Health Care --> Health: Reinventing the Consumer Experience

"Your customers are on a journey to better health; are you going to guide them, or scramble to catch up?"

Join us for a night with Prairie Compass (http://prairiecompass.com/), a Minneapolis-based start-up. Enjoy networking, some food and drink, a short presentation, and discussion. Please enter before 6pm, as doors lock at 6pm.

Speaker info:

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/6/5/6/600_436633910.jpeg

Kurt Waltenbaugh
Chief Executive Officer

Kurt is a serial entrepreneur who has built successful analytic solutions, products and companies in the healthcare, retail, manufacturing, education/credentialing and fundraising industries. His previous companies were sold to Oracle and Pearson Education. Most recently, Kurt was responsible for Product Strategy at Optum, Inc. (UnitedHealth), building data analytic businesses for the Provider, Payer and Employer markets.

Kurt holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Technology & Policy Studies from Carleton College.

When not working with customers, Kurt is with his wife, Tracy, guiding their three children toward adulthood, and planning their next winter camping trek into Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/6/5/a/600_436633914.jpeg

Derek Rucker, PhD
Chief Technology Officer & Data Scientist

Derek has extensive experience in analytics as the founder of two startups and strategic advisor to several more. His work has addressed issues in the medical device, consumer foods and software industries among others. Most recently, he worked for Seagate Technology as data scientist, mathematical modeler and program manager, coordinating teams across three continents.

Derek has a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and a Master of Science, Master of Business Administration and PhD from the University of Michigan.

When not training for the next triathlon, Derek serves on the board of directors of a 105-year-old family-owned corporate real estate company in Arlington, VA. He has a passionate interest in elementary engineering education and was chairman of the board of trustees of The Works Museum in Bloomington from 2010 to 2014.