David J. Mancione
Senior Vice President, Strategic Accounts
Dave J. Mancione is Senior Vice President of Field Services for Essensa. In his role, he is responsible for the development, implementation and management of the Essensa field team. He also oversees various strategic initiatives including directing the growth of the Essensa membership base.
Mancione brings over 20 years of progressive leadership and business accomplishments in the health care industry to Essensa. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer of SpecialtyMed Alliance, a group purchasing organization serving the vision care industry. He was also President of Allied Healthcare Association Services, where he managed the development of a new joint venture of 25 national, state, and metropolitan hospital associations.
Mancione received his Bachelor’s of Science. in Clinical Nutrition and Life Sciences from the State University of New York at Oneonta and holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Long Island University in Brooklyn.
Cynthia Radford
Senior Vice President,
- Internal Sales
- Field Services
- Membership
- Pharmacy Management Solutions
Cynthia Radford is Senior Vice President of Customer Care for Essensa. In her role, Ms. Radford provides leadership to the customer care division, in addition to her responsibilities of managing the Essensa contract portfolio and member-focused initiatives.
Radford has over 21 years of experience in the specialty distribution and pharmaceutical industry. Prior to her role at Essensa, she was part of the original Business Development team of US Oncology, a Physician Management Company, with over 900 medical oncologists. There, Radford was responsible for building relationships among hospital outpatient centers and physicians to build free standing cancer clinics. While in this role, she managed the payer arrangements with each cancer center, as well as all practice management programs.
In addition, Radford launched the first Generic equivalent to Taxol for Ivax Pharmaceuticals, managing the marketing program and forecasting production of the product’s release in Europe, South America, Canada and the United States.
Radford earned her B.A. from Boston College.
Lisa Walsh
Senior Vice President,
- Administrative Operations
- Training
As the third employee hired to work for Innovatix, Lisa Walsh has more than 20 years of experience with the company.
A former customer service professional in the airline industry, she was hired as the first client service professional at Innovatix. In this role, she developed, built, structured and directed what would become the client service department. During this time, Walsh played a critical role in the development and documentation of standard processes.
Walsh has contributed greatly to the smooth operation and growth of the company. She has made contributions to various departments, including sales, communications, and contracting. Walsh was also part of the team that developed the first Innovatix website and ran the e-commerce program.
Currently, she is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Administration Service as well as heading the Training Department.
Walsh holds an undergraduate degree in Merchandising & Marketing from SUNY FIT.
Greg Montano
Senior Vice President
- Technology
- Financial Operations
- Stockd
Gregory Montano has nearly 20 years of experience in many aspects of technology, compliance, and operations, including industry regulatory compliance, process re-engineering, change management, development, infrastructure and support primarily in healthcare, financial, and legal industries. As Senior Vice President at Innovatix, Montano manages all development initiatives, technology vendor negotiations, audit processes, and HIPAA technical regulatory compliance.
By challenging the status quo and embracing new technology, Montano’s leadership has affected pivotal technology change at Innovatix and Essensa such as electronic document generation and signature processes to a historically paper-driven industry, expansive automation projects, and reengineered contract management and customer relationship systems.
Montano earned his BA and MS from New York University and his JD from Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
John Klosek
Senior Vice President,
- Contracting
- Clinical Services