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Alignment Healthcare Appoints Sebastian Burzacchi to New Role of Chief Operating Officer of Management Services Organization and Andreas Wagner to Chief People Officer
Burzacchi will focus on enhancing provider support and experience; Wagner will drive people strategy and organizational excellence as Alignment continues to
About this update from Alignment Healthcare, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"Burzacchi will focus on enhancing provider support and experience; Wagner will drive people strategy and organizational excellence as Alignment continues to expand U.S. footprint\nORANGE, Calif., Jan. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alignment Healthcare, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALHC) today announced that Sebastian Burzacchi will join as the new chief operating officer of its management services organization (MSO), and Andreas Wagner will serve as chief people officer, effective immediately. Sebastian Burzacchi, Chief Operating Officer of MSOReporting to Alignment founder and CEO John Kao, Sebastian Burzacchi will direct initiatives that strengthen a core value of the company – supporting doctors. This includes a focus on enhancing provider partnerships and ensuring a seamless experience for doctors with Alignment. \"We are thrilled to welcome Sebastian to our leadership team, bringing extensive experience scaling successful teams and fostering growth with a customer-first mentality,” said Kao. “He will focus on elevating the physician experience as we aim to deliver the same level of attention and care as we do to our members.” With over 18 years of experience in operations and management, Burzacchi most recently served as executive vice president of operations for Veho Tech, where he led a team of 1,000 people, its largest team. His team oversaw the operations of Veho's marketplace, regional operations, supply chain, warehouses and other business divisions. His accomplishments include steering Veho toward profitability, ensuring operational capacity to sustain annual growth and substantially reducing operating costs. Prior to Veho, Burzacchi held various roles at Oscar Health, helping to transform and scale Oscar’s operations from 70,000 members to over 1.1 million members. These roles included serving as head of claims operations, head of concierge and senior vice president of operations. Before joining Oscar, he led operations for Vineyard Vines from 2005 to 2016 and helped scale the company into a global retail apparel brand. Burzacchi holds a Master of Business Administration from MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in industrial and systems engineering from Virginia Tech. “I look forward to joining the Alignment team to enhance the life-changing and life-saving work of doctors,” said Burzacchi. “As the company grow...