Empowering. Transforming.
Saving Lives.

Chris Riopelle

Chris has spent almost his entire career working to better the lives of under-served patient populations in a way that drives alignment and value for patients, providers, and payors. Chris entered the healthcare world in 1995 and joined GeriMed, a geriatric value-based care company that sparked his interest in both underserved patient populations and risk-bearing healthcare businesses. He spent 10 years in the kidney care industry in a variety of roles at Gambro and DaVita, culminating in leading a $1 billion division of the dialysis company. Chris also served as COO of LaVie Care Centers a $1 billion private-equity backed skilled nursing company, where he was part of a team that led the cultural, financial, and operational turnaround and sale of the company. In 2013, he was recruited to serve as CEO of NorthStar Anesthesia, a private-equity backed anesthesia management company that grew from $130 million to nearly $500 million in revenue.

After NorthStar was sold in 2018, Chris began to focus on the next chapter. He was intent on taking a large swing at a large problem, with a focus on chronic diseases and poor transitions in healthcare. He quickly narrowed in on a set of patients he loves who deserve a better patient journey – kidney patients. Co-founding Strive has allowed Chris to blend his professional experiences and his passion for serving patients in need. He is deeply committed to fundamentally changing how kidney care works in America and helping to build an amazing company while he’s at it.

When he finds some downtime, he loves to spend time in the outdoors with his wife and his daughter, mountain biking, skiing and boating. He and his family divide their time between Denver and Crested Butte, CO.

‍

Aaron Molitor

Aaron 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

Evelyn 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

Will 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 as Chief Strategy Officer, where he leads all things “go-to-market”, bringing Strive’s model to life through payor and provider partnerships.

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

As 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.

Alice Wei, M.D.

As Officer of the Chief Medical Office, Dr. Wei oversees clinical design of Strive’s entire service line – including heading up coordination between our operations and disease management divisions.

Dr. Wei’s career has long been shaped by a commitment to best-possible care delivery through growth and innovation – pillars that precisely match Strive’s transformative model.

Before coming to Strive, Dr. Wei served as a dialysis services consultant, a dialysis center medical director and chief of the Division of Nephrology for North General Hospital in New York. During her tenure as medical director for a dialysis provider in Harlem, the center earned multiple citations for delivering patient clinical outcomes that were among the best in the United States.

Dr. Wei earned her bachelor’s degree from MIT and her medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. She completed an internal medicine residency and research and subspecialty fellowships in nephrology, all at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in Manhattan.

Beyond work, Dr. Wei enjoys spending time with her husband, who is also a nephrologist, and their children. She can often be found reading, meditating or tending to her window garden tomatoes. When time allows, she also enjoys traveling and staying fit through both water and downhill skiing and land and SUP yoga.