Our proven experience with orphan patient populations includes working with start-ups, public companies and not-for-profits. The Optime Care team has been a partner on more than 40 successful product launches.
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer
As Optime Care’s CFO, Larry brings more than 35 years of healthcare finance and accounting experience. Larry’s healthcare skills include hospitals, health insurance and pharmacies. Larry’s business entity capabilities include nonprofit, private, and public companies. Larry served as CFO of Centric Health Resources (Now DLSS) where he helped the company grow from 2,000 patients to over 10,000 patients.
Prior to Centric Health Resources, Larry spent 10 years in the Insurance/Managed Care space, working with insurance companies like Coventry Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri, Wellpoint, Unicare, HealthLink and Anthem. During this period, Larry worked closely with finance, provider contracting, pricing and sales/underwriting teams. His managed care experience includes PPOs, HMOs, Staff Model HMOs and Medicare Advantage Plans.
Larry also has more than 10 years of experience in the U.S hospital space, including five years as a Hospital controller and five years in the financial audit arena with KPMG.
Larry is a Certified Public Accountant, with a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Loyola Marymount University.
President and Chief Operating Officer
As Optime Care’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Tiffany is responsible for the overall management, growth, and strategic direction of Optime Care, with specific focus on business development and cultural direction.
Tiffany comes to Optime Care with over 25 years of global healthcare and bio-pharmaceutical experience with a proven track record across pre-clinical, clinical and commercialization in early to late-stage Global Oncology and Rare Disease companies. She played a key role in strategic and operational planning to optimize value creation, and in defining and developing the pre-commercialization to commercialization path, working across the organization to exceed corporate revenue and brand goals.
Prior to joining Optime Care, Tiffany was Vice President/Head of Commercial for ProQR Therapeutics, where she successfully developed the global infrastructure and US organization as well as instituted an operational launch readiness roadmap, including functions, systems, processes, employees and resources, across the organization to support multiple launches within the Inherited Retinal Disease portfolio.
Tiffany also held other senior level management roles within the pharmaceutical and biotech industry such as Vice President, Marketing at Verastem Oncology, Senior Global Director at EMD Serono, Global Product Director at ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Director of US Oncology Marketing at Iclusig and CML Senior Manager and Hematology Sales Specialist at Novartis Oncology.
Tiffany holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts & Psychology from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Webster University. She is an active Women-in-Bio committee member along with being a previous, LEAP Judge at Washington University in St. Louis for Interdisciplinary Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Darcey is the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer (CMCO). In this capacity, she is responsible for directing and overseeing the AscellaHealth Family of Companies’ including Optime Care’s, marketing and communications management strategy, including advertising activities, brand management, and marketing communications.
Darcey has more than 20 years of comprehensive Marketing experience including over a decade of experience within the Specialty Pharmacy/ Healthcare Services industry, holding key Marketing leadership roles focused on rebranding initiatives, positioning/ messaging strategies, communications, strategic partnerships, digital marketing and developing and implementing innovative programs and solutions to drive business growth of various healthcare organizations.
Prior to joining AscellaHealth, Darcey’s Marketing leadership positions included, Vice President of Marketing at City Drugs Specialty Pharmacy and Vice President of Marketing at Asembia, where she created pioneering marketing solutions for specialty pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers to achieve major business goals.
Darcey holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from Hofstra University.