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.
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 a specific focus on business development and cultural direction. Tiffany comes to Optime Care with over two decades of global healthcare and bio-pharmaceutical experience within various Specialty and Rare Disease organizations, including strategic development of product commercialization paths, operational planning, and team leadership to optimize value creation.
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer
As Optime Care’s CFO, Larry brings more than 30 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.
Michelle served as a senior director with Express Scripts Specialty PB in St Louis, Missouri, from 1998 until 2004. She was responsible for the specialty pharmacy’s operations, which included managing relationships with pharmaceutical, biotech and managed care organizations. She also performed market research to evaluate pipeline opportunities, established market objectives, managed sales revenue and margin projections as part of her annual budget planning for the division.
Co-Founder
In addition to her role as a managing partner and senior advisor of Optime Care, Michelle is responsible for directing business activities related to the company’s start-up growth and the successful implementation of the business plan.
Michelle also served as President and COO of Centric Health Resources, Inc., headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri. As a co-founder, Michelle built Centric from a start-up specialty pharmacy into a nationwide service provider for “ultra-orphan” drug therapies to treat chronic disorders like Alpha-1, CTX, MS, Cushing’s Syndrome, Thalassemia and PID. She also co-developed and implemented the company’s annual strategic plan. Her departmental direct reports included the vice presidents of pharmacy, nursing, reimbursement and IT. During her tenure (2004-2013), the company grew to over 130 employees and nine commercial partners. Centric was acquired by the Dohmen Company in August 2011.
Michelle served as a senior director with Express Scripts Specialty PB in St Louis, Missouri, from 1998 until 2004. She was responsible for the specialty pharmacy’s operations, which included managing relationships with pharmaceutical, biotech and managed care organizations. She also performed market research to evaluate pipeline opportunities, established market objectives, managed sales revenue and margin projections as part of her annual budget planning for the division.