Founder and CEO, Heston + Associates Consulting
Mark Heston
Heston + Associates is a management consulting firm dedicated to helping its partners thrive through exceptional leadership and outstanding human capital management. Prior to founding Heston + Associates Consulting, Mark held leadership roles in banking, biotech/agriculture science, education, and municipal government, with the last 14 years as the Chief Human Resources Officer for a large senior living company. Mark is committed to serving the community and has served as a board member and officer of numerous not-for-profit organizations in Iowa and Minnesota. Mark is the Chair of Accra’s Board of Directors.
ESOP Specialist, BMO Harris Bank
Steve Suckow
Steve currently consults and advises on employee ownership with companies across the United States as a Director and ESOP Specialist in the Corporate Advisory Group of BMO Harris Bank. Prior to 2019, Steve was General Counsel at Lifetouch, Inc., one of the largest employee-owned companies in the United States. At Lifetouch he was responsible for all legal matters, corporate governance and government relations. Prior to Lifetouch, he worked at H.B. Fuller Company, Reliastar Financial Corp., Faegre & Benson and Chase Manhattan Bank. Steve is a Trustee of the Employee Ownership Foundation and former director of the Employee Owned S Corporations of America’s and the ACLU of Minnesota. He also serves on the Edina Arts and Culture Commission and volunteer with the Edina Grief Coalition. He loves art, architecture and performance.
Senior Audit Manager, Eide Bailly LLP
Monica Theisen
Monica has more than 15 years of accounting experience providing audit and consulting services to a variety of clients, with a focus on hospitals with critical access designation and nonprofit organizations. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants. Monica is active in the Minneapolis community through serving on several nonprofit boards and finance committees, along with volunteer work.
SVP, IT, Cirrus Aircraft
Robin Brown
Robin is the SVP, IT, for Cirrus Aircraft. She has 25 years of IT experience in the agriculture, construction, healthcare, government, consulting, retail and financial sectors. She was vice president and CIO at Mortenson Construction and held other senior leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group, Accenture, Best Buy and Arcadia Financial. Brown is known for driving technology-enabled innovation, strategic business transformation, building global shared service capabilities, and transforming IT functions to be value-driven while fostering relationships between the Business, Operations and IT delivery.
Delegated Vendor Oversight, Enrollment, Electronic Data Interchange, and Coordination of Benefits Manger, Hennepin Health Plan
Bonnie Hays
Bonnie has held a variety of sales and marketing leadership roles over more than 25 years with Hennepin Health Plan. She previously served as Consumer and Provider Services, Pharmacy Operations Manager and Director of Sales & Marketing. Hays has been a member of the Hennepin County Gerontology Alliance, the Health Plan representative to Minnesota’s Senior Health Options Marketing Advisory Committee, and an executive board member and co-chair of the Minnesota Council of Health Plans Communications Committee.
Shareholder, Winthrop & Weinstine
Christianna Finnern
Christianna is a shareholder at the law firm of Winthrop & Weinstine in the Health Law practice, with a particular emphasis on home care businesses, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and senior housing facilities, as well as mental and behavioral health. She represents providers in regulatory compliance and enforcement proceedings, health care licensing board investigations and advises her clients on issues such as state and federal privacy laws, including data breaches; fraud, waste and abuse, anti-kickback and Stark; credentialing, privileging and peer review processes; employment issues; and internal investigations. She deals regularly with the Minnesota Department of Human Services and Department of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She also represents providers in third party payor contracting, rate negotiations and audits.
Vice President, Medication Delivery and Benefit Alliances, Surescripts, LLC
Mike Holz
For the past 10 years, Mike has had responsibility at Surescripts for Network Alliance relationships in the Pharmacy, Health Plan, and Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) space. Surescripts convenes healthcare organizations nationwide to simplify how health intelligence is shared – improving care for patients and better supporting those who serve them. Mike has spent the past 25 years in the business of managing health care in varied functions including underwriting and finance as well as managing key strategies. Mike is passionate about using technology to remove complexity for providers and patients.
President and CEO, Accra
John Dahm
John Dahm was named the president and Chief Executive Officer of Accra in June 2011, following seven years as the agency’s controller and Chief Financial Officer. As President and CEO, John serves as lead visionary for the organization and steward of its welfare, responsible for outlining organizational growth strategies and focusing on the future needs of Accra. John is also tasked with implementing sound financial procedures and establishing responsible business practices on behalf of Accra –while inspiring and mentoring employees to be effective leaders and stewards.