About Us - Lucerna Health

Brett Fox

Full-Stack Engineer

Brett is a full-stack engineer with over 7 years of experience building user-friendly web tools that manage and present complicated datasets in a straightforward manner. Outside of work Brett can be found hiking, cycling, attending live shows, or reading with his two cats.

Kevin Wood

Data Engineer

With over 6 years of experience as a data engineer in healthcare-focused startups, Kevin is highly motivated by the power of data to improve healthcare systems. He enjoys playing soccer and baseball, hiking, snowboarding, and indoor climbing when he has the time. But lately, his free time is mainly spent just trying to keep up with his toddler son and two dogs!

David Atkins

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Former Corporate Vice President of Enterprise Data and Analytic Solutions at Centene, where he led data solution development for the enterprise. David also held leadership roles in network strategy and analytics at Anthem and Highmark. He is an avid skier (and aspiring backcountry skier), passionate motorcycle guy who never rides his motorcycle, and loves spending time with his wife and young son camping across Utah.

Frank Mayo

DevOps Engineer

Frank has worked for various software companies for over 20 years in many different roles which gives him a well rounded approach to DevOps.

When not automating infrastructure he enjoys spending time with his family and enjoying the outdoors.

Juliana Rueda

Hispanic Marketer

Hispanic marketer with significant experience bringing unique approaches to in-culture and in-language engagement.

These days Juliana stays plenty busy as a recent first-time mom—nothing like the pure joy of just watching Santi’s first moments when he’s discovering his world around him.

Jake Mager

Software Engineer

Jake is a passionate front end engineer who is building great user experiences within the Lucerna product suite.

Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, snowboarding, health & fitness, and cooking plant based meals with an international flair.

Meredith Niederriter

Engagement Marketer

By combining her years of experience in both direct and database marketing in various industries combined with customer success roles, Meredith helps bring and execute successful engagement strategies for our customers.

Outside of work, she enjoys getting outside and enjoying nature─biking, paddle boarding (preferably with the wind) and exploring mountain tops with her husband and two daughters.

Ray Linford

Software Engineer

Ray is a software engineer with a strong history of QA work and cloud development. He has worked with AWS as well as a custom-built cloud in the past. He has worked in Python and C#.

Ray was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune, and created a program to create a statistical analysis of the puzzles on the show, in order to develop a letter selection strategy.

Ryan Jenson

Product Manager

Ryan joined Lucerna as an intern in the summer of 2020 during his MBA program, and has joined the team full-time on the product team. He has a passion for bulding things, espeically in woodworking and home improvement projects. He loves sports of all kinds and spends a lot of time outdoors fly fishing, camping and hiking.

Aime Echevarria

Engagement Marketer

With over 7 years of experience in direct and digital marketing in the healthcare space, Aime creates and manages campaigns that help clients acquire and engage new patients. In her free time, Aime enjoys exploring new cities, hitting the nature trains with her dog, and spending time with family.

Austin Deckard

Software Tester

Austin enjoys delivering the best software to end users through robust software testing processes. Austin recently completed an internship in Australia and loves to play guitar and enjoy the outdoors and mountains.

Michael Nobbe

Director, Data Strategy

Michael has over 10 years of experience in healthcare including both hospital operations and technology development. He is passionate about using technology and data to transform healthcare and health outcomes. Michael is an avid climber and mountaineer and spends as much time as possible in the outdoors.

Carl Kibler

Head, Software Engineering

A leader and engineer with over 15 years of experience, Carl cares deeply about healthcare and reinventing the entire healthcare experience. He is Lucerna’s product engineering orchestrator, leading the design and development processes to achieve the company’s ambitious goals. Carl enjoys hiking and wood-working in his spare time. His most recent work of art is turning a 108 year old piano into a beautiful bar for his home.

Adriana Murillo

Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer

Founder of Andes Unite, a provider practice growth and development company that helped Sanitas successfully establish their primary care business line in the USA. Adriana held market segment leadership, product development and multi-cultural marketing roles at Florida Blue. Adriana also loves cooking—creating unique twists to recipes and watching the family go for seconds makes for a perfect day.

Craig Thomas

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Former President of GuideWell Connect, a health consumer marketing, sales and engagement company, Craig also held Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer roles at GuideWell/Florida Blue and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Craig is all about the simple things in life—getting the family together in Buffalo, eating great pizza and wings and watching the Bills win.

Brayden Haws

Technology Project Manager

Scrum master and scrum product owner, Brayden keeps the team and all projects moving forward quickly and efficiently. His passion for U of U sports is only eclipsed by the love of family. Brayden explores the outdoors every chance he gets with his wife and daughter. Nearly every Saturday morning he can be found on a nearby trail that passes a horse farm because it’s his daughter’s favorite!

Linda Ehlen

Engagement Marketer

Data-obsessed marketing professional with 20 years of direct and database experience. For the last 10 years she’s been helping healthcare payers and providers grow and retain their customers. An avid traveler in the days before kids, Linda’s current hobbies consist of singing baby shark, finger painting, playdoh, learning all about creatures and dinosaurs with her two sons.

Lynn Locke

Engagement Marketer

Direct & database marketer bringing over 20 years of healthcare expertise and a unique blend of payer and provider experience that helps clients take their consumer engagement to the next level. On the weekends, you’ll find Lynn on the water, boating with her family—unless it’s football season, of course…then you’ll find her at a Gator game.

Leading Us Forward

By leveraging our deep payer and provider experiences, we bring our solutions together to help you execute for results.

Customer Focused

Committed

Collaborative

Curious

Craig Thomas

David Atkins

Adriana Murillo

Carl Kibler

Michael Nobbe

Lynn Locke

Linda Ehlen

Austin Deckard

Aime Echevarria

Brett Fox

Ryan Jenson

Ray Linford

Jake Mager

Frank Mayo

Meredith Niederriter

Juliana Rueda

Kevin Wood

Join us in moving Healthcare Forward

We work from home and together.