U.S. Senate: Fundamentals of American Government.