OUR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Consortium’s executive leadership team encompasses a broad range of expertise, enabling their ability to deliver on the organization’s mission to be the top choice for National Accounts by uniting local Plan teams to deliver exceptional value.
Lori Schoonmaker joined Consortium Health Plans as President & Chief Executive Officer in October 2024. In this role, she is charged with supporting Consortium’s Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® (BCBS) Member Plans in their efforts to grow and retain business in the National Account market.
Lori joins Consortium after a lengthy career at Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, where she was most recently President of National Accounts. In her more than 34 years in the industry, she has a wealth of experience in the commercial business segment, a deep understanding of market dynamics and strategic partnerships, and has a proven ability to lead, inspire teams and deliver customer value. As a member of Highmark’s Commercial Markets executive leadership team, she had accountability for the National P&L business segment and led a diverse staff with responsibilities for strategy, new sales, client retention, administration, nationwide consultant relations, BCBS Plan activities, relationships, and negotiations, and various pre-sale activities.
Lori earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in Business, Marketing and Strategic Communication. She is a graduate of the Duquesne University’s Women’s Executive Leadership Program and the Women’s Executive Leadership: Business Strategies for Success Program at Wharton.
In her role as Chief Strategy Officer, Sarah Oliver leads Consortium’s strategic direction to ensure that the organization adapts and thrives in a rapidly evolving market while driving impact on behalf of Consortium’s member BCBS Plans. Sarah also has responsibility for identifying market requirements and expectations of national account employers across a variety of pressing topics and staying abreast of emerging trends and solutions in the market. In addition, she supports BCBS Plans across a range of services to enhance go-to-market strategies to win and retain national account business, and serves as a national resource and subject matter expert for healthcare network optimization initiatives.
Before joining Consortium in 2018, Sarah spent 15 years at WTW as a senior healthcare consultant and the National Healthcare Delivery Leader. In this position, she was at the forefront of helping employers evaluate, implement, and operate innovative approaches to delivering care. She has experience with the evaluation and execution of network optimization strategies and solutions, including the viability of onsite health centers, high-performance networks, narrow networks, centers of excellence, direct contracting opportunities, and other value-based contracting approaches such as ACOs.
Sarah earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in finance from the University of Iowa.
As Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Craig Jannino directly supports the president and CEO in implementing Consortium’s mission to position Blue Cross Blue Shield as the preferred carrier for National Accounts. Craig has 30 years of industry experience, leading a variety of strategic consulting, product, people, and sales initiatives.
Prior to joining Consortium, Craig spent 24 years in various leadership roles at WTW. Most recently, he served as WTW’s Health & Benefits Southeast Region Leader, after serving as the firm’s Health & Benefits New England Market Leader and Private Exchange Product and Sales Leader. In all roles, Craig was responsible for driving revenue growth and colleague engagement to enhance the client experience. Throughout the course of his career, Craig has also led several complex National Account relationships.
Vince Kane joined Consortium Health Plans in 2025 as Senior Vice President, Chief Analytics Officer, where he oversees the Actuarial & Analytics team, advancing the organization’s mission and supporting strategic initiatives in value measurement.
Vince is a seasoned industry leader with over 30 years of experience in healthcare, analytics, and actuarial consulting. Prior to Consortium, Vince served as the Health & Benefits Financial, Actuarial and Analytics Region Lead for the Northeast at WTW. Over his 20-year consulting career at WTW, Vince partnered with large employers to design, price, and assess a broad range of benefit programs, including medical, pharmacy, dental, life, and disability plans.
Earlier in his career, Vince worked in the health plan and research sectors, including a role as a research scientist at Cotiviti. His areas of expertise include cost and utilization analysis, risk adjustment, predictive modeling, and managed care program evaluation. He also served on the Society of Actuaries’ Project Oversight Group and contributed to the development of an Actuarial Standard of Practice on risk adjustment.
Vince is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA). He holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics (Probability and Statistics) from Harvard College, and an M.A. in Health Care Management and Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Pete Balisteri joined Consortium Health Plans in 2024 as the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Pete’s role is centered on enabling and optimizing Consortium’s mission through the best use of technology and digital platforms.
For over 30 years, Pete has been driving organizational transformation through technology and digital strategy at organizations of all sizes — up through and including Fortune 500. Prior to Consortium, he served as the Chief Information Officer at the New York affiliate of AAA. Over the course of his career, Pete has held senior leadership roles, including CIO, at various insurance, banking, and healthcare organizations.
Pete holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology management with a minor in management economics from Buffalo State University.
As Senior Vice President, Chief Experience Officer, Catie Rhodes serves as Consortium’s strategic business partner to member Plans as they strive to more deeply engage employer and consultant stakeholders and clearly articulate the Blue system’s compelling value proposition.
Prior to joining Consortium, Catie was the founding Head of Consulting Relations at Cleo, a Series C digital health startup. Before her role at Cleo, Catie was a senior healthcare consultant and served as WTW’s Connecticut Large Market Health & Benefits Leader. In her role at Cleo, Catie developed and led Cleo’s consulting and broker relations strategy. In her consulting roles, Catie has worked extensively with large employers across varying industries, advising them on topics including health and welfare program strategy and design, development of customized wellbeing and clinical strategies, vendor procurements and implementations, and reporting on and measuring effectiveness.
Catie earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Connecticut, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Binghamton University.