The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce that Craig Samitt, Former CEO at BCBS Minnesota, will keynote our Healthcare Providers Transformation Assembly, taking place February 25-26 at the JW Marriott by The Galleria in Houston.

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About Craig Samitt

Craig Samitt has led healthcare organizations through turnarounds, scale-ups, and strategic reinvention — and now brings that operating experience to boards and leadership teams navigating their most consequential decisions.

Over more than two decades as a C-suite executive, he served as President & CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota ($13B enterprise, 3M members), President & CEO of HealthCare Partners/DaVita ($3.5B, 1M patients), President & CEO of Dean Health System, and EVP & Chief Clinical Officer at Anthem — where he also launched and led the Diversified Business Group (now Carelon), Anthem’s third P&L. Earlier, he held senior roles at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Fallon Clinic, and Oliver Wyman.

That experience spans every sector of healthcare: health plans, integrated delivery systems, physician enterprises, value-based care platforms, and digital health. He has managed P&Ls from $80M to $13B, led cultural transformations, navigated regulatory environments, and driven payer/provider partnerships at scale.

Since founding ITO Advisors in 2021, he has channeled that experience into governance and advisory leadership:

Board Director: Vori Health, Enlace Health, Hennepin Healthcare Foundation, NCQA (2016–2025), NIH Clinical Center (2022–2024), and numerous national healthcare associations

Senior Advisor: Anterior Health, Ellipsis Health, Vi Health, CertifyOS, Waymark Health, and others

Interim CEO: Longitude PHM (Population Health Management), Navvis / National Physician Enterprise, Myia Health

PE/VC Operating Advisor: Insight Partners, SEMCAP, Riverside Healthcare

Craig is a Commissioner Emeritus of MedPAC (appointed by the GAO to two sequential three-year terms), which gives him an unusually clear lens on Medicare policy and reimbursement strategy.

His focus areas include value-based care, payer/provider integration, digital health scaling, executive leadership development, and board governance. He works best with organizations at inflection points — growth, transformation, or turnaround — where operating experience and strategic clarity can make a decisive difference.

MD, Columbia University | MBA, The Wharton School | BS, Tufts University (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude)