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Vijay Goel, MD — COO 440 Elm; COO Bite Catering Couture; Founder Chefalytics; Independent consultant (ex-McKinsey).
X PRIZE Foundation — Sr. Director, Healthcare Prize Development, Jan 2009 – Apr 2010: 'Developed a $10M+ Competition to demonstrate a 50%+ improvement in the health outcomes of a community utilizing the same funds. Unfortunately, this effort has been put on hold due to the uncertainties around federal Health Reform... My job is to engage with leading stakeholders, thought leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs as we design a $10M+ Healthcare X PRIZE where players can demonstrate a significant improvement in the health status of a community. Shouldn't our Health Care system be measured against (and rewarded for) its ability to deliver better health?'
McKinsey & Co — Engagement Manager, Sep 2003 – Mar 2007: healthcare consumerism focus (HSA, HRA, benefits design, pricing transparency, high-deductible insurance). Health Shoppr, Inc. — Founder, Jun 2007 – Oct 2010. Goel Insights — Principal, Oct 2010 – present. Later: Bite Catering Couture (COO, his wife's Los Angeles couture-catering business), 440 Elm (COO, Long Beach historic events venue), Chefalytics (Founder), OutsourcedPPT.com (Evangelist).
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Anchors the S-122 thread: Goel's X-Prize tenure begins the same month as the correspondence (January 2009), his mandate matches the thread's language ('market failures... improve care while reducing costs'), and his own summary records the program's fate — the $10M+ community-health-outcome competition put on hold amid federal Health Reform uncertainty, which closes the arc the thread opens. His pre-X-Prize McKinsey healthcare-consumerism focus explains the hire; the later chapters are kept for completeness of the profile as captured.
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