Empowering. Transforming.
Saving Lives.
The current standard of kidney disease falls short – but it doesn’t have to. Strive Health and our partners are changing how we treat kidney disease.
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The current standard of kidney care is too little, too late. Today, kidney care focuses almost entirely on ESKD and in-center dialysis, missing the primary drivers of high cost and poor outcomes.
Strive is changing the kidney care paradigm to identify patients earlier, prioritize the right care at the right time and drive better outcomes – all while lowering costs.
Strive Health is the nation’s leader in value-based kidney care and partner of choice for innovative healthcare payors and providers seeking to improve the lives of their kidney patients.
Mission & Values
Strive delivers compassionate kidney care the way it should be done. We emphasize data-driven insights, high-touch care and prevention.
Our guiding values align Strivers on how we serve patients, partners and the broader community and include:
The Strive Health Footprint
We strive to transform kidney care across the U.S.
- 110,000+ Lives served
- 700+ Provider groups partnered with Strive
- 6,500+ Individual providers working with Strive
- 700+ Strivers presently transforming kidney care
Meet Our Team
Each of our Strivers have has chosen to dedicate their time to something bigger than themselves.
View the Leadership TeamChris Riopelle
Co-Founder & Chief Executive OfficerChris is the co-founder and CEO of Strive Health. He leads the company in its efforts to improve the lives of underserved patients living with kidney disease – from chronic through end-stage. Strive Health supports 110,000 patients across 34 states with $3.8 billion in medical spend under management. Founded in 2018, Strive is home to 700 “Strivers” and has been recognized multiple times as a best place to work. Chris and Strive are proud to be partnered with blue chip investors, such as NEA, CapitalG (Alphabet), CVS Health Ventures and Town Hall Ventures.
In his role as CEO, Chris works to drive value for patients, providers and payors by transforming how kidney care is delivered in the U.S. Under his leadership, Strive Health’s innovative clinical model has improved care quality and reduced hospital admissions by nearly 50%, re-admissions by 30% and total cost of care by 20%.
Chris was recognized as a Denver Business Journal Most Admired CEO in 2023 and was named an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2021. Chris started his career in healthcare at GeriMed, a company that sparked his interest in underserved populations and risk-bearing healthcare businesses. He spent 10 years in the kidney care industry at Gambro and DaVita, culminating in leading a $1 billion division of DaVita. Chris also served as COO of LaVie Care Centers, a $1 billion skilled nursing company, where he led the turnaround and successful exit of the business. He was also CEO of NorthStar Anesthesia, an anesthesia management company that grew from $130 million to $500 million in revenue under his leadership. Chris has a BA in Economics from Albion College and holds a JD/MBA from the University of Detroit Mercy.
Aaron Molitor
President & Chief Operating OfficerAaron has spent his entire career in the healthcare world, working across a variety of segments. He started with Hospital Corporation of America in the early 90s, helping the company establish the infrastructure to take full risk and delegation of services from payors in the State of Florida. From there, Aaron moved to the payor world, where he spent the next 15 years working in markets across the country in leadership positions that spanned the Commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare Advantage lines of business, managing P&Ls of up to $3 billion in revenue. 10 years of that time were spent with Coventry Health Care in various corporate and market-based leadership roles around the country.
Most recently Aaron spent 7 years at Evolent Health focused on helping provider entities transform to value-based care models and scaling Evolent’s operations from early stage startup to post IPO operations. He served in various leadership roles, including as Market and Regional President over various Evolent businesses, Solution President of Health Plan Operations and COO of the True Health division.
When not working Aaron spends time with his wife and three boys, traveling, boating and supporting the Kansas State Wildcats, where two of his sons attend college.
Evelyn Goodfriend
Chief Customer OfficerEvelyn brings 25 years of healthcare industry experience across payers, providers and tech-enabled solutions, including senior customer-facing roles at Accenture, Kaiser and Evolent Health. She has led diverse teams to turn around businesses, deliver growth and enter new markets in rapidly changing environments.
During her six years at Evolent, initially she served as a senior member of the Transformation team — the company’s consulting group responsible for architecting industry-leading value-based care organizations for large provider systems and physician groups. She was also a Solution President with P&L accountability for a portfolio of market and central operations.
At Strive, Evelyn leads the team responsible for account management, customer retention and expansion.
She has an inter-disciplinary undergraduate degree in Biology & Society from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Evelyn lives in San Francisco with her husband, Matt, and their two daughters, Charlotte and Gwyneth.
Will Stokes
Co-Founder and Chief Growth & Performance OfficerWill has spent his career focused on the launch and growth of transformational healthcare businesses. Will started his career as a Strategy Consultant in Deloitte Consulting’s healthcare practice, where he worked with some of the largest healthcare companies in the country to make internal and external investments in clinical and business model innovation. He then joined Oxeon’s Venture Studio, where he worked to build healthcare technology and services companies from scratch. Will spent his first year at Oxeon as a primary architect in the build of Empiric Health, an analytics-enabled service that optimizes physician decision-making, developed in partnership with Intermountain Healthcare. Through his work with Empiric, he gained experience taking a company from concept to launch and was ready to apply this experience to a new problem in healthcare. After Empiric launched, Will set to work exploring the kidney care space, looking for ways to fill the gaps in care while aligning value in the system for all participants. From this work, the idea for Strive Health was born. Will led the initial funding and launch of Strive from within the Oxeon Venture Studio before joining Strive, where he leads all things performance.
When he’s not focused on healthcare innovation, he’s outside in the mountains, lamenting another disappointing Tennessee Titans football season, or planning the next trip abroad with his wife.
Renee George
Senior Vice President of Market OperationsAs the Senior Vice President of Market Operations, Renee leads thriving markets across the United States that are transforming how kidney care is delivered.
For the past 20 years, Renee has served in various executive roles in health systems, physician organizations, and provider-sponsored health plans. She has extensive experience in various alternative payment models and is passionate about transforming how healthcare is delivered and reimbursed so that patient care is improved. She spent over 10 years advocating for payment transparency while serving as Vice President of Revenue Cycle at Mercy Health and later Premier Health.
Renee received her Bachelor of Health Sciences degree in Health Administration from the University of Kentucky, where she graduated with distinction. She received her MBA with a concentration in Management from Georgia State University.
Renee resides in Springboro, Ohio, where she enjoys hiking, kayaking and boating with her husband and two daughters.
Jen Browne
President of Population HealthAs President of Population Health, Jen leads Strive’s Market Operations teams. Her role supports future growth and drives operational performance and outcomes for Strive’s partners.
Jen brings 20 years of industry experience to Strive. Her extensive background includes expertise in quality and risk adjustment, disease management operations and medical expense management. Early in her career, she held positions at DaVita Medical Group, Advisory Board and Novant Health. During her time at Novant, Jen led ambulatory care operations across five states. She also served as the Senior Vice President of Population Health for Optum where she managed a portfolio of over 1.2 million patients.
Jen lives in Denver with her husband, Tristan; 3-year-old daughter, Harlow; and 1-year-old son, Lander. In her free time, Jen enjoys hiking, camping, backpacking and hot yoga classes.
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Whether you work directly with patients or internal teams, Strive Health gives you the opportunity to make an impact on the lives of chronic kidney disease patients and their families.
At Strive, we’re transforming kidney care. While our mission, vision, and values-based culture play critical roles in that transformation, our people (Strivers) make it happen. Strivers are delivering compassionate kidney care and creating an incredible place to work.
Dave Thornton Chief People Officer
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