PORTLAND, Ore. – Cambia Health Solutions has announced the promotion of Rob Coppedge to President, Direct Health Solutions. For the past five years, Rob has led Cambia’s diversification and strategic investment efforts as Cambia Senior Vice President of Strategic Investment and Corporate Development. This promotion expands Rob’s responsibilities to include oversight of Cambia’s health solutions businesses, including the portfolio of wholly-owned companies and direct investments. In this role, Rob will accelerate Cambia’s work in investing in and building companies that benefit health care consumers nationwide.
Rob Coppedge joined Cambia in 2010 as the company began to invest in and build businesses in alignment with the company’s long-standing mission to transform health care. Under his leadership, Cambia has invested in nearly 20 companies working to make health care easier for consumers nationwide. Rob is also the co-founder of the Cambia Grove, a community space for the Pacific Northwest’s emerging health care economic cluster where innovators and entrepreneurs can work closely together with regional stakeholders to find solutions to pressing health care challenges.
This announcement comes after Dudley Slater shared he is leaving the company to support family commitments. “Over the last three years as President of Direct Health Solutions, Dudley Slater has leveraged decades of experience in developing good ideas into successful businesses,” said Cambia Chief Operating Officer Jared Short. “Dudley has played a pivotal role at Cambia in building great companies that deliver consumer-focused solutions, leaving a solid foundation on which to build in support of Cambia’s mission to transform health care.”
Rob and Dudley have worked side by side to advance Cambia’s mission to make health care people-focused and economically sustainable, raising the organization’s profile as a recognized strategic health care investor and innovator.
“Rob Coppedge’s reputation as a health care investor and innovator is unmatched,” said Cambia Chief Operating Officer Jared Short. “I am excited to work with him as we continue to grow great health solutions companies.”
Before joining Cambia, Rob was founding partner of Faultline Ventures, where he worked with numerous early stage companies and strategic investors. He also held a variety of positions with Capitol Health Partners, a Washington, D.C., and New York City-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage health services and health care information technology.
About Cambia Health Solutions
Cambia Health Solutions, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is a health solutions company dedicated to transforming health care by creating a person-focused and economically sustainable system. Cambia’s growing family of companies range from software and mobile applications, health care marketplaces, non-traditional health care delivery models, health insurance, life insurance, pharmacy benefit management, wellness and overall consumer engagement. Through bold thinking and innovative technology, we are delivering solutions that make quality health care more available, affordable and personally relevant for everyone. To learn more, visit cambiahealth.com or twitter.com/cambia.
