Aneesh Kumar

Aneesh Kumar is the chief product officer at Gainwell Technologies. In this role, he reports to the CEO and leads product strategy, solution design and portfolio management for the entire company. He oversees a team of more than 2,000 professionals across multiple continents and is a key member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. Aneesh has a successful 25-plus-year record of accomplishments in healthcare, information technology and consulting. Previously he was the chief product and segment officer at Anthem, where his team drove end-to-end product strategy and product management, as well as growth strategies, for Anthem’s $42 billion/year commercial business. Aneesh led a team of 2,400 professionals and had profit-and-loss responsibility for individual, small group and large group markets. He has also held senior-level roles in enterprise strategy and product at Aetna and Cigna. Aneesh is a serial entrepreneur; he entered the healthcare industry by starting AzulCare, a successful multi-specialty clinic. Later he founded and led Sheen Health, an innovative company focused on healthcare payments. Aneesh holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BS (EE) from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.