Presenters

Laura is a results-focused leader with a passion for simplifying complex problems and driving programs from strategy to execution. In her role, Vice President Corporate Strategy at Solventum, Laura spearheads long-term strategic planning and enterprise-wide initiatives to support active portfolio management and drive growth and innovation.

Laura’s career spans a breadth of experience in Medical Devices, Management Consulting, and Biotech/Pharmaceuticals, and she is passionate about advancing Med Tech innovation, mentoring emerging talent, and shaping the future of healthcare through collaboration and strategic vision. Prior to joining Solventum, Laura was head of strategy for the medical business unit at TE Connectivity, and she has also previously held roles at Medtronic, McKinsey and Co., Celegene Corp., Altana Parma and Janssen Pharmaceuticals (Johnson and Johnson).

Sahil Sanghvi is a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group, where he leads the firm’s Minneapolis office of more than 100 employees. He is a core member of BCG’s Health Care Practice Area and serves on the U.S. MedTech leadership team. His work centers on transformational growth topics, including mergers and acquisitions, growth strategy, and commercialization initiatives such as marketing strategy and product launches. Sahil also brings extensive geographical breadth to his knowledge base as he previously completed a year in Dubai working with MedTech, Pharma, Provider, and Govt. Health System clients in the Middle East.

His client work includes driving a large-scale public-sector program to establish a national unemployment assistance program for a Minister of Labor; leading a complex initiative between a public fund and a private hospital to expand a health system’s footprint and launch a new campus in Abu Dhabi; overseeing clinical redesign and equity components in the development of a new hospital in Hennepin County; and providing end-to-end support for acquisitions and integrations within the medical device sector. He has also advised on pre- and post-merger integration synergies in MedTech, as well as supporting a foundation in defining its health equity vision to guide more than $100M in philanthropic investment.

Sahil earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also holds a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, with honors, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, with highest honors. Before joining BCG, Sahil worked as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin, designing and developing next-generation secure air traffic control systems software.

In addition to his client work, Sahil is deeply engaged in the community. He is a current board member of GreaterMSP, a former chair of the board for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and an active member of BCG’s North America DE&I leadership team, where he focuses on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Matt Scholl is a Founder of and Partner at TrueNorth Health Ventures, a strategic advisory firm that works with emerging growth and enterprise clients across the broader healthcare ecosystem. Matt is also a general partner at Lemhi Ventures (no longer making new capital allocations).  Matt was previously part of Google’s life sciences arm Verily, where he led a number of business development efforts as part of the Onduo virtual clinic business. Earlier in his career, Matt served as head of corporate and business development at RedBrick Health.  RedBrick was a pioneer in aligning incentives and rewards to healthy behavior change.  Matt has extensive experience in healthcare startup growth, including business development, sales, channel partnerships, growth strategy and investment banking.

Matt’s healthcare investment banking career began as part of the Health & Wellness (H&W) team at TripleTree, a successful boutique firm in Minneapolis (now part of Capital One). Matt led the research effort in H&W and facilitated capital acquisition and M&A engagements for companies.

Matt has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from San Diego State University and a BA and MEd in psychology and counseling from the University of San Diego. He currently serves as a board of directors of Mendota Health, a mobile wound care business.

Saibu Sharma is a Senior Director and Health Equity Analytics practice lead in the Optum Advisory Services team within Optum Insight. He brings 15 years of healthcare analytics and payer expertise to help clients effectively use insights from analytics products to enable better data-driven decisions in service of population health management. His team brings subject matter expertise in health disparities and health services research to assess, analyze, and optimize the impact of health related social needs on a variety of domains such as care management, stars performance, and provider/network insights.

Prior to joining Optum, Saibu was an analytics leader at a Midwest Blues plan and responsible for providing insights and reporting to drive Stars/Quality and risk adjustment revenue performance. In this role, he was also responsible for establishing the plan's first data science team to bring advanced analytics to hear on some of the most pressing questions for payers.

Saibu completed his undergraduate degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Wesleyan University and a master's degree in health services research from the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.

Hailey Hildahl is a Principal Product Manager at Mayo Clinic Platform, where she leads the development and dissemination of AI-enablement tooling. Her portfolio spans model development, validation, federated learning and analytics, silent model deployment, and portfolio strategy. She helped establish an AI qualification framework for Solutions Studio, has collaborated with the FDA, NIH, MITRE, Duke, Stanford, and Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) to propose and shape national standards for AI governance. She also co-authored Mayo Clinic Platform’s Digital Hippocratic Oath, guiding the ethical development and deployment of AI in healthcare.

Hailey began her career at Medtronic, where she led the launches of novel software, hardware, and artificial intelligence products and their supporting services that spanned the cardiovascular portfolio, including a next generation insertable cardiac monitor, Bluetooth enabled bedside and phone application monitors, patient education applications, and the company’s first set of artificial intelligence algorithms. These award-winning experiences sparked her passion for healthcare AI and its potential to reduce clinician burden and improve care delivery for patients.

She earned a self-designed bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Minnesota focused on biological sciences and healthcare administration and is currently completing her MBA at the Carlson School of Management there as a part of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute. Her graduate work deepened her prior experience with international markets and venture- backed innovation evaluation, further supporting the ability to scale trustworthy AI across the healthcare ecosystem.