Jamie Ferguson is the founder of Sachem Partners LLC, and he serves on strategy and policy advisory groups for The Sequoia Project and HL7. He is recognized for shaping national policy, standards, regulatory frameworks, and industry practices governing AI, interoperability, privacy, cybersecurity, automation, and secure data sharing. With operating executive experience at Kaiser Permanente and Bank of America, his career also encompasses leadership of many standards organizations and federal policy bodies. He brings expertise in risk oversight, emerging technologies, compliance, stakeholder engagement, and organizational governance with deep relationships relevant to technology, health, finance, and public-sector institutions. In Board service he was Vice Chair of ANSI, Chair of SNOMED, and Director of The Sequoia Project, HL7 International, and WEDI. Successive Secretaries of HHS appointed Jamie as Special Government Employee and he chaired policy advisory groups in the last six presidential Administrations including focus on ARRA, ACA, MACRA, 21st Century Cures Act, HIPAA, and numerous regulations. Educated at Yale and MIT, he was Vice Chair of a council for the World Economic Forum, Fellow of the Institute for Health Policy, taught informatics at Tufts University School of Medicine, and analyzed the U.S. economy at the Federal Reserve Bank. In addition to strategy and change management Jamie is known for strengthening collaborative culture to resolve conflicts, finding paths forward together in the face of contradictory priorities and opposing interests.

Dr. J. Marc Overhage is the CEO of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability, where he leads national efforts to advance health data interoperability through Health Data Utilities. He previously served as Staff Vice President for Health Informatics and Data Architectures at Elevance Health, overseeing AI-driven patient engagement programs, and was the founding CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), where he led the development of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC).

Dr. Overhage’s prior executive experience includes serving as Vice President of Strategic Intelligence and Chief Medical Information Officer at Cerner Corporation, and advancing clinical content and product strategies at Siemens Health Solutions. Academically, he has served as Director of Medical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute and as a faculty member at Indiana University, where he co-led the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP). Dr. Overhage earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in Biophysics from Indiana University and is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the International Academy of Health Data Sciences Informatics.

Paul L. Uhrig is the founder and principal of Uhrig Health Advisory, Inc., an independent advisory practice focused on AI governance, regulatory policy, digital health strategy, and interoperability. He brings nearly three decades of C-suite executive and legal experience at the intersection of healthcare, law, and technology.

Mr. Uhrig served as Chief Administrative & Legal Officer at Surescripts, where he was on the leadership team that built and scaled the nation’s first nationwide health information network. Currently, he serves as Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer at Bassett Healthcare Network, a rural integrated health system in Central New York.

Mr. Uhrig currently serves on the board of The Sequoia Project, which oversees the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), where he serves as Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee, and on the board of the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), where he also is the Chair of the Statewide Data Use Committee. He has previously served on the boards of DirectTrust and The Commons Project Foundation, among others driving interoperability and health information exchange in the United States. Mr. Uhrig also advises early-stage and high-growth companies applying AI and emerging technologies to improve clinical outcomes and healthcare performance. Mr. Uhrig received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from the American University, Washington College of Law.