Dr. Meera Atkins, Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Meera Atkins is a nationally recognized healthcare executive with over two decades of experience leading innovation, clinical strategy, and organizational transformation across the healthcare landscape. She brings a distinctive blend of clinical expertise, business leadership, and a deep understanding of how to scale emerging technologies to improve care delivery and outcomes.
Her career spans senior leadership roles at both regional and national health plans, where she spearheaded strategic initiatives in medical management, value-based care, and payment integrity. A passionate advocate for intelligent healthcare transformation, Dr. Atkins has implemented enterprise-wide AI solutions to streamline utilization management and improve operational efficiency—efforts that have delivered meaningful cost savings and quality gains.
In addition to her leadership within health plans, Dr. Atkins consults with provider organizations and health tech startups focused on deploying AI and digital tools to solve complex healthcare challenges. She is a trusted thought leader on innovation, health equity, and the future of care, and a frequent speaker at national industry forums.
Board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Atkins earned her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Discover our Leadership Team
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Raj Ronanki
Chief Executive Officer
Raj has over 25 years of experience in innovation-driven industry and social change across healthcare and technology. As Lyric's CEO, his vision is to invigorate Lyric's technology and utilize artificial intelligence, blockchain, and machine learning while building best-in-market strategic partnerships.
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Carolyn J. Wukitch
President & Chief Operating Officer
Formerly serving as the company’s chief executive officer, Carolyn led the company through its separation from Change Healthcare on the path to becoming an independent entity. With an unrelenting focus on customer’s needs, Carolyn’s oversight enabled ClaimsXten Portfolio to build strong relationships based on integrity and transparency that, now as Lyric, she continues to oversee and cultivate.
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Ravi Umarji
Chief Financial Officer
Ravi Umarji is Lyric’s Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Ravi is an integral member of Lyric’s Executive Leadership Team, focused on driving topline growth, profitability, and strategic prioritization across the organization.
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Yevgeny (Gene) German
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Gene is responsible for the development of Lyric’s overall technology and product strategy as well as ensuring technologies are scaled and used efficiently and securely.
Before joining Lyric, Gene was CTO at Rally Health/Optum, where he led engineers responsible for designing, building, scaling, supporting, and securing digital products. Gene co-founded and held the role of CIO/COO at BayRu LLC, where he led the engineering the operations team to build out the range of custom-built sales, supply chain, and other integrated systems.
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Jeff Fix
Chief Human Resources Officer
Jeff has worked in senior level human resources roles for several high-profile companies and was the founder and principal consultant at Fractional HR, where he provided strategic human resource services to private equity and portfolio companies.
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Brian Berkowitz
Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
Brian leverages his deep, proven healthcare domain expertise and dynamic problem-solving skills to catalyze growth for the organization. He leads organic and inorganic strategy development and execution, while working closely with other leaders across Lyric to help them achieve their strategic priorities.
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Jan Sbarbaro
Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel
Jan has extensive experience advising complex healthcare technology companies. Before Lyric, Jan was vice president and managing senior counsel for Change Healthcare where she and her team of attorneys and compliance professionals supported the Software and Analytics Business Unit. Jan started her career at Morrison and Foerster and also held senior roles in the healthcare technology businesses at Thomson (now Thomson Reuters) and McKesson.
