Matthew Padden – President
Matthew serves as President of Opyn Market. With over 37 years of experience across healthcare, workers’ compensation, and federal government programs, he has a proven record of driving company-wide growth while delivering highly sought-after, innovative solutions. His passion for bringing transparency and transformation to healthcare guides his vision for Opyn.
Prior to joining Opyn, Matthew served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Sales Officer at Randall and Quilter Investment Holdings(R&Q Health). There, he led the London-based portfolio healthcare company’s coordinating service business throughout the United States, specifically for catastrophically injured workers’ compensation patients. He spent a majority of his career with Aetna, most recently as SVP, National and Federal Markets where he successfully led national multi-product business growth strategies and client program design, implementation, and management.
Matthew earned his undergraduate degree in fine arts from West Virginia University and holds a graduate degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and Administration from Ohio University.
Brent Matzelle – Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Brent is an accomplished Chief Technology Officer (CTO), entrepreneur and software architect who thrives in a fast-paced environment where innovation and creativity regarding the solving of business problems is of critical importance. He is a passionate, strategic problem solver who excels at creating flexible, scalable software platforms that integrate with both modern and legacy systems.
Brent has over 20 years of experience in the computer technology industry including software design and development, where he led his product development departments by example, both architecting and building software along with the team, setting a very high bar for code quality, efficiency, and customer user experience.
Brent’s most recent accomplishments were his contributions while serving as the CTO for Homestead Smart Health Plans where he architected and built a modern, multi-layer data access framework and data export system for multiple customer payment, claim, and eligibility integrations. In other roles, he has designed and developed various payment systems, healthcare claim auditing, pricing, and billing systems, and hired and managed high-quality, high-performing technology teams.
Brent earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Science from Cabrini College.
Angela O’Connell – Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
Angie leads strategic business development planning and drives focused innovation efforts within the organization. She is a proven executive, dedicated to improving the client experience, building new capabilities and products, and utilizing technology to create superior outcomes. Prior to coming on board with THM, Angie spent 34 years in workers’ compensation, 17 of those with Anthem, managing a multitude of areas within Anthem Workers’ Compensation. Her experience includes design and development of innovative software platforms, national network development and network performance, oversight of all strategic executive client relationships, customer relations, call center operations, provider data verification and audits, regulatory and compliance matters, reporting integrity and advancements, and custom client and product design and implementations.
With more than 30 years of experience in financial services, general accounting, and reporting for large organizations, Lou excels in leadership roles and enjoys working with stakeholders and decision makers to solve real-world problems. Lou leverages technology solutions to navigate complex financial reporting requirements and improve efficiency.
Blending technical acumen and training with business savvy and operational leadership, Lou has been continually acknowledged for his team-building talents and influential leadership of large cross-functional initiatives in a matrix environment.
A true problem solver, Lou is eager to take on new challenges and responsibilities such as expanding his sphere of leadership and leading end-to-end projects while mentoring and developing those around him. This key value add has enabled him to bring structure to ambiguity and exceed stakeholder expectations at every opportunity.
Previously, Lou spent 19 years at Evolent Health, including 8 years as VP of Client Financial Services where he developed technology-driven solutions to support client financial management and accounting requirements.
Greg is an accomplished data and analytics leader with over 30 years of experience in the group health and workers’ compensation industries. With a passion for pioneering new uses for existing data, developing cutting-edge tools and converting data into actionable insights, Greg has proven success strategically guiding and driving organizational performance and delivering valuable intelligence to clients.
Most recently, Greg led the informatics department at Coventry, where he played a key role in developing one of the largest fully integrated workers’ compensation data warehouses in the nation. In addition to customized studies for clients, his team delivered end-to-end informatics for the full suite of company products, with an emphasis on providing easy-to-use, self-service tools. Greg earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati, has taken graduate work in research methodology and statistics from Xavier University and holds a certificate in workers’ compensation from the University of California.
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