The change:healthcare team is dynamic and full of energy. To find out more about each member of the team you can download the company bios in PDF format, or browse them below.
The Team
Christopher Parks, Co-Founder and CEO
Christopher Parks serves as CEO of change:healthcare, the company he established in 2006. His career spans more than seventeen years in healthcare sales, operations and consulting. His first position was a Program Manager for Healthways, where he led the start-up and management of two inpatient/outpatient hospital-based chronic disease clinics. Four years later, he became a senior consultant at HealthCare Microsystems, responsible for the company’s business with HCA. Later, as Regional Director of Operations for National Seating & Mobility, he increased same store sales and total market revenues and oversaw the Kaiser southern California seating & positioning capitated agreement. His most recent position was with Global Healthcare Exchange (previously Neoforma), where he held a series of national services and sales positions. He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University.
Robert Hendrick, Co-Founder and COO
Hendrick is co-founder of change:healthcare and leads the team as chief operations officer. He launched his career
as an entrepreneurial executive in 1992 co-founding Creative Syndicate, the first interactive design agency in
middle Tennessee. The firm later merged with Edge Internet Services to become EdgeNet Media. While at that
company, Hendrick was chief marketing officer overseeing product development and acquisition growth involving
some of the region’s marquis brands. He later co-founded IncLabs to support new companies within the technology
and healthcare industries in the early stages of their growth. Hendrick is a published author of historical fiction and
sits on the board of Houston, TX-based Controlled Healthcare and the Mid-South Chapter of the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society. He has a bachelor’s degree from Auburn University and a Masters degree from The Ohio State
University, through which he also held a one-year foreign fellowship at the University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany.
Page Thompson, Director of Sales
Thompson brings fifteen years of financial and sales experience to change:healthcare, joining the company shortly
after its launch to lead its sales efforts. He began his career opening and managing an office for investment broker
Edwards Jones. As Vice President at Colorado Springs-based NetGrafx Internet Web Services, he managed the
sales and marketing functions that developed commercial web applications. Most recently, he was instrumental in
opening and creating new customer markets and managing strategic client relationships at Edgenet. Thompson has
a Bachelor of Science Degree from Kansas State University.
Dian Luffman, Director of Marketing
Luffman brings a wealth of experience to her change:healthcare position where she develops and manages the company’s product and marketing strategy and execution. She began her career with Square D Company, developing sales collateral material which led to leading the company’s marketing communications department. In 1996, she joined AIG American General where she developed strategic plans, marketing collateral and sales-based incentive meetings. In 2005 she was chosen to head marketing at Informa Investment Solutions (previously Investment Scorecard). Luffman sits on the local Board of Directors of Our Kids, Inc. a not-for-profit organization that provides expert medical and psychosocial services for children when there are allegations or concerns of child sexual abuse. She graduated summa cum laude from Middle Tennessee State University, earning a BBA in Marketing and a Minor in Business Administration.
George Sibble, Director of Finance and Strategy
Sibble graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in August 2006 and is currently completing an MBA at the Owen Graduate School of Management. During his collegiate career, he served Owen as a Systems Analyst and the School of Engineering as an Information Technology Analyst, successfully tackling large scale IT-related projects for both schools. He is currently President of the Max Adler Student Investment Fund at Vanderbilt and was Chief Executive Officer of a Boston, MA-based company, Paintball Guru, before selling his interest in the web-based business. Sibble is currently working at change:healthcare in an interim capacity and is expected to join permanently in January.
Katrina Welty, Project Manager
Welty’s duties as project manager for change:healthcare encompasses everything from implementing new client
relationships to supporting the research, sales and marketing functions of the healthcare company. Over the last
five years she has worked in various campaign and intern positions with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society,
American Cancer Society and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. Welty is a cum laude
graduate of Vanderbilt University.
Matt Mueller, Project Manager
Mueller is a project manager in charge of all web design and execution for change:healthcare. His entrepreneurial
experience encompasses everything from client service in the food industry to managing his own web design
company. Along with his internet work for change:healthcare, Mueller has also served as a project manager with
IsightTech, a technology firm based in Orlando, FL. He holds a double BA in philosophy and international relations
from Conway, Arkansas-based Hendrix College.