Seema Verma

Seema Verma serves as the Oracle Senior Vice President and General Manager for Life Sciences. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Monogram and Lifestance. Previously, she served as a Senior Advisor to private equity firms TPG and Cressey & Co, serving on the Cressey Distinguished Executive Committee and the Boards of Wellsky, Lumeris, ClaimsXten and ShiftKey and provided advisory services to a variety of early stage and large public companies including national payers and technology companies focusing on strategy, value creation and operations.

Verma was the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
for almost four years. In this role, she oversaw a $1.4 trillion dollar budget, coverage for 145 million
beneficiaries, 6,000-plus employees, and over 100,000 contractors. She was responsible for federal
operations of Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance Exchanges, the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid
Innovation, and all federal quality and safety regulations. In this role she developed and implemented
the federal administration’s health care strategic plan across all programs to advance value-based care,
interoperability, drug pricing, telehealth care, remote care, and the COVID response. CMS
had numerous accomplishments during her tenure including delivering reduced premiums across Part D,
Medicare Advantage, and the individual insurance market. Prior to her role at CMS, she founded a
consulting company and worked as a VP for Policy and Planning for a public hospital and health system.

Verma is a seasoned executive leader with deep holistic health care expertise across the health care
system. She has a strong track record of collaborative leadership, developing partnerships, motivating talent, and delivering results. Verma was named as “Modern Healthcare’s” 2019 number one most influential person in health care. Her health care articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Health Affairs, Modern Healthcare, Newsweek, CNN, USA Today, and Stat.