Trey Sutten is co-founder and current Chief Executive Officer of Siftwell Analytics, a technology company which uses proprietary AI and deep managed care experience to support the early identification of health plan members at high risk of chronic disease.
Trey started Siftwell out of frustration with the state of the healthcare industry, and specifically chronic disease discovery and management. Over the years, he has seen people suffer health conditions that could have been prevented, treated, or better managed if they’d been discovered earlier.
The issue wasn’t medical science itself. Modern medicine can dramatically improve outcomes for people suffering from diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other costly chronic conditions. But outcomes are far better — and cost far less to achieve — when these conditions are detected early. And the healthcare industry simply wasn’t using the sorts of innovative, modern technologies that help detect and resolve problems in countless other industries.
Trey founded Siftwell to change this for good. His company’s solutions help healthcare payors control care costs and more efficiently utilize limited healthcare resources while improving patient outcomes and satisfaction.
Trey’s work at Siftwell is the culmination of more than two decades of mission-driven work to improve the lives of ordinary people and transform the way work gets done in the healthcare, housing, and education sectors. Trey has held leadership roles at several multimillion-dollar enterprises engaged in high-level transformation efforts. He most recently served as both CFO and CEO for a billion-dollar managed care organization focused on serving individuals with complex medical and behavioral health needs. He oversaw more than 950 employees and more than 900 medical and behavioral healthcare providers who collectively served more than one million plan members in the southeastern United States.
Reversing several consecutive loss years, he helped scale revenue from $750 million to more than $1.2 billion. He simultaneously led a companywide HR transformation that significantly decreased administrative spend while improving employee satisfaction and engagement scores throughout the organization. And he did this while moving the organization forward in other ways, including deploying new systems for core company functions and obtaining HiTrust certification and NCQA accreditation.
Previously, Trey Sutten was the CFO for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Medical Assistance. Following five consecutive years of cost overruns, he implemented a transformative restructuring effort that improved internal accountability, advanced legislative and inter-executive branch relations, and saved the department over $350 million. His tenure ended with three consecutive under-budget years as a result.
Trey Sutten has been a member of the board of directors for both the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) and Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA). He is also actively involved in non-healthcare philanthropy, including several organizations focused on improving outcomes for at-risk youth.
Trey has an MBA in Health Sector Management from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Virginia and earned his bachelor’s degree (in business administration) from the Eller College of Business at the University of Arizona.
In his free time, Trey enjoys travel, snowboarding, and a good brewery. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.