About World
Class Health

The only fully transparent, medically led Centers of Excellence platform, built to deliver outcomes employers can measure and costs they can verify.

Every year, millions of Americans face high-stakes medical decisions — a knee replacement, a spinal fusion, a cardiac procedure — that will shape how they live and work for years to come. Yet the system they navigate is opaque: outcomes vary widely, pricing is hidden, and the employees bearing the most risk have the least visibility into the quality of care they're receiving. Multiply that across a workforce, and it becomes one of the largest unmanaged cost exposures on a self-insured employer's books.

World Class Health was built specifically to close that gap. We are the only COE that discloses exactly what a provider charges and the benchmark, so employers know precisely what they're paying and why. Every case is governed by a clinical team, with registered nurses serving as dedicated care managers from referral through recovery. And our platform is AI-native, using predictive intelligence to identify employees likely to need high-cost specialty care before they self-navigate to the wrong provider, routing them to the right site, at the right price, with the clinical support that drives engagement and completion.

We were founded on the conviction that high-quality specialty care and transparent, manageable costs are not in conflict. Across orthopedics, spine, cardiac, bariatric surgery, imaging, and infusions, our clients see measurable reductions in surgical spend alongside complication rates well below national averages. When care is medically led, clinically governed, and fully transparent, better outcomes and lower costs follow. That is what we are here to prove, at scale, for every employer willing to demand more from their benefits program.

Meet our team

Our team

Sid Nambiar
Co-Founder & CEO
20 years experience, with multiple founding roles at Amazon including grocery and international health (WW Director, 10 years) and Rocket Internet (EIR, Cofounder). Oxford University MBA.
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Dr Kumar Dharmarajan
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
18 years experience in healthcare. Practicing geriatrician/cardiologist and faculty at Yale. Chief Medical Officer at Clover Health (7 years). Harvard AB, Columbia MD and MBA
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Jarrett Michau
President
Former CEO of International SOS - Americas. 20+ years of experience in international healthcare and executive management, supporting the world’s largest companies with developing and deploying complex global healthcare initiatives.
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Dave Guilmette
Co-Founder
30 years experience. Previously CEO, Aon Global Health Solutions; President CIGNA Global Employer segment; Managing Director, Willis Towers Watson – Health & Benefits
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Serkan Kutan
Co-Founder
25 years experience, previously CTO at Haven, Amwell and ZocDoc (10 years); and Microsoft and Amazon (15 years)
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Peter Doumas
Chief Revenue Officer
30 years of experience in healthcare benefits, including leadership roles at Anthem National Accounts, UnitedHealthcare, and EmblemHealth. Early-stage executive at Progyny.
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Dan Botwinick
Chief Marketing Officer
Previously SVP at Turquoise Health and Carrum Health
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Kristen Barlow
Chief Network Officer
Previously SVP Contracting at Carrum Health and The Advisory Board Company.
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Terri Bogen
SVP Consultant Relations
Previously VP Consultant Relations at Transcarent and senior leader at Hello Heart and Mercer
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Our clinical advisory board

Rajesh Rao
Strategic Advisor
30 years experience. Previously CEO, IndusHealth; General Manager, Centra Software; CEO, Empower/MindLever; Director R&D, Post Software International.
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Jeff Dobro
Chief Innovation Officer at Transcarent (Retd)
Expert in COE models and healthcare quality measurement. Former CMO at One Medical.
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Dr. Sharon Kleefield
International healthcare quality expert
Editor in Chief, Journal of Healthcare Management Standards; Former Faculty, Harvard Medical School
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Dr. Eric Kazarian
Leading orthopedic surgeon
Spinal surgery expert with Rothman orthopedics. Practices at NYU Langone. Trained at Mayo and Harvard
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Munjal Shah
Co-founder & CEO HippocraticAI.com
3X founder with successful exits to Google and Alibaba. CEO of Hippocratic AI, which is building a safety focused large language model (LLM) for the healthcare industry. Invests in and advises in digital health startups
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Glenn Cohen
Professor and Deputy Dean at Harvard Law School
Expert on the intersection of law, medicine, and ethics. Co-authored/edited 20+ books including Patients With Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
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Steve Putterman
Partner at Mercer (Retd)
30+ years actuarial experience. Former partner at Mercer, advising the largest corporations on their benefits policies.
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Babak Parviz
Venture Partner, Madrona Venture Group
Former Director at Google X and VP at Amazon (Grand Challenge). Led Amazon into healthcare including building Amazon Care.
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Dr. Mohan Chellappa
President Emeritus, Johns Hopkins International
Led Johns Hopkins international for 20 years. Built international partnerships across Asia, Europe and LatAm
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Naresh Shanker
Founder and Managing Director Menlo Park Advisors
Former President and CEO of PARC and CTO of Xerox
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Paul Matthews
Practice Leader at WTW (Retd)
Practice leader of Strategic Opportunities and Alliances as well as Health and Group Benefits High Value Solutions at WTW
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Wendy Smith
Strategic Advisor
National expert on employers’ use of Centers of Excellence (COE) to improve healthcare quality and reduce healthcare costs
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