Bio

Ferris W. Taylor is Executive Director of the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG), a national network of thought leaders focused on innovation and technology to grow, share and reshape healthcare. 

Prior to becoming Executive Director, Taylor served on the Board of Directors of HCEG as the COO of Arches Health Plan in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Taylor founded Pragmatic Health Care Solutions, a healthcare strategy and market positioning firm, and has served as VP of Payer Market Strategy at Optum, VP Marketing and Planning at Partners Healthcare and head of Marketing Information Services at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. 

Taylor is a Brigham Young University graduate in Nuclear Physics with an MBA in finance and quantitative economics. He also graduated from the GHAA/AHIP Executive Program in Managed Care at the University of Missouri.